The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1904-11-16
Locals of a
Wider Nature.

ors to work through to Platte, beginning about Nov. 1,
turned home, having learned from experience that rail
reading was a capital business while it lasted.
The Indian maidens at the different agencies to an
extent that it is becoming noticeable are becoming accom-
plished musicians, playing the violin and other instru-
ments as'weh as the organ and piano. The same authori-
ty says that these Indian girls used to be so bashful that,
they would poke their apron strings in their mouths at
the approach of strangers and refuse to talk. Now they
act differently. They talk Auently, even picking up
some of the slang phrases of the educated white girls.
An effort will now be made to have the state, as we'll
as Beadle county, offer rewards for the murderer
of Geo. Todd and Jacob Johnson. These, with the re-
ward that Hand county will offer, will make it an object
for good work to be done in ferreting out the perpetra-
tor of the two crimes. The coroner's jury will probably
report next Wednesday. The investigation is being
made behind closed doors. Parties are suspicioned of
the crimes, but whether evidence will be brought out
sufficient to warrant an arrest is doubtful.
G. W.. Elliott, of Bookings, was here soliciting sub
scriptions and bonuses for a new church paper of the
Christian denomination soon to be issued. Ed. Elliott
IN pioneer days would drop into a town with a tent, open
a meeting, and at the end of a few weeks would have
a sufficient number of followers to build a church. Be-
ing a good mechanic he would lay out and oversee the
construction of the building. After all debts were paid
and the church started successfully he would go and do
the same in aRother place. Now that he is about to en-
gage in the newspaper business on the same determined,
thorough and systematic plan as he. did in b building
churches, people are subscribing for the paper by the
hundred, paying in advance. Several twenty-fv dollar
bonuses have also been pledged, placing the new venture
on a paying basis from the start. Mr.. Elliott is a man
about 50 years old and as an editor will no doubt become
widely known.
Those who went to st. Louisto see the worlds wonders
had they been in this town Tuesday morning and out at
sunrise looking to the northwest probably forty miles
distant might have gazed upon doings in the sky wierdly
strange and unusual. A mirage was at work, or rather
the farmers at their morning chores of pitching hay to
their cattle, the animals following the team and load of
feed about in the clouds as they Weredoing OH the ground,
dryer fields. Roads stood straight up, the horses pulling
the heavy losds up as a fly walks up a wall. Artesian
wells spouted forth, the lakes standing out to view with
cattle and horses standing In them drinking. Young
orchards were visible, while here and there a cluster Of
larger trees gave the sky thereabout quite a habitable
appearance. A woman stepped to the front of the door,
of d house and appeared to be blowing a horn. This,
was evidently the call to breakfast, for the men dropped
everything where they stood and ran into the house.