Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1905-11-16
South Dakota
General State News ParAsrap hsd.

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| F e. Schultz of Omaha has rented
I the Lavender building on Broadway,
| 9ankton, and will open department
| store so soon as the building can be
remodeled to suit.
Manager Bentley has completed ar
rangements for the appearance Of the
| world-famed actress, Madame Nodes
ka, at his Milbank opera house on Dec,
| IL. She will appear in MARY Stuart"
The Ideal Acetylene Gas company
| has started up for business at Yankton
under its city charter and pumped gas
| into its city mains, lighting number
of stores with this new means of illu-
| mlnation.
Safes in the saloons of Matthias OF.
son and Martin Olson at Violin were
cracked recently. The robbers Sc
cured $3.50 and left no clue to their
| identity. They cut all wires and iso-
lated the town.
| In runaway accident Mrs. ]. T. Nc
! Nabh, well known in all parts of the
, Black Hills, was instantly killed at
| Lead, and her husband was probably
fatally injured. Their team became
frightened and threw both occupants
to the ground.
BY the explosion of an acetylene gas
plant in the home of James Garland at
Armour, his wife was killed, the house
wrecked and burned to the ground,
and his two children severely burned.
| A man working on the gas plant was
also fatally injured and lived but
short time.
The YanlSton Building and Loan as
ISOLATION, after twenty years of bust
ness, will apply to the state this month
for a renewal of its twenty-year char
! ter. During it's years of business the
association has built over two hundred
and fifty homes for Yankton residents
and is in most flourishing condition.
Bill Egan of Meckling got into an
argument with Wesley Piersol, and
!, during the quarrel took couple OF
! shots at the latter with revolver.
Neither shot took effect, but the bull
let's whizzed dangerously near Pier.
soils head. Egan is now in jail at Yer
million to await trial on a charge OF
| assault with intent to kill.
Owing to the recent change in the
law governing the limit of Indebted
ness of towns, Clear Lake will con
struct sewage system. The effort
has been made on several different oc-
/ casions, but owing to the law which
! prevented towns Of this class assess
i ing the cost of sewer construction to
1 abutting property, the Improvement
| was stopped.
Gov. Elrod has been hearing from
| Edward Dahlheimer in regard to his
diamond mine" in the Bad Lands. He
! is again DESTROYS of giving the state
/ an opportunity to work his mine, and
4 only asks that enough money be APP
propriated to develop the great find,
which he will turn over to help out
| the state revenue, as he does not care
/ for wealth himself. His effusion is
dated from Chicago this time.
Maj. G. Boyd Barrett Of Aberdeen.
| the South Dakota member of the Dem
4 ocratic congressional committee, is in
receipt of letter from E. S. Johnson
of Armour, chairman of the Democrat
1 ic state central committee, in which
| the latter denies reports sent out from
Armour that he intends to leave the
state The letter states that he will
sell his Armour interests, but will To-
cate at some other point in South Da-
kota.
A fellow named II. F. Ritter has
been locked up In the county Jail at
| Vermillion charged with stealing a
team Of horses from Mike McCarty.
| Ritter worked half day for McCarty
husking corn. He quit on Thursday
night and that night the team disap-
peared. The team was concealed in a
grove that night and the next day, but
| towards evening broke loose and start
/ ed home. Evidence points strongly to
Ritter.
Buyers are at Huron, gathering In
Beadle county's potato crop, which is
| larger than usual and of excellent
quality. A small part OF the crop was
| injured by frost, but the bulk Of it has
| been harvested and is in fine condi-
tlOu. MANY carlOdOS VIII O6 Sent EaSI
the next few days and it will be but a
| short time till the surplus crop will be
disposed Of. Prices are better than
for several years, with indications of a
still further increase.
Business in Deadwood has been in
creasing the past few weeks, owing to
the large amount of building that has
been started. Ground has now been
broken for the big slime mill on Nc
| Govern hill, to be erected by the Home
stake company. This will be the larg-
est mill of its kind in the world It
will require between 200 and 800 men
for it's construction. Work is also to
begin Immediately on 100-stamp mill
within the city limits to be constructed
by the Homestake Extension company.
Another plant. known as the Ogden
mill, in the First ward of the city, will.
be in commission with 100 tons capac-
ity in few days. This will give Dead
wood seven mills within its own linn
its. .l