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The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1908-12-10
RESERVATION WORK OVER.
Agent viii Resume AIIotments for
Cheyenne indians in the SprIno.

Agent viii Resume AIIotrnents for
Cheyenne indians in the sprino.
The allotting work on Cheyenne
River Indian reservation, has been
closed for the winter, and Allotting
Agent Deets and crew arrived at
Pierre. Mr.. Deets will have an Office
here for the winter while getting the
plats ready on the work done this
year
On account of the approach of win.
ter the geological force to look over
the alleged mineral lands will not at
tempt any work before next spring.
The allotment and irrigation work of
the government is to be brought nm
der civil service, and Mr.. Deets has
been appointed superintendent in the
Northwest, with headquarters in this
city.
The state has sold all the state
building lands lying east Of the Mis-
souri, river. All that were left were
in the counties of Faux, Hyde and
Potter, the Hyde county lands
amounting to 1896 acres, those in
Potter 920 and in Faux 400 acres.
The sale was made to one firm, and
the total Of 1916 acres will bring
about $4,000 to the building fund.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1908-12-10
MUNICIPAL TELEPHONE.
Huron Taking Steps to Have the City
Own Its Local Telephone Exchange.

Own Its Local Telephone Exchange.
At a meeting of the Huron city
council a proposition was offered for
the construction of a telephone ex-
change in Huron. The proposition is
in compliance with the vote taken at
the election last April, when by a ma
jofity of 725 voters Of the city de-
clared in favor Of a municipal tele-
phone exchange system. Since that
time a number of gentlemen have
given much attention TO the Considera-
ton of this question, the result being
the presentation of an ordinance of
the city council for the granting of a
franchise to F. H. ent, G. +. Koepp,
William Waibel, S. F. Malone, j. H.
Human, J. V. Campbell and c. E. Bry-
ant. These gentlemen are in favor of
the city owning its own telephone ex-
change, and in support of the propo-
sition a letter from the Huron Com
mercial club was presented to the
council. The plan is for the grantees
under the franchise to organize a for
nal corporation with a small capital
stock paid in, to construct a telephone
exchange mainly from funds secured
by issuing bonds of the said corpora
ton, to be taken mainly by our w
citizens in small amounts. The equity
and absolute control of the exchange
can then be readily purchased by the
city without the city issuing bonds.
Within a period of five years from the
date of the franchise the city has
the right to purchase, under certain
conditions, the entire plant.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1908-12-10
SHOT DOWN TWO ON STREET.
Wild West Affair at Oldham, South
Dakota,

Another chapter in a local sensa-
ton at Oldham is the holding to the
circuit court of James Mahoney on the
charge of shooting with intent to
kill.
There are two counts in the charge
against the defendant, whose bond
was fixed at $1,000. He is alleged to
have fired upon Peter Olson and
Frank Schmidt, the shooting having
been the result of a disagreement.
One shot struck Olson in the groin.
Schmidt was struck twice in the arm
heal the shoulder. Mahoney was so
close when he fired the shots at
Schmidt that the powder set fire to
and burned Schmidt's coat.
Both men will recover, although Oh
sons wound for a time was consid-
cred dangerous. 1t is said that Ma
honey only that evening purchased the
revolver with which the shooting was
done. The affair occurred on the main
business street of Oldham and created
intense excitement.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1908-12-10
PUSHING TWINE PLANT.
Factory at Sioux Falls Penitentiary
Will Start Operations in January.

Factory at Sioux Falls P~enitentiary
Will Start Operations in January.
1t is announced by T. P. Conner,
superintendent of the work of install,
ing a binder Irvine manufacturing
ylant at the Sioux Falls penitentiary,
that he expects to have the plant in
operation between Jan. 1 and 10. SUI
perintendent Conner further states
that by the next harvesting season
there will be from 500 to 1000 tons
of Irvine ready for the market.
The state board of charities and
corrections has awarded to the Hess
& Rau company Of Mitchell and
WATERFOWL the contract at SO, 600 for
installing the steam connections for
the boiler and engine, the motors and
electric wiring, the shafting and
equipment for the mill and the dust
suction system for the new plant.
The machinery will cost in the neigh
borhood of $4,000. The plant will
be operated by about seventy on
victs. Exclusive of machinery, about
$3.50 has been expended in install
ing the plant.
There will be 100 spinning ma
chimes in the finishing department,
with an aggregate capacity for max
ing 100000 feet of Irvine daily. To
drive the machinery there will be
ave motors of from five to thirty
horse power.
The product Of the new binder Irvine
plant will be marketed exclusively in
South Dakota.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1908-12-10
SOLD THEIR ALFALFA SEED.
Big Price Received for Seed Raised
Near Pierre-A Profitable Crop.

~d
Near Pierre-A Profitable Crop.
Fred Gilbert and Frank Putnam,
two farmers from thenorthyestern
corner of Hughes county, delivered
on board the cars here Saturday after
noon 500 bushels of alaflfa seed,
which they threshed from a little
over fifty acres of alfalfa cut for seed.
The price they received. was close TO
$14 a bushel, going to a seed firu at
Madison, which makes a showing for
agricultural receipts which would put
their land well up above 800 an acre,
If returns are considered as a basis
of purchasing price. These men have
been raising alfalfa for the past eight
years, extending their acreage every
year., and while they have depended
largely on the sale o fthe hay in the
past, this year they looked after the
seed proposition as the main one, and
with yields of ten bushels an acre for
a part of their coap think they have
done well for South Dakota farmers.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1908-12-10
ARSON PLOT is CHARGED.

Charged In the confession OF an al
legged confederate, with the burning
of two barns, considerable hay and
seven horses, 100 miles north of Belle
Fourche, Roger Doe, a young ranch
hand, was captured by the sheriff's
force and brought here for a hearing
He waived justice court proceedings,
and was bound over to the circuit
court in the sum Of $4,000, which he
has been unable to furnish. Accord
ing to the authorities Charles Mont
gomery, when arrested for the crime,
admits that he had helped Doe do the
work as part of a conspiracy to cast
odium On certain ranchers in order
that they might be forced out of the
country.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1908-12-10
LAKE STEAMER
LOST IN STORM
D. M. Clemson, With Crew OF
Twenty-fOur, Given Up for
Lost by Duluth Owners.
ATLANTIC TAKES Toll OF 50
Scores of Lives Are Lost Off the Coast
of Nova Scotia in a Series Of
Disasters.

Duluth, Dec. S.-One week has pass.
ed since the steamer b. NJ. Clemson,
owned by A. b. Wolvin Of Duluth,
passed the 500, bound up from Lorain,
Ohio, on her last trip of the year.
Her owners say that in all probability
she foundered in the terrific storm
that ragged at the lower end Of Lake
Superior early in the week, or is
stranded somewhere on the north
shore. In either event her entire crew
of twenty-four men, including the Off
GERS, must have persisted.
No news of the big boat has been
received since she passed the locks
at the 500. A vessel sighted Friday
in shelter behind Grand Island was
believed to be the Clemson, but II
proved to be the ID. o. Mills, which
arrived in port here Saturday after
noon. The crew of the Mills brought
no news of the missing vessel.
Tugs Sent Out to Search.
Fearing that the Clemson was
wrecked or in serious trouble some
where out of reach Of help on the
bleak north shore of Lake Superior
the Wolvin Steamship company has
started out tugs and small steam yes
sells on a thorough patrol Of the en-
tire north shore from Port Arthur t.
the 500 and from the 500 to Isle Roy
ale. Every passing vessel at the Soc
is being questioned for traces Of the
lost boat, and the search will be con
tined until the Clemson Or her wreck
age is found.
Atlantic Takes Fifty.
Halifax, Dec. 7.-More than half
| hundred seamen have lost their live:
on the upper north Atlantic coast dur
ing the last few days as the result o
a storm Of unprecedented severity.
The reckoning, itemized as accu
rately as the meager reports will al
low, is as follows:
Dec. 8, seventeen members of tn,
| crews of the fishing schooners drown
ed off the Newfoundland coast.
Dec. 4, twenty-eight members of thu
| crew of the steamer 500 City, which
| is believed to have sunk in the Gulf o
st. Lawrence.
Dec. s. seven members of the crew
of Barge No. 101, which went dowI
| off the coast of Nova Scotia.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1908-12-10
CHARlVARISTS ARE COYOTES.
Mrs. NeWIy-Wed Thinks Wolves Ar,
Boisterous Boys and She "Sets En-
Up Handsome"

"'o' NSW'y-"cu lHIHkS wolves are
Boisterous Boys and She "Sets EN-
Up Handsome"
Report comes from northeast of
Miller Of the appearance in the neigh
borhood of some large timber wolves,
the first ones seen there for seve.al
years. Coyotes, or small wolves, are
more plentiful this year than for sew
eral years. 1t is believed that a bill
will be got through the legislature
this winter to offer a larger bounty
for wolves.
A bride from the East just snug
gled down for the winter in the prai-
RE home of her Dakota husband, was
greatly scared by the bowling of
these coyotes. Her husband was deaf
and when they appeared behind a hill
the first night after her arrival and
began their terrible yelling and bark
Ing, which to a person not accustomed
to such noises seems like a dozen
brass bands breaking out, though
there may be only a half dozen
wolves, she supposed it was a sere-
made party and prepared a big feast
of cakes and doughnuts for the
boys" as she called them. They
failed to come any closer. so she
finally set the goodies out in the back
yard so that the serenaders might
help themselves during the night.
The next morning sure enough the
cakes and pies were gone, but when
the same great bowling, with several
recruits adding to the noise, came the
next night, the bride realized the stu
alton and refused to set 'em up my
more.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1908-12-10
Will PROSECUTE
SHELTER TRUST
Governments Right to Protect
Forest Reserves Guides
President in Decision.
BIG SHELTERS MAY Be CLOSED
President Orders Bill in Equity Filed
Against Copper Trusts Ana.
cOnda Plant.

Washington, Dec. s. - President
Roosevelt has decided that the right
Of the government to protect it's W
property gives him sufficient authori-
ty to proceed against the Anaconda
properties of the smelling trust, and
inasmuch as thousands of acres Of
forest reserves are alleged to be in
danger of destruction from the poison
Gus fumes from the smelters he has
the proper officials actively at work
on plans to end the nuisance.
The attorney general had advised
that a bill in equity be filed in the
United States courts in Montana to
this end. The president. after consul
Guiding Solicitor General Hoyt, agreed
that a bill in equity was the best
means presented, Dut he was anxious
that there be a certainty of results
If the bill was filed and the suits be-
gun.
Agent to investigate.
He therefore gave instructions that
an agent of the department of justice
should proceed to the mines and make
a thorough report as to the actual
damage done and whether 1t was like
ly to increase.
This step of the president had the
effect of increasing the alarm Of the
trust people, who expected to dispose
Of the whole matter at a conference
with the president Saturday.
Department officials who talked on
the subject yesterday said that the
case was a very plain n and no
court could fail to sustain a bill in
equity when filed by the department.
1t Is because of the determination
of the government to proceed at once
with its strong hand that the mine
owners and smelters are afraid that
an Injunction would either cause,
! grave and expensive changes In their
ways Of doing business, or restrict
| their output, which would cause a.
loss running up into the millions. Al
big fight is therefore expected when
the bill In equity is filed.
The ability of the trust to fight the
| government is only measured by its
money, which is practically unlimited.
II the smelters are actually closed
down from 10000 to $4,000 men will
be thrown out of work and the output
| of the company immensely decreased.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1908-12-10
GRANTS WATER FRANCHISE.
Watertown Council Passes Ordinance
for Ten Years License.

Perhaps the best franchise from the
consumers standpoint ever granted
by a South Dakota city to a water.
works company became operative in
Watertown last week when the Water
town Water company took over the
effects of the old Watertown Water,
Power and Light company on a ten
years franchise from the city. The
new company is formed of Watertown
men, and it is hoped that water trou-
bles will come to an end.
The new franchise makes a meter
rate of % cents per 1000 gallons and
the company serves notice that all
taps must be furnished with meters.
The city gets its company to keep
a pressure in the mains of fifty
pounds, which is to be increased to
100 and 100 within three minutes
upon the first and second calls of fire,
The water is pumped into the city
from Lake Kampeska, a distance of
four miles, and has been pronounced
by government test to be the purest
with n exception of any city water
in the United States.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1908-12-10
JUDGE MARQUIS r r

Judge Marquis, presiding Judge Of
the Third circuit, has been barred
from hearing the gambling cases of
Curt and George De Graft at Water.
twon, the defendants having filed
through their attorneys afidavits of
prejudice. Judge Joseph w. Jones
of Sioux Falls probably will preside
at the trials. These three cases are
the result of the famous raid OF the
gambling houses of WATERFOWL start.
ed last spring by the ministerial union
of WATERFOWL.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1908-12-10
FIFTY FAMILIES NEEDY.
Forest Fire Victims Who Are in Want
Are Listed.

Duluth, Dec. 8.-Mayor w. A. Ha-
ven of this city, chairman of the re-
lief committee appointed by Gov.
Johnson to succor the unfortunate
In this section who suffered by the
forest fires this year, has a list Of
fifty North Shore families deserving
Of assistance. At first 1t was estimat-
ed that not more than fifteen families
would need assistance, but investiga-
ton has increased the original esti-
mate. Many of the settlers need lum-
Der to rebuild their houses, and 1t is
planned to hurry the necessary build
ing material north as o as posi-
BILE. N. J. Miller is making a tour Of
the north shore, investigating meri-
torious cases, and upon his return
definite advices as to actual needs Of
the fire sufferers will be available.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1908-12-10
Pojsons Self and Child,

Holley Grove, Ark, Dec. 8. Mrs.
Ben Chism and child, an infant, died
at the home of the woman's father
rear here yesterday from the effects
of an overdose of a poisonous drug.
1t is believed that the woman was
temporarily bereft of reason and after
administering the poison to the child
swallowed a quantity herself.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1908-12-10
Oil Tank ExpIodes; Causes Panic

Bayonne, N. j., Dec. 8.-A $4,000
gallon oil tank Of the Standard Oil
company near this town exploded
with a terrific oar and then took fire.
Citizens of Greenyille, a nearby vii
lage, were temporarily panic-stricken.
Police and fire reserves were sen to
the scene and the flames were soon
under control.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1908-12-10
GIZZARD FULL OF GOLD.
Goose's Body Contains Also Several
Rubies.

Had he known in time before he
he killed it, Hans Nelson, a black
smith of Rapid City believes that he
might have had "the goose that laid
the golden egg" Nelson purchased
the bird for a Sunday dinner and
when his wife got busy she found a
gizzard we'll stored with gold dust.
By Planning" the material from the
gizzard she obtained enough "colors"
to partly yay the purchase price of
the goose, besides several rubies,
commonly found in placer ~diggings.
AS the ranch from which the goose
came was twenty miles from any min
ing locality, Nelson is at a loss to
know where the gold dust came from.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1908-12-10
TWO Burned In EXPLOSION.

Elk Point, s. d., Dec. S.-Hanson &
Maher of Beresford opened here Sat
urday a moving picture show in the
Flannery building. The machine did
O work we'll so the audience was
dismissed and a moment later the
machine exploded. Henry Bronson,
the operator, and Billy Reynolds. his
assistant, " ere badly burned about
the face and hands
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1908-12-10
Forty-eight Dervishes Killed.

Rome, Dec. 8.-Dispatches received
here from the Italian governor of
Somaliland state that the dervishes
of Buffalo. The garrison, however,
had been advised in advance and was
fully prepared. The dervishes were
beaten off and forty-eight Of them
were killed.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1908-12-10
Is Crushed to Death,

Freeport, ILL.,, Dec. s.-The first fa-
tality result from Saturday nights
snow occurred south of here early
yesterday, when Upton NORM, a
young Illinois brakeman, living in
Freeport, slipped of the front of a
freight train and was crushed to
death.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1908-12-10
j. p. Morqan BUYS $4,000 Bible.

London, Dec. Sit is learned that
j. Pierpont Morgan was the purchaser
of the King Charles l. copy of the
Cambridge Bible, which was sold on
Thursday last at the disposal sale Of
the library of Lord Amherst of Hack.
ney. The price paid was $4,000.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1908-12-10
Woman Robbed o. 10000 in Jewel

Richmond, Va, Dec. 8.-Mrs. Sue
Williams Buck of this city, on arriv-
ing here Saturday from New York
owe the Atlantic coast line, discover.
ed that during the night she had been
robbed while in a Pullman car Of
over $4,000 worth of jewelry. No
clue.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1908-12-10
Diamond Robbers CAUGHT.

Winnipeg, Dec. 8. = Four men and
n woman, alleged diamond rob-
bers from Chicago, are under arrest
here. They were captured last night
while trying to rob Porte G. Markle,
jewelers..
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1908-12-10

A pillar of flame as he ran and leap
ed in his torture, Palmer Williams,
aged twenty-six years, a negro chauf-
feur of Cleveland, was burned to
death as the result Of a gasoline ev-
plosion.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1908-12-10

William Rowe. aged nineteen years
employed in Baltic shaft house No. 2
at Houghton, Mich, slipped while re-
placing an electric light globe and fall
ing twenty feet was instantly killed,
his neck being broken.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1908-12-10

G. w. Wilkins of Wheeler, with the
aid OF only n man, this year raised
10000 bushels of grain. He sold 5000
bushels OF corn for 4p cents a bushel.
His crop this ear will pay him a
profit Of approximately $4,000.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1908-12-10

A black wolf was "bagged' by r
w. Lumley, who lives on the count,
line northwest of Pierre. The amin
was run down and killed by his pacl
of hounds. The animal Is all blac
except a small white spot on II
breast. and Is a rare animal
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1908-12-10
FIRE CAUSES $4,000 LOSS.
Destroys Hotel and General Store al
White Earth, MINI.

Frazee, Mimi, Dec. 8.-The Leay
hotel, owned by Charles Moore, and
the general store of B.. J. Fairbanks
at White Earth were entirely destroy
ed by fire. The loss will mount to
about $4,000. White Earth is a res
ervation town twenty miles north of
Detroit.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1908-12-10

Eighty-four indictments were re-
turned and four additional arrests
were made at Union City, Tenn, in
connection with the investigation of
the recent outrage of the night bands
of the Reelfoot lake region.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1908-12-10
East Train Is Wrecked.

st. Johns, N. b., Dec. 5-The Ca
ladian Pacific fast train from Hall
TX for Montreal and Boston, was
rocked at a switch one mile east of
re union station here last night. The
assengers were severely shaken up.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1908-12-10
akota Man Commits Suicide

GAINESVILLE. Mimi, Dec. S.-James
Williams, sixty-five years old, at one
ime a prosperous citizen Of Lakota,
Y. D., committed suicide in the Great
Northern depot at Moorhead by TAX.
ing a dose of strychnine.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1908-12-10
MADE SURE OF DEATH.

Prisoner Cut HIS Throat and Then
Clicked Himself With Handkerchief.
After two desperate attempts at
self-destruction a man who gave the
name of Lee and said he was from
Coeman, a town near Sioux Falls, cut
his throat with a pocket knife, and
then, tearing a piece of iron from
his cell in the city Jail at Deadwood,
tied his handkerchief around his neck
with a ~turniquet and choked to death.
Lee was about thirty years old. He
has been put in jail for drunkenness.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1908-12-10
Watchman as Mail Thief.

Yes Moines, Dec. s. - James Page.
~ho has been watchmau q, the Des
Moines pohtofice for thirteen years,
was arrested last night on a charge Of
robbing the mails.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1908-12-10
State News of Interest.
RECORD FOR GOLD OUTPUT.
Black Hills Mines Produced Seven
and One-half Millions Last Year.

The report of State Mine Inspector
Trepeek to Gov. Crawford, showing
the gold output of the state for last
year, places the total amount at a
higher figure than for any previous
year. The total showing, $7,459,S $50.
To this he adds $S5 900 of mica output
from the mines in the southern hills.
maxim ga total of $7,544,S ISL for the
year. The inspector calls attention to
need of legislation to secure more
care in the handling of explosives, AMI
notifications of the law in regard to
safety in hosting apparatus. He
places the total number of men en-
ployed at 1850. This does not in
clude placer miners, prospectors, nor
men enjoyed in development work.
For the year there were sever fatal
and twenty serious accidents among
these workers.
The output of the different mines
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1908-12-10

TO CHIS TITgHC De HUUtH VHV OUVUHC
of the Westinghouse company of $685.
900 Of mica.
Comparative figures 70 ra series of
years shows the output of gold for
tho etoto tn have boan.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1908-10-13
"THE ISLE OF SPICE"
Tonight Big Crowd Going
Don't Miss It.

Tonight at the opera house
the bright, musical, extravaganza
elsie of Spice" will be greeted
by the largest and most fashion
able crowd of the season, the
first days advance sale OF seats
for this attraction being the
largest ever known here. Those
who attend are assured a first
class performance, for the elsie
of Spice" is a pure and whole
some entertainment, consisting
of all that is new and refreshing
in comic opera, and it is entire
ly free from vuigarity or sugges-
tiveness in any form. The music
is tuneful and the costumes are
handsome and attractive, but
withal modest. The production
here will be exactly the same as
is presented in all Of the large
cities from Chicago to the Coast;
it is an opportunity rarely given
to people IN the smaller towns
and you cannot afford to miss it.