The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1906-06-21
Gle REGISTER
BY REGISTER PUBLISHING co.
BRo0KINGS. SOUTH DAKOTA
Cheyenne river reservation pasture
lands will be let June 26.

good health.
Prof. C. w. Lay, for thirteen years
financial manager and secretary OF
Yankton college, left for his old home
at Kewanee, ILL.,, to assume business
cares at the request of his father.
Frank Files, a young man apparent
ly from Benton county, Ark, and who
has. suffered a lapse Of memory al
most total, was adjudged a fit sub
ject for the state hospital at Yank-
ton.
Samuel Woods Of Brookings "a real
estate man. vas married at Yankton
by Rev. G. w. Rosenberg to Miss
Belle Kjos of Bryant. The couple
left at once for Chicago and st. Louis
on a trip.
A bold thief, while in the lobby of
the Cataract hotel at Sioux Falls was
crowded with people, snatched $3.50
from the hands of William Cornell,
day clerk, and escaped in the crowd.
There is no clew.
The citizens of Geddes are making
great preparations for the celebration
of July 4. Something like $500 has
been raised and this amount will be
held up as an attraction for the best
in the line of sports.
Six street waits, who were brought
from New York city about three years
ago, and placed in a convent at Turton,
Sphinx county, have been placed in the
state re,orm school at P%lankinton of
charges of incnrrigibility.
Two little children of John Nelson,
a farmer of Andover, had a narrow
escape from death by poisoning. They
found a rat biscuit which had been
put out to poison rodents and ate it.
They were seriously i'll, but will re-
cover.
Engineers of the Chicago & North.
western railroad are working north Of
Whitewood on a branch line, which
will onnect with the new govern
ment town to be built in h center OF
the irrigated section north of Belle
Fourche river.
While John Mulvihill and family,
living near Ramona, were returning
home, a portion Of the harness broke
and the horses became unmanageable.
Mrs. Mulvihill had in her arms a four
months-old babe, and in jumping the
child was killed.
Mitchell Pelletier, aged twelve years,
was seriously injured by a blank car
fridge at Deadwood. He was playing
with it and accidentally lighted a fuse
attached to it, causing the explosion.
The powder was blown into his head,
severing an artery.
Mrs. Edward Kleise. the wife of a
well-known farmer living near Sisse-
ton, met a sudden death while driving
home with her husband from a neigh
boring village with a load of hay.
They were crossing a slough when the
wagon tipped over and she was buried
beneath the load.
The state lands board at a late meet
ing decided to offer for sale this fall
the town lots in the different towns OF
the state which were secured in the
settlement with ~defaulting Treasurer
Taylor. The lots will be offered some
time in September and the advertise
ment of sale will soon be out.
Few counties in the state are in
better financial condition than Potter
county. The current quarterly state
ment of the county treasurer shows
a balance on hand in all funds of $24,-
800. The county has no outstanding
bonds of any character. Owing to the
excellent financial condition of the
county there is quite a strong senti-
ment in favor Of the erection in the
near future of a new and modern cour
house.
Adjt. Gen. Englesby, by a trip to
Washington and through the assist
ance of Senator Kittredge and Con-
gresham Burke, has secured $4,000
for a summer encampment of state
troops at Fort Russell, Wyo., where
the troops from Northwestern states
will rendezvous. 1t was at first an
nounced that the troops of the state
were not properly equipped for such
a meeting, but the fund has been Sc
cured by the adjutant general and a
delegation will be sent.
AS an evidence Of Indian discipline
over their children tbs entertainment
they gave at Pierre a few nights ago
showed that reverence for the chiefs
could hold even the youngsters in
line. A number of travelling men on
the front seats scattered nickels on
the stage, and the little fellows who
were ranged in a line on the back of
the stage in front Of their mothers
scrambled for the money. But no mat
ter how many coins were thrown while
tie old chiefs were making their talks,
not a move was made by the pap
pCoses until the talk was finished;
then there was a general scramble
until the money was all collected.
Samples of the petroleum taken
from the Doremus farm, near South
Shore, have been analysed by manu-.
featuring chemists at Paris, Ill.,, and
have been pronounced a very high
grade. 1t contains a heavy percentage
of kerosene. In seeping up through