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The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1905-06-09
TRIED 1T ON RICHARD.
II Pink Image Didn't Kill Him Harold
Would Eat One.

Would Eat One.
Miss Estelle Reel, the general sup.
crintendent of the governments In
dian schools, was talking about cruelty.
Cruelty" she said, "is lack of
imagination. 1t isn't true that only
savages are cruel. All people without
developed minds-capable of sympathy
are cruel. Children, till they have
learned to think, are cruel invariably.
Miss Reel smiled.
LET me tell you about little boy"
she said. ITO this little boy there was
given two images Of plaster coated ON
the outside with pink sugar. He want
ed to eat the images. but he was warn
ed on no account to do so.
"'They are poison he was told. II
you eat them, it will kill YOU
However, the little boy was dubi-
GUS. He had been cheated before by
grown up people. Day after day he
asked Is he might not eat the images.
Finally he had a young friend, Richard
Howe, to spend the day with him, and
that night it was discovered that one
of the images had disappeared.
Ellis mother, nearly frantic, rushed
to him.
Harold she said. where is that
pink image?'
Harold frowned, as he answered do.
family:
"I gave II to Richard Howe, and IL
he's alive tomorrow I'm going to eat
the other one myself ~
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1905-06-09
BUSY TIMES At BELLE FOURCHE
Work Is Progressing Rapidly the Irrigation Project-The
Magnitude of the Project Becomes More Apparent.

Yankton. About 5000 barrels will be
used on the diverting dam alone. and
from $4,000 to 10000 barrels will be
used in the construction Of the storage
dam.
The ditch from the diverting dam to
the reservoirs will be sixty feet wide
at the top, forty feet wide at the bot
tom, and capable Of carrying water to
the depth of ten feet.
Some of the heaviest work in the
way of excavation will he along this
main ditch, one cut being forty-five
feet deep, and it is in this that the
heavy steam shovels will be used.
Wherever the canal crosses the coun-
try roads already established, steel
bridges will be Put in By the govern
ment
Nst all the contracts in connection
with this project have been let. In
fact, the greater part of the work will
be in the construction of the great
storage dam and bitches leading from
it for the distribution OF water over
the country to be irrigated.
Advertising for bids on the construc.
ton of this portion of the work will be
done in about month, and it is ex
pected the contracts will be let about
the first of August. The reservoir dam
will be 100 feet high and one mile
long. 1t will form an artificial lake
twelve miles long, capable of holding
246,0O0 acre feet of water.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1905-06-09
Thouo;t She Couldn't Live.

Moravia. N. V, June 5.-Mr. Benja-
min Wilson, highly respected resident
of this place, came very near losing
his wife, and now that she is cured and
restored to good health his gratitude
knows no bounds. He says:
My wife has suffered everything
with Sugar Diabetes. She has been
sick four years. She doctored with
two good doctors but kept growing
worse. The doctors said she could
not live. She failed from 200 pounds
down to 1870 pounds. This was her
weight when she began to use Dodd's
Kidney Pills, and now she weighs 100,
is we'll and feeling stronger every
day.
she used to have rheumatism so
bad that it would raise great bumps
Ill over her body and this is all gone
too.
Dodd's Kidney Pills are a God-send
to those who suffer as my wife did.
They are all that saved her. We can't
praise them enough"
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1905-06-09

ElVs between the Ponca creek ON the
soutn and the Webstone on the north
Burke has had a steady growth and is
'Ae second town in size on the Rose
qua. 1t has the second bank. newspa.
per and drug store that We're estah.
lshed on the Rosebud. Burke has a
hne future before it.
Gregory. situated thirtyf five miles
northwest of Bonesteel. is the princi.
pal town of the Rosebud. Surrounded
oy rlch agricultural district and COM
mahGlng trade for many miles in all
directions. and but five miles from the
lflpp county Indian lands, which are
dotted all over with large cattle ranch.
es giving big support to the town.
Good soft water in an abundance is
gotten at depth of fifteen to twenty.
hye feet in the town of Gregory. All
lines OF business are represented
mere are three good hotels. two
banks, five general stores, two grocery
stores, one bakery, two hardware
stores, one meat market, two lumber
and coal yards three livery barns. one
i"iiii'u'N SURE, lHiee saloons, 1Our
blacksmith and machine shops, one
dfuS store, two newspapers. two jew.
elry stores one photograph gallery.
TWO BARRIERS two doctors. one attorney,
United States commissioner office,
ard several land agents; regular
church end Sunday school, a good day
school (the first on the Rosebud. EN-
poying two teachers. The plans are
out for IA two-story stone school house.
AS there is an abundance of fine build
ing stone within two miles OF town,
stone buildings are the cheapest.
Such are the developments in eight
short months The conN ertins of a
bleak, un:nhabited scope of wild land
over which the Indians roamed and
the wild birds built their nests. into
towns and fine farms and houses.
Wonderful is the work of man.
The town of Gregory has a popula.
ton OF 500. 1t has had no boom but a
steady growth, and by fall will be dou-
bled in size and business enterprises.
A leading feature is progressive com
marcial club, which looks to the inter.
est of the town and all individuals
wishing information as to prospects of
its business future. Government lots
can still be filed on and secured with
out living on them
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1905-06-09
CROWD FORCED
OUT BY FLAMES
MILWAUKEE EXPOSITION BUILD
ING TOTALLY DESTROYED
BY FIRE.
l.5oo PEOPLE in BUILDING
skAT PLAYERS SUCCEED IN Es.
GAPING WITHOUT INJURY
TO ANY ONE.

Milwaukee, June 6. - The Milwau-
city block, was totally destroyed by
fire last evening. The loss is $780,
900; insured for $4,000.
The building was located on the
west side of the city. The fire is sup
posed to have been started by an cleo
trio light wire. The blaze broke out
in the northwest portion of the gal
lery just at the time the National Skat
compress completed its afternoon SEES
sion. AT the time the fire broke out
there We're over 1900 people in the
building, but all got out in safety. A
curtain was first discovered to be
burning and tiremen attempted TO
Quench the Flames
by the use of chemical, but without
avail. The interior had peen decora-
ted with thousands of yards of tlimsy
drapery, and in a twinllling the flames
spread throughout the entire interior.
Stretched across the top of the in
side of the structure was a heavy
canvass, ard scarcely had the as
sembled skat players got out of the
building when the canvas feb with a
crash. A general alarm was turned in
but it was impossible to check the
fire and the building was entirely
Quilted leaving nothing standing but
the four walls. Many buildings stu
ated on the south side of the big
structure We're threatened, and in
some cases We're slightly damaged.
Many Notable Gatherings.
The exposition building was built
about twenty-siX years ago and had
been used for many years for holding
the annual industrial exposition
Aside from this the building had
been put to various uses. When
Prince Henry of Prussia visited Mil
waukee he was given a public recep-
ton within its walls. Many n9tional
gatherings have been cared fo' in the
exposition building, it being able to
accommodate IA larger crowd than any
other structure in the city. Among
the national gatherings housed in this
building were the National Saenger-
fest, the Northwestern Saengerfest,
American Bowling congress, the Ma
tional Stat congress and many big
concerts.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1905-06-09

The magnitude Of what is known as
the Belle Fourche project is becoming
more apparent every day as the camps
OF the graders are being established
along the line of the big ditch Car
loads of cement and other materials re-
CURED in the dam are coming in and
immense steam shovels are being talk
en- out to the location. Belle Fourche,
as a result of this activity, together
with the natural advantage in a bust
ness way. is experiencing boom such
as this part of the country has never
known before. Raymond E. Walter,
the engineer in charge, has been on
the ground for some time, and says
that he expects 500 men and several
hundred teams will be employed be-
fore the summer closes. BY a year
hence he expects fully 1000 men to be
at work on the bitches and dams in
connection with this project.
The diverting dam will be on the
Belle Fourche river about one mile be-
low town. 1t will be 43 feet high and
400 feet long, of concrete with steel
controlling gates, sluice gates and
bridges. 1t will form lake of 200 to
300 acres, backing the water up nearly
to Belle Fourche.
Portland cement will be used in the
construction of the diverting dam, and
ten car loads Of this have already ar
rived. The cement is manufactured at
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1905-06-09
FEED YOU MONEY.
Feed Your Brain and II Will Feed
You Money and Fame.

Feed Your Brain and II Will Feed
You Money and Fame.
Ever since boyhood l have been
especially fond Of meats, and am
convinced I ate too rapidly, and failed
to masticate my food properly.
"The result was that l found my.
SELF few years ago, afflicted with
ailments of the stomach and kidneys,
which interfered seriously wifi my
business.
"At last took the advice of friends
and began to eat Grape Nuts instead
of the heavy meats, ETC., that had con.
stituted my former diet
81 found that | was at once benefited
by the change, that | was soon reliey.
ed from the heartburn and the indf.
gestion that used to follow my meals.
that the pains in my back from nv
kidney affection had ceased, showing
that those organs had been healed. and
that my nerves, which used to be un-
steady, and my brain, which was slow
and letharsic from heavy diet of
meats and greasy foods, had, not in
moment, but gradually, end none the
less surely, been restored to normal
efficiency. Now every nerve is steady
and my brain and thinking faculties
are quicker and more acute than for
years past.
AFTER my old style breakfasts I
used to suffer during the forenoon
from feeling of weakness which him
dered me seriously in my work, but
since have begun to use Grape-Nuts
food can work till dinner time with
all ease and comfort" Name given By
Postum Co.. Battle Creek, Mich.
There's reason.
Read the Little Book. 1.-THE Road -
MELVILLE" in each pkg.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1905-06-09
BRIGHT OUTLOOK ON THE R0SFR|1
Eight e" Towns on Government Sites Are in Thr;n;no
shape-The Progress They Have Made

The future prospects of GREGORY
county are exceedingly bright. An
abundance of rain has fallen, a LARGE
acreage of land is being broken and
planted
Already the sod crop is looking fine.
This land which in August. 1904. was
a wild. devastated plain. now shows
the thrift and energy of its settlers.
All over the country good residences
have been erected. barns and outbuild
ings show the handiwork of man.
Stock raising and dairying have not
been overlooked. This country is one
of the best grazing sections of the
state; great abundance of grass and
hay is found all over the Rosebud.
Various towns have sprung I'D as
follows: Herrick, Burke, Gregory,
Carlock. Edens, Dixon and Wade. all
of when are government townsites.
Dallis and st. Elmo are two private
towns, all situated on the famous
Rosebud. The Jackson brothers of
Fairfax are the promoters of Dallis
anu ho' o'tiiI UP HulNc Il liTiHiUS
town. st. Elmo, being only two miles
from Herrick, has practically fallen
by the wayside. The town of Wade
is situated on Sully flats, having but
recently been located. 1t consists of
but few buildings. but is surrounded
by beautiful country and is sure of
success. Dixon is located in the north
part OF Gregory county on Bul creek.
Ii at present consists of a blacksmith
shop and store. EGens, situated i'm the
Bull creek valley six miles southwest
OF Dixon, has one store and a black
smith shop. 1t is but one and a quar-
ter miles from Tripp county. Edens
is supposed to be for the terminal of
the railroad when it extends west from
Bonesteel. Carlock is situated on a
beautiful fiat south of the Ponca creek.
surrounded by large and fertile tract
OF country. Carlock now has two
stores. blacksmith shop, hotel,
bank building, and in the near future
newspaper will be published there.
Herrick is situated fifteen miles west
OF Domestic ell in a beautiful part of the
country. Hesrick was boom town.
1t has several hotels, stores and livery
barn, and fine stone banking house.
The town Of Burke is located ten
miles northwest of Herrick en- the di-
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1905-06-09
PACKING PLANT SITE SELECTED
Independent Concern Is Assured a,
Sioux Falls.


After considering several sites. 1t is
announced by w. B. Davenport, indus
trial commissioner of the Sioux Falls
board of trade. that a site has been
selected for the Independent packing
plant which is to be erected in Sioux
Falls by local capitalists.
A company with capital of $780,
600 was recently organized. The ca
pacity of the plant will be 1000 hogs
and in the neighborhood of 200 cattle a
week to start with. This will necessi-
tate the employment of about fifteen
men. AS business warrants. the ca
pacity OF the plant will be increased
and more men will be added.
The work of constructing the plant
will commence at the earliest possible
moment, the intention being to have it
completed and placed in operation the
latter part of the summer. The plant
will be erected on what is known as
the old linen millsite, on the Big Sioux
river, about one-half mile north of the
Queen Bee mill
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1905-06-09
A Counter lrritant.

Farmer Missbacker-Since your
nephew has graduated from the village
academy
Farmer Rentover-Well. I'll have to
own up that I've felt good deal bet
ter since that important event than
did for quite spell before. You see.
ever since then, Lester has set around
and recited Greek and growed hair and
settled the tariff question and plunlled
on mandolin and invented new way
Of runniu' the farm and the government
and the solar system, and simulta-
neously, as it We're, EFT like young
dragon, and, with all of it, so far sue
cecded IN maxim me forget my other
troubles that I'm really feelin as we'll
as anybody possibly could under the
circumstances
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1905-06-09
COMPANY TO BUY CAPITOL LAND,
Plan to Prevent Delay in Getting
Funds.

Funds.
At meeting in Pierre. attended bv
the leading business men of the city,
it was decided to take definite action
toward securing the necessary cash
by sale of state building lands to Sc
cure the required $l50,o0O for the
erection of a wing of the new state
! capitol.
1t was proposed that company be
chartered under the state laws, with
P. F. Mcclure, A. Ewart and c. c.
Bennett, the presidents of the three
national banks in the city, as the di-
rectors, to issue stock to the amount
| OF $4,000 for the purchase of $4,000
acres of lands. The amount appropri-
ated for the construction of the wing
| is $l50,O00. The amount on hand be-
ing $4,000, the amount of capital of
the compan yis just the amount re-
CURED to be secured through sales.
While it is not likely that Just at
present $4,000 acres of this land could
| be selected which would sell at $40
f, per acre for cash. some of it would
go at that figure, and more if time
could be allowed as in the case of
the state school lands. A company
could take the whole amount and put
up the cash, and sell the land on
terms which would allow them to get
out on the deal, while the state, not
being il, condition TO give terms, could
not make the sales.
III the state board attempted to sell
the land on terms, the probabilities
are considered against their disposing
of enough to secure the fund neces-
sary before a contract for the work
! can be made, and such action would
only result in piling up whatever cash
was realized in the state treasury,
where it would be of no benefit to the
state or the building fund until the
full term had expired on which sales
We're made. Such action would also
delay the work for several years,
while by Il certain sale to company,
the new building can be completed by
the first of January, 1907.
The fund on hand now will be put in
the foundation, and will be used at
once for that purpose. while the mon
ey from the land sales can be used in
the construction work next year, and
the building pushed to completion.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1905-06-09

Ed Nicholson has put men to work
repairing a brick building in Rapid
City preparatory to converting it into
a creamery. Mr.. Nicholson has had
a great deal of experience in the
creamery business in the eastern part
of the state, and as there is but one
creamery in the Black Hills it is be-
lieved that the enterprise will prove
most successful.
The Homestake company has placed
an order with the acknowledgement
Drill company for what will be the
largest mine compressor in the world.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1905-06-09
so NEW TELEPHONE COMPANIES

The reports coming into the office of
the state auditor for assessment pur.
poses show that over fifty new tele-
phone companies will be placed on the
tax lists this year. These lines are
mostly small mutual or farmers lines.
which are being rapidly threaded all
over the state, putting the different
farming communities in connection
with the towns at which they do their
marketing. The telephone is becom.
ing not only necessity to the whites
but to the Indians as WE'LL A private
line has been installed at Leslie, on
the Chey enne river, which is being
extended from ranch to ranch, princi-
pally OH wire fences, and one branch of
it runs distance out into the Chey.
enne River reservation for the use of
the more progressive Indians as well
as the whites.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1905-06-09
Man Run Over by Train Dies.

Huron, S. D., June s-August Allen,
whose legs were crushed in the yards
of the Chicago & Northwestern rail-
way, making .amputation necessary, is
dead. 1t is believed that he fell upon
the tracks in the railway yards and
was run over by the switch engine
and cars. He was butcher and for
several months had been employed in
a market at Hitchcock
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1905-06-09
SIOUX INDIANS BUILD RAILWAY
Are Efficient Both as Workmen and
Contractors.

ARE CIIiClent 6Oth as Workhen ana
Contractors.
That the Sioux warrior has become
contractor, is shown by instances in
connection with the extension of the
Chicago, Milwaukee & ST. Paul rail
road from Chamberlain to the Black
Hills.
A crew of twenty-five Sioux Indians
with teams and scrapers, is at work
on that part of the railroad grade
which extends through large island
on the Missouri river opposite the
town of Chamberlain. These Indians
! are from Grow Creek agency, and at
the suggestion of Maj. H. d. Chamber
lain, United States Indian agent at
Crow Creek, the contractors were in
duced to give them a trial.
The result is proving evry satisfac
tory. The Indians have contracted
for several sections of the work Of
grading, and under the immediate SUI
pc, vision of John Won Patter, an
agency employee. they are making good
progress with their contract.
At another point on the railroad ex
tension an Indian named Louie Lou
den has contract for grading. He
has the utmost confidence of his
brethren as is attested by the fact
that instead of employing white grad
ers. he secured the services of num-
Der of Sioux warriors from Grow
Creek and Lower Brule agencies.
The old days, when the Sioux war
riors were accustomed to recline in
the shade while their wives split the
firewood, cared for the ponies and
performed all the other labor of the
household appear to be gone forever
Hundreds of the Sioux Indians have
gone to work on the reservations and
at other points to prove that they can
earn a living for themselves and fam
lilies.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1905-06-09
MeklNLEY,s BIRTHPLACE.
Old Homestead at Niles, Ohio, Now


Site of Savings Bank.
William Aubrey Thomas of Niles.
Ohio congressman from the Nine
teenth district, says: Il come from
the greatest Republican center in the
United States as the city of Niles is
located in the Mahoning valley, sec
ton of Ohio famous for the fact that
a Democrat was never elected to an
office there. Niles is pretty little
town of 5000 inhabitants. known chief
ly for the fact that it was the birth
place OF William Mckinley. the mar
tyr president. The former location of
the old Mckinley homestead is now
the site of the Dollar Savings Bank, of
which | am president, and we recently
placed bronze tablet on the front of
the establishment which reads that
Mckinley first saw the light of day on
this spot. Sentinel.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1905-06-09
REPORTS ARE EXAGGERATED.
Range Fences Have Increased Num-
Der Of Cattle Owned by Indians.

Persons residing on the Cheyenne
River agency who have visited Aber-
deem severely criticise statements
that have been sent out from the res
eryations charging that great loss of
life has occurred among live stock on
the reservation because Of the range
fences, and that the number of cattle
owned by the Indians has decreased
since the fences We're built. The con-
trary is true. Instead Of the number
of cattle having decreased, it is stated
that the Indians now own Il great many
more cattle than they ever did before,
the more thrifty among the redskins
having invested the money received
from leases ana from the rent for the
cattle trail through the reservation in
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1905-06-09
scAelEs INFECT BIG DISTRICT
State Board compeIs Dipping Of Cat
tie Twice.

State Board CompeIs Dipping Of Cat.
tie Twice.
The state live stock commission has
declared most of the Missouri river
counties east of the river and the sec
ton between the Missouri and Jim
rivers to be scabies infected territory,
and has ordered compulsory dipping
of all cattle in that territory at least
twice, at periods of not more than
fourteen nor less than eight days
apart, with dipping in all other coun-
ties Of the state wherever the county
inspectors shall order it. The order
is compulsory, and no clear bill Of in
named unless the dipping regulation
has been complied with.
The counties declared to be infect
ed are Aurora, Beadle, Brule, Buffalo,
Charles Mix, Campbell Douglas, Ed
munds, Faulk, Hand, Hyde, Hughes,
Jerauld, Mcpherson, Potter, Sphinx,
Sully and Walworth.
The county inspectors in these
counties are attempting to secure dip
ping at about the same time for all
cattle, and will do all in their power
to wipe out the itch this year They
are doing all possible to enforce the
orders of the state board, and are try
ing to prevent the action of some cat
tie owners who last year cut out part
Of their herds and dipped the rest, de-
claring that they had brought in all
they owned. This action left enough
infected cattle in the country to spread
the disease again after the dipping.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1905-06-09
Boat upsets and Boy browns

st. Paul, June 6. = Adolph Klein,
seventeen years old, was drowned in
Lake Johanna at 10 o'clock yesterday
morning by the upsetting of a boat
His two brothers, Albert and Edward
Klein, and Joseph Homen. who were
in the boat with him, were rescued
by w. M. Perry.