The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1909-02-04
South Dakota
General State News
in Paragraphs.
in Paragraphs.


The Crooks Lumber company Of
Crooks held its annual meeting and
elected the following directors: G. w.
Tyler, president; Z. Christianson,
manager; G. A. Crooks, secretary and
treasurer; o. S. Thompson. A. S. John
son, ]. E. Pearson, Lars Void.
One girl rendered unconscious, one
girl with a dislocated arm and a boy
with a broken nose is the result of a
rather disastrous sleigh ride the fresh
man class in the Watertown high
school took last week. In turning a
corner the hobs hit a curb and upset
the load.
Recognizing his brother as he finish
ed shaving him, Fred. M. Towne Of
Twin Falls, Idaho and Truman Towne
of Watertown met for the first time
in twenty years. The barber was the
most surprised man in town when his
brother got out of the chair that the
miner had entered.
The state board of pardons has
recommended a pardon for Andrew
Standing Bear, who was sent from Pen.
nington county on a rustling charge
and has contracted tuberculosis in the
penitentiary. Ed Davis, who was sent
from Stanley county for life or a
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be committed to t~wenty-one years.
The baby girl of Mr.. and Mrs.
Martin Schnackenburg of Watertown
died from the frightful scalding she
received Tuesday. The mother had
the little girl in a cab beside the
stove while she was doing the wash
ing. In moving the boiler on the
stove the mother tipped it over, send
ing the scalding water into the cab.
John Neumann was arrested al
Seneca, Kan, and brought back to
Mitchell for deserving his wife and
two children. The mother has applied
to the county commissioners for sus
tenance twice in the past winter, when
her husband left her, but she was able
to earn their living during the sum
mer months. He will be given an OPP
p%oTtunity to support his family or &C
to the ~pentitentiary.
Eugene Hulet of Seneca. has dis
A. ~ a.
dangerous to tote a gun around. A
heavy revolver which he was carry
ing in a belt was accidentally dis
charged, the ball striking him in the
leg and breaking the bone in two
places. Some of the arteries also were
severed and it took quick work tc
prevent him bleeding to death.
Edward Morris, a prominent Black
Hills merchant, killed David Jennings
a clerk in his store, and dangerously
wounded his wife at Washta. Morris
left town and returned Unexpectedly
during the night, entering his house
by a rear window. He found Jennings
there. and killed him instantly, a mo
ment later firing a bullet into his
wife's body. She will probably 70
cover.
Sheriff Sheldon of Lyman county
who has a large territory to cover in
his official duties, will get a gas hurry
up wagon to help in the work. He
thinEC tho nytra n,ilaaua uhinh hn nor
get over will soon pay for the ma
chine, and at the same time he will
be in shape to get to remote parts
of the county in short time when his
presence is demanded in a hurry, pro
viding the gumbo roads do not gel
him.
Frank c. Robinson, a member of a
dramatic company playing "As Told
in the Hills" was instantly killed al
Mitchell by coming in contact with q
guy wire leading from an electric light
pole to another pole. He was walking
through an alley and placed his hand
on the guy wire to steady himself
Henry Tippel, %janitor of the theater
was nearly killed in placing his hand
on the wire when he found Robinson's
body, and James Keaney also receiv
ed a severe shock.
Five hundred delegates are expect
ed in Waterfowl on Feb. II and IS to
attend the second annual convention
of the South Dakota Farmers Grain
Dealers association, which embraces
all the official boards and other of
fcers of the farmers elevator com
panies of the state. Among the emf
nent speakers that will appear on the
latter are E. G.. Dunn of Mason City
Iowa; C. B.. Messerole, secretary OF
the Farmers Grain Dealers Associ
alton of Iowa; j. l.. Johnson, secretary
of he Farmers Grain Dealers As
ISOLATION of Minnesota, and s. H. Ell
rcd Of Clark, and H. L. Loucke OF
Waterfowl.
The state board OF pardons In ses
sion at Pierre considered the applica
ton of Andrew Standing Bear n Ed
Davis. recommending a pardon in the
former case and sustaining action on
the latter. Standing Bear is an Indian
who was sent from Pennington coun,
ty on a rustling charge, and has con
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