Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1909-07-29
! SOUTH DAKOTA TOPICS.
Events of the Week Related in
Brief Paragraphs.

! Garden City.-Garden City held a
harvest festival and sports day fes-
tivities, July 20.
| Deadwood. Lawrence county Off
Gals here will propose to the voters
the establishment of county insane
asylum.
! Belle Fourche.-A bill has been in
troduced in congress by Senator Gam
BILE, appropriating $125,0O0 for the
erection of a public building at Belle
Fourche, S. d.
Sioux Falls.-The county commits
sioners of Potter county will submit
to the voters of Hoven, S. D., whether
they wish their town to be incorporat-
ed as a city or not
Sioux Falls.-Pearl Stephens, the g.
year-old daughter of E. B. Stephens,
q farmer, four miles northeast of
Humboldt, died from lockjaw as the
result of stepping on rusty nail.
Pierre.-A meeting of the state
board Of pardons has been called for
the 9th Of July, to consider number
of applications which are pending be-
fore the board at the present time.
| Watertown. A train of seven
coaches will leave this city for La
/ Beau, the Missouri river terminal of
the Minneapolis & st. Louis, July ~,
with load Of local trade junketers.
| Watertown. - The South Dakota
state board of medical examiners, in
/ session in this city, reelected DR.. l..
G. Hill, of Watertown, president; DR..
Graves, Hurley, vice-president, and
DR.. Freyburg, Mitchell, secretary.
| Pierre.-Charles Williams and Har-
ry Middaugh were arrested by Stan
ley county officers, and are being held
/, in Jail at Fort Pierre for officers from
Nebraska who want them on a charge
of stealing horses from Fred Ogden,
/, at Mills, Neb.
! Volga.-The third district medical
association held meeting here
There were present Drs. Miller, Boy
/ den, Stahl and Roys, of Brookings;
! DR.. Hopkins, of Arlington; Drs. Hav-
erman and Dyar. of DeSmet, and Drs.
/ Seaman and Torwick, of Volga.
Pierre.-The body of Irving Ross
Smith, who went by the name of
Charlie Ross, here, was taken out of
the river, and is being held for in
structions from his mother, who is
somewhere in North Dakota Smith
j was drowned early last week, two
miles up the river.
| Aberdeen-A company largely com
posed Of Aberdeen men has purchased
a tract of 5000 acres in the Mussel-
shell valley, of Montana, six miles
from the mouth of Judith Gap. The
| purpose of the purchasers is to divide
!, the land into small farms and sell it
to actual settlers.
Sioux Falls.-R. E. Barker, 70 years
old, retired farmer of Hunters Grove,
south of Sioux Falls, met his death
while painting the porch of his
dwelling house. He fell from the roof
and ruptured number of blood-ves-
sells. Violent hemorrhages resulted.
Physicians were unable to save his
! life.
Hot Springs.-Alexander B. Steph-
enson, of Edgemont, was arrested
upon the sharge Of obtaining money
under false pretenses and bound over
for trial. Stephenson is alleged to
have given checks on a Hot Springs
bank to Edgemont residents and to
have removed his deposit from the
bank before the checks could be
/. cashed.
Blunt.-The new movement having
for its purpose the construction at
this place Of a new Catholic church
building has progressed to such an
4 extent that the contract for the cree
j ton Of the new church has been
awarded. The terms of the contract
provide that the edifice must be com
pleted not later than Oct. 1 next. The
new church building will cost several
thousand dollars
] Lead.-Over five thousand school
L children are now receiving an educa-
ton in this county. The semi-annual
:, apportionment Of the earnings of the
state school fund is now being made
according to the figures from school
work. Lead has the largest number
of school children, practically 1000,
while Deadwood has just half that
number, and Terry, Spearfish, Terra
! will, Whitewood and st. Onge COM
4 bined supply another 1000. The
/ amount of the distribution was $14,-
APIS. each town receiving according
to the number of its scholars.
4 Sioux Falls. -Arguments will be
3 made before Judge Jones, of the state
y circuit court here, on a motion for a
new trial in the case involving the
estate Of John Mcclellan, a wealthy
] Sioux Falls pioneer, who ten years
]. ago was crushed to death in an ele-
vator in the building in which he had
apartments The case has. been In
the courts since that time, several
sets Of heirs fighting for the estate.
The state of South Dakota also has
been a party to the litigation, claim
j ing that there are no lawful heirs Of
i John Mcclellan. and that the estate
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