The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1921-08-25

smaller and more scattered and very
few tracts are now withheld by the
owners, and some OF these have been
promised. During the past week many
have leased their land after being
given a thorough explanation OF the
situation. Many people, not under
standing the situation, had refused to
lease. The final drive is being made
this week, and by September l, it is
expected a derrick will be erected in
the Lennon basin.
John Gilholm, until a month ago an
employee of the HOmestake Mining
company at Lead, was instantly killed
when he was struck by a bolt of light
ming while making hay on his farm
in the Cold Springs district. The bolt
struck him just above the forehead
and emerged from his chest. He IS
survived by a widow.
Mrs. Elizabeth Swartzbaugh, wife of
Frank Swchwartzbaugh of Barnard,
died Thursday evening at $50 at an
Aberdeen hospital as a result Of burns
received August 9 when she and her
son were trapped in a flaming car
which was overturned in a high wind.
storm, a few miles east of Frederick.
Harold Schwartbaugh, ear old boy,
who was trapped in the cook car with
his mother when the wind overturned
it, died about twelve hours after he
was brought to St. Luke's hospital
with his mother Tuesday night after
the accident.
Followed by 5000 Christian Indians,
including 5000 Of his Sioux tribesmen,
the body of Private Chauncey Eagle.
horn, of the A. Z. F., first Indian slain
in the great war, was carried to a hill
side overlooking the grove near Win
ner in which the great c~onvocation
of red men marking the centennial of
the missionary society of the Episcopal
church in the United States is being
held, and buried with all the ceremony
Of church and tribe combined. The
service "a conducted entirely in the
Sioux language, in which the burial
service of the Episcopal church has
been translated land Bishop S%uffragant
Remington was assisted by eight full
blooded Sioux priests, who have been
ordained during the progress of the
missionary work at the. Rosebud
! agency.
The assessed valuation of farm
lands including structures in South Da-
kota this year, after being equalized
by the state tax commission, is approx.
imately eight per cen lower than in
1920, according to a statement Of the
commission. While the task of equal
izing the states property is as yet un-
finished in certain details, it is ex-
pected to be finished by next week.
In eQualizing the values of farm lands
throughout the various counties the
commission has raised the valuations
returned by the county boards and has
lowered the figures in Is counties.
Thirty-four counties were left un-
changed.
The supreme court has set Septem-
Der Is as the time for return before
the court in the cases testing the va.
lidity Of expenses and extra salaries
of state officers and has selected a spe-
cial court to sit on September 81 to
hear the cases. This court consists
of three republicans, Robert c. Hayes
of Deadwood. George Rice of Elan.
dreau, and A. H. Orvis of Yankton, and
two democrats, Tom H. Null of Huron
and L. w. Bicknell of Webster.
Joe Foreman and Lewis Whitmarch,
who escaped from the Sioux Falls pen
itentiary with the aid of a false key
and a rope, were captured near Can,
ton by a posse headed by Sheriff Kun.
dert of Lincoln county. When the two
fugitives approached a farm house and
asked for a drink of water the farmer
recognized the ~convicts from published
pictures and telephoned the sheriff.
Late reports indicate that the rains
} the first of this month are bringing
along the late potato crop. and it prom
Uses to be a good one, ever though the
early crop was a failure in many Sec
tions of the state. While the hot
weather Of June apparently affected
the crop over much Of counties this
does not appear to have been the
situation. With the reported scarcity
In the state further east, the growers