The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1904-11-04
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debt on their church.
The supreme court has admitted to
practice Harold e. klise of Fort
Pierre on examination, and Willis
| Wells French of Yankton on certifi-
cate.
The independent telephone men OF
the Northwest will hold their annual
! meeting in Sioux Falls in January.
S~eyenty-fve to one hundred delegates
| are expected.
In thirteen days Raphael Mespell, a
Bath trapper, has trapped 600 musk
| rats, twelve skunks, two mink and one
| badger along the banks of the James
river. Seventy-three muskrats in one
night was his best record.
The Hughes county court house
| caught fire from some unknown cause
in the woman's department OF the jail.
| The blaze was between the walls, MAX
| ing it hard to control, and causing
| mo re damage from water than fire.
The secretary of state has received
| another formal withdrawal for the
Peoples party state ticket, and Will
notify county officers to strike the
name from the ballot, the name taken
off being that ALI Reed of Sturgis,
| nominee for superintendent of public
instruction.
The work Of perfecting a board OF
trade at Sioux Falls has been finished
and the organization has been lncor-
porated. At a meeting of the board OF
directors the following officers were
elected: President, Thomas H. Brown;
| vice president, D. L. Mckinney; sec
rotary, George T. Blackman.
Lillian Flickenger, a seven-year-old
girl, was temporarily alone in a deliv
cry wagon at Aberdeen when the horse
ran away. In turning a corner the
horse fell and the little girl was
thrown from the rig, alighting on the
horse. and from there falling to the
ground, escaping with no serious in
jury.
The Faulk county Sunday school
convention closed. Among the state
workers present were F. p. Leach OF
Sioux Falls and Miss Clarinda Pagel Of
Egan. The attendance vas the largest
by 25 per cent of any like convention
held in the state. The following Off
GERS were elected: John Noble, pres
ident; Rev. Mr.. Vennard, vice presi-
dent; F. A. Seaman, secretary and
treasurer.
The German-Russian colony in Mil
ford township, Beadle county, dedicat-
ed it's new church building, the SER
mon being delivered by Rev. H. d.
Wizard Of Huron. The structure cost
LOO and is the property of a large
Mennonite denomination, Rev. John
Kleinsasser being the pastor. Seven
teen families are included in the
church membership, and the structure
was dedicated without debt.
The refusal of the United States SUI
preme court to grant a rehearing in
the case of the State of South Dakota
VS.. the State of North Carolina means
that the state university will receive
about $35, 1000, as the bonds in contro-
versy were donated to the state for the
benefit of the university. The total
amount sued for, including interest,
was owe $4,000, but the interest
charge was stricken out and judgment
given on the face Of the bonds.
The Case of the South Dakota Cen
trail Railroad company VS.. the Milwau-
kee road, involving the condemnation
by the former company of a strip Of
land about half a mile long on the
right of way of the Milwaukee COM
pany in Sioux Falls, was dismissed by
Judge Garland OF the ground that the
laws of South Dakota do not authorize
the taking by n railroad company Of
the right-of-way of another which is
utilizing the right of way as a common
carrier.
Tie indications are that Geddes will
be voted on as the future county seat
of Charles Mix county at the election
this fall. There has been a bitter fight
on all summer between ,Geddes and
Platte, the case having been to the SUI
preme court twice. Geddes appears to
have secured the best of the situation
in tie legal tangle and G. P. Harden,
attorney for Platte, appeared before
the supreme court asking for a writ of
prohibition to prevent the county au-
ditor of Charles Mix county from
placing the name of Geddes on the
ballot to be voted at the coming cleo
ton. In this move he was ~unsuccess-
full. Had he succeeded the whole mat
ter of county sea removal would have
gone Over to the next election, ana
nothing could have been done for two
years.
The members of the Presbyterian