The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1912-09-12

Ties 10 MAKE MS escape. Inc prisoner
is one of the most dangerous cracks
men who ever operated in South Da-
kota. He is believed to be the leader
of a gang which for several months
has been robbing postoffces, banks
and general stores in South Dakota.
The present charge against him is the
robbery of the postoffice at Yale, and
il is expected he will be tried at the
October term Of United States court
in Sioux Falls.
AS a sequal to the ejecting of Attor-
ney A. Sherin, from the Watertown
city building Thursday afternoon, a
civil action for damages has been
begun against Chief of Police r. p.
Jones and officer Z. II. Decker by Mr..
Sherin- The plaintiff asks 81 900
damages.
True bills were returned by the fed
eral grand jury at Deadwood against
County Auditor John Fall, of Pen
nington county, his brother, Deputy
Auditor David Fall; F. r. K. Hewlett,
Drysdale, his bookkeeper, all of Rapid
City. The indictments are all in con-
nection with the wolf bounty fraud
cases, and charge improper use of the
mails in connection with the alleged
buying by Pennington county of wolf
and coyote hides last year. Drysdale
is alleged to be in Canada, but the
others are at home. The indictments
are similar to thost formerly returned
but based On different facts. Hewlttt's
former indictment was quashed last
week, and the Fall brothers were ac-
quilted in circuit court at Rapid City
this summer.
Mrs. ID. Dingeman, wife of a resi-
dent of Corsica, was saved from a hor-
rible death by the timely arrival at
their home of her husband. Her cloth
ing was set on fire when BURNING oil
was dashed over her. She rushed out
of doors screaming for assistance, with
her clothes ablaze. Just at this juno
ton her husband drove up to the house
and saved her life by dragging her to
a nearby hydrant and turning the
water on her.
While working about a t%hresning
machine on his farm in Deuel. county,
John Forest was badly injured when
his head came in contact with a bolt,
which moves backward and forward
at high speed when the thresher is in
operation. The bolt struck his fore
head, but fortunately did not pene-
trate to the brain.
AS the result of a stabbing ARRAY in
the Parker yards of the Northwestern
Railway Company one a was stab
bed and severely hurt and a hobo CIV
ing his name as Hughes has been
held for trial at the next term of state
circuit court on the charge of assault
with intent to kill.
Preliminary arrangements are be-
ing made for the annual fair and farm
products exhibit of the Rosebud Stock,
Grain and Corn Association, which will
be held at Dallas, October 2, 3 and 4.
An unusually high-class program is
being outlined.
The birth of a girl baby to Mr.. and
Mrs. Douglas Ducheneaux Of Chey-
enne Junction aroused more than or
binary interest, because the child is
the first girl baby born in the town,
which Is situated in the reservation
country west Of the Missouri river,
and also has the distinction Of being
the thirty-fifth grandchild of Napoleon
D~ucheneaux, who recently celebrated
his eighty-second birthday by driving
a dray wagon all day for his son.
Four men were sentenced to terms
in the state penitentiary at a special
term of circuit court at Mitchell. Judge
Smith lestened to the pleas of guilty of
Otis French, Tom Greene and Dave
Lewis, a colored man, and Edward
Sharp, and pronounced sentence.
Sharp and French were charged with
stealing hogs from buyers in the Mil
waukee s~tockyards and selling them
to others. This system has been car
ried on successfully since last March,
and the men gathered in several hun
dred dollars. Each received a SEN
tence of two and one-half years in the
~penitentiary. Greene vas given the
same term when he pleaded guilty to
stealing a horse and buggy. Lewis
drew two years for stealing $40 from
a farmer.
Anthrax, the dread cattle disease,
has been discovered among some of
the herds In the Black Hills, and steps
will BIT taken to stamp out the cpl
demic as rapidly as possible.
MANY DRIVEN FROM HOME