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Brookings weekly register. (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1898-1903, 1903-07-23
Plea for City Hospital.

The undersigned physicians Of
Brooh.E"- desire iO call lue attention
VI the public 20 the iolloWIng;-
We need hospital in BruJklnL~ Tor
tht accommodated OF the citizens Of
Bookings and surrounding towns
The physicians OF this section have
been himpered ln their wOrN Tor a
number Oi years 10y the lack o. hos
pitdl Cuuyeucnces tor the proper
treatment Ol many cases.
In case OF emergency 10 is dJiiIcut
even 10 ind room IN which 20 care
lur medIca. and surgical cases.
We frequently have 20 refuse cases
from nelIAburlh- towns on account oI
having 40 proper place 10 keep them
while under treatment
The need which we realize is felt by
the physicians Of outside towns as lar
west as Huron, and who would gladly
patrouiZe hospital il situated within
a reasonable distance
AT the present time patients VINO
wish to be treated ia hospital must
itravel great distance, and We
accordingly believe that a hospital
situated 10 BrOOkingS would be appre-
ciated by the general public Is well as
by the physicians.
Several other cities in South Dakota
have hospitals and we ought TO keep
up with them.
The Catholic Sisterh0od who are
conducting most successfully the hos
pitai at Aberdeen desire to erect a
building here aud open hospital for
the benefit Of tie public q 'ai, part
Of the state.
They solicit the support Of the
people OF BrCOkiuRs and vicinity.
The Sisters need no recommenda-
tion from us a> to the noble and self
sacrificing character Of their work.
and we bespeak for them and the
work which they propose TO do among
Us a little subscription from the
people OF Hrookings.
They plan 70 proceed at once with
the erection Of hospital TO cost $40,
! 00O. or this amount they hope that
One-third may be raised by popular
subscription here.
The hospital is to be open 70 people
Of all creedS and for the use Of al
reputable physicians.
Commenting the project TO your
! patronage. We are,
Respectfully.
J. 9 PARSONS.
f. KLANENEs~
g. }. COLLIER
f. &. MILLER.
a W HYDE.
r. w, TENANT
Brookings weekly register. (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1898-1903, 1903-07-23
Lots for Sale

SIX and lue-half choice lots for sale
in east HroOkiuE>: very desirable loca.
ton Enquire Of a. II Wheaton. 52Lf
Arizona republican., 1903-03-01

fenced to be shot at dawn. All t,Iis he had written out, and then, that his ac-
 count might be complete, he had gone
 on and imagined his own execution. This was written in sort of pigeon
 or perhaps you would call it black
 Spanish. English, and let on to be the
 work of the eyewitnesses to whom
 Simpkins had confided his letter. He
 had been the sentry over the prisoner, and for small bribe in hand and the
 promise of a larger one from the paper
 he had turned his back on Simpkins ! while he wrote out the story, and after ward had deserted and carried it to | the Cuban lines.
 1 The account ended: "Then, as the order to fire was given by the lieuten- ant, Senor Simpkins raised his eyes | toward heaven and cried: T protest in the name of my American citizen- ship!'" At the end of the letter, and not intended for publication was scrawled: "This is bully scoop for you. boys. but it's pretty tough on me. Goodby. Simpkins.''
 The managing editor dashed a tear from his eye when he read this to me, and gulped little as he said: q can't help it; he was such a d-d thought full boy. Why, he even remembered to enclose descriptions for the pictures.''
 Simpkins' last story covered the whole of the front page and three col umns of the second, and it just nat urally sold cords of papers. His editor demanded that the state department take it up, though the Spaniards de- nied the execution or any previous knowledge of any such person es this Senor Simpkins. That made another page in the paper, of course, and then they got up a memorial service, which was good for three columns. One of those fellows that you can find in every office, who goes around and makes the boys give up their lunch money to buy flowers for the deceased aunt of the cellar boss wife, managed to collect s20 among our clerks, and they sent a floral notebook, with Gone to Press done in blue immortelles on the cover, as their "tribute.''
 I put on plug hat and attended the service out of respect for his father. But I had hardly got back to the office before I received wire from Jamaica, reading: Gable your correspondent here let me have hundred. Notify father all hunk. Keep it dark from others. Simpkins.''
 I kept it dark and Ezra came back to life by easy stages and in such ! way as not to attract any special at tention to himself. He managed to get the impression around that he'd been snatched from the jaws ot death by .l rescue party at the last moment. The last I heard of him he was in New York and drawing $10,000 year, which was more than he could have worked up to in the leather business in a cen tury.-From Letters of a Self Made Merchant to His Son." by George Hor- ace Lorimer.
Arizona republican., 1903-03-01
MORE ARTISAN WELLS.

J. c. Ottoman, N. s. Bradfeld, E. w. Blake and L. J. Broschears, of Met calf, spent a part of Sunday in Clifton. MT. Broschears recently located a tract of land adjoining the Sisson tract, near Stafford, upon which such a strong flow of artesian water was recently struck. Last week he received information that a flow of artesian water had been struck at a depth of 423 feet which is much stronger than the Sisson well. Either of these wells are now spouting more water than any other wells in the county. This water has been struck in a new district, on an upland near the Graham mountains, all of which has since been located, and much of which will be in cultivation in a few years. J. c. Ottman owns a tract of land ad- joining the Broschears tract, and he also has arranged to have an artesian we'll sunk in the near future.-Clifton Era.
Arizona republican., 1903-03-01
LEG CRUSHED BY ENGINE.

Charley Thieson, the aged night watchman at the Colorado river bridge, had one of his ankles crushed Thurs day night about 1O:SO by an engine and is now in the railroad hospital at Los Angeles, badly injured, but under the circumstances lucky to be alive, though it was thought the limb would have to be amputated. It is the duty of the watchman to inspect the Yuma bridge and also one on the other side, about one-fourth of a mile distant, af- ter the passage of every train, and while returning on his tricycle. from an inspection of the further bridge he col l1ded with an engine on a sharp curve just beyond the river. The watchman and his tricycle. were hurled from the track, and besides having his leg crushed he was badly bruised and cut about the body. His injuries were temporarily dressed by pr. Fletcher side, who sent him to Los Angeles Fri day morning.-Yuma Sentinel.
Arizona republican., 1903-03-01
SNOW SUCKING ON THE PEAK
An Employment Where Nature Often
 Defeats the Laborer.

Snow bucking on Pike's Peak is ted:- ous and difficult for laborers and the only enthusiasts at the start are men who have never tried it before. When the order is given there is always a fuli complement of men. The second or third day finds an army of deserters that would appalI other railroad man. agers. For instance, if the day is too cool, nothing can be gained by shovel ing because the snow is too solidly packed. If it is too sunshiny then the men are blinded. Most of the work is done with snow blind or veil over the face of the men. It not only blinds them, but the reflection of the sun on these great masses of snow results in a burn that would make the severest case of sunburn feel like a cooling lotion.
 When a person goes blind in the glare of the sun there is not much in the way of a remedy for him. Some relief is experienced by digging holes in the big banks of the snow and after covering the head with blanket, by lying there for hours. As rule the men are re- quired to go below and give up the task for several days. It is a curious sight ito see the half blinded and scared wCrlsnen constantly vending their way to the station below and disgusted at their defeat by nature.
 Mechanically the bucking of snow
Arizona republican., 1903-03-01
ABOUT THE LAST AERONAUT
Andree's Brother Seeks to Have Him
 Declared Legally Dead.

On the summer day nearly five years ago when s. A Andree, the Arctic aero- naut, .ascended from the north coast Of Spitzbergen at Advent bay and was soon lost to sight forever, he drew up his will Three minutes before he stepped into the car and the balloon rose in the air he signed the document.
 The will declared that he left all his property to his brother. Captain Ernst Wilhelm Andree, of the Swedish army. It added that his brother would devote a part of the estate to specific purposes which he had indicated to Captain An dree by word of mouth. The will was taken back to Sweden and delivered into his brothers hands.
 Before the estate of a deceased per- son can be settled in Sweden it is nec- essary that his death shall be officially declared and on record in the govern ment offices at Stockholm, but it does not declare that he is dead. It says only that he is missing and that his whereabouts are unknown.
 Captain Andree has now applied to the government to declare the lost eX- plorer dead and thus enable him legally to come into possession of the small property which his brother left to him. In his petition he says that no one now entertains the slightest hope that his brother may be among the living. All experts in Arctic matters. all sailors who frequent Arctic waters, are unan- imously of the opinion that there is not the slightest ground for believing that Andree and his comrades escaped death.
 It is expected that his petition will be granted and that the death of Andree will be officially declared in the gov ernment offices. Until the present time none of Andree's family nor any Scandinavian Arctic explorers had ad- mitted that he had given up hope that the explorer would yet be found alive It is probab that for years his rela- lives have really believed him dead, but they were not willing to admit that the last hope had expired.
 Now, however, his own family are openly of the opinion that the world generally has expressed for the last three years. It is not believed that the i'll fated party were alive many days after they rose into the air from Spitz- bergen It is possible even yet that relies may be found which will give some clue to the exact nature of the disaster that befell the three men and approximat tely locate the region where it occurred.-New York Sun.
Arizona republican., 1903-03-01
ThsBOStOn Store

and get at the facts for him. It seemed that the paper had thought heap or Simpkins, and that he had been sent out to Cuba as a correspondent and stationed with the insurgent army Simpkins in Cuba had evidently lived up to the reputation of Simpkins in Chicago. When there was any news he sent it, and when there wasn't he just made news and sent that along
 The first word of his death. had como in his own letter, brought across on a filibustering steamer and wired on from Jacksonville. It told, with close attention to detail-something he had learned since he left me-how he had strayed away from the little band of insurgents with which he had been out scouting and had blundered into the Spanish lines. He had been promptly made a. prisoner, and despite his pa- pers proving his American citizenship, and the nature of his job, and the red cross on his sleeve, he had been tried by drumhead court martial and sen
Arizona republican., 1903-03-01

and then he turned up at the office one
 morning as friendly and familiar as ever. Said he was a reporter and wanted to interview me on the De- cember wheat deal. Of course I wouldn't talk on that. but gave him a little fatherly advice-told him he would sleep in a hall bedroom all his life if he didn't quit his toolishness and go back to his father, though I didn't | really believe it. He thanked me and went off and wrote U column about what I might have said about Decem- Der wheat, and somehow gave the im- pression that I had said it.
 The next I heard of Simpkins he was dead. The Associated Press dispatches announced it, the Cuban junta con- firmed it, and last of all, a long dis patch from Simpkins himself detailed the circumstances leading up to the "atrocity," as the headlines in his paper called it.
 I got a long wire from Ezra's father asking me to see the managing editor
Arizona republican., 1903-03-01
NEWS OF BUCKEYE
What the People of the Lower Valley
 Are Doing.

Buckeye, AriZ., February 21.-(Speclai correspondence of The Republican.)- Rev. Boucher, D. D., and brother. who have been spending a few days on the Buckeye, have returned to Phoenix, ac- companied by James R. Thorpe, w. H. Apgar and C. C. Green.
 c. T. Hirst and family were visiting L. G. Kenworthy's family Saturday and Sunday.
 Mir. Lamson was down from Phoenix Saturday, looking over the country with a view of locating here soon.
 MT. Rufe and wife are visiting at the James S. Day ranch.
 Frank Couch will set sail for Phoenix today.
 John Sparks, who has been ill with pneumonia, is much better.
 The ladies in the Palo Verde district had a prayer meeting at Mrs. Ken worthy's Wednesday afternoon.
 Buckeye and Arlington played ball Sunday, the result of the game being 15 to 10 in favor of Arlington.
 Mr. and Mrs. Ellis Wilcox are pay ing Phoenix a protracted visit.
 Messrs Bruner and Davis went to Phoenix the first of the week. MT. Da- wis brought lumber to build an addi- tion to his residence. and MT. Bruner purchased new separator.
 Riley Johnston, the busy Buckeye merchant, went to the capital city this week to transact business.
 Grant Mil1age took some fat cattle to the Phoenix market this week.
 Mrs. Kell has been i'll the past week.
 1,a fo turned home from Phoenix Tuesday.
 George Lyall, the road supervisor. is doing some much needed work On the road.
 MT. Zander went to Phoenix Saturday evening and returned Monday.
 John Roberts, Billy Fulks and Dolph Evans watched a party of MeXicans who acted very suspiciously Monday
Arizona republican., 1903-03-01
A CAUTIOUS HAWKER.

An individual with considerable more lung power than was agreeable to his hearers, was hawking fish the other morning in northern town.
 Fresh herrin'. flower penny, he roared in fashion that made the win dows rattle.
 A woman approached the barrow and eyed the fish with a certain amount of suspicion, which, considering the cir cumstances, was not unnatural.
 Are they fresh?" she demanded with suspicious sniff.
 They're flower a penny, num- was the guarded reply.
 Yes" responded the other, with a touch of sarcasm, ''I think I 'eared you say so. But are they fresh?'
 For aught I know, mum, they is"
 When were they caught?''
 This was tco much. and adopting the sarcastic style of his questioner, the the hawker replied:
 Cant say for certain, mum: I ap- piled for the birth and death stiffcate of every fish on the barrow, but at flower a penny it simply can't be done, Ere ware. Power penny herrin' - London Tit-Bits.
Arizona republican., 1903-03-01

above the clouds is difficult proposi- ton. Remembering that the grade of this cog road is about 25 per cent, one can easily see that a rotary blow is out of the question. The managers of the road have invented a sort of modi. fled scoop machine which picks up small snowballs about the size of a shanty and carries them to such spots as make it possible for them to be dumped down the side of the mountain This iron-nosed scoop is placed on the front end of a. flatcar. It is so slotted as to dip between the rails as we'll as over the extension of the ties. The blow is so placed on angle that when it goes up the grade it is almost level with the tracks. When this is pushed into a drift the snow is forced back on the car.
 It is in the deep drifts that the dan ger of the work is experienced. Men are sent forward with shovels to dig trenches along each side of the tracks. They begin at the top of the drifts or tunnel under them. When each sec tion is mapped out then the scoop is brought to bear on the mass. It is not always a safe proposition to even guess just where the mass is going to fall. For six weeks after the road is opened the large snowballs are to be seen along the tracks and. in the deep gullies be- low. They are relics of the mastery of man over the elements.
 Sometimes this work has to be done over a number of times before the road is considered safe. Just after a buck ing expedition of two weeks and when every one was congratulating them selves an unexpected storm has broken over the mountains and all the work is undone. Years or experience have taught the men in charge to select the right time for beginning work with the same sagacity as the farmer who reads the signs indicating when he must be- gin planting.-Brooklyn Eagle.
Arizona republican., 1903-03-01
STORY OF A GOOD SCOOP"
After Ezra's Death Had Been An
 nounced He Came Back to Life.

Spaking of bull pups that turnd out to be terriers naturally calls to mind the case of my old friend Jeremiah Simpkins' son. There isn't a solder man in the Boston leather trade than Jeremiah, nor bigger scamp that the law can't touch than his son Ezra. There isn't an ounce of real meanness in Ezra's whole body, but he's just nat urally and unintentionally a maverick. When he came out of college his father though that a few years experience in the hide department of Graham & Co. would be a good thing for him be- fore he tackled the leather business. So I wrote to send him on and I would give him a job supposing, of course, that I was getting a yearling of the steady, old, reliable Simpkins strain.
 I was a little uneasy when Ezra re- ported. because he didn't just look as if he had had a call to leather. He was a tall, spare New Englander, with one of those knobby foreheads which has been pushed out by the overcrowding of the brain, or bulged by the thicken- ing of the skull according as you like or dislike the man. His manners were
 
 He told me right at the start that, while he didn't know just what he wanted to do, he was dead sure that it wasn't the leather business. It seemed that he had said the same thing to his father and that the old man had answered. Tut. tut" and told him to forget it and learn hides.
 Simpkins learned all that he wanted to know about the packing industry in thirty days, and I learned all that wanted to know about Ezra. in the same time. Pork packing seemed to be the only thing that he wasn't inter- ested in. I got his resignation one day just five minutes before the one which I was having written out for him was ready; for I will do Simpl1ins the jus tice to say that there was nothing slow about him. He and his father split up, over it. and, of course, it cost me the old mans trade and friend ship. I want to say right here that the easiest way in the world to make ene- mics is to hire friends.
 I lost sight of Simpkins for while,
Arizona republican., 1903-03-01
PROSPEROUS GOAT FARM.

Jailer Charley Sands, who owns an Angora goat ranch up the valley some sixty miles, is elated over the prospect in the goat industry during the coming season. Several months ago MT. Sands started in the Angora goat business with seven head of thoroughbreds. Now his flock has increased to nearly 500 head, and it is as fine as any in the country. MT. Sands also received the best price for his wool of any rancher in the territory. It costs a trifle more to obtain thoroughbred stock at first, but in the end it pays.-Solomonville Bulletin.
Arizona republican., 1903-03-01
ALHAMBRA NOTES
Nev Items From the Grand Avenue
 Country.

Aambra, February 2S.-(Special cor
 Stud and H. Renaud attended the re-
 ceI sale at Peoria, the latter purchas-
 ina fine team of horses.
 aptain Sharp is on the sick list this
 wtk. The captain is one of Arizona s
 pineers. coming here in the eos, and is
 nv S2 years old, and it is hoped he
 WI soon recover his usual good health.
 Several cars of hay have been shipped
 tom this point the past week.
 Katie Helm is now convalescent, which is very pleasing to her many friends.
 MT. Patton, whose health has not been good here, is selling out and Will leave the valley soon to seek change of climate.
 Your correspondent returned Thurs day from a business trip to the Buck eye section, where he saw an abun- dance of irrigating water and lots of fine feed and fat cattle. Among the former Alhambrians met were MT. Roach, who has been there but few months, but is doing well. ". H. Tay- Tor was in his usual happy mood and reports the Arlington country in a prosperous condition. MT. Jones. for merly of Johnstone precinct. has trans formed 100 acres of sage brush desert into alfalfa fields, all fenced and built nice home in the three years he has been in that section.
 Miss Lottie Gowett was given a gen. uine surprise last night, when a large party of her school friends walked into her home. The girls furnished dainty cakes and the boys the lemonade. Games and other amusements were the order and all enjoyed a most pleasant evening
 Superintendent Fulton paid our school a visit on Tuesday.
 Mir. and Mrs. William Hammer at tended the Elks' ball in Phoenix on Thursday evening.
Arizona republican., 1903-03-01
THE JUDGE WAS EASY.

Did the judge frighten you much when you were getting your divorce?" her anxious friends asked.
 "Oh, no. l was rather nervous for a little while, but when I smiled at him the third time he nodded back and after that it was just lovely."-Chi- cago Record Herald
Arizona republican., 1903-03-01

night. They thought they were proba- bly the Goddard and Cooke murderers, but let them go the next morning with out making an arrest, when they found they did not exactly meet the descrip- tion.
Arizona republican., 1903-03-01

Bodily pain loses it's terror if you've Q bottle of Dr. Thomas Electric Oil in the house. Instant relief in cases of burns, cuts, sprains, accidents of any sort.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1903-08-26
LINEN SPECIALS.

LINEN SPEeskAESa
Bleached table damask, heavy grade of
scotch satin damask, 60 inches wide, yd. 35c
Barnsley table damask, all linen, heavy
almost yards WIDE per yard ....... soc
Napkins, extra quality, silver bleached,
pure linen, for. ................6 Csc
Hemmed buck towels, extra fine grade
OF German linen, under importers cost 12c
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1903-08-26
The Miron Chronicle.

A. +. Lundberg and wife, +. Z. Clau-
ns;ted ra,at;ves and attanded Ne 49,
cnnferanca at Pomerov Iowa over Snn-
daylast
f.;.sst viii bave cbanaed har 800 -,
Marie Johnson to he narna of the a,a s J,la
will bereafter cal, her hrshand W. VII
relate the naoceedings in onr newt ,ettar
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1903-08-26
Boyer Ripp1ings

Mrs. Antoine Christensen was in DEM
son the first of the week.
Mrs. Swan Nelson and three children
departed Tuesday for Ell Reno, Oklahoma
to visit relatives
Axel Linberg was a Denison business
caller Tuesday afternoon
Mrs. Zed Williams is enjoying visit
from her sister, Miss Justice of Dow City.
c. L. Fitz Simmons was a Vail business
caller on Monday,
John Granny, of Vail, was in town on
Tuesday afternoon.
Mrs Tom Corey returned to her home
in Correctionvile Ia, Tuesday, after
SIX weeks visit at the home of her parents
MIR. and Mrs, A E. Darling.
Mr. and Mrs. Jas, Wolf, sr., were Vail
callers Wednesday.
A, ]. Adams, of Vail, was in town oil
Thursday
Christ Nissen was passenger to Den-
son Tuesday afternoon.
party was held at the Aug Henkel
home in Boyer Friday evening, A large
number Of relatives and friends were pres,
sent.
Born, to Mr.. and Mrs. Herman Schmidt
on Thursday Aug. 2oth daughter.
John Hook was Vail business caller
Thursday.
Z A. Smith was in Kiron on Friday in
attendance at meeting of the township
trustees
], W. Gardner went to Dow Oity OF
business Saturday evening.
H. MAYNARD enjoyed visit from his
brother the past week. He returned tc
his home in Fremont, Nebraska. Satur-
day.
Mas. Gus Anderson left for Des Moline:
on Saturday.
Herman Schmidt was in Wall Lake OF
Saturday.
Mr.. and Mrs ,Chas. Keefe were guest
at the Linberg home Sunday.