Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1907-02-21
South Dakota
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Coler and j. Med; Campbell of HUI
ron have purchased the 1,6O0-acre
stock ranch of Foster 4 Thompson,
located two miles southeast OF Huron.
The price paid was $40 per acre.
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John Craig, while getting out logs
In the timber south of Sturgis, had a
leg broken. A log slid and struck
him on the shoulder, afterwards fall
ing on his leg, breaking ittabove the
ankle.
Mrs. William Fernand, whose death
occurred ut her home in CavOur. a
few days since, was among the early
residents of Beadle county, and was
one of the most favorably known pio-
neers of that section.
j. w. Smith, president of the graded
school departments Of the Eastern
South Dakota Teachers association, is
busy preparing the program for che
annual meeting of the association to
be held in Watertown April and S.
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When the wife OF William Marscn-
rider. farmer of GrOtOn, went to the
barn to search for eggs, she was hor-
riffed to stumble over the dead body
Of her husband. 1t is believed that
while at work in the barn he suf-
fered sudden attock of hear failure,
and probably died instantly.
Miss Daisy Gerton, teacher of his
tory in the state normal school at
Speartish, has resigned her position,
and will be married at Madison on
Feb 81 On the 9Th of March she
and her husband will sail for Japan,
where they will make their home.
Miss Gerton has been very popular
instructor, and was the recipient of
many valuable gifts from the teachers
and students.
Abel Thomas, a member of the
Yankton tribe of Sioux Indians, aged
about twenty-one, has been lodged in
the Geddes Jail on serious charge,
having been arrested at Greenwood
(Yankton agency by Sheriff Skill
ings on the charge Of criminal as
sault The complaining witness is
Lizzie st. Pierre, the thirteen-year-
old daughter of Louie St. Pierre, the
old pioneer who resides near Green
wood.
Mrs. Sarah Dauvwell, who resides
near Gregory enjoys the distinction
of being the only woman who has
ever adopted child who was a de-
scendant of a noted Indian chief. She
has just adopted little girl nine
months old, whose home was on the
Rosebud reservation. and whose In
dian parent died only short time
ago. The little girl is the great
grandchild of Spotted Tail. the IA
nous Brule Sioux chief.
The Consolidated Light and Power
company, which furnished light to
both Lead and Deadwood, and power
to many of the mines and mills, has
added a spray nozzle system for pro-
ducing quickly and effectively low
temperature for the coolers of the
turbines. The addition to the plant
is built directly across the creek from
the main building and completes what
has already been known as one of the
most perfect plants in the West.
BY the breaking of the ice in the
Cheyenne river, in western South Da-
kota, Cheney & Wilkinson. ranchmen.
whose range is in that part of the
state, suffered severe loss. A part
of their herd of cattle walked out
upon the ice, which gave way under
the combined weight of the animals
Some of the cattle we're able to make
their way to safety, but twenty-seven
of them were precipitated into seven
feet of water and were drowned.
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Confident that their young son is
the victim Of evil associates, and that
he was not the chief offender in the
crime which got him into trouble. the
parents of John Nevins, who is serv-
ing term in the Sioux Falls peniten-
tiary, are striving to secure his par
don. Nevins and companion were
arrested on a charge of holding up
and robbing drunken man in what
/ Is known as the Campbell house alley
at Lead. Nevins has served about
one year OF his term.
Sam Sweeter, well-known resi-
dent OF Monroe. has had good reason
to conclude that 1t is not the part
of wisdom to carry loose loaded car
tridges and his smoking tobacco in
the same pocket. Mixed in with his
tobacco were number Of these load
ed cartridges. In filling his pipe he
without observing it placed car
fridge in his pipe. The cartridge soon
made its presence known, for after
Sweeter had smoked for a time the
heat exploded the cartride, and the
result was that Sweeter narrowly es-
capped being killed Had the bullet
struck him in a vital spot it would
have been case OF man being shot
| and killed by his pipe.
At all the railway stations within a
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