The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1909-04-08
SOUTH DAKOTA
General State News
Photographed.

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Gov. Vessey has appointed as bee
inspectors Ernest Fox OF Snomatork
IN the western district and L. A. Sy-
version of Canton for the eastern dis
.rict.
Father Drones, who for nearly v
years has been in charge OF the al
fairs of the Ethan parish of the Catho-
lie church, has resigned to go TO
Milbank.
Robert S. Wesley, governor OF
South Dakota, was one of the promi-
1ent speakers at the annual booster
banquet at the Sioux Falls CONNER
cial club.
Henry Egger, the young son of Will
lam Egger, residents of the southeast
ern part Of Faux county, was acct
dentally killed by his brother while
duck hunting.
new. IODCll bOhSl y II. ~ ASSNOA
of the Episcopal church at Yankton
for the last ten years, resigned Friday
aight. He will take up missionary
work in this state.
Henry Sweet, living about nine
miles west of Wolsey, has lost sew
enteen head of stock by some mys-
terious disease. Sweet thinks a poi
5onous weed may have been cut with
the. hay.
The question Of adopting a COM
mission form of government was de-
feated at Pierre by 26 majority, with
a light vote cast. The only effort to
get out votes was on the part of the
liquor element in opposition.
! A wreck occurred on the st. Paul
road six miles east of Mitchell, when
a stock train of eighteen cars left
the rails. The caboose, rolled down
a steep embankment. Four stockmen
in the car were slightly injured.
| Rev. William WauriCh, assistant
pastor of lions Lutheran Evangelical
church in Aberdeen, died suddenly at
Warner, where he was conducting
services, death being due to heart
disease. He came to Aberdeen from
Germany last November. He was
forty years old.
Gov. Vessey selected as the two
new supreme court Judges Judge j. II.
Mccoy Of the Fifth circuit and Judge
L. G. Smith of the first circuit. To
fill the vacancies caused by these APP
pOintments he has selected B. B.
and Frank McNulty of Sisseton for
the Fifth.
The announcement is unoficially
made, succeeding the visit of an east
ern capitalist to Aberdeen, that the
once begin to iron" the railroad
grade between Aberdeen and Pierre.
The grade would provide a short route
between the northern part of the
state and the state capital.
Isaac J. Smith, for the past twelve
years a miner at Lead, met almost in
slant death on the 500-foot level of
the Homestake mine. Smith jumped
onto a passing motor car, but being
too tall as he entered the drift his
head and shoulders struck on the top,
and he was knocked off and crushed
between the laden car and the side
wall.
A wedding that carried with 1t un-
usual features took place last Sunday
at the Emmanuel Lutheran church
north Of belmont, when Rev. D. H.
Meyer united In marriage Emmanuel
Matthias and Miss Emma Will. They
we're born on the same day, Oct. 81,
twenty-five years ago, and upon the
same section in the township in which
they still live, No. 81.
At a meeting of the Kadoka Com.
mercial club Frank Coye rendered his
resignation as secretary, and william
Derkee was chosen to fill the position
the remainder of the year. Three i'm.
provemerrts are receiving the atten;
ton of the club-fre protection, the
stocking Of the railroad reservoir
with fish and the bridging of White
river between Kadowa and Pine
Ridge reservation.
The people in the vicinity of San.
sarc, in Stanley county. have raised
a fund Of 500 which they are offer
Ing as a reward for the arrest and
conviction Of the party or parties who
a few days ago burned the barn OF
Riley Dunkelberger, a settler near
that place. Dunkelberger lost a barn
team and harness and several cows
besides considerable hay, which was
stacked near the building.
With an entirely new scalp, taken
from the legs and arms of his two
sons. Joseph Follum. an aged rancher
living seventy miles from Lennon
has just left st. Joseph's hospita,
at Deadwood after a skillful three
months treatment. Follum. in a run
away accident, was dragged so tina,
the skin on his head from the eve
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