The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1911-12-28

left Aberdeen to visit his cousin, Mrs.
II. +. Schultz at Hecla the latter part
OF October. Word received from Mrs.
Schultz stated hat he left there
about November 18th bound for Aber.
deem, but he has never reached there,
His winter clothing and all OF his
other possessions are still at his
rooming house and six weeks accu-
mutation of mail is at the postofico.
He had money on deposit At severel
OF the banks but has made no d.
post or Withdrawals since the middle
| OF October. Tie police are working
on the mystery. but ~ yet have been
unable to unravel it.
The petrihed ham which has been
on exhibition in q Rapid City meat
market and which it was alleged fell
from one OF the wagons In the CON-
missary department OF General Cars
Seventh cavalry. when chasing Big
Foot in the Bad Lands. has been de-
| clared by President c. C.. O'Hara. of
the School OF Mines, TO be s forma-
| tioD commonly found all over South
| Dakota. 1t is conglomerate concre-
ton Of the Cetaceous age containing
iron oxyde. silica and clay in con
junction with sand. II split its in
terror would probably be found to
contain fossil shells and other marine
evidence OF the presence OF water
in ~undating the Black Hills more
than 1000, 900 years ago.
Ralph ~Vandercock, Stanley county
engineer, has just filed with the state
engineer plats OF five small irriga-
ton projects, which promise to be
the advance guard of a host Of
others; all Of which taken in the
entirety will make a vast difference
in trans-Missouri agriculture and
stock raising. Two Of them are on
Bad river, the McGree tract embrace
ing 1868 acres, and the Genoway pro-
ject with 172. Both will be irrigated
with water pumped by artificial
means, and will embrace only low
level land lying in the ox-bows of the
river. From an advertising standpoint
these Bad river propositions, as was
the Millett plant at Ft. Pierre the
past summer-are especially valuable
because for practically the entire
length of the stream it is paralleled
by the p. R. c.. The other projects
are Nels Nelson with Ga acres, and
Olof Nelson with 1885 acres on Ante
lope creek, and Albert Nelson with Is
acres on Rock creek.
Chas. Hyde, Of Pierre, reputed to
be the wealthiest man in South Da-
kota, a real estate operator and bank
er, was found guilty at Sioux Falls
on three counts of using the United
States mails to defraud, with a maxi
mum penalty of $1,000, ffty-four
months in prison, or both. Hyde's
activities in promoting sales of town
lots at Pierre red to his indictment.
Witnesses from twenty-five states
were called by the government, maps
showing electric car lines running ad-
jacent to lots represented as plotted
which were actually nothing but
broken pasture lands, and diagrams
representing lines of a northern trans
continental railroad which does not
enter South Dakota at all were
among the exhibits in the case.
Five or six employees of the Chi
cago and Northwestern at Aberdeen
have put themselves under the ban
by helping themselves to company
coal. An inspector checked up the
coal supply and found that nearly a
carload of coal was unaccounted for.
Investigation showed the station
ticket agent, the baggageman and
several of the employees in the freight
office had hauled home loads Of the
fuel at various times.