The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1904-01-01
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Steps have been taken to form a
business mems association at Platte.
The city council of Miller has award
ed to Stephen Pauley a twenty-year
franchise for an electric light plant.
Rev. 2. H. Smith, formerly OF APP
pleton, Wis, has arrived at Gam Val
ley to take TIE p~astorate Of the Con-
~gregational church.
The new courthouse at Webster is
nearly ready for occupancy. Thus far
the county treasurer and clerk of
courts have moved in.
Good progress is being made by the
probate court of Buffalo county in
closing up the estates of dead Indians.
Thus far about fifty such estates have
been closed.
Merchants about the Cheyenne Riv.
er reservation are looking for q har-
vest soon, as the Indians or that res
from the leases Of a large part Of their
reservation to cattlemen.
The members of a colony from
Jerauld county who have located On
government land In Lyman county.
have decided to start q new town,
which will be named Jamaica.
Miss Waters of Miller, in expert.
menting with a ~self-cocking revolver
left in the pantry by her father, ncci-
dentally sent a bullet through her side.
b ball was taken out and she has
recovered.
The DeSmet board OF education is
confronted with the problem of pro-
yldlng more 70 for the scholars.
Every room in the school building Is
occupied, while one OF the rooms has
sixty pupils and another over fifty.
The wife of Ed Jones, who lives I've
miles east OF Washington Springs, was
burned, 1t Is thought fatally, by the
explosion of a lamp. In August last
a ffteen-year-old daughter Of the fam
lily was accidentally shot, being killed
instantly.
At the annual election held by the
members Of the Castlewood volunteer
fire department the following officers
were elected for the coming year:
Chief, M. N. Bradley; assistant, w. S.
Madden; secretary, g. S. Brown;
treasurer, l. j. Bennett.
Mrs. Hershman, a widow of Miller,
stricken with paralysis on the prairie
and in peril of death by freezing,
heard and saw what happened around
her but was unable to utter a sound or
move a muscle. A relief party found
her and she will recover.
Many farmers In the vicinity Of Elk
Point are buying feeders and putting
them on rough feed for the winter.
County Commissioner Main, II. M. An.
gle, II. G.. Shearon and Alex. Bonee are
among those who have bought from
n to five carloads this month.
At the annual meeting Of the mem
bers Of the Congregational church at
Letcher the following officers were
elected: Trustee for three years, G.
f. DeGroff; two years, Miss Edith Nc
Kune; n year, J. E. Wilson; clerk,
Mrs. e. D. Pierce; treasurer, Mrs. r.
F. Walker; chorister, Burt r. Matte
son.
Jailer Logan Of Pierre was called
upon to settle an active dispute be-
tween William Kunnecke, his white
prisoner, and two Of the Indian pris-
oners. Trouble had been brewing for
several days, and they started a rough
and tumble fight in which Kunnecke
was badly worsted before the jailer
could interfere.
Grace Shannon committed suicide
Inv a wiHeroom at D%eadwood by taking
carbolic acid. She had had trouble
with a former sweetheart, a young
man OF Lead. She had been in the
Hills only about three months, coming
from Kansas City. She is said to have
been married and her husband Is re-
ported to be in Kansas City.
The stockholders of the Kimball
telephone system held their annual
meeting. Although the system was
constructed only last April and q
great many improvements have been
made since, a dividend Of 2 per cen
was declared. The company has no in
debtedness.
South Dakota is well represented In
the official family Of Dowie, the self
styled Elijah III. In addition to George
M. Smith. a former South Dakota
banker who is at present cashier OF
Dowie's bank at Zion City, Judge v.
v. Barnes, Dowie's chief counselor. is
also an old Dakotan.
Conductor Martin Redmond won the
lantern contest at Watertown, some
1911 votes at 10 cents being cast.
was great excitement at the
5000 voting in the last fifteen
minutes. The result: Harvey, 1888:
Alb. The Catholics cleared
81, 200 from their fair.
Bonds in the sum of $4,000, which
recently voted for the construc-
ton OF a municipal waterworks sys-
at Gary, have been sold to F. e.
Magraw, whose bid was at par. w. F.
Gordon, j. r. Fonger, julius Palmer
and H. J.. Wells will have full charge
Of the construction of the system.
During the year 1903 Beadle county
has received from the state treasurer