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More than one hundred land seekers from the East arrived at Huron recently to take up land on the Sioux reservation. Wliliam Sargood and Albert Adams have been bound over at Ipswich to answer to the charge of stealing a dwelling house. John Mickelson of Deadwood died of asthma, aged fifty-two. He was a member of the A. O. U. W. and left a wife and nine children. A Baptist church of fifteen members was organized at Burbank by Rev. Mr. Hupp of Elk Point, and Rev. Dr. Shanafelt, Baptist missionary for South Dakota. Bail of $10,000 has been granted George Northam, the Homestake special agent, charged with the murder of George Tallman at Lead, and he is at liberty. The board of county commissioners of Marshall county let the contract for the installation of a gasolene plant of 100 lights capacity for the lighting of the county building. Judge Loring E. Gaffy, who has for ten years presided over the "Big Sixth" judicial circuit, authorizes the announcement that he will not be a candidate for renomination. The oldest settlers of the Black Hills cannot recall a winter that will compare with the present in its mildness. There has been scarcely any snow and the mercury has seldom been down to zero. Judge Jones has approved the sale by Receiver Jay Manson of the Egan State bank, which closed its doors a few weeks ago. The bid of $5,560 of the First State bank of Egan was the highest. The stockholders of the Clay County Fair association have decided that the people do not want a fair and have taken steps to dispose of the fair ground property. The association is $1,600 in debt. The State Mutual Fire association elected a new set of officers as follows: John Kielbaugh, president, Tyndall; O. A. Rongsrud, vice president, Elk Point; J. B. Wolgamuth, secretary and treasurer, Mitchell. Paul C. Kleeman, manager of the Kleeman hotel at Custer, who was seriously injured in the railroad wreck at Rochford two weeks ago, has recovered sufficiently to be discharge from the hospital at Deadwood. At the annual meeting of the Waubay Creamery association stockhelders it was found that the creamery had an unusually successful year, having paid out $17,483.07 to the farmers for butter fat alone. The finances are in excellent condition. Jacob Junti of Roubaix, who was accused of the murder of a countryman, Matt M. Laitala, has been released at Deadwood on the ground of insufficient evidence. Laitala met his death under mysterious circumstances and suspicion attached to Junti. In the matter of the receivership of the Huran Fruit and Produce company, the court directed that all money, books and property be immediately turned over to Isaac Van Winkle, the receiver. The affairs of the company are said to be in a muddled condition. Harry Gilmore has been released on an order made by Judge Bennett at Watertown. The law prohibits the examining magistrate from adjourning preliminary hearings for more than six days. The hearing of Gilmore on the charge of perjury was adjourned for ten days to allow witnesses to come to Watertown from Sing Sing, N. Y., which action by the justice was declared illegal and the defendant ordered released. While the members of the soldiers'
