The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1909-03-18
SOUTH DAKOTA
General State News
Photographed.

HOllH VI bS ollI'N, ""o
drowned in a cistern on the farm. she
was drawing water when her foot Slip
ped and she fell in. She was not
missed for an hour. She was twenty
nine years old.
At the annual meeting of the Gold-
en- Star Athletic club held at Lead,
the following officers were elected:
President. T. d. Murrin; vice presl-
dent, John O'Malley; secretary, Will
lam t. ers; treasurer, j.. l.. Curran.
Arrangements were made for a series
of entertainments after the Lenten
season.
The organized townships in Pen
nington county, which held their an
nual elections recently, have all filed
their reports with the auditor of the
county at Rapid City. Not one of
them voted dry on the license ques-
ton, and the town of Quinn, which
has been dry" for a year, will be
wet during the coming year.
All danger of an overflow Of the
| Missouri river at VermilliOn ended
| last week, when the big zee gorge
which held for seven hours vent out.
| This gorge was fifteen feet high and
| extended for a mile straight across
the river and three miles up stream.
| Had the ice not rotted the gorge
might have held for several days and
the entire bottoms" would have been
flooded.
The finance and other committees
of Belle Fourche business men having
in charge the arrangements for the
Seventh Annual Stockmens' meeting,
are getting things in shape. This
| year the meet will be held here April
Is, 16 and II, and the usual number
of commission men from South Oma-
| ha, Sioux City, and Chicago are ex-
| pected. On one of the three days,
not yet set, the annual meeting of
the Belle Fourche Wool Growers as
~sociation will be held there.
Caught redhanded in selling tainted
/ meat to customers, Herman Ander-
son and Andrew Hathsen, two Terra
vile butchers, were hailed before
| Police Justice Rose and fined $40 each.
The case against the e which was
! worked up by an inspector from the
board of health, is declared to have
been one of the worst infractions of
the kind that has eve come to light
there. The meat was taken from a
tubercular COW that was in an ad,
vanced stage of the disease. When
the discovery was made. the sheriff
seized the remainder of the meat
in the shop and burned it.
According to the terms Of a bill re-
Gently passed by congress Deadwood
will soon have a weather signal sta
ton at which forecasts will be made
for the northern Black Hills. Some
years ago a weather station was 10
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iarity of local atmospheric conditions
it was impossible to forecast accurate
ly for the whole Hills, SO the station
was moved to Rapid City. There fore
casts made for this section are use
less, so that the fault is to be rene
died with a station at each point
The one to be established there Is Il
work in conjunction with the forest
service.
The Widmann hotel at Mitchell has
changed hands, the lease which ha:
been held by Bert M. Johnston fol
the past four and a half years wa!
surrendered to Mrs. A. E. Hervey o
Valley City, N. D., who purchased
the equipment of the hostelry, thu
amount involved being about $23 900
The hotel will be under the manage
ment of l.. E. Glynn, recently of Or
tonville, Mimi, and Mrs. Hervey wi
not come to the city for sever
months. Some improvements will b.
Wdue at the "iuilduh- WI. JoniStoh
it is understood, will go to st. Paul
where he has the management Of
hotel under consideration.
Harry Oberlin, a workingman. age,
about forty-five years, was found dea,
in his room at the European hotel a
Aberdeen, having been ~asphyxiated b.
gas. The indications point to suicide
and a verdict to that effect was re
turned. When found, Oberlin was sit
ting on a trunk In his room, barrel.
alive. Gas was pouring from a Jet Oh
the wall, which was wide open. Tn,
room was also fitted with an electri
light, and the gas had not been use,
for a long time, it being necessary T.
mount a chair to turn it on. The MAJ
survived but a short time after h,
was discovered. He had been work
ing in Aberdeen several months
Nothing 10 known of his past.
Ohastisement by her mother 70
some trivial offense, caused sixteen
year-old Ethel Suppl. a pretty schoc
girl Of Terry, to attempt suicide, an,
her condition Is still so serious tina
she may be successful. The girl ha
caused her parents considerable wol
ry during the past two years and las
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