The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1912-02-01

asylum, n DelnS unQer the influence
of liquor he had lost his way and had
frozen to death. The latter proved
the true solution to his disappearance.
It is reported that he had about $50
with him when he left the state insti-
tuition for the debauch in this city
which cost him his life, and that he
had about $45 coming to him in
wages. Nothing is known Of any rela.
tives.
The work of offering testimony in
the trial in the federal court at Sioux
Falls of the Fain-Baker-Herman land
conspiracy case, involving lands in
the Gregory land district, was con
cluded. All three Of the defendants
were placed upon the witness stand
and gave important testimony in
connection with the charges against
them. The general claim of the de-
Tense is that no conspiracy existed
while the government contends that
such conspiracy did exist. The trial
consumed an entire week.
Five deaths were reported to the
Society of Black Hills Pioneers at it's
tWenty-fourth annual meeting held at
Deadwood, while nine new members
were added during the year. Repre-
sentatiVes from all the Black Hills
counties were present. The officers
and vice presidents were elected as
follows; President, X. C. Phillips,
Deadwood; secretary, Julius Deetken,
Deadwood; treasurer, George v.
Ayres. Deadwood; historian, Sol
Starr, Deadwood; poet laureate, J. w.
Mcdonald, Central; marshal, Henry
D. Brasch, Roubaix; vice presidents:
Lawrence county, Robert VALID
schmidt; Fall River, C. e. Stacey;
Meade, j. w. Ladd; Butte, Louis La
Chappelle; Custer, F. B. Smith. The
total membership of the order is now
115.
Three business firms swindled out
a sum aggregating 500 and a valu-
able team and buggy lost by a livery
man sums up the work of a cleaver
in Kimball last week. Hard
man was the name the man went by.
He had been working for John
Knoeche, a farmer since last fall.
He rendered a $40 check with
.noeche's name attached in the store
j. H. Wolf company, in payment
for a suit Of clothes, receiving the
in cash. He then went to the
Skinrood store and gave another
check for $35. In the hardware store
Of Brooks e Brohan he cashed in
checks for $25. Then he went to a
livery barn, got a team and drove
away. and no trace of him has yet
been found.
So hungry that they had eaten the
hair off each others tails, a drove of
horses owned by w. j. Armstrong
near Fruitdale, were discovered only
n time to save part of them. The
horses were caught in a snowdrift
shut off from help. Four of them
we're frozen to death, the others being
'educed to dire straights. The marks
the horses teeth were found on
he tails of animals both alive and
the appendages being stripped
all hair.
Donald Shaffer, a young man who
vas visiting relatives near Spencer,
lied in a Spencer hospital from blood
poisoning resulting from a small sore
IN his lip. At the start the trouble
vas regarded as trivial and he did not
physicians until it was too
ate to save his life. His mother re-
sides on a homestead in the western
port of the state and was unable to
each his bedside before he died.
A woman's cornet band has been
organized at the Cheyenne River In
liam Agency, composed Of the instruc-
,ors in the government Indian schools
md other women employed at the
1t is their purpose to make
t the best women's band in the north.
vest.
The Faith, Arthur G.. Keene's paper
1t the town of that name, appears
IN common wrapping paper for it's
past few issues, the supply of print
PAPER in that burg being exhausted
With the railroad blockaded, giving no
opportunity for replenishing the sup
ply.
Arrangements have been perfected
add a manual training department
the city schools Of Parker, with a
PRACTICAL carpenter in charge, and
working under the supervision Of Pro-
lessor Wray. 1t Is expected the new