The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1907-02-14
South Dakota
Gessrsl State New, Parasraphed.

Larry Roach shot John Kane at Mar.
win. The two men had trouble of long
standing.
w. II. Bass, a farmer, delivered a
hog to buyers at Armour that weighed
Cos pounds and brought SAL.
William Chapman shot and killed
himself at his home in Watertown. He
had been slightly unbalanced for some
time.
AS a result of the explosion OF the
water front of a cook stove at Dead.
wood. Mrs Marion Willitts. ove sew
enty years old, was seriously injured.
DR.. Felix Ashcroft, county physician,
vaccinated 100 persons at Latin,
where the Safe Investment mine is To-
Gated. Smallpox broke out there sew.
eral days ago.
Carey O'Connor. a farmer fifty years
, of age, five miles south of Beresford,
had four fingers on his left hand
ground off in a corn shelter. Amputa-
ton above the knuckle joints was nee
essary.
The Miners Union opera house at
Lead was reopened after it had under
1900. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 10 thu nnnnnt nf
$4,000. The opening was a presenta-
ton of "A Winters Tale" by the
Women's Club of Lead.
Articles of incorporation have been
filed for the BrOadland State bank at
Broadland, with a capital of $4,000; in
corporatOrs. +. l.. Abel, r. j. Mahaffey,
Perry S. DaIQuist OF Huron: D. l..
Briggs, Levi Hook Of Broadland.
Damage to the amount of about
5000 was caused by a fire in the Sioux
Falls yards Of the Tuthill Lumber
company. The flames were fought and
extinguished by the fire department
while the temperature was more than
20 below zero.
A new banking institution, i%ncorpor'
ated under the name of the First
State Bank of Bowdle, has commenced
business at BOwdIe. Capital, $4,000.
Officers: President, John c. Gross;
vice president, II. c. Gross; cashier, J.
b. GuudCTt.
The first movement Of any magni'
tudC toward making Lake Andes a
leading summer resort has been start,
ed bv w. T. Mcfarland of Struble,
Iowa. who has purchased 275 acres and
will erect a large hotel nea the shore
of the lake.
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The Citizens Bank of Edgemont
has closed it's doors and w. w. Stew
art was appointed receiver by Judge
MCGEE. 1t is claimed that the cred
itOrs will be paid in full, This was a
new institution and found that there
was not room for a second bank.
The range belonging to Fred Meyer
Of Sturgis blew up, and is a total
wreck; one griddle was blown through
the ceiling. the windows Of the rooms
are knocked out, and pieces of iron are
sticking in the wall all over the room.
A hot water tank in connection with
the range is supposed to have caused
the explosion. Mrs. Meyer had left the
room just before the explosion.
A number of leading Black Hills
physicians have formed an OrSanlza'
ton for conducting a Hot Springs
sanitarium and hospital. They have
leased the handsome three-story resi-
dence of DR.. and Mrs. Hargens, which
has twenty-siX rooms, and have al
ready begun converting it into the
sanitarium, and a complete modern
equipment will be placed therein.
After going thoroughly into the le'
gal phase of the matter, the soldiers
home board has signed a contract with
the manager of the city water plant at
Hot Springs to furnish the home Wild
water. There was a dispute regarding
who was entitled to water from a Ger
tain stream, and to settle 1t the water
company agreed to furnish the home
with water at a price which appears
to be cheaper than putting in and OPP
Grating a private plant for the home.
o. V. Lamb, deputy United States
marshal, with headquarters in Sioux
Falls. has returned from Yankton
agency, where he placed under ar
rest a ~mixed-blood Indian named Max
Lyman, who is charged with introduc'
ing liquor into the Yankton reserva'
ton. The defendant was held for ap-
pearance at the April term of the fed
eraI court in Sioux Falls. Lyman Is
the son of one Of the pioneers of Da