Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1906-08-02
Dan McAdams. whose home was IN
Ottumwa, Iowa. was killed on Bad
river, near Pierre, by load OF piling
running over him, crushing his chest

q, IOWA, Was klIlSQ on b6O
river, near Pierre, by load OF piling
running over him, crushing his chest.
Chamberlain is having building
boom. Among the more important of
the new buildings are 100-barrel
Touring mill and elevator to cost $780,
900; Congregational church to be
built of brick and to cost $4,000, and
sanitarium to cost 100000. The san
ltarium will have accommodations for
about fifty patients.
Henry Eichoff, prominent farmer
who resides near Bridgewater, has
found by experience that it pays to de-
vote a part of his attention to the
raising of cattle. He has just market
ed forty-eight head of corn-fed steers
which weighed an average of l,400
pounds each, and for which he re-
ceived an aggregate of $500.
Frank Johnson, a grain buyer of
Clear Lake, was poisoned In peculiar
manner, and his experience may serve
as warning to other handlers of
grain who, unless they exercise care,
may be similarly affected. While load
ing car his forehead became infected
with a poison from the dust and has
become badly swollen and quite troub-
lesome.
Five horses were burned to death in
a fire that destroyed barn and 800
bushels of grain, the property of John
Reber, a few miles southeast OF Gro
ton The origin of the blaze is not
known. The total loss is about $4,000,
more than half of which is insured.
The flames spread SO rapidly that the
entire building was on fire before any
attempt was made to check their prog
ress.
Peter Lindberg, farmer residing
six miles west Of Sisseton, has mys-
teriously disappeared. He left home
about a week ago and has not been
heard from. He was treasurer of his
township, and it has been discovered
that when he left he took with him
between $500 and $500 belonging to
the school district. He is married
man and heretofore had enjoyed the
best of reputation. His wife believes
he will return.
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An early sown field of macaroni
wheat is being harvested near Miller,
and it will yield better than it did last
year. Mayor Thompson, an authority
on grain, estimates the macaroni at
twenty bushels per acre. He thinks
the common will go fourteen. This is
for all ground in crop. Some early
common wheat is being cut. The har-
vest will be in full blast in a few days.
The weather Is dry and fine. Harvest
hands ale few but wages are high.
Henry Nickoii, a miner lies at the
hospital at Deadwood at the point Of
death as a result of an attempt to
pick the powder out Of missed hole.
The force of the resulting explosion
was such as to drive the point of a
pick through his chest between the
second and third ribs. 1t missed the
heart by only half an inch. His eye
sight is completely gone, and his re-
covery is deemed impossible. Two
other men who We're working with him
received only slight injuries.
State Secretary Wipf is preparing
his biennial report to submit to the
governor, and shows receipts for the
past two fiscal years ending July l to
be $62,2769S. To show the growing
business of that department the re-
ceipts of 1905 were S25.591.38; and
those for 1906 were $50, 276.60, an in
crease of over $4,000 for the year.
The heaviest receipts come from the
corporations which file under the laws
of this state, over $4,000 of the re-
ceipts being from that source.
The summer school of the Northern
Normal and Industrial school, which
has closed a six weeks session at
Aberdeen, was attended by teachers
and students from six states, the two
Dakotas, Minnesota, Iowa. Wisconsin
and Colorado. There were 106 pres
ent the entire session, the teachers
taking additional courses to equip
themselves for the coming school
term, and students to obtain credit in
their regular course of studies. The
faculty says it was the most success
full session in the history of the insti-
tuition, and the first time that a full
course of study was offered. President
Nash predicts that the attendance will
be even larger next year.
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The mysterious disappearance Of
Christian Nelson, prominent and
wealthy Lincoln county farmer, and
the failure to secure the slightest trace
of him, has led to the belief that he
wandered away while temporarily de-
ranged and may have met his death
by drowning or otherwise. The miss
ing man last was seen at Hudson,
where he took a south-bound train.
There was no reason for his strange
departure, as his financial affairs were
In excellent condition, and his family
relations were pleasant. Mrs. Nelson
states that before his departure he
had expressed fear that some one
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