The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1903-06-04
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South Dakota
G.rera, State News
Photographed.

Is authorized to begin business With
s25 900 capital.
The Congregational church society
OF Rapid City has extended call TO
Rev Stephen Butcher of Ocean Grove.
Fla, and 1t has been accepted.
Mat Haverley, one of the early set.
tiers and best known men OF Sully
county, died of lockjaw, the result Of
stepping on q rusty nail about week
ago.
James Brown, a prominent stock
man about sixty years old, dropped
dead at Miller Just after he had won
game of seven-up for amusement
with some friends.
A two-year child OF John Hamul Of
Tyndall ate the heads of fifty match
es thinking they we're candy. No ply.
stefan was called and the child was
dead in twelve hours.
The three-year-old son Of Senator
and Mrs. A. Royhi died at Arlington
from getting tin whistle in his throat.
A surgical operation was performed,
but 1t was unsuccessful.
John Lotus, late yardmaster Of the
Omaha at Sioux Falls, has been bound
over TO answer to the charge of selling
property of the company and putting
the proceeds in his own pocket.
Harry Hird of Sturgis has been rec
commended for cadetship in the naval
| academy at Annapolis, and is now dill
gently studying up for his examina-
ton, which will take place next month.
H. L. Ferry has finished taking the
school census at Vermillion for 1908,
and finds that there are forty-six pupils
! less in the district than last year. His
count shows exactly 600 children OF
| school age.
Mark Mcnamara was locked UP in
the county Jail at Vermillion as fit
subject for the insane asylum, but was
afterwards turned loose when 1t was
discovered that he was suffering from
an attack of tremens.
A son Of George Vinson of Burbank,
while out hunting gophers, met with
a painful accident. The gun which ne
carried was accidentally discharged.
|
slowly improving from the shock.
One of the features of the homestead
| movement to this part of the state is
| the small number of foreigners who
1 are coming. The new settlement is
practically from the states OF Iowa,
NJ. .aska, Illinois and Wisconsin.
The Joint teachers institute OF
| Meade, Pennington and Butte counties
win be held of Rapid City from June 2
to 10. The instructors as named are
Prof. J. N. Davis, Sturgis; Prof. r. M.
! Stevens, Rapid City; Miss Alice Cary
Williams, Des Moines, Iowa.
The calls from the permanent school
! fund have been light for week, Yank-
ton county taking $4,000 and Jerauld
and Hyde 1882. Applications for cash
on bonds are already in for June and
the first of July, and large amount
| viii be taken out before the middle OF
! the summer
Union memorial services were held
! in the Methodist church at Salem, Rev.
! L. Harold Forde preaching the sermon.
| In the evening Rev. w. M. Jennings,
| pastor Of the Brookings Presbyterian
| church, preached the baccalaureate
| sermon to the high school graduates.
| There are ten in the class.
Gesnert Somers OF Dirkstown has
| furnished bonds in the sum OF $500
for his appearance at the next term OF
| the state circuit court to answer to
| serious charge. He was arrested on
complaint of William Humphreys OF
! Dirkstown. who charges him with
| statutory offense In which Humphreys
wife was alleged to be implicated.
| Miss Ruth Paxson, member or the
National Y. w. G. A. committee, ad-
I dressed a young ladies' meeting at the
/ university chapel at Vermillion and
| was also In charge OF the union serv-
/ ices at the Methodist church. Her
/ visit to North and South Dakota is to
urge the need of strife secretary for
| the Y. w. G. A. organizations.
The new fee law for fling articles
Of incorporation goes into effect the
| frst of July, and the corporations are
eetting In rapidly at the old fee. A
| total of forty-one domestic corpora
items, with a combined capital OF $42.-
4 So, 900, were filed last week, the larg-
est amount for any one being Of min
ing corporation with a capital of $1o.-
/ 900 900.
| Chamberlain artesian well borers
discovered a small flow of gas In the
last well sunk in that city, and hopes
have been built Of supply OF gas for
that city as well as at Pierre. The ar
tesian flow is reached at Chamberlain
at less than 1000 feet, while at Pierre
the flow is about 400 feet, and the
character of the water Is entirely diff
ferent. Chamberlain people believe
that a well sent to the same depth as
In Pierre would bring them the same
flow as there, and with the supply OF
gas.
Adolph Haut was bitten by mad
dog in Mitchell, an incision being
made over the eve. A post-mortem e1-
animation OF the animal was made and
It was determined that the dog was
mad Mr.. Haut was sent to Chicago
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