The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1908-05-28

Dakota
General
state
News I'm
Paragraph.


The capitol commission. at a meet
ing at Pierre, formally fixed Thursday
June %, as the date for the laying OF
the cornerstone Of the building.
AS a result of being literally scalped
and otherwise injured. Albert Gallup
a farmer of Worthing. died in a Sioux
Falls hospital. The farmer received
his injuries while his horses were
running away.
After being out fiftytwo hours the
Jury in the Mary Harbour murder
case at Rapid City returned with a
report that no agreement was posi-
BILE, and was discharged. The final
vote stood ten for conviction and
two for acquittai. Mrs. Harbour was
tried for killing her foster daughter,
Rose Adams.
Whether Lead shall issue $50 600
worth Of bonds for the erection of new
school buildings and the repairing OF
old ones will be determined at a spe.
cial election to be held there on June
10. Lead schools are at present great.
ly crowded and not in the best of con.
dition. Public sentiment seems to be
greatly in favor of the expenditure.
During a forty-mile gale fire broke
out in the A. l.. Van Osdel store at
Mission Hill and the store and con.
tents, together with the bank building
adjoining, were completely destroyed.
Van Osdel's loss on store and stock is
500, 900. The Yankton fire department
was called out and the balance OF
the town saved after a determined
fight.
School officers In the western part
of the state fear there will be a great
err scarcity of teachers for the COM
Ing year than for the school year that
now Is drawing to a close. Many
graded school teachers are not apply
ing for their old positions and school
boards in the towns and cities are
having difficulty in filling the vacan
cies thus created.
Supt Clyde Stone of the Huron city
schools some time since inaugurated
a fire drill. which has reached a per-
lection eminently satisfactory. An ex-
hibition drill was given recently, with
these results: The high school, with
PSI pupils, was emptied in So seconds;
Utah street school, 233 pupils, in AZ
seconds; Illinois street school, zoe
pupils, in GO seconds.
The small reservation which was
held out at Fort Bennett when the
country between White and Cheyenne
rivers was opened to settlement, has
been opened to filings, and the first
day was practically all taken by resi-
tents who have been squatters on the
lands for many years. What is left
they selected their locations
does not amount to much, being rough
and not worth filing upon at present.
Attorneys have been engaged by the
owners of the proposed site for the
new federal building at Lead to push
the condemnation proceedings before
the May term of the United States
court, which will convene in Dead
wood late this month. Although the
price fixed by the government for the
Fish & Hunter company site was $21,-
900, the owners expect to be able to
obtain an even higher figure from the
jury of appraisers.
In circuit court at Pierre Norman
Thorne entered a plea of guilty to a
charge of larceny and was given a
sentence of one year in the peniten-
tiary. Norman was accused Of steal
ing a typewriter from a law Office in
Pierre. and the machine was found in
the Northwestern baggage room to
be shipped on order, and later was
sent TO Van Metre, an officer going on
the train and securing the man who
claimed it when it reached that place.
Hope lodge, No. SO, A. o. U. w, of
Lead, which won the banner offered
as a prize for the largest numbers In
the contest which closed April 1, re-
ceived the prize last week. Grand
Master T. E, Simmons OF Huron pre-
scented the banner, and while in the
Black Hills visited lodges at Rapid
City, Deadwood and other places.
Judge Simmons says the A. o. u. w.
order In that portion OF the state is
exceptionally strong and is rapidly in
.creasing in membership.
w. II. Conrad, on his farm in Dry
Run township, Hughes county, last
fall sowed twenty acres to winter
wheat, and the field is reported by
those who have seen it to have come
through the winter I'm the best of
shape and to show as good indications
of a crop for this year as does any
winter wheat in Nebraska, where
that variety is given more attention
than is spring wheat. If this field
proves a success, the winter wheat
acreage in that part Of South Dakota
will be extended, and take up a large
part of the acreage heretofore devot-
ed entirely to the spring crop.
One settler near Philip is making a
start toward an orchard for that part
of the state, having this spring set
out 1000 apple trees. A big orchard
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