The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1921-05-26
STATE NEWS

leslie White, of near White River
IS in Jail at Fort Pierre, under $500
bonds, awaiting the next term Of cir
cult court charged with hiding But
falo" George, fugitive from justice
Buffalo for whom the state AM
court officials have been searching
for the past months has served sew
eral ~penitentiary terms, is wanted 70
horse stealing, and was a parole pris
oner when getting into his last rust
ling scrape. He is thought to be il
hiding in the White River reservation
country.
Twenty-one lotion artillery tractors
for use on road work have been re
ceived by the maintenance department
OF the state highway department a
Mitchell. These machines, built FOL
use in the World war, will be dis
tributed for use on various projects
now under way in the state highway
department.
Moody county authorities are max
ing a search for Lewis Wright, alias
George Lewis, alias Joe Parker, who
%defrauded a Flandreau man, William
Gothier, out of a car and gave him
a check for $400 on a Sioux Falls
bank, in which it has since bhen
shown he had no funds. After getting
the car the swindler went to the coun'
ty t~reasurer's office and gave another
worthless check for Sc in payment of
auto license plates. Then he disap'
peared with the automobile, being
many miles away before the fraud
was detected.
William II. Morrison, aged 40 years,
for the past 10 years engaged in the
produce business in Arlington, who re-
Gently was seriously injured by being
run yer by his automobile, succumbed
to his injuries in a hospital at Roches-
ter, Mimi, to which he was rushed in
an effort to save his life. While start,
ing from his home to his business
place he KILLED the engine of his
auto and forgot to shift the gears
back to neutral. This oversight
caused his death. As the selfstarter
was out of order he got out and
cranked the machine by hand. The
car suddenly started, knocked him
down on his back and as the car
passed over him it doubled him up.
His spine was injured at the base OF
the brain, causing him to become par.
alyzed from the waist down.
Chris Anderson, a farmer who lives
in the Swan Lake district of Turner
county, reports a real freak Of nature
on his farm. One of his hens has
adopted a litter of six puppies. The
puppies go to their mother when they
want their feed. but they promptly
answer the cluck of the hen. The hen
takes them all under her wings to the
best of her ability and gives them
what shelter she car as though they
were little chicks.
Forty thousand dollars damage to
houses, barns and silos in a territory
extending from 20 to 80 miles on every
side of Webster City, Day county, was
done in Thursdays storm, which took
the form of a baby cyclone in Webster
township, according to reports. There
was no loss of life or stock. Included
in the loss was the crash of the Vel
lowstone Air Route pathfinder ship,
piloted by A. w. Nelson and Art Win
theiser of Aberdeen. Neither flyer was
injured. although they both had the
most exciting experience of their flying
careers.
A. C. Townley. president of the Ma
tional Nonpartisan League, and VIM,
anger. former attorney general OF
North Dakota, will have three debates
in South Dakota next month on
the activities of the league
have been beneficial or injurious tc
North Dakota according to an an
nouncement made by Tom Ayers
sonth Dakota manager of the league
will debate at Huron June s
,ioux Falls June Z. and Mitcnei
June 5.