The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1903-04-02
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South Dakota
General state News
- Photographed.

The annual meeting OF the old set.
Tiers was held in Odd Fellows hall at
Dell Rapids recently.
Adelbert Smith has been convicted
at Deadwood of assault with intent To
commit criminal assault.
Mrs. Almira McChillis, aged ninety.
Tour years, died at the home OF her
daughter, Mrs. Whayley, at Hot
Springs.
Owing TO bad roads and Indictment
weather the farmers meeting for or.
ganization at Elkton has been post.
poned to April 4.
Adjt. Gen. Conklin has commits,
Stoned J. E Platte of Clark, as pay
master OF the South Dakota national
guard, with the rank of major.
Richard Hays, who was convicted
OF criminal assault at Flandreau and
sentenced to five years, has been
granted new trial by Judge Jones.
The $1,000 of school money for the
water works system at Bonesteel has
! just been received and work will be-
gin on the well and bitches immedi-
ately.
A picture canvasser who gave his
name as Michael Ginsburg was the
| first victim Of the new peddlers IL
cense la wat Madison. He was fined
$25 and costs.
Joseph Meyer was ran down by an
engine on the Milwaukee road four
miles east of elias, and killed. He
was going from Winfred to Howard
on railroad velocipede.
w. Riley Gibson died at the soldiers
home at Hot Springs after an Illness
of year or more, caused by softening
J Of the brain. He served three years
in Company c, Fifty-second Pennsyl-
vania volunteer infantry.
The Sioux Indians Of the Ponca DIS.
trict Of the Rosebud reservation have
! been holding councils the past week
regarding the new bill relating to the
opening for settlement of $4,000
/ acres Of their land In Gregory COurty.
/ They unanimously agreed to approve
| the bill. reilg better pleased with the
provisions Of the new bill than they
were with the original bill introduced
year ago.
Among the features of the visit of
President Roosevelt to Sioux Falls
next month will probably be a horse
back ride in the afternoon of Sunday
April s, in company with Capt. Seth
Bullock of DeadwoOd. In the fore
noon the president, accompanied by
Senator Kittredge, will attend services
at a local church. 1t is planned to
have him address the school children
Monday morning, April 6, prior to the
parade.
The Iiuuor question will be tested
again at the spring election at Can
ton on April q. a petition with the
necessary number If signers calling
for submission Of the question was
filed in the city auditors office. The
saloon men are encouraged by the
fact that in the election a year ago
the saloon proposition was defeated by
only 81 votes, which was a decided
falling of in prohibition majorities
from the year before.
The new 100000 hotel at Dead
wood. which has been named the
Franklin, will open June /. il will be
one of the best in the state, and is tie
most pretentious building in Dead
wood, being four stories high, the hrst
of white stone, the other three OF
messed brick and white stone trim
mings. The lobby, two dining rooms
and parlor are finished in golden OAK.
Several persons are negotiating win
the hotel company for thc manage
ment
Ell Drake, who is employed by the
government TO inspect the range
horses of Fall River and Custer coun-
ties to investigate the French dls-
case" that has been reported 10 De
so serious. says that during the past
few weeks he has found and killed
about seventy head of horses that
were infected. Many of those killed
were owned or have been owned by
.te Indians. although the disease mas
gained a foothold among more e&cei-
lent grades of horses owned by horse
rs'sers. MIR. Drake believes that with
the prompt measures that are being
resorted 10 the disease viii soon be
overcome.
stockmen from practically every
n,rt Of the range have been In Pierre
the past week and report it clear OF
snow and cattle ranging and feeding
IN every direction. IN the northern
range where there was light snowfall
a scarcity of water is resorted from
some sections, while this trouble is
mot found further south where melt.
inc SHOWS have filled the ponds ana
water holes. What loss occurred Tor
,be winter was in the section Where
water is plenty and grazing the pesS
now, and cattle are picking up RAPID,
" The highest estimated individual
loss in any herd is not to exceed ~
ner cent, and that only in exceptional
cases
During the regular March meeting
Of the state board of railroad commits