The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1908-12-25

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The house of S. C.. Conrey, -four
miles south of Elk Point, caught fire
from a defective flue and was de
stroyed. The loss is $500, with no in
%surance.
Emerson Eichler, arrested for tho
murder of Henry Bohnsack lear Was
Ia, was bound over to the Meade coun.
ty circuit court in the sum of $4,000.
The coroner's jury pronounced the kill
ing accidental.
One of the largest real estate trans
fers made at Huron of recent date
was contaminated, when Campbell
brothers sold their 1,O00-acre ranch for
$780, 0 to George Edelman, a farmer
who resides northwest of Yale.
Miss Abigail Green, head nurse in
the Watertown general hospital, drop
ped dead last week Just at the close Of
the supper hour. Miss Green was
seemingly in the best of health. Heart
failure was the cause of death.
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Leonard Davis, aged seventy-two, a
veteran Of the War of the Rebellion.
is dead at his home in Sioux Falls.
He had the record Of having been in
thirty-eight engagements. He is sur.
vived by a wife and two daughters.
Chief Hump, the leading chief on the
Cheyenne River reservation, died at
Cherry Creek last week, after an ILL
MSS of several days. Hump was at the
headsof the band who caused the trou.
bic which ended in the Wounded Knee
fight in 1890.
An occasion Of much interest was
the banquet given by the Montana BIZ
BILE class of Huron college to the foot
ball team Of that institution, at which
time 100 or more students were given
a f~ive-course dinner, served by the
young women of the college.
HI state insurance department has
granted authority to do business in
this state to the Reserve Mutual Life
company at indianapolis, Ind. This
department is sending out the blanks
to the companies doing business in the
state for the making out of their re-
ports of business for 1908.
At Canton seven young men were ar
rested and confessed to the burning Of
the Mutual Lumber company's yards
and other property, aggregating a loss
Of 100000. The men are two Hem
stock brothers, two Anderson brothers.
Will True, Joe Dunn, Marvin Stanley
and Charles Weber all residents of
Canton.
Within the next ten days the Chi
cago, Milwaukee & st. Paul railroad
will establish a new train service be-
tween Mitchell and Aberdeen, by the
extension Of the Chicago-Sanborn train
to Mitchell and thence on to Aber-
deem, leaving here about midnight.
This service will give Mitchell four
passenger trains to Chicago a day.
Chief American Horse, a noted Ogal-
lala Sioux chief, died in the Pine Ridge
reservation. Since leaving the war
path in 1868 he had rendered valuable
service to the government in subduing
the Sioux and other hostile tribes.
Two years g the war department
used him to subdue the renegade band
of Utes in Wyoming. He was seven
ty-six years old.
Believing that the ice bed so evenly
covered with snow would last until
spring, many persons at Miller bought
sleighs and sleigh runners when a
warm wind from the Pacific coast de-
stroyed the snow in a day. The creeks
have started running, and the herds
are again rambling on the hills and in
the valleys, the sunshine having start
ed the grass growing.
The members of the X. p. lodge of
Vermillion have purchased a building
and will use 1t for lodge purposes.
The building cost $4,000, and several
hundred dollars will be expended in
improvements. The X. P. lodge has
elected the following officers: c. c..
John Carpenter; v. c., Martin Weeks;
prelate, A. P. Geppert; M. A., Fred
Swedberg; X. r. and S., John Kur-
wink; M. E., c. F. Vincent; represen-
tatives to grand lodge at Pierre, John
e. Hirt and o. o. Lokken.
The Odd Fellows of Madison have
received an official visit from Grand
Master Dana of Armour. In the even
ing the initiatory degree was conferred
upon two candidates. Madison lodge
now numbers over 200 members. It
is n Of the wealthiest lodges in the
state. its rents being in the neighbor-
hood OF 5000 a month from its city
property. At the close of the subor-
dinate work the Rebekahs were in
vited in and entertained by he broth
ers, a supper being served in the din
ing room.