Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1905-12-07
South Dakota
General State New. Parasr.phed,

w. r. Rode of Bookings filed his
| resignation as assistant attorney gen.
eral and the appointment of Aubrey
Lawrence of the same place was made
to fill the vacancy.
A prairie fire near Tacoma Park,
Aberdeen's summer resort, twelve
miles from the city, for a time men
aced the auditorium at the park.
Chance visitors succeeded in extin-
gushing the flames when within a
few feet of the building
The jury in the Sam Carr murder
trial at YanlSton returned verdict of
manslaughter in the second degree,
with recommendation for leniency.
The maximum penalty in this state
for the offense is four years in the
state penitentiary at hard labor.
| Twelve large brokerage firms bid
for the $25,O00 bond issue for the
Lawrence county court house. The
| successful bidder was Cleveland
company, $26,612. The bonds pay
per cent and run for twenty years,
payable any time after ten years.
1t is announced by Albert HI. Sites,
who is to be the next postmaster at
Sioux Falls, that he will appoint as
assistant Jefferson Seals, we'll
known young Republican of the city,
who at present is filling the position of
deputy clerk OF courts of Minnehaha
county.
! One Sully county farmer reports a
yield of thirty-eight bushels Of wheat
| to the acre Oh forty acre tract, and
another reports a yield of sixty bush
els Of clean corn to the acre on a like
| tract, This is better than the average
for this section of the state, but shows
what can be done in the Missouri val
ley when 1t is properly cared for.
Rev M. B. Ainsworth, pastor of the
First Christian church at Aberdeen.
has risigned the pastorate and his res
| ignation has been accepted DRAINS
worth will conduct evangelistic meet
| ings at Clark, S, D., and at Goldfield,
Iowa, after which he will move to Chi
cago and lake up work under direction
of the national board of evangelism Of
| the Christian church.
A special venire of forty-two per-
| sons to serve as jurors at the session
of the regular December term of court
at Huron has been drawn. They will
report Dec. 5, at which time Judge
Gaffy of the Sixth judicial circuit will
sit for Judge Whiting, the exchange
being made on application of counsel
! for change of trial Judge to hear the
/ cases pending against C. A. Kelley,
charged with forgery.
/ The business OF the register OF
deeds Office for Brown county in the
/ month of October exceeded all previ-
Gus records, showing remarkable
amount of business In real estate
lines. The total fees received for reg
istering real estate we're $52880 The
active business shown is accounted for.
by the fact that landseekers were I'm
usually numerous in this section. Evil
dence Of big crops and prosperous
farmers are seen on every hand
/ A large class has been initiated by
| the Aberdeen lodge Of the knights of
/ Columbus. Visiting knights were
/, present from Watertown, Huron. Sioux
Falls, Sioux City and several points in
| Iowa and Nebraska The days pro-
gram began with a procession from
| the Sherman house to the Sacred
| Heart church. where high mass was
celebrated. Rev. Father Dermody
preached a sermon In which he dwelt
| on the attributes Of true knight.
A county correspondent in Faux
county notes that J. w. Finnerty, with
his corn hnsking crew, crjbbed 5000
bushels of corn in twenty-three days.
| The same correspondent also notes
that one of the crews employed in this
work worked with three hands and
/ two eyes. With that kind of record
for a crippled crew there is no telling
what Finnerty would have done in the
way of corn gathering with an able
bodied bunch of men to help him
Sheriff Harry Trathen of Lawrence
county has received the two famous
bloodhounds, Caesar and Betsy, from
Norfolk, Neb. They will be used for
the tracking of criminals here in the
Hills. They have a remarkable record
for following trails. Recently they
tracked some men out of Norfolk for
| fifty-two hours without resting, fol.
lowing them for 200 miles and at last
catching them. Several prisoners
have escaped in Lawrence county ow-
ing to the difficulty Of tracking them
over the hills.
August D. Fisher, superintendent OF
the Ideal Mining company of Custer,
was killed and Arnold Spencer Of In.
dianapolis seriously injured by blast
ut the company's mine. Two blasts
were lighted and only one exploded
Surprising the other missed fire, Fish
er went into the shaft He warned
Spencer, who turned away quickly
but was struck by large stone in
| the back. When he recovered con.
seriousness he found Fisher in ter
i rible condition. Before assistance