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

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AS an indication of that amount Of
settlement which is going into STAN
ley county, a traveller coming in from
Hayes Saturday reports that on his
way in from that place he counted
sev~enty-three wagon loads of emf
grant movables which were being ia
ken westward by people going out to
their homesteads.
A Russian who was travelling to
South Dakota with his wife and five
children was robbed on a Milwaukee
train near Twin Brooks of a purse
containing $500. When the Russian
missed his purse a search of the train
was made and the purse was found
open and with the money gone. but i
draft for $500 remained. The Rus
sian was coming to South Dakota to
live.
There was no contest for Brown
county school lands at the sale by
Commissioner c. J. Bach. Few tracts
were sold, and in every instance the
buyer secured the land at the mini
mum price fixed by the state, the
prices of the pieces sold ranging from
$50 to $12 per acre. At the leasing
the bidding was more lively and tracts
were leased for as high as SO cents
an acre.
After having lived to the ripe old
age of ~ninety-one years seven months
and twenty-one days, Mrs. Hanora
Brown passed away at Rapid City as
a result of her advanced years. She
was a native Of Ireland, having been
born in Limerick in 1905, and attended
the ceremonies held in her town in
honor of the coronation 70 Queen Vic
toria. She came to the United States
when quite young.
The Belleview addition of Belle
Fourche will be supplied with good
artesian water. The we'll, which has
been put down $50 feet, has struck
a flow of water about fifteen gallons
a minute. The we'll will be sunk to
a greater depth, and there is every
reason to believe that a large flow OF
water will be encountered. Some de-
lay was caused b. encountering q
bed of very hard rock, presumably
iron ore of some kind.
Mrs. Kinney of Recluse. in western
Stanley county, a few days ago found
a package which looked like pepper.
which had been soaked in the food
which swept the Bad river valley last
July. She considered it worthless,
and threw 1t into the cook stove to
get rid of it and found that it was a
package Of gunpowder, and she mar
rowly escaped death from the flying
pieces of stove, which were scattered
by the powder when it exploded.
Aberdeen is threatened with a lum-
Der famine. Lumbermen state tat
the Pacific coast houses are six
months behind with their orders, and
a wholesale lumber firm recently es-
tablished in Aberdeen has found it
impossible to get a stock of lumber
on hand, its lumber being taken by
retail dealers as fast as it arrives.
The large amount of building expected
in Aberdeen this season accounts in
part for the demand for lumber, all
local retail dealers being rushed with
orders.
The township in which Volga is sit
uated was recently divided into indie
pendent school districts, and this will
necessitate the erection of several
new school buildings. One of these
will be erected at Volga. Volga needs
a new school building, and it is pro-
posed to have the work commenced in
ample time so the new structure can
be completed and ready for occupancy
by the close of the year. The new
building will be modern in every re.
spect and n Of the finest Of its kind
in this part Of the state.
Watertown Is experiencing a real
mad dog car Eight CANNES have
been shot by order of the veterinary
surgeons after being found afflicted
with hydrophObia. The mayor ordered
all dogs to be muzzled and the marshal
is instructed to shoot on sight all dogs
out of doors without a muzzle on. A
squad, armed with shotguns, makes
the rounds of the city every day, fol.
lowed by a wagon, and as the dogs are
shot the %carcasses are tossed into the
wagon and hauled away. This action
is depicting kennel stock here at the
rate of fifteen per day.
February was a banner month in the
way of tax collections in the county
~treasurer's Office, the total amount re.
ceived exceeding 100000. This is by !
far the largest amount ever taken In
by the county treasurer in one month
in Clay county, and the taxes are high |
er this year than usual. 1t is evident
that the delinquent tax list this fall
will be small. The majority of taxpay-
ers take advantage of the opportunity
to make two payments, hence the re-
CENT for February repreSent only