The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1909-03-25
SOUTH DAKOTA
General State News
Photographed.

~ S'D
River congress met at Yankton and
set July 7 to 9 as dates for the next
congress to be held here.
Michael Gully, a pioneer resident
of Aberdeen, is dead of pneumonia.
S. j. Fellers of Groton, an early set
tier of South Dakota, is dead.
While attempting to place a heavy
piece of meat on a rack in the butcher
shop at belmont, David Renecke lost
his balance and, falling, was himself
lmpaled on the sharp hook. He re-
ceived sever injuries.
S. NJ. Totten, manager of the Yer
million telephone system for the
Northwestern company, has asked to
be relieved of his duties as manager.
It is likely that a successor will be
named in a few days.
The mutilated body of Ed Nelson,
an Alcester butcher was found lying
along the c.. & N. w. side track by a
brakeman. 1t is thought to be an ac-
cident, but the c%oroner's jury may re-
veal something different.
The store of William Gross at Pol
lock was entered by robbers, who Sc
cured $40 in bills and silver, an $S5
fur coat and a large amount of dry
goods. No locks were broken, and it
is presumed the burglars had a skele-
ton key.
Frank Lillibridge is dead at a hos
pital in Pierre, from the effects of a
severe cold which developed pneu-
monia. He was we'll known to all the
members of the recent legislature,
having been in charge of the supply
season.
Mr.. w. O. Thompson, for many
years cashier of the First National
Bank of Vermillion, has given it out
that he expects to remove with his
family to Chicago within the next two
months, or about May l.. He has pur-
chased an interest in a manufacturing
concern there.
When the United States land office
closed last week it ceased to exist in
Mitchell, after a period of over TWEEN
ty-eight years. Register Burns load
ed III all the fixtures and furniture
Of the office and shipped to Gregory,
where the new office was opened for
business this morning.
The third annual meeting Of the
South Dakota Conference Of Charities
and Corrections will be held at Sioux
Falls April 14-15. Among the nation
al speakers will be DR.. Graham Tay-
lor, the Chicago settlement worker;
Alexandria Johnson. secretary of the
national conference, and DR.. A. A.
Wassman of Iowa City.
Destroying 5000 bushels of corn
and oats, the second incendiary fire
which Hudson has suffered in recent
months consumed the Reliance eleva-
tor. The smell of kerosene was plain
ly de~scernable when the blaze start
ed and no other cause can be as
signed than that some firebug is at
work.
William Stager, editor of the News
at Bucyrus, and his family had a
narrow escape from asphyxiation,
caused by gas leaking from a coal
stove. Mr.. Stager was awakened by
the mewing of a cat in the room and
barely able to reach the door, which
he threw open. The rest of the men,
bers of the family were unconscious,
but he managed to revive them.
F. Mellinger, well known at Dead
wood as a contractor, is lying at st.
Joseph's hospital at deaths door, ow-
ing to a peculiar accident. Mr.. Mel
finger was employed at the automo-
bile garage and was working on a
ladder not six feet from the ground
when the ladder gave way. At the
time he was holding a hammer in his
hand and in the descent the weapon
struck his head, f~racturing the skull.
He also received other serious in
juries In the short fall.
The county commissioners of CLAY
county will have to pay Auditor Theo-
dore Anker $1,000 per year after the
middle of June. A bill in the last
legislature, which became a law, gives
auditors that salary where the assess
ed valuation of his ccounty is more
than 81. 500, 900. The taxable property in
Clay county for 1908 totals $4,862.2 PIT.
The county board reduced his salary
two months ago on the basis of pop
lation, which would have given Anker
but $1.2S5 per year.
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For a taste of old times w 7
Sheckles of Puma, In old time resi-.
dent Of that section, will start next
week overland for Cheyenne county.
Nebraska to make his permanent
home on a ranch he has been improv.
ing there for the past two years. Mr.
Sheckles who will be accompanied
by his two sons and his bull team NJ
eight yoke, farm machinery, etc., is a
plainsman OF the early days and &C