The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1904-11-23
Locals of a
Wider Nature.

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part of the county, although, the fall has been dry and
warm. But the most of the wheat has been threshed
and marketed, except enough for seed next next spring.
About all of the macaroni wheat raised in these parts has
been saved for seed.
Among the laws favored by the people of this legis-
lative district at Pierre this winter is one for a start to-
wards a million dollar capitol building.
Another law wanted is to COMPEL every township to
pillow fire breaks. Now it is optional and some town
ships profit b" the care of a neighboring one.
Still another law demanded is that every head of
stock be dipped, whether they have the itch or not. Now
only stock that is to be shipped away and that have the
itch have to be dipped. Cattle with the itch or a trace of
it are thus continually roaming about innoculating
other cattle with the disease.
Blood.drippings on the bed railing, specs of blood on
the wall and on the floor under the railing, have been
found in tile Jacab Johnson house, leading to the theory
that he was killed in his bed. AS only the mattress was
left on The bedstead, the presumption is that the murder
es grabbed up the body in the blankets and buried it
near the house or threw it in an old well of which there
are manyin that vicinity. The deed was committed soon
after Johnson had come to his house from the DAYS
work, evidently, as his horses that he had fed corn for
the night had eaten but a part of it and the hangers that
he had flied with hay had not been touched, the team
being taken from their feed, hitched up and started off.
The body may have been taken away in the wagon and
buried far distant from the scene of the killing. The
murderers had a nights drive before them.
The old wells of the neighborhood have been probed
into, and every spot of ground for miles around, show
ing suspicious signs, has been dug up, with no result.
1t is now stated that Johnson may have had more
than 100000 with him before he disappeared.
1t now seems that Geo. Todd, killed at his farm close
by three months later, may have had as much as 100000
or 100000 with him. 1t develops that he, too, must
had gone into the house. When in his house at night he
kept it securely bolted, allowing no one to come in then.
1t was known that he kepthis money and valuable papers
In a box under the center of the floor of the house to
which was a trap door opening. Investigation showed
that the box had been taken by the robbers, the evident
object of the killing.
Parties at Washington claim that during the fall one
night at 3 o'clock a bundle of blankets saturated with oil
were found burning along the railroad track just west of
town. Some believe that these were the johnson or Todd
blankets, or both.
1t is believed that when the man or men are found
who bought the murdered mems horses that the mystery
will soon be cleared up. The horses are described as
follows:
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