Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1906-10-04
South.
Dakota
General
State
News IN
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will &C nvene in Sioux Falls on Oct.
16.
The next meeting Of the South Da;.
kota state board Of pharmacy for the
transaction of regular business and
/ the examination Of candidates for
registration will be held at WATERFOWL
on Oct. 10.
Fire broke out at the National
smelter at Rapid City and despite the
efforts of the firemen destroyed the
railroad trestle leading to the works
and with it the coal bins. The dam
age is placed at $4,000.
The report of the vital statistics bu-
| reau for August shows S82 births, OF
which 40 were males and 442 were
| females. The deaths numbered 376,
the marriages 2O4 and the divorces
were only S..
Judge Boucher of Miller sentenced
John Rott and James Haynes to eigh-
teen months each at Sioux Falls.
| Haynes crime was horse stealing and
Rott was convicted of stealing har-
ness and buggy.
| The government building in Pierre
| is almost completed and ready to be.
turned over by the contractor, and 1t
Is expected to move the postoffice and
land office into the new quarters on
the last day of this month and begin
the business of the next quarter in the
new location.
Lyman Wilcox and Charles Lemay
4 were brought to Sturgis, charged with
| horse stealing, and had their prelimi-
nary hearing. Wilcox pleaded not
1 guilty, Lemay waiting examination.
Both were bound over to the next
term Of the circuit court in the sum Of
| 500 bonds.
| For the first time in the history Of
Indian trading at Rec Heights the red
men are selling their wheat and buy
ing coal. They have small stoves in
4 their tepees. and some of them prefer
l to burn coal rather than bits of boards
usually picked up along the roads by
/ the squaWs.
! The people of Presho, about thirty
miles west of Oaconla, think they
would like to have the county seat OF
Lyman county, and have decided to
make try for it at the election this
fall. II they push their claim hot
campaign can be looked for In that
4 county this fall.
The Quincy Seed Company Of
Yanlton has filed articles OF incorpor-
alton with the secretary of state. The
company is incorporated with $4,000
capital and will conduct a general
| wholesale seed business in this ter
| ritory. The incorporators are G. w.
Quincy and d. B. Quincy OF Yankton
and q. r. Quincy of Fremont, Neb.
In response to request from the
1 officers Of that organization, Governor
| Elrod has appointed nearly four hum
| dred delegates from this state to at
tend the meeting of the farmers con-
gress, which is to be held at Rock
Island, ILL.,, next month. The names
are from every county In the state.
| and so far as possible, are those Of
representative farmers.
Another parish will be added In a
short time to the Lead diocese OF the
Roman Catholic church. Bishop
Stariha has gone to Edgemont, where
! they are very anxious for church,
and will probably establish one there
on this trip. The town is now In a
very prosperous condition; they have
| a good church building, and would
gladly build a parsonage If they could
/ have resident priest.
Miss Eda Gertrude Sites, the sew
| enteen4year-old daughter Of Postmas-
ter and Mrs. A. Fl. Sites of Sioux
/ Falls, died of heart trouble, with
which she had been afflicted for many
i years. Last fall and winter she inn
1 proved to some extent, but this sum-
4 mer the old trouble reasserted itself
in aggravated form Miss Sites was
1 born in Sioux Falls, and was a gem
eral favorite with the people of the
| city.
At a recent meeting OF the passen-
! ger agents of the different western
1 railways, it was decided by a unani-
4 nous vote to recognize Rapid City as
/ winter tourist resort and to make
it stop-off point. The meeting was
! held for the purpose Of arranging
| western winter tourist rates over the
several systems. Special rates will
/ therefore be offered over all railroads
in the east to Rapid City during The
4 winter months.
The actual work OF sinking the first
caisson Of the permanent railroad
bridge at Pierre has begun, and it can
/ be said after months of preparation
| that the bridge is now actually under
/ construction. The piling has been
driven for the second caisson, which
is out in the stream, and that is be-
ing framed up. The caissons will have
to be sunk forty feet to reach the
foundation on which the stone piers
will be commenced.
The Great Western Telephone com
pany, having completed its line from
1 Pierre to Okobojo is now constructing
line from that place to Forest City.