The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1903-11-05


hall and opera house at Frankfort.
The supreme court admitted Burg
Brown of Pierre TO practice, on GER
tificate from the supreme court OF
Iowa.
The state insurance department has
authorized the Des Moines Life In
surance company TO transact business
in this state.
Mrs Orman F. ong died at Puma
of peritonitis. She was forty-two, and
left, besides a husband, son, Harvey
j. Babcock, by former husband.
John Man. roadmaster for the Chi
cago, Milwaukee & st. Paul railway at
Elk Point, has resigned to accept
similar position on the Kansas City
division.
Work on the new $4,000 Catholic
church at Wakonda is progressing,
and in few months the residents OF
that community will have a place OF
worship of which to be proud. Father
Egan has undertaken a big work in
raising such large sum for this pur-
pose.
The Nebraska Telephone company
has completed the laying of its con-
Quits at Deadwood. Some four or
five miles have been laid along Main,
Sherman and Pine streets. Laterals
have been run 81 frequent intervals
along the alleys and side streets in or
de rto reach the distributing poles
An electric railway from Miller to
washington Springs Is being seriously
discussed by the business mems or
ganization, and If the great lines OF
road now pointing this way fail to ex-
tend their tracks soon it is more than
probable that the present agitation for
another road will result in the build
ing of an electric line.
Burt Rogers was awarded damages
at Deadwood against the Gladiator
Gold Mining company and the Gold
Fish Mining company and Cephas H
Crabtree OF $500. He brought the
suits on an alleged breach of contract,
TO recover money alleged TO be due
him by reason of certain stock which
he had been promised not having been
issued.
William Cook has been turned over
to Sheriff Gunderson to serve SEN
tence in the county Jail at Vermillion
for assault Because he accused Frank
Carey. an Elk Point young man, Of
stealing his overcoat, and attempted to
give him a sound drubbing, he was ar
| rested and sentenced. Carey was limo
cent of the theft. The culprit, A. Mar
tin, escaped.
A new clerk has been granted the
| Mitchell postoffice through the actfv-
| ity of Postmaster Bras. The business
| has increased to such an extent that
| the regular force has been unable to
handle il With 5uy degree Of efficien.
service to the public. Postmaster
Bras now has force of six clerks I'M
Ger him. and four regular carriers and
| one substitute, making total OF eleven
men.
Four stacks of barley, two stacks OF
| fax, and a separator belonging to J.
| Hillans threshing outfit were burned.
| The machine was engaged in thresh-
| ing on the farm of Charles Power, a
mile east of Wentworth, and spark
! from the engine from the engine ig-
nited one of the stacks. Fortuna Bros.
were the renters on the farm, and the
| loss falls largely on them Loss In
grain, $500, on separator, 800; unin-
sured.
Five county 6ftcffes have been lo-
Gated and approved by the c@.nty COM
missioners OF Union county this sum-
mer, but recently the board voted to
rescind all action in the case of each.
The state drainage law requires that
| the expense of such bitches shall be
assessed in proportion TO the benefit
to adjoining landholders, while the
state constitution provides that all
taxation shall Re equal Ten protests
of adjoining farmers who want the
\ expense shared by the whole county.
and the uncertainty Of the board as to
the constitutionality of the law, are
| the reasons that have led to this check
in the much needed drainage proceed
ings. It is quite likely that the Union
county delegation to the next legisla-
| ture will propose constitutional
amendment authorizing assessment IN
accordance with benefits received in
the case of county drainage bitches.
AS a result of their preliminary ex-
animation, two men giving their names
| as Walter Wilson Thomas Clancy
have been held for appearance before
! the next federal grand jury at Sioux
/ Falls to answer an unusual charge
/ They are accused of having circulated,
| AT Scotland and Tyndall, bills OF the
/ State Bank OF New Brunswick, ". j..
which failed many years ago. A
/ great many bills of this bank have
/ been circulated in various states, and
| officers of the United States secret SER
vice have been put TO much annoyance
! and trouble in running down and pros
ecutfng those who circulated them.
! The bills which were circulated by
Wilson and Clancy were OF the denom-
/ nation of $40 and of the series of 1861.
| II was thsir practice to enter business
houses, purchase goods TO the value
| Of fifty cents or seventy cents, and re-
| ceive good money in change.
j. ID. Kingsley of Spearfsh has sue
4 -. IN