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The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1905-08-24
SHORT CUT 70 ct. PAUL.

Electric Line to Browns Valley "a
Connect With Great Northern 10 Pro.
Jected.
The demand for better railroad IA.
cilities and closer connection with the
Twin Cities has stimulated a number
Of financial men of Sisseton to or.
ganize for the purpose Of promoting
an electric line of railroad from this
city to connect with the Great North.
ern at Browns Valley in Minnesota,
and northeast from this city to Hankin.
son, N. D., connecting with the 500
and Great Northern, which would
shorten the distance to the cities and
the East by fifty miles.
A meeting was held In the Offices of
the First National Bank of Sisseton,
at which time the organization was
completed and the Browns Valley part
Of the project vas financed. Among
the promoters of the scheme are Hon.
H. s. Morris, cashier Of the First Ma.
tional bank; J. A. Rickert, president
OF the First National bank; H. l..
Spackman, general manager Of the
Roberts county Land and Loan com.
pany; j. l.. Onstad Of the Sisseton
Milling Company, and some Eastern
men.
This road would run through a pros.
porous and thickly settled country and
would connect with four different stub
lines.
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GREAT HELP TO MillERS.
Garretson, s. D, Man has . Great In.
vention.

Garretson, s. D, Man has q Great In.
vention.
Milling circles and the flour-using
public have been much interested the
past few months in a milling machine
recently patented by Levi Lash, man.
ager of the Globe Milling company of
Garretson.
For several weeks the company has
had its mill running on what is known
as the continuous air system, which
Mr.. Lash's machine makes possible.
BY the use Of this air system all the
cotton fibre of the flour is removed.
This cotton fiber is a part of the -four
that is entirely indigestible, and mill.
ers have never before been but par
TALLY successful in removing it.
The air system also keeps the rolls
perfectly cool and enables a miller
to turn out a coarser product and yet
have the color without killing the life
of the -four to bleach it, and the sweet,
nutty flavor of the wheat is retained.
It has also a distinct economic gain.
While the general public will know
and care little about the work of the
machine, millers are interested and the
public is keenly alive to the added
purity Of the -four and the retaining
of the natural flavor Of the wheat.
Garretson is naturally much pleased
to see one of her citizens solve a vital
problem that has confronted millers up
to this time.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1905-08-24
SOUTH DAKOTA WILL HAVE Bic CROP

, The threshing machines are begin
ming to tell their story, and the crop
situation in South Dakota is beyond
the guess-work stage.
Early predictions to the effect that
the state would raise one of the larg-
est crops in it's history are fully borne
out by the threshing returns, as fol-
lows:
Northville-R. A. Batten had his rye
threshed last Saturday, and the yield
was eighteen bushels to the acre. Geo.
Cassett also had some threshed. and
the yield was about sixteen bushels an
acre. The rye is of a fair quality.
Flandreau-George Pilling threshed
some barley that went thirty bushels
an acre. Hanson Bros. reported thir-
ty-nine bushels an acre. Giles Petit
grew reports twenty-seven; Frank
Mead, twenty-eight; w. S. Titus, thir-
ty-three; Ben Julson, thirty. Barley
is more or less dark, and is selling
on the local market for 20 to 80 cents
a bushel.
Egan-Threshing is in progress.
ROBERT BURGESS tulSohOu hio b~AA>
and reports a yield Of forty bushel
an acre. Rye raised on the farm OF
MIR. Reading threshed out a little over
twenty bushels to the acre.
Big Stone-H. b. Crippen's TOUR
teen-acre field of winter wheat thresh-
ed out about fourteen bushels an acre,
and was sold for seed to various farm
ers. His winter rye yielded only min
bushels to the acre.
Armour-H. B. Robinson threshed
some of his new wheat and was the
first to market wheat here this sea-
son. His wheat went twenty-six BUSH
els to the acre and weighed out sixty
two pounds to the bushel.
South Shore-Among the hrst 10
thresh in this locality was r. w. Will
Jams. One of his fields OF barley
threshed u over forty-one bushels 10
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1905-08-24
n MARKETS.
Latest Quotations From Grain and
Live Stock Centers.

Live Stock centers.
st. Paul, Aug. 81. - Wheat - No. !
Northern, $1.07; No. 2 Northern, CSC
@$1.O5; No. 3, 9sc@$l.O3. Corn-No,
3 yellow, 54Q55c. Oats-No. 5 white.
2S@2S lie.
Minneapolis, Aug. 21.-Wheat-No.
/ hard, $1.09; No. l Northern, SLOT;
No. Northern. $1.O4@1.O5. Oats -
No. 3 white. "a SAC.
Duluth, Aug. 81. - Wheat - No. ]
Northern, 81 1-2c; No. 2 Northern.
SO 1-2c; fax, s1.4s; rye. SIC.
Chicago, Aug. 81. - Wheat - No. z
red, SO 3-4@S4 LAC; No. 2 hard, "a II
@91c: No. 3 hard, so 3-46Ssc: No. l
Northern, $1.O5; No. 2 Northern, 81.
Corn-No. 2, "a 3-4@55c. Oats-No,
2, 25 1-2c.
Milwaukee, Aug. 81. - Wheat-No.
/ Northern, $1.0291.10; No. 2 North.
ern, SIC. Rye-No. l, SO SAC. Barley
No. 2, SOC. Oats-Standard, % o
CSC. Corn-No. 8, SIS 1906 1-2c.
Sioux City, Iowa, Aug. 21.-Cattle-
Beeves, $3.50 q 5; cows, bulls and
mixed, $225 % 4; stockers and feed.
ers, s2.75@3.65; calves and yearlings.
$2.5O@3.50. Hogs-Bulk. s5.S0@5.90.
Chicago, Aug. 21.-Cattle-Good ia
prime steers, $3.50 q 6.10; stockers
and feeders, $2.25@4.25; cows, s2.5O9
4.4O: heifers, $2.2064.S0; calves. $50
7. Hogs-Mixed and butchers, $3.50
$685.: bulk, s5.95@6.25. Sheep-uood
to choice wethers, s4.6095; native
lambs, s5.2547.25; Western lambs.
$5.75@I.
South St. Paul, Aug. 81. - Cattle
Good to choice steers, $4.5095; good
to choice COWS and heifers, $3.50 a 4;
butcher bulls, $2.75@S.50; veals. $50
4.5O; good to choice stock steers. $3.50
@3.5O; good to choice mich cows, $50
ass. Hogs-Range price, $5.6o96.05;
bulk, s5.75@5.S5. Sheep - Good to
choice lambs, s6@5.S5; fair to good,
$4@5; good to choice yearling weth.
ers, s4.5O@5.50; good to choice ewes.
$3.75@4.40.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1905-08-24
THE ANNUAL PRECIPITATION.
Average of 20.44 Inches at Huron In
Twenty Years.

According to records in the United
States weather bureau at Huron, the
annual precipitation recorded during
the twenty-three years the office has
been in existence in Huron averages
20.44 inches. For the seven months
of the present year the record is 21.29
inches, which added to the rainfall so
far during August at least % inches,
thus far in 1905. This marked increase
in the precipitation for this locality Is
highly gratifying and is being widely
commented upon. The weather thus
far during the crop growing season
was quite satisfactory, and at harvest
time Is simply ideal. Surely the splen-
did yields of small grain, added to the
encouraging outlook for a good crop
of corn, together with forage crops
and hay. are good cause for rejoicing
Of farmers in the Jim river valley,
and when the crops are marketed they
will have fat pocketbooks and inflated
bank accounts. Prosperity has smiled
generously upon this portion of the
worlds garden spot.
BY order Of the adjutant generals
Office the Groton squad Of Company
l., South Dakota National Guards. will
be mustered out. The squad failed to
attend the encampment at Water
town, and is alleged to have been neg
ligent in its drill duties.
The Aberdeen board Of education
estimates that it will cost s41,485 to
run the schools of Aberdeen for the
ensuing year, and has levied a 21-mill
tax. Miss Geraldine Van Slyck, the
principal Of one of the ward schools
for many years, has resigned her po-
sition to accept a position In Idaho.
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the acre.
Aurora-A field of barley on a farm
north Of town threshed out forty bush
els an acre.
Mitchell-Reese Jones, residing one
and a half miles southwest OF town,
finished threshing his macaroni wheat,
which yielded twenty bushels to the
acre.
Harrisburg-S. D. Kinyon, living
near Harrisburg, threshed his oats,
which yielded forty bushels an acre.
Hudson-Joseph Gates theshed his
oats, which averaged over so bushels
to the acre. A field of winter wheat,
containing a trifle less than ten acres,
threshed 237 bushels, all of the finest
quality. Gates sold all the winter
wheat for seed at $1.25 a bushel.
Howard-The first report of thresh-
ing comes from Epiphany, where the
Ozanne boys threshed a field of wheat,
which yielded twenty bushels an acre.
A sample of the wheat which vas test
ed at a Howard mill weighed 5Sk
pounds to the bushel, which gives it
a grade of No. l northern.
Aberdeen-Joseph Lorber Of Ravinia
township has finished cutting a twelve
acre field of wheat, which IA sowed
in last summers breaking. 1t required
fifty pounds Of Irvine to bind it. Mr..
Lorber expects a yield Of at least
thirty bushels to the acre.
Baltic-Barley threshed on the farm
of a man named Fedberg, near here,
averaged twenty bushels.
Wagner-George Soesbe threshed
wheat that averaged twenty bushels,
and oats that went fifty.
Yankton-Winter wheat threshed on
the farm Of Rasmus Peterson aver
aged thirty five and a half bushels to
the acre. This fine yield will result
in the winter wheat acreage being ma
terially in creased In this part of the
state next season.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1905-08-24
STATE TAX list FIGURES BIGGER
Corporate Assessments Raised by New Aethods-State Boord
Of Assessment Completes First Session.

The state board Of assessment and
equalization has completed its first
session for this year and taken an ad-
tournament until the 22d Of the month
when any complaints in regard to their
action will be heard and considered.
The total valuations of the state will
be higher than for the past year, but
the increase will not be a great one,
as the board did not this year attempt
to use Its arbitrary power in the way
OF increased valuation on a general
level. The increase will be on new
property, and increases in corporate
assessments on which class of prop
erty the board outlined new methods
in several cases, notably in the mat
ter OF express companies and tele-
phones. The express companies which
have been assessed evidently on arbi-
trary basis were placed on a mileage
basis, placing them entirely on an
equality. Telephone and telegraph
valuations were increased radically on
the ground that as this class of prop
erty pays only a state tax of rs mills
on the dollar of assessed valuation,
they should stand a stronger assess
ment to put them anywhere near on
equality with other classes of prop
erty which have to stand local taxa.
ton.
The total increase of corporate as
sessments, including all classes of
property which come under that head
is practically $767, 6S2. this including
raises on property which has been as
sessed in the past and new property.
The railroads stand $414,617 of this,
500, 900 Of that coming in the assess
ment for the first time of the "Col-
ton" road in Minnehaha county. Tele-
phones are called upon for $273,O75
of this increase; telegraphs, $4,000;
express companies, SIS, 900; and the
Pullman company, $4,000. The tele-
phone returns for the year have placed
143 telephone companies on the tax
list as against LOG which were taxed
last year.
The increase on railroads was made
in the way Of increases on branch
lines, the Milwaukee being increased
from 1000 a mile to $4,082 on it's
washington branch, from $685. a mile
to $3,499 a mile on it's Bowdle branch
\ extension; from $2,725 a mile to s4,-
44O on it's Platte extension.
The Northwestern was raised from
$2,725 to $3.065 on its Astoria branch;
from $3.50 to 1886 on it's Water
town-Gettysburg line; and reduced
from $5,252 to 5000 on its Cakes
branch, the two hundred dollars a
mile being taken off the Cakes branch
of lit miles and added to the Water
town-Gettysburg branch Of lac miles.
The Omaha system was increased
from 1881 to $6,031 on its SS miles.
The Elkhorn branches were increased
on the Lead City branch from 5 $1,000
to $3,016; and on the Bonsteel line
from $3,210 to $4,560.
The Minneapolis & St. Louis was
raised from 1887 to $4,56S. The
Burlington Puma to Lead branch
from $1,000 to $3,016. The South Da-
kota Central was put on a new proper
ty at $1,000 a mile, with its twenty
miles.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1905-08-24
INDIAN LAYS BLAME ON AGENT.

An Indian living on the Cheyenne
River reservation has sent out a COM
munication for publication calling at
tention to the way in which the In
dams ON that reservation were allowed
10 celebrate the Fourth OF July.
\ He says they were allowed 70 cav
The reservation and paint themselves
and give dances at different places,
and were allowed to secure liquor and
De made drunk. Others celebrated on
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1905-08-24
ILL FROM FLEA POISON.

Men May Die After Disinfecting the
Cincinnati Armory.
Cincinnati, Aug. 20.-As a result OF
spraying their bodies with a disin.
fectant to destroy aeas, Ernest A.
Graham and Alva Cain are in a seri-
Gus condition and may die. Since the
First regiment returned from Vicks-
burg, Miss, the armory has been 10
tested with feas, brought from the
south by the soldiers. Graham and
Cain took a contract to disinfect the
armory.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1905-08-24

For the first time there has been
a listing Of mineral lands under the
law Of last winter, the counties return
ing such lands being Custer, Lawrence
and Pennington. Custer returned
4,147 acres at a valuation Of $30,449,
which was increased 10 per cent by
the board. Lawrence returned 41,570
acres at a valuation Of ~$4,570,017,
which was increased 25 per cent. Pen
nington returned 1896 acres valued at
$190,913, which was increased Is per
cent.
While there has been a general in.
creas in the net returns on farm
lands, this is due to new property. the
general valuation having been reduced
about rs cents per acre by the board.
The farm lands are the heaviest item
Of valuation in the state. and the
valuations by counties of this class of
lands iS.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1905-08-24

the reservation with the "Otuhanpi'
dance and gave away their ponies and
other property.
He blames the agent for this n
ton of affairs, which he says is lead
ing them back to barbarism instead
of bringing them up toward civiliza'
ton, and that they should be stopped
in such celebrations in the future. that
since they were allowed to dance on
the Fourth. they are preparing for
further dances this fall and n~eglecting
to put up hay and prepare for the win
ter.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1905-08-24
o ~TUNNELING.
Chicago Mayors Order to Prevent the
Town Gazing In.

Chicago, Aug. 20. Mayor Dunno
has notified the Illinois Tunnel com
pany, which is building tunnels under
meath the city, to cease work on all
connections with buildings and new
drifts where air pressure is not used.
This practically stops all the new
work of the company, as that now in
progress is said to be done without
air pressure.
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Suicide at litchfield.

Litchfield, Mimi, Aug. 20. - Olga
Youngstown, aged twenty-three,
daughter Of Mrs. John Youngstown,
committed suicide by drinking carbol
ic acid. She was respondent on &C
count Of poor health.
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Blew Of His Head.

Algona, Iowa, Aug. 20.-A. ID. Hatch
committed suicide in a sensational
manner. He placed the muzzle Of q
shotgun to his left a and touched
of the trigger with a stick. His head
was almost blown of.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1905-08-24
q. p. Blair Trying to Induce Iowa
Blacks to CoIonize in South Dakota.

e. - o'oh ''yh'S h'e1SS viva
Blacks to CoIonize in South Dakota.
B. P. Blair, of Western Sully county,
has just returned from central Iowa,
where he visited a large colony of
colored people and talked to them of
the advantages of South Dakota. Blair
who is himself a negro, came to Sully
county with other brothers and sisters
over twenty years ago, and with the
land which they acquired at that time
they are well to do financially, and he
told his people in Iowa what they
could gain by coming to South Dakota.
He expects several out from that sec
ton to investigate the situation this
fall, and hopes to ecure settlers of
the same color in the vicinity in which
they have been the only black family
for many years.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1905-08-24
Bishops PARTY Murdered.

Berlin, Aug. 20. - A dispatch from
the governor of German East Africa
says that native reports announce
that a bishop named Spies, two mis-
sionary brothers and two sisters were
murdered between Kilwa and Liwale
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1905-08-24
TORNADO CAUSES HAVOC.
Destroys Crops and Kills Many Head
Of Stock.

Ut STOCK.
Wellfleet, Neb., Aug. pa destruc-
tive tornado passed north Of this
place last night, destroying barns,
crops, stock and stacks of hay. At the
farm Of Votaw Brothers twenty-six
head of horses were crushed to death.
Next In the path was McReynolds'
ranch, where 1t killed ffty-six cattle
and crippled many more So far as
reported no lives were lost or serious
injuries inflicted.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1905-08-24
YELLOW JACK CLAIMS EIGHT.
Figures for the Day Show No Change
In Situation.
New Orleans Aup 20-Of1cial re-

The figures for the day show moth
ing OF special interest. Eleven of the
sixteen foci are above Canal street.
Two more cases have appeared in the
French asylum on st. Ann and Der
bigny streets, making five in all. That
is the only asylum infected to date.
OF the deaths, two were / nthe charity
hospital and two in the emergency
hospital. One occurred in Algiers.
News from outside the city contin-
e ~unfavorable. DR.. Brady, the med
ical inspector Of the state board Of
health, who is also health officer of
Jefferson parish, spent most Of the
day in his own parish on a still hunt
and found several cases.
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Total ...... ...........$l24,IS O,992
The highest valuation in any county
Is 1896 an acre in Clay, and the low
est 81. 10 an acre in Fall River.
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to make their escape, but forgot TO
take the youngest child. a mere babe
who could scarcely toddle. The little
child. however, climbed down the lad.
der alone and made its escape. The
barn and its contents are a total loss.
Owing to litigation between the city
of Sioux Falls and the private water
company which supplies the city with
water, the city has not been able to
operate the municipal waterworks sys-
tenn which was completed some
months ago. Competent legal authori.
ty recently decided that the city plant
can be operated at once If leased to
a company composed of citizens. In
accordance with this view, the city
council has authorized the calling OF
a special election, at which the propo-
sition of leasing the municipal system
will be submitted to the voters. The
election will be held on Sept. 5.
Gov. Elrod has appointed Thomas
Freeman Of F7andreau as game war.
den for Moody county, and has select.
ed w. j. Chiesman of Belle Fourche
and R. c. Kelsey of White Rock as ad-
ditional delegates to the irrigation con-
gress to be held at Portland.
Extensive improvements are being
made to the depot building and other
property of the Chicago & Northwest
ern railroad company at Henry. The
business at this station has increased
to such an extent that increased facili-
ties were necessary for the cohvent
ence of the travelling public.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1905-08-24
WANTS NEGROES TO COME HERE

Tor business lots.
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1905-03-02
TO DRIVE OUT STANDARD.
Quo WarrantO Proceedings to Be
Started in Kansas.

Topeka, Kan, Feb. 27.-Attorney
General Coleman will commence quo
warranto proceedings in the supreme
court to Gust the Standard Oil Com
pany from Kansas.
He hash con in conference with Gov.
Hoch for several days, and that has
been the subject of their considera
ton.
The custer writ will be asked on the
ground that the Standard Oil COMPANY
is trust, operatiopg in Kansas in vio-
lation of the antitrust law. The re-
cent action of the United States court
in the Smiley case, upholding the
Kansas anti trust law gives the officials
confidence enough to make the move
against the Standard
Chanute, Kan, Feb. 27.-Criminal
proceedings against the officers and
employees of the Prairie Oil and Gas
Company will be started at once.
Cases will be brouhgt in every county
where the company does business.
Conviction will be asked under the
provisions of the Farrelly anti trust
law. The Prairie company is Stan
dard concern, has offices in a nubmer
of counties.
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1905-03-02
WORKS in MUO AND CAN'T SEE.
Diver Stays Below for Several Hours at
a Time and LabOra.

Diver Stays Below for Several Hours at
a Time and LAHORE.
"Yes. | believe that diver gets Sl5 a
day for his work down on the bottom
of the dock, but he runs the risk OF
losing his life fifteen times for every
dollar he receives" said man on one
of the new Bishop estate wharves yes
terlay. as he watched the bubbles
coming up.
The water bubbles indicated where
diver was at work in thirty feet OF
water-or mud, for the tide rushing
into the new dock kept the water
black during the greater portion OF the
time. A small barge was moored near
the bubbles. and on this two men were
busily grinding away at the pumps
which supplied the diver with air.
Near the ladder which goes down Into
the water from the end of the barge
sits man with a rope in his hand.
The diver signals his wants on this
rope, and the man sitting there carries
them out.
The work being done by the diver Is
that of placing new copper sheath
ing on the piles where it has been torn
Off through driving them into the coral.
He has to do his work entirely by feel
ing. as it is impossible for him to see
through the mud When he wishes a
piece Of copper four inches square. or
any other size. to cover break In the
sheathing he signals the size up by
Jerks on the rope. Then the copper is
cut and sent down to him. Nothing
can be seen of his work above the wa
ter except the rising bubbles. and all
that can be heard is a dull thud when
he hurls his hammer in the mud and
drives nail "home" through the
sheathing and piling.
The diver employed is one of the
eldest in Honolulu. He is. of course,
cncased in divers armor but it is re-
markable even then the length of time
he is capable of staying under water
at his work Sometimes he only stays
underneath the surface a couple of
hours, but oftentimes he remains under
the surface for six or seven hours. A
rubber pipe leads from the barge pump
to his armor. and through this the air
is forced Ii leaves the air-tight armor
suit through a cap in the divers he'll
met. and such force is used In sending
the air through that he has new air
to breathe about every second. After
leaving the helmet the air goes into
the water with such force that as 1t
rises to the surface ii stirs the water
up to such an extent that one would
imagine that steamers propeller was
working down below instead of a man
Honolulu Pacific Commercial Adver-
tiSpr