The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1908-03-12

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A large crowd Of Pierre citizecs
gathered at the new North Westerp
passenger station recently to see the
first train pull into that station.
Gov. Crawford has appointed Or
| Frank s. Howe of Deadwood as a del
| egate to represent the state at the
| council Of medical education. which
| opens in Chicago on April Is.
The first move In the appeal Of the
| Mrs. Kaufman murder case from
Sioux Falls has been made by the Al
ing OF the record and bill of excep
tons with the clerk of the supreme
court.
William B. Holmes, who was arrest
ed at the st. Hubert hotel in Milbank.
is said to be wanted at Aberdeen,
Mitchell, Bowdle, Webster and Wan
bay on a charge Of passing worthless
checks.
The report Of the bureau Of vital
statistics OF the state shows that
South Dakota, with a death rate of
% per thousand, stands at the head
Of any Of the states of the Union.
No other state reports less than IL.
Arthur Lee, a pioneer resident Of
the northern portion of Hyde county,
has been elected sheriff of Hyde coun.
ty to fll the vacancy caused by the
recent death Of s. r. Meigs. the regu.
larly-elected sheriff, who died as the
result OF an attack Of pneumonia.
The preliminary examination OF
John Burke and the three squaws
charged with the murder Of Mazoha.
hawste, an Indian. was held at Sisse-
ton before Judge Prindeville and
Burke was bound over to the circuit
court. The three we're dis.
charged.
When the trains began operating
across the river at Pierre. the old mail
line by boat to Fort Pierre was cut of.
The local service, which also was done
away with, ia to be resumed, two
trains a day carrying 1t across the riv-
er, one in the morning and one In the
evening.
Matches, which were accidentally
dropped in the hayloft Of his barn.
and which are believed to have beef
ignited by mice gnawing them, caused
a heavy loss to Christopher Johnson,
err. Two valuable horses and a big
barn were burned.
But for the prompt Intervention OF
the officers George Meeker would
have been dealt summary vengeance
by citizens OF Spearfish. Meeker h
accused by his daughter of criminal
assault. This is the second daughter
who has accused him of the same Of
Tense In two years.
Frank Ducharme OF Belle Fourche,
who was arrested at Sturgis, charged
with shooting with intent to kill, had
a preliminary hearing. He Is alleged
to have shot at officers while being ar
rested. Ducharme was bound over to
the next term of the Meade county
circuit court in the sum Of 81, 900. He
gave bail.
A monument Is to be erected In
memory of John Wahcahunka, a veh'
cradle member of the vankton tribe
of Sioux Indians, who died a few days
ago at the age of e%ighty-one years.
Members of his tribe have raised a
fund by subscription. The dead In
dian was the leader of the progressive
element of his tribe.
Four persons were hurt and fatal.
ties narrowly averted as the result of
a headon collision near Deadwood be-
tween the Burlington trolley car that
runs between Deadwood and Lead and
a switch engine. The trolley car
rounded a curve as the switch engine
bore down on 1t. Motorman Stewart
reversed and jumped.
Four hundred dollars an acre for
Stanley county land puffs up the peo-
pie Of that county, that price having
just recently been paid for a tract al
joining Fort Pierre, which has been
used as a truck farm, and which the
purchaser will continue to use for
and is shown by digging to reach
down t~wenty.three feet, which makes
it practically inexhaustibe.
N. B. Switzer Of Washington, a gov
eminent inspector of surveys. is in
Pierre to inspect the survey Of the old
Fort Bennett military reservation,
which comprised a strip Of land along
the Missouri from the mouth Of the
Cheyenne river to the location Of the
old fort and agency. As soon as the
survey of this tract IL approved, the
land will be opened to settlement, the
tract containing about a township.
Sturgis has something new in the
club line. known as the do Little
club" and no man who works Is ell
gible to become a member. The mem
bers claim to have entered into a con-
tract with the authorities Of Nevada
to round up the $4,000 head OF wild
horses now running at large in that
state. They are to receive 50 per head
for each horse killed. and in case any
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