Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1907-08-29
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Henry Wolf, aged fifty-hve years,
and who was injured in a runaway last
week, is dead at Yankton from inter-
nal injuries. ,
Because Of quarrel with an older
brother, Lloyd Pullins, the fifteen-year-
old son of a Kingsbury farmer, shot
and killed himself.
Two masked highwaymen held up
twelve harvest hands who were sleep
ing In freight car on the Northwest
ern tracks at Groton. They secured
$50 and escaped with the loot.
Articles of incorporation have been
filed for the Miranda State Bank, with
a capital Of $4,000. Incorporators: ].
A. Rouse, r. Alexander, Philip Fin
deiss, Victor Moberg and others.
Owen T. Owen, rancher from Stan
ley county, is at the hospital in Pierre
suffering from bites of rattiesnake,
which he received i'll stepping on the
reptile as he started to leave his
house.
Just when he was on the point of re-
turning with his family to his former
home in Michigan a fit of melancholia
caused Amos Hawkes., a quarter-breed
rancher living near Elk Mountain, to
commit suicide.
NJ T. Guthrie was arrested ct Pierre
by State Hotel Inspector Napkins on a
charge of violating the fire escape
provisions Of the hotel law. The case
was dismissed after Guthrie had com.
piled with the statute.
/ The prairie chicken season opens on
Sept. /, and from many sections Of the
state comes the information that
chickens are numerous and plentiful.
In the vicinity of Mitchell the game
law has been rigidly observed.
The largest cucumber ever raised in
these parts is the property of Post
master John f. Reid of Elk Point, and
was raised in his garden. 1t is on ex-
hibition at the grocery store of George
Hasson and is eleven inches long,
twelve inches in circumference and
weighs forty-four ounces.
A serious accident befell Miss Grace
Delap, who resides in the eastern part
Of Minnehaha county. The horse she
was riding became frightened, ran
away and finally collided with an old
wagon which was standing near the
road. Miss Delap was thrown to The
ground and seriously injured.
John Fl. Geeden, night policeman OF
Beresford, was arrested and taken to.
Elk Point on charge of assault on
Arthur HOMELAND. He was tried be-:
fore Justice Flannery, and four wit
nesses 3swore that Greeden beat Hove
land while the latter was down. The
justice decided the policeman was
guilty and fined his $40.
R. Rudd, a farmer in Blom town
ship, in Deuel. county, met with an ac-i
cident that will cost him his leg. He
was driving binder when the team
ran away, throwing him upon the
sickle and decorating his left leg to
such an extent as to require amputa-
ton. Owing to his extreme age 1t is
thought that he will not survive the
shock.
John j. Gross, a well known resi-
dent of Freeman, and his sister, had
remarkably narrow escape from death
by poisoning. They were poisoned as
the result of eating for breakfast a can
Of sardines which had been opened
for about nine hours before they par
took of them. The sardines doubtless
became poisoned by reason Of their
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Messrs. Streeter and Pratt, who
came in from the Slim Butte country,
reported having found the remains Of
a sheep herder who had been mysteri.
Deputy Sheriff Harper OF Belle Fourche
held an inquest, after which the body
was buried near the wagon. The
young man was a stranger and his
name could not be learned.
Because Chris Jensen declined to
pay for meal he had ordered in the
restaurant Of Philadelphia Charlie, the
Chinaman, a fight at once started, In
which the Celestial came out the best.
He hit his fair-haired opponent two
smashing blows on the nose and then
turned hims over to policeman. In
the Deadwood police court the Swede
was given eight days in JAIL
Earl Zundel, the twelve-year?old
son Of L. zundel. farmer living in
Aurora county, was perhaps fatally
injured as the result of his horse stum-
bling and falling while the lad was
riding from field to the house. The
boy became tangled in the stirrups,
and he was dragged a considerable dis
lance before the breaking of the stir
rup released him.
While feeding the rolls at the Vic
toria mill, on Spearflsh creek, Frank
Titus got caught in the machinery
and had his left arm pulled out OF the
socket, badly, crushed and mangled
about the shoulder. Titus accident is
particularly hard on him, as he lost
his other arm a few years ago in a
similar accident. The physicians hope
to be able to save this injured mem-
Der.