The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1916-11-16

stepped between two horses while
feeding them, both of the horses kick
ed him, one on the shoulder and the
other on the back Of the head, The
latter injury proved serious. part 81
the scalp being torn loose and Other
damage inflicted.
According to Philip Dale. aGrCU'
tural superintendent OF he Great
Western Sugar company At Belle
Fourche, estimates on the SuGar bees
yield on the experimental acreage are
said to average from eight - nttcc"
tons per acre, tests showing the SucaT
content to be from II 10 - per cent
The state railway commission las
received notice that the express t1u,
panies have appealed the dec.SiN" 81,
the United States district cour; WI d
held that they would not restrain .ac
state railway commission IN prcscl".
ing their cases before the state 50,
prcme court on state rate issues
Muskrats come hi1h IN South IA
kota. \ Frankfort man who waS con
victed of shooting thee muskratS vss
assessed a fine of $6o.5o. and in add.
ton his two guns and three Go-tr
shells were condscated by the state
game warden until November i. the
date of the opening of the musArat
season in South Dakota.
William Bull was the victim OF an
unfortunate accident at Andoyer. re
sulting in the loss of his arm. Bull
was feeding a corn shredder on the
Charles Susemih, farm and his glove
became caught in the swapping rollers.
His arm was drawn in with the glove
and the lower part torn to shreds. He
narrowly escaped death from loss Of
blood.
After many hot county seat fights
during the past fifteen years, when
nearly every town in the county has
tried and failed, Lake Andes receiv-
ed approximately 100 votes more than
the required 60 per cent last week,
and the county seat of Charles Mix
county will be transferred from Wheel
er, a town fifteen miles from a rail
has been ever since the county was
organized, to Lake Andes.
Almost one whole side of Main
street in Alaska was wiped out by
fire last week. The blaze started from
the lighting plant in II. J.. Kundert's
general store while the proprietor was
at supper and when the alarm was
given it had gained such Roadway that
nothing could be done to check it.
Four business buildings besides the
Alaska State bank were completely
destroyed.
l.. G.. Veil, a Dawson county farmer,
who has relatives in Germany, receiv-
ed a letter from a cousin in the Old
country recently which furnished
proof that three registered letters mail
ed to Mr.. Veil from Germany in March
and April had never reached him. The
letter that did arrive had been opened
by a British censor, and the Dawson
county man believes the three regis
tered letters failing to arrive were in
intercepted by the Brush.
\Nhilo hIntinr naor nttnn, yV-n Tnhn
Lidder was instantly killed by the ac-
cidental discharge of his gun. In com
pany with some neighbors Lidder
went out to the sloughs east of his
farm to bag some ducks. In watching
the birds he failed to notice a stone
lying in his path. stumbled and the
gun was discharged, the full charge
striking him in the head. He was
dead when his friends reached him
a moment later.
f. j. Dunn has resigned the office
of sheriff of Hamlin county in order to
assume the duties OF postmaster of
Bryant, to which position he recently
was appointed. He succeeds Harry
Stearns, who will become county treas
urer on January / next, having won
the republican nomination at the May
primary election and having no opposi.
ton for election to the Office.
Herman Lehrkamp, a German farm.
er, found a purse containing $40 lying
in the middle of the road near Del.
mont. Investigation proved that it be.
longed to an Indian, Narhis Drappeal,
who had dropped it in going to town,
but when it was returned to him he
claimed 800 was missing. This was
later found by the roadside. Drap-
peau offered the German half the
purse as a reward, but it was refused
and $40 accepted as sufficient prem
ium. q,
Thomas Jackson Laughlin is dead at
Huron, aged a little over 95 years. He
was born in Ohio on July 81, 1921. His
wife died nineteen years ago. OF the
four children born to them three still