The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1920-12-30
STATE NEWS

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The baling and shipping of fax and
rye straw has become an important
industry at C~astlewood. AS many as
two carloads a day have been shipped
from the city.
The Hamlin county authorities have
been unable as yet to find any trace
Of Guy Olson, former register OF deeds,
who disappeared this fall with an al
! legged shortage in his office of about
$4,000, represented by license fees al
legged to have been retained by him.
Small boys Of Deadwood and Lead
have made many dollars during the
present Christmas season by going
out into the timber section Of the
Black Hills and cutting down small
pine and spruce trees and bringing
them to the cities and selling them
for Christmas trees at prices ranging
from 81 to 81.
A court house now used as a corn
crib is the novel change made in the
Charles Mix county structure at
Wheeler, S. D., which has been the
scene of many famous court sessions
of frontier days thirty and forty years
ago. An unusually large crop this year
made it necessary to use every avail
able storage place. Residents of
Wheeler, whence the county sea- was
moved to Lake Andes three years ago,
conceived the idea Of making the
picturesque old building useful. Now
King Corn fills rooms in which wed
dings and trials were once held.
In a seven-foot drift of snow at the
entrance of his farm home, a cave,
commonly known among South Dakota
homesteaders as a dUgout eleven miles
southwest of Winner, George Bier
mann, 60, was found frozen to death
by John McCune, a n%eighbor, last
Thursday afternoon. Late Wednesday
morning Biermann evidently had left
his cave, where he lived alone, to go
out to the barn to look after his live
stock. He had said he could keep
warmer in a cave than in a house.
The government is preparing to dis
tribute a million dollars of tribal funds
among the Indians on the Rosebud
reservation in the spring. To assure
a division which will not leave any
of the members Of the families on
that reservation out of the bounty,
all the heads Of the families have
been called into council at Butte Creek
station January IL and II, when the
roll which has been made up will be
checked over, and if any are left out
allow their names to be added to the
list.
1t is generally expected by those in
terested in mining in the Black Hills
that the production Of the various
mines during 1921 will again become
normal, following a year or two dur
ing which the mines have had diff
Guilty in securing men, most Of them,
including the famous Homestake mine,
having worked short-handed during
that period. There now is an ample
supply of miners, who have come to
the Black Hills from other mining
districts of the country.
One of the corn kings Of this state
is F. NJ. Alexander of Hudson, who re-
Gently completed gathering his corn
crop. He finds that he raised 5000
bushels Of corn, in addition to about
1000 bushels which went into his silo.
A great deal of the corn has been
sold, Alexander deciding not to hold
it for higher prices.
The commercial travellers Of the
state have started a move toward de-
manding the erection of a union sta
ton at Wolsey by the Chicago e.
Northwestern and Chicago, Milwau-
kee & st. Paul Railway companies.
The business interests of Wolsey are
up in arms and are demanding a right
to be heard against any such plan
when it Is submitted to the board of
railway commissioners for considera-
ton.
The report OF the Fargo Engineering
company has been received by the
state hydro-electric commission. This