The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1908-07-16

Dakota
General
state
News I'm
Paragraphs.

In the campaign for a cleaner Dead
wood, morally as we'll as physically,
Mayor Adams has issued orders TO the
police to close the red light resorts
in the lower part of town and to round
up the occupants and either force
them out of town or give them long
' Jail sentences.
Otto Uhlig, a pioneer OF the Black
Hills, is dead after a brief illness at
the age OF e~ighty-ive years. He was
taken i'll en- his homestead in Butte
county. near Lennon, and died before
n of his family could a him.
His wife is postmistress at Whitewood
and she. with FIVE children, survive.
w. b. Phelps. who for some years
has heen heavily interested in the
Montrose bank, has sold his interest
to Prof. r. ID. Burr. who for the past
two years has been principal OF the
public schools at that place. Prof
Burr will give up his school work n
in future will be actively connected
with the bank.
AS the result of several recent meet
ings an association has been organic
ed in Bookings county for the pur-
pose of purchasing and consolidating
all the farmers telephone lines in
that county. The plan provides that
after the consolidation has been eff
fected the lines will have a common
Headquarters and will be under n
management. The lines Of the associ-
alton will cover the entire county.
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AS a hold-up man the Sioux Indian
is a failure. While Gus Premus was
on his way home from a business trip
TO Webster he was waylaid by two
! Sisseton Sioux Indians, Edward Roy
and Andrew Noble. Premus made his
escape, and. securing the assistance
OF an acquaintance the two gave chase
and captured the dusky-hued hold-up
men. The prisoners were taken to
Webster and turned over to the sher-
iff.
Under an agreement with the gener-
al government the forest rangers in
the Black Hills look after the dead
and down timber on the state school
lands, and dispose of it in the same
manner and under the same regula-
tons as control the disposal of such
timber on the government lands. The
state land department has received a
remittance of 500 as the revenue
months.
Sunday. July 26. has been deter
mined upon as the date for the dedi-
cation of a fine new German Lutheran
church building. which is nearing com
pletion at Bancroft. The ed
iice is one Of the finest of its
kind in that part of the state. The
dedication exercises will be OF a
somewhat elaborate character. A
number Of German Lutheran clergy
men from that part of the state will
be present TO aid in the exercises.
The record which already has been
made by the new creamery which was
placed in operation at White only a
little over a week ago proves that the
institution will become one of the
leading creameries of the state. Dur
ing the first six days that the cream
cry was in operation about two tons
of butter was manufactured and sold
at good prices. The farmers in this
vicinity are giving the creamery loyal
support. The manager of the cream
cry has had years of experience and
is tireless in his efforts to make the
institution an important factor in the
prosperity of the farmers who patron
ize ii.
With the returns from the action of
the July meetings of county commits
sioners yet to be heard from the state
wolf bounty for the past fiscal year is
already overdrawn, and as the July
meetings have always allowed a large
killing of wolf pups in the early sum-
mer, the indications are that the
amount called for will go as high as
ST., 900. with an appropriations of s13,-
600 to meet il. Up to the present the
claims fled have reached $14, 1856, and
holders Of wolf bounty certificates
will be compelled to accept a cut rate
on their claims, whatever the amount
of bounty allowed for this month.
Henry Bremen, who lives on the
outskirts of Canton, claims t be the
champion potato raiser of that part of
the state. In support of the claim he
points out that he has just sold from
a large patch Of potatoes forty bush
els. which brought a price equal to
$270 an acre. This is probably one of
the most valuable crops ever produced
in that vicinity. and the value of the
crop Of a single season will pay for
the land many times over. Bremen
now has replanted the patch from
which he sold the potatoes and ex-
poets to gather a second crop later in
the season. thus adding materially to
the productive value of his land.
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Norbeck & Nicholson have secured
a flowing well at Lacy on the high
prairie Of Stanley county, proving con.
Il al.lr That