Brookings register. (Brookings, S.D.) 1890-1894, 1894-08-03
STATE NEWS IN BRIEF.

The gas has strong flow, and will
furnish the city fuel and light.
Earl Lam living near Water
town fell from a hay stack last
Monday and struck on the hay
rack. A sharp stick ran in his
body and he narrowly escaped
DEATH
A telegram from Pierre of the
9th says: An awful prairie fire
is raging a few miles above the
city today. Six horses were burn
ed to death and one man was so
terribly burned that his life is de-
SPARED of.
While watching a game of base
ball last Saturday at Watertown
a youth aged sixteen years was
knocked senseless by bat which
slipped from the batter's hands
The blow was enough to almost
kill the boy.
A fire in the steam laundry at
Madison last week gave the fire
department a chance to test the
new waterworks. The flames were
very soon subdued and the citizens
are now more than ever proud of
their water supply.
Two Jerauld county boys have
taken revolvers and ammunition,
and are now said to be on their
way across the plains, looking for
Indians. Their names are Arthur
Gates and Galen Schultze, aged IA
and 16 respectively.
The comptroller of the currency
has declared a second dividend of
80 per cent, making so per cent in
all, in favor of the creditors of the
insolvent Chamberlain National
bank of Chamberlain, S. d., on
claims aggregating SlS,S21.
The Holy Terror mine at Key
stone is proving itself worthy of
the name. 1t was lately discovered
by William Franklin of that camp.
From a recent run of thirty-seven
tons of ore last week, clean up
was made of $1,400. The pay
streak is increasing in width as
depth is attained.
Harvey L. Marlette, the Mil
waukee ticket agent at Alpena,
has applied for patent on an in
vention which, if it proves a sue
cess will be a big thing. He has
invented a "car mover" that will
do away with the crowbar. A
capitalist who believes the scheme
is a good one has gone to Mime
apolis to further the matter.
A telegram from Rowena, says:
many of the farmers are done cut
ting and the threshing machines
are all preparing to begin on Mon
day. Wheat is of unusual plump
ness and the quality promises to
be the best in years. Some farms
are already estimated at all average
yield of twelve bushels to the acre.
Early corn is in the roasting ear.
Settlers in from ceded Sioux
lands report that a large prairie
fire on the 9th swept the country
between the new Lower Brule
agency and White river, burning
much hay and doing other damage.
Thousands of acres were burned
over. The fire went south and is
probably now burning on Rosebud
reservation.
H. B. Burleigh, aged IS years,
has accomplished the feat of
driving from his farm in South
Dakota to his home in Buffalo n.
Y. He started last April, though
the actual time consumed in the
trip was thirty-three days. The
distance is |, 1,5S1 miles. The horses
are regulation farm horses and the
vehicle light two-seated spring
wagon, which Mr.. Burleigh took
with him to South Dakota eleven
years ago. Burleigh was born in
Albion, Orleans county.
A beautiful statue of Gen. John
A. Logan now adorns the grounds
of the South Dakota soldiers
home at Hot Springs. 1t was un.
yelled in the presence of a large
assemblage of Black Hills citizens