The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1903-07-10

The SisSeton ire department. - oe
serving Of much credit for it's dispatch
in Quenching a fire in less than three
minutes that threatened a loss Of
thousands of dollars.
The petition for a passenger train
service on the Sisseton branch has
been u%nfavorably received by the rail-
road officials. The present service u
very unsatisfactory to the travelling
public.
The capital stock of the Dell Rapids
Telephone company has been In
creased from 81, 900 to $4,000, and the
company has been r~eorganized. The
purpose is t o enable the company to
construct several rural lines.
A surveying party under O. H. South
mayd Of Deadwood is engaged upon
government work in the vicinity OK
Nahant and will be busy for six weeks.
Mr.. Southmayd has the contract Tor
the subdividing Of three townships.
The mutilated body Of a negro was
found at Ludden station recently. 1t
Is thought he was stealing a ride on q
night passenger train and was acci-
dentally killed by falling under tho
wheels. There is NO clue to his iden'
tity.
The ladies Of Armour gave Mrs. w.
e. Upton a farewell reception at the
home Of Mr.. and Mrs. G. w. Chesley.
Mr.. Upton will remove to Mitchell to
live. He was among the pioneers or
Armour, and at present is a member OK
the state board of charities and col.
rections.
Bids were opened by the secretary
Of state for public printing for the en-
suing year. The bidders were G. J.
Mcleod of Aberdeen, State Publishing
company of Pierre, John Longstaf OF
Huron and Brown & Saenger OF Sioux
Falls, the lowest bid being that OF g.
J. Mcleod.
The annual convention and camp
meeting of the Modern Brotherhood
of America, of South Dakota n ad'
jacent territory in Minnesota and Iowa,
was held at Sioux Falls. A feature
was the exhibition drill by the Yer
million drill team.
The Ease of Herman Gross, his wife
and boys, of Miller, charged with in
tent to kill, was postponed thirty days
because their house was demolished In
the recent storm. Mrs. Gross had q
leg broken and one If the boys a
several ribs broken.
M. v. Olson's hardware store at VI
borg was robbed of $40c worth OF
goods. consisting of raZors, shotguns
and p~ocketknives. The thieves also
broke into a Viborg saloon and car
ried away the cash register. 1t Is be-
lieved they were provided with a
horse and wagon to carry away their
plumber.
At a meeting of the county commits.
sioners at Yankton the bids on the
new court house were opened. The
successful bidders on the building
were Rowles & Bailey, Omaha, s54.
1872. The other bid awarded was on
the steam heating, which went tc
Symms. Powers company of Sioux
f Falls for $2,595. The other bidders
t were August Goetz, Yankton; w. E
Hodgin, Onawa, Iowa; Detweiler &
Co.. Des Moines, and the Yanktor
Heating and Plumbing company.
The last of the cattle purchased II
S the South this year by Northern ca
tlemen are being received at Bell
Fourche. Many of them were behlnt
the heavy floods in Kansas and Mis-
souri, and we're held up several week.
n in transit. The heaviest buyer thl'
D wear has been the Harris-Franklil
company. This company bought abou
d 10000 head in Texas, New Mexico an
e Mexico, and was one Of the first shlE
g ners. getting all it's cattle through be
Y fore the floods and unloading the las
t. of them here a month ago. The coma
"a ton of the range has never been s.
= favorable. Recent rains gave tn
At grass a remarkable impetus. All Tn
-. water holes and courses Of the u
" try are well filled and there is no dar
# ger of their being depleted for severa
Y, months at least
Thomas Stratton Of Hand count
has beer experimenting with han
a. county soil and irrigation, and nnd
s, that he is making a thorough success
or of the work. AS an experiment n
is tried seeding subsoil which came fror
a depth of sixteen feet, and found tina
d. with irrigation the vegetables he trle
on this soil did eve better tina the
N did on the surface soil. On this q
% builds future wealth for that count
II bv shipments of Hand county subso
20 to WORKOUT Eastern farms as a re
"a tilizer. The subsoil of South Dakot
10 carries a large amount OF magnesl
10 and lime, and this itself will help mar
is Eastern localities if applied to them.
A bottle of beer is sometimes a pre-
. ty expensive luxury, and two your
~, men of Vermillion have found this
be a fact. Clyde Kephart and Be
80 Hovey took a bottle from a case
#. beer while hauling it from the static
i'd to st. Joseph's academy. Complai
at was made to Agent Barnett, who III
Sc, the draymen arrested. They admit
er their guilt and were fined $40 each