The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1906-12-14
South Dakota
General State News Parafraphed.

II General State News Paratr>phsd.
Carl Bjere, farmer living near
Flandreau, committed suicide.
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George Dempster, Brookings coun-
~ pioneer, is dead. He came to South
Dakota in 1883, and leaves wife and
seven children.
Chris Habeger, a thresher, shot and
instantly killed himself at the Mootz
farm, near Salem. Habeger is said to
have been drinking.
DR.. w. H. Thrall, superintendent OF
Congregational missions for this state,
has organized a church at Plainville,
Deuel. county. with eighteen members.
DR.. w. H. Thrall, superintendent OF
Congregational missions for this state,
has organized church at Plainville,
Deuel. county, with eighteen members.
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The Sioux Valley Nursery company
has been organized in Brookings. E.
Loken of Faulkton is president and c..
M. Olston of Brookings secretary and
treasurer.
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AS a result of using kerosene oil to
start stove fire, Mrs. Charles Monroe
Of Miller was terribly burned and she
Is not expected to survive the shock
and injuries.
| Professors A. H. 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 missionary in the Episco-
pal diocese of Duluth.
The body Of Martin Kerchner, who
was drowned in the Cheyenne river
near Pedro the first part of September.
has been found about 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 agita1ed 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.
Gov Elrod has denied an application
| for 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 g. year before
the Nebraska law which put the Of
fense in the criminal class was passed.
The thirteeu-year-old son of Isaac
Watson has been drowned In the Sioux
river near Flandreau. 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 fish spear was hor.
rified to find his sons dead body at
the bottom of the hole.
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Sheriff Campbell found Mrs. Juli.
fines and five children living in al
old shack at Elkton, where they had
been quarantined for diphtheria Da
vid Hines, the husband and father, ha.
been working on farm near Elkton
and has gone to Brookings to atten(
hearing which will determine wheth
er the children will be sent to the
children'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 recommends
the following appropriations: For
salaries (annuaD, $4,000; for repairs
$500; for maintenance (annual), $40,
o00; for a science hall Especially, $50,
900; for brick smokestack, $2,5OO
for an addition to East hall, $4,000
It is understood the board Of regents
will also recommend the above apprc
priations to the legislature. Two year
ago the legislature extended the MOI
NAL course one and two years bu