The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1911-05-11
South Dakota News


WEBSTER-The Day County Demo
crat has moved to this city.
PIERRE-State Game Warden Ban
croft has completed arrangements for
the purchase of about 200 pairs of
Chinese pheasants for distribution
over the state, and also arranged for
the placing of elk and mountain sheep
in the Black Hills.
ABERDEEN-Mrs. o. L. Parkhurst,
wife of a we'll known travelling man,
died here two weeks after the birth
of a daughter. She was SO years old
and had spent the greater part of
her life in this city. A husband and
five children survive her.
WEBSTER-Judge Button, of the
Ninth district, is holding a special
term of court, taking the place of
Judge McNulty, who is in a hospital
in Aberdeen.
PIERRE-Governor Vessy has ap-
pointed Edward c. Weber, of Huron,
as state hotel inspector, to succeed
c. NJ. Hopkins, the appointment to
take effect June /.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS pneumonia
is responsible for the death here of
Danial Talent, Of Central City, n
of the old time prospectors and min
ers here, aged 10 years.
ABEKDEEN-Miss Katherine Nc
Laughlin and Gerald McMasters were
married here by Rev. J. w. Taylor.
Gertrude Hasburgh of Lead and
James r. Readon of Omaha were mar
ried at Sacred Heart church by Rev.
Father DermodY.
WEBSTER-R. d. Irwin, druggist,
is building a brick block. He has
made a proposition to the X. p. lodge
that it add a third story to be used
for lodge purposes, the lodge to have
free use of the third floor for 10
years. after which it reverts to the
owner. j. G. Ermund has the con
tract for the building. This makes
the third large brick building under
construction.
DEADWOOD-Hermetically sealed,
the remains of We Dan Kim, a pioneer
Chinese resident, We're started on
their long journey to the old country.
Kim, who vas the manager of the
Hi Kee company, was one of the lead
ers in the Chinese colony for yer
thirty years. He was SO and leaves
a brother, a wealthy banker in San
Francisco.
ABERDEEN-A special train from
Butte, Mont, direct to Chicago passed
through Aberdeen last evening, the
chief passenger being Miss Helen
DAILY, daughter of the late Marcus P.
DAILY. The young woman is dangerous
ly i'll and is being rushed through to
New York to receive medical treat
ment. The train was scheduled
through at an average speed of 43
miles an hour, the fastest special ever
run through this division.
ABERDEEN-The census Of 1910
gave this city a population of 1873,
but according to the local election re-
turns it now has 1860. This sum is
reached by the method Of figuring
authorized by the laws of the state
where a city auditor may estimate
and as the official popula-
ton five times the number of votes
cast for governor. Two thousand five
hundred and thirty votes were cast at
the secondary election.
DEADWOOD-Wheat poisoned with
strichnine, used by the forest service
to kill mice and %chipmunks, is also
believed by sportsmen to be a menace
to the p~heasants and prairie chickens.
The poisoned wheat has been scat
tered wherever the forest service is
reseeding on burned sections, and al
though the officials say similar expert
ments in the southern hills did not re-
suit disasterously to the birds, many
hunters are protesting against the
method.
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NEEDFUL KNOWLEDGE.