The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1907-11-29

Dakota
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State
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Jacob Duckeck, a prominent unmar.
ried farmer north of Miller. was run
over by a load of lumber and killed.
James Martin, fireman on a work
train, was instantly killed ten miles
west of Rapid City. A. Wrapper. engi,
neer, was fatally injured. A defective
bridge caused the accident.
When the new telephone line from
Belle Fourche to Alzada, Montana, is
completed, ranchers for many miles
will be connected up with the Black
Hills. The Bell Telephone company
has agreed to make connections at
this point with the new line which
spring.
A resident of Pierre while in Oma-
ha a few days ago met w. w. Taylor,
one time state treasurer of South Da,
kota, whose going out Of office raised
such a storm it is hoped the state will
not again know. Taylor is now en-,
gagged in the independent telephone
business with Texas as his field of op,
Grafton.
Mrs. Sybil Bray Of Mitchell was Sc.
q deep cash was laid open in her cheek
just below the eye. The family was
seated at the supper table when the
dog made a sudden leap at Mrs. Bray
and bit her. The dog was known to be
vicious and there was no evidence that
he was mad.
A young man named Barry. insane
and confined in the county Jail in Hu.
ron for several weeks, has been taken
to the hospital at Yankton. He is a
son Of a prominent Philadelphia ship
yards man and a young man of splen.
did education, and although his peo-
pie know of his condition they decline
to care for him.
Henry Marty, Of the firm of Parks
E Marty, real estate and insurance
men of Hot Springs, has accepted the
position of assistant cashier of the
Hot Springs National bank, vice Miss
j. M. Cleveland, resigned. He is a we'll
known resident of the town, having
been county auditor for four years,
and is very popular.
With his face eaten by rats almost
beyond recognition, Otis Robinson, re.
Gently halloween of the Eagle cafe of
Watertown, was found lying dead over
me of the livery stables late one even
ing last week. He had been drinking
heavily of late and it is supposed he
went into the haymow to sleep off a
jag and froze to death.
Miss Agnes Jones, daughter Of a
farmer living near Arlington, was bad
ly burned about the face and head
while trying to revive a fire with kero-
sene. She poured the fluid into a cook
stove when the embers exploded the
oil, throwing the burning kerosene
over her face and head, burning off her
lair and temporarily binding her.
Charley Stoschine was taken to Cas-
tlewood and arrested for stealing two
loads of barley from his %neighbor,
Martin Gordon, northeast OF Estelline.
Stroschine loaded the grain at night
from a shed out in the field and lar
Seted it at Dempster the next day.
His wagon tracks were traced and
when questioned about the matter he
confessed to the theft.
According to present plans, the
country north Of Belle Fourche will
have a beet sugar factory established
oext spring by the American Beet Sn.
gar company. BY spring more than
Ia, 1000 acres of land in that vicinity
will be ready for cultivation under the
governments big irrigation project, SO
the company Is assured OF sufficient
ground for farmers to raise beets.
The legislative manual or Blue Book
Tor the year 1907 has been completed
and has been sent to the different
state officers for distribution undei
the provisions Of the law. The book ia
/ general political review Of the terri
tory and state from the organization
and the legislative lists alone contain
enough history to n who has kept
track Of affairs to give the book a val
,e, while it is filled with other material
81 importance.
Death quashed an indictment in the
federal court against George B. Mo
Pherson, the wealthy cattleman Of
Hereford, near Deadwood. charged
! with illegal fencing. MCPHERSON was
making preparations to 90 with Unit
ID States Marshal Bullock to Sioux
Falls and plead guilty, when he died
! he was to have received a light pun
Ishment on account Of his extreme
| age and the fact that he had been i'll
Tor many months.
The recent ordering by the state
board Of railroad commissioners OF a
sidetrack at a point on the Chicago q
North Western railroad midway be-
tween the towns of Salem and Conova,
has resulted in a new town springing
into existence at that point. The new
town has been named Stark. At pres
snt two grain elevators, n Of IL, 900
md the other Of $4,000 bushels capaci-
", are being erected, and work has
commenced on the construction of two
score buildings.