Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1907-09-19
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Handcuffed together, H. b. Cochran
and Miss Lena Bruer Of Salem have
been brought back to Parker from the
Black Hills by Sheriff w. Coleran and
bound over to the November term of
court as the result of an alleged elope-
ment.
Preparations are nearly completed
for the annual Brookings county. fair,
which will be held at Bookings Sep
TENDER 2E, 26 and 81. The premium
list has been completed, and shows
liberal prizes offered for the best dis
play of products.
The State bank at Frankfort was
blown by cracksmen during a storm.
The safe was completely wrecked and
the contents carried away. The to-
tai loss is not known, but will reach
several thousand dollars. Three men
are believed to be concerned, but no
trace of them has yet been secured.
g Harley Hayes, soldier of D troop,
Sixth cavalry, Fort Meade, was arrest
ed, charged with assault and battery
with intent to commit felony on the
person of r. e. Porter. At the pre-,
linlinary hearing he pleaded guilty,
and was bound over to the Meade
county circuit court in the sum of
$500.
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A murder and suicide occurred at
Kodako, one of the new towns on the
Milwaukee extension in Southwestern
Stanley county. G. I. Lawrence is
said to have killed his wife and then
committed suicide, using a revolver
to carry out his purpose. The shoot
ing was the outcome of family and
financial troubles.
D. M. Dickerson, farmer and fruit
grower in Union county, has demon.
strated that at least the southern por.
ton of South Dakota is adapted to
peach raising. Mr.. Dickerson has an
orchard Of $50 peach trees, and has
grown peaches on moderate scale
for about twenty years. Many of his
trees are bearing this year, and the
fruit is fine in size and quality.
Deadwood was chosen over Spear
hsh for the next annual exhibit of the
Black Hills Poultry association, which
met at Belle Fourche last week. The
exhibit will be held in February. The
association also chose the following Of
ficers: F. A. Gayden, spearfsh, presi-
dent; Paul Martin, Deadwood, vice
president; Jules Pierson, Belle
Fourche, secretary, and L. G. Barr,
Belle Fourche, treasurer.
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Several of the country schools in
Gregory county remain closed because
of the Inability of the boards of edu
cation to secure teachers. There is
great scarcity of teachers in thai
part of the state, and even in the
cases of the schools which have SO
cured teachers for the coming year
the school directors had a strenuous
time finding teachers who were will
ing and qualified to perform the duties
Of teacher.
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The Mitchell city council at its reg
ular session made it's annual appro-
priation to conduct the business of the
city and set aside $4,000 as the
amount necessary. This is the largest
sum that the council has ever appro.
priated, and in this is not computed
the money that is received for saloon
licenses. Ten years ago it only took
about $4,000 to pay the expenses OF
the growth and development Of the
town in substantial manner.
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After being dry for the past two
months Plankinton again has saloons.
At the spring election the town went
wet by two majority, and the election
was contested by the Prohibition lea
que. The matter has since been pen
ding in the courts. AS last resort
the ladies of the league went before
the county commissioners and asked
that they refuse to approve the saloon
mems license. The commissioners vo-
ted three to two in favor of license
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What is claimed to be the greatest
artesian well ever drilled in Potter
county has just been struck on the
farm of J. M. Walters in that county
Water was struck at depth of LIST
feet. So great is the force that the
water spouts from the two-inch cast
ing to a height of forty-fve feet into
the air. From short distance away
the spouting water resembles huge
fountain.
H. P. Neiderman, chief clerk of the
reclamation service on the Belle
Fourche irrigation project, has just
been promoted to be keeper of the
cost records for the government, with
headquarters at Washington. He has
been ordered to make tour of all the
irrigation projects in the West and to
learn their wants before reporting at
headquarters. This is his second pro-
motion in a year.