Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1908-07-16
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| WOOD, InOldlly DIS We'll as plySlCdily,
| Mayor Adams has issued orders to the
police to close the fred light resorts
in the lower part of town and to round
/ up the occupants and either force
them out of town or give them long
! Jail sentences.
Otto Uhlig, pioneer of the Black
Hills, is dead after a brief illness at
the age of eighty-five years. He was
| taken i'll on his homestead in Butte
i county, near Lennon, and died before
any of his family could reach him.
His wife is postmistress at Whitewood
and she, with five children, survive
| w. B. Phelps, who for some years
has been heavily interested in the
| Montrose bank has sold his interest
| to Prof. r.. D. Burr, who for the past
two years has been principal of the
| public schools at that place. Prof.
Burr will give UP his school work and
| in future will be actively connected
with the bank
| AS the result of several recent meet
ings an association has been organic
ed in Brookings county for the pur-
pose of purchasing and consolidating
all the farmers telephone lines in
that county The plan provides that
after the consolidation has been eff
fected the lines will have common
headquarters and will be under one
management. The lines Of the associ-
alton will cover the entire county
AS a hold-up. man the Sioux indian
is failure. While Gus Prenus was
on his way home from a business trip
to Webster he was waylaid by two
Sisseton Sioux Indians, Edward Roy
and Andrew Noble. Premus made his
escape, and, securing the assistance
of an acquaintance the two gave chase
and captured the dusky-hued hold-up
men, The prisoners were taken to
Webster and turned over to- the sher-
| if.
Under an agreement with the gener-
al government the forest rangers in
the Black Hills look after the dead
and down timber on the state, school
lands, and dispose of it in the same
! manner and under the same regula-
tons as control the, disposal of such
timber on the government lands. The.
state land department has received a
remittance of s100 as the, revenue
from one section for the past six
months.
Sunday, July rs, has been deter
mined upon as the date for the dedi-
cation of a fine new German Lutheran
church building, which is nearing com
pletion at Bancroft. The ed
lfice is one Of the finest Of it's
kind in that part of the state. The,
dedication exercises will be, Of a
somewhat elaborate character. A
number of German Lutheran clergy
men from that part of the state, wira
be present to aid in the exercises.
The record which already has been
made by the new creamery which was
placed in operation at White only
little over week ago proves that the
institution will become one of the
leading creameries of the state. Oar
ing the first six days that the cream
cry was in operation about two tons
of butter was manufactured and sold
at good prices. The farmers in this
vicinity are giving the creamery loyal
support. The manager of the cream
cry has had years of experience and
is tireless in his efforts to make the
Institution an important factor in the
prosperity of the farmers who patron
ize it.
With the returns from the action Of
the July meetings of county commits
sloners yet to be heard from the state
wolf bounty for the past fiscal year is
already overdraWn. and as the July
meetings have always allowed a large
number of claims, on account Of the
killing of wolf pups in the early sum
mer, the indications are that the
amount called for will go as high as
$4,000, with an appropriation of 3d.
900 to meet it. Up to the present the
claims filed have reached $14,356, and
holders Of wolf bounty certificates
will be compelled to accept.a cut rate
on their claims, whatever the amount
of bounty allowed for this month.
Henry Bremen who lives on the
outskirts of Canton, claims to be the
champion potato raiser of that part Of
the state In support of the claim he
points out that he has just sold from
large patch of potatoes forty bush
els, which brought a price equal to
$270 an acre. This is probably one Of
the most valuable crops ever produced
in that vicinity, and the value Of the
crop Of a single season will pay for
the land many times over Bremen
now has replanted the patch from
which he sold the potatoes and ex-
poets to gather second crop later in
the season, thus adding materially to
the productive value of his land
Norbeclk & Nicholson have secured
q lowing well at Lacy on the high