Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1904-06-02

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\ The Elkton Telephone company ID
Extending its line southwest Of town.
The bachelors will give q return par
w in honor of the 'spinsters' in the
opera house at Andover.
\ Gov. Herreid has appointed James
\. Ferguson Of Washington Springs
same warden for Jerauld county.
Fred S. Pew has the pipe on the
kround for a new artesian well ON the
Prosperity Hill addition to Andoyer.
e. e. Ingersoll, who in the early
Eighties lived on farm southwest Of
Andover, recently dropped dead at his
bome at Everett. Wash.
Hammond Brothers of washington
Springs have placed an order for 40
poo feet of lumber to be used in erect
ing buildings on their big ranch in
Aarlar township.
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"A man supposed to be Ziegler, the
murderer, was arrested on suspicion
BIT Andover by Marshal ID. H. Passage.
Soon afterward persons from Groton
Arrived to identify him and he proved
10 be the wrong man and was released.
$780,:
George Bertschey, who was one OF
the earliest pioneers in Pennington
bounty, coming there in the early '70s,
died at his home at Sheridan last
week. He owned a large amount of
valuable mining property and was
well known throughout the West.
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Gov. Herreid has commissioned
Ralph l.. Miller of Bookings and C. S.
Dillon of Sioux Falls members of his
personal staff. Both young men are
students of the agricultural college
no have distinguished themselves
both in the academic and military de-
|partments.
The next meeting Of the Northern
South Dakota Educational association
will be held in Andover, the date to be
decided by the executive committee.
THE newly elected officers are: f. l..
Ransom of Redfield, president; J. III.
Hilley of Andover, secretary, and Mrs.
u. G. Jackson Of Doland, treasurer.
Henry Stanley was found guilty at
Woonsocket Of attempting to take the
9ife of the city marshal, Winfield
Cochran, and was sentenced by Judge
Smith to six years at the Sioux Falls
penitentiary. In shooting at Cochran
Stanley hit two bystanders, badly
pounding one Of them.
Capt. Seth Bullock. forest super
visor Of the Black Hills range, has re
burned from the state line between
Wyoming and South Dakota. and says
the government already has com
menced preliminary work for the sur
Fey Of the boundary, for which $40,
200 was appropriated.
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The commissioners of Brown coun
~ have offered a reward of $500 fol
The apprehension of William Ziegler
who, it is charged, murdered De Wit
b. Beilby of Groton. The statutory
reward OF 500 makes the total t.
date 5000. All traces of Ziegler have
been lost and it is not believed thai
be will be found in this state.
81 The grand encampment of South Da
kota Odd Fellows; elected the following
of1icers: Grand patriarch, H. M. Wal
lace, Elk Point; high priest, w. r
Morgan, Hot Springs; senior warden
& III. y. Rice, Huron; scribe, G. w. Snow
Springfield; treasurer. w. J. Rawson
Groton; junior warden. L. G. Thomas
Mitchell; representative, G. H. Tink
ham, De Smet.
Rev. f. q. Hall, who for some tim,
4 has been pastor of the Plankintor
Congregational church, has rendered
his resignation, which will take effec
June /, at which time he will assum,
the duties of field secretary Of thu
South Dakota Anti-Saloon league. Il
which he was recently elected. Hi
headquarters will be in Mitchell.
Ludwig Mason, living near Vale
was brought to Sturgis, badly cut vi
BY harrow. He was fixing the line
on his horses when they becam
frightened and ran away. dragging tn
harrow over Mason. One tooth en-
tered the calf of his leg and tore
open. another tore one foot open, an
d third struck his watch and bulged 4
4 keeping the tooth from entering hi
4 abdomen, and saving his life.
Asa r. Crooks, d young man fror
y Central City. Neb., who was out Of til
insane hospital of Nebraska on parole
accompanied his father to Pierre on
trip, and at the Riverview hotel he b,
came violent when he was not above
to occupy another room from the On
to which he was assigned He wa
restrained until the train left in til
evening, when his father started wit
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