The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1907-01-10
South Dakota


posing parties at Okobojo, Sully coun-
ty.
A North Western freight train was
wrecked three miles north of Aber-
deem, caused by a broken rail. Nine
cars jumped the track. three of them
going into the ditch. No one was in.
jured.
Mike Kings new elevator at Stick
ney is nearing completion and soon
will be opened for business. This
gives Stickney, the new end Of the
Armour division of the Milwaukee rail-
road, four elevators.
A. P. Aspjeld, nearly ffty-two years
of age, is dead at his home in Nora.
He was born in Norway and came to
this country in 1870, and was gradua-
ted from the Augsburg seminary in
Minneapolis about 1878.
Articles of incorporation have been
filed for the Hartford State bank, with
a capital of 100000; incorporators:
William A. Wells, Alice NJ. Wells, Chi
cago; j. G. Kingsbury, A. c. Kingsbury
and L. H. Kingsbury, Hartford.
The Dakota hoist at Deadwood was
plete diamond drill outfit owned by
this and other companies was ruined.
The hoist was located at the mine at
Bald mountain and was valued at $780,
900.
There are in South Dakota 81 flour
mills which last year ground 6,759,017
bushels of wheat. Fifty-three mills
have less than 100 barrels daily capac-
ity; thirty-four have from 100 to 200
barrels capacity, and seven from 200
to 500.
While there will not be a public sale
of lots at Midland until some time next
spring a private sale was made last
week, and lots were sold at prices
ranging from $3.50 to $500. The total
returns for the first days sale were
over $1,000.
Judge E. G. Smith held a special
term of circuit court in the county
court room at Yankton, at which Oscar
Mason pleaded guilty to the charge OF
grand larceny and was sentenced to
one and one-half years In the state
~penitentiary.
The vital statistics of Union county
for the last year show that there were
236 births and 81 deaths reported to
the clerk of courts office during the
year. There were SO marriage licenses
and 80 naturalization papers issued
during the year.
Yankton has pledged 500, 900 to be
donated to the Yankton Southern rail-
road when the bridge is completed
over the Missouri river and the road
constructed to tidewater in Texas.
Nothing is to be paid until all is in
running order, which is set for the
year 1910.
Corn stalk disease is quite preva-
lent among cattle in the vicinity of Ar
mour. Quite a number of farmers
have lost stock in this way. While
the corn all got ripe, the wet weather
in the fall kept it from maturing,
hence much Of it left in the fields is
musty and bad.
WOlNCS ulS iCpolICu ocO"S
thirty miles southwest of Miller. Jas.
Lawler saw six in one bunch. The set
tlement of the country west of he
Missouri river is causing them to leave
that section, and as the stream is
frozen over they come across. There
is talk of a big wolf hunt.
Harry Berg's barn, in the south part
Of Canton, was discovered on fire at
$40 o'clock one morning recently. An
alarm brought the department out
promptly, but not in time to save the
structure or a horse belonging to Hans
Berg, a rural mail carrier. A valuable
dog was also burned. The origin of
the fire is unknown. No insurance.
The divorce business has been en-
~ceptionally lively at Yankton OF late,
three cases having been tried before
Judge Smith since Christmas. A de-
cree of divorce was granted in the first
of these, the case OF William p Gam
BILE VS.. Mrs. William B. Gamble. The
other two, Barlow vs.. Barlow and
Rufing VS.. Ruling, were held under
advisement-
T~racklaying at Wakpaia on the
coast extension of the Milwaukee Is
about completed. A few s;detracks for
the material yard have yet to be put in,
but work on the main line is complet-
ed for the winter. The weather for
this work could not have been better.
There had not been more than two
inches of snow up to a few days ago,
and the crews did not have to lay up
for cold weather at any time.
John Scobble was attacked In an al
ley in the real of the Faust building at
| Lead, knocked senseless and robbed Of
what money he had on his person as
well as his watch and some other per-
sonal property. How long he lay
| there dazed he does not know, but a
| young boy passing saw him and
| brought assistance. His injuries were
| only temporary. There is as yet no
| clue whatever to his assailant. This
is the first hold-up In this city for two
years.
Sheriff G. H. Austin of McCook coun-