The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1907-01-03
South Dakota


III. eastman, c. Slaight and Oar
Slaight drove into an airhole In the
Missouri river, opposite Fort Randall,
and were drowned.
The coal house Of the Northwestern
railway at Pierre, with all the rail-
road coal on hand, was totally de-
stroyed by a fire which started from
an explosion of a lantern. This will
cripple operations here for a few days,
until a new coal supply can be Sc
cured.
The town Of Brentfc'd, recently es-
tablished on the new line in Sphinx
county, promises to eclipse Florence,
in Codington county, in the rapidity
of its growth. The town has a COM
mercial club which aims to increase
the population from nothing to 1000
in six months. Houses are springing
up like mushrooms.
Bert Aallen, a Lyman county man
who a convicted in the circuit
court on a charge of embezzlement,
and who came to the supreme court
on a writ of error, will have to serve
the sentence to be imposed for the
the action of the circuit court in an
opinion by Judge Corson.
The Iroquois creamery, which Is
one Of the best in the state, has found
the demand for its product so great
in the state that not, for weeks has
a single pound of butter manufac-
tured by 1t been shopped to the East
ern markets. The other day the
manager of the creamery had to turn
down an order from a %neighboring
town for 1,200 pounds of butter. The
price remains above the 80 cents per
pound mark.
The gravel pit Of the Northwestern
road near Blunt, in which a large
force of men has been employed all
summer and fall, has been closed
down for the winter, IT having been
found impossible to hold men during
the extreme cold weather. Enough
gravel Mas been taken out to surface
the track as far as Midland, and to
cover the yards at that place, which
is as far as traffic will be attempted
until spring, although the extension
will be continued on up Bad river.
The large steam shovel used in the
gravel pit will be brought to Fort
Pierre and used in widening the large
cut just north Of that city, the earth
taken out being used for bridge APP
~proaches."
Probably no town in the country
is as well equipped to bid defiance to
fuel and light trusts as is the little
town of Nowlin, sixty miles west of
Pierre. A contractor has just drilled
an artesian well for the town, and at
the depth of 1912 feet has struck a
vein of water with a pressure of sew
enty-two pounds to the square inch.
| The feature of the well Is hat the
water is hot, having a temperature
Of 121 degrees Fahrenheit. Arrange.
ments have been made to pipe the
water u all of the residences and
business houses in the little place,
where 1t Is to be used for heating
purposes. In addition to the v'ater,
the well produces a superior quality
of natural gas, and this is being uti,
lized for light and cooking purposes
"F1iday," the Chinese cattle king, is
enjoying his second honeymoon with
a white wife. The ceremony was
performed by Judge Feay of Custer
and Fliday and his wife, formerly
Miss May Rice, have just left OF
their wedding tour. The bride came
to the Hills about three years ago
from Kansas, and has been living
with her sister, Mrs. III. ID. Polk, who
lives on a ranch adjoining that Of the
| Chinese cattIeman. Miss Rice was
an attractive girl and a remarkably
fine horsewoman. Last spring FIJI
days first wife died after a long and
painful illness, and as Miss Rice
watched the ~unceasing attention and
the gentleness, which the Chinaman
showed his sick wife, she became still
more interested in the A~mericanized
Celestial.
Conditions on the new extension OF
the Minneapolis & st. Louis are of
fering a marked contrast to those
that exist elsewhere. Although the
road from WATERFOWL to Aberdeen
is still in the hands of contractors.
as an accommodation to It's patrons
| the new line Is already hauling car.
load lots into Aberdeen. Grain is
being moved a srapidly as there Is
occasion for IT. Elevators have been
hastily constructed in the stations
from WATERFOWL west at such places
as Florence, Wallace, Cresbard, etc,
and the line has seen to 1t that cars
are provided. At Florence, where
nearly a million bushels of grain were
marketed, cars have been standing
In the sidings ready to transport at
once to the Twin City markets. No
scarcity of fuel is reported in any
of the new Minneapolis &c st. Louis
TOWNS.