The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1908-12-03

Dakota
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State
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circuit, to succeed Judge Whltlng, eie-
waited 10 the supreme bench.
Jess Winters Of Watertown was in
stantly killed while hunting. In
throwing his gun into a buggy it was
discharged, the load entering his tenn.
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The Sioux Falls w. c. T. U. having
recently conducted a crusade which
resulted in the removal of slot ma
chimes from all business houses, now
has taken up the matter of having en-
forced the state statute prohibiting
the sale of cigarettes and tobacco to
minors.
Mrs. Mary Harbour, foster mother
of Rose Rosso, killed March G., 1908,
was convicted of manslaughter in the
second degree at Rapid City, and was
sentenced to three years and eleven
months by Judge Rice of the Eighth
judicial district. There will probably
be q new trial.
Arrangements are being perfected
for a tri-state meeting in Sioux Falls
of Odd Fellows of the Northwest. The
meeting will be held on Dec. s and
will be attended by representatives of
the Odd Fellows lodges of South Da-
kota, Northwestern Iowa and South
western Minnesota.
In Lyman county contests are to be
started against the sheriff and county
superintendent-elect, the former a Re-
publican and the latter a Democrat.
The grounds given for the contests
are irregularity in making returns to
the county auditor on the part of
township election officials.
A big prairie fire near Crow Creek
agency, southwest of Miller, burned
a strip four miles wide and ten miles
long. 1t created a stampede among
the Indians, who lost hundreds of tons
of hay, feed and houses and barns.
The fire threatened the agency build
ings at times, but was fought back.
A f1oater found near Kemp avenu
bridge in Sioux river at Watertown
was identified as the body of Ed Con.
ley, Fountain, Mimi, thought to have
been dead a week. The coroner will
hold a post mortem examination to
Hptprminn tho nattSn nf Inath Tho
police are trying to get word to the
relatives.
Letters he wrote to Sheriff Trathen,
declaring that he was losing his mind
and describing many of his wierd
visions and fantasies, caused William
Corkhill, a twenty-three-year-old Gen.
trail City boy, to be declared insane
and ordered sent to Yankton. Grief
over the death of his mother is be-
lieved to have unhinged his reason
until he imagined that he was rein
carnated.
In the October examination of
teachers there were 1,195 applicants
for certificates, and of these 853 were
granted authority to teach and 342
were rejected. These new teachers
with the successful ones at the ex-
aminations earlier in the year will
give he state q better supply of teach
ers than for many years, and there
Mould be no great trouble in filling
the schools.
A stock company is being organized
at Yankton with $25, 900 capital to
publish a new German paper to be
called the Neue" Freie Presse. A
number of well-to-do Yankton Ger
mans are back of the movement. It
is proposed to issue the initial num-
Der about Jan. 1. F. w. Sallet, who
purchased the old Freie Presse, will
move to Aberdeen. The new paper
will be Republican in politics.
Buried under 40 feet Of 11-inch
timber at Deadwood John Ericsson re-
ceived a fractured skull into which a
mans first could easily be placed, but
the surgeons declare that he will live.
Ericsson was working at a wood camp
about twenty-six miles from town and
was driving a lumber team when the
accident occurred. Fellow laborers
found him with only his feet uncov-
cred and rushed him to the hospital,
where his injuries wer estitched.
What Is believed to be the largest
private grain elevator in the state has
just been completed on the farm of
Wallace Wright near Wakonda. It
has a capacity Of $4,000 bushels, and
was erected for the purpose of doing
away with the immense O of Ia
Dor In the handling of the large ouan-
titles of grain which Wright uses each
year In caring for his farm stock and
the feeders he fattens. The greater
part OF this has to be ground, and
with a new feed mill under the same
root as the elevator, the saving in
time and labor will be great. The
building is being equipped with all
modern conpeniences.
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The state treasury has distributed
the telegraph and telephone taxes to
the different counties of the state en-.
titled to the same. The telegram
taxes amounting in total to $3.50. and
me telephone taxes in total to ST.