The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1906-10-05
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h0 I0U0Tdl duLuOTluCS LOT 0OuIu
Dakota are making preliminary ar
rangements for the regular October
term Of United States court which
will convene in Sioux Falls on Oct.
16.
The next meeting Of tho South Da:
kota state board of pharmacy for the
transaction of regular business and
the examination of candidates for
registration will be held at Watertown
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 882 births, of
which 440 were males and 442 were
females. The deaths numbered 376,
the marriages 204 and the divorces
were only IS.
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 postofice and
land Office into the new quarters on
the last day Of this month end begin
the business Of the next quarter In the
new location.
Lyman Wilcox and Charles Lemay
were brought to Sturgis, charged with
horse stealing, and had their prelimi-
nary hearing. Wilcox pleaded not
guilty, Lemay waiting examination.
Both were bound over to the next
term Of the circuit court in the sum Of
800 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
their tepees. and some of them prefer
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 Oacoma, think they
would like to have the county seat OF
Lyman county, and have decided to
make a try for 1t at the election this
fall. If they push their claim a hot
campaign can be looked for in that
county this fall.
The Gurney Seed Company OF
Yankton has filed articles of incorpor-
alton with the secretary Of state. The
company is Incorporated with $4,000
capital and will conduct general
wholesale seed business in this ter
ritory. The incorporators are C. w.
Gurney and D. B. Gurney of Yankton
and E. r. Gurney of Fremont, Neb.
In response to a request from the
officers Of that organization, Governor
Elrod has appointed nearly four hun
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 a 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 parsonage If they could
have a resident priest.
Miss Eda Gertrude Sites, the sew.
enteen-year- daughter Of Postmas-
ter and Mrs. A. H. Sites of Sioux
| Falls, died of heart trouble with
which she had been afflicted for many
| years. Last fall and winter she i'm
proved to some extent, but this sum-
mer the old trouble reasserted itself
| in aggravated form. Miss Sites was
born in Sioux Falls, and was a gen.
| eral favorite with the people Of the
| city.
At a recent meeting of the passen-
ger agents of the different western
railways, 1t was decided by a unani-
nous vote to recognize Rapid City as
! a 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
winter months.
The actual work of sinking the first
caisson OF the permanent railroad
bridge at Pierre has begun. and 1t 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
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