The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1909-04-09
SOUTH DAKOTA
General State News
Photographed.


The new Congregational church
was dedicated at Sioux Falls last
week with elaborate ceremonies in
charge Of Joseph w. Powell OF Buff
talo.
Gov. Vessey has appointed as bee
inspectors Ernest Fox Of Snomafork
IN the western district and L. A. Sy-
version of Canton for the eastern dis
:rict.
Father Drones, who for nearly five
years has beer in charge of the af-
fairs of the Ethan parish of the CathO-
lie church, has resigned to go to
Milbank.
Robert S. Vessey, governor of
South Dakota, was one of the promi-
nent 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 Faulk county, was acct
dentally killed by his brother while
duck hunting.
Rev. Robert Doherty, D. D., rector
Of the Episcopal church at Yankton
Tor the last ten years, resigned Friday
night. He will take up missionary
work in this state.
Henry Sweet, living about nine
miles west of Wolsey, has lost sev-
enteen head Of stock by some mys-
terious disease. Sweet thinks a poi
sonous 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 vas 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
4 steep embankment. Four stockmen
n 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. Wesley selected as the two
new supreme court judges Judge J. H.
Mccoy of the Fifth circuit and Judge
E. G. Smith Of the first circuit. To
fill the vacancies caused by these ap-
pointments he has selected B. B.
Trip of Yankton for the First circuit
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
Minneapolis & st. Louis road will at
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 Homest2k Ike mine. Smith jumped
onto a passing motor car, but being
too tall a. 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 il 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
were born on the anne day, Oct. 81,
twenty-five years go, 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
provements 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
q 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 ontirn1v novv coo1n 49,.