The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1908-04-17
South Dakota
General State News Paraffaphed.


Mrs. William A. Thompson, aged So
years, died at her home in Huron
Her husband, one doughter and four
Ons survive her.
Andrus Fjelander of Fort Pierre
committed suicide by hanging. Old
age and financial and family troubles
are supposed to have been the cause
of the act.
An eXtradition warrant has been
granted on application of Gov. David
son of Wisconsin for George Tyler,
who was arrested at Mobridge on
charges Of wife desertion and bigamy.
The first petition for a state nom
ination to be filed with the secretary
of state was that Of l.. A. Munson as
a candidate for secretary of state.
The petition is filed as a Republican.
Gov. Crawford has granted paroles
to w. l.. Wells, sentenced from Davi-
son county on a charge of forgery,
and Richard Goddard, sentenced from
Custer county on a charge of horse
rustling.
The accidental discharge Of his
shotgun, which he was carrying in
the wagon beside him to get a shot at
rabbits while driving into town, took
away part of the hand of Rem Moore,
a ranchman living near Interior.
The first annual convention of the
South Dakota Blacksmiths, Horse
shoers and Wagonmakers' association
has been in session in WATERFOWL.
The election Of officers resulted as fol-
lows: President. M. l.. Toben, HUI
on; vice president, Charles Schellen-
berger, Clark; secretary-treasurer, L.
J. Endersby, De Smet, reelected.
The filings in the government land
Office in Pierre for March, while no
up to the rush work of a year ago,
showed 2O2, or over $4,000 acres, max
There were 1O8 cash entries and thir-
teen final. homestead proofs, passing
final title from the government to
claimants Of 10, 0 acres, or nearly a
township.
The women Of White, Bookings
county, have raised a fund by volun.
tary subscription with which to pay
cash prizes next fall for the residents
Of White who, during this season, have
the finest lawns and best kept yards.
The contest will be waged from this
time until Sept. I, when the contest
will close and the names of the win
uers will be announced.
The first hunting accident Of the
spring occurred at Watertown when
Clarence Schoepp discharged a shot
gun into his arm, stripping the flesh
from the bones between the wrist and
shoulder. The gun was loaded and
lying in the bottom of the wagon,
when in attempting to snatch it up
the young man seized it by the muZ-
zle. with the above result. The arm
will have to be amputated.
After it was believed that he had
recovered from the i'll effects of the
cave-in of a we'll in which he was
digging, Washington w. Hughes, a
pioneer of S~pearfsh, who at the time
Of the cave-in had a miraculous es-
cape from death. succumbed to in
ternal injuries which later made
themselves apparent. Hughes was
forty feet under ground all night with
a ton of earth on him, but was res
cued alive.
Taps have sounded for Frank
Matthews. II of the old-time pros
p~ectors of the Black Hills section.
For many years the old Civil war
veteran has lived a solitary existence
in the mountains, working his mining
ground with poor success. Failing to
show himself in the little town of
Nahant for several days the curiosity
of his friends was aroused as to his
whereabouts. They went to the cabin
and found the old man dead in bed.
The deceased was SIS years old and
leaves a daughter and other relatives
residing in Iowa. Though he lived
the humble life of a %prospector he
has much Of the worlds goods. prop
erty in Iowa and a valuable fruit farm
in California.
Sheriff Ed Rowlings of Onawa, Iowa,
arrived at Yankton Saturday and went
! out to Mayor Rudy's farm and arrest.
ed Gottfried Peter, alias Wutrick, on
a charge Of bigamy. Rudy employed
! Peter and his wife about a week ago
to do farm work and domestic work
| Peter is about 40 years old; his wife,
| 16. The charge against him is bigamy
| and there is said to be a ~half-dczen
| young girl wives of his back in Iowa
| whom he has married and then de
serted. All his wives are mere girls