The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1905-09-21

Dakota
General
State
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| grace CeTlliICdlSS dI d tCCCul SAdlllli"
ton in Brown county, only ten passed.
The Union county commissioners.
| after accepting the resignation OF w.
w. Palmer. states attorney, elected
Ira L. Nichols to fill the vacancy.
A Milwaukee passenger train from
| the south struck a rig containing two
men just north of Redfield. Both
horses were killed, but the men es-
capped uninjured.
A disease called pink eye" is preva-
lent among the upper Bad river herds
| of cattle. The eyes turn red and swell
shut, binding the animal, and in some
cases the eyeball bursts.
Articles of incorporation have been
! filed for the Citizens bank of Henry,
with a capital of $4,000. The incor-
porators are George A. Hennigan, Da-
vid +. Keyes and others.
Mrs. John Weddell, wife of n OF
the Oldest and best known farmers OK
Kingsbury county, computed suicide
by taking carbolic acid. She was suf-
fering from temporary insanity.
Supt. Mason Of the James river d.
vision of the Milwaukee road, says he
las received orders from the general
offices of the company to install an
agent at Bonilla in the busy season OF
the year.
August Hubert of Hecla brought a
man to Aberdeen who gave the name
of Neumann and who is accused OF
breaking into the house of David VIII.
liams of Hecla. He had secured a $12
watch, a razor and other articles.
One of the features of Hughes coun-
ty at the state fair at Huron and at
the Mitchell corn palace is the display
of Hughes county grasses, which con
sists of over fifty different specimens
native to his section of the state.
The case instituted by the authori
ties of Aurora county against Mrs.
NJ. w. Hessler of White Lake, on the
charge of gambling, has been dismiss
ed. The Italian who alleged he pur-
chased several rattle tickets withdrew
the charge.
H. J. Giesen, deputy register OF
deeds of Aberdeen has a mild attack
of smallpox. He has been taken to the
county %pesthouse for treatment. He is
supposed to have caught the disease
from a young man who came from
Kansas recently.
Nels Scherlie, a farmer in the north
western corner of Hughes county, has
sent in as a sample of the kind OF corn
which is growing on his place a stalk
cut as a cane which is over five inches
in circumference. The field in which
this was cut is forty acres in extent,
and the stalks average about ten feet
in height over the tract. Mr.. Scherlie
expects a fine yield Of corn from this
field.
Several business men of Aberdeen,
with two Wisconsin capitalists, have
taken the pISlllllldly StSpS " ~
organization of a third national bank
and the fourth bank in that city. 1t is
expected the new bank will have a
capital of $50, 900 and a surplus of $780,
900 to start with. 1t will be known as
the Citizens National bank. B. G.
Lamont and F. J. Macarthur are among
the local citizens interested.
John Donovan, formerly of Dubuque,
Iowa, but until recently connected
with the state reform school at Plan
kinton, was fatally crushed while
working under a ~two-wheel tender in
a Plankinton blacksmith shop. The
machine became %uncoupled, II n
falling upon his back, ~fracturing the
backbone and several ribs. The ten
der was full of water, and in addition
had upon it nearly one ton of coal.
r. W. Parliman, the Sioux Falls at
torney who was recently arrested by
Game warden Linnet for shipping prai-
RE chickens contrary to law, and who
was discharged by a justice Of the
| pSdIC. q lhSIAA NNSu LtS
Campbell & Taylor Of Aberdeen, TO
commence suit against Mr.. Linnet to
recover the value of the birds and for
damages. Mr.. Parliman says he will
carry the case to the supreme court IL
necessary in order to get the question
finally settled.
A new industry which was recently
added to the other resources OF the
state, the canning of corn on a large
scale at Big Stone, is proving a great
success. Thus far this season about
so, 900 cans of one variety of corn have
been produced at the canning factory.
Other varieties will bring the total up
to about 300, 900 ans. In twenty-seven
minutes the factory turned out 900 in-
ished cans. Experts pronounce the