The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1903-10-02

suicide by shooting himself through
the head with a shotgun. He had been
respondent.
The street carnival and band con-
vention which was to have taken place
at Groton this week has been indef-
nitely postponed on account OF the
wet weather.
Mai. Picker last week traded Faulk
county land for an orange grove IN
Florida. The grove includes II acres.
and there are besides 240 acres of un-
improved land.
The regular fall term of Augustana
college commenced at Canton with an
unusually large attendance. The
magnificent new college building has
been practically completed.
Alfred Gray has waived examination
at Madison on the charge of assault
ing and cutting Raph with a knife, and
has been remanded to the county Jail
to await trial at the October term.
The state arsenal has just received
1900 Krag-Jorgenson rifles for the use
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replace the Did Sprinsfields, which
have been the armament of the nation
al guard ever since the reorganization.
Lee Towne of Watertown was the
plaintiff before the justice court at
Clark in an action against G. H.. Foote,
a nonresident hunter, to secure pay
ment for taking care of three dogs.
He secured a judgment for S3S and
costs.
The state auditors Office is sending
out warrants on the annual wolf boun-
ty und or last year. There will be
about $1,000 Of the annual fund to
turn back into the treasury, as the
claims filed amounted to only about
$4,000.
P. ]. Bowman and A. Mcfarland
have purchased in the Centerville
Roller mills and the electric light plant
Of G.. Mergren & Co. for $2l, 900. Mr..
Mergren, the pioneer miller, started In
a small way about twenty years ago.
He will retire to his fine farm at Rlv-
erside.
III dlISlluuhSC az thS tINie P~~
lie schools is $40 this semester. =
large increase over last years attend
ance. The high school attendance Is
lot. With a like increase in the nor
NAL school, the school population
would indicate a much larger ratio OF
increase than of the city.
The Faulkton city schools opened
with the following corps OF teachers:
Prof. J. Boyd Townsley of Watertown;
high school. Miss Miles of Redfeld:
grammar. Miss Eunice Champlain OF
Cresco, Iowa; intermediate, Miss Fac
Putney of Redfield; primary, Miss
Maud Stewart of Mound City.
A coach load of land seekers ar
rived at Faulkton last week from Ne
braska. This makes the third contin-
gent that the Lund agency had dur
ing the week. The Byrne & Conway
Land agency also did a fine business
last week, selling about twenty quar-
ter sections to Eastern men and realiz-
ing a good price.
E. E. Hemingway, state bank ex-
aminer, has just checked up the coun-
ty treasurer Of McCook county, the
first time in three years, and inds the
accounts to be perfectly kept. The
present treasurer, B. G. Eilers, was the
deputy during the preceding two years,
so that the checking up covers the
whole time he has been connected
with the office.
E. G. Davis, city engineer Of Brook
ings, died suddenly while running the
electric machinery at the powerhouse.
1t was at first thought he had been
killed by an electric spark, but his
position and the fact that he was not
burned indicated a stroke OF apoplexy
or heart failure. His assistant was
only absent five minutes and or his re-
turn found him on the floor dead.
Georg J.. John, agent for the North
western road and American Express
company at Columbia. arrested some
days ago for having received prairie
chickens and other game for shipment
to Chicago, entered a plea of guilty
and paid a fine and costs amounting
to SOS. 80. The two men arrested for
shipping the birds paid $40 and costa
each. Franc B.. Daniels. superintsnd-
ent OF the express company, was at
Aberdeen to attend the hearing.
. w. G.. Ledgingham, a well-known
/ travelling man of Aberdeen is at home,
having beer injured in a runaway. He
) is badly bruised from head to foot,
though no bones were broken. In the
absence of another driver, the wife of
Z the liveryman at Lily undertook to
take him to Bradley. The neckyoke
! broke while the team was going at a
! lively gait and both were thrown out,
4 the woman sustaining a broken collar
bone and several fractured ribs. 1t
was feared internal injuries might de-
velop.