The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1908-01-09
South Dakota
General State News PasASsADhsd.

horse from Judge Carroll, for whom
he had worked for several years. John
Kuser has been arrested at Miller.
William Lutz Is under arrest at
Yankton charged with threatening to
kill F.. l.. Van Tassel, a prominent
citizen and manager Of the Excelsior
Roller mills.
The supreme court has declared
void the provisions Of the state pure
food law requiring patent medicines
to bear the formula telling the compo-
| sition Of the medicines.
The state treasury has called In
state general fund warrants to the
amount of $305,000. With these war
rants taken up, there are yet outstand-
ing approximately 100000 Of such
warrants.
A bomb made of a piece OF gaspipe
filed with powder and plugged was
exploded under a window Of a hall in
East Pierre where a private dancing
party was in progress. No trace OF
the perpetrators OF the outrage has
been secured.
Articles OF Incorporation have been
| filed for the West Beadle County
Farmers Telephone company, with
headquarters at Washington, and a
capital of $4,000; incorporators. d.
Boyle, M. A. Nichols, ]. L. Walker. r.
Diekoff and others.
William Jarman, living south OF Will
mot, committed suicide. He left home
Saturday evening. One of the children
said they we're going to hang papa.
This aroused suspicion. His body was
found Sunday In an old house two
miles away. He was so years old. Do
nestle troubles were the cause. He
al an old settler and prosperous.
A room at the federal building in
Pierre is being fitted up for headquar-
tiers for a permanent postal inspector
who will be located there. Inspector
Mullen will be there in a few days
and get located in his new quarters,
he having been working Western and
Central South Dakota in the past from
Sioux Falls, but will work from Pierre
in the future.
City officials of Deadwood have
started housekeeping among the
tough element of the city and have
commenced by raiding a number of
the notorious "dope" fiends. Tom
Kelley, who is alleged to hold a Grim.
inal record as a thief, was run out Of
town and other characters who have
unsavory regulations have been order
ed to leave town at once.
Driven by a high wind a prairie fire
that brought out volunteer firemen
from every ranch for miles around,
swept across a stretch of dry ground
over a mile wide and fourteen in
length ear Hermosa before it could
be extinguished. The flames destroy.
ed a quantity of hay but the work Of
the ranchers prevented the burning of
their homes and buildings.
An action for damages in the sum Of
$4,000 has been commenced against
the Omaha road by William G. McCon-
nell of Sioux Falls, who a few months
ago while engaged in his duties as
yardmaster for the Omaha company
in that city, was run down by a
switch engine and lost one Of his legs.
The defendant in the action is the
Omaha Railroad company.
DR.. A. M. Giff1n OF Rapid City has
just been notified that he has been ap.
pointed district surgeon for the Chica'
go & North-W Western railroad with
headquarters at Rapid City. DR.. Gifin
has for some time past been the local
surgeon for the company, but will now
have charge Of the territory between
Deadwood and Philip, $50 miles In
length, and taking in the whole of the
North-Western's trackage in the Black
Hills.
A. X. Gardner, solicitor for the Chi
! cago & North Western at Huron, has
filed with the clerk Of courts fol
Beadle county papers in condemnation
proceedings for land on the east side
OF the Jim river. The proceedings are
brought against about seventy acres
Of land lying east Of the river and
south Of the main line, the company
having already gained possession Of
100 acres around this se~venty-acre
tract.
Charging that John Dayton, a neigh
Dor, had taken three deliberate shots
at him, Hiram Burch, a prospector liv
ing at Nahant, had the former arrest
ed. When hailed into court Dayton
denied the accusation and as there
were not witnesses to the affair, HI
was released. Now Dayton Is seeking
the arrest Of Burch on several charge.
and alleges that Burch and his part
ners are trying to send Dayton to tn,
insane aslum to secure some valuabl,
mining ground he owns.
While butchering pigs for marke
on his ranch Just below Belle Fourche
j. H. widdoss discovered a freak SOW