The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1905-12-07
South Dakota
General State News Parasraphed.

eral ana 1ne appointment OIL aubrey
Lawrence of the same place was made
to fill the vacancy.
A prairie fire near Tacoma Park,
Aberdeen's summer resort, twelve
miles from the city, for a time men
aced the auditorium at the park.
Chance visitors succeeded in extin-
gushing the flames when within a
few feet of the building.
The jury in the Sam Carr murder
trial at Yankton returned a verdict OF
m~anslaughter in the second degree.
with a recommendation for leniency.
The maximum penalty in this state
for the offense is -four years in the
state ~penitentiary at hard labor.
Twelve large brokerage firms bid
for the $4,000 bond issue for the
Lawrence county court house. The
successful bidder was a Cleveland
company, s26,612. The bonds pay 5
per cent and run for twenty years,
payable any time after ten years.
1t is announced by Albert H. Sites,
who is to be the next postmaster at
Sioux Falls, that he will appoint as
known young Republican of the city.
who at present is filling the position Of
deputy clerk Of courts Of Minnehaha
county.
One Sully county farmer reports a
yield of th~irty-eight bushels of wheat
to the acre on a forty acre tract, and
another reports a yield Of sixty bush
els of clean corn to the acre on a like
tract. This is better than the average
for this section of the state, but shows
what can be done in the Missouri val
ley when it is properly cared for.
Rev. NJ. B. Ainsworth, pastor of the
First Christian church at Aberdeen,
has risigned the pastorate and his res
ignation has been accepted. DR.. Aims
worth will conduct evangelistic meet
ings at Clark, S. D., and at Goldfield,
Iowa. after which he will move to Chi
cago and take up work under direction
Of the national board of evangelism OF
the Christian church.
A special venire OF forty-two per-
sons to serve as jurors at the session
Of the regular December term Of court
at Huron has been drawn. They will
report Dec. 5, at which time Judge
Gaffv of the Sixth judicial circuit will
sit for Judge Whiting, the exchange
being made on application of counsel
for a change of trial judge to hear the
cases pending against c. A. Kelley,
charged with forgery.
The business Of the register OF
deeds office for Brown county in the
month of October exceeded all previ-
Gus records, showing a remarkable
amount of business in real estate
lines. The total fees received for reg
istering real estate were s52SS0. The
active business shown is accounted for
by the fact that landseekers were un-
usually numerous in this section. Evil
dence of big crops and prosperous
farmers are seen on every hand.
the Aberdeen lodge Of the Knights OF
Columbus. Visiting knights were
present from W5tertown, Huron, Sioux
Falls, Sioux City and several points in
Iowa and Nebraska. The days pro-
gram began with a procession from
Heart church. where high mass was
celebrated. Rev. Father Dermody
preached a sermon in which he dwelt
on the attributes Of a true knight.
A county correspondent in Faulk
county notes that ]. w. Finnerty, with
his corn husking crew, cribbed 5000
bushels of corn in twenty-three days.
The same correspondent also notes
that one of the crews employed in this
work worked with three hands and
two eyes. With that kind of a record
for a crippled crew there is no telling
what Finnerty would have done in the
way of corn gathering with an able
bodied bunch Of men to help him.
Sheriff Harry Trathen Of Lawrence
county has received the two famous
b~loodhounds. Caesar and Betsy. from
Norfolk, Neb. They will be used for
the tracking Of criminals here in the
Hills. They have n remarkable record
for following trails. Recently they
tracked some men out of Norfolk for
fifty-two hours without resting, fol-
lowing them for 200 miles and at last
catching them. Several prisoners
have escaped in Lawrence county ow-
ing to the difficulty Of tracking them
over the hills.
August D. Fisher, superintendent OF
the Ideal Mining company of Custer,
was killed and Arnold Spencer of In
dianapolis seriously injured by a blast
at the company's mine. Two blasts
were lighted and only one exploded.
Surprising the other missed fire. Fish
er went into the shaft. He warned
Spencer, who turned away quickly,
but was struck by a large stone in
the back. When he recovered con
seriousness he found Fisher in a ter
rible condition. Before assistance
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