Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1907-03-07
South Dakota
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will erect fine new church at Mil
bank.
L. M. Snow of stickney has sold his
drug stock to E. W. Roberts of Iro-
quois.
P. F. Nolan, cashier of the First
State bank, has disposed of his inter
ests at Stickney and moved to Plank
inton.
The two-year-old daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. Charles Wohllin of De Smet
died as the result of swallowing sew
eral pills.
Conductor Antrom Jan1ins of the
Milwaukee had his leg broken, and
was seriously injured in a switching
accident at Platte.
Judge Marquis has directed the
clerk of courts to draw jury for
regular term of court on March IL
for Hamlin county.
Three miners unions, the Terry,
Central and Deadwood, met at Dead
wood and unanimously rejected the
proposition made to them by the mine
operators.
Mrs. N. A. Batchelder, wife of the
express messenger on the Milwaukee
road, is quarantined at Stickney with
smallpox. 1t is the only case insthat
part of the state.
Elsie Clemman, daughter of the pro-
prietor of hotel at Custer was badly
burned by an explosion of gas and is
in precarious condition. A bel, boy
also was injured.
The hotel building and annex in
Claremont were completely destroyed
by an early morning fire. The guests
were warned in ample time to make
their escape. Loss, $4,000.
The everbusy and generous stork
visited the home of Mr.. and Mrs.
George Emmons at Pierpont and
made them a gift of three wee little
boys, who are we'll and strong.
The cattle owners OF Union county
| met at the court house in Elk Point
and elected as county cattle inspector,
James V. Walsh of Elk Point township,
who was the only person placed in
nomination.
Mrs. Bridget Shannahan died at the
home of her son, Denny Shannahan,
in Foster township, near Huron. Mrs.
Shannahan was 100 years of age, and
was the third woman to locate in
Foster township.
At recent sale of land at the Rap
id City land office forty-four tracts,
comprising 1882 acres, were offered.
In one instance the land brought as
high as S7.55 an acre, while some of it
sold as low $1.25 an acre.
The work of organizing a company
to establish a farmers elevator at
Butler has progressed to such an eX-
tent that temporary organization has
been perfected by the election of F. L.
Ihrke temporary president and N e.
Bjerke secretary.
In accordance with it's desire, the
Fourth regiment band of Sioux Falls
will be mustered out Of the state
| militia on March 2. 1t is believed the
Watertown band will be selected, al.
though the Aberdeen band also is
after the honor.
Christian Nelson, a wealthy and
prominent farmer of Lincoln county,
who mysteriously disappeared last
July, and who friends and relatives
had given up for dead, has returned to
his home. Nelson refuses to explain
his strange absence
The Rock Island Railway company
has filed in the Office of the secretary
of state in Pierre a copy of a mort
gage for $6,6OO,00O. The mortgage
runs to the Bankers Trust company
and covers all the property and equip.
ment of that system.
With report like a cannon the
large grain warehouse at Herried be-
longing to ]. G. Brady slipped off its
foundation and burst from the great
pressure of 5000 bushels Of wheat it
contained. Hundreds of bushels Of
wheat was scattered over the ground
and the loss will be heavy.
There is an ice famine at Miller
While the crop was never quite so
good as it was early in the season,
to gather it, and now the thaw and
high water has carried it all away.
Ice will have to be shipped in unless
another crop is frozen this spring.
At recent sale of land at the
Rapid City land Office forty-four tracts
of land, comprising 3,452 acres, were
offered for sale. In one instance the
land brought as high as $755 an acre,
while some of 1t went for as low as
$1.25 an acre. The amount of money
changing hands at this sale was in
the neighborhood of $4,000.
Robert Wesley and Curley Falk are
under arrest charged with the bur
glary Of the hardware store OF J. w.
Mcdonald at Central City. The store
was entered early in the morning, but
Mcdonald, asleep at his home, was
aroused by burglar alarm connect
ing the two places. The robbers were
frightened away before finishing their
job. They secured only $780,