The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1912-03-28
South Dakota News

x water litigation mas Just Deen mad,
by Judge w. G.. Rice in the circui
9 court at Deadwood when he sustaine
3 demurrers to the complaint in the sui
3 Of John B. Case, q rancher near Spear
. fish, against 172 water users Of tn,
Q Spearfish and Crow creek and Red
: water rivers, in which he holds tina
: chapter $50 Of the laws Of 1907, com
: monty known as the irrigation law, il
I unconstitutional. IN holding the Law
} unconstitutional Judge Rice referred
|, to the fact that the act provides fol
) the maintenance OF the state engin
Z eer, whereas his salary should be GOV
; cred in the general appropriation, but
} this decision does not of necessity
/, abolish the office of state engineer
and it is also quite likely that it will
be appealed to the state supreme
court.
August Hulet, wife Of a homestead
er living in Trip county, who mysteri-
Ously disappeared several weeks age.
and for whom a constant search has
since been maintained, has been
found alive and well in a hospital in
Kansas, where herself and husband
resided before coming to South Da-
kota. It now has been revealed that
her mind was unbalanced by the i'll
ness OF herself and grief occasioned
by the loss of her children by death.
and that while in this condition she
wandered away from her South Dako-
ia home.
The funeral OF Mr.. and Mrs. Chris.
Jensen, who were found dead in their
house at Hurley took place and was
largely attended. No new develop
ments have appeared and the opinion
IS general that their death was due to
a~sphyxiation, though it is not easy to
explain how Mrs. Jensen should have
been still living while her husband
had been dead perhaps two days.
They had been residents Of the vicini-
ty for 25 years and were living quiet.
ly, spending their retiring days in
quiet. A search OF the house re-
vealed notes to the value of 81. 900,
representing money which had been
loaned to ~neighbors. A son in Seattle
Is the nearest relative, though Mr..
Jensen's parents also live near here.
The license question is the over.
shadowing issue In a number of the
and towns OF South Dakota
which will hold their annual elections
n April. One OF the hottest of these
lights is being waged at washington.
where the sentiment is said to be
very evenly divided between license
md no license. The license element
1t can secure a majority of
votes at the election, while the
emperance forces are equally as con.
ldent that license will fail to capture
majority of the votes and that Yves.
lngton accordingly will take it's place
IS a dry" town after July 1 next.
The financial side Of the proposition,
IS 1t relates to the revenue which the
'ity would derive from the granting OF
licenses for saloons, promises to play
n important part in the result Of the
election on the license question.
Attorney General Johnson has sent
'ut a circular letter to all states at
orneys Of the state, in which he asks
hem to look into the records of the
county courts and investigate settle
nent OF estates in which the state
nay have an interest under the in.
leritance tax law Of the state. The
'ct was In controversy for some time
md has been sustained by the su.
'reme court, and the attorney general
believes that a strict accounting will
'ring considerable revenue to the
state. 1
The Farmers Elevator company OF
Clark has just completed one of the
'est elevator buildings in the north.
rest. 1t has a capacity Of $4,000
bushels, has a continuous concrete
wall and basement, modern Office and ,
hot air heating plant. Every modern
appliance for convenience and safety
Is used.
A refrigerator car and two box
cars rolled down the grade from the
brewery side track atCentral Tuesday
and passed through Deadwood at the
rate of 60 miles an hour. but did not
injure anything. Word was sent to
Deadwood when It was found thew
were loose, and the switch at the
Woo <h~ou-