Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1909-07-22

Highmore today
l.. NJ. Foss returned today to his
home at Sisseton.
Hughes Jaynes attended the races
at Miller this week.
County institute is being held at
Fort Pierre this week.
Otto Musch was taken to the hos
pital last night for treatment.
E. F. Dorothy contemplates leav-
ing tomorrow on a trip to Seattle.
Mr.. and Mrs. G. II. Winsor of Sioux
Falls were in the city the first of the
week.
Miss Mile Clough, returned Mon.
day from Seattle and other western
points.
Miss lima Schubert has gone to
Houston, Texas, for two weeks
visit with relatives.
Highmore Herald: Reports around
the state say that the Missouri will
within a year be navigable it's entire
length in the state.
C. W. West, of the West Land Co.,
left Monday for David City, Neb.,
for visit with relatives. Mrs. West
will accompany him home.
G. w. Humphrey, attorney at law,
arrived home Wednesday from an ex-
tended stay in Iowa. He reports that
excessive rain have done much dam
age to the crops in the Hawkeye state
DR.. S. B. Stegeman returned this
morning from ten days stay at
Lake Kampeska. OF course Mr..
Stegeman took run down to Elan
dreau before returning to Pierre.
The bank at Tulare was robbed on
Tuesday night. Particulars of the
deed are lacking, as the cracksmen
were wise enough to cut down the
wires, both telephone and telegraph,
leading into the village.
The state board of equalization and
assessment is holding it's first meet
ing, and will be kept busy for the
next two weeks, making the annual
assessment of corporation property
aud the equalization of private prop
erty returned to them by the county
] boards.
Onida Waterman: Clarence Lake
spent short time in Onida Tuesday
on his way home to Pierre after trip
! by auto from Pierre to Laurel, Sully
county, thence to Gettysburg then
8 home by way of Onida. Mr.. Lake
expressed himself much pleased with
e the crops all along the way.
e Articles of Incorporation were filed
: yesterday for the Riveyyiew and
Northern Wisconsin railway, with a
capital of $500, 900 and offices at Pierre
: and Riverview, Wis. This line is tc
; be thirty miles long and to run from
Fairchild, Wis, to Stanley, Wis, by
y way of Riverview. The incorporators
o are l. Shoudy, B. E. Shoudy, Rock
: ford, Ills, D. w. Shoudy, H. E
Shoudy, Fairchild, Wis, Jas. Sebree
Pierre.
n The last doubt concerning the gull
of Emil Victor, who has been in the
. Brown county Jail since the evening
a of July 3, charged with the murder O.
the Christie family and Michael Roy
ane, near Rudolph on the Afternoon
j. of that day, was cleared away lat,
q Tuesday afternoon, when Victo
y weakened and made signed comics
< sion acknowledging that he was tn
perpetrator Of the most idiabolica
" crime in the history Of South Dakota
VI A drowning accident has been re
1t ported from Cheyenne river in tn
ID northern part of Stanley county. |
IS party from Marietta went to the rive
Oh d picnic, anu the men vi the pa TT
rt attempted to operate sein. The
l. were swept into deep'water, and tang
le led in the sein making their escap
rs difficult One settler named Baum
m gartner was unable to swim an
drowned, while several others ha
. close calls before they succeeded i
= getting out. The body of the unfol
r. tunate man was found two days ate
), three miles down the stream from til
= point where he drowned.
Highmore Herald: About the mos
daring and boldest robbery we hay
~ heard of in a long while was commit
@, ted last Thursday night at the Enc
-, Thorne home in Sully county, abo,
:" ten miles north of Harold. Mr.
20 Thorne was awakened in the night t
80 the dog and upon looking out of I'll
10 window saw four men on horse bac
driving some horses out of the val
ne and away. Mr., Thorne was away