The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1908-12-04

Dakota
General
State
News In
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Gov. Crawford appointed q Alva E.
Taylor of Huron judge Of the Ninth
circuit, to succeed Judge Whiting. ele-
waited to the supreme bench.
Jess Winters of WATERFOWL was in
stant!y killed while hunting. In
throwing his gun into a buggy it was
discharged, the load entering his tenn
pie
/ 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 6, 1908,
was convicted Of manslaughter in the
second degree at Rapid City, and was
sentenced to three years and eleven
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judicial district. There will probably
be a 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. 8 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 i~rregularity in making returns to
the county auditor on the part of
township election officials.
A big prairie fire near Grow 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 floater found near Kemp avenue
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
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 Cen
trail City boy, to be declared insane
and ordered e N 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.
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teachers there were Lbs applicants
for certificates, and of these S53 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 the state a better supply of teach
ers than for many years, and there
should be no great trouble in filing
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.
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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 uncoy-
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. II
has a capacity Of 10000 bushels. and
was erected for the purpose of doing
away with the immense amount of Ia.
Dor in he handling of the large a
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
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