Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1909-07-22
SOUTH DAKOTA TOPICS.
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/ Huron, s. D.-The city council
granted site for new high school
building to cost about $4,000.
Pierre.-The capitol commission
will sell the old capitol on Aug. Z, the
purchasers to remove the building
from the grounds as soon as the new
building Is occupied.
Milbank-Milbank plans starting
series of baseball games and automo-
bile races. 1t is planned to hold the
affairs during the months of July, Au-
gust and September at weekly inter-
walls. 20.
Watertown.-The semi-annual meet.
ing of the South Dakota state board
of medical examiners was held at
Watertown July IA and Is. for the pur-
pose of examining applicants for H.
cense to practice medicine.
Aberdeen.-The bodies of Mr.. and
Mrs. ]. w. Christie and their daughter
Mildred, victims of the quadruple MUIR
der at Rudolph, have been sent to st.
Stephens, N. B., the birthplace of Mr..
and Mrs. Christie, for interment.
Sioux Falls.-The little daughter Of
Ralph Millage, farmer near Worth
ing, south of Sioux Falls, was drowned
by falling into ditch of water beside
the highway. The child was fifteen
months old and had wandered from
the yard.
Sioux Falls, S. DAT the annual
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the state board of regents held in
this city, the board elected E. G.
Erickson of Elk Point, president, and
A. j. Norby of Sisseton, vice president
Aberdeen.-Bank clearances in Alb
erdeen since Jan. 1 aggregate nearly
$8,000,0O0. They were over $1,60O,0O0
for the month of June-a gain of
100000 over May. 1t is expected the
clearances for the month of July will
amount to 100000.
Aberdeen.-J. A. Worswick, a we'll
known resident, was struck by an au
tomobile and probably fatally injured.
He was crossing street and stepped
out of the way of one machine sand
failed to see another approaching In
an opposite direction.
Watertown.-Nearly 10000 admis.
sions were recorded to the Watertown
Chautauqua, which closed it's nine-day
course with a masterful address by
Robert Stuart Macarthur, D. D., LID,
of New York city on Americas Great
Place Among the Nations"
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from the general government a draft
for $4,000 for the support of the
state agricultural college, the money
coming from what is known as the
Morrill, fund which has been set aside
to aid state agricultural institutions.
Pierre.-Articles of Incorporation
have been filed for the Mclaughlin
State Bank, at Mclaughlin, Carson
county, with an Indian as one of the
1ncorporators. The bank is capitalized
at $4,000, and the incorporators are:
R. S. Mclaughlin, Robert High Eagle
and R. E. Hartung.
Yankton.-Edyth Townsend, who
Just arrived in town and who is said
to have come here from Sioux City,
took corrosive sublimate at the Mer.
chants hotel, and died. She refused
to talk, but admitted that she had
poisoned herself. She was about
twenty years old and pretty.
Sioux Falls.-The little daughter of
Mr.. and Mrs. Ralph Millage, who re-.
side on farm near Worthing, south
of Sioux Falls, was drowned as the
result of wandering from the yard
about her home and falling into a
ditch of water beside the highway.
The child was only Is months old.
Milbank.-Henry S. volkmar and
wife, citizens here for thirty years.
departed today for Seattle, where
they will make their home. Mr. Volk-
mar served the city five terms as
mayor. In August. 1879, he estab-
lished the Grant County Review and
continued to own it until November
of last year.
Pierre.-Hyde county authorities
have arrested and bound over Frank
Brandle, George McCarty, Fred Kline
and Charles Bowman as members of
DEMONSTRATING gang. One of the
horses stolen was recovered in Ohio.
A number of head of horses have been
taken in that part Of the state
the past year, and 1t is hoped
that the arrest Of these parties will
put stop to 1t.
Pierre.-An effort is being made to
secure congressional action looking
toward the establishing OF a National
Bison park within the Black Hills
forest reserve, presumably some
where on Rapid Creek. For this pur-
pose "scotty" Philip has agreed to
divide his herd held on the Missouri
river, as 1t is becoming too large for
the range which he has for the holding
OF his animals. Such a move would
aid in the propagation and increase Of
these animals in the northwest. and
the Black Hills section is looked upon
as very favorable to the handling and
propagation of these animals, once so