The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1908-10-09

Dakota
General
State
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Arthur Brekke, a six-year-old boy OF
Willow Lakes, was kicked In the
stomach by a horse, and died OF his
injuries.
A burglar succeeded in entering the
Leonard hardware store at Estelline
through a rear window and escaping
with two good revolvers and some
knives and razors.
The little ~two-year-old son Of VIII.
lam Coon Of Estelline recently backed
up and sat down in a pail OF scaldins
water that his mother had just pre-
pared for %scrubbing the floor. The lit.
tie fellow lived about six days.
Inspector J. T. Boylan of the post.
office department is at Dallas prepar.
ing postal facilities for the great rush
of business which he anticipates dur.
ing the opening Of the government
lands in Trip county, drawings for
which will take place Oct. S to II.
Articles OF incorporation have been
filed for the Dakota & Western Rail.
way company at Rapid City, with a
capital of 500, 900. 1t is proposed to
construct a road from Rapid City to
Hill City, a distance of twenty miles,
with a provision for an extension into
Wyoming.
The eleven-year-old daughter OF A.
E. Chapman, living twenty miles south
of Fort Pierre, was dragged to death,
after having been thrown from a pony
and catching her foot in the stirrup.
The child was terribly bruised by the
dragging and kicking, and was dead
when the pony was caught.
Murdo and LIE Beau are among the
newer towns of the state which are
feeling their opportunities to be in
creasing, and have both recently
voted to cut loose from the village
class and incorporate under city char
ters, which give them greater powers
in the way of local improvement.
The annual meeting Of Gold Broth
ers' Brick company was held at Big
Stone, and it was voted to build two
more kilns and remodel the drying
sheds. This will increase the capacity
Of the plant to 2,500,0 900 brick. Farm
ers who raised sweet corn for the can
merry made from SIG to $35 an acre.
Officers left Sioux Falls for Cotton,
a small town On the South Dakota
Central railroad, northwest of Sioux
Falls, t take the trail Of yeggmen
who robbed the Cotton Savings bank,
afterwards making their escape in an
automobile. The cracksmen dyna-
mited the safe and demolished it, but
secured less than 81, OC0 in money.
The second annual gas belt exposi-
ton closed at Pierre with the attend
ance very satisfactory to the manage
ment. The last day was somewhat
marred by a drizzling rain which fell
most of the day, the first fall of mois-
ture for over a month. While it made
things disagreeable for the crowd the
rain was so welcome there was ne
complaining.
Lightning played a queer freak at
the home of J. U. Poppen, near Estel-
line. The chimney was struck, and a
part of it was literally blown out in
each room of the house to the cellar,
filling the DON with debris. Anoth-
er bolt, a few seconds later, struck the
the water spouts and the telephone
wires. No II vas injured
While the September examinations
for teachers licensed nearly a thou
sand new teachers. some of the
ties are yet reporting a shortage. Ly-
man county, on account of it's increase
In population, has formed many new
| school districts, and is among the
| counties where there is a demand for
! school teachers to preside over their
| country schools.
Inc TdlScIS VI WlACcI WucdI VI IAO
! country west of the river are report
Ing yields from twenty-five to twenty
seven bushels tt the acre. and are get
ting a good return for their crops, an
all are selling what surplus they have
at their farms at a dollar a bushel for
seed. Through their experiments they
have shown that such wheat can be
successfully grown in the state, and
a large acreage is being sown this
fall.
Reports from several sections of
Butte county indicate the prevalence
of anthrax in some Of their herds, and
the state and federal authorities are
| being called upon to stamp out The
! disease. The situation in the extreme
, southeastern counties of he state a
reached a point where the quarantine
! nlaced on account of this disease has
been raised, and now the northwest
- ~,,% &c tho cfofn hac the DI1Dll0