The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1908-02-06
South Dakota


llOH IOI lutlu III Tic tNchihS, uOiS5otNS
being present from neighboring towns.
Ira A. Noice was arrested by sher.
IFS of Meade and Lawrence counties
at Nahant, a lumber camp south OF
Deadwood, and will be taken back to
Sheridan, Wyo., to answer to a charge
of forgery.
j. J. Williams, a farmer eighty years
old, living a few miles south Of Web
ster. committed suicide by shooting
his head off with a shotgun. He re-
Gently had an attack of grip which de
ranged his mind. F..
Found guilty OF committing rape
upon his seventeen-year-old step
daughter. Mabel Burger, Sherwood Sy-
fifteen years in the penitentiary by
Judge Frank B.. Smith.
The Rapid City fire department has
elected officers as follows: Chief, j.
p. McElroy, Jr.; first assistant, Otto
Beranek; second assistant, c.. A. VIE
gand; secretary, Charles Aagard;
treasurer, George White.
The Black Hills Clearing house as
ISOLATION at its annual meeting elected
officers as follows: d. A. Mcpherson,
Deadwood, president; r. II. Driscoll,
Lead, vice president; Frank s. STRAIT.
ton, Deadwood, secretary.
The Deadwood Business club, which
recently adopted the motto of Smile
and PUSH" has just secured two con-
ventions for that city, the State Fed.
Grafton of Commercial clubs and the
State Horticultural society.
Mrs. Alphonsine Bessette Of st.
Onge, an early-day settler who was
revered for her many acts of charity,
is dead of paralysis. She was fifty
six years old and went to the Black
Hills from Quebec province.
The bitter county seat wal In Greg.
DRY county has been decided. Judge
Smith holds for the town of Herrick,
and ordered the county commissioners
to act on the petition and call for a
vote between the towns of Fairfax and
Herrick.
c. w. Merrill, the superintendent Of
the cyanide works OF the Homestake
Mining company, has left the Black
Hills and gone to Alameda, Cal, where
he will have charge of the Goldfeld
Consolidated Mining company's new
500-ton cyanide plant which is to be
erected.
Evangelist Robert z. Johnson has
closed a series of union meetings at
Clear Lake. There were over 100 on
versions, about two-thirds of which
were of men, among them prominent
business men and county officials.
The country for miles round was
wonderfully stirred.
Gov. Crawford has granted pardons
to Charles Horn, sentenced from Clark
county on a charge of shooting with
intent to do bodily harm; to Charles
Lockhart, sem from Hughes county.
on a charge of horse rustling, and to
Verne Motion, SEN from Faux county
on a charge Of larceny.
Records in the office OF Clerk OF
Courts Sol Starr show that during the
last seven months twenty-six OF the
old timers Of Lawrence county have
passed away. OF these eight had been
residents of the county thirty or more
years, nine had lived there twenty-five
years or more and the remainder had
been there for twenty or more years.
Patrick Leary, the oldest resident Of
Central City, died at his home, aged
eighty-four. Mr.. Leary succumbed to
the infirmities of old age. He went to
the Black Hills from Michigan in
1883, and for some years was employ
ed as a miner until age called a halt
to his activities. He is survived by a
wife and eight children.
While working on his claim on Elk
creek, near Lead, Seth Anderson, an
old p~rospector, was caught by a fall
of rock and badly injured. One leg
was so badly crushed that amputation
was thought necessary by the sur
geons at the local hospital. but he re-
fused to permit, saying that he would
rather die than suffer the loss of a
leg at his time In life.
The state militia will have to go
without funds from this date until af-
tor May 1. The appropriation for
that purpose was by special enactment
made available the first of May in
stead Of the first of July as is general.
ly the case, and this special provision
will allow them TO get their cash two
months earlier than those coming
through the regular appropriation
channels.
AS a result Of obtaining possession
of some matches the t~wo-year-old
| daughter of Peter Mouck of Gettys-
burg, lost her life. During the tenn
| porary absence of the mother from
the room the little girl got hold Of
| some matches which she lighted. The
fire was communicated to her clothing
| and before her mother could rush to
| her assistance she was burned so Sc
| verely that death resulted.
Lake Preston has just closed the
| greatest series OF revival meetings in
her history. Rev. Joseph Lowrey has
been preaching to great crowds in the
largest hall IN the city every night
for three weeks. and during that time
more than 400 people have protested
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