Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1907-02-28
South Dakota
General State News Paralraphed.

bate to represent Yankton college in
debate with Brookings college in April.
The members of the Estelline Ma
sonic lodge have just purchased a de-
sirable tract of ground upon which 1T
is proposed to erect a fine Masonic
temple.
NJ H. Ryan of Bridgewater has
bought what is known as the Gage
farm" consisting of 153 acres, adjoin-
ing the town site, for $4,000, the high
est price for which land has sold in
that locality.
A way freight train on the Chicago
& Northwestern went through a
bridge near Canning. Engineer Frank
Booth was killed and Fireman Nc
Nabb was found in the cab in fifteen
feet of water.
A. H. Seymour, county superintend-
ent of schools of Kingsbury county,
has secured from Senator Kittredge
soc packages Of garden seeds, which
will be used in an agricultural contest
among the school children of the
county.
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Harry H. CAN'T, son of DR.. Gantz of
Deadwood, has just received notice
that he has been appointed an alter
nate for admission to West Point mill
orpoiptr,opt
comes through Congressman Martin
of DeadWood.
AS the result of getting his hand
into the gearing of a corn shelter,
Frank Baker of Monroe, lost two fing-
ers and part of his hand. The bal.
ance Of the hand was also badly
bruised, but it is thought it will not
have to be amputated.
Isaac Plat, one of the we'll known
old residents, died at his home three
miles west of Rapid City, from heart
failure. Death came very suddenly as
he sat in the kitchen after a short
walk. talking to his wife. Mr.. Plat
leaves a wife and several children.
John Kane, who was shot by Law.
renee Roche Feb. 1 at Marvin, and who
was not expected to live, is recovering.
The bullet passed through tho thigh
bone, fracturing it, and in it's upward
course struck the pelvis, passing down
and underneath the bladder and lodg-
ing in the middle sacrum. The wound
is similar to the Mckinley wound.
Without the least warning Martin
Phalen of Deadwood went violently in.
sane, and a hard struggle ensued to
prevent him from doing himself injury
His hallucination is that he is pursued
by an army of men who, when he
turns upon them, melt into thin air.
Phalen's entire family, consisting of a
wife and five children, have been con,
fined for the past five weeks at the
detention hospital suffering from
smallpox.
A test of seed corn at Miller by Geo.
Jeffrey develops the important fact
that only about one grain in a thou
sand will terminate The trouble is
because Of late warm weather and
rains, which left the corn full of
moisture when the frost came, al.
though the ears appeared to be ripe
and the yield was good. Others report
similar success in testing. Corn of the
previous years raising will be in de-
mand for planting.
License was granted by the city
council at Huron to F. L. Holbrook, to
operate bar in connection with the
Hotel Royal, which will be opened to
the public about the first of March.
Numerous signed petitions protesting
against issuance of another license
were presented to the council and
backed by several strong speeches, but
when the matter was put to vote the
council voted unanimously in favor OF
the application.
One phase of the Pierre council row
was settled in justice court when JUS
| tice McCord held that Chief of Police
Oldfield was acting within his rights
when he, on order of the mayor, drew
Aid. Billinghurst from his chair and
pushed him back into the crowd. The
alderman swore out warrant charg-
ing assault on the part of both the
mayor and chief, and the hearing on
the charge against Oldfeld was the
first to be brought to trial, resulting in
acquittal.
| Walter Miller of Deadwood was
| compelled to slaughter twenty chick
| ems in order to recover two valuable
/ diamonds which he had lost in his
chicken yard. He madea thorough
search Of the yard without finding the
stones. 1t occurred that one of the
chickens might have swallowed them
Accordingly, he began slaughtering
the fowls in search. He finally discov.
cred, in sthe crop Of the twentieth
chicken he killed, which was an old
hen, both of the jewels.
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A class scrap at the top Of the col
4 1ege clock tower was pulled off al