Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1907-10-31
South Dakota
Gsa.ral State News paraa raphsd.

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Word was received at Sturgis that
the nineteen-year-old son Of Mr.. and
Mrs. Snyder Of Dalzell, Meade county,
was thrown from horse and killed.
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Mrs. Ingebor Opstedahl is dead at
the home Of her stapson, Ole Opste-
dahl. at Garretson. She was eighty
six years old, and death was due to
old age.
A little girl, aged three years, and
a little boy. aged nineteen months,
were burned to death six and one-half
miles northeast of Mitchell, at the
camp of the Iowa bridge.
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Beadle county won eighth premium
for corn in the South Dakota exhibit
The prize was won by I. B. Parkhurst,
residing few miles south of Huron.
At the cement works at Yankton,
Jacob We1k was caught in a rope on
car puller and before the machinery
could be stopped he had received
fractured arm below the elbow and a
broken rib. He is doing nicely.
Judge 3. G.. Smith Of Yankton over
ruled the motion for new trial in
the famous Kaufman murder case.
An appeal from his decision will at
once be taken. Mrs. Kaufman was
found guilty of killing her maidserv
ant, Agnes Polreis.
Richard Goddard, who lives near
Pringle, was arrestec last week for
killing and putting to his own use
two-year-old steer belonging to Geo.
Brady. At his trial he entered plea
Of guilty and was sentenced to the
penitentiary for eight months
Charged with shooting trout with
rifle in Bear Butte creek, Fred
Borsch, a we'll known resident Of Gal
ena, was arrested by Game Warden
Hall. Under the new law infraction
Of the game law in this manner is
punishable with a fine of $500 and i'm
prisonment for ninety days.
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The latest South Dakota town to
place ban upon gambling in the
form of the operation OF slot machines
is the town of Humboldt, near Sioux
Falls. Numerous complaints recently
made to the town board in reference
to the demoralizing influences Of the
machines caused the order for the.
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A fine new Swedish Lutheran
church was dedicated at Carthage. "A
number of clergymen from the; South
eastern South Dakota district were
present The dedication sermon was
preached by Rev. A. NJ. Broteen OF
Centerville in the Swedish language.
while Rev. G. e. Nelson Of Alcester
preached in Tnglish.
E. T.. Wooley, one Of the early day
survivors of the Black Hills, is dead at
Deadwood. Something over twenty
years ago Mr.. Wooley went there
from Nebraska and was later. employ
ed as one of the head surveyors and
civil engineers by the Burlington
road in the Hills. He was sixty years
old and. leaves one daughter. Mrs.
Eric Anderson of Casper, Wyo.
While some workmen who were
employed at the county poor farm at
Sisseton were warming some coffee
in an old tin pail with tight cover on
the stove in the kitchen of the house
occupied by Sam Wolff, the superin-
tendent, the pail exploded, and Mrs.
Wolff, the wife of the superintendent,
was frightfully burned about the face
with the hot coffee, and it is feared
she will lose the sight of one eye.
A Bohemian settlement in Eastern
Nebraska is making plans to dispose
Of it's lands in that section and buy
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has just closed the deal for 1,16O acres
northeast and southwest Of Mitchell.
They paid 100000 for their land.
which ranged In price from $40 to s62
per acre. The Bohemians have dis
posed OF their land IN NEBRASKA TOrs
$11O an acre and will take up their
residences In newer country.
Ranchers in the Battle creek valley
report remarkable success in their
tests of sugar beet raising this year
and this is likely to prove one or the
leading agricultural products of this
section. Several shipments were
made to Eastern factories, and al
though the figures have not yet been
made public, it is stated that the per-
centage of sugar contained in the To-
cal beets and the tonnage per acre is
larger in that valley than In any other
section of the West. Only a few
ranchers tried beet raising this sum.
mer, but many have declared their in
tention Of branching into this line
next year. This, with melons, makes
the second new crop Of excellence
that these farmers have discovered
during the summer.
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