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The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1905-10-05
Smothered to Death.

Des Moines, Iowa, Oct. 1. - Mr.. and
Mrs. Robert Sackett Of this city were
horror-stricken yesterday morning
upon awakening to discover that their
six.months-old baby girl, lying be-
tween them, was dead. The coroner
was summoned, and after an investi-
CATION, declared that the child had
simply got tangled in the bed clothing
and smothered to death.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1905-10-05
MAY TAKE ROSES DARE.
Milwaukee E~xpectantIy Awaiting Re.
port of Grand Jury.

Milwaukee, Oct. /. Milwaukee
was agog all day yesterday and late
into the night awaiting the expected
final report of the grand jury which is
finishing up four months of work in
v~estigating Doodle in city. county and
state affairs. The expectation that
there would be indictments was, how
ever, not fulfilled, for it is said that
the bundle Of indictments which the
grand jury intends to return was so
big that all could not be prepared last
night, and the district attorneys force
was obliged to spend the night pre-
pairing the necessary papers for pre-
sentation to-day. When the jury re-
ports every ear will expect the indict-
mem of Mayor Rose.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1905-10-05
A special term of court for Da

A special term of court for Day
county was held at Webster by Judge
Mccoy, the most important business
being a hearing given prisoners in the
county Jail. Fred Lawrence and Fred
Kerns pleaded guilty to the charge of
robbing the general store of Chilson
& Haugen last July and were each
given n year In the penitentiary at
Sioux Falls. James Carey was SEN
fenced to six months in the county
jail for jail breaking. Charles Gar
rity received thirty days for assault.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1905-10-05
CONDITIONS ON ROSEBUD RESERVE
Many CHANCES Have Occurred in Me Past Year-Every Claim
Is Taken and Crops Are Abundant.

With soft coal selling at the rate of
$13 per ton at inland points on the
Rosebud reservation, lucky ticket
holders who drew quarter sections Of
government land in Uncle Sans big
lottery a year ago and who have been
moving on their claims during the last
spring and summer are just now pre-
pairing to spend their first winter on
the Rosebud.
The excessive cost of coal at reser-
walton towns Is due to the fact that
every pound of the commodity has to
be freighted by wagon from Bonesteel
to the inland towns and the freighting
costs Is cents per 100 pounds. And to
keep up with the traffic that is going
on freight wagons forming a line a
quarter of a mile in length leave Bone
steel. every morning bound for the sev-
eral postofices on the prairie.
But, despite. the cost of articles
which they are forced to buy, Rosebud
settlers are very highly satisfied with
their outlook, and they have money
jingling in their pockets this fall, for
almost every foot of sod on the whole
416,O00 acres of land which were given
away has this summer produced won
derful crops in flax, corn, tomatoes, po-
tatoes, watermelons, muskmelons, and
ven strawberries. The seeds were
planted right down in the thick, hard
sod, and the crops couldn't be distin-
guished from those grown on the fer
tile fields of long cultivated Nebraska
to the south by the best agricultural
expert. The fax crop is a bumper, and
samples of all crops which are being
lined up in Bonesteel for the first
Gregory county fair show the wonder
full productiveness of the Rosebud
soil.
The Rosebud of to-day presents a
vastly different picture from the Rose
bud of a year ago. The former prairie,
with limitless stretches Of wild grass
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1905-10-05

and never the sign of a house, Is now
dotted from end to end with little, reg
ularly stationed sod huts, the homes of
the settlers. Every single quarter Sec
ton on the whole reservation, with the
exception of one forty-acre stretch, is
now taken by a claim-holder, either a
legitimate homesteader or a squatter.
And for the last few weeks there
has been a continuous performance of
field trials with bird dogs on almost
every quarter section. Every settler
even the old-maid school teachers who
have settled down out ~there-own a
bird dog and a shotgun, and they have
kept up a constant bombardment
which resembles the fall Of Port Ar
thur as shown at the cheap street car
nival.
One unique feature Of the Rosebud
to-day, which perhaps would be hard
to find in another American settle
ment of $500 farms, is the fact that
the reservation is practically cowless.
Despite the recent whole-page picture
of a Chicago yellow journal depicting
the Rosebud maidens as they MIXED
the bossy cows, there is scarcely a
milk-giving animal on the whole tract,
and the. milk and cream of the Rose
bud settler is bought in tin cans and
shipped in by way of Bonesteel from
the condensed milk plants Of the East.
Mike Golden, travelling passenger
agent for the Chicago, Milwaukee &
st. Paul, who drew a claim, is the only
man who lives in a brown stone front.
With a little gravel that he found on
his claim he mixed cement that wa
shipped in and built a home of the new
process of building blocks. He re.
sides on the reservation.
Ben Two Johns, a well-known chief
among the Sioux, has purchased two
big autos with the money which he re,
ceived from the government as his
share of the payment for the coded
lands.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1905-10-05
SOUTH DAKOTA CENSUS IS CVENOU7
The States Population Shows Growth in the Last Five Years
Total Is 1922, Not Inclusive OF $4,000 indians.

The state census department has
compiled final figures on population
outside of reservation Indians, show
on the Fort Meade military reserva-
ton. The division of population be-
tween sexes, outside of the Fort Meade
population, is 234,974 males and 200,-
36S females. The summary shows
1S4.133 native born of native born pa
rents, and S9,545 foreign born. There
are 166 negroes and 3,249 citizen Indi-
ans recorded. The census of five years
ago showed $4,000 reservation Indians,
and they probably number $4,000 now,
giving the state a total of about $780,
600. The figures by counties for 1905
and 1900 are as follows:
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1905-10-05
iNDIcT CHIEF CITY FATHER.
President Of Milwaukee Council Must
Face Twenty CHARGES.


Face Twenty Charges.
Milwaukee, Oct. 3.-The grand jury
OF Milwaukee county, which has been
In session since June %, barring three
weeks vacation, completed its investi-
cation Of alleged graft and corruption
In county affairs Saturday and report
ed to Judge Brace in the municipal
court. The number of indictments re.
turned in the final sitting was "a, in.
volving four persons, as follows:
Cornelius l.. Corcoran, president of
the common council, 20 counts; Fred
c. Schultz, newspaper reporter. l in.
dictment, bribery; Frank C. Klonde,
president Of a local furniture company,
l Indictment: William Murphy, former
alderman, 2 indictments.
Mayor Rose, who defied the grand
jury 10 find basis for an indictment
against him. escaped indictment en-
tirely. So also did City Attorney
Runge.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1905-10-05
BOAT BUILDINGS BURN.
Structures Under Foreclosure Proceed.
ings Feed Flames to Value of SO, 900.

Cass Lake, Mimi, Oct. Sire total.
ly destroyed the boat landing buildings
and docks of the Cass Lake Boat COM
pany Yesterday morning. The origin
Of the fire is unknown. The buildings
had not been used for business pur.
poses for the past month on account of
foreclosure proceedings against the
lessees. Besides the buildings de.
stroyed, eight gasoline launches and
forty rowboats were burned. There
was only $500 insurance on the
property. which was valued at $4,000.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1905-10-05
PROBE PosTMIsTREss' CASE.
Federal Grand Jury to Investigate
Charge of Discrepancy.

Iowa Falls, Iowa, Oct. 3. Although
her bondsmen have made good the
claim of the government, the case
against Miss Nellie Woodley, who was
formerly postmistress at Hansel. in
Franklin county. will be probed by the
federal grand jury. She is charged
with a discrepancy of more than 81, 0OC
in the postofice money order funds,
P~ostofice Inspector Stewart of Iowa
City is investigating the case.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1905-10-05
BOY is SHOT IN THROAT.
Accidental Discharge of Shotgun
Causes Death.

Echo, Mimi, Oct. 3. - John Mimic,
the eleven-year-old son of James
Minte, living six miles southeast OF
here, was instantly killed by the acct.
dental discharge of a shotgun. The
boy climbed into the buggy where the
gun was, and it is thought attempted
to pull 1t over the seat. The charge
entered his throat, passing out at the
back of his neck.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1905-10-05
PROPOSED NEW COUNTY.
Norman May Be Divided and Mahno-
men Made the Seat,

Ada, Mimi, Oct. /. - A project is
on foot to divide Norman county,
forming a new county of the sixteen
townships in the reservation which at
present belong to this county. Popu-
lar sentiment here seems to be in IA
vor of the division and a petition ask
ing for separation will be circulated in
the near future. Mahnomen, the thriv-
ing new town on the 500, would be
the county seat.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1905-10-05
SHOT WHILE SINGING A HYMN.
Asher Jones, Ten-Year-OId Akeley
Boy, Is Oyinq.

Akeley. Mimi, Oct. 3.-Asher Jones,
the ~ten-year-old son of D. f. Jones, the
~ten-year-old son of d. E. Jones, was
shot in the head while riding through
the streets in a wagon. The person
who fired the shot is unknown, but is
thought to have been a small boy who
was seen with a s~mallcaliber rife
Asher Jones was singing the hymn "Je
sus, Keep Me Nearer to Thy Cross
when hit by the bullet. He probably
will die.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1905-10-05
Albert Scheffer Dead,

st. Paul, Oct. /. - Albert Scheffer,
pioneer resident of St. Paul, and for
many years prominent in city and
state politics, died at 7 o'clock yester-
day morning. He was sixty-three
years old. Mr.. Scheffer was afflicted
with tumor of the spleen.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1905-10-05
ELOPED WITH YOUNG WOMAN
Farm Hand Runs Away With Sixteen
Year-OId Girl.

Ortonville, Mimi, Oct. l. John
Nelson, a farm hand, eloped with the
sixteen-year-old daughter of a promi.
nent farmer living seven miles north
east of this city. Nelson came to Or
tonville and secured a livery team in
the night and took the girl from a sec.
ond-story window of her home and
drove north about twenty miles and
tied the team in the yard of a farmer
named Sol Peters. No further trace
of the couple has been found.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1905-10-05
Poisons Son and Self.

st. Louis. Oct. s. Herbert Mozart.
ney committed suicide by taking
poison yesterday after administering q
fatal dose of the drug to his seven.
year-old SON.. Dependency over being
separated from his wife is the only
reason given.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1905-10-05
PUSH LINE TO THE COAST.
Spur Being Built From Nahant to the
Camp Causes Speculation.

Indications at Deadwood now point
to the fact that the Burlington railroad
probably will build a Western extern
sion. 1t is likely to be in line with the
Northwestern and the Milwaukee in
the forthcoming rae for the coast.
A spur is now being built from Ma
liant to the McLaughlin's tie camp,
and while the company o that the
only intention Is to make connections
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1905-10-05

with this camp, yet outsiders have rea.
son to think that there are other OBJ.
jects In view. Grading is proceeding
rapidly and work is being done for a
broad gauge road.
Further, it is positively known that
the company has run surveys for a
line OF road as far west as Sun Dance,
Wyo.. with the intention, it appears, OF
tapping the cattle and coal country
From that point it would be an easy
matter to make connection with the
company's line from Edgemont tc
Billings, and from some Wyoming
point to run through to the coast.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1905-10-05
Drown I'd In a Cistern.

st. Paul, Oct. /. = Gertrude Butler,
a domestic, fell into a cistern in the
basement Of the Kittson house. Sum-
NIT and Selby avenues, last night, and
was drowned before she could be res
cued.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1905-10-05
Mob Eaqer for lynchinq.

GAINESVILLE, Wis, Oct. 1. - Henry
King, aged thirty years, was brought
into this city last night to prevent his
lynching by a mob of farmers which
wanted revenge for the alleged assault
of the nine-year-old daughter of George
Nichols of the town Of Porter, eight
miles from here.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1905-10-05
Crushed Under Auto.

Des Moines, Iowa. Oct. 3.-Fred A
Hartman, lawyer. banker and n OF
the wealthiest men in Northern Iowa,
was killed in an automobile accident.
While descending a steep hill he lost
control of his machine and was thrown
into a gulch. the car crushing him to
death.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1905-10-05
Thresher and Grain Burn.

Spring Valley, Mimi, Oct. IA
separator owned by Nelson & Deg
roadt was burned yesterday, and with
it seven large stacks Of oats owned by
Jonas McNee, about four miles from
this place.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1905-10-05
Musicjans Get Bad Fall,

Lawrence, Mass, Oct. 3. Three
members of the Banda Roma of Bos.
ton were seriously hurt, while nearly
every other member of the band was
cut and bruised by the collapse of a
band stand here.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1905-10-05
Scare AWAY Bank Robbers.

Sioux City, Iowa, Oct. 8. Robbers
made a raid on the First National
Bank of Howard. S. D., Saturday morn.
ing, but were scared away before they
secured any booty.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1905-10-05
ON THE EVE OF BITTER FIGHT.
Several Hundred Union Printers In
Twin Cities Walk Out To-Day.

VIII SISlCS VAIN VT way
st. Paul, Oct. 3. - Every indication
points to a general walk-out of union
printers employed in the job Offices of
st. Paul. The strike, or walk-out, will
take place to-day, the date fixed by the
typographical union for forcing their
demand for an eight-hour day. The
T~ypOthetae, the organization of EN-.
ployers, has intimated that this con.
cession will positively not be granted,
and also that beginning to-day, the
shops will be "open."
In this city about fifty shops, and
more than 800 men, will be affected. In
Minneapolis, where exactly similar con.
ditions prevail, about the same mum.
Der OF shops are affected, with prob.
ably 400 union printers employed.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1905-10-05

John C. Reding, a thresher of Mari
on, was arrested on the charge Of
threatening to kill c. ]. Wagner, a
business rival. Reding waived exam
nation and entered a plea Of guilty,
~whereupon he was bound over to keep
the peace In the sum of $500.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1905-10-05
Jealousy Causes Double Murder.

New York. Oct. 3.-Enraged by jeal
ousy. James G. Clayton, a negro. yes
terday shot and instantly killed his
wife and James Harmon, also a negro,
who boarded with the Clayton family.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-08-29
JAPAN,S FIVE ARMIES.
How Russia Estimates Her Foe'a
 Strength In the Field.

How Russia Estimates Her FOe'a
 Strength In the Field.
 According to the Russkl Invalid, tie Japanese armies in the field number from 65O,0OO to 6OO,0OO men. That is the Russian official estimate. This force consists of nineteen divisions, six of which are newly formed, and twen- ty-two reserve brigades. The battal- ions number from 3sS to 4O4, giving a total of from 48O,OOO to 450,OOO bayo- nets. Leaving out the reserve and de- pot force, the cavalry numbers at least seventeen regiments.
 General Kurokl of the First army has from 1O4 to 1OS battalons, equal tt 115,0O0 to 12O,OOO bayonets. General Oku of the Second army has 100 to 104 battalions, numbering 10000 to 115,- GOO bayonets. General Nogi of the Third army has 76 to 80 battalions, composed of 85,OOO to 9O,000 bayonets. General Nodzu, Fourth army, occupies the center of the Japanese armies with 40 battalions and 45,000 bayonets. General Kawamura, Fifth army, closes the list with 66 to 70 battalions, com prising 78,OOO to s0,0OO bayonets.
 All these five armies have telephonic connection and are so placed that they can act in quick conjunction with each other. In addition an army is mobilized for the maritime provinces.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-08-29

For the last fifty years. says writer ln the Engineering Magazine. consideration has been given to the project of an fsthmIan canal by the American people Every possible route has been investigated in a more or less imperfect way. from the tunnel project of Inc san Bias route at Darien to the shlp railway scheme of Captain Ead's at TehuantePcc. and volumes have been written containing a mass of ln- formation and transformation by en. glneers and others. some of whom have made careful examination of the various routes. and some who have never seeB the Isihmus or been affect si hy the facilitating influences Of ,rupical climate. and. ss usual in a consideration of important subjects. those who have known the least have bscn fhe most positive in their convic- fians anf in the expression of their opinions. if being much easier to build Eeories from ones inner consciousness
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-08-29
HEARD IN PASSING |.

After all these investigations a man ought to be able to take out life in- surance with absolute confidence that he is going to get his moneys worth.- Washington Star.
 The boycott on all things American by merchants of the Celestial kingdom is but broader application of the un- compromising stand taken by their brethren in the United States: "No tickee no shrtee" New York Sun.
 It is believed that bounty on bears would cost the state of Maine less than it does to pay for the loss of sheep killed by those animals. Bears are re- ported as getting numerous and de structive in Northfield, Wesley and inland towns, and they not only kill sheep, but they take the young stock and sometimes tackle the cows and steers.-NIeriden Journal
 Not less amazing than the temporary rescue from the hanginans moose of 'Bluebeard' Hoch by one of the sex towards whose extermination he con tributed his best efforts, is the fact that in civilized country, in the twentieth century, the question of re-. prieve or execution may turn upon the amount of money doomed man can ise.-Philadelphia Record
 Will we do things for money that we ought not to do; pardon things, omit and commit, break the laws of morals and liberty, and consent to in. justice for the love of money? To the extent that we may do this if becomes serious matter. Its determination Is one of the good things that must flow from the recent awakening to the pre- valehce of graft.-Indianapolis News
 While the country discusses with more or less interest the immigration problem. the men, women and children of other lands continue to pour into our ports intent upon making homes for themselves under the Stars and Stripes. A hearty welcome to every newcomer who means well and can reasonably expect to inake lis good in. tentions operative in his life.-Provi- dence Telegram.
 Little red school houses, flying the stars and stripes, will soon appear along the route of the Panama canal. The secretary of war has approved q request from Governor Magoon that the sum of s3O,OO0 he set aside and devoted to public school purposes. It will he expended in the purchase of real estate to be used as building sites for schools, in the erection of school buildings and for the purchase of maps, books and other necessaries.-- Norwich Record
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-08-29
TUESDAY. AUGUST 2e, 1905.

China Is protesting that she does not know what a boycott is and that there is no protest against American goods fin China. The advices to the state de- partment tell different story entirely The boycott against American goods which started in Shanghai is spread ing rapidly and the government could do nothing to control it if 1t wanted to-, wkich is very doubtful It Is on the other hand using the panic which has been thrown into American exporters to fierce the framing of a new treaty that will put the immigration of Chi namen to this country on very much more liberal basis. At the same time the treasury department has just re- ceived news from Buffalo of a most important capture of smuggled Chi nese near that point. It has known for years that Chinese were run across the lake and landed near Buffalo, that being one of the favorite points for that sort of illicit traffic. But last Sat urday night 1t caught the smuggler red handed in the act and not only will the crew of Chinese and Rouman- ians that he was smuggling be turned back, but his boats and launch were confscated and there is long term in prison staring him in the face. The Chinese government has declared that the stories of Chinese smuggling across the border were Actions and the only Chinamen entering this country were those coming through the regular ports and that these were subjected to great indignities. It is just possible that the present capture will have something to do with the attitude of this government when asked to sign a treaty providing for the freer admis- sion of Chinese to the ports on the Pacific slope.