The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1903-12-17

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at Sturgis of horse stealing and sem
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.
NJ. Hoffman, Jr., of Elk Point has
received from the government weather
bureau a set Of weather forecast flags
and now receives daily telegraphic
forecases, which are indicated by Tho
flags on display.
]. c. Headlee and son Floyd brought
sixty-nine head of steers from their
Lyman county ranch to be fattened on
NcCook county corn. Frank Wells
contracted to feed thirty-nine and J.
Lambertz 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, AM
drew Peterson; treasurer, III. L.
Moore; secretary, Charles Vollmer
The Masons at Salem elected tho
following officers at their annual cleo
ton: DR.. Robert T. Dott, worshipfu1
master; Frank Bush. senior warden;
William II. Gapp, junior warden; w.
A. Nye, secretary; Frank 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 the
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
general store five miles north Of
Presho.
The following were elected at the
annual meeting Of the Tyndall Eastern
Star: Worthy matron, Mrs. G. w.
Youngworth; worthy patron, Mr.. Will
Hanson; associate matron Mrs. H. A.
Pike; secretary, Muriel Forrest; treas
urer, Mrs. c. w. Fox: conductress. Lu
| Verne Forrest: associate, Mrs. Nj. Mo.
Cormick.
! A ffty.foot tubular steel bridge has
! been purchased from the Campbell
g, Flagler Bfghe company Of Minneapo
lis and will be placed over Brule creek.
five miles north of Elk Point. This il
the first steel bridge with tubular sup
ports in this county. 1t is the policy
! of the commissioners to place one
such every year over the Brule.
Ernest Yahr, who was accidentally
shot at Deadwood, is rapidly recover
ing. The danger from the wound In
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 bono
was torn away by the charge Of shot
and the surgeons dressing the wound
took out part of the bone.
James Simpson, an old-time livery
man 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
one of the proprietors of the famous
Elkhorr corral in Deadwood.
Bert Wilson. an employe In Strout's
barber shop at Parker, was held up by
two men while on his way home and
robbed of S14. He lives in East Par.
ker, and It was in hollow three
blocks from his home that he was rob-
bed. One Of the men was 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. Tho
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
are thought to be the work of local
men. The citizens are asking for q
night watch.
In the early nineties Mr. and Mrs.
N. Webb of Salem took a boy from the
children's home of Sioux Falls, whose
name at that time was supposed TO bs
George Baker. The Sioux Falls home
took the boy, who was about six or
seven, from a children's home In Chi
cago, which had secured him from the
Champaign 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
Henry 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, NJ Y,
has been looking for her grandson,
and has at last found him in the per.
son of George Webb. There is com.
Portable fortune awaiting him in the
East.
Arrangements: have been completed
by Supt. Pierce Of the government In,
dian school by which three orsfour OF
the most skillful of the Flandreau In.
dian pipestone workers will go to ST.
Louis to take part in the government
exhibit OF native Indian industries.
Pupils of the city schools at Yer