The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1921-07-28
STATE NEWS

up. has peer filed with the state tax
commission by the heirs OF Peter
Aggegaard, who recently died on his
Turner county farm. The return was
made at q total Of $947,O 83, m on
this figure the amount due the state
under the inheritance tax law would
be in excess of $4,000. The figures
returned are subject to yeriicatior
by the inheritance tax commission,
and may be revised or may stand, as
the showing on more investigation
will indicate. But regardless of this
the Inheritance due from this estate
will be the heaviest yet paid by any
strictly South Dakota estate. Estates
of n%on-residents have paid higher
sums into the fund, but none other
in the state.
j.. B. Howe, cashier of the Farm
ers Guarantee State bank, of Violin,
has been arrested on a charge of EN-.
bezzlement. According to the report
Of an examiner Of the state banking
department, Howe's d~efnlcations, it is
charged, amount to $4,000. Howe told
the officers that he used the money to
pay a debt he owed in Minnesota,
where he formerly lived. He has a
wife and one child.
The Daum theater, the only large
auditorium and opera house Of which
Huron boasts, has been declared I'M
safe and a firetrap, by the state mar
shall. In a communication to the own
err of the building, Joe Daum, the mar,
shall invited inquiry and declared that
the building should be placed in re-
pair at once. Action relative to its
condemnation is now pending.
at was only a little thief stealing
from a big thief. The s~torekeepers
are profiteers. | vas only taking a
portion of hat which they had accu-
mulated by overcharging the public"
This WAS what Frank Johnson said to
Judge Skinner, OF the Codington coun-
ty circuit court, following Johnson S
plea of guilty to stealing 5000 worth
of goods from a store at Croker. He
was caught while he had the loot
in an automobile. On his plea he vas
sentenced to a term of four years
in the Sioux Falls ~penitentiary. Rec
ords show he already has served one
term in the ~penitentiary under sem
tence imposed in 1916 in Codington
county.
The failure Of different institutions
TO draw upon their continuing funds
for various purposes on account OF
the high cost of operation and their
delay in work On that account leaves
the state treasury with So ,S31 in
the general fund at the close of bust
ness June 80 last. 1t also leaves a
balance of s6,500,0 900 in all funds. OF
this, the highway department was
carrying s1,143,615, and the common
school interest and income fund ST.
235.690, which, if deducted, cuts the
total considerably.
Yankton county is o o to lose one
of its best duck hunting lakes. A
contract for the draining of Miller's
lake, neal Lesterville, has been let.
This will reclaim approximately $40
acres of high land for farming pur-
poses. The water is to be conducted
into Jim river via Beaver creek,
through an $4,000 foot open ditch.
There were six bidders. the lowest
being about $4,000. The cost to be
paid by the farmers who will benefit
Governor McMaster appointed Don
Livingston to the q position of
the state board of agriculture which
continues the work of the marketing
department, of which Mr.. Livingston
has been director. The state board
Of ch%iropractic examiners was also ap-
pointed as follows: J.. B. Annis,
Huron; George A. Rensvold, Sioux
Falls, and j, w. Plat, Flandreau.
Gold nuggets from a dentists Office
proved to be the drawing attraction
to thieves in Canton a few days ago,
when the dental parlors of DR.. H. T,
Aker were entered and robbed dur.
ing the night, and metals, including
gold, silver and several other bottles
of dental products amounting to APP
p~roximately 800 were stolen. No
trace of the thieves has been found,
officials stated.
No legal difficulty in ~disposing Of
the s 6 1000, 900 Of state bonds author.
lied under the soldier compensation
act passed by the last legislature is
anticipated by Attorney General Byron
S. Payne. The supreme courts ruling
on the appropriation for guardsmen
who served on the Mexican border in
1916 will serve to establish the validity
of the present issue to the satisfaction
of all, in his opinion.
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