The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1903-12-18
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handsome e edifice.
Jerry Crowley, who was convicted
at Sturgis of horse stealing and sen.
fenced to one year and ten months,
has been granted a new trial.
John Gergen, wanted for the shoot
Ing OF Christine Keller at Sturgis, was
captured by Sheriff Brown about
twenty miles west of Rochester.
M. Hoffman, Jr., OF Elk Point has
received from the government weather
bureau a set of weather forecast flags
and now receives daily telegraphic
f~orecases, which are indicated by the
flags on display.
J. c. Headlee and son Floyd brought
s~ixty-nine head of steers from their
Lyman county ranch to be fattened on
McCook county corn. Frank Wells
contracted to feed thirty-nine and J.
Lamhertz twenty-five.
At the annual meeting Of the fire.
mems association at Elk Point the fol-
lowing officers were elected: Chief,
John Coverdale; assistant chief, An.
drew Peterson; treasurer, H. L.
Moore; secretary, Charles Vollmer.
The Masons at Salem elected the
following officers at their annual cleo
ton: DR.. Robert T. Dot, worshipfui
master; Frank Bush. senior warden;
William H. Gapp, junior warden; w.
A. Nye, secretary; Frank d Moore.
treasurer.
Ed Lennon of Evarts is just In
from the range and reports cattle do
ing well; in fact. far better than eX-
pected, considering the condition Of
the grass. Some stock was lost by
drowning while crowding around the
drinking holes.
Amelia S. Hooker will have tho
honor to be the first Of her sex to
engage in the mercantile business In
Lyman county, which is in the heart
Of the cattle raising region west of the
Missouri river. She has Just opened
a general store five miles north Of
Presho.
The following were elected at the
annual meeting Of the Tyndall Eastern
1t"i Il lbotioIt NJ. !"
Youngworth; worthy patron, Mr.. VIII.
hanson; associate matron, Mrs. H. A
Pike; secretary, Muriel Forrest; treas-
urer,, Mrs. c. v. Fox; c%onductress, Lu
Verne Forrest; associate, Mrs. Nj. Nc.
Cormick.
A ffty-foot tubular steel bridge has
been purchased from the Campbell
Flagler Brighe company Of Minneapo-
lis and will be placed over Brule creek,
five miles north of Elk Point. This Ia
the first steel bridge with tubular sup
ports in this county. 1t Is the policy
OF the commissioners to place one
such every veal over the Brule.
Ernest Yahr. who was accidentally
shot at Deadwood, is rapidly recover
ing. The danger from the wound 10
the intestines has entirely passed and
he will live. There Is doubt, however,
as to whether he will have free use Of
his legs. A portion Of the hip bone
was torn away by the charge Of shot
and the surgeons dressing the wound
took out part Of the bone.
JdLhSS lupSou. an olu-tiIuG INtTy~
mar Of Deadwood and one of the early
settlers Of the camp, died suddenly at
his barn. He was a native Of Schles-
wig-Holstein, Denmark, but had spent
the greater part of his life in the
United States. He came to the Black
Hills in 1876 and was for many years
n OF the proprietors OF the famous
E1kbnrp CORRAL in nQodyond
Bert Wilson. an employee in Strout's
barber shop at Parker, was held up by
two men while on his way home and
robbed Of $14. He lives in East Par
ker, and it was in a hollow three
blocks from his home that he was rob-
bed. One of the men vas tall and the
other short. Both wore mustaches. As
Wilson was about to pass them one OF
them whipped out a revolver and
asked him to raise his hands. The
short man then went through his pock-
cts. His watch was taken and then
put back. No clue can be found. but
this and other robberies there lately
men. The citizens are asking for Q
night WdlCH.
In the early nineties Mr.. and Mrs.
N. Webb Of Salem took a boy from tho
children's home of Sioux Falls, whose
name at that time was supposed to be
George Baker. The Sioux Falls homo
took the boy, who was about six or
seven, from a children's home In Chi.
which had secured him from the
county house, where In
1893 he had been placed by his mater.
nal grandmother. George was born
March Is, 1887. his mother dying the
next May. His real name is George
Packer. In the transfer to Chi
cago his name became corrupted to
that Of George Baker. For some time
Mrs. Mary r. Packer of Olean, N. Y,
has been looking for her grandson,
and has at last found him In the per.
Of George Webb. There is a com.
fortune awaiting him in tho
East.
Arrangements have been completed
by Supt. Pierce of the government In.