Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1907-09-12
South.
Dakota
General
state
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contractor OF AIl4h6'oiA' 49, -.it'S,
home of consumption. She had peen
Ill for only about week.
The six troops Of the Sixth cavalry
of Fort Meade departed from there
last week for the Philippines. Ten de-
sertions were reported here from tie
troops.
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Joseph Lopas of Deadwood, better
known as Mexican Joe,' is dead For
the last quarter of century ne was
familiar figure on Deadwoods
streets.
A milk famine menaces the city Of
New York, according to prominent
dealers. They say the shortage is now
80 900 quarts day and the supply IS
decreasing daily.
DR.. E. T. West, the new governor for
Battle Mountain sanitorium, and his
bride, have arrived at Hot Springs.
They were received with military hon
ors upon their arrival.
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Prosperity seems to be coming Key
stones way. The regular quarterly
statement of the Keystone bank
shows figures in deposits Of over
$4,000 in the past three months. The
bank now has nearly 100000 subject
to check and $4,000 in certificates of
deposit, yet Keystone is only a small
mining camp.
The past month Ed Butz, farmer
living near Cavour, has received $44
from the local creamery for cream
separated from the milk of five cows,
or an average of 1882 COW for the
month. In addition to what he sold
the creamery, the family had all they
wished to use. Mr.. Butt figures that
his land will make greater returns
planted" to COWS than to small grain.
F. P. Dewey of Washington, D. c.,
has just completed the first thorough
investigation of the United States as
say office in Deadwood. The object of
this visit at this time was to look over
the new equipment that the Office has
just received with the idea of ultimate
ly putting all branches of the service
at Deadwood on uniform basis, as
they are in assay offices in other
cities.
William Peck, aged seventy-twc
years, a pioneer of Deadwood, is dead.
He was a prominent agriculturist
when he went to Deadwood in 1878
with his family, and for many years
made his living and finally acquired a
competence off small garden patch
of less than an acre which he cultivat-
ed Mr.. Peck was native of Ashley,
Ohio A widow and three children
survive.
BY misstep, Steve CASTELAR,, one Of
the miners in the Homestake mine fell
through the shaft from the 300-foot
level to the 5O0-foot level and was in.
stantly killed. CASTELAR, was cage
tender and was being hoisted to the
surface with sack of sand which he
had on his shoulder. This sand
caused him to take a step backward
and he fell from the cage while it
was rapidly ascending.
Circuit court will meet at Miller on
September II. The somewhat famous
civil action of the aged widow, Mrs.
Dring, against ST. Lawrence township
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well bonds that she has not been able
to collect will come up at this term.
It is expected that Mrs bring. who is
nearly. ninety years old, will appear
in court and testify in the case.
Jacob Shops, an alleged silk thief
was brought to Waterloo from his
home in Maynard to answer to the
charge of grand larceny. Shops is
charged with taking several dozen
bolts of ribbon from the Rock Island
freight house while loading his house.
hold goods, which had been shipped
from Rowley, into dray. Shops is a
atives.
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After quarrel with her lover Mar.
guerite Hodson of Deadwood, destroy.
ed all of her personal belongings, tear.
ing her handsome clothes into shreds
and then jumped from a third-story
window Of the Mansion hotel. She
landed in an alley but at the hospital,
where she was taken, physicians say
she will recover. She received a
broken jaw, three broken ribs, wrist
fractured in two places, and a badly
cut head.
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The hotel situation in washington
Springs, which has been serious one
for the past four years or more, is
about to be relieved through the eff
forts of a number Of business men
here, who have induced ]. L. Coram, a
II. s,.:,::. he::..! p!enk:.te..
to build a modern hotel and run it,
This news will be received with much
joy by the many travelling men who
make that city.
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