The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1909-04-15
SOUTH DAKOTA
General State News
Photographed.

Attorney Frank McNulty of Sisseton
will be his successor.
Robbers broke into a poolroom, res
taurant and hardware store at Ips-
witch, securing a sum Of money in
each place, ranging from $12 to $50.
No arrests have been made.
Gov. Vessey has appointed as the
board of examiners under the new
veterinary law of the last session: ].
A. Graham, Sioux Falls; J. c. Trotter,
B%eresford; j. p. Foster, Huron; E. l..
Moore, Brookings and c. Mcdonnell,
Watsrtown.
Don Campbell, aged twenty-five,
son Of former Circuit Judge and Mrs.
A. w. Campbell of Aberdeen, died
of typhoid fever, after an illness OF
three weeks. Mrs. E. c. Howe of
Amherst died in a hospital the same
day, following the birth of an infant.
The report Of the Aberdeen post
Office for the fiscal year ending March
81 shows that the receipts of the Of
flee for the year reached a total Of
$50, 022, exceeding all previous rec
ords, and adding 800 a year to the
postmaster's salary after July l.
Several Pierre residents have Or
ganized for the building Of the Pierre
lodge in the Black Hills, and forty
residents have organized and subscrib-
ed the funds for the construction of
a club house. The location selected
is in Rapid Creek gulch, a short dis
lance west of Rapid City.
While duck hunting near White
Lake Gus Burfield met with an acct
dent which resulted in the loss Of the
greater part of his right hand. He
was crawling up on some ducks, draw
ing his gun after him, when the
weapon was a]ccidently discharged,
tearing away a portion of the hand.
A petition containing the signatures
of nearly one hundred farmers living
in the vicinity of %Iroquois, has been
forwarded to the ~postoffice depart
ment at Washington, asking that an
other rural mail delivery route be
established out of ~Iroquois. The pro.
posed route will practically cover an
entire township and will benefit sew.
eral hundred farmers.
At the annual election Of officers
of Lead lodge No. TAT, B. P. o. E.,
the following officers were chosen:
Exalted ruler, j. j. Morrow; Leading
knight, James Smell; loyal knight, F.
B. Corum; l~ecturing knight, Thomas
Gilmore; secretary, j. l.. Neary;
treasurer, ]. w. Curran; tyler, Charles
trustees, Joseph Feeney
and Eugene Wilson; delegate to Los
Angeles, Eugene Wilson.
Lars Brekhus, aged seventyeight, a
pioneer resident of K%ingsbury county,
died very suddenly from an attack Of
heart failure. He made his home with
his daughter, Mrs. II. Larson. In the
morning he had felt as well as ever,
but during the forenoon, while sitting
quietly in a chair, death came to him.
He fell from the chair to the floor
and this was the first notice that
death had claimed him.
The business men of Frankfort have
perfected the organization of a com
metcial club, which is expected to do
much for the town during the coming
year. Officers were elected as fol-
lows: President, w. D. Craig; vice
president, w. J. Jones; treasurer, f..
d. Jackson; secretary, w. F. Aldred.
All the officers are thorough boosters
and the right men for the places to
which they were elected.
Owing to the fact that Judge Jones
of Sioux Falls is disqualified and
Judge Smith has been promoted to the
supreme bench, William G. Rice,
judge Of the Eighth circuit of Dead
wood, has been asked to preside at the
second trial of Mrs. Moses Kaufman,
wife of the millionaire Sioux Falls
brewer, who Is charged with the muir.
der of her servant girl, Agnes Polreis,
a year ago. The trial will be held at
Flandreau June 1. Judge Rice has &C.
cepted.
1t is now assured that a new cream
cry will be established at Philip. For
some weeks a Chicago promoter has
been working on the project, assisted
by a committee Of local business men.
Nearly all the stock has been sold and
the contract for the erection of the
creamery building and the installing
of the necessary machinery will be
awarded in the near future. The new
institution is certain to play an i'm
portant part in the prosperity of the
local business men and the farmers
of this vicinity who thus will have
a convenient market for their cream
and milk.
The movement to have the game
law, passed by the last legislature,
submitted to a vote of the people by
the referendum route is meeting with
little sympathy in the southeastern
part Of the state, and nearly every
weekly publication has come out in
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