Brookings weekly register. (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1898-1903, 1899-03-23


Kirk Phillips has returned 10 Dead
wood. and will devote his time To his
drug store.
Lead IS 10 have complete sewerage
and drainage system put in this year.
1t will cost $4,000.
Oldham, Kingshury county. will
have among its provements this spring
telephone system.
A. W. Thomas. formerly sheriff OF
Douglas county. has commenced suit
against the county for SGio for fees.
pickler & O'Neill of Faulkton have
inst added 500 head Of cattle to their
herd. They were bought in North Da-
kota.
An ordinance providing for an annu-
nj license Of So on milk wagons has
passed it's first reading in the city
council OF Madison.
All the unleased school lands in Deu-
Ell county viii bc offered for sale 10 the
highest bidder at the front door of the
court house at Clear Lake.
The United States gunboat Vixen,
commanded by Lieut. Alex. Sharp, Il
Yankton hoy, has been ordered to join
Admiral Dcweys fleet in the Philip
pines.
Mrs. Helen Rose has resigned rs
postm,strCss at East Pierre. and viii
return 20 her old home in Germany.
-. J. Davis haa been recommended as
her successor.
Henry Cubbarly. deputy postmaster
Gnd only son Of W. G.. Cuhhgrlv. post
.,f ..t IL. s,f
pneumonia. resulting from a prior at
tack of Ia grippe.
The Highland Creamery Stock COM
pany has been incorporated. with the
following officers President. John -,
Smith: treasurer. +. G, Hegelson; sec
Crtary, G.. A. Grant.
Plankiuton has been struck by the
general wave of prosperity, The rep
rCSoLtativc of an Eastern musical
house has recently sold seven new p!.
amos To residents of that town.
The commissioners Of Meade county
have passed n resolution declaring that
hereafter tine county will pay no more
wolf hoUnties, the 50 bounty offered
by the state being considered enough.
O. \. Bates. who operates large
poultry farm In Dawson county. re-
Gently filled a gCol-Si2ed order for par
ties at Rockford ill. aud has further
orders On hand from other Eastern
states.
L. Manning of Aberdeen committed
suicide by shooting himself through
TIE heart with Il revolver. dying in
stantly. This was his third attempt
to take his lfe He leaves a wife and
four children.
Henry Schaeffer. a well-to-do farmer
of Walshtown, Yankton county, will
erect a $1,000 barn. to be l6 feet
in dimensions. and which will be de
voted 10 the shelter and care of Mr..
Schaeffer's stock-cattle and horses.
Scott Motley, the handsome. big
hearted and universally-p ular man,
for dozen years n resident Of Dead
wood and the Black Hills country,
died at his boyhood's home in Nicks-
burg, Mich. last week of scarlet fever.
A nonresident, owning a quarter sec
tion OF land near Ircquois. was offered
$1,000 for it. but he refused it, and
said he would prefer to buy more land
himself if it could he got at that price.
Several years ago he would have sold
ii for much less.
4 Mr.. Johnson of Wisconsin has pur-
chased 100 acres Of farm land a mile
west of Spatterwood lake. half a mile
north Of the Faux county line. upon
which he will remove with his family
in the spring. and hereafter make his
bpmp in Soyth Dakota
The new appropriation for the gov
ernment schools at Flandreau for the
ensuing year amount to S42,Io0 for
$50 pupils ut S16I each: $1,000 for
general repairs; $1,000 for salary Of
superintendent: $1,000 for water and
$500 for Il new electric light plant
The amount OF taxes received by Jer-
auld county for the month of Febru-
| AIRY. 1899. exceeds that Of the same
month Of 1898 10y s72l. The amount of
taxes for the year 1897. paid in Febru-
| AIRY. 1888 was S9.903. The amount Of
taxes for the year 1858, paid in during
February last, was s10,G2i.
The following immigrants unloaded
household effects and farm machinery
at Salem. McCCok county, last week
Robert Lairl. from Fairfax. Iowa; two
cars; Gordon Guthrie. Cedar Rap!dS.
Iowa; John Hinch. Des Moines. Iowa;
George Englet Belmond, Iowa; Ed
Bullock, Belmond, Iowa.
South Dakota postmasters appointed
this week were: Baltic. Minnehaha
county. Henry ID. Box. vice Henry la
valid. removed Earling. Presho coun-
~. Mrs. Ellen NJ. Johnson. vice John
L. Tulford. resigned: Memo. Lawrence
county, Henrietta G. Edwards, vice
william Mccall, removed.
In the last six weeks seventeen cars
of household goods. belonging TO new
settlers have been unloaded at Dell
Rapids. Last year total Of but thir'
tce:i car loads of similar freight was
nnloadcl there. This Is simply an in
stance of the manner in which new
settlers are pouring into the state.
J. C. Miller Of Watertown has re.
ceived letter from Walter Miller
dated at Manila, Jan. 3lst in which
he saws that Col. Frost has transferred