The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1903-03-05
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accepted the rectOrSnlp OF tne EplScO-
pal church at Hibbing, MINI.
An important capture was made in
Sioux Falls in the person Of Bastian
Giesman, who is wanted in Missouri
on the charge of carrying on Illicit
whisky distilling in Jackson county.
Rev. Father NJ. ]. Mccarthy, for
at Springfield and assumed charge of
the Catholic parish at that place, TO
which he was recently appointed.
]. Nevan Shoup was arrested at
Huron on a telegram from Woon-
socket. He is charged with operating
a confidence game and with having
procured goods and money by false
pretenses.
The proposed sinking OF oil wells
east and west of Miller has caused
close inspection of the artesian wa.
ter. At times an oil forms on the wa
ter. At other times the water is heav-
lily charged with gas.
The city of Armour has purchased
a new pump, one that will throw a
four-inch stream, and it will soon be
attached to the mains. The pump
will be run by the sixty-fve-horse
power gasoline engine at the mill.
Two men charged with robbing tn,
Great Northern station at Albee were
discovered at Summit by Milwaukee
IntnnffUn MT n al oh
miles east, and were arrested there.
They were lodged in jail at Milbank.
A fire that would probably have
proven disastrous to the Homestake
company was discovered in the old
Burlington shaft at Lead in time TO
suppress. 1t required three streams
of water an entire day to extinguish
the blaze.
Arrangements are being made to
construct a telephone line from Int
rior across the Pine Ridge reservation
to Merriman, Neb. 1t is believed the
Indians on the reservation will con
sent to the granting of a right of way
for the proposed line.
AS a step toward providing WlGte
Lake with suitable fire protection, a
20000-gallon iron tank has been pur.
chased and will be used in con-
ton with the wateTworks system :
a reservoir, increasing the pressure
to a considerable extent.
A new trial is to be asked in the
90 Eve
Lead, suit for personal damages in
which a Judgment for $4,000 was
awarded several days ago. The new
trial is applied for on the ground that
the damages awarded were excessive
An old employee of the Homestake
l.. r. Bailey of Lead, has entered the
ministry, and, having resigned his po
sition with the mining company, has
been assigned to the pastorate of the
Methodist church at Edgmont. He
has removed to that point and as
sumed his duties.
AS the result of meeting of bust
ness men it was determined to or
ganize local stock company for the
construction of a lodge hall and opera
house at Woonsocket A committee
was appointed to have plans drawn
and secure an estimate of the cost
of the proposed new building.
During the recent quarantine at the
Cheyenne agency school at Forest
City the pupils were not allowed to see
70 hn
came homesick and ran away one
night. One, nine years old, trampet
twenty miles through the snow to his
fathers teepe, arriving at o'clock IL
and was unconscious from cold wheI
found. He died.
The trouble between the students o.
the seminary at washington Spring:
and the principal, Prof. Shay, which
for time looked as though the schoo
would have to close, has been salts
factorily settled by the resignation o.
Prof. Shay and his wife. Prof. Coop
er, a member of the faculty, has beer
very satisfactory to all citizens of the
town.
What is designed as a golden inyi
tation has been extended by the Blacl
Hills Mining Mems association Il
President Roosevelt, asking him to at
tend the meeting of the congress to bt
held at Lead next September. The in
vitation is engraved on a slab of Is
carat Black Hills gold FIVE by two By
three-quarters inches in dimensions
1t was forwarded to the South Dakota
delegation at Washington, by whom f
was presented to the president.
The grand jury at Deadwood has in
dicted William and James lie Mar
aged sixteen and eighteen years re
spectively, for throwing switches ant
endeavoring to ditch number O
trains near Terry. The boys were
caught in the act by one of the traiI
crews after several cars had beer
thrown off the track and a number o.
serious accidents narrowly averted
They have been In the DeadwooG jai
two months.
The Spearfish city council has in
stituted proceedings in the circuit
court against Edward Scott to enjoir
him from operating his sawmill at the
headwaters of the Spearfsh, alleging
&Aot thn ig %I,n $50