The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1905-07-21
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South Dakota
Genera, State News
PaFagraphed.

/, eighties, died at his home in Henne
pin, ILL.,. few days since
A young man named Bowen, who
has resided at Huron for two years
or more, has become violently insane
and application for his removal to the
asylum at Yankton has been made.
| The first claim for wolf bounty for
the new year came from Clay county
for wolf killed on the first day of
July. This claim from one of the old
est counties of the state shows that
all the wolves are not to be found west
| of the river.
| A full crop of teachers, twenty one
! in all. has been chosen for the Huron
city schools for the approaching
school year. Prof. Emm of Brookings
| is superintendent, Prof. w. D. Grant
of Washington, D. c., is principal of
the high school.
| Word comes from Chicago that John
| M. Johnson, a deaf mute who resided
at Huron for several years, was run
| down in that city short time since
! by motor car and seriously injured.
| The accident resulted in the loss by
Johnson of his right arm.
| r. E. Grimshaw, formerly oil In
spector and recently succeeded by
Nels Bracke of Lead, has finished his
! report and turned over all the busi
| ness to his successor. At recent
meeting of the county commissioners
| Mr.. Grimshaw was appointed tax col
lector.
| The Bangor-Selby county seat case
is by no means settled. The adherents
of Bangor won the last round before
! Judge Gaffy at Pierre, but Selby will
now appeal to the supreme court. seek
ing, meanwhile stay of proceedings,
which will keep the county seat there
until another election can be held if
necessary.
The census enumeratOrs who have
been at work in Minnehaha county on
| the state census have completed their
| work and filed their reports, showing
the population of Minnehaha county at
this time to be 27355. This is an in
crease of 3,429 over 1900 when the
! census returns showed a population
of 23,927
Robbers entered the drug store Of
c. l.. Price at Central City. blew off
| the outer door Of the safe with nitro
glycerin but were unable to penetrate
| to the inner vault and consequently
! did not succeed in taking any valu-
! ables The force of the explosion
| shattered bottles on the shelves, scat
, tering and running their contents.
5, Two men are being held on suspicion.
The state auditors Office is sending
| out circular letters to the city audit
ors in cities with fire departments,
I calling attention to the necessity of
| their making proper reports in case
, they desire to secure their share Of
the insurance tax for next year. This
year the towns of Huron. Deadwood,
| Vermillion and several smaller ones
were cut out of their share of the tax
on account of failures of the auditors
| to file a proper report and they are
being stirred up to get in their reports
at the proper time
| The Canton Chautaqua assembly
| has closed its fifth annual session.
| The gross receipts will pay all ex-
| penses and leave a small balance for
! the season of 1906 At the annual
| meeting the following officers were
elected: Edgar Dean, president;
| Ernst Wendt, vice president; w. J.
| Byrnes, secretary; Ed. L. Wendt,
! treasurer; Rev. A. C. Sheperd, super
| intendent: c. B. Kennedy, assistant
superintendent; Edgar Dean, C. B.
Kennedy and A. r. Brown, executive
board.
At Deadwood the jury in the case
of Thorpe VS.. the Burlington railroad
brought in, according to instructions
from Judge Rice, verdict for the de-
fendant. Mr. Thorpe, while passing
| through the yards of the Burlington
company several months ago. was run
over by train and his foot was cut
Off He brought suit to recover dam
| ages for the loss of his foot, but the
court held that as he was on the COM
| panys property without any permis-
sion or right, the company was not re-
sponsible for any damage he might in
| cur.
Complete census returns from
| r. tchinson county show a population
of 1924, gain Of 317 from the cen
sus OF i've years ago. when the popu-
lation vas 1897. The population is
6.3S6 male, and 5,828 female. There
are 3,185 foreign, and 9,031 native
born residents Parkston. the largest
town, has a population of S62; Free
! man. sol; Memo, $50; Tripp, 1876;
! and Olivet, the county seat, 161. The
small increase in population is ex-
planned by the fact of "swarming'
of Mennonite colonies. which have di-
vided and established themselves in
Hanson and Beadle counties.
On application OF Taubman, Will
| hanson & Herreid Of Aberdeen. repre-
| senting the Dakota Central Telephone
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