The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1908-01-10
South Dakota
General State News P~asaffaphed.

Charged with stealing a valuable
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-
siticn 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 $780, 900 Of such
warrants.
"a bomb made of a piece Of gaspipe
filled 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, n a
capital Of $4,000; ~incorporators, D.
Boyle, NJ. A. Nichols, J. 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 were 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
was an old settler and prosperous.
A room at the federal building in
Pierre is being fitted up for h%eadquar-
ters 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
ihal record as a thief. was run out of
town and other characters who have
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 rear Hermosa before it could
be ex%tinguished. 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
$780, 600 has been commenced against
the Omaha road by William c. 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. Gifin 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 n 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.
cage e North-W Western at Huron, has
filed with the clerk Of courts for
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 seventy-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, he
was released. Now Dayton is seeking
the arrest OF Burch on several charges
and alleges that Burch and his part;
ners are trying to send Dayton to the