The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1915-07-22

have its effect upon young Courtney
and he gained rapidly. Now he is one
of the most sturdy and active men in
the vicinity. working at hard labor
every day.
Between 500 and 400 dogs are in
training near Aberdeen for the all
American and Great Western field
trial events. which are 10 be run early
in September. The birds are very
plentiful this year and a good season
is expected. The judges for the
events are Il. h Armstrong of Barber.
\. c; w. A. Bruette. of Pittsburg, Pa.
and A. F. Hoswalt. Of Dayton, Ohio.
The events will be three in number
the derby stake, open 10 all yearling
pointers and settlers; the all-ase stake
and the nearpro:essional stake, for
young handlers just graduated from
the professional rank. Entries for the
events vii. close on August /.
The drainage Of much of the Capt.
tol La|- q, Pierre, so that rip rap of
stone ,c Id be put in along the south
shore to rep the waters from wear
Ing down the bank adjoining the
bank adjoining the bridge and dam,
has revealed the fact hat fishes
galore are swimming about in schools,
indicating that the stocking of the lake
with fish last summer has proven &c
ccssful, in spite Of the fact many per
sons prophesied it would not in the
artesian water. Perhaps by next year
the crop of fishes will become so good
as 70 allow fishing in the lake.
Five children living on the Whaleen
farm. II miles north of Pollock, had a
close call from death by ptomaine
poisoning caused by eating minced
ham. The children were keeping
house alone while their widowed
mother is in Iowa, looking after her
sick father, and they fried some mine
ed ham for supper. Soon afterwards
all were taken violently i'll, the girls,
who had cooked the supper suffer
ing most severely, as they had eaten
some Of the ham before cooking. A
physician, after spending most of the
night with the children, succeeded in
saving their lives.
James Dayton didn't talk, did not
seem to hear and tried awfully hard
to make the police and municipal court
officials believe he was deaf and dumb
when arraigned before Judge Myers at
Watertown, on the charge Of vag-
rancy. When addressed or when wit
nesses testified against him, his face
retained a blank expression almost,
but not quite. Several little indica-
tons led Judge Myers to believe that
the prisoner was fully aware of what
was going on about him and when the
testimony Of Halvor Nelson to the
effect that Dayton had talked freely
in a saloon was added, the Judge sem
fenced the man to serve ten days in
the city Jail.
Edward Darmody, Is years old, son
of the late Michael Darmody, a vet
eran engineer on the Great Northern
road, who ran into Aberdeen for many
years, died at Breckenridge, Mimi,
shortly after midnight Thursday morn
ing, as a result Of a bullet wound from
a revolver fired by Night Patrolman
John Mattson on Tuesday night. Matt
son vas arrested and placed under ST.
600 bonds after the shooting, and will
undoubtedly now be held without bail
for trial.
X. o. Cooley, secretary of the Vel
lowstone Trail, wrote Harry X. Thaw,
asking him to use the Yellowstone
Trail from Chicago to Seattle, on his
proposed automobile trip, from New
York to San Francisco. His letter
summoned up the excellent qualities
of the trail, and offered a pilot can
from Chicago to Seattle.
The state auditors Office receiving
the certificates has fcnnd that for the
calls between April ] and June 30. q
total of ~s199,314.7s ia taxes has beer
paid into the state treasury; The Law
for payment of delinquent taxes, hay
ing been changed two years ago. am
some conflicting statutes not yet cor
rected to operate with IL, causes ths
delay of the collection OF some OF ths
taxes.
After shutting OFT the Watertowr
base ball team 8 70 o in o OF tbs
Sunday games and winning the xsfn'
of the following day from the toca
players by the OF 8 10 ~ fb'
famous Kansas City Red Sox met theli
Waterloo in the little town OF Bryan
Wednesday. Bryant not only defeat
ed the Red Gox but compietely sbnl
them out. The game Was fast and fur
ious however. and resulted ~ fsyoI
Of Bryant BY tsse seofe 0f ! 70 y Dun
ming did wonderful work on tbs mopn'