Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1909-03-11
SOUTH DAKOTA
General State News
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Prof. James H. Shepherd of the
South Dakota agricultural college at
| Brookings has started for London,
| England, in response to cablegram
from royal committee having under
investigation the bleacEed flour made
| by the modern mills.
Gov Vessey sent to the senate the
names of John l.. Jones of Madison,
for public examiner; Thomas H.
! Hicks of Milbanlx, for state veterin-
arian; C. M. Hopkins of Aberdeen, for
hotel Inspector; c. H. Englesby of
Watertown for adiutant general.
Caroline Wells, domestic, was
found dead in her bed at the home
of Mrs. F. Pfeifer at Aberdeen, where
she was employed. Asphyxiation from
| Illuminating gas was the cause Of her
death. The girl came to Aberdeen
from Milbank week ago. 1t was an
accident.
There was a change In the official
| force at the government land Office
| in Pierre the first of March. Messrs.
H. E. Cutting and A. Wheelon, who
| have been in have been in charge for
a little more than eight years, retiring
to give way for J. l.. Lockhart and d.
w. March, the new appointees to the
heads of the different departments of
the Office.
The state supreme court dismissed
all the cases brought in that court I'M
der the 2-cent fare law, with the ex-
ception of those against the Great
Northern railroad and the South Da-
kota Central road, which lines were
not joined in the suit in the United
States court. These cases are set for
hearing at the October term of the SUI
preme court.
At the present rate of sinking ar
tesian wells in Stanley county, that
county will soon rival some of the
eastern counties of the state in it's
number. Many of the ranches are
now supplied with flowing water, and
as all the wells bear gas the fuel
matter is made a much more simple
one that it was in hauling the sup
ply long distances.
DR.. G, P. Farnsworth, the head of the
Chamberlain sanitarium is in Pierre
looking after the matter of the gov
eminent school at that place If the
state declines to accept it as a state
school, it will be placed on the mar
ket, and an organization of the Sew
enth Day Adventists are ready to bid
it in and establish school of their
own at the place.
Jim Smith and J. B. Watson, both
Iowa men, drew terms in the county
jail at Yankton. Smith mistook a
heavy metal folding funeral truck for
modern folding baby cart and lug
ged it off, only discovering his mis-
take when the weight, sixty pounds,
oSoa1 " oaWil O1l I'LL. watson was
arrested at the same time for steal
ing an overcoat.
A press brick, stone and concrete
building, two stories in height, and
50X125 feet in length, will be con-
structed at Huron as soon as weather
permits, by the Haley & Lang Fruit
company. The building will be used
as wholesale fruit house and will
cost about $4,000. 1t will be entirely
frost proof and especially equipped
for the purpose for which it is intend
ed
John Lynch, wealthy land dealer
| of Emmetsburg, Iowa, died in the
county Jail in WATERFOWL. He came
here three weeks ago to look after
his business interests and it is said
began drinking heavily. He was lock-
ed in Jail Saturday night and became
i'll. A widow and two children sur
vive. Mr.. Lynch was forty-nine years
old and was well known among the
land men of the Northwest.
|
Ex-Secretary Wipf has written that
he is perfectly willing to have the
amount in dispute in regard to the
branch fund submitted to the at
torney general, and in case that Of
fetal holds that he is not legally en-
titled to 1t he will at once return it
to the state treasury, but individually
he believes that he was fully entitled
to 1t, or he would never have taken
it.
Mountain lions whose depredations
are becoming too frequent to be com.
Portable are at uresent holding the
attention of the residents of the Black
] Hills. The lions have SO far confined