Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1909-03-18
SOUTH DAKOTA
General State News
Photographed.

| MIS-. Gail OlSOu. llSlHS SCNSll lliASS
north Of De Smet, was accidentally
drowned IN 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 presi-
dent, John O'Malley; secretary, Will
lam T. ars: treasurer, ]. l.. Curran.
| Arrangements were made for a series
of entertainments after the Lenten
season.
The organized townships in Pen
ningtcn 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 year, will be
wet during the coming year.
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| All danger Of an overflow of the
Missouri river at Vermilion ended
last week, when the big ice gorge
which held for seven hours went out
This gorge was fifteen feet high and
extended for 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, Is 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 men, which was
worked up by an inspector from the
Of i~ 10,
been one of the worst infractions of
the kind that has ever 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 bill re-
Gently passed by congress Deadwood
will soon have weather signal sta
ton at which forecasts will be made
for the northern Black Hills Some
Gated there, but, owing to the pecul-
iarity of local atmospheric conditions,
it was impossible to forecast accurate
~ 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 station at each point.
The one to be established there is to
work in conjunction with the forest
service.
The Widmann hotel at Mitchell has
changed hands, the lease which has
been held by Bert M. Johnston for
the past four and half years was
surrendered to Mrs. A. E. Hervey of
Valley City, N. D., who purchased
the equipment of the hostelry the
amount involved being about $4,000.
The hotel will be under the manage
ment Of l.. E. Glynn, recently of Or
tonville, Mimi, and Mrs. Hervey will
not come to the city for several
months. Some improvements will be
made at the Widmann. Mr. Johnston,
it is understood will go to St. Paul,
where he has the management of a
hotel under consideration.
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Harry Oberlin, a workingman, aged
about forty-five years, was found dead
in his room at the European hotel at
Aberdeen, having been asphyxiated by
gas. The indications point to suicide,
and verdict to that effect was re-
turned When found, Oberlin was sit
ting on a trunk in his room, barely
alive. Gas was pouring from jet on
the wall, which was wide open. The
room was also fitted with an electric
light, and the gas had not been used
for long time, it being necessary to
mount a chair to turn it on. The man
survived but short time after he
was discovered. He had been work
ing in Aberdeen several months.
Nothing is known of his past.
Qhastisement by her mother for
some trivial offense, caused sixteen