The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1907-02-28
South Dakota
General State News Paraaraphsd.

Coler and j. Med. Campbell of HUI
ron have purchased the l.ooo-acle
| stock ranch OF Foster 4 Thompson
! located two miles southeast OF huron.
The price paid was $40 per acre.
John Craig. while getting out logs
in the timber south OF SturglS, mad d
| leg broken. A log slid and struck
| him on the shoulder, afterwards fall
| ing on his leg, breaking it above the
ankle.
Mrs. William Fernand, whose death
| occurred ut her home in Cavour, a
| few days since, was among the early
| residents of Bcadle county, n was
one of the most f%avorably known pio-
HeerS of thai section.
J. w. Smith. president of the graded
school departments Of the Eastern
South Dakota Teachers association, Is
busy preparing the program for the
| annual meeting Of the association 10
be held in Waterfowl April 1 and D.
When the wife of William MarScn-
| rider. a farmer of GrotOn, went to the
harn to search for eggs, she was nor
rifed to stumble over the dead BODY
of her husband. 1t is believed that
while at work in the barn he Sut-
....l ,,,JI,n nttncLy nf banr frjInpp
and probably died instantly.
Miss Daisy Gerton, teacher OF his
tory in the state normal school at
SpcarhSh. has resigned her position,
and Will be married at Madison on
Feb. y. On the Sth of March she
and her husband will sail for Japan,
where they will make their home.
Miss GertOn has been a very popular
instructor. and was the recipient OF
many valuable gifts from the teachers
and students.
Abel Thomas, a member of the
Yankton tribe Of Sioux Indians, aged
dbblAl W NlIlf 4 ll'No ONNlh 49, -
the Geddes Jail on a serious charge,
having been arrested at Greenwood
Yankton agency by Sheriff Skill
ings on the charge of criminal as
sault. The complaining witness is
Lizzie Sd Pierre, the thirteen-year-
old daughter Of Louie St. Pierre, the
old pioneer who resides ear Green
wood.
Mrs. Sarah Dauvwell, who resides
neal Gregory, enjoys the distinction
of being the only woman who has
! ever adopted a child who was a de-
scendant of a noted Indian chief. She
has just adopted a little girl nine
months old, whose home was on the
Rosebud reservation. and whose In
dian parent died only a short time
ago. The little girl is the great
grandchild of Spotted Tail, the ia
nous Brule Sioux chief.
The Consolidated Light and Power
company. which furnished light to
both Lead and Deadwood, and power
to many Of the mines and mills, has
added a spray nozzle system for pro-
ducing quickly and effectively a low
temperature for the coolers of the
turbines. The addition to the plant
is built directly across the creek from
the main building and completes what
has already been known as one of the
most perfect plants in the West.
BY the breaking of the ice in the
Cheyenne river, in western South Da-
kota, Cheney & Wilkinson. ranchmen,
whose range is in that part of the
state, suffered a severe loss. A part
Of their herd Of cattle walked out
upon the ice, which gave way under
the combined weight of the animals.
Some OF the cattle we're able to make
their way to safety. but twenty-seven
of them were precipitated into seven
feet of water and were drowned.
Confident that their young son is
the victim of evil associates. and that
he was not the chief offender in the
crime which got him into trouble, the
parents Of John Nevins, who is serv-
ing a term in the Sioux Falls p~eniten-
tiary, are striving to secure his par
don. Nevins and a companion were
arrested on a charge of holding up
and robbing a drunken man in what
Is known as the Campbell house alley
at Lead. Nevins has served about
one year Of his term.
Sam" Sweeter,. a well-known resi-
dent OF Monroe. has had good reason
to conclude that it is not the part
of wisdom to carry loose loaded car
tridges and his smoking tobacco in
the same pocket. Mixed in with his
tobacco were a number Of these load
ed cartridges. In filling his pipe he
| without nhSaryino ~ placaI oor