The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1920-07-29

funds, and will begin within a short
time The department will get what
il can out of the assets of the bank
10 reimburse the guaranty fund.
At a meeting Of the South Dakota
4 Press association, held during the tri.
state meeting at Sioux City, a unani-
nous decision was reached to author
ize the appointment of committee
to work out plans for employment of
q field secretary and with power to
establish the Office. The committee
consists of George Schlosser, chair
man; VI. c. Lusk, H. A. Sturges, L.
B. Yule, E. B. Oddly, and j. H. Nc
Keeyer and J. F. Halliday, ex-oficio.
This committee is TO meet at Yank-
ton, Friday, July so, to outline a
course of procedure.
A sensation was created by the ar.
rest Of three Lawrence county men,
August HIATT, Henry Eyster and Peter
I Christensen on the charge of horse
/ stealing. The men are ranchers of
! the Lemstone district OF the Black
Hills. Recently Harding county
ranchman missed several head of his
horses, and got trace of them headed
three men. He followed the trail in
Lead and secured the aid of the
officers.
A farmer of Edmunds county, who
was drawn on the jury for term of
circuit court just held, thought the
court could get along just as well
without him, so he failed to report.
When brought into court he was held
in contempt and was given brief
term in the county Jail in order to
impress upon him the Importance of
obeying a jury summons.
Northern South Dakota will be the
prairie chicken hunters paradise this
fall from present indications. Not in
many years have prairie chickens been
so plentiful as this summer Large
numbers of them are seen daily in the
hills of Day and Marshall counties,
where they migrated from lower re-
gions owing to wet weather
Assurance Of a pontoon bridge cross
ing of the Missouri river at Yankton
by September /, without any lapse
after the ferry stops running, has been
given with the appointment of com
mittee from the Yankton Chamber of
Commerce to take charge of the bridge
proposition.
Although Flandreau's schools are
badly crowded and new building is
needed, the board of education has de-
cided not to issue bonds which have
been authorized for the new structure
until the money market has become
more settled and the bonds can be
disposed of to good advantage.
The Mule Creek oil field, which lies
almost on the boundary line between
Wyoming and whose discovery two
years ago was largely overshadowed
by the sensational developments of
the Lance Creek district of Wyoming,
now Is said to be producing nearly
twice as much oil as the latter and
appears to be only on the verge of
its full production capacity.
A convention of the non-partisan
! league party of South Dakota for the
purpose of allowing the people to take
faction concerning the endorsement of
Farley Christensen, farmer-labor party
candidate for the presidency. will be
held sometime within month, prob
ably at Mitchell, o. s. Evans, state
chairman of the party, said. Mr. Chris,
tensen. himself, will probably speak
in Mitchell before long as his mana
gers have promised to include South
Dakota on his campaign itinerary.
/ Army worms so numerous that eat.
ing in the fields they make rustline
roar, that crossing roads they com
pletely cover a strip mile. wide, and
that crossing track they pile up until
a living approach is built over the
rails are reported from the vicinity
of Wakonda and Centerville. where
travellers bring these reports. The