The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1908-09-18
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T. E. Cassil, assistant state treas
urer, has resigned to take a position
with the Sioux Falls Savings bank.
Mahlon w. Rickert was killed near
Milesville, Stanley county, by the dirt
roof Of an old log house caving in On
him.
An organized band Of thieves is an
noying the residents of Corsica, Doug
las county. Several business houses
have been raided.
Mrs. John B~reidenbach was instant
ly killed and her husband sustained
severe injuries to his spine in a I'M
away accident at Aberdeen.
Ruth Ellis, a ~six-year-old child from
near Fort Pierre, was brought to the
hospital at Pierre suffering from the
bite of a rattlesnake and is not ex-
pected to live.
The plant Of the Hot Springs Plas.
ter company at Hot Springs was
burned last week. The plant was val
ued at 1920 and the material lost at
$4,000. The origin of the fire is un-
known.
As the result Of being kicked by a
horse, Albert K%ettleson, residing in
the west end of Codington county,
lost an eye. When the eye was re-
moved it was found to be lplit in
two.
Plain clothes detectives in the en-
succeeded in capturing two We'll
known crooks. One is Gone charg-
ed with a Winona silk robbery. The
other is Jap" a notorious pickpocket.
The Smead hotel, the largest hostel
ry in Lead, has just been leased for
one year to John O'Malley of Lead,
and John Fallon of Terry. The new
leases plan to make a number OF
improvements and will reopen he
cafe and run on the European plan.
In a jealous rage. Thelma Campbell
slashed Minnie Henderson, her chum,
with a razor at Lead. 1t required
fifty-two stitches to close the wounds
Of the injured girl. After the assault
the Campbell girl started to leave the
country on foot, but was caught and
put in Jail.
Rev. Thomas J. Woodcock delivered
his farewell sermon Sunday after a
successful pastorate of over nine
years with the Congregational church
at Elk Point. He takes up missionary
work in the Black Hills for three
months. Rev. William /. Beatty of
Top Bar, S. D., is his successor.
An elderly man named Downward,
father of Fred B. Downward, the ORA
per jeweler, hung himself in his sons
barn at Draper. The remains will be
shipped to Marengo, Iowa, for burial.
He was subject to m~elancholia, and
had to give up business pursuits in
his Iowa home on account of the trou-
BILE. He was sixty-two years of age,
and leaves a wife and several grown
children.
Grand larceny is the charge hanging
over the head of G. H. Doggett, who
came to Lead some time 6 from
Sac county, Iowa. Sheriff O. Curry
of Sac county will arrive in the city
shortly with requisition papers from
the governor of Iowa for the young
mans arrest. The accused mans
lawyer believes him to be innocent,
and those who have known him while
in the city say that his actions have
proven him to be anything but Grim
inal.
At a recent meeting of the Sioux
Falls city council a resolution was in
troduced at the request of the Sioux
Falls Retail Liquor Dealers ~associa-
ton providing for the limiting of the
number of saloons in the city. The
resolution provided hat none of the
present saloons be interfered with, but
that when a license expired no new
license should be issued unit. the
number of saloons would be cut down
SO there would be but one saloon to
each 700 inhabitants.
Taxes for the citizens of Deadwood
and around Lawrence county will be
practically the same for 1908 as for
1907. This was determined at the
meeting of the board of county COM
m~issioners when the 1908 tax levies
were made. The total levy, including
the 3-mill state levy, is IA, or one mill
less than that Of 1907. This added
to the city and school levies which
are not yet made, will bring up the
taxes for local citizens to about the
same figure as last year. The school
poll for the county is one dollar, and
the road $3.50. The levy for the gen.
eral fund is 3 mills; for the interest
fund, ~ mills, and for insane fund
IL mills; for the sinking fund, ~