The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1909-01-28
South Dakota
General State News
in Para9raphs.


Jokum Anderson, n of the pho
neer residents of Oldham, died at Ar.
lington. He was seventy-seven year
of age. and death was caused by heart
failure.
w. M. Gates, porter at the Sherman
hotel at Aberdeen, fell down the ele.
vator shaft from the fourth floor to
the first floor. a distance of sixty
feet, and escaped without a scratch.
Plans are being made for the cree.
ton Of a new Methodist church in Ar.
lington. The present ediice will
probably be sold to the Norwegian
Lutherans, who have a large and
growing congregation.
The supreme our sustained the
demurrer of Olivet in the Hutchin-
son county seat contest. This action
puts Parkinson out of the case, and
leaves the county seat at Olivet for
at least four years more.
The body of James Cromwell, pro-
prietor of the Eagle cafe in Water
town, was picked up on the stree at
s O'Clock n morning last week.
Death was due to exposure and heart
failure brought On by excessive drink
ing.
With her hands saturated with blaz-
ing oil, Mrs. p. r. Phinney of Airing
ton, carried a kerosene lamp out OF
doors, saving her home and probably
the lives of her children. Her hands
We're terribly burned before she could
safely drop it.
Harry Rothfork of Elkton nearly
met his death while thawing frozen
water pipes with gasolene. He was
pouring the fluid on the pipes and
firing it with matches, when the can
he was using caught fire and ex-
ploded, badly burning him about the
face and hands. !
Charged with being responsible for
the mysterious shooting and death of
Elba Roberts, a young saleswoman OF
Sturgis, Oscar Jacobs. recently ar
rived from North Dakota, is being
closely guarded in the county Jail to
save him from possible violence at
the hands of excited citizens.
Farewell to the green cloth and to
| ihn oil psoht and CnpIoy c.looo. l..
historic Deadwood. Last Sunday
night at II sharp the lid was clamped
down, and hereafter at that hour all
saloons must close and the horde of
"sleepers" must find some other rest
ing place. Such is the order of the
carried out.
Madison is now practically assured
Of a Y. M. c. A. building at an early
late. The organization Is already per-
fected, and the work of raising funds
is now progressing. w. II. Parsons
Of Minneapolis has charge of the
work of planning the raising of the
funds, and the structure as well. A
building to cost $780, 900, including
equipment, is proposed.
Over a hundred stockmen, repre-
senting Black Hills counties, met at
DeadwOod and passed a resolution
urging the legislature not to amend
the present fence law in the Hills
counties or destroy the free use of
the range, which has been enjoyed
since 1881. Practically every cattle
man in the Hills and adjacent terri
ed.
Artemus Gale, M Of the best
known men in the state, who first
came to Sioux Falls in 1868, and who
since 1870 has made his home there
continuously, died at the home of his
sister, Mrs. C. c. Carpenter, in this
city. Had he lived until next month
he would have been eighty-four years
of age. He is survived by two sis
ters, Mrs. Carpenter Of Sioux Falls.
and Mrs. Margaret Burton of st. Paul.
On instructions from Chief Grose
of the Sioux Falls police department,
Robert Walters has been arrested at
Granite and brought back to Sioux
Falls. He is charged with having OBJ
money under false ~pretenses,
passing a worthless check at the
hotel. When he is through
with his present trouble here he will
be called upon to face charges of
at Hawarden and Sioux City.
The thriving little town Of Orient
Is just completing a new public school
building, which the residents proudly
boast is the finest structure of it's
kind in South Dakota, in a town with
no greater population than Orient.
The lower story has already been
completed and occupied, and the up
per floors are nearing completion and
will be ready for occupancy in the
near future. The new school building