The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1905-08-04

! SOUTH DAKOTA NOTES.

Paul Just and Andrew Fisher have been
arrested at Sisseton for the illegal sale
Of liquor at Bossko.
h 2-year-old son of Mr.. and Mrs. Cole.
of Faulkton. fell into the river and was
drowned. The body was recovered.
Chris Oster of Eureka was thrown into a
barbed wire fence from the road along
which he was riding, receiving severe IN
juries.
Matt Jarvis, a young man who formerly
lived at Faulkton, was thrown from a
train at Seattle. Wash, and was instant
ly killed.
The mortgage on the Methodist church
at Faulkton has been paid off and the
mortgage was burned with great cere-
mony in the presence of a large consre-
CATION.
The home of w. II. Rogers. of Woon-
socket. was entered by a burglar and $500
stolen. Entrance was gained through q
cellar window and there is no clue to the
burglar.
Revised figures gives Brown county's
total population at il. SOC. Its total wealth
Sl,io5.o4 for every man woman and enid
in the county.
The barn Of Gus Paul. of Twin Brooks;
was destroyed by fire, presumably caused
by matches carelessly dropped by, two
men who had used the barn in which to
feed their horses.
A number of Twin Brooks people who
spent a day at Big Stone lake. We're made
- - - bo'i> i"A't "''A -
beef. which they took with them. The
prompt services of a physician saved the
lives of several of the picnickers.
James Tam. an inmate of the Brown
county hospital for many years, has been
taken to the insane asylum at Nankton.
Tam had become violent and was con-
fined in the county jail for safe keeping for
some time before being taken to Yank-
ton.
The 5-year-old child Of Mrs. Gruett. rv-
ing eight miles north of Eureka, was
were burned by the electric fluid. The
children were sleeping on the floor and the
bolt entered at the chimney and ran across
the floor.
Charles Gottschalk. the proprietor of the
Gottschalk opera house. has under way
plans for the construction OF an audi
torium building in Aberdeen. The plans
cal for a building adjoining the orera
a seating capacity of 5000 people.
Although the Sisseton Indians are heav-
lily in debt. a business man of Sisseton
complains that the redskins did not use
Gently paid them by the government for
the payment of past debts. They preferred
to let their creditors wait awhile for the
rest.
The affairs of the defunct Watertown
Hail and Tornado Insurance company, of
which G. n. Williamson of Aberdeen is re-
ceiver. have at last been wound up. The
CompanY's liabilities were $e0,G0 and its
creditors received nothing, its assets con
s:sting of notes which could not be col
lected in the courts.
At Eureka women and children who
have been left at home during the absence
of the husband and father have been
frightened by some one trying to break
into the house. This has occurred in nu-
merous cases lately and the authorities
are keeping a close watch in an effort to
discover the guilty person.
Winfred Urich, a 5-year old boy, OF
Peever. disappeared from his home on
Wednesday and no trace of his where
abouts could be discovered until the fol-
lowing day, when he was found in the
woods near the agency. He had become
lost and had wandered about all night,
but was little the worse for his expert
ence.
Howard butcher and John Cushman,
who ran away from home, were found on
a farm five miles from Aberdeen, where
they had secured work with a farmer who
was making hay. Their parents decided
to let the boys, who are aged 10 and - re-
spectivelE, continue their farming opera
tons until they began to long for the COM
forts of home.
An attempt was made to rob the Nc
MILAN store at Condo by a burglar who
entered the front door by means Of a
duplicate key. Mr.. y! MILAN and a neigh
Dor discovered the presence of the burglar
and entered tie front door, bidding him to
surrender. Instead the fellow Jumped
through a rear window to the ground eight
feet below, and made his escape. A num-
Der of men followed the man for some
distance. but he finally succeeded in escap-
Ing.