The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1912-04-11
South Dakota News


me little own or M l.
I, northern Stanley county, was wipe
our by fire Friday Of last week. Tho
loss was total, as there was no in
surance on the structures burned anC
no water supply to fight the fire.
Many of the counties are adoptin2
the system of joining together il
holding the teachers Institutes the
coming summer. and thereby savina
Il large amount Of money and gettin.
~ touch with a better corps OF in
@s,ructors. The counties of Sanborn
Hanson, Aurora and Dawson haye
Joined together in this work and all
the teachers of the four counties vii
assemble at Mitchell June 10.
Surveys for the proposed electric
line between Belle Fourche and
S~peartish, a distance Of sixteen miles.
have just been made by A. ID. Wilson,
a civil engineer of Deadwood, and
plans for securing the right Of way
are complete. The in~corporators are
A. a. Noodle, Bruce Sebastian, Fred
S. Harris and F. +. Duba, al! of Belle
Fourche and the stockholders are
prominent men in the Black Hills.
including United States Marshal Seth
Bullock and r. II. Driscoll, the Lead
banker. The proposed route follows
the RedWater river and Spearfish
valleys, and the track is to be of
standard gauge.
BY a will executed only a few days
before his death a sister living in Ger.
many will receive the large estate of
George Fleischman, an eccentric pio-
ne1r resident of Marshall county who
died a day or two ago as the result
of exposure to the severe cold during
January. The old mar lived
alone and, although we'll off financial
~, lived the life of a hermit, denying
himself the necessaries and comforts
Of life.
A suit has been commenced in cir.
,uit court at Huron by Haley & Lang.
wholesale fruit dealers, against the
city of Huron. The complaint sets
forth that the Haley & Lang com.
sustained damages to stock and
ixtures in the sum of $1,000 by rea-
of overflow of water from CITY
'eWers into the basement of their
Wholesale house.
If a petition which has been filed
With the state board of railroad com.
n~lssioners is granted a new town will
on the map of South Dakota.
some months ago the Chicago, Mil
yankee and st. Paul Railway COM
any constructed a sidetrack at a
ONT between Milbanka and Big
City, in Grant county, for the
accommodation of the farmers living
4 the vicinity, The farmers of the
nrrounding region now have peti-
oned for the opening of a depot at
nat point, and if the request is
raDted the new town of Nubia viii
ONE into existence, for this is the
anne which has been decided upon
he farmers living in the vicinity say
if the depot is secured they have
ound men who stand ready to erect
grain elevator and open a store. and
hat these institutions would be fol-
owed by other business houses until
good town had been developed
here.
DR.. j.. w. C. White died this month
4 Arkansas, where he went in 1911
lie settled in the Black Hills in 1876,
nd was the first circuit Judge in that
lstrict. He came to Plankinton in
S91 and was U S. pension examiner
nd also president Of the state medi.
al association.
Mrs. Carrie NJ. Cleveland, retiring
ecretary of the woman's board of in
estlgation OF penal and charitable
Institutions, has decided to make her
Iome in California, where she now
S. She recently entertained Mrs
'essey and daughter at her home in
Hollywood.
Arrangements are practically COM
'leted for the commencement of the
eason's work at the government ex-
farm established in Fall
liver county, in the extreme south.
western portion of the state. The ex-
farm will be in charge OF
Ohm S. Cole, an expert of the argri.