The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1903-09-17
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The motion for the discharge OF DR..
William G. Smith of Sturgis. bankrupt.
was referred to Granville G. Bennett
of Deadwood, special master.
Changes made in the running of
passenger trains on the Chicago &
Northwestern are far from satisfactory
on the Hawarden-Oakes division.
Rev. O. o. Sando, for twenty-seven
years pastor of the Nideros Lutheran
church at Baltic, has rendered his res.
ignation because of failing health.
J. w. Post, who has been route agent
for the American Express company.
has returned to Rapid City, having re-
signed his position with the company.
Lake Preston is to have a first-class
hotel. Frank Zoller has arrangements
made and work will be commenced at
once upon a modern forty-room hos
telry.
Mrs. G. d. Runyon, living few miles
northwest of Salem. fell from trap
door to the bottom OF cellar, suffer
ing several broken ribs and internal
injuries.
Thieves broke into three stores at
Groton and stole about SIS from the
cash drawers. Nothing else was mo-
Tested. Entrance was made through
back windows.
A new jail has been completed at
Erwin and il is expected that in fu-
ture the criminal element among the
transient harvest hands will give this
town wide berth.
Threshing Is well under way around
Lake Preston and good yields are re-
ported. Wheat is going from Is to 80
bushels, barley 80 to As bushels and
oats 40 to 20 bushels.
The three men held at Castlewood
on suspicion of having robbed the
postoffice were discharged by Justice
Morgan after preliminary hearing.
No new arrests or clues.
Ed Kruger, farmer, walked into a
hardware store at Ipswich, took down
revolver and fired bullet into his
right breast He will probably die. He
has wife and three children.
Prof. e. l.. Fullmer, who has occu-
pied the chair of natural science In
Dakota university for four years, has
been elected to a similar position in
Baldwin university Berea, Ohio.
A verdict of guilty was returned in
the United States court at Deadwood
in the case against Joe Black Pipe, a
Rosebud Indian, charged with intro
ducing liquor on Indian territory.
During heavy thunder storm light
ming struck setting of wheat or
the A. WachhoIz farm near Salem and
burned one stack. The grain was in
sured in a local farmers mutual com.
pany.
Two indictments were returned by
the grand jury at Deadwood, one
against the three moonshiners and the
ether against person not in custody
and whose name is accordingly with
held
A resident of Aurora named Fort
experimental this year with the rails
ing of tobacco and believes he will
demonstrate that the cultivation of this
plant can be made a success in South
Dakota.
Owing to lack of patronage. the
creamery at La Dele has closed TEN.
porarily The farmers in that vicinity
raised such big crops this year that
they have no time to haul milk to the
creamery.
Irwin Thomas. a member of the
Northwestern bridge crew, fell under
a moving train at st. Onge and his
right leg was so crushed between the
ankle and knee that amputation was
necessary.
The creamery association Of Center
vile has succeeded in buying twenty
acres one mile north of town. which
will be plated at once. This tract is
high and dry, and was the only avail
able land near town.
Work is progressing rapidly on a
new Methodist church building which
is in course of construction at Chand.
ler 1t will replace a similar struc-
ture which was destroyed by tornado
in the summer of 1899.
In the last year scores of artesion
wells have been sunk in Edmunds
county, which now has SO such wells.
All of them are of medium size and
furnish an abundance of water for
farm and stock purposes.
John NJ. Henton. formerly engaged
as a chemist among the cyanide plants
In the Hills, is in Mexico on pros
pecting tour. He recently wrote that
he was working about 100 miles south
of Perall in the state of Durango.
A rattlesnake six feet long. with
eleven large. brilliant rattles on its
tail. was killed by Miss Jessie Kintigh,
a school teacher, at her home twenty
miles south of Miller. making the
ninth one killed there this summer.
The regular September term of the
circuit court at Canton convened with
J. w. Jones of Sioux Fails as the pre-
siding Judge. or the less than one
dozen civil actions, many are old cases
and will be either settled or thrown
out entirely.
A. C. Hemway died at Arlington