The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1902-08-21
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South Dakota
Genera, State News
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The annual Black Hills srn..
school convention will be held in Sal
gis on Aug. 25.
Miss Amelia Miller, found daaa -.
week in Irving Park, Chicago h,s
sister living at Milbank in this STAT
north state had forty-six and a..
south state seventy-one. RAM.
North Dakota number 201 and In sop,S
Dkoata 269. S01'a
In Hand county scarcity o, hal,
has caused women and girls to 20 in,o
the harvest fields In order to save ,hs
crop, which has now practically bssr
| gathered.
1t Is expected there will Be- som.
head Of beef cattle loaded AZ Pr.
Fourche for shipment to the Eas,s..
markets. This represents yaluatIon
OF So. 400, 900.
The First National Bank OF EIt,o,
Is new and strong institution in ,hs
town and will open It's doors an soon
as the new building is finished. Tb;s
will give Elkton three banks.
Spontaneous combustion In IN. M.
cago IL Northwestern companys coal
1 ohSe o. 81 NCs blOuSuL IEDOuk the d.
! struction of the building, with ahon,
500 tons OF soft coal. The loss is about
$4,000.
Philip Diets committed suicide a,
Wilmot. He leaves wife and sevsn
children. 1t Is supposed he became
overheated in the harvest field. Hs
has one brother, Fred Diets Of Boards.
ley, Mimi.
Three months tuition free at the
Sioux Falls Business College, Siour
Falls, S. D., If you enroll September
Write for catalogue.
L. L. Appleby, for long time book.
keeper and collector for the Daum
Lumber and Fuel company at Huron.
has accepted a position with the
George NJ. Read company wholesale
grocery house.
Name Hill, who shot Kitty King al
| Sturgis on the morning OF March "a
was convicted OF manslaughter in the
second degree. The murder resulted
from quarrel that the two women,
both colored, had the evening before.
She was sentenced to three years in
prison.
The next monthly meeting of the
| Black Hills Mining Mems association
Is to be held In Custer Aug. % in con.
nection with an excursion to Sylvan
| lake, the beautiful resort, six miles
from Custer. A majority of the ex-
cursionists will spend Sunday at the
lake.
Contracts have been awarded for the
TpN a..
Dakota university at Mitchell to Mar
shalltown, Iowa, firm. The cut stone
will be secured OF the c. L. Babcock
Company of Kasota, MINI. Work on
the building will be commenced as
| soon as the iron arrives.
William G. Smith. a physician Of
Sturgis. has filed a petition in volun-
tary bankruptcy in the United States
| court in Sioux Falls. He states that
his liabilities aggregate $5,03452 and
that he has assets aggregating s5,ls&
However. he claims exemption to the
amount OF s4.215.
DR.. Howard, a practicing physician
at Sisseton. has been lodged in the
Brown county jail to await trial before
the United States court on the charge
of selling liquor to Indians. 1t is al
legged that Howard has been drinking
very heavily OF late and had lost his
practice to a large extent. mother fed
eral prisoner brought to Aberdeen is
l.. w. Walker of Webster, who is
charged with mailing an obscene let
ter. He was bound over, but relatives
provided bail.
James Cusic, ex-state mine inspec-
fnr M
Seattle from Nome. Alaska, where he
has been in charge of operations for
the Cape Nome Hydraulic Mining COM
pany for the last two seasons. He has
telegraphed his wife that he will be
home Immediately. lie wrote soma
time ago that the season opened late
and cold weather was rapidly APP
preaching, so 1t Is believed the opera
tons of the company have aot been
attended by the success Of the previous
two years.
The union crusade has extended 70
Lead, and all classes of labor are De-
fng unionized. A meeting OF the labor
union was held last night at which
over thirty new members were taken
In. These were persons not eligible 70
the Miners union. A similar move
ment has been under way at Deadwooa
for several weeks, where II Is expected
to crystalize soon in the formation Oh
the White Federal Labor Union,
take in all classes not employed aoouI
the mines and mills. 1t will be fedef'
ated with the American Labor union.
Fred Port, Milbank boy under SIX.
teen years OF age, has been notiheu
that he has won first place In the com
petitivc examinations held at nine on
ferent points in Minnesota, North IA
kota and South Dakota for the Arcs-
bishop Ireland scholarship at the Cor
lege or St Thomas at Merriam FAn.
MINI. The scholarship is valued .
$210 and includes board. tuition, ious
ing and laundry for one year. Tne "a
animation was open to any CalhoIs
boy, without restriction as to res
dence. who had not taken stuo, s.
above the eighth grammar grade. Ia.
successful competitor was born IN MI
bank, and is the son of Henry ros
who Is In the employ of the MilwauAs
railroad. Milbank feels proud tnat ~
of Its young men, without special prey
aration. has won out against suon
large class OF competitors.
Notwithstanding that Minnehau
county mas over $4,000 in its treasui,
Il is unable to take UP outstanu
bonds. for the reason that the hoios.'