Brookings weekly register. (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1898-1903, 1900-10-11
work has corpmenced on the new
farmers elevator at Hurley. s ~

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The telephone company at Aberdeen
has made connection with Selby, on
the line west. and will soon reach Ev-
erts. a. e..=
| On Oct. the Bullock hotel at Dead
wood will change hands. the new man
ayers being w A. Ickes and p. N.
| Carr .s'
John p. Williamson Of Greenwood re.
! ceived the senatorial nomination for
the district comprising Douglas. Greg
ory and Charles Mix counties.
| The three Deadwood men arrested
| for arson the morning of the fire in
Chinatown. have been bound over to
the grand jury under a cash bond OF
| $780, 4
Mrs. ]. Woodruff of Sisseton has left
| for Crow Creek Agency, Montana,
where she has accepted a position as
assistant matron in the Indian school
there.
Faulk county has called upon the
state land department for $l,7OO of the
permanent school fund in addition to
the regular apportionment sent to that
county
Gov. Lee has appointed Mrs. Jane
Waldron of Fort Pierre as a member
OF the woman's board of investigation
of the board of charities and correc-
| tions, to succeed Mrs. S. V. Arnold OF
| Ipswich.
+. l.. Craw. capitalist from Grand
Rapids. Mich, who has been looking
over the coal deposits near WashbuIn,
thinks the people of the state do not
realize the vast amount of wealth that
| lies right at their doors.
Seven or eight hobbes held up Billy
Mason at Clear Lake and got away
with $50. They fiourished their guns,
and were going to run the town, but
when they saw crowd gathering. dis
| persed and left town. ,..}
Wolves and coyotes are becoming
very numerous along the Missouri river
| in Charles Mix county. 1t is said to be
almost impossible to raise pig or calf
in some localities without keeping them
in a tight board enclosure.
SamscI Renville an Indian merchant
| of Kell&r. has been arrested on the
charge of numbering Ole QveIlo,
farmer who lives near Sisseton. The
Aug. IL. and grew out of a quarrel.
The state treasury has received ST.
9O9 more liquor license money, making
| the revenue from this source over $780,
600 for the fiscal year. The counties re-
r7'tt'~~ wore: Hamlin. $575: Fall Riv-
er, 5000; Sanborn, $434; Stanley, $500.
...c reconstruction of the gas and
electric light plant of Aberdeen has
progressed so far that the manufacture
of the illuminant has again begun.
| The electric branch was rebuilt and
operations resumed within thirty days
after the fire. .. .. ..
William Shakel, the Choteau Creek
ranchman, VINO was taken to Chicago
some weeks ago for treatment for
blood poison caused by a slight cut in
his hand while skinning a beef, and
who was expected to die, has returned
to the ranch entirely cured.
@. w. Carpenter. a civil engineer of
Watertown. has completed the work
| OF setting the guages in the Sioux river
with which a record Of the rise and fan
OF the water will be kept. Upon what
this record shows will depend whet ether
| the government will make improve
| ments around Lake Kampeska for res
ervoir purposes.
| A company owning a large amount
of hemp and timber land along the
shore Of Neuvitas bay. in Cuba, will
| ship new machinery from New York
| for hemp mill and a complete saw
and planning mill to work up the ma
| hogany timber. The incorporators Of
| the company are: o. r. Brandt, Geo.
Collins, F. Bryant. Fl. Keats and Pri-
mo Catalina of Lead. ~..a
DIR. Bullock, cousin of Gov. Roose-
welt, who has been the government
| physician at Cheyenne River Agency
for some time, has been transferred to
the Cherokee Reservation in North
Carolina, to act in a similar capacity
The potato crop in the vicinity of
Scotland is almost failure because of
the unusually heavy rains in the
spring which caused them to grow too
| rapidly. The crop will supply only the
local demand.
Mr.. and Mrs. John c. January. who
removed to Oak Tree. Va, a few
months ago, decided that they did not
desire To live in that country. and have
returned TO Dell Rapids. Will Zear.
ley. Burt Lyons and James Blow. ,r,.
came back with Mr. January. The
boys had been in Virginia for several
| months, were not satisfied with the
country, and are apparently glad to
| get back to South Dakota, where en-
ployment can almost always be had at
good wages.