The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1905-12-01
In Faux county, ut the recent sale
of public school lands, the minimum
price paid was over SIS per acre.

of public school lands, the minimum
price paid was over SIS per acre.
The state brand commission has
called a special meeting to clear up
accumulated business that has been
filed for action by the board.
The Herreid Milling company has
commenced the erection of an elevator
at hat town, near their milling prop'
erty. The elevator will have a capac-
ity of 10000 bushels.
William Lockwood of Potter, in Pot
ter county, was blown from a barn on
which he was working and fell a dis
lance of thirty-three feet, sustaining
serious internal injuries.
Rev. Mr.. Saluro of Sioux City will
arrive at Lead Dec. 1 to take charge of
the Italian portion of the Catholic con-
gregation at Lead. This part of the
Catholic denomination is strong.
T. 3. Kerner Of Avon Springs, in
Potter county, has demonstrated that
market gardening pays in that sec
ton. He raised ten tons of cabbage
this year and 100 bushels Of pota-
toes.
Work on the foundation of the new
state house at Pierre is practically
finished, and with ten days more of
favorable weather it will be in shape
for beginning the walls with the open
ing Of spring.
Walter Bloom, a young man of Bea-
die county, committed suicide by
shooting himself. He placed the muz-
zle of a shotgun against his breast and
pulled the trigger with his foot by
means of a string.
The state land department has sold
to the Milwaukee road an equity in a
lot in Rapid City for right of way pur-
poses. The lot is a part of the prop
erty which was turned over to the
state by w. w. Taylor.
The enrolment at the Huron city
schools now exceeds 700, the largest
in their history. The attendance at
Huron college is also greater than
ever before, and as soon as farm work
slackens the number of students will
increase.
Rev. w. e. King, pastor Of the First
Baptist church in Deadwood, has or
ganized a club for boys under the age
of fifteen years, which is intended to
keep them from the streets. The
Homestake company recently gave the
lumber in two old buildings to be used
for putting up quarters for the club.
The Great Northern railway has
made it's first bid for passenger traffic
between Huron and Minneapolis and
ST. Paul, by announcing that a sleeper
will hereafter be run from Huron to
the Twin Cities, leaving here every
night at 7 o'clock and arriving in Min
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morning at s o'clock.
A destructive prairie fire in Potter
county wrought destruction to grain
and farm buildings over a large area.
Among the sufferers are A. w. Bar
rett, who lost his hay, 500 bushels OF
wheat and $50 bushels of oats; George
Medbury, who lost a new cattle barn,
a horse barn and all his hay; Charles
Eggert, 100 tons Of hay.
The roof is cemented on the new
government building at Pierre n it
will in a few days be enclosed to allow
the work on the interior finishings to
proceed, regardless of cold weather.
The contract calls for a completed
building by the first of next October,
and the indications are that it will not
be completed before the contract date.
The business men Of Deadwood are
determined to ecu the Nebraska
foundry, which is about to be moved
to some place in the Hills. A site will
be furnished free and some bonus non
ey given, and it is believed that it will
be located either in Deadwood or be-
tween that place and Lead. 1t will
employ 200 men and will cost $150,000.
The jury for the trial of Sieste Bulk
hout, charged with killing George Con-
STAINS by stabbing him in the brain
with a pitchfork, has been secured at
Milbank. The case will be hard fought.
Judge Thomas l.. Bouck will appear
for Bukhout and States Attorney l..
H. Bentley and Thad l.. Fuller for the
state. The defense has set up a plea
OF self-defense. There are many wit
nesses.
Corn gathering is the order around
Huron. The crop is the largest and
best ever grown in that locality and
far exceeds in quality the product of
what is known as "corn-prOducing dis