The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1902-08-07

county. has been ordered discontinued
Aug. a, and the mail will be sent to
Trip.
The Episcopal church at Redheld Is
now ready to build a parsonage. IL
will be inely-congtructed house, cost
ing about $1,000
The annual general roundup OF cat
tie at Sturgis has been finished. The
beef roundup will begin about the 10Th
of next month.
+. T.. Beaton of Maquoketa, Iowa.
about ninety days ago purchased
half-section Of and in Iowa township,
Sully county, at what was thought To
be a high price. He has been offered an
advance Of 81, 400 on his purchase price.
but has decided not to sell.
Theodore Reder, one of the pioneers
IT, the vicinity of Rapid City, died OF
paralysis, at the age of sixty-one. He
came to Rapid City in 1877, and. WITH
his brother, Odo Reder. now Of Spear
FISH, engaged in the lumber business
there. He left a wife and one daugh-
ter. Mrs. c. l.. Van Koughnet OF RAPID
City.
The committee in charge of the finan-
cial end of the project for a carnival
and festival at Aberdeen the first week
In October, report that they will prob
ably succeed in raising between $4,000
and 5000. subscribed by business men
fer the enterprise. nd that there Is no
now not much doubt of the success OF
the movement
The wool shipping season has prac-
tically closed, and the amount sent out
so far is, in round numbers, 1,Oo0,ooo
pounds. which were shipped from Har-
roid, Blunt and Pierre, 100000 POUNDS
going from the latter station. The aV-
erage price paid was little better than
Is i-2 cents, which means that the WOOL
growers received about $4,000.
In accordance with the pardon grant
ed by Gov. Herreid. upon recommenda-
ton OF the state board of pardons, Mrs.
Wanie Dickman, the only woman IN
mate OF the Sioux Falls penitentiary.
was released and permitted to return 10
ner home In Brule county. she was
sentenced TO serve one year for adult
cry She has been in prison only rev
weeks.
A young man by the name of Yaw
was drowned few miles from Redheid
while swimming in the James river.
He got beyond his depth and soon went
lown. Only one in the party could
swim, and he but little. He got hold or
the drowning boy twice, but was un-
able to get him cut. The boy drowned
was the only child OF his parents. !
The ninth annual camp meeting of
rhe South Dakota Holiness associatioa,
will be held on the afsemtly grounds
1T Canton, commencing Aug. s and
continuing until the 18th. Among the
workers from abroad who will be pres
emit, will be Rev. r. II. Craig of Toron-
10, Ont: Rev. r. N. MeKaig OF Sioux
city. Rev. J. c. Baker will have charge
II the music. In addition to South Da-
I;ota being well represented at the
camp meeting. many persons are ex-
oected from Western Iowa and North
srn Nebraska.
The Cheyenne River Indians. at their
recent council, perfected a complete re-
organization of the bands, and adopted
a constitution. which is a radical de-
parture from their old methods. They
have selected a council OF twelve menu
bers, six of whom serve for one yea
and six for two years, all to be elected
N tho future for two-year terms,
changing half the cour ell each yea.
The first council consists OF Ed Swan,
Walter Swiftbird. Hump. Black Spotted
Horse, John Promise and Charging
First, for one-year members; and Lazy
White Bull Percy Phillips. Clarence
Ward, Henry f. G. Woods, Yellow Owl
and Paddy Miller as two-year mem
rers. The council has power to act In
all matters with the sole exception OF
1isposing OF lands, which power Is re-
served for a full vote.
Articles Of incorporation have been
aled for the Tippecanoe Mining compa-
py, at Pierre, with capital OF 81 .500,-
BOO; incorporators, Elmer K. Hickmar.
Marian Hoxe, Philip Lawrence. For
the Consolidated OIL and Mining COM
rany OF America. at Huron, with a
capital of 100000; incorporators, ].
w. Gillespie, j. W, Painter, Philip Law
renee. For the Kelley Institute OF Or
egon, at WATERFOWL. with capital OF
BIS, 600: incorporators. II. NJ. Finnerud,
John w. Martin. w. d. Morris. l.. p.
Pritchard. william ]. Keeling. For the
Hatten Syndicae, at Pierre. with can
Ital of s250,0o0: incorporators, James
II. Brewer. Pitt s. whited. Ivan w.
Goodner. For the Aetna Insurance and
company, at Pierre. with a
capital Of $500, 900; iLcorporators, A. f.
Bray, ". A. Mcdonald. Ivan w. Good
rer. For the Hand County Land and
Investment company. at Miller, with a
capital of 1880; incorporators. J. T.
McCullen, p. III Kobe, K. Cunningham,
w. ID. Craigo.
There will be many people In South
Dakota who will be sorry to learn that
Nathan T. Smith OF Huron has lost his :
reason and is now in the hospital for in
sane ut Yankton. For weeks Mr.. Smith
has given indications that his brain
was unbalanced, and at the request Of
his family an examination was had.
and the commissioners deemed II adj
visable to remove him to Ysnkton. He
was one OF the Huron Daily Times in
the early eighties, and was also terri
tnria.i railway commissioner under
Gov. Church. He was abstract clerk
In the government land Office at HUI
ron, under the Lowry Armstrong adj
but after the change In
the Office management he lost his hold
on the public treasury end his print
Ing establishment was closed. and for
several years past he has been unable,