The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1921-06-02
STATE NEWS


A man giving his name as Albert
Murcyn was arrested at Harold last
week on a charge of being implicated
with the million dollar liberty bond
theft at Toledo, o., last February. He
was taken to Sioux Falls for a hearing
in the federal court.
The express companies Of the state
expect to another increase
in rates 0 70 according to advices' re.
ceived from Pierre. The last increase
of rs per cent took effect a few weeks
ago.
Hot Springs was host to the grand
lodge Of the A. O. L. w. last week for
their annual meeting. The following
officers We're elected: Grand master
workman, l.. j. Thomas, Ipswich;
grand foreman, c. p. Sherwood, De
Smet; grand Oyerseer, Mitchell Fox,
Sioux Falls; treasurer, 3. Holiday, Els.
feline; recorder, Henry Neill, Aber-
deem.
Geo, w. Egan, publisher of the Sioux
Falls Press, was acquitted of a charge
OF criminal libel by Il jury in circuit
court in Sioux Falls last Friday after
being out eight hours. Egan pleaded
his W defense. The case resulted
over the publication of an affidavit
which was alleged to have damaged
States Attorney l.. Z. Waggoner.
rlaraDpa Nonnatto TX uac Jpnwped
Sunday afternoon in Roy Lake, near
Langford, when he attempted to swim
u to untangle his fish line. A large
party of friends, including his parents,
were unable to save him. He was the
son of Mr.. and Mrs. Earl Vannetta,
Langford farmers. 1t was two hours
before his body could be recovered in
the II feet Of water.
Mrs. Anna Deutch, a resident of the
village of Eden, died from burns re-
ceived when an explosion resulted from
trying to start a s~moldering fire by
means Of kerosene. The accident oc-
CURED in the kitchen of a restaurant.
A $4,000 barn on the farm of Paul
Doughetry near Mitchell was struck
by lightning and destroyed. The en-
tire structure burned in less than half
an hour. Mr.. Dougherty succeeded in
saving his horses, but the harness, a
tractor plow, two dozen pigs, five tons
Of hay and a quantity of kerosene and
gasoline were destroyed by by the
flames.
A meeting of Duroc hog breeders OF
the state will be held in Aberdeen
June 8 to formulate definite plans for
directly effecting the breeding, rails
ing and selling of Duroc hogs. This
meeting is said to be of great i'm
portance and it is expected there will
be a record attendance.
Fifty carloads of cattle from Wyom-
ing were unloaded at Smithwick and
driven overland to the Pine Ridge In
dian reservation, where they will be
grazed. The dry spring in some sec
lions of Wyoming has been disastrous
to range conditions, making necessary
the transfer of large numbers of cat
tie to parts of South Dakota where
feed is abundant. There also is a
movement of cattle from the drouth
portions of Arizona and New Mexico
to the ranges of western South Dakota,
where feed is plentiful.
E. NJ. Hood of Winner, mas been ap-
pointed state bank examiner of South
Dakota with headquarters at Pierre.
Mr.. Hood, who for the past two years
has been vice-president of the Bank
of Winner, will take up his new duties
on June l.
Bricklayers on the Mitchell corn
palace who were on strike during the
past four weeks are back on the job
again. The men returned to work, fol
lowing receipt Of information from Des
Moines that the difficulties between