The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1915-07-15

his own life in attempting to aid Wise.
When Stewart reached the shore he
tainted and was unconscious for about
twenty minutes. When he recovered
consciousness and summoned assist
ance, Wise was beyond rescue. His
body was recovered later in about ten
feet of water.
Hugo Miller, head cook of a hotel in
Sioux Falls, was arrested as he was
trying to hide a tin box containing 1857
which he is charged with having
stolen. The box had disappeared
mysteriously and a detective on being
summoned upon the case discovered
Miller in the basement in the act Of
more effectively hiding it.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Smith of Sioux
Falls, according to a brief message,
were drowned near Butte, Mont, last
week. They had been living on a
homestead and Mr.. Smith had the
agency for automobiles. The Smiths
We're prominent in church and social
affairs while they resided in Sioux
Falls, and their drowning came as a
shock to the people there.
Redfeld is another South Dakota
town having a woman attorney at law
Miss Gertine Erickson, who has been
employed as stenographer by Attor
ney w. F. Bruell or the former law
firm of Bruell & Morris for the past
sixteen years, unknown to her friends
has been studying for the bar, and al
the last examination was admitted to
practice with a very high grade in her
examination.
Caught in the fy-wheel of an engine
in the elevator where he was employ.
ed, George Foster, manager of an ele'
vator company in Farmer, had a mar.
row escape from being crushed to
death and received injuries which may
permanently make him an invalid. He
was striving to slip the drive belt on
the wheel of the gasoline engine when
the wheel caught the ~raincoat he was
wearing, tearing the Goa to shreds
and wrapping the unfortunate man
around the wheel, and finally throw,
ing him under it. Eyewitnesses state
that his head at one time was actually
between the rim of the fy-wheel and
the floor. When the engine was stop
ped and he was rescued he was un'
conscious.
An evidence of the growth Of the
feminist movement Is shown in the
behavior of an old tom" turkey own.
ed by a farmer living three miles
northwest If Centerville, named Carl
Bylaw. This old gobbler, a short time
ago, displayed unmistakable ten
denotes of a desire to set, and finally
picked out an old barrel in a thicket
and squatted there. Efforts to dis
lodge him and send him about the bus
mess for which nature intended him
failed, so, finally, the family determin'
ed to test his sincerity by placing a
setting Of duck eggs under him. Tom
proved faithful to his trust, and a few
days came Of the nest proudly, follow
ed by a brood of sixteen little duck
lings. Tom is an ordinary bronze tur
key gobbler, weighing about 20 pounds
and was a year old last fall. He and
his brood of ducklings will be exhibit
ed at the sttae fair at Huron next fall
Because an Indian boy did not
r~eciprocate her affection, and because
her parents opposed her idea of mar
rying an Indian, Miss Agnes Chytka
~18-year-old daughter of Mr.. and Mrs
Anton Chytka, living on a Charles Mil
county farm, attempted to commit sui
eide after shooting at the Indian with
whom she was in love. She followed
the boy into a field where he wal
working and, when he again rejected
her attentions, she drew q revolver
and fired at him three times. None o.
the bullets took effect. Then in des
peration she rushed to her home. SELF
ed a bottle containing m ounce Of car