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South Dakota
General State News ParAsraphed.

General State News Paragraphed
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Ed Anderson of Miller shot white
crane that measured nine feet from
tip to tip and weighed over forty
pounds.
Charles Kinney, who was arrested
charged with stealing a jeweiry 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 NJ. & st.
L. near Lowry, in Walworth county,
| was destroyed by fire and all books
and records were burned, nothing be-
ing saved but grading instruments and
clothing.
Owing to i'll health, Charles Good
Boy, Sisseton Indian, near Wilmot,
| committed suicide by shooting He
was about flfty-fve years of age and
had always been considered a good
Indian.
The statement Of business Of the
national banks Of South Dakota for
the call of March %, shows total indi-
vidual deposits to be $19,947,395.59, a
gain of s1,752,46O.51 since the call on
Jan. 26. There are now eighty nation
al banks.
The secretary Of the interior has
awarded the contract to ]. E. Hilton
of Belle Fourche, S. D., for the con-
struction of sections and 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 education has
elected Prof. M. M. Ramer as principal
of the high schools for the ensuing
year at a salary Of $1,000. Prof, Ra-
mer retired the first of the year as
state superintendent of public in
struction. Superintendent Hoff's sal
airy was increased to $1,70O.
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 NyeSchnei-
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
uilding 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.
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 a new Catholic
church edifice at Gregory, one of the
new towns in the coded 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 when
found by a neighbor had fallen into
an unconscious state
| Arthur Cowan was killed in we'll
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.
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