Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1907-05-09
South Dakota
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Ed Anderson of Miller shot white
crane that measured nine feet from
tip 10 tip and weighed over forty
pounds.
Charles Kinney, who was arrested
charged with stealing a iewelry SAM
pie case from the lobby of the Ward
/ hotel at Aberdeen, pleaded guilty. He
was sentenced to one year in the state
penitentiary.
The graders camp on the M. e. St
L. near Lowry, i'm Walworth county
was destroyed by fire and all books
and records We're burned. nothing be-
ing saved but grading instruments and
clothing.
Owing to i'll health, Charles Good
Boy, a Sisseton Indian, near Wilmot,
| committed suicide by shooting. He
| was about fifty-five years Of age, and
had always been considered good
| Indian.
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The statement of business of the
national banks of South Dakota for
the call of March %, shows total indi-
vidual deposits to be $19.947, 393.59, a
| gain of $1,752 ,46051 since the call on
| Jan. 90. There are now eighty nation
al banks.
| The secretary of the interior has
awarded the contract to j. f. Hilton
of Belle Fourche, S. d., for the con-
struction of sections Z and s of the
south canal of the Belle Fourche irri-
| cation project at $4,000. All bids re-
ceived for sections to 6, inclusive,
were rejected as excessive.
The Mitchell board of educaeion has
elected Prof NJ. M. Ramer as principal
of the high schools for the ensuing
year at a salary of ST. 800. Prof. RAJ
mer retired the first of the year as
state superintendent of public in
struction Superintendent Hoffs sal
ary was increased to $1,700.
At the sale OF town lots in the new
town of Dallas, on the Trip county
line west of Bonesteel, fourteen lots
were sold, aggregating $10.590. Among
the high prices paid, the Nye-Schnei-
der-Fowler company gave $1,000 for
an elevator site near the railroad
track To-day is expected to be the
big day of the sale
Fire broke out in the Peeves depart
ment store, the largest mercantile
building in Sisseton, and, it was
thought for time that the entire
stock and building would be destroyed.
Prompt work by the fire department
and citizens checked the flames, how
ever, and the greatest damage was
done by smoke and water.
The schools of Independence town
ship Joubert township and the vii
lage of belmont, Douglas county, are
closed, owing to an outbreak of small
pox. So far no fatalities have oc-
CURED, and precautions are being
taken that the pest does not get from
under. control. 1t is thought that the
disease was brought here by travel
ing men from the north part of the
state.
Articles of Incorporation have been
filed in the Office of the register of
deeds at Fairfax in connection with
the recent erection of new Catholic
church edifice at Gregory, one of the
new towns in the ceded portion of the
Rosebud Indian reservation. Rt. Rev.
John Stariha, bishop of Western
South Dakota, is one of the incorpo-
rators. The new church is one Of the
finest in the newer portion of Gregory
county
While chopping wood in the timber
south of Vermillion H. Mount was
caught under a falling tree and re-
ceived injuries which will lay him up
all summer. His skull was fractured
and his shoulder blade broken. For
several hours Mount was pinioned be-
meath the heavy timber, and Wnen
found by a neighbor had fallen into
an unconscious state.
Arthur Cowan was killed in well
near Pierre. He was assisting In dig
ging out the well and went down to
clear out the material loosened by a
blast, and, feeling himself becoming
overcome by gas, asked to be drawn
out. His companions at the top had
drawn him up about thirty feet when
his hold gave way and he dropped,
striking on his head and breaking his
nesk.
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Articles of incorporation have been
filed with the secretary Of state for
another bank on the line Of the Mil
waukee extension west from Chamber
lain, the location selected being Ka-
doka, and is capitalized at $500. The
incorporators are F. H. Meyer OF
Chamberlain. l.. d Turner and G. A.
Craven of Interior, and Frank J. Rob,
inson and others of Kadoka