The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1917-01-18

especially was severely burned about
the face, hands and body.
Benedict Bottolfson, a Clay county
farmer, who recently became exhaust
ed while crossing the Missouri river
on the ice all night, will lose both
hands as the result of his experience.
His hands were badly frozen. The left
hand already has been amputated. and
the right hand also will have to BE-
amputated in order to save his life. 1t
may also be necessary to remove sew
eral toes from his feet.
Unless the residents of Garretson
become more %"scrappy" and create dis
~turbances, the city will lose it's only
justice of the peace. A. d. Palmer,
who enjoys the distinction of being
the only justice in the city, is becom-
ing weary of holding down {. job with
out any cases to try from one months
end to another and is threatening to
resign unless there is a riot or some
llIUS 10 Cltdlc SOIle DuSlutSS IOr the
office.
Alex Johnson, Of Chamberlain. 5.
d., was found dead on the Burlington
tracks at Omaha at the foot of Mis-
souri, avenue at midnight last week
with his head cut off apparently by q
train. The body was identified by the
bank passbook in his pocket which con
tanned the name of Alex Johnson, Of
Chamberlain. The book shows suo-
s~tantial balance in the bank and the
man was well dressed. He was appar-
emily 25 years old.
Thomas Graham, an old Indian war
rior who made his home at Flandreau
for many years, died recently. He was
known as an expert maker of pipe
stone warclubs and tomahawks, and
implements of his manufacture are in
the homes of people in all parts of the
United States. He was SO years of
age and is survived by three sons. It
is said he was implicated in the New
Ulm, Mimi, massacre in the early
sixties and served in prison for his
connection herewith.
The presence of mind of Louis Plant.
son of Ray Plant, a Grant county farm
or, and the timely aid of his mother
saved the boy from a terrible death
after his clothing had been burned
from his body as the result of an X
piosion of gasoline. The boy was at
tempting to start a gasoline engine
when the tank exploded. He rushed
from the barn and rolled in a snow
bank. His mother placed a blanket
about him, s%mothering the flames. The
flames from the burning gasoline set
the barn on fire.
December was the coolest Aberdeen
has experienced in twenty years. On
December 7 the mercury climbed to Sc
above, unusually arm for the time OF
year, but the next twenty-three days,
it dropped to zero or below, and fol-
twenty-four days did not at any time
get above the freezing point. One
night it was 81 below, one night 80 be
low, two nights c~onsecutively 20 be
low, and several other times the regis
tration was 20 or more below. The
snowfall was exceptionally heavy, too
amounting to more than twenty inches
Rob Henry, of Estelline, met with ar
accident last Thursday morning about
1920, which will lay him up for sew
eral days. He was cleaning a rife
and it slipped from his hands, the but,
striking the floor. The jar premature
ly discharged the gun the bullet pene
trating the body on the right side JUS
below the ribs. He was brought tc
town Immediately and is resting quite
easy at the office of DR.. Hess and is ex
pected to recover in due time, the
wound seemingly not causing him 4
great deal of pain or trouble.