The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1907-03-14
SOUTH DAKOTA.

died as the result Of swallowing sew
eral pills.
Conductor Antrom Jankins OF the
! Milwaukee had his leg broken. and
was seriously injured in IA switching
accident at Platte.
Judge Marquis has directed the
clerk of courts TO draw a jury for a
regular term of court on March -
for Hamlin county.
Three miners unions, the Terry.
CENTRAL and DcadwOod. met At Dead
wood and unanimously rejected the
Droposition made To them by the mine
| operators.
Mrs. y. \. Batchcldcr, wife of the
express messenger on the Milwaukee
! road. is quarantined at Stickney with
smallpox. 1t is the only case in that
| part of the state.
Elsie Clcmman, daughter of the pro.
prietor of n hotel AT Custer, was badly
burned by an explosion of Gas and is
in IA precarious condition. 4 bell boy
! also was injured.
The hotel building and IN
! ClarenlOnt were completely destroyed
| by AN early morning fire. The guests
were warned in ample time TO make
I their escape. Loss, $4,000.
The ever-buSy and generous stork
J visited The home of Nj. II Mrs.
George EmmonS at Pierpont and
made them u gift of three wee little
boys. who are well and strong.
The cattle owners of Union county
| met al the court house in Fin Point
and elected as county cattle inspector,
James V. Walsh of ELI Point township.
who was the only person placed III
nomination.
Mrs. Bridget Shannahan died al the
home of her son, Denny "Shannahan,
in Foster township, near Huron. Mrs.
Shannahan was 100 years of age. and
was The third woman to locate in
Foster township.
At a recent sale OF land at the Rap
id City land Office fOrty-four tracts,
comprising BASE acres. were offered.
III out illSt dl'c INC "ih 'i'h@h' 80
high as S7.55 an acre. while some OF II
sold as low s1.25 all acre.
The work Of organizing a company
to establish "A farmers elevator Al
Butler has progressed TO such an eX-
tent that a temporary organization has
been perfected by the election of F. l..
Ihrke temporary president and y. +.
Bierke secretary.
In accordance with it's desire. the
Fourth regiment band OF Sioux Pals
will be mustered out of the state
militia on March ,. II is believed the
WatertOwn band will be selected. al.
though the Aberdeen band also is
after the honor.
Christian Nelson. a wealthy II
prominent farmer of Lincoln county.
who mysteriOusly disappeared last
July. and who friends and relatives
had given up for dead, has returned to
his home. Nelson refuses to explain
his strange absence.
The Rock Island Railway company
mas llth III llV w " INV
Of state in Pierre Il copy of Il mort
gage for s6,5N0.0OO The mortgage
runs TO the Bankers Trust company
and covers all the property and equip
ment of that system.
With a report like Il cannon the
large grain warehouse at Herried be-
longing to J. G. Brady slipped off its
foundation and burst from the great
pressure of 5000 bushels Of wheat il
contained. Hundreds of bushels OF
wheat was scattered over the ground,
and the loss will be heavy.
There is an ice famine at Miller.
good as ii was early in the season,
the heavy snow made II impossible
TO gather il. and now the thaw and
high water has carried il all away.
Ice will have to be shipped in unless
another crop is frozen this spring.
At a recent sale of land at the
Rapid City land Office fOrty-fOur tracts
of land. comprising 1852 acres were
offered for sale. In one instance the
land brought as high as $1.55 an acre.
while some Of il went for as low as
1925 an acre. The amount of money
changing hands at this sale was in
the neighborhOOd of $4,000.
Robert Wesley and Curley Falk are
under arrest charged with the bur
glary of the hardware store of J. W.
Mcdonald at Central City. The store
| was entered early in the morning. but
Mcdonald. asleep at his home. was
aroused by q burglar alarm connect
ing the two places. The robbers were
frightened away before finishing their
JOB. They secured only 500.
For the first time in the history OF
Rockham the residents now are sum-
moned TO church by the pealS of a
church beD-the first ever installed
here. The bell has been mounted in
the tower of the German Methodist
! Episcopal church. Funds for its pur-
chase yer provided by the children
of William and Henrietta Buss. pio-
1900. --