The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1912-05-23
South Dakota News

form Of government, and the three
commissioners have taken their
places. The former mayor, Howard,
was reelected.
-Four men have been arrested at
Webster for SEEMING in Pickerel lake.
The county game warden found them
just pulling in two thirty inch fish.
They We're fined $50 each.
The fine new apartments of the
Doland commercial club were opened
with quite elaborate ceremonies last
week. Maurice Moriarty, president Of
the Redfield club, made the principal
address.
Miss Hannah Bollman, a domestic
employed at Woonsocket, was drown
ed in Lake Prior, her body not being
found for some ten days after she dis
appeared. 1t was impossible to tell
whether the drowning was accidental
or not.
Mrs. w. w. Benedict, who died at
Springfield this week, came into the
state with her husband in 1860, when
they settled at Vermillion. She led
the singing in the first church erected
in the territory, at that place, and
afterWard lived in Yankton and
Springfield. She was 81 years old.
\ freight engine on the line from
Strandburg to WatertoWn burst an
arch flue while switching at the form
er place last week, and the engineer
was blown from the cab by the force
Of the escaping steam. He was badly
scalded, but will recover.
Chemists have reported that stains
on a cap found near the home of David
Fahlberg were those Of human blood,
but no trace of the young farmer can
be found. He disappeared from his
home near Beresford in the winter,
and it is supposed was killed by rob
bers, and his body secreted.
A small son of Mr.. and Mrs. Louis
Jacobus. who live in Sanborn county,
was alone III a wagon, when the team
ran away. The tongue of the wagon
came down and ran into the ground
with such force as to fling the wagon
and boy some distance through the
air. The boys escape from serious in
jury seems almost miraculous.
Henry Marsh, a resident of hide
~pendence township. near Armour, was
discovered dead in the corr crib on
his farm Monday evening. He was
working in the crib when stricken
With appopleXy.
Anders Loula, the 4-year-old son Of a
homesteader residing in Trip county.
was seriously and perhaps fatally in
iurod when he lost his balance and
fell from a wagon driven by his father.
It is believed the wheels Of the wagon
passed over him injuring him internal
~.
With flags floating and bands play
ing. Fred Thiel, president Of the Alex
andria Good Roads club, in the pres
ence Of the city council commission
ers, delegations from the Emery and
Bard Good Roads clubs, and 200
"bOOsters,' turned the first furroW in
the making of the scenic highway
through Hanson county.
The rains on the prairies in the
western part of the state were heavy
and the country has not been in as
good shape for several years past.
The backward spring has had a tend
ency to keep everything from bud
ding and s%pringing out and there is
now practically little danger Of any
early fruit, tree or shrubs, being killed
by frost.
Geo. J. Clark, editor Of the Hetland
New Era, has been made defendant in
a damage suit for $4,000 in which the
plaintiff is DR.. Seaman of Volga. The
damages are claimed from statements
that Clark published in his paper re-
garding an operation performed by the
doctor.
Paul Betz, Of Edmunds county. has
been sentenced to six months in the
~penitentiary for inducing his aged
father TO light a fire which the son
had set to burn down his home for
the $1,000 Insurance. The old man
committed suicide in remorse for the
act a few days after the fire. The fire
took place March II.
Claude Benedict of Lead, had quite
an exciting experience with a noun
tain lion when on his way to the rail
way station Just after dusk the other
evening He was unarmed, but
frightened the animal off with stones
until he reached a house and secured