The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1909-02-04

Sheriff Morrison of Plankinton,
was in the city during Monday ON
official business.
Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph Goldhagen
returned home Monday afternoon
from their wedding trip to Galena.
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Mrs. Lyle, who is visiting her par
ents Mr.. and Mrs. M. A. Reeves, will
return to her home al Washington
Springs this afternoon.
Mayor Hitchcock went out to
Pierre "Wednesday t oattend the
first meeting of the Board of Regents.
to which position he was appointed
last week.
Sheriff Morrison, of P%lankinton,
WAS in the city "Wednesday enroute to
Sioux City in search of three boys
wS escaped from the reform school
several weeks ago.
Judge Smith and Court S%tenogra-
pher Boyles went over to Alexandria
Monday morning to hold q term of
circuit court. The Judge was accom-
panied by his daughter, Miss Una.
Tuesday the government ther-
mometer registered at 81 degrees
as the warmest and it was 25 last
night as the coolest. Monday the
mercury went up to SIS degrees. 1t
is not thought necessary to hunt up
a warmer cline with that kind of
weather on tap.
Albert Stahl was arrested Tuesday
afternoon late by Deputy Sheriff
Cook or a bench warrant that he re-
ceived from the sheriff of Pierre.
Sheriff Huston arrived in the city
Wednesday and returned to Pierre
with Mr.. Stahl on the afternoon train.
The sheriff stated that the warrant
was issued on the charge that Stahl
attempted to bride the jurors in a
civil case which he had up in Stanley
county circuit court last fall.
e. R. Storer bought a big bunch of
Duroc-Jersey hogs Wednesday from
M. Kern and his soninlaw Mr.. Steph-
Kern and his son-in-law, Mr. Steph-
ems, who live down in Lisbon town
ship. There we're 160 in the lot and
they were of spring raising. The
animals weighed on an average Of
172 pounds, at $5.55 per hundred,
and Mr.. Storer handed them over
his check for $1,532.07 in payment
for the stock. They were shipped
to the Buffalo market today.
NJ. N. Doyle came home from
Letcher Moncay, having gone
up Sunday afternoon. He said they
opened the safe in the building that
was burned and that they found all
the papers and ever ything intact, in
fact the papers were not even scorch-
ed. For the present Mr.. Doyle said
the Citizens bank would have quar-
tiers in a real estate Office, and that
jus as soon as it was possible to be-
gin building that a brick building
will be erected at once.
A. j. Benzer of Shenandoah, Iowa,
purchased a quarter section Of land
owned jointly by A. d. Walpole and
John Michels and located two miles
southwest Of the city. He paid $46
per acre for the place without any i'm
provements on it except the 70 acres
of ground that had been broken. Mr..
Bezner will nov here the first Of
next month and will construct 4
house and barn on the place at once.
Mr.. Walpole said hat there was
more interest being shown in land
sales now than there was several
months age.
The Omaha road cleared it's right
Of way of snow sufficiently as to get
it's first passenger train into Mitchell
Sunday afternoon about 2 O'Clock,
it being the first passenger train
through from the win cities over
that road since Thursday last. 1t
brought mail of Thursday and Fri
day. The train Monday morning got
in just a little late and brought the
mail down to date. The Omaha hat
a pretty severe time with the SNOW
that settled in the cuts, where it took
a hard job to move it out.
Charles II. Fowler. proprietor O
the Theatre Pharmacy, appeared il
Justice Markham's court Monday
on the complaint filed by Cit,
Attorney. Miller, charging him will
t selling intoxicating liquors withou'
: a license against the provisions Of the
| city ordinance. The defendant was re
! presented by T. j. Spangler, who
offered a demurrer to the complain
on the ground that it did not allegt
that the sale was not made by a reg
. istered pharmacist in accordance will