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WOMAN TOLD OF FORMER LIFE.
Nine. Raynaud, Who stirred Paris
with Strange story, Dies.

Paris, Jan. 1.-THE death is reported
of Mime. Laure Raynaud, who created
excitement in Paris a few years ago by
her extraordinary knowledge of a
former life. Mime. Raynaud. who was
forty-five years old. was a nurse in a
hospital in Passy. A few years ago
she told a doctor she knew sne had
died at the age of nineteen many years
before. She described the town and the
house i'm which she had lived. II was
q foreign town.
. The doctor thought the town might
be Siena, Italy, SO he wrote to- the
mayor OF that place and procured photo
graphs. In one lie recognized a house
and church exactly like those Nine. Ray
maud described. She gave details. among
others that she died in 1910. and that
ceath was due to consumption.
Without telling her where she was 60
ing, the doctor took her to Siena. The
first day she arrived she walked straight
to the house she had described. and from
there to the church. There she went to
te tombstone of a girl who died of con-
sumption in 1870 at the age of nineteen,
and fell on II in fainting fit.
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commission shall consider the relations Of
the streams to the use Of all the great
permanent natural resources and theii
conservation for the making ana mani
tenance of prosperous homes"
Over q year later. writing on the report
Of the commission. ! said:
"The preliminary report OF the inland
waterways commission was excellent In
every way. II outlines a general plan OF
waterway Improvement. which. when
adopted, will give assurance that the Inn
provements will yield practical results In
the way Of increased navigation and
water transportation In every essentiaa
feature the plan recommended by the
commission 10 new. In the principle OF CO.
ordinating all uses OF the waters and
treating each waterway system as unit
in the principle Of correlating water traf-
&c with rail and other land trafhc; In the
principle of expert initiation OF projects
In accordance with commercial foresight
and the needs Of a growing country. and
in the principle of cooperation between
the States and the Federal government
In the administration and use of water
ways, &C.. the general plan proposed by
the commission Is new, and at the same
time sane and simple. The plan deserves
unqualified support. i regret that II has
not yet been adopted by Congress. but 1
am confident that ultimately It will be
adopted"
Down the Mississippi.
The most striking incident in the his
tory of the commission was the trip
down the Mississippi River in October
1907, when, as President Of the United
States. 1 was the chief guest. This ex-
cursion, with the meetings which were
held and the wide public attention II
attracted. gave the development Of our
inland waterways new standing In pub
lie estimation. During the trip a letter
was prepared and presented to me ask
ing me to summon a conference on the
conservation OF natural resources. Ny
intention to call such a conference was
publicly announced at a great meeting
at Memphis. Tenn.
In the November following ] wrote to
each OF the governors of the several
States and TO the presidents OF various
important national societies concerned
with natural resources, inviting them TO
attend the conference. which took place
May l3 to Il. 1905, in the East Room of
the White House. 1t is doubtful whether.
except in time OF war. any new idea OF
like Importance has ever been presented
to a nation and accepted by it with such
effectiveness and rapidity. as was the
case with this conservative movement
when II was introduced to the American
people by the conference Of governors.
The first result was the unanimous dec
lsration of the governors Of all the
States and Territories upon the subject
of conservation. a document which ought
to be hung IN every school house
throughout the land. A further result
was the appointment OF thirty-siN State
conservation commissions and, on June
g 1905. OF the National Conservative Com
mission. The task OF this commission
was to prepare an inventory. the FIRST
ever made for any nation. Of all the nat
ural resources OF this inventory was
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!, to whoever asked for them.

ton. to whoever asked for them. At
last, under the principle that public
property should be paid for and should
not be permanently granted away when
such permanent grant n avoidable. the
Forest Service established the policy of
regulating the use Of power in the ma
tional forests in the public interest, and
making q charge for value received. This
was the beginning Of the water power
policy now substantially accepted by the
public, and doubtless soon to be enacted
into law. But there was at the outset
violent opposition to It on the part of
the water power companies. and such
REPRESENTATIVES Of their views in Con-
gress as Messrs Tawney and Bede.
Many bills were introduced in Congress
aimed. in one way or another. at reliev-
ing the power companies Of control and
payment. When these bills reached me
refused to sign them; and the injury
to the public interest which would fol-
low their passage was brought sharply
t6 public attention in my message Of
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Following Trip Down Mississippi River, the Then President
Called Executives Of the States Together for Discussion
Of Conservatism Of National Resources

The idea that the Executive Is the stew
ard of the public welfare was first formu-
lated and given practical eject in the
Forest Service by its law officer, George
Woodruff. The laws were often insufl-
Gent, and 1t became well-nigh impossi-
BILE to get them amended in the public
interest when once the representatives of
privileges in Congress grasped the fact
that / would sign no amendment that
contained anything not in the public in
terest. 1t was Necessary to use what law
was already in existence, and then fur
ther to supplement 1t by Executive &C
tion. The practice Of examining every
claim to public land before passing it into
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private ownership offers a good example
of the policy in question. This practice,
which has since become general, was
first applied in the national forests
Enormous areas of valuable public tim
Der land were thereby saved from fraud
ulent acquisition; more than $4,000 acres
were thus saved in q single case.
This theory of stewardship In the in
terest OF the public was well illustrated
by the establishment of a water power
policy. Until the Forest Service changed
the plan, water powers on the navigable
streams, on the public domain. and in
the national forests were given away for
nothing, and substantially without ques-
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To He Buried ON Coney Island.

London. Jan. 17.-An interesting pro-
vision as to the future OF Coney Island,
one of the four islands in Loush Neagh,
is made in the will OF the late Viscount
Charlmont. His remains are to be buried
on the island. and he left $50 a year for
psyment of a keeper, who will live on the
island and keep the "old tower walls and
my last resting place in good order"
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son for my action. In the letter in which
this invitation was conveyed, the fact
that: 1T IL evident that natural re-
sources are not limited by the boundary
lines which separate nations, and that
the need for conserving them upon this
continent Ia as wide as the area which
they exist
In response to this invitation. which in
GUIDED the colony Of Newfoundland, the
commissioners assembled in the White
House on February -, 1909 The Ameri-
can commissioners were clifford Pinchot,
Robert Bacon, and James r. Garfield.
After q session continuing through fiye
days, the conference united In a declara-
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Secretary Of State. addressed to forty
five nations letter of invitation -
send delegates to 4 conference to be held
at The Hague at such date TO be found
convenient. there to meet and consult
with a view of considering a general
plan for an inventory of the natural re-
sources of the world and TO devsing a
uniform scheme for the expression Of
the results of such inventory. to the
end that there may { general under
standing and appreciation Of the worlds :
supply of the material elements which
underlie the development of civilization
and the welfare of the peoples of the
earth" After l left the - hitc House
tho project lapsed.
Fighting Fraud.
Throughout the early part of my aG-
lninistration the public land policy wds
chiefly directed to. the defense of the
public lands against fraud and theft.
Secretary HitChcock's efforts along this
line resulted in the oregon land fraud
cases. which led to the conviction III
Senator Mitchell. and which made Fran
els j. Heney, known to the American
people as one of their best and most ef-
fective servants. These land fraud prose-
eutions under Mr.. Heney, together with
the study of the public lands which
preceded the passage of the reclamation
act in 1902. and the investigation of land
titles in the National forests by the For
est Service. all combined to create 4
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The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1914-02-05

his sore head ever since. Arthur was
not use to ice in Oklahoma.
Tom Laddusaw returned home from
Missouri where he went to look after
his real estate. Tom seems to think
that South Dakota is plenty good
enough for him.
Ida Odegard went to Sioux Falls,
where she intends to become a nurse.
Dad Laddusaw and Ed. Opal went
to Lemars' Iowa, last week.
w. f. Plumb and family of Bruce,
were calling at the home of the for.
mer's parents Tuesday.
Lewis Hermanson and wife and Ole
Hagen and wife of Bookings, ate din.
ner at the home of o. d. Plumb's Sun,
day.
Nels Holverson's team went home
by themselves one day last week while
Nels had to walk. The team seemed
to be in much more Of a hurry than
Nels, although Nels got home all right.
The literary at the school house at
South Sterling is well attended and
good programs and good debates and
Literary at the South Brookings school
house is well attended and expects a
splendid debate on both sides Friday
evening.
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COr responder
S ELL

Mr.. Grounding says six weeks more
OF cold weather.
Mr.. n Mrs. Paul Jackson are NOV
Ing to Brookings this week. They
nave rented rooms while a new house
is being erected. We will miss them
very much here and hope to see them
coming back again.
Mr.. +. Z. Feuerhelm of the rural
route, had an auction sale last week
and Will move with his family to
Brookings about March LIST.
On Friday of last week Edna Cop
ping of District No. 20, gave an enter
talnment and basket social at the
school house, which was a general
success in every way, something over
$4,000 was made from the sale of the
baskets. A number of town people
attended.
MI. and Mrs. S. Van Dyke returned
to their home in Minnesota on Monday
last after making an extended visit
with relatives here.
Geo. Garrison and family and Mr..
lnsley spent Sunday at the Jack Eel.
ton home.
A number of young people were
entertained at the Pearson home last
Sunday.
News is a rather scarce article this
week.
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FRANK M. ELLIS

Just take a good look at that square
jaw. That Is really the only advantage
that Frank M. Ellis had ove any
farmer boy and yet he has come a
long ways on the road called success.
His life story is simply the common
place one Of right living, square deal
ing and hard work.
Frank M. Ellis was born on a farm
&c miles from Dubuque, Iowa, on the
9th of June, 1872. His parents were
poor, hard working folk of more than
ordinary strength of character, who
knew the right, practiced it and
taught it to their children. He was
privileged to acquire in school but
little more than a common school edu-
cation but took post graduate work at
the colleges of hard knocks and ex-
perience, becoming a very capable
business man..
He was married on Thanksgiving
day, 1896, to Miss Ada e. Tompkins,
the young couple making their home
on an Iowa farm until 1908 when they
came to Brookings county, purchasing
the Thornber place just east OF the
college, which place they later traded
for the Will Grinols place near Bruce.
In 1910 Mr.. Ellis quit farming and
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Joined the staff of the Minnesota &
Dakota Farmer. which was at that
time published at Bookings. When
that paper was sold he went with the
purchasers for a few months but in
1911 moved with his family to Cedar
Rapids where he purchased an inter
est in a machinery business. This he
disposed Of in the fall of 1912, coming
back to Brookings and purchasing the
c. A. Skinner stock last February.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ellis have two fine
girls and they are just completing a
fine new home on Williams street.
In addition to his store duties MI.
Ellis finds time to act as president of
the Brookings Produce Co., superin-
tend the M. Il. Sunday school, aid in
Commercial Club activities and to
boost generally for the community.
Brookings could stand a host like him,
and the Register wishes him continued
succe and prosperity.
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home last week on account of being
troubled with rheumatism.
NJ, o. Anderson and wife and Miss
Marie Gehant spent Sunday at the
Erickson home at Sinai.
Ben Bjerke and family spent Sun
day at the r. N. Waste home.
A son arrived at the C. NJ. Hoff home
Saturday, January 31st.
DR.. d. l.. Seaman of Volga, made a
professional call in this corner Satur-
day afternoon.
Minnie Reffling who is working at
the Sutton home at Brookings, spent
Thursday under the parental roof.
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~BROOkINGS TOWNSHIP

Oscar Hogan returned home from
Minneapolis last week. Everything is
so quiet around home Oscar can't
sleep, so he don't get his rest as he
should.
Emil Steen went to Minneapolis Sat
urday.
liver Steens called at Mrs. Tufty's
home Sunday evening.
Fay Laddusaw has been quite sick
for a few days.
Julia and Matte Tufty were calling
at the home of o. d. Plumb Sunday.
Oliver Tufty has purchased a thresh-
ing outfit. When the grain is ready to
thresh see him.
Henry Steen is hauling sand and
preparing to build a new barn this
spring.
Sherm Laddusaw Is visiting with
his sister at Armour, S. D.
Arthur Price and Billy Pope were
trying their new skates at the river
Sunday and it is needless to say that
Arthur has been taking good care of
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PRAIRIE HON

Miss Maud Lucas and Herbert
Blakely took in the show in Brookings
Friday evening.
A large crowd attended the play,
PAS Picnic" given in the Prairie
Home church Friday evening. A good
time was reported by all, and over
$4,000 was taken in.
Mrs. John Blakely and daughter
Myrtle spend Monday afternoon at
Robert Blakely's.
Charley Glass is spending a few days
in town with friends.
Miss Elsie Killing spent the later
part Of the week with friends and
relatives in Prairie Home.
Mr.. and Mrs. Raymond Levan and
daughter Mary, spent Sunday at Wal
ter Levan's.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ira Blakely spent Sun
day in Brookings the guests of Mr..
and Mrs. Edgar Evans.
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A PROLIFIC sHoRTHoRN COW

Considerable has been said in the
Breeders Gazette and other farm
papers about prolificacy of cows. |
believe have a Shorthorn cow here
on my farm that is about equal to any
of them.
bought her at Esterville, Iowa, in
January, 1903, for $500. She was a
year and five months old. She is regis
tered as Perfect Butte and traces to
imported Young Mary. And by the
way, Young Mary raised sixteen
calves.
On July 3, 1903 this COW brought her
first calf, a heifer. On June 4, 1904,
she dropped another heifer calf. On
May 16, 1905, had a bull calf. On
March 20, 1906 she gave birth to a
heifer calf. On April S, 1907, she drop
ped a bull calf. On March 2, 1908, she
had another bull calf. On April 20,
1909, she dropped another bull calf.
On December 16, 1909, she had a
heifer calf. On December %, 1910,
she gave birth to a bull calf. On
March 20, 1911, she had a heifer calf.
On September 25, 1912, she dropped
a bull calf and on October II, 1913, she
gave birth to her last calf, a bull
which took first premium at u last
fair and was sold to Mr.. F. Schnoor Of
Elkton, for $125.00.
This good old COW is due to produce
her thirteenth calf on August 16, 1914.
Now, who says that Brookings is
not prolific? And say is not this as
good as trying to grow alfalfa-some
varieties-any way?
G.. N. Kennard.
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thought the sight was destroyed. The
injured girl was taken to Watertown
Immediately and one piece Of the steel
removed, and then she was taken to q
specialist at Minneapolis, but the
other piece could not be removed at
this time. The specialist, however,
stated that he thought the sight was
not destroyed, and that unless compli-
caions set in she would cover nicely,
all of which is good news for both
families.-Clear Lake Courier.
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nard, Roberts, Simmons and Young
burg, present.
Meeting called to consider the petit
ton of c. E. Yule and others to segre-
gate from the City of Brookings.
Attorney Philo Hall made statement
covering the grounds as requested by
the petitioners. He also stated that
the IA acres in Sc. "A Section 25,
Town ITO, Range so, lying south of the
Chicago & North Western railway be-
longing to G.. w. Fem had been with
drawn. After a general discussion the
attorney was instructed to notify Mr..
Hall what city council was willing to
do and on motion council adjourned
until 8 o'clock p. m, Monday, January
26th, 1911.
s O'Clock p. m. January 26, 1914.
City council met as per adjourn
ment with Mayor C. A. Johnson Alder
men Bartlett, Beals, Hoy, Jermstad,
lNCLhiuiu, iNooCi 10, oihiLioho ohu
Youngburg, present. After a general
discussion it was moved and seconded
that all of the land in the Southeast
Quarter of Section twenty-five (25),
Township 10, Range so, lying south
of the Chicago & North Western rail
way track be excluded from the petit
ton.
On roll call, Bartlett, Beals, Hoy,
Jermstad, Kennard, Roberts, Simmons
and Youngburg all voting Aye, motion
was declared carried.
Moved and seconded hat a strip of
land Two (2) rods wide along the
South side of Section twenty-five (22)
and Two (2) rods wide along the north
side of Section Twenty-seven (27) to-
gether with city dump grounds and
pump station lands all being situated
in Township 10, Range so be exclud-
ed from petition. On roll call Bartlett,
Beals, Hoy, Jermstad, Kennard, Rob-
tItS, OlLllIlOuS duu IouuSDul 81 oil WI
ing Aye, motion was declared carried.
Moved and seconded that the petit
ton for segregation be granted in
whole as it now stands except that
portion of the Southeast Quarter of
Section Twenty-Five (25), Township
10 Range so lying south of the Chi
cago & North Western track, and a
strip of land four (4) rods wide along
the south side of Section Twenty-Five
(22) and a strip of land Four (4) rods
wide along the north side of Section
Tw~enty-seven (27) and the city dump
grounds and the grounds used and
owned by the city for pump station, all
in Township ITO Range SO Brookings
County, South Dakota. On roll call
Bartlett, Beals, Hoy, Jermstad, Ken
nard, Roberts, Simmons and Young
burg, all voting Aye, motion was de-
clared carried.
On motion council adjourned.
Attest: c. A. Johnson,
G. H. Stoddart, Mayor.
Auditor.
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OSLO

F. M. Fraley and family Of Volga,
and Sophia and Carl Thompson of
Medary, spent Sunday at L. Magistad's.
Mrs. M. o. Reffling entertained the
L. A. S. Thursday afternoon.
Conrad Dahle spent Sunday at
Volga.
Oscar Reffling who went to Mime
apolis a couple of weeks ago returned
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nearly meets the total expense as to
insure the full amount being easily
met. The Bager fellows have proven
themselves to be a wide-awake and
progressive bunch. The ladies aid
has had the church papered and car
peted. The church as it now stands
is a credit to the town and the people
there have good reason to be proud
of it.-Hetland New Era.
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Miss Gertrude Ryan, the nine year
old daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Dan
Ryan at Bemis, was terribly injured
last Friday afternoon by the bursting
of a gun barrel in the hands Of Louis
Rorman. 1t seems that the Ryan girl
was near the Rorman boy when he
fired a small rife, the bullet of which
stuck in the barrel of the gun and
caused an explosion of the barrel.
Two pieces of steel struck the Ryan
girl in the eye, and for q time 1t was
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The municipal saloon idea is gain
ing ground quite rapidly in De Smet,
and we believe it is a safe prediction
to say that De Smet will have a NUM-
cipal saloon after the first Of next
July, If it has a saloon at all. Fifteen
thousand dollars profit is the estimate
for the municipal saloon at Sisseton.
If De Smet must have a saloon that
$4,000 would look pretty good to
the taxpayers, and it would seem as If
it should run as high here as at Sisse-
ton. That sum would place the city
out of debt, and would leave several
thousands of dollars that could be
spent in making good roads leading to
De Smet. This Is not to be taken as
an argument for granting license. but
simply as a suggestion as to the meth.
cd of handling the saloon question If a
majority vote for the saloon.-De Smet
Independent.
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o. e. Swartling and H. L. Button
came up from Brookings Monday and
spent several days here soliciting life
insurance, representing the Mutual
Benefit Company. Oscar has quit the
bank work on account of his health
and Mr.. Button is giving him his first
instructions in soliciting. Here's hop
ing he will make a success of the new
work.-Toronto Herald.
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Get the Neid:ch Process ribbon, the
BEST that's made for typewriter pur-
poses, at the Register Office.
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w. M. Mason and w. j. Agnew
closed one of the largest real estate
deals made in Beadle county for some
time. They conveyed their $50 acre
farm twelve miles northeast of Huron
for a consideration of 10000. The
new owners are Dyer Bros. of Burling-
ton, Colorado, who are wealthy stock
men and operate a large ranch in that
state. Their plan Is to stock the new
Beadle county farm this year.-Ban-
croft Register.
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NEARBY NOTES OF INTEREST

Jas. keenan,, M of the oldest set
tiers in Moody county, passed away at
the home Of his son John, Tuesday
morning about S o'clock, the cause of
death being the inirmaties of old age.
He was II years old On Christmas day
just past. He leaves a wife and eight
living children. Four children died
in infancy. We go to press too early
to give more than the announcement
Of his death.-F1andreau Herald.