Brookings weekly register. (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1898-1903, 1899-04-13


and dealers have been obliged to dole
oct a few hundred pounds TO their GUS
toners from time 10 time, in order 10
make their small stocks go as far as
possible.
! A reminder of the old and bitter
I days OF county seat fights is the refer-
ence. by the editor OF the Parkston
Courier TO the editor of his ''esteemed
contemporary" as poor, little, sawed
off. fiat-pated, broad-mouthed. meddle-
some biped and concentration of rot.
| This place has good chance of Sc
curing the Augustana College. as after
careful consideration. the college au-
| thorities have concluded that tue in
ducements offered by Hudson are more
liberal than those offered by any other
town.
There is fear that there will be Sc
we're overflow of water in a few days
when the snow melts off from the
mountains west of DeadwOod. People
living on the lower fats of the city apt
along the creeks which come ..3~n
from the mountains are making rrena'
ratons 10 move out suddenly.
| Charles Paullow. young son of Alder
man Pankow of Sioux Falls, who dis
appeared from home a short time ago,
has been heard from NJ Prairie du
Chen. Wis. He says he decided To
! visit his grandfather in the East. and
knowing his parents would object 10
his leaving school now, took this means
Of gratifying his taste for travel.
! Mr.. and Mrs. jeremiah Lohh. Who
have created n sensation in Lead have
gone to keeping house. Mrs. Lobb
came from Michigan in response to In
/ formation sent her by II friend. ana
found her husband living with Mrs
Rogers. The matter has been settled
and Mrs. Rogers has left for her home
in Michigan.
! Brule county does not owe one dollar
OF bonded debt. She paid her war
rants up To Inst July and another call
is to be shortly issued to take up some
more. With another harvest the coua-
, ~ viii he out of debt. And she pos
scsseS artesian wells and other county
property TO the amount of $4,000
! While William Wird and Edward
Crockett of Meade county We're show
Ing some wolf hides to the county au.
ditor in the courthouse in SturSiS, a
revolver fell out of Crockett's pocket
and one of the cartridges was dis
charged, the ball striking the man be-
, low the knee, Shattcring one bone and
passing through the other.
The remains of human body were
found while making an excavation for
a cellar near the Catholic cemetery at
Deadwood. and the oldest residents Of
the city have no recollection of a burial
AZ that place. 1t is believed that il is a
body of one OF the first pioneers who
came TO Deaiwood in the early sew
enties.
! John Davis of Willow Lakes has
been bound over 10 the next term of
the circuit court Of Clark county for an
assault upon James Davis. The de-
! fendant went 70 the home of Davis and
! attempted by force to take away his
oldest child. the mother having left
Davis and already taken away two
younger children. The father objected
TO the proceeding and was assaulted.
! State Senator George W. Snow is a
candidate for the position of depart
ment commander q. A. II. of South
I Dakota, TO be elected at the state en-
campment 10 be held in Hot Springs
in June. He is commander OF the
Grand Army post at Springfield He is
one Of the oldest residents of the state
and was among the youngest to enlist
i'll the war of the rebellion.
There is a great shortage of hay all
over this section Of the state and ex-
! trayagant prices are asked for hay by
those having IL for sale. Stock has
suffered TO some extent and In some
cases there has been considerable loss,
On the whole. the loss will be small.
and as the ranges are now getting free
from snow cattle will be able TO. pick
a good living from this time on.
The locomotive which ran into and
killed man named O'Hara and seri.
ously injured a companion named Nc.
Carary. one mile southeast of Esmond
| few days ago, is the same one which
| telesceped- passenger coach at Ar
Engton about two years ago, killing
! Conductors Addington and Hosac and
one passenger. As slaughterer of hu
mamty. this engine appears 10 he max.
ing a record.
Young Mems Christian Associations
connected with educational institutions
and colleges in South Dakota closed a
three days convention at Huron Mon.
day. Delegates 10 the number of fifty
or more were present and the gathering
was an interesting and profitable one
AS much OF the work of the organiza.
tion is done by committees, very few
speeches were made or lengthy papers
read; everything was business, from
start to finish.
Miller is experiencing a scarcity OF
coal and decided shortage of pota'
toes, owing to the unprecedented and
unexpected cold March with the deer
snow. The Sioux City commission
men, who shipped hundreds OF yearlins
calves here about March 1st, at the end
Of what was supposed was land usually
is) a mild, winter. placing them with
farmers, dfc meeting with loss, as th,
hay is giving out near town.
! Mayor Hute Of Aberdeen has received
a letter from the committee In charge
Of the funds for the erection of n ma
tional monument in honor of the sol