The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1904-05-18
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Short Notes.

the DEBATE at 1ankton against the Iank-
ton College team.
The bureau of equipment Of the navy
department at Washington is in receipt
of the elaborate silver service which cost
81. 900, presented to the hattleship South
Dakota by the citizens of that state.
After year without band, mitchell
will again have such an organization. G.
G. Rathbun will be the director, and his
good work with the bands which have
been organized in the city in the past as
sures a fine organization.
Rev. Charles A. Lyons who so mys-
teriously disappeared from Sioux Falls
last December, was finally located at st.
Paul, arrested by Deputy Sheriff Voelsch
and brought back to Sioux Falls and
locked up in the county Jail.
III. q. Smith, agent of the Northwest
ern road at Pierre, in company with sew
eral surveyors, has gone out to look after
the condition of the dams put in by that
company, and will look after needed re-
pairs on the work which was washed
out last faal.
The committee which is canvassing
Sioux Fails for the guarantee fund for
the spring race meeting is meeting with
the best Of success and they announce
that they will have the amount necessary.
The meeting will take place June ID.
The committees having in charge the
preparation of program for the joint
meeting Of the Epworth League and Min
isterial Association at Redfeld June z, s
and 9, are busy at their task, and the
program gathering promises to be one Of
much interest and Importance.
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Athletic Association is to be held in
Sturgis some time in May-the exact
date not being set. 1t was the intention
to hold this years meeting at Spearfsh,
but the change was made OH account of
better railroad accommodations.
The Sioux Falls panel for the st. Louis
convention has been placed OH exhibition
in the window OF the United States Elk
press Office at Sioux Falls. 1t is beau
ty, showing photographs of some of the
finest buildings in the city. The panel
has attracted considerable attention.
j. Talley, 4 farmer residing near the
Belle Fourche River, has been brought
to Sturgis violently insane. He will be
examined by the insanity board. His
mental condition is such that he will al
low no one to enter his cell and his food
is passed to him through the grating.
The recent high water in the river has
completely changed the location of the
bars IN front of Pierre, and boatmen have
to pick out new channels to work through
as the river falls, and hardly know where
their summer channel will be until the
water gets down to the average stage
again.
With the largest vote ever polled in
the history Of the city, license carried at
Alexandria by majority of 43 at the
municipal election. In view of the fact
that especial efforts had been made by
the prohibition element to vote the city
dry, the result is a decided victory for
the license element.
An incendiary fire destroyed the second
thresher warehouse of John Mccarthy
& Son at Aberdeen, with loss of s., 900;
insurance, $1,000. The building was a
mere shell and the loss will amount to lit
tie thereon. Five traction engines, three
threshing machines and a large number
of wagons, seeders and drills were burn
ed up.
Sunday morning the fire department
was called to the Teton Hotel at Sioux
Falls by an alarm which notified them
that that building was on fire. The fire
was caused ny a defective fiue. The
smoke pipe from the kitchen range runs
through the north wall of the building
and it was where the pipe went through
the wall that the fire started. Thanks
to the care Of the department the damage
from water was also slight.
Sheriff Opsal of Canton has his lodg-
ing rooms in the basement Of the court
Eve ~ ha lat cfxyla Of
the art. New iron hunks have been put
in, and the clothing has undergone thor
ough overhauling The new apartment
which has just been completed is fur
nished with beds and all our sheriff needs
now is dodgers. AT this writing there are
no inmates of his hotel, and it is hoped
the stronghold will remain without ten
ants for some time to come.
Fishermen Of the Black Hills are not
generally familiar with the laws Of Wyo-
ming pertaining to fishing. Quite NUM-
Der of Black Hills fishermen have gone
across the line on Sand Greek and have
been reprimanded very severely by the
fish wardens who patrol the Wyoming
creeks. A new law which goes into effect
this year for the first THE makes it un-
lawful to fish for trout before June 1.
Some remarkable catches Of trout have
been made up to date. Several instances
Of fish weighing three and half to four
pounds have been reported.
Olaf Strauss the 13-year-old son of
Editor J. f. Strauss Of the Fremad, pub
lished at Sioux Falls, accidentally shot
himself in the eye. The boy had a couple
Of days ago purchased of playmate a
32-caliber revolver. While in room by
himself the boy was examining the gun,
and was looking directly into the muzzle
when there was discharge and the bull
let entered his left eye. Medical aid
was at once summoned and it was discov-
cred that while the left eye had been shot
out entirely, and the wound was bad