The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1903-02-12
Otherwise.

A syndicate of Michigan lumbermen
purchased the Port Blakeley mill and
$4,000 acres of timber land in Wash
ington for $S,000,000.
Charles F. Schultz, city treasurer Of
La Porte, Ind, aged forty-seven, died
Of old age, having lived half a life
time in less than year.
The appraisal of the estate of Au-
gustin Daily of New York shows that
after payment Of his debts and liza
bilities there Is deficiency of $2S,460.
Revocation of the licenses of all
druggists who sell cocaine indiscrimi-
nately to all customers is the panacea
for the drug evil advocated by Chief
Of Police o'Neill of Chicago.
II is stated that James e. Kelly the
well-known sporting man, is dead in
Paris. Mr.. Kelly at one time owned
number of noted race horses, among
them Dry Monoploe, Jacobus and Sis
ter.
The Standard Oil company has ac-
CURED control of the ]. H. Guffey Pc
troleum company at Bayonne, N. j.
The Guffey company located in Bay
onne less than year ago and handled
Texas OIL
Attorney General Cunneen of New
York holds that the offering of trans
portation pass to a member of the leg
islator is misdemeanor, and its ac-
ceptance by the legislator would con-
stitute misdemeanor.
Lawrence Sluter Benson, aged about
seventy years, author of "Benson's
Geometry" and well known years ago
as a novelist, philosopher and mathe-
matician, is dead at the city hospital
in Newark, N. j., penniless.
The Illinois commandery of the Ma
val Order of the United States, at its
annual meeting, has adopted resolu-
tons requesting congress to substitute
the rank of commodore for that of cap
tain in the United States navy.
Anthracite mine workers at WILKES
barre, Pa, have been informed that
they may have to aid the soft coal
workers soon. The soft coal opera
tors have refused to give their men an
increase, and strike is expected.
Joseph William Sheppard, who for
the last three years has been living as
a recluse in New York, died there Of
starvation. Sheppard's death was due
to his efforts to prove that the true be-
lever in Bramah could live without
food.
The bill introduced In the Missouri
legislature providing for 'jim crow"
cars does not meet with the approval
of the colored people. Large delega-
tons are at Jefferson City trying to de-
feat it. kilograms were sent out to
negro preachers in every town in the
state asking them to pray for the de-
feat of the bill. The author of the bill
says he will not push It.
The will of Amos Mccartney. an &c.
centric capitalist who died at Oakland,
Cal, on Jan. "a, has Just been opened.
1t directs that no religious services be
held at his funeral, but suggests that
band of music be provided. The es-
tate, which is left to his daughters,
includes valuable property in Califor-
MIA, realty in Kansas City, 5000 acres
of land in Missouri, real estate in Chi
cago, besides stocks, bonds and mort
cages,
A movement has been started In the
New England states for the election of
Mai. Austin s. Cushman of East Or.
ange as commander-in-chief of the
Grand Army of the Republic at the
annual encampment at San Francisco
next October
To circumvent the law forbidding
the marriage of girl under eighteen
years of age without the consent Of her
parents, Antonio Ardoini OF Chicago,
twenty-three years of age, had himself
appointed guardian of the girl and
then married her.