The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1911-09-14

After a fierce fight the unknown sue
ceeded in striking Poisson over the
head with a club and then fled from
the barn. 1t is believed the man had
entered the barn for the purpose of
stealing horses.
After making the long Journey from
Norway for the purpose of marrying
her childhood sweetheart, Miss Math-
ca has become the bride of Peter
Enboe, a prosperous farmer of Clark
county. Eneboe came to the United
States years ago and settled in South
Dakota and is the owner of a fine
farm. During the years he was en-
gagged in accommodating a fortune he
did not forget the sweetheart across
the water, and, having made a fortune
of a size to suit him, he recently sent
for her.
The voters Of Grouse Creek town
ship, near Presho, have by a large ma
jority voted in favor of the township
being bonded in accordance with a
state law for the drilling of nine large
artesian wells, which will belong to
the township and be for the benefit of
all the farmers and stock raisers. The
wells will be evenly distributed owe
the township and it is expected the
surplus flow will create a number Of
lakes in the township. The regular
flow will be utilized fol- stock and
other purposes.
Another shipment of nine cars of
sewer pipe, for the Philip irrigation
plant. has been received and taken
out on the siding near that ranch
near Pierre, This makes twenty cars
of pipe shipped for that project, and
everything will be put in shape this
fall 20 get the whole project ready
for operation as DON as water may
be required or desired on the land
next year. The pumps are being
located and the ground broken, while
the thing is being laid, and the ranch
is a busy location this fall.
A wreck occurred on the Pierre line
of the Northwestern railroad, one mile
east of Philip, on Wednesday evening.
The wreck was not reported to the
railroad officials, washouts being de-
clared to be the reason for the tieup
Of traffic. The west bound passenger
train from Pierre to Rapid City and
an eastbound freight met head on, on
a curve. No one was injured, as each
engineer saw the other train in time
to slack, but the passenger trains
tender and baggage car and one
freight car were demolished.
C. P. Silvernale, father Of Miss
Marian Silvernale. Of Baker, Mont,
who disappeared upon reaching Aber-
deem some days ago has succeeded
in u%nraveling the mystery, discover
ing that his daughter remained in
Aberdeen overnight and took a fast
train next day for Toledo, o., where
she joined and presumably was mar
ried to w. H. Calm. Calm formerly
lived in Baker and the S~ilvernales OBJ
jected to his attentions to their daugh-
ter because he was a divorced man.
He went to Toledo from Baker a
month ago.
Through a peculiar incident, Ed
mund Labrie of Turton made a human
torch of himself and would have been
fatally burned had not he been given
prompt assistance. He had been suf-
fering with rheumatism in his right
arm. He bathed his arm with liniment
and then wrapped it in cotton batting.
This done, he decided to enjoy a
smoke and filed his pipe. When he
lighted it the cotton batting, satur-
ated with the liniment, caught fire,
and before those ear by could ex-
tinguish the flames his arm and both