The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1912-01-25
South Dakota News

missing since December g., and hi
family Is worried.
Garretson is considering a PROPOSE
ton to install an electric light sys
TEN, and this will probably be don.
soon.
A c%ablegram from Bremen, Ger
many, says a colony Of Siberian Men
n%onites are planning to emigrate tt
| South Dakota.
A Butte county man who was il
Deadwood told the Deadwood Tele
gram that eighty families in tina
county are dependent on the county
for support during the cold weather
A man named Mcneil has beer
talking military school to the people
of Whitewood and Rapid City, anC
each town claims to have promises
that the school will be established
there.
Jesse Mitchell, charged with steal
ing cattle on the Rosebud reservation
has been brought back from Nebraska
by a deputy United States marshal
and will be held for trial at the next
term Of federal court.
The Northwestern railroad is ex-
.periencing nearly as much trouble
maintaining its lines in the Hills as
the Milwaukee is in operating the
Faith and Isabel branches. 1t was af-
ter several days hard work that the
Northwestern succeeded in getting
open its line to Belle Fourche.
Yankton experienced a revival of
earlier days, when it was a tough"
town, for a few minutes the other
day, when Sam Remick, a farm hand,
arrived in town vowing to "get" Steve
Emerson, a baggageman. But the af-
fair "petered out" winding up in Rem
ick's appearance in police court where
he was bound over under $1,000 bond
to appear in circuit court.
A series of band concerts has been
instituted at the Cheyenne Agency
industrial school near Forest City.
of the members of the band are
William Shaving, John High Elk, Will
lam owns Saber, Daniel Yellow
Horse, Owen Hates Him and Dewey
Bear.
Robert Spotted Eagle, a mixed
blood Sioux, who was in the Platte
Jail awaiting trial on a charge
II obtaining money under false pre-
enses, escaped from Jail and when
discovered hidden in a straw stack,
Ifter several hours search, he was
Yearly frozen to death.
Fear is expressed in the Black Hills
hat destructive floods will occur
when spring comes. The Rapid City
Iuide quotes old times as saying
here is more snow in the mountains
md valleys of western South Dakota
his year than has been known except
n the winters of 1880 and 1886.
Feed and better protection for the
leer in the Black Hills is the aim
" the state game department at the
present time. 1t has been reported
the department that on account
II the extreme depth of snow in the
Hills many of the deer are short OF
God, and arrangements are under
way to provide hay for them.
In the case of South Dakota VS..
John Doran, from Grant county, in
which the itinerant physician act of
he state was attacked, the supreme
,ourt, in an opinion of Justice Smith,
held that the act is unconstitutional,
Is an occupation tax. The court held
n effect that the possession of a H.
,ense under the laws of this state is
sufficient for the practice OF medicine
n this state.
Through the finding of the remains
If a charred body in the ruins OF a
cabin a few miles north of
Rapid City, what appears to have been
, murder occurring last November,
las been unearthed. Charles john
and Alton Schroeder had occasion
visit the ground of George P. Ben
net, just north Of Canon lake, when
hey saw a dog chewing something
hat looked like a body. A
closer examination proved that it was
a half burned. corpse, presumably of
a woman. Sheriff Hewett and Coroner
Robinson were at once notified and
to the scene. They found that
evidently careful preparation had been
made by someone to set fire to the
cabin, a stone fireplace having been
hurriedly constructed, and on this had
been placed boards and a pyre built
on which the body had been laid. Sew
eral old cans, which had been sub
to the heat, were found close