The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1903-08-21
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South Dakota
1 State News
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An offer of 81, 200 was made and re-
fused for a corner lot on Melette
street at Bonesteel.
Three months tuition free at the
Sioux Falls IS. d. Business College
if you enter Sept. LIST. Catalogue free.
The supreme court has admitted to
practice T. F. Elliott of Pierre, on a
certificate from the supreme court Of
Nebraska.
The Bonenberger market, built Of
stone, is about completed at Bone
steel, and is one of the finest Of its
kind in the Northwest.
Among the new buildings which will
be erected at Irene this fall will be a
handsome and costly Catholic church.
Over $4,000 has been subscribed.
The Yankton county commissioners
will on Aug. Is open bids for the pur-
chase of bonds to the amount of $780,
300 which are to be issued by Yankton
county.
Fred Rapp died from sunstroke
while at work in the harvest field. He
lived fifteen miles north of Scotland,
was thirty years old, and leaves a wife
and two children.
Petitions have been circulated and
literally signed asking that a star mail
route be established between Bone
steel and Iona, on the east side of the
river in Lyman county.
Among those recently placed in the
penitentiary at Sioux Falls is E. B.
Pinney. a United States prisoner from
North Dakota. He was convicted Of
appropriating government money.
Charles Grandlund, a harnessmakvr
Of Bonesteel, purchased a lot on Me
lette street for 5000 and will build a
large frame building to be used for q
general harness and leather supply
store.
Miles Standish, q drunken Indian,
attacked his father-inlaw, James
Goodhawk, at Spearish, striking him
on the head with a heavy neckyoke
and %fracturing his skull. He will
probably die.
Presiding Elder e. P. Hall has ad-
vised that the Methodist church build
ing and parsonage at Mound City be
removed to Herried at once. Numer-
Gus buildings, including a hotel, have
been removed from the old town to the
new.
The commissioners Of Lawrence
county met last week for the purpose
OF considering the matter of taking up
the outstanding 1888 bouds. 1t was
decided to advertise for $40, 900 worth
Of r%efunding bonds. There are still
outstanding of this issue SAL 500.
For some time Gustav Lundblood. a
merchant of Sisseton, has been the VIC
tim of a mysterious robber. While
clearing out some goods from beneath
a counter the merchant discovered a
mouse's nest which had been con-
structed with the missing g~reenbacks.
The herder of Frank Butcher, on the
Little Missouri river near Belle
Fourche, was arrested for driving a
flock of sheep into South Dakota from
Montana without notifying the inspec-
tor and having them inspected The
herder furnished bail and was re.
leased.
A. S. ~Bloodgood and wife of Huron,
accompanied by John Newcomer, have
gone TO Santa Ana, Cal, to reside with
their daughter, Mrs. E. T. Langley.
They will be joined later by Will New.
conner and wife. MI. and Mrs. Blood.
good were among the first to locate IN
Huron.
/, Crosby Bros, bankers, have pur.
chased a lot at Melette street and
First avenue north at Bonesteel, for
which they paid $3.50, and will at
once begin the erection Of a handsome
brick structure 22x32 feet, two stories
high, to be used for bank and Office
purposes.
the Vermillion city school board has
signed contracts for heating and ven.
tilating the central and east school
buildings. Erick Nylen Of Vermillion
secures the contract for building the
ve~ntilating flue and the Hawkins Hard.
ware company will supply the fur.
naces. six in number.
Several splendid gold bricks have
lately been brought into the assay
Office at Deadwood. The Glover Leaf
and Penobscot companies deposited
good-sized bricks, each worth in the
neighborhood Of $4,000. and a 81, 900
bar came from the mill of the Dead.
wood Standard at Cyanide.
Judge Smith Of Yankton granted the
petition enjoining the Centerville
board Of education and contractors
from proceeding with the construction
Of the proposed new school building.
The lumber is already on the ground.
A compromise will undoubtedly be
made and the building erected.
I. D. Smith Of Madison, who last fall
donated a quarter section Of land in
McCook county to the children's home
of Sioux Falls, has again shown his
interest in that institution by giving
it another valuable quarter section
that lies only a few miles south of
Madison. The gifts are valued at
more than $4,000.
Early in the season the ranchmen in