Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1904-02-04
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small boys.
L. l.. Johnson has moved several
houses from Forest City to Evarts on
the ice this winter.
A Junior Epworth league has been
organized at Viborg with charter
membership of thirty-one.
Heart failure caused the death of
Frank Delehant. one of Leads mos
prominent business men, after a shorl
illness.
Deputy Marshal Lamb arrested
Thomas H. Maciey of Springfield on
the charge of selling liquor to Indians
belonging at Santee agency.
John Nylll, Bohemian, aged thirty
four, and unmarried, committed sui
eide at Yankton by shooting. The
cause Of his act was Ill health.
Farmers living between Watertown
and Webster have organized stock
company for the purpose of building a
railroad from Watertown to Webster.
Charles La Breche of Jefferson has
sold his farm OF 1918 acres to Ben Ber-
nard for $T5 an acre. The land adjoins
Jefferson and is we'll improved.
Gallery ammunition has been ship
ped by the war department to the yari-
GUS companies of the South Dakota Ma
tional guard for use in the regulation
magazine army rifles.
While l. D. Woodward was in the
country southeast of keystone he dis
covered an interesting old fertilization.
it is composed of earthwork and ex-
tends for distance of about 500 feet.
Fire destroyed the livery barn and
stables OF James Belknap at Rapid
City, also ten fine horses, several con-
veyances and a large quantity of hay
and feed. bringing the loss up to ST.
200.
Harry Manwarring has been selected
as Hurons member of the South Da-
kota state band TO be at the s.. Louis
exposition. About S1G0 was raised to-
ward defraying the expenses of the
band.
Despite the cold weather, fifty land
seekers came to Pierre recently and
filed on homesteads. and with hun
dreds of others will be out early in the
spring with cars of goods to go upon
the land and make their homes.
Judge Burr of Selby has been talk
ing depositions In Harrington VS.. the
Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway
company, involving cattle lost in tran
sit and excess feed charges on account
of the flood OF last May in Kansas.
With view to gaining an idea as to
the most suitable furnishing for the
new science hall at the state normal
school at Spearfsh, President Il. l..
Cook has started on tour of inspec-
ton of various schools in the West.
Lieut. Anton Zurich of the Fourth
United States cavalry Is visiting his
parents at Lead, on leave of absence.
He is stationed at Jefferson Barracks,
Mo-, and was recently detailed to visit
Fort Meade, S. D., bringing with him
ninety recruits.
The kitchen. in the home Of Mr.. md
Mrs. r. G. Dennison at Deadwood WAS
wrecked by the explosion of the water
Jacket in the range, in which the water
had been allowed to freeze. Fragments
of the range were hurled through the
wall of the kitchen.
During period of thirty days the
volume of business transacted by the
Milwaukee Railroad company at Hud-
son showed an INCREASE of Sc, 500 over
the corresponding period of year ago.
Butter shipments alone during the
year increased from 425 pounds to
1000 pounds. Other products show a
similar increase.
One Of the debates arranged by the
u. S. d. board of control Is with
Creighton university Of Omaha, and
will take place in a few weeks. The
question Is, Resolved, That the use
of writs ofinjunction in the settlement
of disputes between labor aud capital
is fraught with danger to the Ameri-
can people and their institutions"
Mrs. Annie Running Bear. a full
blood Indian woman from Pine Ridge
agency. has been sent to the Deadwood
Jail without bail charged with the MUIR
der of her infant child. The principal
witness against her was DR.. James r.
Walker. agency physician at Pine
Ridge, WHO testified that the child had
been horn alive. It's body was found in
a bank about 1000 yards from the
woman's home.
The Minnekahta & Red Canyon Rail-
way company has filed articles Of in
corporation with the secretary Of state,
being capitalized at $4,000, with the
head Office at keystone. The purpose
Of the company is to construct four
miles Of narrow-sauge railroad in Fall
River county. The incorporators are
George A. Clark. Charles A. Clark, NJ
r. Tailernn, Ella D. AFFORD and G.. J.
Patton, all of keystone.
Through the breeding of first-class
stock for the market. Mrs P. r Me-