The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1908-03-12
South Dakota
General State News Parasraphsl.


A barn On the j. B. Hughes proper.
ty near Huron was destroyed by fire,
resulting in damages to the amount Of
$500.
On complaint of Ernest Carlson,
Sheriff Bangs placed Fred Richard
son, a contractor, in the county Jail at
Rapid City to face a charge of forgery.
Albert Bailey, aged fourteen, of HUI
ron, by order of Judge A. A. Chamber
lain, was sent to the reform school at
Plankinton, on complaint of his father
that he was incorrigible.
The February weddings in Yankton
county numbered eighteen, beating
the record for n one month since the
vital statistics department was added
to the clerk of courts office,
Articles OF incorporation have been
filed for the Central State Bank at
Hayti, with a capital of $1,000; incor-
porators: II. H. Curtis, Bert Morgan,
C~astlewood; A. e. Cole, ID. III. Sour,
Vienna; p. Shilsta, Dolph.
G. F. Woodmansee of Pierre, as spe-,
cial deputy, accompanied by a number
of other members Of the /. o. o. F.
lodge at Pierre, went out to Philip
where they assisted in the installation
Of a lodge Of the order at that town.
Frank Janish, a farmer ear Huron,
while driving home, was thrown from
his wagon and seriously injured. His
scalp was torn loose in several places
and he was f~earfully cut and bruised
about the face. His injuries, though
very painful, will rot prove fatal.
(:
A telegram was received from
washington that a bill appropriating
$4,000 for a public building at HUI.
ron had passed the senate. This is
indeed gratifying news to the people
of that city, who have been waiting
for several years for the appropria-
ton.
If the plans OF many of the residents
Of the western part OF Lyman county
materialize, South Dakota will have a
new county named Jones. A number
of the representative citizens of west
err Lyman county have just held a
meeting and decided to push the
movement for division.
Ii is reported that shipments of sup
plies for the different government sta
tons on Cheyenne River reservation
are to be made to lie Beau n the
Minneapolis & st. Louis road. A
~warehcuse to be constructed on the
west bank of the river, and the sup
plies to be hauled to the different sta
tons from that point.
=:
II. Marion, who lives on the island
between Pierre and Fort Pierre. at
tempted to drive across the river on
the ice recently. and lost n horse
! and his wagon under the ice. He had
a narrow escape from going down
WIFI Tie Olllt hlilsCiis DuN ihoioSNu
to get free and get out n of his
horses, but could do nothing to save
the rest Of the outfit.
Fighting for his life with a hammer
against q vicious bull, George Moon, a
well known farmer near Yankton,
| drove off the brute, but Is in a terri
BILE condition. Several ribs are brok-
en-: also his collar bone. He received
internal injuries and his body is fear
fully bruised where the animal crush
ed his victime against the barn wall,
where the struggle took place. The
bull then attacked a fine COW and soon
killed it. 1t is thought Moon will re.
cover.
Langford is putting or many metro
! politan airs, the latest being the in.
| stalling of a street lighting plant by
the town council. Many new cement
sidewalks have been built during the
| past yea and this work will be ex.
tended throughout the business and
! residence districts during the coming
season. The business men now are
| agitating the matter of organizing a
Boosters club" for the purpose of
pushing the interests of Langford to
| the utmost. One of the proposed i'm.
provements is the removal of all tel.
| ephone and other poles from the main
| street to the alleys.
The Mitchell Illuminating and Pow.
| err company is arranging to take owe
| the business of the Mitchell Gas com.
pany, which has been in the hands OF
a receiver for the past six or eight
months, precipitated at the time that
| G.. c. King, the Scotland banker, was
| placed under arrest. A company Of
local capitalists have bought the
| plant and will convert it from a sec.
ondary thing into a first-class institu
| ton, giving a Neutrality-suspicious. service
and establishing new machinery
| throughout at a large outlay of ex'
perse. The gas plant also will be re
moved TO the same location OF the
electric light plant and converted into
a coal gas plant. The twenty-four-
hour service will be started about
April /.
Mayor Reedy has startled the Yank.
ton council by s%pringing a statement