The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1908-02-13

Dakota
General
State
News I'm
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Gov. Crawford has appointed VIII.
lam Born of Presho rs game warden
of Lyman county.
At the meeting Of the Lead school
board Prof. Arson H. Bigelow, for four
years past the superintendent OF pub
lie schools in that city, was chosen for
another term of two years.
Mrs. Frank Roush Of Pierre, wife OF
Chief Train Dispatcher Roush, died at
st. Mary's hospital in Pierre, after a
short illness, from pneumonia. The
remains will be taken to Sloan, Iowa,
for burial.
Cheese poisoned in some unknown
way resulted in the death OF four-year-
old Albert Cottle, o of Nh. and Mrs.
Frank Cottle of Wasta, a small town
on the Northwestern line east OF
Rapid City.
Thomas Brown, widely known in
South Dakota, died at his home In
Pierre. He was a pioneer OF that part
of the state and had been an employee
of the legislative branch OF the state
government several times.
Gov. Crawford has appointed Bart
lett Trip of Yankton, c. G. Sherwood
of Clark and T. S. Everitt of Redfield
delegates to the national convention
to consider the conservation of the
national of the country,
which will meet in Washington May
10 to Is.
Defending himself with his feet
from what his wife termed love taps
cost William Bennett, the Terry shoe
maker, $40 in the justice court at
Deadwood. Mrs. Bennett had her hus-
band arrested on a charge of assault
and battery. His wife said she was
trying to caress him and he kicked
her.
While ~coasting down hill at Hot
Springs with a number of other boys
on a bobsled Carl Hunter, the ten-year-
old son OF William Hunter, was
bounced upon by a dog and his right
ear was seriously bitten and lacerated.
Prompt attention was given the wound
and it is hoped no bad results will
follow.
Evelyn Nesbitt Thaw Peterson" rs
the name that a family of Violin has
bestowed upon the stork's latest gift,
a girl baby. The name of the infant
has been given to the county recorder
for record. The Petersons have been
staunch admirers of Mrs. Thaw and
they propose keeping green the mem
DRY of her fight in her husbands be-
half.
What is said to be the largest flow
of water struck in a well in the vicin-
ity has just been encountered at a
depth of several hundred feet by well
drillers on the ranch of Henry M.
Stearns of Deadwood. Heretofore the
ranch has been dry, but when the
water was tapped and measured off
the flow was found to be 450 gallons
per minute.
Three more conventions have been
secured for Deadwood. Next July the
state medical board will hold its an
nual sessions there, while the state
dental society has also chosen the
same month to meet there. The South
Dakota Bankers association is plan
ming the biggest annual meeting it has
yet held In that city the middle OF
July and hotel reservations have al.
ready been made for the event.
At a meeting of a number Of the
marksmen If Sioux falls it was de.
cided to organize a gun club, which
will be Incorporated under the nam
of the Sioux Falls Shooting club, The
following officers were elected for the
coming year: President, ]. j. Burns;
sc cretary, III. Abbott; treasurer, C. T,
Stapleton. The club starts out with q
good membership, which will be in
creased.
At the meeting OF the board of con
troll OF the state firemen's association
held In Pierre, the full list of officers
selected for the coming year is: Will
lam Kolb, Vermillion, president; Will
lam Moller, Parkston, vice president
j. Spuy, Mitchell, second vice presi
dent; Will Luck, WATERFOWL, treasur
err; Robert Clipsey, Parker, secretary;
| Arthur Farmer, Pierre, corresponding
| secretary. The place of meeting fol
the next annual tournament was fixed
at Pierre for June 16, II. is and 10.
Basketball Is all the craze among
the high schools and other institution!
| of learning in the Black Hills. The
Lead high school has two teams in thu
field, one of boys and the other o
| girls, and a long two months SEIZED
ule has been arranged for each team
They will play teams from the norma
school at Spearfish. the troopers a
Fort Meade, the Indian school. an,
state school of mines at Rapid City
the Chadron (Neb.) high school an,
, others about the Hills.
An incident of The Volunteer o.
ganist" kind occurred at Yankton a
the Episcopal church. The regular OF
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