The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1912-09-19

ana men from tne BUSY StTeet TuSHeu
to the lad. but he was unconscious
and died in a few minutes. Some of
his family witnessed the accident.
After remaining unconscious for sew
eral days Albert Pecht Is showing
signs OF improvement from an acct
dent he sustained in a plunge bath at
Hot Springs. He showed his daring
by coming down the toboggan slide at
the plunge in "A standing posture.
When about to hit the water he slipped
and crashed against the framework of
the slide, to the horror Of scores of
other bathers. His head was hurt and
he is suffering somewhat from internal
hurts, but is now out Of danger.
The Alderman quarter section, To-
Gated six miles northwest Of Bridge
water, was sold to Henry Jansen, a
farmer, for 500 per acre, establishing
a new high mark for land in that
locality. Mr.. Alderman paid $50 an
acre for this land eight years ago, thus
realizing an advance of $4,000 on the
investment
Leo Stanford, district lineman for
the Dakota Central Telephone Com.
pany at Aberdeen met with a serious
and peculiar accident Monday morn
ing while riding over his territory on
a motorcycle. He was in the vicinity
of Condo when mis- machine frightened
a team attached to a moving machine.
The team ran away. striking Stanford
and demolishing his machine. Stan
ford was badly cut about the face.
hands and arms. He was given first
aid neal Condo and brought to an
Aberdeen hospital, where he is in a
critical condition.
The Yankton Commercial Club has
entered into negotiations with F. II.
Perry. of Hot Springs. securing for
Yankton a large manufacturing plant
which will produce pressed brick and
artificial stone. The cost Of installing
the plant is estimated at 500, 900. The
company will apply for incorporation
papers at once.
Edwin Butterfeld, son Of J. w. But
terrified, of Huron, formerly engaged
in newspaper work in that city, died
Of tubercular trouble at Spokane
Wash, last week. He was at n time
connected with some leading London
publications, but developed tubercu-
losis and turned his attention to SAM
tariums for the treatment and cure of
the disease. He was % years of age.
Mrs. X. VI. Fulweiler of St. Joseph,
Mo-. has brought suit against the Rapid
City, Black Hills & Western Railroad
for the sum of 100000. for damages
to have been sustained in a
on that line near Big Bend two
years ago. Her sister-in-law, Mrs.
of Cincinnati, was hurt worse
than any in the party, and settled
with the company out Of court for
$4,000, but the sum offered Mrs. Full
weider was considered too small.
Tony Lavelle, a ten-year-old boy at
slipped away from home with
a 22-calibre rife. He fell in with two
other boys while out, who he says also
had a gun. At any rate he was shot
through the right lung and reached
home in a very bad condition. He
will not tell how he vas shot, and the
other boys insist that he did it him
self in trying to hide the gun. 1t is
expected that he will recover.
A working man at Mitchell had a
true thriller of the Coney Island type,
when he was cleaning out a big
cement mixer and got inside for the
purpose. Some one, not knowing his
position, started up the mixer, when
caused it to be hastily stopped. The
man was bruised but not seriously
hurt.
BY a decision of the supreme court
of Washington, the sons of the late
Chauncey l.. Wood have been accord
ed the privilege of burying their
father in Rapid City. The opinion
which was handed down this week,