The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1905-11-23
South Dakota


The supreme court has admitted l..
A.. Kelly of Sioux Falls, on examina-
ton before the court.
The state has received a draft of
$3,375 from the general government in
aid for the state soldiers home.
Gov. Elrod has appointed Henry j.
Mohr county judge of Hanson county,
to fill the vacancy caused by the death
Of Judge Robert Dott.
An order has come from Washing
ton to stop work on the government
building in Deadwood. The building
is completed to the bottom of the third
story.
The lev -four mill at Tilford will be
In operation in about two weeks. The
machinery for the mill and two mill.
wrights and a machinist have arrived,
and the latter are busy getting things
in place.
wood carries a deposit of $1,70O, 900.
This is the savings and earnings of the
people of Deadwood principally. 1t is
now said to be the strongest bank in
the state.
Mrs. Laura Adams, for a long time
one Of the teaching force Of the Pierre
city schools, died at st. Mary's hospi-
tai from a complication of diseases
with which she has been affected for
several years.
The fall term of court for Grant
county is being held at Milbank, Judge
Mccoy presiding. There is a large
docket of minor cases. The most in
terest is centered in the trial of Sietse
Buckhout, charged with m~anslaughter.
otes and gray wolves are becoming
very numerous in the vicinity of Blk
by, and lots of stock is being killed by
them. United action by cattlemen, it
is said, will be begun for their destruc-
ton at once.
At the special election at Aberdeen
the proposition to issue $35 900 bonds
for the building of a municipal light
ing plant carried by a large vote. The
result was 62S to 1913. This means the
city will build and operate its own
plant instead of awarding the contract
for lighting to a private company.
There is something of a mad dog
scare among the people of Gettysburg
and vicinity, due to the fact that a dog
with a we'll developed case of rabies
ran amuck among the dogs of the
neighborhood. Other dogs have ex-
hibited symptoms of the disease and
many of them have been killed in the
effort to prevent children Dr. grown
people being bitten.
One night recently Clerk of Courts
Tarbell of Pierre was called out of bed
at midnight to issue a marriage IL
Cense for Alfred B. Wilson and Nellie
Orr. The couple met that day and at
tended a show at the opera house in
the evening, at which they decided
that marriage was Il necessity for
them, and they first engaged a minis
ter and then secured a license.
The Southeastern South Dakota
Poultry and Pet Stock association will
hold it's first annual exhibition at
Beresford, Dec. IS to 90. More than
$50 entries have already been received
and a full thousand are confidently en-
pected. j E. Reddirg of Beresford is
secretary and Judge Wymer of Ottum-
wa Iowa, will judge the birds. Some
thing over $500 in premiums will be Of
fered.
At q meeting of business men,
w. B. Sherard, superintendent of the
South Dakota children's home in Sioux
Falls brought to the attention of the
business men the matter of securing
for Sioux Falls the next annual gath
ering Of the national organization Of
charities and corrections. The board
of trade has taken hold of the matter
an an energetic effort will be made to
capture the gathering for Sioux Falls.
The Dowie-Wright Manufacturing
company of York, Neb., has decided to
move it's immense, foundry plant from
York to some point in the Black Hills,
either Deadwood, Spearfish or Rapid
City. Spearfish has offered a bonus of
$25, 900 for a foundry, two blocks of
ground, water power and other induce
ments, and it is quite probable that the
location will be made at that place.
The foundry intends to supply the ma.
chine wants of the Black Hills and
will employ about 200 men. The new
plant will cost about $150,0O0.
The local landofice in the Chamber
lain district has decided in favor of
the holders of water rights" as
against those who desire to enter
homesteads over such rights. The
holding of the Office Is that If the
claimant of a water right can show the
required improvement at the end of
two years, his right is superior to that
of any other claimant. Many such
rights have been filed west of the riv-
er, and unless this decision Of the
Chamberlain Office is carried up and
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