The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1908-04-03
South Dakota
General State News PArasraphsd.

The state treasury has made anoth
err call for state general fund war
rants, asking for SIS, 900 of them OF
March %.
An immigrant car, while standing
on the track at Beresford, was broken
into and from $50 to 500 worth O.!
property stolen.
James Calder's general store at Wa
about $500: insurance. about $4,000
Mr.. Calder expects to rebuild at one
Nels Thompson. an employe of II. A
Schumacher in the Milwaukee rail
road yards in Elk Point, was accident
ally shot by Fred Lfnch while the lat
ter was shooting rabbits.
The calendar for the April term OF
the supreme court contains the
Kaufman case from Sioux Falls. Mrs
Kaufman, the wife OF a wealthy brew
er, is charged with the murder of d
servant.
Articles Of incorporation have been
filed for the Meadow State bank at
Meadow, a new town in the eastern
part of Butte county, south of Lem.
mon, The bank is capitalized at So
goo. and the incOrpOrators are G.. E
Lennon. F. A. Finch. F. A. Leverett
of Lennon and C. A. Bennett OF
Meadow.
The efforts Of the Mitchell CONNER.
cial club, which have been directed
for several years along the line Of Sc,
curing recognition of Mitchell as a
jobbing center. at last have been re,
warded by the Chicago, Milwaukee &
St. Paul Railroad company, which has
just given a REIMBURSEMENT OF the pre-.
vailing rates into that city.
Fire which completely destroyed the
building and stock of F. Haight & Co.
threatened the entire village Of Flor,
ence for a couple of hours. The town
has no fire protection, but every able
bodied man in the place joined a buck
ct brigade and kept a food Of water
pouring over the surrounding blocks,
abandoning the doomed building to
its fate.
The lumber wholesalers and manu-
facturers of the Black Hills district
had a meeting at Rapid City to per
feet an organization. About twenty
five of the leading lumbermen OF the
Hills were present. II. w. Hlnrlcha
of the Lambert inrichs Lumber Com
pany of Rapid City, was chosen presi'
dent of the organization, and F. II.
Bugg Of Deadwood, secretary.
Amid great excitement, Wash
Hughes. the we'll digger, was rescued
from the bottom OF a forty-two-1oot
well at SEearfish. where he had been
working during a cavern. Hughes was
only bruised, although he had been
all night under a ton Of rock and
earth. Hughes cannot explain how he
escaped ~suffocation, but says he re,
members fainting several times.
The government will on the 2Sth OF
April open bids for the leasing OF
over a million acres Of Sioux indian
lands for pasturage purposes, the
leases to be let on pastures numbered
:. 6. 7 and s. on the Cheyenne River
reservation. These pastures run from
214.OOO acres up to 81 900 acres IN
size, and would be looked upon as
rather large sized to the average East
ern farmer with his ten-acre pasture
lot.
Following a conference between
officials of the Croach and Milwau
kee lines at Rapid City. the two rail
roads have agreed to use a separate
station and have it's own station
agent. Heretofore the business Of
both roads has been transacted by one
set of men at the Milwaukee offices
C. n. Laws was made station agent
| for the Milwaukee here and V. E
| Crouch was appointed to a simila- pc
| sition for the Crouch road.
Farmers are making preparations
| for an aggressive season Of farming
this year, and spring work will oper
| I'D under more favorable circum
| stances this year than last, wher
warm weather did not set in until the
| latter part of May. There is plenty o.
| moisture in the ground at this time
to insure a speedy growth Of the
grains. Tor the SLOW that has faller
during the first three months ha:
| amounted t. more than three inches
| of moisture.
J. H. Close, president. and l.. F
| Drake, secretary of the recently or
gained County Option League OF Au
| rora county, in accordance with actor
taken at a recent meeting of the mem
bers of the league. have offered
| standing reward Of $50 to any one fur
| nishing evidence that will lead to TIL
arrest and conviction of any person
| or pereons in Aurora county who vic
| late the laws of the state regulatin:
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