The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1903-09-30


the head with shotgun. He had been
respondent.
The street carnival and band con-
vention which was to have taken place
at Grotcn this week has been inden-
nitely postponed on account OF the
wet weather.
Mai. Picker last week traded Faux
county land for an orange grove IN
Florida. The grove includes IL acres,
and there are besides 240 acres OF I'M
improved land.
The regular fall term Of Augustana
college commenced at Canton with an
unusually large attendance. The
| magnificent new college building has
been practically completed.
Alfred Gray has waived examination
at Madison on the charge OF assault
| ing and cutting Raph with a knife. and
| has been remanded to the county jail
| to await trial at the October term.
The state arsenal has just received
] 1000 Krag -Jorgenson rifles for the use
| of the state guard. These rifles are to
replace the old Springfelds, which
have been the armament of the nation
| al guard ever since the reorganization.
Lee Towne of WATERFOWL was the
F, plaintiff before the justice court az
Clark in an action against G. ii. Foote,
a nonresident hunter. to secure pay
ment for taking care OF three dogs.
20 q N
costs.
The state auditors office is sending
out warrants on the annual wolf boun-
ty und or last year. There will be
about 81 900 of the annual fund to
turn back into the treasury, as the
claims filed amounted to only about
$4,000.
p. ]. Bowman and A. Mcfarland
have purchased in the Centerville
Roller mills and the electric light plant
of G.. Mergren & Co. for $21 ,OGO. MT.
Mergren, the pioneer miller, started In
small way about twenty years ago.
He will retire to his fine farm at Riv-
erside.
The attendance at the Madison pub
lie schools is $40 this semester. .
large increase over last years attend
ance. The high school attendance Ii
LOT. With like increase In the nor
NAL school, the school population
would indicate much larger ratio Of
increase than of the city.
The Fanlkten city schools opened
with the following corps of teachers:
Prof. j. Boyd Townsley OF WATERFOWL;
high school, Miss Miles of Redfeld;
grammar. Miss Eunice Champlain OF
Cresco, Iowa; intermediate, Miss Fac
Putney OF Redfield; primary, Miss
| Maud Stewart of Mound City.
A coach load of land seekers ar
rived at Faulkton last week from Ne
| braska This makes the third contin-
| gent that the Lund agency had dur
| ing the week. The Byrne &. Conway
Land agency also did fine business
| last week, selling about twenty quar-
ter sections to Eastern men and realiz-
ing good price.
e. r. Hemingway, state bank ex-
| aminer, has just checked up the coun-
| ty treasurer of McCook county, the
| first time in three years, and finds the
| accounts to be perfectly kept The
present treasurer, B. G Eilers, was the
deputy during the preceding two years,
so that the checking up covers the
whole time he has been connected
with the Office.
e. G. Davis, city engineer Of Brook
ings, died suddenly while running the
electric machinery at the powerhouse.
II was at first thought he had been
killed by al electric spark, but his
position and the fact that he was not
burned indicated a stroke of apoplexy
or heart failure. His assistant was
only absent five minutes and on his re-
turn found him on the floor dead.
Georg J. John, agent for the North
western road and American Express
company at Columbia, arrested some
days ago for having received prairie
chickens and other game for shipment
to Chicago, entered plea of guilty
and paid fine and COSTS amounting
shipping the birds paid $40 and costs
each. Franc B. Daniels, superintend-
ent OF the express company, was at
Aberdeen to attend the hearing.
w. @. Ledgingham, well-known
travelling man of Aberdeen is at home,
having been injured in runaway. He
is badly bruised from head to foot,
though no bones were broken. In the
absence of another driver, the wife Of
the liveryman at Lily undertook to
take him TO Bradley. The neckyoke
broke while the team was going at
lively gait and both were thrown out,
the woman sustaining broken collar
bone and several fractured ribs It
was feared internal injuries might de-
yelop.