The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1908-10-22

Dakota
General
State
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Paragraphs.


Steve Flanagan, the young man VINO
was accidentally shot while hunting
ducks near Vermillion, died from MS
wounds.
DR.. lanes F. Stout of st. Paul
preached the sermon in connection
with the dedication of a fine new
Methodist church at Lake Preston.
The new edifice was dedicated prac-
tically free of debt. The church So
ciety was organized on April Is, 1889,
with only eight members.
Rev. c. G. Flanagan, who has been
pastor of the Baptist church of Airing
ton for the past W. years, closed his
labors Sunday to go into the Y. M. G.
A. work. Rev. Pierre DAMS, who for
merly held the chair OF Latin and
French literature in the University OF
Lyons, France, has been chosen to
succeed Mr.. Flanagan.
Petitions are being circulated in
Lawrence county asking for the par
| don of w. J. McKeller, who is serving
a term Of four years in the Sioux
Falls penitentiary. McKeller was the
United States soldier who last May
pleaded guilty to the charge Of having
stolen a gold watch from a man
named James Halloran at Spearfish.
Capt. James T. Weatherwax, a vet
! eran of the Civil war, and one of the
pioneers Of the Black Hills, passed
away at his home near Crook city, as
the result of a general breakdown.
Capt. Weatherwax was one of the
early day mining men here, and for
some years was interested with Pat
Smith in some Two Bit and Galena
ground.
Gov. Crawford has granted a requi.
sition on the governor of Montana for
Margaret Bowman. Mrs. Bowman Sc
cured a divorce, and in the decree
nothing was said in regard to the GUS
tody of a little daughter. The father
kept possession of the child, and a
short time ago the mother appeared
and tool the child away with her. The
father charged kidnapping, and asked
for a requisition.
Frank E. Roberts of Twin Brooks ap-
peared before Judge Garland of the
United States court at Sioux Falls and
entered a plea Of guilty to the charge
of classifying his reports while post
mas at Twin Brooks. He was fined
$50, which sum he paid. Roberts was
charged with having placed the aggre-
gate cancellations at S72.65, when
$3.50 was the correct amount which
he should have returned.
With the arrival at Deadwood from
her home in Glenwood, Iowa, of Mrs.
Alice H. Benton, Cupid won another
victory, and chose for his other VIC
tim, William Wood, who says he is
seventy years young. Mr.. Wood is an
old-time resident Of the Black HiSs.
and is one of the foremen at the Re-
lance Gold Mining company's mills.
His bride, who Is twenty years his
junior, was his boyhood sweetheart.
Arson Wagar, removed as United
States commissioner at Dallas, and
charged with having used his commits
sioner frank on post caro- advertise
ments, appeared at Sioux Falls volun-
tarily n was taken before United
States Commissioned d. J. Conway
for a preliminary hearing. This he
waived, and furnished a cash bond in
the sum of $500, pending action ppon
his case by the next federal grand
jury.
One Of the meanest petty crimes re-
potred to the police Tor many months
was the robbery of a poor blind
mi who was singing on the
| streets at Watertown for the pennies
that were dropped into her cup. A
man named Anderson is alleged to
have been seen twice to go to the cup
and help himself to what was in it.
| He was arrested and bound over to
the circuit court on u charge of grand
larceny.
]. c.. Cantonwine, who recently an
nounced that the sum of about $685.
600 had been stolen from the safe in
his store at Sioux Falls, and against
whom a number of his creditors filed
a petition asking that he be declared
an involuntary bankrupt. Cantonwine
has filed his petition in voluntary
bankruptcy, placing his liabilities at
$64,438.25 and his assets at $50 ,1S5.6S.
Of his assets property to the value Of
$3.50 is claimed to be exempt.
While hunting near Hudson Melvin
Cable was fortunate enough to shoot
and kill a fine specimen of the Afri-
can pelican. 1t is, in fact, one of the
finest specimens ever seen here. The
bird is pure white with the exception
of a delicate black trimming on the
under side of the wings. 1t measured
five feet eight inches from the tip of
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