The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1917-02-15
STATE NEWS

riding AZ "agon.
BenJa. u Fendrich. of salem. has re-
ceived j elk for $3.536.40 in payment
for forf} lFe head of cattle which no
sold T. packing company. This IS
one Of Ii. LARGEST checks ever received
by a man in payment for live
stock.
The post olic. at chamberlain
has al bccn placed in the second
class. Ite office Was second class for
a tim duaing the most prosperous
years. .,a United states Land oni,"
was loe led there. but dropped back to
third several yea,@ ago.
G. J Ryan. postmaster of Bridsc-
water and editor of The McCook Com
ty Democrat. died there last week Of
heart trouble. Mr.. Ryan leaves a wife
and seven children. He was an old
resident OF that community, having
lived there since 1880.
Mr. Ann Clark. Mrs. Patrick Kelly
and Robert Clark, OF Letchor, have
been officially advised that a million
dollar estate in England is awaiting
distribution among the heirs of tha
late Robert Clark. of Letcher. The
p%artic- named are among the heirs,
and expect to receive their shares of
the fortune in due time.
Men Who refuse to support their
wives during these times of high prices
do no have the sympathy of Judge
Copeland of a Vermillion court. Joseph
Cummin- was taken before the court
on the charge of refusing To support
his Wife. and entered a plea of guilty.
He Wa fined $25 and sentenced to a
term OF thirty days in the county jail.
Peter f. koistinen, a farmer living
near iayti, is making a great success
of the dairy industry, which he con
ducts in connection with his farming
operations. During the past twelve
months he MIXED nine head of COWS
and besides furnishing milk and butter
for his family and hired help he mar
ketcd over 500 worth of butter fat ana
still has the offspring Of the nine COWS.
The demand for farms with improve
ments upon them, which can be rented,
are said to be at a premium in many
sections of the state, the demand for
such farms being in excess of the sup
ply. The renters are in many cases
men who would prefer renting than
ownership, and this class appears to
be growing in this state every year.
Heyo and Folkert Krull, two boys
who live in Pleasant Valley township
in the eastern part of Hughes county,
have a record of eighty coyotes for last
wear with the pack of hounds which
they keep on the farm. The bounty,
have made the hunters a nice little in
come outside of their farming and
stock raising returns.
IN interesting program has been pre-
pared for the annual short course for
the farmers of Hamlin county. which
will be held in Bryant on February %
and "a, under the direction of the
state College extension division. EX-
pcrts will be present and make adj
dresses on various topics Of interest TO
farmers and their wives. 1t is expect
ed several hundred farmers and their
wives will be in attendance.
40 trace has been found Of Jens Jen-
sen, aged 80, a Yankton county farmer,
who mysteriously disappeared from his
home on December 27. Recently n
w|anderer was discovered in the region
of Sioux Falls and was believed 10 be
the missing farmer, but proved TO be
another man. In some quarters il Is
feared that he may have committed
-uicide by jumping into the Missouri
river.
Abraham II. Dirks, a Marion man,
ha purchased a pair Of thoroughbred
wolf hounds. which will be shipped to
the Wolf Point territory in Montana,
where they will be utilized in running
down and killing the wolves which in
fest that part Of the northwest. a
bounty OF so per wolf is offered by
the cattle and sheep raisers Of that
part of Montana, and the Marion man
expects his wolf hounds will prove Il
valuable investment for him and give
him a large revenue. The two wolf
hounds will be in direct charge of an
expert Indian wolf hunter.
Major J. r. Hanson, who came to
Yankton in 1857, died at his home in
that city last week. He leaves a wife
and one son., Captain Joseph Mills Han
son, of the Fourth regiment, now at
San Benito, Texas. The deceased, who
.outranked all local pioneers in the mat