The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1903-01-29
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South Dakota
n.., State News
- Photographed.


proposition to issue bonds to build
court house.
Arthur Rosendahl, young ranch
man, was shot and instantly killed at
Oacoma.
A council of the Improved Order of
Red Men was organized at Bonesteel
with a membership Of twenty.
Stockmen from Gregory report the
surface of the whole country buried
under q foot Of the beautiful.
Alfred Bartlett, pioneer merchant
of Canova, has disposed OF his stock
and contemplates locating In Mitchell.
Samuel Soyster died at Spearfsh at
the age of seventy-eight. He was
native of Pennsylvania and came to
the Hills in 1876.
Smallpox is spreading at Summit.
The schools and other public places
are closed, awaiting the action Of the
county board of health.
Authority has been granted for the
conversion OF the Evarts state bank
into the First National bank of Ev-
arts; capital. $4,000.
8. ID. Well, arrested at Ipswich on
the charge of disposing of mortgaged
property to beat his creditors, was
held in bonds of $500.
E. NJ. Holbrook has purchased the
residence property of the late Judge
F. j. WashaUaugh on Forest Hill.
Deadwod, paying $4,000.
]. J. Green has resigned as chief of
police of Lead. 1t Is expected that
Andrew Bray, one OF the police OFF,
GERS, will succeed him.
WATERFOWL has a population of g.
DAG. Such are figures shown by pri-
vate census Just made. The census OF
1900 gave population of 1852.
John Sanders, a Roberts county
farmer, has filed a petition in volnn-
tary bankruptcy. He places his liabil-
tiles at s2.517 and assets at s1,203.
The family Of John Shad of Summit
narrowly escaped asphyxiation from
coal gas, All were Frustrated when
Mr.. Shad arrived. The cause was a
defective fue.
A. w. Avery hae purchased the
ranch Of Miss Theresa O'Neil on Con-
tinental prairie, three miles east Of
Spearfish. 1t is one OF the most val
liable In the region.
The Bagley grain elevator at Garden
! City has been purchased by Mckee &
Minthorn Of Bradley. They expect to
open the Garden City elevator for bus
mess in the near future.
The supreme court Of South Dakota
has held that the funding bonds OF
| Custer county are valid on a test case
taken into court for the purpose Of de-
termining their validity.
The members of the Presbyterian
church at Edgemont have. by unani-
nous vote, extended a call TO Rev. A.
B. Young to succeed Rev. William Tic
Cready, who resigned.
/ A year ago q farmer of yiborg sold
his farm for $40 an acre and movedto
Canada. He has now returned and
succeeded in purchasing his old farm,
paying $50 an acre for 1t.
The commissioners OF Lawrence
county have appointed Alfred Thomas
Justice of the peace and Harry Carey
constable for Roubaix. the new town
at the Uncle Sam mine.
The Coleman State bank will be re-
organized in the near future and In
corporated as a national bank, with
capital Of SOS, GOO. The bank is rated
as one of the bestin the state.
Every one at Bonesteel feels jubi-
liant over the news that the Rosebud
reservation bill will undoubtedly pass
at this session of congress. Values
on city property have taken Jump.
One Hitchcock live stock dealer, r.
+. Caldwell, shipped from Huron dur
ing the six months ending Dec. 81,
1,16O head OF sheep, 1.1S7 hogs, $50
cattle and more than $4,000 worth OF
wool.
Mrs. Russell Thorpe and son Rus
sell OF Edgemont have started on an
extended Southern trip, intending to
go as far as Cuba. Returning, they
will visit Mexico, California and Puget
sound points.
George w. Cornwall of Deadwood
expects TO go to old Mexico to repre-
sent a syndicate of Eastern men in
the construction and operation OF a
telephone system centralizing in the
City Of Mexico.
Something over 1000 head OF cattle
were shipped from Bonestel the past
week to Eastern markets. Most OF
the heavy snow has disappeared and
all indications point to good weather
for some time to come.
/ Already reports of losses among
cattle in Charles Mix county are COM
ing in. BY reason of the deep snow II
Is impossible for cattle to range. and
a few stockmen did not make sufficient
preparation for hard winter.
Extensive improvements are being
made by the Northwestern road at
Centerville. A large water tank has
been completed, additional tracks are
| to be laid for switching and new
steel bridge built across the Vermil-
| lion.
Herman Nullow OF the valley pre-
cincts IL under arrest at Deadwood,
charged with cattle stealing. II is al
legged that he stole cattle belonging TO