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


the construction of an Odd Fellows
hall and opera house at Frankfort.
The supreme court admitted Burg
Brown of Pierre to practice, on a 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, anu
left, besides husband, son, Harvey
j. Babcock, by a former husband.
John Man, roadmaster for the Chi
cago, Milwaukee Il st. Paul railway at
Elk Point, has resigned to accept a
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 q place of
worship of which to be proud. Father
Egan has undertaken a big work in
raising such large sam for this pur-
pose.
The Nebraska Telephone company
has completed the laying of its con-
duits at Deadwood. Some four or
five miles have been laid along Main,
Sherman and Pine streets. LateraIs
have been run at 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 lire.
Burt Rogers was awarded damages
at Deadwood against the Gladiator
Gold Mining company and the Gold
Fish Mining company and Cephas III.
Crabtree OF $1,000. 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 a 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 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 activ-
ity of Postmaster Bras. The business
has increased to such an extent that
the regular force has been unable. to
handle il with any degree of efficient
service to the public. Postmaster
Bras now has a force of six clerks un-
der him, and four regular carriers enA-
one substitute. making q total OF eleven
men.
Four stacks of barley, two stacks OF
fax, and separator belonging to J.
Hillan's threshing outfit were burned.
The machine was engaged in thresh-
ing on the farm of Charles Power,
mile east of Wentworth, and a 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, 500; unin-
sured.
Five county bitches have been To-
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 landkolders, while the
state constitution provides that all
taxation shall he 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. II is quite likely that the Union
county delegation to the next legisla-
ture will propose constitutional
amendment authorizing assessment m
accordance with benefits received in
the case of county drainage bitches.
AS 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 Brunskick, N. 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
ecuting 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 1851.
1t was their practice TO enter business
boucps purchaee goods 10 the value