The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1912-01-04

mission government May / next is
now agitating Lead. A year ago the
city voted on the commission form
under the state law providing ave
commissioners, but it will not go
into effect until May. Since then the
state law was amended to permit OF
three commissioners with higher sal
airy, If the city chooses by popular
vote, and many are now advocating
this change. Mayor Howard has de-
cided to invite the meeting to orga-
nize cities in South Dakota under
the commission form to be held at
Lead, and is now in communication
with Mayor Hall, OF Aberdeen, who
started this movement, to get tho
meeting there in February.
Articles OF incorporation have been
filed at Pierre for the Dakota Trans
~portation company, which comprises
a number of lines extending over
North Dakota, and extending down
into Roberts and Marshall counties
in this state. The company claims
headquarters at Pierre, with a bust
ness at ottawa, Canada, and is CAPT
talized at 100000 The Canadian in
corporators are John NJ. Penny. K. T..
Gognan, l.. F. Askwith, Herye Des-
pardin. all of Ottawa, Canada. The
line appears 10 be limited to the
two Dakotas in its operations, cover
ing, with branches, a number OF
North Dakota counties, and coming
down into this state in two counties.
and its starting and terminal points
leave a question just at to what it
might be intended for.
Chambers in horses has made its
appearance in the northern part of
the state in the past W. weeks. State
Veterinarian Smith, was summoned
TO Alexandria a few days ago to eX-
anime four head of horses which gave
evidence Of having the disease. The
state veterinarian made a thorough
examination of the animals and pro-
bounced them affected with CHAMBERS,
and ordered them killed. The horses
We're owned by Man Graves, a driver
on one Of the rural routes out of
Alexandria, and when the animals
were shot it put him out of business
for the time being. There is some
talk of his patrons along his route OF
reimbursing him to some extent for
his loss, as the rural carrier is quite
popular with his patrons.
\ fossilized mussel weighing eight
pounds and measuring ten inches
across was found by R. S Grange, a
conductor on the Puget Sound road.
The shell is perfect, though a piece
has been broken off, disclosing the
bi-valve that used to inhabit it. This
fossilized oyster is about four inches
long and an inch thick, of a dark
claret color. The curiosity was pick
ed up near Mclaughlin on the main
line. The territory west of the river
is full of geological curiosities Of all
sorts There is a collection of four
stone canaan balls grouped in the
station grounds at Mobridge. They
are perfectly round, as if they had
been cast in a mold, and are about
three feet in circumference. They
were taken from the Cannonball
river, which derives it's name from
these stones.
After carrying to his wife from a
store a sack of graham flour and a
can of kerosene oil, Joseph NJ. Heber,
a pioneer resident Of Vienna ended
his life by sending six bullets from
a revolver into his body. All the
bullets lodged in the region of the
heart and he died instantly. He
stood in front of a mirror when he
fired the shots, and the revolver
dropped into the drawer under the
mirror from which it had been taken
For a day or two before his act o.
self-destruction Heber had talked al
times in a rambling manner and IL
is believed he vas temporarily de
ranged. For twenty years he wa!
engaged in the hardware business
selling out about a year ago. HI
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