The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1912-02-01
South Dakota News

5 friends in South Dakota mad enter
Z tanned fears of the gravest character
} as to the fate Of Miss Winnifred
5 Stout, who for some time has been
3 engaged in the mission service in
; China, going from Turner county,
3 where she was raised to womanhood.
5 Fears for her safety o have been
3 allayed by receipt of a letter from
$ her, dated at Chentu, where herself
} and other missionaries are shut up
) because the viceroy cannot give them
! sufficient escort down the river and
the country is full of rowing robbers
and murderers. Miss Stout has hopes
of being able to leave Chentu about
February /, but states that they are
liable to be held at Chentu for some
months.
A number of settlers in Perkins
county can now secure titles to their
lands, which have been held up for
several years, pending an investiga-
ton of the government in regard to
coal. At the time of the rush to that
county several years ago, a claim was
made that some of the land was more
valuable for coal than for agriculture
and a number of townships were
suspended from entry, and those who
had already filed had their titles held
up pending investigation. The con-
g%ressional delegation from this state
finally secured an order allowing the
entrymen to secure title to the sur
face of their tract pending the in
v~estigation, and the matter has stood
in this shape for over a year. The
Investigation has been completed and
it is now announced that a number of
the townships which were withdrawn
from settlement have been restored,
which will allow the land left vacant
to now be entered, and also allow
those who had filed previous to the
withdraw to secure complete title.
A number of young men living in
the vicinity of Red Owl have organ
lied a bachelors club which meets
at the home of one Of the members
each week. After indulging in box
ing and other amusements, the host
is required to furnish supper for the
members, and the boys report some
fine times at their meetings.
The government authorities al the
Cheyenne River Indian agency will
in the near future award the con-
tract to eastern builders for the con-
struction Of a new $4,000 govern
ment ferry boat, which is to be placed
in commission there the coming sea-
on. The boat will be utilized to take
freight for the agency to the west
side of the Missouri river.
The silver loving cup won by the
state at the St. Paul land show for
the best ten ears Of corn, has arrived
at Pierre, and %henceforth will be
on permanent exhibition at the
state house. The cup is Is inches
high, Of FURNISHED silver, and gold
lined. 1t will be part of the South
Dakota exhibit at future agricultural
and it is hoped to ecure
trophies to add to the collec-
ton.
Alec Brewer of the Flying v ranch
In Lyman county tells a remarkable
story Of volunteer alfalfa. A food
swept away some alfalfa seed 2 years
ago, and last fall Mr.. Brewer visited
a portion of the ranch which consists
gumbo soil, in a bottom, and
found an excellent growth of the al
falfa, which had been started from
seed carried away by the flood. He
allowed the alfalfa to go to seed, and
threshed over two hundred bushels of
seed from the tract of land.
The state board Of health reports
to be the freest from con
diseases of any month Of the
year, with 20 counties in which no
contagion was reported: SO cases
in all with four deaths. There was a
epidemic in Day county dur
Ing the month with % cases and
four deaths. There were cases as
Scarlet fever, 81, no deaths;
81. four deaths; small
pox 10, no deaths; measles IS, no
and no cases of cerebro-
spinal meningitis or infantile partly
sis.
Out Of the County seat contest in
Charles Mix county, the county fair
association has been benefited by
81, 500. When the campaign vas on
between Lake Andes and Wagner
the Wagner business men agreed to
present the county fair association