The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1906-12-13
South Dakota


Carl Bjere, a farmer living near
Nandreau, committed suicide.
George Dempster, a Bookings coun-
~ pioneer, is dead. He came TO South
Dakota in 1888, and leaves a wife and
even children.
Chris HaDeger, a thresher, shot and
instantly killed himself at the Mootz
farm, near Salem. Habeger is said to
have been drinking.
DR.. w. II. Thrall, superintendent of
Congregational missions for this state,
has organized a church at Plainville.
Deuel. county, with eighteen members.
DR.. w. II. Thrall, superintendent OF
Congregational missions for this state,
has organized a church at Plainville,
Deuel. county, with eighteen members.
The Sioux Valley Nursery company
mas been organized in Brookings. f.
Token of Faulkton is president and G..
NJ. Olston of Brookings secretary and
treasurer.
AS a result of using kerosene oil to
start a stove fire, Mrs. Charles Monroe
Of Miller vas terribly burned and she
Is not expected to survive the shock
| and injuries.
Professors A. II. Wheaton and John
Cole of the agricultural college will
| speak at the farmers institute at Re-
villo, Clear Lake, Estelline, Castle
wood and other towns in that part of
The state.
Prof. w. A. Wheeler, professor Of
botany and entomology at the agricul-
tural college, has resigned an accept
ed the position of secretary and man.
ager of the Dakota Improved Seed
Company of Mitchell.
.
James F. Brooke, formerly an at
torney in Brookings, was recently or
dained a deacon in the Episcopal
church, and has gone to Fergus Falls
to work as a missionary in the Episco-
pal diocese Of Duluth.
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The body of Martin Kerchner, who
was drowned in the Cheyenne river
! near Pedro the first part of September.
has been found about a mile from the
point where he was thrown into the
river by an accident.
A special meeting Of the Dead
wood city council will be called soon
! to consider the matter of paving the
streets with creosote paving blocks.
The question has been agitated for
some time. The creosote proposition
Is represented by Walter H. Bell of
Minneapolis.
State Treasurer Collins at last has
located the last of the outstanding
state bonds, and is now in a position
to negotiate for everything outstand-
ing. This places him IN a position
where he may carry out his hope OF
clearing up all of that class of indebt-
! edness before the close of his term.
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Gov. Elrod has denied an application
Tor an extradition warrant for William
J. Ohlheiser, wanted in Nebraska on a
| charge of wife desertion. The ground
for denying the warrant is that the al
legged act was committed 4 year before
| the Nebraska law which put the of
tense in the criminal class was passed.
The thirteen-year-old son of Isaac
Watson has been drowned in the Sioux
river near F~landreau. He went to the
river to see some traps that he had
set, and not returning home his father
started in search of him. He found
that the ice had been broken, and feel
ing around with a fish spear was hor-
riied to find his sons dead body at
the bottom OF the hole.
Sheriff Campbell found Mrs. Julia
Hines and Ave children living in an
| old shack Mt Elkton, where they had
been quarantined for d%iphtheria. Da-
| vid Hines, the husband and father, has
been working on a farm near Elkton.
and has gone to Brookings TO attend
3 hearing which will determine wheth-
er the children will be emf to the
c%hildren's home at Sioux Falls.
President Heston of the Madison
normal has made an estimate of the
| financial needs of the school for the
next two years and has recommended
the following appropriations: For
| salaries (annual), 5000: for repairs,
81, 500; for maintenance (annuaD, $10,-
| G0G; for a science hall Especially, 500.
| 600; for a brick ~smokestack, $500;
| for an addition to East hall, $4,000.
| 1t is understood the board of regents
| will also recommend the above appro-
| p~riations to the legislature. Two years
| g the legislature extended the nor
| NAL course one and two years but
made no provision for carrying it into
| affact Tho extension of the course