The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1904-11-25
South
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In a fire at Tabor, Frank Hendrick
was burned to death. The Trunoc sa.
loon and Rysady restaurant were de.
stroyed.
Miss Gold Corwin, Y. w. G. A. sec.
rotary for Nebraska. North and South
Dakota, is at Lead to organize an as.
ISOLATION.
T. M. Simmons, grand master Of the
A. O. U. W., jurisdiction of South Da.
kOta, has started on a tour Of vista.
ton of the various lodges of the state.
At the annual meeting of the Clark
county creamery board of directors v.
f. Swanson was again employed as
b~uttermaker. This will make Mr..
Swanson's eighth year.
W. H. Edgerton, for twenty-five
years in the employ of the Chicago &
Northwestern Railway company, and
n of the first engineers to run a
train into Huron, has been transferred
from the Huron-Hawarden run to the
misunderstanding line.
The granite work on the new gov
eminent building at Deadwood is fast
nearing completion. Two carloads OF
steel joists have arrived. Contractor
Maxwell is in the city to watch the
work the remainder of the season.
A tipover of the stage coach between
Belle Fourche and Camp Crook result
ed in the serious injury of Driver Quin-
ton and Roy Hoober, a dry goods sales
man out of Omaha. The former is in
a critical state, two wheels having
passed over his head and right arm.
At a special meeting of the school
board at Deadwood the $35, 1000 bond
issue was sold to the Union Savings
Bank and Trust company Of Cincin-
natl. The bid offered by the company
for the bond included a premium OF
$1,4OO, with accrued interest at 5 per
cent.
The grand jury has decided that the
liquor laws nave not been violated by
the drug stores Of Vermillion. The
case against the pharmacists was
started by a Sioux City minister, who,
by im~personating an insurance agent,
was supposed to have secured damag-
ing evidence against every druggist in
town. The jury found the evidence
not sufficient.
Tin ore which carried $1O8 tn the
Bear Gulch on one of the Golden EN-
pire group OF claims. 1t is said that
the ore samples show 400 pounds Of
tin to the ton, with a value of q cents
per pound. The company has the tin
bearing vein opened for a distance of
two miles. The Bear Gulch district is
attracting much attention just at pres
ent.
The official returns of Douglas coun-
ty give Roosevelt 1923 majority. A. D.
Mather DEM, candidate for the low
err house of the legislature, is elected
over X. G.. Foster (Rep.) by one ma
jority. The remainder of the county
ticket is Republican, except Joe Brett
bach, who was elected register Of
J11J, ESoc<o~ r,i11 rroho h1Vu n0vfnut
Mather's election. The county gave
Mitchell for capital 881. majority. 1t
also gave a majority of 123 against
an increase of salary for the attorney
general.
Complete returns from Walworth
county show that Selby has lost the
county seat fight by a majority of 80.
The seat is at Bangor, which is OF the
railroad. Selby and Java, both on the
Milwaukee road and rival towns, were
aspirants for the honor. and in the pre-
liminary fight Selby won the right to
be placed on the ballot. Its defeat at
the election probably means that the
fight between the two towns will be
continued as soon as another vote can
be had. Under the South Dakota law
the question cannot come up again for
four years.
One of the farmer kings OF South
Dakota is o. d. Plumb, who owns a
large tract of land in the vicinity OF
Bruce, Brookings county. He has Just
made an accounting Of what he raised
during the past season, and finds that
his land produced over 1850 bushels
of grain this year. He had about 400
acres into crop. Himself and his sons
did all the work of seeding and har-
vesting, and in addition they have nut
up seventy-fiye tons of timothy hay for
winter use. Considering that he has
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