The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1907-08-16

: of the Pioneer Association of 30
Y Homme county, which will be he'll
at Tyndall, August 20, Gov. Coe
Crawford will be the principal speak
er.
Dan Glennon has returned to hi
passenger run between Brooking
and Redfeld, after having been sup
%erintendent OF the east end of tn
new line west from Pierre. The mel
WHO worked under him, presented hin
with a leather chair 10 show thei
6 appreciation of him.
! Miss Myrtle Lee, an instructor il
+ the conservatory of music at tn
Wesleyan university at Mitchell ant
, Miss Hazel L.athrop, Il graduate o
s the voice department have left TO
f New York, from which place the!
will sail for Berlin, Germany. to con
tinue the study of music.
!, The body of Conductor Vernon
, Mecham. who was killed while il
charge of his train at Harold last
Wednesday. was taken to Elkhart
Ind. for burial. His wife. father and
mother, and Conductors Glennon and
i. Meyers accompanied the remains.
AS a result of attempting to sell
liquor on Sunday at Miller, one mar
is a fugitive. Very strict watch is
kept by the authorities to see that
the law is enforced.
Because of the new law putting
the marking of manuscript into the
hands of the state, there is a MOTTO
able falling off OF teachers in the
state. Now adequate preparation is
required.
All traffic from the coast on the
Burlington was suspended for twenty
four hours, because Il the burning of
the big bridge between Edgemont
and New Castle.
A sheepherder named Cooper was
uound dead with a bullet wound
through his heart, in the Slim Butte
district near Belle Fourche. The
herder's dogs attracted Il rancher's
attention and he followed them to
the place where their master lay.
Mrs. Haney. wife of Judge ID.
Haney. of the supreme court, died at
her nome in Pierre. August 8, from,
IN attack of heart trouble.
The largest and saddest funeral
ever held at St. Anthony, near Mar
shalltown, Ia, took place from the
Christian church when services were
conducted for Edward Atkinson, wife
and daughter. Neva, killed Saturday
evening by the storm at Woonsocket.
Inc bodies reached there in charge
Of Mayor S.. A. Ramsey, of Woon-
socket, the people Of which place
sent him as their representative.
Three hearses took the bodies to
Clemens, where the interment took
place. The Woonsocket Methodist
church, the Woodmen and many
friends sent flowers.
Burke has a new grain elevator
the one which was in course Of con-
struction by the Nye, Schneider,
Fowler company being practically
completed. 1t will be ready for the
fall harvest.
George A. Starring, a graduate of
Huron college. has earned a scholar
ship at the theological seminary at
Rochester, New York, and has also
been appointed secretary to the dean
of the seminary.
The Leo Mining company, whose
property is at Benchmark, on the
Elder, has struck a large ledge Of
free milling and cyaniding ore.
Joseph G. Quicken, a native of Min
nehaha county, has returned from
Alaska where for ten years he has
been endeavoring to strike it rich.
AS he recently sold his half interest
in some mining property for $1,000
900, he must have been successful.
He was married at Sioux Falls last
week to Miss Stordahl, who has been
waiting for him.
AS a result Of brutally beating his
t~en-year-old son, w H. Warren, of
Edgemont, lost his wife and her two
children, and his own two children.
The former left him, and the latter
will probably go to the Childrens'
Home at Sioux Falls. Besides this
loss he was fined 500 and costs.
After an illness of over a year, c..
A. Bartlett, a pioneer of Hughes
county, and the Black Hills, died at
Pierre on the morning OF August 4.
The state board of regents has
purchased land for q new dormitory
at Brookings agricultural college.
The plat is 32Ox42O feet; consider
alton, $4,000. The last legislature
appropriated $4,000 for the build
ing and as soon as plans have been
decided upon work will begin on the
excavation, it being the intention of
the board to have the basement com
pleted this fall.
Miss Lucille Thorp, one of Leads
well known society girls, is to be
married to Capt. Ekwurvel, Of the
Sixth United States cavalry, now
stationed at Fort Meade. 1t is an
%nonnced that the young people will
be welded on August 10 In this city,
just two weeks before the Sixth
leaves for the Philippines to relieve
the Fourth cavalry.
The heaviest rain of several years
passed over Chamberlain a few days
ago, the precipitation during one and
one-half hours amounting to three
and ~three-fourths inches according to
the gauge of Voluntary Observer
Scott Hayes. The rain came from
the northwest, and vas accompanied
by very sharp lightning, resulting in