The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1903-04-03
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South Dakota I
Ger.r., State News
Photographed.

the range east Of the Missouri river.
The annual meeting Of the old set
tiers was held in Odd Fellows hall at
Dell Rapids recently.
Adelbert Smith has been convicted
at Deadwood of assault with intent to
commit criminal assault.
Mrs. Almira McChillis, aged ninety
four years, died at the home of her
daughter, Mrs. Whayley, at Hot
Springs.
Owing to bad roads and Indictment
weather the farmers meeting for or.
ganization at Elkton has been post
poned to April 4.
Adjt. Gen. Conklin has commits.
stoned J. E. Platte of Clark, as pay
master OF the South Dakota national
guard, with the rank Of major.
Richard Hays, who was convicted
OF criminal assault at F~landreau and
sentenced to five years, has been
granted a new trial by Judge Jones.
The $4,000 of school money for the
water works system at Bonesteel has
just been received and work will be-
gin on the well and bitches immedi-
ately.
A picture ~canvasser who gave his
name as Michael Ginsburg was the
first victim of the new peddlers' IL
cense la wat Madison. He was fined
$25 and costs.
Joseph Meyer was run down by an
engine on the Milwaukee road four
miles east of elias, and killed. He
was going from Winfred to Howard
on a railroad velocipede.
w. Riley Gibson died at the soldiers
home at Hot Springs after an illness
OF a year or more, caused by softening
Of the brain. He served three years
In Company C, Fifty-second Pennsyl-
vania volunteer infantry.
The Sioux Indians of the Ponca dis
trict of the Rosebud reservation have
been holding councils the past week
regarding the new bill relating to the
opening for settlement Of i16, 900
acres Of their land in Gregory courty.
They unanimously agreed to approve
the bill, peilg better pleased with the
provisions Of the new bill than they
were with the original bill introduced
. year ago.
Among the features Of the visit of
President Roosevelt to Sioux Falls
next month will probably be a horse
back ride in the afternoon of Sunday
April s, in company with Capt. Seth
Bullock Of DeadwoOd. In the fore
noon the president, accompanied by
Senator Kittredge, will attend services
at a local church. 1t is planned to
have him address the school children
Monday morning, April 6, prior to the
parade.
The liquor question will be tested
again at the spring election at Can
ton on April 81. A petition with the
necessary number of signers calling
for submission of the question was
filed in the city auditors office. The
saloon men are encouraged by the
fact that in the election a year ago
the saloon proposition was defeated by
only 81 votes, which was a decided
falling off in prohibition malorltles
from the year before.
The new $780, 900 hotel at Dead
wood. which has been named sthe
Franklin, will open june l. 1T Will be
lone of the best in the state, and is tie
most p]retentious building in Dead
wood being four stories high, the first
of white stone, the other three or
pressed brick and white stone TRIM
mings. The lobby, two dining rooris
and parlor are finished in golden oak.
covora, nersors are negotiating with
the hotel for the manage
ment.
y, J. Drake, who is employed by the
government to inspect the range
horses of Fall River and Custer coun-
ties to investigate the "French ais
case" that has been reported TO De
80 serious. says that during the past
fev weeks he has found and Killed
about seventy head of horses thaI
were infected. Many of those klileo
were owned or have been owned by
the Indians, although the disease has
p9in9d q IOOjilolu diiohS
lent grades of horses owned by morse
raisers. Mr.. Drake believes that Win
the prompt measures that are being
rasorted to the disease will soon De
overcome.
ctocknen from practically every
,rt cf the range nave been in Pierre
the mast week and report it clear OF
snow and cattle ranging n teeolns
~ every direction. In the rortherh
r.nee where there was light
q scarcity of water is rerorteu iroii
some sections, while this trouple -
MT found further south where meit,
,ng SHOWS have filled the ponds ana
water holes. What loss occurred LOT
+he winter was in the section who're
uTatar is plenty and grazing the pes0
Vow and cattle are picking up rapid,
w The highest estimated lndlVluual
loss in any herd is not to exceed ~
nor cent, and that only in exceptoha
: cases.