The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1912-08-01


case has just been taken by U. S. Off
GERS at Sioux Falls.
Two men accused Of being men,
bers OF a gang of horse thieves who
have been operating in Lyman county
have been arrested at Presho. George
Pawnee was bound owe to the circuit
court in the sum of $1,000. William
George is in Jail, and is believed to
havt had a part in a Jail delivery at
Oacoma a short time ago, and is close
ly guarded.
The homeopaths of the state, in
their annual meeting at Madison,
adopted a resolution IN which they
ask for the enactment of a statute re-
curing every institution in the state
which has to deal with confirmed
criminals, idiots, imbeciles and rapists,
to appoint upon it's staff two physi-
clans Of recognized ability, whose
duty it shall be, in conjunction with
the chief physician of the institution,
to examine into the mental and physi-
cal condition of such inmates, and II
in the judgment Of the committee pro-
creation by such persons is deemed
inadvisable and that there is no
chance Of mental or physical improve
ment, it shall be lawful for the physi-
clan to perform such operation for
sterilization of such inmate as shall
be deemed safest and most effective.
They also recommend that no license
Of marriage shall be granted where
the proposed contracting parties are
of unsound mind, or where the male
has been within five years an inmate
OF any home of indigenS pei sons; nor
shall any license be issued where the
parties are afflicted with communica,
BILE disease.
| Preparations are being completed at
Sioux Falls for what without doubt
will be the greatest gathering Of bish-
ops and other prominentn members of
the Episcopal church ever held in the
northwest outside Of the larger cities.
The occasion will be the
ton of Rev. George Billcr, Jr., as
bishop of the Episcopal church of
South Dakota, to which he was elect
nI hv tho hnnCn nP hichonc cnuora1
months ago. The conservation will
take place in Calvary cathedral in
Sioux Falls on September IS, and will
draw to the city leading churchmcn of
the denomination from different parts
of the United States. The
tors will be DR.. Daniel S. futile,
bishop Of Missouri and presiding
bishop; DR.. l.. r. Brewer, bishop OF
Montana; DR.. Cameron Mann, bishop
of North Dakota. The presenters will
be DR.. E. S. Lines, bishop Of Newark,
n. j., and DR.. Frederick Foote John
son, bishop coadjutor of Missouri,
The conservation sermon will be
preached by DR.. F.. X. Brooke, bishop
Of Oklahoma. The attendant presby-
ters will be DR.. William NJ. Grosvenor,
dean of the cathedral Of New York
City, and Rev. P. NJ. Kerridge, Of New
London, Conn. Rev. DR.. f. Ashley, of
Cheyenne Indian agency, S. D., will
be master of ceremonies.
Fifty negroes from Kansas City
were brought to work on the Mil
waukee double track west Of Aber-
deem, but struck at once because, they
said the food furnished them was I'M
fit to eat. They went to Aberdeen and
as they were nearly famished, the
county commissioners gave them a
meal, and some got work on the city
sewer contract.
The committee OF the State Bar as
ISOLATION, among other things, recon-
mended to the legislature amendments
simplifying the appeal laws, the enact
hINhI vi hCSOtidO4C
ment and bill Of lading laws and the
enactment OF a law sin liar to the Kan
sas (blue sky law in regard to trans
fer of stocks of corporations.
The officers OF the district United
States land office have concluded the
work of taking the testimony in an in
teresting case involving the owner
ship of a valuable homestead in Trip
county. The defendant in the action
is Christian Nelson, the plaintiff being
Martin NJ. Johnson. Sensational
charges are made by the plaintiff, who
filed the original homestead entry OIL
the farm. He alleges that while he
a a patient in a hospital, recover
ing from typhoid fever, he was under
duress induced to relinquish his right
to the homestead by Nelson and to
take as a consideration for doing so
an eighty acre tract Of farm land in