Semi-weekly register. (Brookings, Brookings Co., S.D.) 1894-1898, 1895-02-09
STATE NEWS,
Items of Interest Cleaned From Late
Exchanges.

Items of Interest Cleaned From Late
Exchanges.
The finance committee of the South
Dakota legislature advocates petition
ing congress to favor free coinage of
silver.
There are s,942 members of the A.
0. U. w., in South Dakota, and the
Grand Lodge reports the order in a
flourishing condition.
S. H. Goepfert, president Of the
Merchants bank at Watertown, has
been arrested for embezzlement by f.
p. Phillips, who was appointed re-
ceiver of the bank.
The senate committee on post Of
fees and postroads on Tuesday re-
ported adversely the nomination of
Alfred d. Tinsley, who was named for
postmaster at Sioux Falls. 1t has
been long contest in which Senator
Pettigrew made a vigorous fight
against the appointee.
Senator Pettigrew need not feel
alarmed because Of the criticism ex-
pressed on account Of his vote on the
! Hawaiian question. 1t is doubtful
if on second thought our people want
to interfere with the affairs of any
outside country. He voted correct on
the Nicaragua canal question.
The Mutual Life Insurance COM
pany of New York has followed the
example of the railroads and paid its
taxes to the state two months before
they are due. The company took the
position that owing to the great de-
falcation of Treasurer Taylor the
state was hard pressed for funds and
that it was the duty of all taxpayers
to come voluntarily to the help of the
commonwealth.
A dispatch Of the 18th inst. says:
Charlie Mccoy, Of South Dakota, who
has been in Washington for two or
three days, left for New York. Nc
Coy is still supposed to be the busi-
ness agent of Taylor, the defaulting
state treasurer. During his stay here
South Dakotans were unable to dis
cover the nature Of his business. 1t
is supposed, however, that he is work.
ing in the interest of Taylor in order
to effect settlement for him.
N. NJ. Hills, ex-county superintend-
ent of schools of Yankton county,
committed suicide by hanging on Sat
urday afternoon in the small town
where he lived east Of Yankton. He
tied piece of clothes line around his
neck and fastened the other end to a
pin of door hinge, then throwing his
whole weight on it and strangled. In
letter to his friends he assigns as a
cause for his rash act his fear that he
could never recover from the nervous
malady which had once caused his in
generation in the state hospital for
the insane.
An excellent test Of irrigation will
be made this spring in Douglas
county. There will be at least eight
farmers in that county who will ex-
pertinent with it. James A. Wilson,
who own 900 acres of land near Ar
mour, has completed six-inch well
and has obtained flow of 2,100 gal
Ions minute. He has constructed a
reservoir which contains twenty-seven
acres of land and will hold 10000, 900
gallons of water. From this he has
constructed waterways to conduct the
water over the farm. G.. o. Knapp
will also irrigate 600 acres of
land near Armour with 6-inch we'll.
A dispatch from Aberdeen states:
"The dairying interests of South Da-
kota are receiving an unusual amount
of attention this winter. The profess
sors of the Agricultural college at
Brookings are in great demand and
farmers institutes are being held In
almost every neighborhood. Prof.
Wheaton, who Is at the head OF this
department In this state, states that
he had never In all his experience seen
such interest manifested and believes
that another season the much talked
of diversity in farming will be a real
! ity with our agricnlturists. AS re-
suit of one Of Mr.. Wheaton's meetings
| in Mcpherson county no less than five
creameries will be started ir the
spring. Cows and creameries are the
order of the day"