The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1904-05-06
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n>~..., STATE News
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f. sneak thief entered the fremont
hotel at Elkton and stole a sum of
money from the girls employed there. |
J. H. Collins Of washington Springs |
has sold his lumber yard to an old-line
company of Minneapolis, the transfer
taking place May i.
:
Rev. j. W. Mahood, a noted Western
evangelist, has just closed a successful
union revival meeting at Miller. Sew
era have joined the churches.
Christopher Glenn of Wessington
Springs died of diabetes. He was a
native of Germany. serving in the war
of 1866 against Prussia, and in the war
of 1870 against France.
The Safe Investment Gold Mining
company has cleared the ground for a
sawmill along Box Elder creek to man.
ufacture lumber for the erection of
various surface buildings.
Fire destroyed the large pressed
brick plant OF Thomas Whitaker OF
Deadwood and Sioux Falls capitalists.
Loss, $4,000, nearly covered by insur-
ance. The plant will be rebuilt.
Goo reports are received from the
Lucky Strike mine in southern Law
renee county, along Box Elder creek.
Better ore is obtained in the bottom of
the shaft than at any time before.
The Lawrence county hospital at
Blacktail is being improved by modern
plumbing, and the premises are re-
ceiving a number of>important repairs.
The work is being done upon order of
the county commissioners.
The contract for the Masonic tenn
pie at Miller has been let to Kreitin-
ger & Isaacson of Springfield, MINI.
The excavation work has been let to
Ed Dunn. Including the site, the
structure will cost close to SIS, 900.
The necessary accommodations hav- |
ing been pledged at Freeman, it has
been decided to hold the annual insti-
tute OF the teachers of Hutchinson
county at that place. The institute
will convene Aug. % and continue un-
til Sept. 2.
The farmers in many localities
throughout the state continue to com
plain Of the scarcity of farm laborers.
kinds of fancy wages. they declare it
is next to impossible to secure men to
assist them with their spring work.
The new mill of the Ruby Gold Min
ing and Milling company has just been
started. This is a two-battery plant,
using the Merrals stamps. The power
Is furnished by a forty-horse power
gasoline engine, and the ore is handled
in the mill chiefly by the gravity sys-
TEN.
NLdIleS bdllleSldS ana William !
Hooking were thrown down the steep
hill in the Tornado hoist near Terry. |
and Hooking sustained a compound
fracture of the arm. The men were
driving in a cart and one wheel strik- |
ing a stump threw them over the
bank.
One of the best known mining men
In the Southern Black Hills, J.. C. Nc |
Donald, died at Hill City suddenly of
heart failure. He was one of the first |
superintendents of the Father De Smet |
now belongs TO the Homestake. A
widow survives him.
It is reported at Sturgis that Julius
Hammersmith met with a serious
sheep loss during the storm of March
% and "a. He was driving the remain
der of his flock from Peggy creek over
TO Grand river when they were caught
In the storm, and it is said out of the
1000 head all but 35 persisted.
Earl Bros, who own and conduct a
farm neal Hazel, are preparing
TO become the potato kings of South
Dakota. They will this season plant
about 1000 bushels of potatoes, devot-
Ing many acres to this crop, which ex-
p%erience has shown them is much
more profitable than wheat or other
grain.
ga and there is talk Of more later on. |
Byron Pay is building a 5 g 1000 resi-.
dence. John Hall two ten-room cot
for rent, and George Williams a
house. Several smaller res |
are being built. c.. w. Smith
has let the contract for a two-story
block to be built Of brick and stone.
The lower story will be USED for a drug
store.
While the state land commissioner, |
J. Bach, is not doing as much pub
lie celebrating V e. the matter as are
residents of Gregory county. he is