The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1909-05-20
SOUTH DAKOTA
General State News
Photographed.

menueQ a PARDON lOF fnlllP van hou'
rem, sentenced from Lawrence county
on a forgery charge.
The Luther league for South Dakota,
which has been in session at Aber-
deem for four days, adjourned after
selecting Bookings as tlH meeting
place for the 1910 convention.
Henry Waterman, about forty years
oil, was struck by a passenger train
on the Chicago & North Western train
two miles west of ~Iroquois and killed,
The body was horribly mangled.
The Woman's Library association of
Mitchell held its first Tag day" and
had enlisted in its aid the teachers of
the city school, the ladies belonging to
the various clubs and members of the
association.
Arrangements are being made by
the Deadwood Business CLUB to hold
the second annual Pa-Ha-Sa-Pa carni-
val the week of Aug. 20, when the
state association of Elks will hold its
convention.
Judge McNulty in the circuit court
at Milbank decided the liquor ques-
ton trial in favor of the VETS" at the
April election. Owing to technicalities
regarding the ballots the, "drys" claim
ed the victory.
Mr.. and Mrs. Anton Van Hout, pio-
neers and prominent citizens Of the
vicinity of Milbank, celebrated the
twenty-ffth anniversary Of their mar
riage at their home in Melrose town
ship, this county. Two hundred guests
were present.
The 2,71O-acre ranch of NJ. F.. Caha-
Ian, four miles north of Rec Heights,
has just been sold to Heltibridle &
Shuster for $4,000, or $25 an acre.
This is the largest land sale made
here this season. The place has an
artesian yell and improvements.
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Deputy United States Marshal Ed
wards Of Sioux Falls arrived at Madi-
son, having in charge Levi Graham,
who was conducted to the Lake coun-
ty Jail for demolishing a rural mail
box. The fine imposed by the federal
court was $25, in default of which the
culprit went to Jail.
yNvl;1o A. E,oo,,,- Dat, o1o,,otOr
was burning at Aberdeen a box filled
with waste was discovered ablaze at
the Nortl-W Western station. The box
had been placed against the building,
and is believed to have been lighted
by an inCendiary. 1t was discovered
in time to prevent a second fire that
night.
Thomas LaZOras, a Greek laborer,
was cleaning an ash pan on a Milwau-
kee engine when another engine en-
tered the ~rounGhOuse at Aberdeen and
bumped into the one Lazoras was
working under, causing the locomotive
to cut off both Lazoras legs. Lazo-
ras is Twenty-Five years of age. He
has a family.
Tsomas Lazoras, a Greek llabore:,
was cleaning an ash pan on a Milwau-
kee engine at Aberdeen when another
engine entered the rOundhouse and
bumpd into the n LaZoras was work
ing under, causing the locomotive to
move sufficiently to cut Off both Lazo-
ras legs. Lazoras is Twenty-Five years
of age. He has a family.
Jealous over attentions paid to the
woman with whom he was living in a
section known as Coke Hill, Dead
wood, James Fro, an Italian, shot
and instantly killed Ralph Walker, a
young negro whom he found talking
with the woman Ferro escaped, but
a sheriff's posse pursued and captured
him near Sturgis, bringing him to jail
at D~eadwood.
Two Aberdeen churcnes are to soon
possess costly pipe organs. Mrs,
Blanche bushnell, a wealthy widow
and an enthusiastic church worker,
has donated a $4,000 organ to the new
First Methodist Episcopal church,
which is now being erected at a cost
of $40, 1000, and the parishioners of
Sacred Heart Catholic church are TAX.
ing steps to install a new pipe organ,
costing about $4,000 in that edifce.
The west-bound express on the Chi
cago G. Northwestern is supposed to
have struck Henry Waterman Of Wat.
seka, ILL.,, two miles west of ~Iroquois
AS near as could be learned by an in
vestigation made by Coroner TolmS
of this city the man was walking
down the track, when the express
came along. The body was badly
mangled, and death resulted almost
Immediately after the accident. The
man was a stranger in these parts
The remains will be sent to Watseka
Good progress is being made in the
work of drilling an artesian well al
Bryant, which is designed to furnish
water for fire protection and domestic
purposes. Thedrill now is down ovel
400 feet, and the work is being prose
cuted in hone of striking a fine flow