The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1911-08-10
SOUTH DAKOTA NEWS NOTES

The Methodist churches of Grant
and Roberts counties will hold a har-
vest festival service at Corona on
September 10-11-12.
A special election will be held a
Hecla 500 for the purpose Of voting
on the question of issuing bonds Of
$4,000 for a municipal system of water.
works.
]. p. Cheever of BrookinGs has &C
luired fame by lassoing a moose
while hunting in northern Wisconsin.
At least that it the story that comes
from Superior.
Mary Williams and Ben Looking
White, two Indians, are in jail at
Oacoma awaiting trial on a statutory
charge. The woman is married, and
she eloped with Looking White.
Claude Garner, of Onida, picked up
4 little gasoline money a few days
ago, by running down and killing a
coyote with his auto. There were
but two Of them got out of the way and
the third went under the machine, and
gave Garner the bounty for expenses
Of the race.
Fred Briggs, a rural mail carrier,
rad q narrow escape from death neat
Leslie. A ]cloudburst swept down Il
creek, catching him and sweeping him
down on the crest of the food. BY
desperate efforts he succeeded in
reaching a cave under a cutoff bank,
from which he was rescued the follow
Ing morning.
The Vermillion valley drainage ditch
is no small project. 1t will be IA miles
long, 10 feet wide and IL feet deer
and will cost $4,000. The dredge
which will do the work cost $4,000
The ditch will make dependable many
thousands of acres of land hitherto
Subject to flooding and quite unprofit
able in wet years.
Cattle shipments for this time of the
year at Rapid City, are heavy and al
the available, stock is being sent Il
market, largely due to the scarcity 0
feed in the western part of the state
in some instances the cattle are beins
shipped to other points in the ives
where the feed is plenty and will tier
be fattened for market.
Rapid City has taken it's place a
one of the towns of the state whicl
will have no Sunday mail in the future
Complaints reach Hudson that ur
known persons are engaged in dyna
hitting fish in the Big Sioux and Roc
rivers, and that the law also Is bein.
violated by others who are usin
seines. 1t is expected arrests will b
made.
That hundreds of elk, deer and ar
telope are starving to death in the We
lowstone National park while tn
Black Hills and other localities are O
fering them shelter and protection, /
the assertion Of Claude Williams,
Deadwood man now specially employe
by the government in the park gathel
ing trout spawn. Williams writes {
his trip through the park and declare
that he finds bodies Of the animals fc
miles around Gardner, Mont. in som
places the bodies being SO thick Tia
they are piled IN top of each othe
lie also declares that he learned tha
! what he saw was only a small per Ger
Of the animals that are constant
dying.
Sparks blown from the pipe OF
, mar who was enjoying a smoke du
| ing a high wind set fire to the praiTi
, in Ca:apbell township, in Hand count,
, and before the flames could be eXtil
, guished they had consumed the ha
on Q full section of land.
States Attorney Wolfe of Ziebac
county did not like the looks of til
report Of cattle in that county whic
w%asturnedin by the assessor and star
: ed on a hunt of his W which resulte
in the placing or the assessment rol
J about : 10000 head which the assesst
had not found.