The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1912-01-04
SOUTH DAKOTA IN BRIEF.

The Dakota Casualty company has
been organized with Offices at Sioux
Falls.
The Standard Oil company will es.
tablish a distributing station at Eagle
Butte.
What will be known as the Medi-
cine Creek Literary society. has been
organized at Presho.
One OF the recent improvements at
Faulkton is a new, strictly modern
hotel. costing $25, 900.
The new court house for SulIy coun.
ty will be ready for occupancy at
Onida in a few weeks.
A Pythian temple is to he organ
lied at Valley Springs, with a charter
membership of we'll toward 50.
The Redfeld commercial club has
appointed a committee Of three whose
duty it will be to look after all state
gatherings and capture as many state
conventions as possible for Rerfield
The organization of a company or
Boy Scouts is under way at Lennon
Walter f.. Woolf, states attorney for
ZiebaCh county. was thrown from a
horse one day last week and painfully
injured.
A new electric light system has
been completed and placed in opera
ton at White Lake, and for the first
2spoo ~ ite ,or {lo., OK IF ayict
ence White Lake nov is lighted in a
modern fashion.
Because they were not satisfactory
the board Of education Of Dallas has
rejected all bids submitted for the
construction OF a new high school
building. New bids have e adver-
tised for, and these will be opened
January Il.
A number OF the business men OF
Wakonda have organized what will be
known as the Wakonda Light, Power
& Heating Co.. and already have com.
menced the work of erecting a power
house to be used in connection with
the lighting and power systems which
they will install there.
Johnson Bros. rancbers lear Davit-
son, report that n pack OF buffalo
wolves are spreading terror among the
stock in their neighborhOod. The an.
finals have become so ravenous that
they attack full grown horses and
have killed and partially eaten severa
of them, as wei! as numbers OF calves
and colts.
Mobry Ripley, living near Oldham,
while operating a corn shelter, had
his hand caught in the machinery.
with the result hat several bones
were broken and the hand and part
OF the arm was badly mangled. IT was
necessary to remove parts Of the M.
chine before his hand and arm could
be released.
Mrs. Sam darlington Of Fort Pierre
was quite severely burned by a pc
culiar explosion which occurred as
she entered an empty room with n
lighted match. As she struck the
match the explosion took place. de
ranging the contents of the room.
knocking her down. and breaking the
windows. She was quito severely.
though not dangerously, burned. Ut is
supposed that a leaky pipe filled the
room with gas.
p. G. Valentine, a mechanical engin
eer, visited Aberdeen to inspect the
headlights used on this division of the
Milwaukee road. The Milwaukee is
working or plans to get all its locomo
tive headlights in shape to compl,
with the Wisconsin law requiring
headlights powerful enough TO enable
engineers to plainly see objects at a
distance of 500 feet, and a corps OF
mechanical engineers are now work
ing on the problem.
The Lake County bank of Madison
has received from an insurance com.
pany in London. England, a draft for
1000 to reimburse the bank for a
loss of this amount contained in n
registered package. which was all
stracted from a mail sack at the Mil.
waukee depot there a few weeks ago
An elaborate program bas been pre-.
pared for a farmers institute and
farm products show, which Is ~ be
held at Burke January IL and ". The
business men have contributed cash
and other prices for the best exhibits
OF farm prcSucts.