The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1906-04-12

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Gov. Elrod has appointed w. B. Burr
Of Selby County Judge Of Walworth
county, to All a vacancy.
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The village Of Verdon, in the south
eastern part of Brown county, recently
voted 81, 900 bonds to improve the vii
lage school house.
Mrs. Andrew Thorusen of Aberdeen
took a large dose of carbolic acid by
mistake for toothache medicine and
died three hours later.
Gov. Elrod has commissioned as
game wardens James F. Nestor of
Willard for Faulk county, and Fred B.
HOLSTER of W%oonsocket for Sanborn'
county.
Supt. Smith of the Black Hills for
est reserve is preparing to seed a
large stretch of fre-devastated land
near Roubaix. Over 500 pounds of
pine cones have been gathered and
these will be scattered broadcast.
Countess Bosrari, accompanied by
her sister. arrived at Yankton direct
from Italy, and at once engaged the
best apartments in a local hotel. where
the woman of Italian rank will reside,
it is reported, while seeking a divorce
from her husband.
The supreme court denied the tenn
porary writ of prohibition preventing
the capital commission from opening
bids for the capitol building asked for
by a Sioux Falls delegation, but grant
ed an order to show cause why a per-
manent writ should not issue, and set
the argument for April IS.
At the sale of state lands in McPher-
son county, Commissioner Bach dis
posed of $40 acres of public lands at
so an acre. At the same time $500
acres of common school land were
disposed of at prices ranging from 81
s13. Sales of common school lands
will be made in other counties of the
state at later dates.
Chambers in its most contagious and
deadly form has made it's appearance
among the horses of a number of
farmers residing between Bridgewater
and Canistota. The state veterinary
surgeon was called from Huron and
found il necessary TO shoot ten of the
afflicted animals besides placing a
number in quarantine.
Leola, the county seat Of Mcpherson
county, is already experiencing a boom
as the result of the certainty that the
Minneapolis & st. Louis railroad will
build to that point. A new bank, to
be known as the First State bank Of
Leola. will be established by a cor
poration composed of the business men
of the town, making the second bank
there. A second newspaper. it is stat
ed, will be established by Ronayne &
Co.
The body of Mrs. Rose Diehl was
found in her home at Mount Vernon,
she having died of heart failure. For
ten days she had not been seen at her
home or in town, and search was made
for her, even her house being entered,
but she was still missing. 1t was sup
posed she had gone away on a visit.
Later ~neighbors again entered her
house and she was found in a kneeling
position in front of the kitchen stove
with a white shawl thrown over her
head and shoulders. She was seen
that way before, but visitors thought it
was a shawl lying on the chair. She
died on the night of March 81 as she
was in the act of building a fire in the
stove. She was sixty-eight.
w. H. Burns, county Judge of Wal
worth county, died at his home at
Bangor, after several weeks illness, of
drOpsy, aged fifty-eight years. He To-
Gated at LeBeau, the county seat at
that time, and was cashier of the Bank
of LeBeau. When the advent of a rail
road at Bowdle proved the destruction
of LeBeau and the county seat was
removed to Bangor, he moved there.
In 1889 he was elected county Judge,
being successfully elected to that Office
until 1896, when he was elected and
served two ,terms as states attorney.
In 1900 he was again elected county
Judge. which office he held at the time
of his death. He served as a Union
soldier during the Civil war, and after
ward was a lieutenant in the regular
army for some time.
That it is possible TO secure an arte-
sian well with a pressure Of upward Of
200 pounds to the square inch, which
would make it the greatest we'll Of the
kind in the United States, is the con
ident belief of the authorities of
Woonsocket. 1t is now proposed to
sink a new artesian we'll several hun
dred feet deeper than the present
wells. and thus tan the same strata