The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1907-09-06

Dakota
State
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house and scale inspector.
Abner C~atherwood, fourteen years
old, was killed while helping unload
hay at Park River. An unloading ma
chine was being used and a huge fork
broke, striking Catherwood on he
head, killing him instantly.
H. B. Griffith, son of D. D. Griffith,
a prominent farmer living north Of Ar.
lington, was drowned in Lake Poin-
sett. He was swimming with a num-
Der of other young men when he was
taken with a cramp and sank.
Private Walter Slope of Troop H,
Fort Meade, was accidentally shot by
Private Cusic of the same troop at
Fort Meade. The injured man was
taken to the hospital, operated on and
the ball removed. At last accounts he
was resting easy.
Andrew Caldwell, a farmer of
Pleasant Valley, met with a serious
accident in Sturgis while in a livery
barn. He was kicked in the face by a
horse. His face was badly skinned
and he was then struck or the leg by
the horse and his ankle broken.
Several Nebraska men are prepar.
ing to open at Rapid City this fall an.
other bank, which will be known as
the Rapid City State bank, capitalized
at $50, 900. The incorporators are
Rae F. Patterson, G. c. Parmlee, Geo.
f. Dewey and associates of Platts-
mouth, Neb.
On recommendation Of the board Of
pardons Elmer S. Jordan and Richard
Bruschweiler, the university students
who were sentenced on a plea of gull
ty for burning one of the old buildings
at the university because they did not
think it harmonized with the newer
buildings at the university.
Ray Potter, the f1fteen-year-old son
Of c. A. Potter Of Butler, was struck
and instantly killed by a falling plank
while playing about the Farmers ele-
vator which Is being built there. He
was swinging on a rope which dis
lodged the staging plank forty feet
above. He was struck on the back of
the head.
While a few counties have not yet
reported, the number of sets of papers
to be passed upon by the markers on
teachers examipations will exceed
1 500. Besides the regular Office force
of the state superintendent Office, q
large number of outside markers have
been called in to assist in the work,
which will take about ten days.
Starting from a ~smoldering blaze
supposed to have been left by work.
men in sharpening tools, fire com
pletely destroyed the brick plant of
Phillips & Bartlett, situated a mile
above Deadwood, on the Puma road.
The plant contained some expensive
machinery and cost more than $40, 900
to complete. 1t was the only plant Of
its kind in the Black Hills.
A county fair association has been
organized in Buffalo county, and ar
rangements have been perfected for
holding a fair and tournament at Gam
Valley on Sept. 18 and 10. They ex-
pect to have a better display of farm
products than, ever before, and the
races, ball games and other attrac.
tons will be far ahead of any former
tournament.
:
A competitive examination under
the rules Of the United States civil
service commission Of applicants for
the positions OF matron, 5000:
seamstress. $500; attendant (male).
$3.50; attendant (female), 1920; night
Waterman, $3.50; ~janitor and engineer,
1920; cook, $3.50; laundress, $3.50, and
dining 0 girl, $3.50, in the asylum
for insane Indians In Canton, will be
held at the office of the superintend.
emit on Sept. 20.
The Bridgewater Milling company Of
has just installed what
Is known a. a producer gas engine.
being a radical departure from the old
steam process, the gas being genera.
ted by the use Of hard coal, which will
be a great saving in fuel. The engine,
which was patented in Germany, 10
comparatively q new invention, this
being the second one in use in this
state. The engine is a 55-horsepower:
weight. 2,700 pounds, and cost $4,000.
AS the result Of attempting to alight
from a train just arrived from Pierre
over the new line Of the Northwest.
ern railroad, Mrs. Hanna Holein was
probably fatally injured at Rapid City.
+ conductor thought all the passen.
gers were OF. and gave the signal to
start when the young woman rushed
from the a and stepped off back
ward. In falling she struck her head
on the depot platform, receiving in.
1uries from which she is now In a
critical condition.