The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1908-03-05
South.
Dakota
General
State
News In
Paragraphs.

A large crowd of Pierre citizens
gathered at the new Northwestern
passenger station recently to see the
first train pull into that station.
Gov. Crawford has appointed DR..
: Frank S. Howe of Deadwood as a del
, egate to represent the state at the
council of medical education, which
| opens in Chicago on April 13.
The first move in the appeal OF the
: Mrs. Kaufman murder case from
i Sioux Falls has been made by the Ill
ing of the record and bill of excep'
tons with the clerk of the supreme
court.
William B. Holmes, who was arrest
| ed at the st. Hubert hotel in Milbank,
is said to be wanted at Aberdeen,
| Mitchell, Bowdle, Webster and Wau-
bay on a charge of passing worthless
checks.
The report of the bureau of vital
statistics of the state shows that
South Dakota, with a death rate OF
"a per thousand, stands at the head
of any of the states of the Union.
| No other state reports less than II.
Arthur Lee, a pioneer resident OF
| the northern portion of Hyde county,
has been elected sheriff Of Hyde coun-
ty to fill the vacancy caused by the
recent death of s. R. Meigs, the regu-
larly-elected sheriff, who died as the
rac,,lF Df m attach 90 nna,pnnnia
The preliminary examination OF
JOHN Burke and the three squaws
charged with the murder Of MaZoha-
hawste, an Indian, was held at Sisse-
ton before Judge Prindeville and
Burke was bound over to the circuit
court. The three women were dis
charged.
When the trains began operating
across the river at Pierre, the old mail
line by boat to Fort Pierre was cut off.
The local service, which also was done
away with, is to be resumed, two
trains a day carrying it across the riv-
err, one in the morning and one in the
evening.
Matches, which were accidentally
dropped in the hayloft of his barn,
and which are believed to have been
ignited by mice gnawing them, caused
a heavy loss to Christopher Johnson,
a prominent Charles Mix county farm
er. Two valuable horses and a big
barn were burned.
But for the prompt intervention of
the officers George Meeker would
have been dealt summary vengeance
by citizens of Spearfsh. Meeker is
accused by his daughter OF criminal
assault. This is the second daughter
who has accused him of the same Of
Tense in two years.
Frank Ducharme of Belle Fourche,
who was arrested at Sturgis, charged
with shooting with intent to kill. had
a preliminary hearing. He is alleged
to have shot at officers while being ar
rested. Ducharme was bound over to
the next term of the Meade county
circuit court in the sum of 81, 900. He
gave bail.
A monument is to be erected in
memory of John Wahcahunka, a ven
cradle member of the Yankton tribe
of Sioux Indians. who died a few days
ago at the age of eighty-one years.
Members of his tribe have raised a
fund by subscription. The dead In
dian was the leader Of the progressive
element of his tribe.
Four persons were hurt and fatali-
ties narrowly averted as the result Of
a head-on collision near Deadwood be-
tween the Burlington trolley car that
runs between Deadwood and Lead and
a switch engine. The trolley car
rounded a curve as the switch engine
bore down on it. Motorman Stewart
reversed and jumped.
Four hundred dollars an acre for
Stanley county land puffs up the peo-
pie of that county. that price having
just recently been paid for a tract ad-
joining Fort Pierre, which has been
used as a truck farm, and which the
purchaser will continue to use for
truck and fruit. The soil is ~alluvial,
and is shown by digging to reach
down twenty-three feet, which makes
1t practically inexhaustible.
N. B. Switzer of Washington, a gov
eminent Inspector of surveys, is in
Pierre to inspect the survey of the old
Fort Bennett military reservation,
which comprised a strip OF land along
the Missouri from the mouth of the
Cheyenne river to the location Of the
old fort and agency. AS o o as the
survey of this tract Is approved. the
land will be opened to settlement, the
tract containing about a township.
Sturgis has something new in the
club line, known as the do Little
club" and no man who works is eli.
gible to become a member. The mem.
bers claim to have entered into a con.
tract with the authorities of Nevada
to round up the 5000 head of wild
horses now running at large in that
state. They are to receive SO per head
for each horse killed. and in case any
are captured alive the club members
become the wners of the animals.
Vermillion will again entertain the
high school athletes Of the state, who
will hold their annual track and field
meet under the auspices OF the Uniyer.
sity Athletic association Nav 81 and
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