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

in Stanley county. At the noon hour
the children we're at play about the
building when a sharp pointed stick
was thrown by Raymond Knutson. an
S-yearold boy. The point OF the stick
struck Clifford Dreamer, IL years old.
on tho temple and pierced the skull,
causing death in q short time after
the accident. There waa no malice in
the act. the throwing being \ part Of
the play OF the boys on the ground.
A government postal inspector 10
at work on the Sully county Black
Hand letter cases, and the indications
are that An arrest will be made be-
fore long.
A caboose and three cars Of .
wrecking train from kobridge to
Ortonville went into the ditch two
miles east Of Ipswich. None were in
jured. Four hundred yards of track
were torn up.
Peter Thompson, an employ Of the
Schwenk-Barth brewery at Yankton,
Is in Jail for the theft OF nearly $1,000
worth OF goods from the Milwaukee
freight depot in that city. His pre-
liminary trial was held Saturday, and
he IA held over under 81, 900 bond.
The stealing has been going on a
little at a time for several weeks, and
articles from lace curtains to vege-
tables and fruit we're uncovered at
Mr.. Thompson's residence, about 200
pards from the freight depot. An en-
plOye Of the road caught Thompson
in the act of his theft, which led
to his undoing.
Il will never be killed with an au-
and W. monkey with them" ex-
claimed Deputy Sheriff Rudy Barthel,
chief of the Homesta6e Mining com
pany secret service, to a friend. Fiji
teen hours later he lay dead, shot
accidentally by Ben Wilkinson, a
close friend and manager of a cloth
ing store at Lead. To accommodate
a friend Barthel had stepped into the
store to show how an automatic
worked and borrowed Wilkinson's
gun. When he handed it back the
safety catch was off and it exploded,
penetrating his heart. 1t is the sec
ond accidental killing with an auto
matte gun in Lead in one day, and
Barthel's wide popularity intensified
the tragedy. He was 80 years old and
leaves a wife.
Jacob Meyers, game warden of
Hutchinson county, caused the arrest
of several parties for SEEMING in the
Jim river. A fine of $25 was i'm
posed in each case. Among the de-
PENDANTS We're members of the Max
well Mennonite colony.
Work has commenced at Vermillion
on the erection of a 100,~ 000-gallon tank
on top of a 1OO-foot tower to in
cas- the capacity and pressure of
the local w~aterworks system.
The Morristown commercial club
will be ~re-Organized and an effort will
be made to have Morristown selected
as n Of the registration points when
the remainder of the Standing Rock
Indian reservation is opened next
year.
The town hall building at Trip
has been greatly enlarged and i'm
proved.
A creamery is to be established at
Villas by a cooperative company,
which has just been organized by
twenty leading farmers of hat vici-
ninity. About seventy-five per cent
of the stock already has been sub
scribed.
by twenty leading farmers of this vi
The Java business mems club has
leased fine apartments on the sec
ond floor of a business block.
Wolves, hungered by the scarcity
of food, are becoming dangerous in
the west river country. Johnson
brothers, who live lear Dawson in
Butte county, had a full grown horse
pulled down by a pack in broad day
light in sight of their home. The
wolves would only leave the carcass
after severel shots ere fired. The
wolf pelts are valuable and there is
a moderate state bounty, so that il
is a frequent occurrence for a settler
to add considerably to his annual in
come through this source.
As the result of a quarrel between
two colored men in Aberdeen, Bert
Dorsey and Athel Blair, each turned
states evidence on the other and they
are now both awaiting trial on 6
charge of grand larceny. Decem
Der 2S, 1910, the two men broke into
the Aberdeen Hardware company ant