Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1907-05-16
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Ernest Miller committed suicide by
hanging. His dead body was found
suspended to the grand stand at the
city park at Custer.
A petition signed by 500 citizens OF
Huron was presented to the council
asking that an ordinance be passed
preventing dogs running at large.
The bottling works at the Blume
brewery, on the east side OF the river
at Huron, was totally destroyed by
fire. The loss will exceed $4,000.
Maud Nettlehorst three years old,
of Spearfish, was killed by the acct
dental discharge of an old pistol with
which some children were playing.
Arthur Herr, a Milwaukee brake
man, was accidentally caught between
the bumpers of two freight cars while
switching in the yards in Milbank. He
was probably fatally crushed. He is
married and has a family residing at
Wilmot.
Matt Senski, leading farmer near
Webster, was struck by Hastings &,
Dakota train No. on crossing and
instantly killed. His team was also
destroyed and wagon demolished. The
coroner has been summoned to hold
an inquest.
Two hundred cars of emigrant goods
were unloaded at Pierre for the month
of April, most of them going to the
country weet Of the Missouri with a
few loads for immigrants who had
purchased lands east OF the river
north Of Pierre
Sheriff John Shanks captured Will
Der Remington at Mason City, Iowa,
and landed him in Jail at Parker for
stealing a horse of w. G. Wintrode, a
farmer living near Parker, in Febiu-
airy last. Remington's mother lives at
Shell Rock, Iowa.
Articles of incorporation have been
filed for the Ingham State Bank at
Ingham, Stanley county, with a CAPT
tai of $500. Incorporators: E. j.
Spencer, Ingham; R. w. Mathies,
Philip; F. G. Fischer, G. E. Sumner,
G. l.. Millett, Fort Pierre.
Suffering stroke of paralysis while
on lonely road and lying for hours
before he was found, followed by
pneumonia as the result of his ex-
posture, caused the death of Samuel
Stocyland, a pioneer resident of Tur-
ner and Hutchinson counties.
The first wool clip of the season was
delivered at Gass & Halls warehouse
in Belle Fourche last week. 1t was
from the Selway flock in Montana, and
there were $3.50 pounds in the load.
The entire clip was 10000 pounds, and
the remainder will be brought in as
fast as the freighters can haul 1t in.
Court in the Third judicial circuit
convened in WATERFOWL, with Judge
George H. Marquis presiding. The
call of the court calendar showed a
Chris Fiber and Myron Aylesworth,
charged with statutory offense, failed
to appear, and each forfeited $1,000
bail.
At the reorganization of the state
board of health at Mitchell, May 2, DR..
H. A. Peabody of Webster was elected
state superintendent, vice Dr. d. w.
Robinson Of Pierre. DR.. Peabody has
been actively interested in state
health measures for a number Of
years and will prove an able executive
for this body.
The state land department has sent
out collections of the endowment
funds tor the different state institu-
tons amounting to s1,123.73. The
money going to the Aberdeen normal
1920; state university, $2592O; ag-
ricultural college, $437.60; deaf and
dumb school, s51.20; reform school,
$3.50; Springfield normal, SPAS;
school of mines, $305.53
AS the result, it is alleged, of long
standing feud, Albert Ehrkie is lying
in critical condition at his home at
Watertown. ira Mcclure is under ar
rest, charged with the assault. The
two men met at a dance 1t was charg-
ed that bitter feeling was evident be-
tween the men at the party and that
as Ehrkie stepped off the porch in
leaving the house he was attacked by
Mcclure with club.
Several times each sumner Chief
Hump and his Cherry Greek Indians
secure consent to go out to neighbor-
ing towns and give entertainments
consisting of the ceremonial dances of
the Indians in which all the old-time
fnery Of the reds in the way of bead
and feather work is worn They have
secured permission to go to Pierre the
week the /. o. o. F. grand lodge meets
there, and will give an entertainment
at some time during that week.
The South Side livery barn at White
Lake, operated by D. Hussman, was
consumed by fire. The loss is about
$1,000. The origin of the fire is I'M
known. 1t was first discovered in an
empty stall at the north end of the
barn, but by the time the fire depart
ment arrived the whole building was
a mass OF flames. But for the hard
work of the fire department the whole
east side Of Main street, including the
depot and Parker's lumber yard.
would have been blk'ned.
Sufficient poles and other material