Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1905-08-24

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mayor Alurlcn mas appointed r. -.
| Campbell city assessor of Aberdeen.
Albert Yardley, an Indian, was ar
rested at Evarts charged with stealing
a horse from Good Thundershield.
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Prof. Osgood has resigned as teach.
er in the high school at Huron, and
will become manager of telephone
line at Casuewood, S. D.
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Zach Flute, the Indian charged with
the murder of Colby and Peterson,
waived a preliminary examination at
Sisseton and was bound over to the
October term of the circuit court.
Frank Canton, a workman on the
government building at Pierre, fell
| about thirty feet yesterday, striking a
steel beam, breaking an arm and be-
ing injured internally His recovery
| is doubtful.
The Beloit roller mills at Canton
were sold to e. Il. Carpenter, who in
tends to remodel the plant and put in
a new dam in place of the one that
was washed out in June. The mem.
bers of the Canton Milling company
| decided to abandon the property when
their dam was destroyed two months
ago.
Rev. S. E. Rooms, pastor of the Fjrss
Presbyterian church at Canton, uas
handed in his resignation to take eff
| tect about the first Of September He
will go to larger and more remuner.
alive field in Ohio. 1t Is proposed to
consolidate the society here with the
| Congregational church.
AS the result Of his preliminary ex.
animation, Guy Maitland, Sioux Falls
young man, has been bound over to
appear at the next term of state cir.
cult court to answer to the charge of
grand larceny. The charn~
Of the alleged sale by him of bicycle
which was the property ol ....~e.>.
Rattlesnakes are reported to be I'm.
usually numerous in the vicinity OF
the Missouri river in the northern
part of the state. Three rattlers were
recently killed in Pollock in one day,
and the six-year-old son of William
Taylor, living thirty miles west of
that town was bitten by rattlesnake
and died in short time.
Travelling statesmen who visit the
drug trade formed an auxiliary society
to the South Dakota Pharmaceutical
association during the recent meeting
of the association in Aberdeen Forty
| members signed the charter, and the
officers elected were: A. II. Rogers
president; R. T. Wincott, vice presi.
! dent, and c. E. Fagiman, secretary.
About sixty Indians are encamped
at Chautauqua park just above Dead
wood and are enjoying holiday. They
have some communication which as
yet they have not disclosed, which
they propose to lay before Congress
man Martin. Every year that the In.
| dams come to Deadwood their degen.
| crate physical condition is more no.
| ,iceable. They are all victims of scrof,
| lla or tuberculosis. A few years the
indians who came here to attend court
| and for their annual pow-wows were
! hardy looking lot but now even the
| children are infected with there ter.
| rible diseases, and it is a question as
| to whether it is wise for persons tc
even purchase the articles which they
have made by hand. They are giving
war dances and proving source OF
interest to tourists.
The Theological institute just closed
at Yankton college is to be conducted
again next year. Those who attended
arc sath@s!!:a.s !ic il regard to its val.
ue. Those who led the work were DR..
Edward |. Bosworth, dean of Oberlin
Theological seminary; President Hen.
ry c. King of Oberlin college; DIR.
Julius A. Brewer of Union Theological
seminary; Prof. George H. Durand OF
Yankton college; DR.. J. W. F'rizell OF
Sioux City, and DR.. Samuel G. Smith
of st. Paul Pastors of Nebraska and
South Dakota churches of several de-
nominations were in attendance
The auction sale Of lots in the new
town of Reliance, the second town
west of the Missouri river on the ex.
tension of the Milwaukee road, was
held in Chamberlain by officers of the
railroad company and attracted large
crowd. Nearly all the lots in the plat
ted business section were disposed of,
among the new institutions for which
sites were purchased being bank,
two lumber yards, two elevators, two
general stores, hardware store and a
drug store. Most of these new bust.
ness enterprises will be in operation in
week. The prices ran at about $3.50
Tor business lots.
WANTS NEGROES TO COME HERE.
3. P. Blair Trying to Induce Iowa
Blacks to CoIonjze in South Dakota