Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1911-01-12

!, fof Uttumwa, Ia, on visit to rela-
lives.
sSenatorsW right went to Huron to-
day to attend the funeral of w. H.
Smith
E. E. Wagner, United States dis
trict attorney arrived from Mitchell
yesterday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Tom Taubman of
Plankinton, are visiting at the Villas
home in this city.
Paul butcher of Brookings and L.
V. Doty of Doland, are attending the
Press meet in this city.
Chas. NJ. Day, editor of the Argus
Leader at Sioux Falls, is here in at
tendance at the meeting Of the Press
association.
The commission ought to have the
streets mended. One who fell off the
water wagon last week blames his
/ drop to the ruts.
The State Board of Pardons were in
session yesterday. Pardon was is
sued to George Bender, Hutchinson
county, grand larceny.
The following officers were elected
by the sheriffs of the state: j. w.
Laughlin, president; j S. Swanson,
Roberts county, secretary and treas
urer.
The following editors are in the
city from Sioux Falls for the state
4 printers meet: Messrs. Cogan, Day,
Schlosser, Beaumont, Scott, Beach
and DeMuth.
j. Psrmisy, president OF the
South Dakota Real Estate Mems AS
ISOLATION, has issued call for the
annual meeting to be held at Pierre
February 18th and sth.
The Rumley Machine company of
LaPorte, Ind, has secured trackage
and building sites and will erect a
large warehouse and establish head
quarters at Aberdeen.
i The sheriffs of the state who were
in attendance at the state meet Tues
day presented Sheriff Laughlin of this
city with handsome quarter sawed
| oak rocking chair, leather upholster.
ed, as a token of esteem, and as an
appreciation for the manner in which
they were entertained while in the
city.
1 At the meeting of the State Bar as
sociation held here today, the follow
ing delegates were elected to attend
the Bar meet at Boston in August:
| G. G. Sherwood, Clark; G. a. Mead,
Clear Lake: e. q. Wagner, Mitchell,
Alternates, w. Stuart, Sturgis; Jas.
Brown, Chamberlain; Alvin e. Tay-
|;lor, Huron.
i George Turner, champion heavy
weight wrestler of South Dakota,
and Carl Mattsson, a Minneapolis
i heavyweight, will battle for mat
honors in the auditorium tonight at
tnine O'Clock. These men are quite
I evenly matched, Turner weighing
| 1872 pounds, Mattsson 1876. The bout
will be for blood and promises to be
the most interesting sporting event
pulled off here in some time.
/ Looking backward to find winter
as mild as this, several old residents
mention that of 1890 81. That was g
very mild until the 9Th of February,
when the first really severe storm COM
menced. There have been other win
ters equally mild, but that particular
winter is more definitely fixed in their
minds, as during it occurred the last
trouble with the Sioux, eliminating in
the battle Of Wounded Knee, where a
detachment of the Seventh cavalry
practically exterminated Big Foot's
/ band
The 9-year-old daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. George Muter, who reside on a
homestead in the vicinity of Topbar,
western Stanley county, died Sunday
as the result of an apparently trivial
injury. Some days before her death
herself and other children were play
ing with a log chain, and in some
way the hook struck the little girl in
the corner of the eye near the nose.
The girl complained but little and the
injury was regarded as trifling, but
.. ! from it brain fever developed and
caused the death of the child.
Among those in the city today to at
tend the meeting of the State Abstract
ers association are: J w, Cone, pres,
Of Sioux Falls; G. E. Noel, secy., High
more; A. M. Hastings. Rochester, N.
Y; C. S. Kitchel of Milwaukee; I. p.
Keator, Chicago; F. l.: Clisby, Parker;
I N. M. Nelson, Salem; j. w. Parmley,
Ipswich; S. C. Southwich. Watertown
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