Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1909-05-27
South Dakota
General State News
in Paragraphs.

lied at Cotton with the following Off
GERS: President c. L. Peterson: sec
rotary, T. E. Ferris; treasurer, Mar
tin Larson
Flank D. Wyman has been appoint
ed steward at the state hospital for
the insane in place of ]. A. Schleuter
of Aberdeen by the state board OF
charities and corrections.
Gov. Vessey has issued his procla-
nation fixing July Is as the date OF
election TO rthe organization of Carson
county, which was created at the last
session of the legislature.
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A verdict of acquittal was returned
at Sioux Falls in the case of Milo B.
Stine, charged with manslaughter in
the second degree in connection with
the death of Mrs. William Crooks.
Milwaukee officials estimate that
100000 people will pass through Aber-
deem this season on their way to the
Seattle exposition, and to the western
country between Aberdeen and the
coast.
Work has commenced at Esmond
on the laying of several miles of &C.
ment sidewalks which will take the
place of the board walks which have
done duty since the town came into
existence.
The Chilson Grain company's ele-
vator and the Potter & Garrick ele-
vator at Butler were destroyed by fire
last week The loss is estimated at
$4,000. There was much grain in
the structures.
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1t is rumored that a representative
of Butter Bros, Chicago and Mime
apolis wholesalers, was in Aberdeen
looking for building in which to es-
tablish a branch of their wholesale
establishments.
Articles of incorporation We're filed
for the State Bank of Crandon, with
"a VII VI Yo,'Op. lllSot pol GIol ".
A. Kleppin, c. w. Perkins, E. G. Per
kins, w. e. Perkins of Frankfort, J.
w. Pritzkau of Redfield.
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G. I. BoWe, manager of the Huron
Electric company, has sold the plant
to Co!er Campbell, by which it passes
to the control of the Huron Gas COM
pany. A twenty years franchise has
been granted by the city council
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States Attorney Mick and Deputy
Sheriff Brown made two raids on al
legged gambling resorts in Meade
county, one at Piedmont and the other
at Sturgis. At both places they are
said to have found men in the act of
gambling.
A fine bed of clay has been discoy
cred at Alaska in the northern part
of the state, and has been opened up
by a firm which will manufacture
brick and tile. AS they get their
power from natural gas secured in the
artesian flow they expect to be able
to develop good paying business
with cheap product and power.
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Martin Herman, aged eighty-three,
a pioneer resident of the region north
east of Trip, in fit of temporary
insanity, committed suicide by cutting
his throat with a bread knife He had
been a sufferer from asthma, and this
and the fear that he would never re-
cover caused his mind to become I'M
settled He is survived by five sons
and four daughters.
A number Of the leading farmers re-
siding west of Tabor have organized
cooperative telephone company, and
will at once construct system con-
sisting of about thirteen miles Of wire,
connecting with practically all the
farm houses in wide extent of cOun-
try and extending to Tabor The sys-
tenn will prove Of great benefit to the
farmers who are pushing the project
H. J. Reed of Faulkton owes his
life and the lives of his family to his
faithful dog. Reed had chicken
brooder in his kitchen. The brooder
was warmed by a kerosene lamp,
which exploded at night and set the
house on fire. The dog, which slept
in the house, aroused the family by
jumping into the bed and scratching
the faces of Mr.. and Mrs. Reed until
they awoke.
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At meeting of the stockholders Of
the Duluth, Pierre & Black Hills Rail
way company, held at Pierre, there
was reorganization in which the
officers selected were principally Off
Gals of the Minneapolis & ST. Louis
Railway company. and it is generally
understood that the system has taken
up the project and will make an oper-
ating road of the grade between here
and Aberdeen The president of the
new organization is George w. See.
vers of Minneapolis, general counsel
| for the Minneapolis & st. Louis.
| A contract has beeen let for the
| erection of the South Dakota National