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The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1906-10-23

Ai. always b# poor Ia. .u-e
raAk : NeIl-ns.ed c.ru crib. AMI =
Ne.i-itiled smoke house The people
mould take advantage re the splendid
climate and SOIL. which would pro-
tutr "Frr product g profit 1hlcn
can at p-oiUced 5u the country lie
li mol mean t 1uy~. PLANTING
= ~ wheat. rn and eats tsr
1E crops BIZ arty MAINTAIN
snlu@ interests
1IEtr-tdaa.sgu he sii r3.f tae
f solution af fhs problem - con-
ing spot -3pI4ar- IL helped to
E,,i cotton or tu. market
Iar mtt~ stt th. W-alth Producer
Eve 1oll4- comes fram tae earth
Those Noo buy tho products and
multiply their value Us manufacture
al- a credit to thu country. but ii It's
9EEinas form. wealth comes from the
farm. In tie South S.. 50 per cent
af the coal aai iron - III. country.
." Der cent ST lt~ timber ana In adj
dtttan with this great monopoly at
It's feet with Il soil ana climate like
that 'f n9 other c9untE ana with the
pufest Anglo-Sa%on population in thr
world surely I does seem that tle
south =oliI be- able To solve her great
question IN e way which viii place her
The forefront Of all sections
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1906-03-29
SCHOOL LAND SELLS WELL.

The sale of the Hand county school
land. the first time il has eve been
offered, resulted in dispOsing of 1850
acres at the average price of 81 an
acre. A piece northwest of Messing
ton was bid off at s37 per acre, while
a forty a mile southwest of Miller
brought 49, an acre. There were no
people from a distance TO bid, the
sales being made TO residents of the
county The law permits only a forty
acre lot to be sold at a time. 1t is be-
lieved that this plan is a hindrance
here to the sale of the land, where a
quarter section is considered o small
for a farm. Land Commissioner Bach,
who had charge of the sale. auctioning
off the land himself, stated that in no
county in the state at its first sale of
school lands was the result more sat
isfactory than this sale. Had not one
h~alf-section been sold at $40, the aver
age would have been $40 an acre in
stead Of ST.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1906-03-29
ISLAND KING OF BIG MUDDY.
Man for Whose Benefit the Missouri
River Built an Island.

One Of the best known river charac.
tiers IN South Dakota is Eli Fort, who
for a period of twenty-five years has
received the greater part of his in,
come from catching fish in the Mis-.
souri, river.
He is now the owner of an island.
formed by the whirling waters of the
river, which came into existence
through the obstruction formed by the
loss Of some of his fish traps in the
river. Fort states that thirteen years
ago he lost three or four large fish
traps at the point where his island is
no w~situated.
He expected to get good hauls of
fish when he went to raise his traps
three days after they had been placed
in the river, but found they were so
weighted down with sand that they
could not be removed. Fort thought
it was all clear loss at that time, as he
little dreamed that the loss of the
traps would cause him to become the
owner of N of the most valuable
islands in the Big Muddy"
A sandbar formed over the Obstruc-
ton made by the fish traps and each
year the sandbar grew larger. Finally
cottonwood and willow trees covered
the tract. The last four years the
island formed in this unique name
has grown until the surface is now
entirely above high-water mark.
Mr.. Fort Is Of the opinion hat he
has, after all. been we'll paid for the
loss Of his traps. Some of the cotton
wood trees on his trap-fOrmed island
have grown to such an extent thai
they are as much as FIVE inches in di-
ameter. The island is many acres in
extent and doubtless will each year
continue to grow larger. Fort has
even acres cleared which he will put
in crop the coming season. He is now
devoting some of his attention to deal
ing in fruit and forest trees and states
that he expects 10 have twenty o
sand living fruit trees IN the island
within the next four years.
His island is located near American
island, one of the well-known islands
of the Missouri river. Should the ac-
ton of the stream continue 10 add TO
his island, as expected. Fort will be-
come known as the Island King of the
Missouri
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1906-03-29
scAesIEs TO BE DIFFERENTIATED.
r. D. Jones Of Ipswich Issues Valuable
SUGGESTIONS on the Disease.


d. r. Jones of Ipswich, a member Of
the state live stock commission, has
issued the following valuable letter of
advice to farmers and stockmen re.
garding the determination of the dis
ease known as scabies:
The season of the year is at hand
when every farmer and cattleman in
South Dakota should consider himself
a committee of one for the purpose Of
eXterminating the disease commonly
known as scabies in cattle. Every
person having knowledge Of, or having
the least suspicion that the disease ex-
lists in any part Of his county, should
at once notify the county cattle in
spector of that county Of such fact,
and the law defines the duties Of such
inspector in the case. 1t is not the in
tention of the inspector, o of the
state live stock commission, to work
any hardship to any person or persons,
but it is the sworn duty of those Off
Gals to see that the law is carried out
as far as possible.
1T is acknowledged by all federal
authorities that South Dakota has the
best law governing the live stock in
dustry of any state in the Union, and
it is a fact that had not such law been
enforced as strictly as it was during
the past year South Dakota would be
under close quarantine. Many of those,
if not all, who were opposed to h en-
f,,n,,,o,t of Tho EJirpino Ia W. and the
rules laid down by the state live stock
commission and federal authorities to-
day see their mistake and acknowl-
edge that the very best thing has been
done that it was possible to do in try
ing TO eradicate the disease by the
strenuous effort which was made.
Il am of the opinion that if we make
an effort TO drop everything that is al
fected or exposed it will not only help
us in dispOsing of our stock but 1t VIII
prevent any future danger of quaran-
tine and will have a very beneficial
effect in bringing purchasers for our
feeders. We have been treading very
close to the danger line and only the
united effort of every stockman VIII
result in er%adicating the disease en-
tirely from this part of the state. The
law should be enforced in every par
ticular, especially that part wherein
government supervision comes in.
AT the present time federal inspec-
tors and the bureau Of animal indus
try recognizes only as being effective
a din made of lime and sulphur or of
tobacco and sulphur. and while other
dips may be as effective in eradicating
lice. they are not recognized as being
effective in cases of scabies, and sca0-
los is the disease We are AFTER
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1906-03-29
r MYERS DEAD.
Last of the Falls of the Sioux Settlers
Dies at G]arreteson.

In the death of Aaron Myers at Gar
retson one of the last, if not the last,
of the settlers who located at the Falls
of the Sioux in 1857 passed away. Mr..
Myers came as an employe Of the Da-
kota Land company and was later
placed in charge of the business OF
that company at Saratoga, Mimi, on
the Cottonwood river, but was fright
ened away by the Indians. He Joined
the Shetek Lake settlement and escap-
ed massacre there at the time OF the
Indian raid of 1862, taking his family
in an OK wagon and starting for New
Tim. only to find that place surround
ed by the Indians. He crawled into
the town and volunteered to go for re-
lief, and succeeded. All this time his
family was camped on the prairie, and
after the Indians were driven away he
reioined them and started for Man
kato. but on the way his wife died
from the effects of the exposure and
fright. Mr.. Myers settled at Garretson
in 1882. and resided at that place up
TO the time of his death.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1906-03-29
WILL RAISE APPLES.
New Industry Develops in Western
South Dakota.

The aDple-raising industry bids fair
to be one of the industries in western
South Dakota. \ few years ago It was
believed that this was not a fruit
country. but recent experiments have
proved the contrary. The exhibit car
that went out from the Hills last fall
took thirty-three varieties Of apples.
all of which had matured and were
equal in size. flavor and perfection TO
any apples raised in any part Of the
United States. All the six counties in
the Black Hills were represented. but
the industry in this part OF Lawrence
county is unusually we'll developed.
Joseph Wells. who has orchards
three miles west OF Spearfish. says
that from an orchard Of ten acres
many of the trees not bearing full
crons. he sold 3.374 bushels at an av-
GRACE price of Sl.25 a bushel; that he
retained enough for his own use. made
eight barrels of cider and sold Sloo
worth of cherries. plums and pears,
and cut from the same ground eighteen
tons of hay which he sold for IS a o n
He figures that an orchard ten years
ole. with thorough cultivation. will pay
10 per cent on a valuation of $1,000
an acre when in full bearing with only
a partial crop.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1906-03-29
LEGAL HANeNG IN COURTYARD
0""" hs loo" u" "~"%b g %saSs S% S sMMa eu %a%sr ms Black Hills" carried" ~" On "e s"~
!06[RA.

and the jailer laughed; but n day
afterward a deputy hunting for him
met him at the agency at Rosebud.
III not go back with you," said the
Indian, and the white mar expected
resistance, but with the cunning of his
people the Indian disappeared. To the
Deadwood soon afterward, several
days before the deputy and several
days before the time set for his exc
cution.
81 go away alone, I come back
alone, he said; Il go to say goodbye
to the squaw and pappooses; now | am
ready to die"
But he did not die.
The case was appealed and the su-
preme court decided that the United
States had no jurisdiction owe a
crime committed by m Indian
against another Indian in Indian cOun-
try. 1t was because this question Of
jurisdiction was raised that congress
eventually passed an act giving the
United States courts jurisdiction over
just such cases. The only Indian ever
hung in DeadwOOd was Two Sticks,
convicted of numbering some white
boys on the Pine Ridge reservation.
In these early days in this same old
court house came up for trial also
famous civil suits, concerning mining
round and companies, in which hun
1reds of thousands of dollars were u
vOlved. There was the famous case
If the Richmond VS.. the Sitting Bull
nine, and there "a the Golden Re.
ward-BuXton case. These both in
rOlved fine points of mining law and
created a tense public interest.
This old court house about to be de-
stroyed was built by Fred T. Evans,
formerly of Sioux City, and sold to the
county for $4,000. The new structure,
the plans for which were drawn by
Bell & Detweiler of Minneapolis. will
be a handsome structure of Black
Hills stone and brick, strong and
slightly.
But with the old court house will
pass the old days.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1906-03-29
CHARGES THEFT OF CORN.
South Dakota Farmer Causes Arrest,
AIIeuinq Burglary.

The alleged theft of about fifteen
bushels of corn, worth about 81, has
resulted in the arrest of Albert Baker
of Gregory county on the charge OF
burglary. Had the corn been carried
away from a corncrib or granary the
charge would have been larceny, but
the corn was stolen from the dwelling
house of w. E. Bridgeman, a settler
on the ceded portion of the Rosebud
reservation, during the temporary alb
sence of the owner: hence the alleged
crime comes under the more serious
head of housebreaking or burglary.
Bakers arrest was due to a confession
made by Warren Benson, who was re-
Gently arrested OF the charge OF steal
ing a bride or other property. The
trial of the two men will take place at
the next term of the state circuit court
in Gregory county.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1906-03-29

Children playing on the hill one
summer day found neal the White
Rocks the dead body of A man. The
alarm was spread as if on wings, and
the body soon was identified as Lee,
who had come to the Hills but a short
time before with a man named Bell
who afterward had been his partner
To be suspected in those days was tC
be arrested, and Bell was taken int
custody that very day in Crook City
where he had pawned Lees watch
There were many discriminating Gil
cumstancas, but after a hard fought
trial he was cleared. Even then pub
lie sentiment was SO strong against
him that he was taken back to Jail for
safety. He returned afterward to his
home at Dassel, Mimi, and went into
the hardware business. A few years
afterward, while he was both a men,
Der of the city council and the Demo.
cratic candidate for sheriff, he com
mitted suicide. Whether or not it was
the memory of the dead man who was
once his friend that drove him to com
nit the deed. no n ever knew.
Crow Dog Escapes, but Returns.
Indian trails also figured conspicu-
ously in the piebald civilization OF
those days. The case most far-reach-
ing in it's influence was that of Crow
Dog, tried for the murder of Spotted
Tail on the Rosebud agency. Accord
ing to the laws in evidence at that
time Pretty Camp, Crow Dogs wife,
was not allowed to testify in his be-
half, though she knew that Spotted
Tail was drawing a gun at the time
Crow Dog shot. The result was that
there were but few witnesses in behalf
of the defendant. But Crow Dog was
a kindly old chap. Accordingly he
was given considerable liberty and
was permitted to go up on the hill
sides to pick kinnekinnick, which he
mixed with his tobacco, for smoking.
Through the grating of his cell n
day he saw the form of Jack Legion,
a murderer, swung into eternity, and
he knew that a similar fate would be
his. He told the jailer that he was
going back to the reservation to say
goodbye to the squaws and pappooses,
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1906-03-29
MUST TRY CASE A
SaIoonmen's Liability for Death Of Pa.
tron Still Undecided.

tron Still Undecided.
A Ease which has attracted wide at
tention in legal circles and among
liquor men, because a final decision
will establish a precedent as to the
points involved, has resulted in a mis-
trial at Yankton. and will come up for
hearing again at the next term Of
court.
Mrs. Nettie McElwain brought suit
for $4,000 damages against Gustave
Schwink of a local brewing firm and
a surety company of Sioux Falls, al
leging that they were responsible for
the death Of her late husband, who
was run over and killed by a train
while in a state of intoxication. In her
complaint Mis-. McElwain alleges that
her husband secured liquor in a sa-
loon owned and operated by the brew
cry: that he became intoxicated and
while in that condition was run owe
and killed by a train. Whether the
man committed suicide or not will
never be known, as there were no eye
witnesses to the tragedy.
Judge Smith in his instructions to
the jury told them that il they found
that McElwain secured liquor in the
saloon and that his death resulted
from his intoxicated condition, they
must find for the plaintiff. The jury
was out over twenty-four hours and
finally reported inability to agree,
They are said to have stood seven to
five for the plaintiff.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1906-03-29
SAY 10 CLUBBED WIFE.

James Runs-Close-to-the Village came
up to Deadwood from Rosebud agency
10 answer for the charge of assault
with intent to kill. He appeared be-
fore Commissioner McDonough, who
bound him owe to await trial by the
United States district court. 1t is
charged that, while drunk, he assault
ed his wife with a heavy club and
left her unconscious and apparently
dead. Her friends began the usual
Indian ceremonies over the dead. and
even called in a schoolmaster, H. w.
Gates, to measure her for a coffin. He
no sooner had arrived, however, than
she became conscious. and since has
entirely recovered from the effects of
her recent beating.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1906-03-29

works are the thickness of a dollar,
and 1t has eight diamond jewels. Sew
eral valuable offers have been refused
for 1t. The present owner came in
possession of it by buying 1t of a party
who had been in Jail, and who parted
with the relic with great reluctance.
At a meeting Of the fire department
Of Pierre for the selection of officers
for the year. the selections were:
Chief. C. w. Rohrer; first assistant.
Frank Hinsey; second assistant, Alex
Miller; secretary, P. Dotson; treas.
urer Robert Brandhubsr.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1906-03-29

The old days of the Black Hills
country are no lore. In a few weeks
at most workmen will commence tear
ing down the Lawrence county court
house which, for more than twenty
years, has witnessed the comedies
and tragedies of pioneer life and law
in a mining camp. Lawrence county
will have a new court house, a hand
some $75, 900 building, modern in arch
itecture, perfect in equipment, and par
excellence as to symmetry and artis-
tic features; but with the passing Of
the triangular, in~convenient, old-fash-
toned building goes much Of the pic
turesque that colored legal matters
when the country was but a child.
The Black Hills existed for a year
without any authoritative cloak of law
or order; fought battles over mining
claims; killed men, lynched a few, and
ordered everything in crude, ~forceful
fashion. But in II the law came to
Deadwood. 1t came in the person of
Judge G. G.. Bennett, territorial judge,
who held the first court in the Black
Hills, and Seth Bullock, now United
States marshal of the state, who act
ed as the first sheriff of Lawrence
county.
The first court ever held in the
Black Hills convened in Pennington
county at Sheridan, now on the line
of the Missouri River & Northwestern
railway between Mystic and Rapid
City. An old log cabin served as a
home for justice. The first business
in Deadwood was transacted in a tin
shop in the rear of Star & Rullock's
hardware store, and the seat of just
ice was a keg of nails. Later court
was held over the postoffice; and then
the Bonanza, a typical Western dance
hall, was abandoned, and from being
a place of revalry became the abode
OF judges, juries, k~een-witted lawyers
and fearful or defiant criminals. The
bar at Deadwood in those days com
prised many legal lights, as this Sec
ton of the country appealed to many
lawyers.
Scene of Famous Trials.
Many famous trials have occupied
the district court in this circuit. One
of the earliest and most famous muir
der cases was that known as the Cal
lison case. Mrs. Callison, who taught
the first school in the Black Hills, was
found dead in her bed n morning
in August, rs, in Deadwood, with her
head and face disfigured by blows
with a blunt instrument. Her hus-
band was down at Rockerville, a -four
ishing placer camp, and she had been
living alone. Suspicion at once seized
upon a woman, Mrs. Boughton by
name, and a man named Couk. The
case came to trial and Mrs. Boughton
was charged with the murder and
Couk with being an accomplice. The
peculiar feature of the case was that
Couk, whose trial came first, was con-
victed of conspiring with Mrs. Bough-
ton to commit murder, while Mrs.
Boughton was acquitted Of the charge
of murder. Couk served but a short
term in the pe%nitentiary, being par
doned. He went to Texas, where he
afterward was hung for murder, and
report has 1t that at the time OF his
death he made a complete confession
of the Cailison murder.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1906-03-29
GRANTS WRIT OF ERROR.
Indian Charged With Murder Will
Have a New Trial.

The supreme court granted a writ
of error and certificate of possible
cause in the case OF Fake Flute, an
Indian in Roberts county, who was
charged with murder and the penalty
fixed by the jury at life imprisonment.
Flute killed two officers who were at
tempting to levy on some property OF
his. and claims that the killing was
done in self-defense after they had
threatened the life of himself and son.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1906-03-29

the Church of England, has proclaimed
himself an ardent friend and patron Of
the drama. The bishop holds that one
of the chief difficulties facing the So
cial reformer is to keep poor people
out of mischief, and he declares that
he has e thousands dragged from
the public house" by the simpler forms
of the play.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1906-03-29
The WAY He Went.

"Is Casey workin' here?" asked Fin
cyan, entering the quarry shortly after
q blast.
HE was, but he jisht whit away" re-
piled Flanagan, the foreman.
"Are We EXPECTING him back?"
Eyes, l suppose &c. Anyway, they do
say, whatever goes up mustn't come
down."
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1906-03-29

Falling from a thirty-foot scaffold to
a pile of loose rock below, William
Elliott, a carpenter employed at Cya-
hide No. 2 in Blacktail, was fatally in.
jured and died. His skull was frac-
tured.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1906-03-29

A Swiss watch, claimed to be los
years old. Is owned by William Strick-
Ter, the jeweler at Miller. It is hand
made and keeps accurate time. Its
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1906-03-29

churchman Friend Of Drama.
The bishop of London, generally re-
xarded as one of the wisest prelates OF
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1906-03-29
Jury Thinks Woman Did Riaht.

0UTy 'HV'NS "VV'0" STu "'S'e'
Fort Dodge, Iowa, March 24.-The
grand jury refused to indict Mrs. John
Keller, who shot her husband in a To-
cal saloon with a female companion.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1906-03-29

The state board of pardons met at
Pierre and recommended a Commuta-
ton of sentence from life imprison-
ment TO ten years in the petition OF
Michael Andres. sentenced from Car
ringtOn county on a charge Of murder,
The petition of Andrew Nlghtpipe for
a pardon was denied, and the petition
of Richard Hayes was laid over for
further consideration.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1906-03-29

The members of the Dell Rapids
volunteer fire department. at thCit
annual business meeting. elected the
following officers for the coming year:
Chief. c. H. Blow; foreman. D. R.
Richardson: assistant foreman. NJ. V.
Medin: secretary. John Neldrum:
treasurer. s. Swanson. The depart
ment is we'll organized and is one of
the most efficient in the state.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1906-03-29

The referendum petition on the
question of granting the ten years re,
bate of taxes for the erection of an op,
era house in Pierre has been filed with
the city auditor and the question will
be submitted at the regular spring
election.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1906-03-29

The Pierre board Of education has
rendered t o Prof. f. Z. Frisk of Oma.
ha the position of superintendent of
city schools made vacant by the resig.
nation OF w. P. Dunlevy. Mr.. FriSK
has been for many years ~professoT Of
science and mathematics N the
schools of Omaha.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1906-03-29

In the oratorical contest held at
Huron. Charles r. Miller was the sue
cessful speaker, and will represent
Huron college at the state Oratorical
contest to be held at Huron in May.
His subject was abraham Lincoln"
and was pronounced by Judges as we'll
as the audience 10 be one OF the finest
student in Huron.