The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1905-10-27

Nev1n, L.. w. CarlOck ana InOmaS w.
Delicate.
D. H. Smith, railroad commissioners,
! SAYS that the warehouses and eleva-
tors in the state, particularly in the
northern part, are full of grain. The
| threshing in the state is about half
finished.
Little Teddy Miller, four years OF
age, was drowned by falling into a bar
rel of water at the rear of the house at
Rockford. He vas a son of John Mill
| err, one of the commissioners Of Pen
nington county.
Wait & Dana, proprietors Of the Ar
mour Herald, have been granted ele-
vator sites OF Corsica and Stickney,
| new towns on the Armour extension OF
the Milwaukee. They will commence
to build modern elevators at once.
Thousands of cattle have passed
through Yankton the past two weeks,
| coming in from the summer ranges
and going into winter quarters, which
means for most of the stock he feed
ing yard. All will be made ready for
market in this vicinity.
Mrs. F. E. Lawrence, wife OF an Ar
mour business man, has gone to Wis
cOnsin and has commenced an action
for divorce. She packed her trunk and
took the morning train out OF rmo
after her husband had gone to work.
She asserts that she has endured her
husbands dissipation as long as she
can.
What came neal being a fatal acct
dent befel D.. C. Campbell, a Wolsey
merchant and prominent citizen of the
west side of Beadle county. Return
ing with a friend from a hunting trip,
one of the guns was accidentally dis
charged as the buggy jolted over a
railway crossing, the charge striking
Mr.. Campbell's shoulder, inflicting an
ugly though it is thought not fatal
wound.
William Daley was murdered at
Waverly Monday evening by Nels
Mehrens, a salOonkeeper. Thresher
Daley had fought and whipped a
friend of Mehrens' in the afternoon.
Both men had been drinking. That
evening Daley entered the saloon and
called for drinks. Mehrens drew a re-
volver and shot him dead. firing five
shots in quick succession into the
body.
A westbound Great Northern freight
train, running between Benson and
Huron, was wrecked two miles east
of Watertown. Three box cars, the
caboose and oil tank were thrown into
a ditch. The oil tank ignited and fire
destroyed all of the wrecked cars.
Brakeman Al Jensen was injured, but
will recover. The accident is thought
to have been caused by a broken fiange
on the trucks of the oil tank.
Pioneers of Yankton were pleased to
meet P. J. Holman of Sergeant Bluffs,
who was the original white settler OF
Yankton. Mr.. Holman went to Yank-
ton in March, 1858, and built a cabin
at the foot of Pine street, near the
Missouri river bank. That was before
the Yankton Indians, who gave their
a~,n m tho fnWpCifn Wpra moved TN
the river to the Greenwood agency,
where they have since resided.
The officials of the Sioux Falls aerie
of Eagles have been advised that DR..
Franklin Shreve, a member OF the
aerie. who a short time ago left for
Mexico on account of his failing health.
is in a critical condition at Ell Paso,
Texas, where serious illness interrupt
ed his journey. DR.. Shreve has lived
in Sioux Falls many years, and has
had a wide acquaintance here and
throughout the state.
Arrangements have been completed
" Iuc OpCAllS VI q hCW pohh D"S
nell about Nov. 1. The new bank will
be incorporated under the state laws
and will have a paid up capital OF So
900. The shares will nearly all be
owned by representative business men
of Bushnell and farmers living in that
vicinity. A fine new building will be
erected for a permanent home for the
bank. Bushnell is in the heart of a
rich agricultural region and there is a
good opening there for a bank.
The state census shows las, 212 chill
dren of school age. OF these, 1O0,962
were born in the state, 1921 were
born in other states, m 1929 are for
eign born. These pupils are 1882
boys and 1890 girls. The men of vot-
ing age in the state number 124, 422,
and of these 9,259 were born in the
state 81 621 were hOrn in other ctateS |