The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1912-03-21

the defendants attorney demurred to
the information on the ground that
the state had no jurisdiction and the
court sustains the demurrer. The
states attorney has appealed the case
10 the supreme court.
John T. Gold, one Of the prominent
men Of the state, died in a santorium
at Redfeld, aged 40 years. He was
president Of two South Dakota banks,
and one in Minnesota, a director in
the Minneapolis Cereal company, and
a -rustee of Dakota Wesleyan univer-
sity. He was a prominent Metho-
dist.
The farmhouse Of J.. C. Jacques,
twelve miles northeast Of Mitchell,
was burned and Mr.. Jacques four
children We're consumed in the flames.
After starting the fire Mr.. Jacques
went back upstairs and later smelled
smoke when ascending the stairway.
The fire had burned beneath the
stairs and when he walked down
them he fell through the floor be-
meath. Going out doors he called to
his wife to throw the children through
the window to his arms, but when she
opened the window she swooned and
fell from it to the ground, sustaining
severe injuries. The children were
overcome with the smoke and were
unable to get to the windows to be
saved. The little bodies were found
burned to a crisp when the fire sub
sided. Mr.. and Mrs. Jacques were
both burned to some extent.
Residents Of those portions of Iowa
and Nebraska which are washed by
the waters OF the Missouri river will
when the ice leaves the river this
spring, have an opportunity to earn
5000, for this is the amount Of the
reward which has been offered for the
recovery Of the bodies of Mr. and Mrs.
Charles Durham, who we're drowned
some days ago while driving on the
ice. They were returning after dark
ness had set in to their home on
Peace Island, when they drove into
an airhole. The reward is offered by
w. H. Menzic, Of Geddes, father of
Mrs. Durham. The reward Of 5000 is
conditional upon the bodies being
found by April /. If both bodies are
found after April 1 800 reward will
be paid. II only one body is found be-
fore April 1, 800 will be paid; if only
body is found after April l the re-
ward will be $50. It is believed both
bodies have been swept a consider
able distance down the river, and that
they will be washed up on either the
Nebraska or Iowa shores.
Declaring that too many people
seeking marriage licenses do not re-
spect their oaths when swearing as
to ages, States Attorney Hebron OF
Lawrence county, caused the arrest
of Fred Schultz and Oscar Anderson,
of Lead, and charged both with per-
jury. Schultz, with the aid of Ander-
son as a witness, secued a license and
married Elsie Kalwat, OF Lead, both
men swearing that the girl was over
IS, the legal limit. When the parents
Of the girl found it out they declared
that the girl was but fifteen, and af-
ter a consultation with the officials
caused the arrest of the two men.
The girl has elected to stay on the
side of her husband and against her
parents. Both the defendants are in
the county Jail awaiting a hearing.
Lille Putnam, the young girl who
attempted suicide by drinking car
bolic acid at Aberdeen rather than be
taken back to the state reformatory
from which she had been released
on probation for a few weeks, Is now
expected to survive. The dose she
took was so large that it counter
acted itself.