The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1906-04-05

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cago, has resulted in the conversion of
about seventy-five persons.
Matt Flavin, treasurer Of Meade
county, redeemed $4,000 Of divisional
bonds. This makes a total Of $4,000
of the Indebtedness due Lawrence
county wiped put within a year.
The latest new town to be decided
upon in South Dakota will be named
Freedom, and will be established in
Faulk county, on the proposed extern
sion of the Minneapolis & St. Louis
railroad through that county.
The examination of applicants for
state certificates as teachers was at
tended by sixty or more women teach
ers, including several from other
states, who seek positions here. Only
about six young men took the examin-
atoms.
Henry Denton, while prospecting for
soap clay on his ranch near Piedmont,
struck a strata of good coal at a
depth of ffty-one feet. The extent
and the thickness Of the vein is at
present unknown, but a full investiga-
ton will be made.
At the spring election at Letcher IL
cense was carried by a majority of
xL,oo Tho rnnrnhnrS nf IhH
town board elected are G. ". Craw-
ford, ED. Pearce and w. H. Holland;
r. H. Todd, clerk, and J. X. Burg,
treasurer. The school election was
held at the same time, but no change
was made in the board.
Another of the &c pioneers has gone
with the death of Fritz Baumann. who
has lived on a ranch near Crow Peak
for many years. Mr.. Baumann was
sixty-five years of age and was n
of the pioneers OF the Spearfish valley.
He had a fine army record, having
served throughout the Franco Prussian
war as a member of the Prussian
army.
Some Sioux Indians who CHANGED to
be neal the railroad in the vicinity of
Buffalo Gap had what to them was a
rare treat. An incoming passenger
train struck and killed a cow which
was walking along the railroad track.
and 1t was soon espied by the party of
Indians. They speedily u up and
divided the carcass, after which they
INDUCED in an old-time feast.
Trustees of Huron college have Sc
cured Prof. A. L. Riley of Boone, Iowa,
TO take charge of the commercial de-
partment of that institution. Prof.
Lynch, under whose supervision this
department has been for several years,
resigned to go to Nebraska to give at
tention to land interests there. While
here he made the commercial depart
ment of Huron college one of the best
in this part of the country, and his re-
moval is much regretted.
The portion Of the Lower Brule res
eryatiOn which is to be opened
through the provisions of a bill which
was pushed through by Congressman
Burke, contains about $4,000 acres of
land lying along the western end OF
the reservation. The bill provides for
sale of the land direct on five-year
terms, one-ffth to be paid at the time
of sale and the balance of five annual
payments. This will make the lands
desirable as an investment.
The farmers OF western Sully coun-
tv. who are in the belt where gas is
secured with the artesian flow. are dis
cussing the organization OF a stock
company to sink a deep we'll to find
If a better supply of gas OF oil cannot
be found at a greater depth. The pro-
posed plan is to organize and ask the
owner of every quarter section in the
gas locality to take stock to the
amount of not less than SO, and in
greater amounts If possible, all to be
represented. With the fund so raised
the we'll could be sunk, and if a strong
gas or oil flow is secured the small
amount subscribed would be paid back
many fold in the increased value of
the lands.
BY the explosion of a steam pipe on
an engine in which they were operat-
ing a steam shovel. w. J. Mackay and
Matt Maholsig were severely injured
at Garretson. The steam pipe had be
come clogged with ice and when the
steam was turned into it there was a
terrific explosion. A piece of the pipe
struck Mr.. Maholsig in the head, in
ficting an ugly wound, while the
steam severely scalded him about the
face and neck. Mackay received the
full force of the jet Of steam and was
badly scalded about the thighs. 1t
was at first believed his injuries would
prove fatal, but physicians now hope
that his life may be saved. Maholsig,
while badly hurt, is in no danger of
death.