The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1913-01-30
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The surveyors of the Great Northern
railroad who have been engaged in
surveying a road from Tea to Platte,
this state, for the past two or three
months, and who have run two surveys
from Parkston, on the west line OF
Hutchinson county, to Platte in the
west of Charles Mix county, have about
completed their labors. The rumor is
current that it is a tossup whether the
authorities choose the survey running
through the center of Douglas county
and touching the town of Corsica, on
the Milwaukee, or the survey that
loops through the county seat of Arm
our and thence on to Platte will be the
route chosen. A meeting of the citizens
of Armour and contingent territory will
be held for the purpose of ascertaining
the consensus of opinion-whether an
other railroad was desired or not The
question will undoubtedly be answered
in the affirmative and a delegation ap-
pointed to wait upon the general man
lager of the Great Northern at the home
office in ST. Paul, Mimi, to further the
interests Of Armour and Douglas coun-
ty as a whole.
Claud Williams, a farmer residing in
Blooming Prairie township, Grant
county, was dragged to death while
driving after a load Of hay. He has
been subject to ~epileptic fits, and it is
the supposition that he was seized
with an attack while driving along the
road and fell through the bottom of the
hay rack. His feet were caught and
his head struck the ground, his body
dragging a considerable distance be.
fore neighbols discovered the acct
dent.
A nude male child, apparently about
three or four weeks old, was found at
Yankton Tuesday afternoon. The body
was badly burned by fire and had evil
IDENTIFY not lain where it was found
more than a short while, as it was
placed on the corner of a lot, on a
much frequented spot. The authorities
are investigating the matter.
The State Firemen's Association
tournament for 1913 will be held in Hot
Springs in June. Great preparations
will hn naadn FOR N hio nicotine - Tho
association. 1t is planned to have re-
personalities from all the towns where
organizations exist.
Cliff Wilson has been arrested at
White Lake and placed in the Jail at
Plankinton to await trial for criminal
assault upon the ~15-year-old daughter
of Mr.. and Mrs. c. l.. Closson, of that
place. Bail was fixed at $4,000 at the
preliminary hearing.
The pure food department has OBJ
tanned a signed agreement from all of
the Aberdeen grocers not to sell or
cause to be sold from their places OF
business eggs that have not previously
been candled by them.
Word of one OF the largest cattle
thefts in Wyoming in many years has
just been received by local cattle men,
who have been asked to aid in the
search. When the fall roundup on the
range was made in the Big Horn, Wyo.,
country last fall it was found that over
1000 head of cattle were missing. They
had been ranging on the Ten Sleep
Big Horn forest reserve and were the
property of Milo Burke, o. w. Arnett
and G. A. Sutherland, all well known
cattlemen in the Big Horn country.
The cattle had been stolen during the
summer. Even when the loss was
found the owners made nothing public,
but employed private detectives to
trace the cattle. For some time it was
thought the cattle were still in the
state, but 1t is now believed they were
gradually run over into South Dakota
or some other bordering locality. The
value of the stock stolen amounts to
over $4,000.
The state land board has fixed on
dates for sales in counties having state
and school lands for sale and leasing.
The sale will begin April l in Charles
Mix, and continue in the following
order: Aurora, Brookings, Brown,
Clark, Douglas, Jerauld, Kingsbury,
McCook, Miner, Sanborn and Sphinx.
There are $4,000 acres for sale or lease.
Brown has the largest acreage, 10000
with Sphinx and Sanborn next, with g.
600 acres each. In all other counties
in the state the date of leasing Is
March 81, there being no other lands
for sale.
An automobile show, the first in the
Black Hills, is being arranged to take
place at Deadwood, March 1 to 10. II.
C.. Ostermann is completing what will
probably be the largest garage in the
state and decided that a good way to