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The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1905-09-15
slDETRAck UP TO FARMERS.
Rails at Sandcut to Be laid if Land Is
Donated

w. H. Stanley, secretary of the South
Dakota board of railroad commission
ers, has received from General Man
ger Williams Of the Milwaukee Rail-
road company a letter which virtually
settles the question regarding a pro-
posed sidetrack at or near a point
known as Sandcut, situated between
the towns of Summit and Waubay, on
the Milwaukee road.
The general manager states that the
engineer sent out by the company re-
ports that if sidetrack was con-
structed at the point indicated in the
order of the board it would be difficult
to keep it clear of snow in the winter,
owing to the topography Of the coun-
try in that immediate vicinity Cen
eral Manager Williams, however, pro-
poses that if the farmers in the vicin-
ity will donate enough land to widen
the company's right of way to the ex.
tent of 100 feet the sidetrack will be
constructed. The farmers in the vi
entity of Sandcut are anxious to have
the additional track constructed. and
it is believed they without delay will
deed the amount of land required.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1905-09-15
Northwest News.
PFlsTER SUES AccusERs.
Milwaukee Capitalist Brings Suit for
$5OO,OOO DAMAGES.

Milwaukee Capitalist Brings Suit for
100000 Damages.
Milwaukee, Sept. 10.-On charges Of
conspiracy, Charles F. Pfister, the
millionaire capitalist, banker and
newspaper owner of this city, began
suit yesterday for 100000 damages
against District Attorney Francis e.
McGovern, Assistant District Attorney
Henry F. Cochems, Special District
Attorney Guy D. Golf, and others, the
three officials above being named in
the complaint in their official capac
ity. The complaint recites that for
some years there has been a strenu-
Gus political contest between the two
factions of the Republican party in
Wisconsin, and that the defendants in
the suit are members of the faction
arrayed against Mr.. Pfister. The COM
plant Is a direct result of the recent
indictment of Pfister by the grand
jury n connection with funds of the
Wisconsin Rendering company. The
complaint alleges that the charge
upon which he was indicted sis I'M
true and false in every particular"
AS a result Of the indictment there
are pending in the courts suits
brought by Mr.. Pf1ster for damages
aggregating $4,000.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1905-09-15

Upon the complaint of z. S. Water
bury, field in the supreme court of this
state, Attorney General Philo Hall has
caused to be served on S. A. Ramsey,
an attorney of Woonsocket, an order
to show cause why he should not be
disbarred. The charges made against
him were considered by the court as
sufficient on their face to justify the or.
der, and the trial, which will come of
this fall, will be watched with interest.
Mr.. Ramsey is the we'll known tell per-
ance reformer, and was elected mayor
of Woonsocket last year on the Pro
hibition ticket. He was chairman of
the last Democratic state convention
and a delegate of that party to the
Chicago convention that nominated
Bryan.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1905-09-15
BOX CAR FIGHT ENDS IN MURDER
Four Men Hold UP Ton on Freight
Train.

One man was murdered and two
others wounded in a battle between
four armed outlaws and ten passen-
gers on a Northwestern freight train
Immediately after the train left Hecla.
Sheriffs and deputies have been
securing the country for the perpetra-
tors of the crime, with the result that
at present three men whose deScrip
tions are said to tally with those fur
nished by the victims of the holdup
have been arrested.
| The bandits, all of whom We're heav-
| lily armed and masked, boarded the
train in the afternoon, three getting
on at Aberdeen and the fourth at Red
| field. They mingled with the other
| ten men in the car until it became
| dark, when one of the men sprang to
| his feet and ordered the men to hold
up their hands. Five sprang from the
swiftly moving train, followed by re-
| volver shots. 1t is said two were hit
and slightly wounded.
OF the five remaining in the car,
one resisted the robbers, one of whom
fired his revolver point blank at him,
the shot taking effect in the back of
the head. The robbers then jumped
from the car. 1t is not known how
much money they got.
The men remaining in the car say
that when the train arrived at Ludden
| they notified the conductor, who re-
fused to go near the car. The con-
ductor sent for a constable and the
| latter found the the man lying in a
| pool of blood. His eyes had dropped
from their sockets and he gasped 81
am killed"
The man was taken on to Cakes,
| where he died later.
A man arrested at Hecla answers
| the description given by the five who
got off at that place. The others were
| arrested at La Moure.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1905-09-15
STATE NEWS OF INTEREST
VALUATION UNDER ESTIMATE.
Auth Dakota Figures Only ss.oe2,z12

63uth Dakota Figures Only $6,o92,712
s ss Higher Than Year Ago.
The final figures as prepared in the
office of the state auditor give the state
aAtotal assessable value of $219,647,
674, which is not quite up to the esti-
mate of what would be shown. This
is can increase of $6,O92,7 12 over the
valuations of last year.
The assessment value placed on all
classes of corporate property by the
state board is $15,664 ,479, of which rail-
roads pay on valuation of $14, 725, 659;
j telegraphs, $236,115; telephones, $685.
200; express companies, $1S5,O05, and
sleeping car companies, $22,50O. The
total real estate value as left by the
State board was s12o,967, 440; mineral
lands, s4,791, 379; town lots, $24,474,-
III So; and the total personal property
4valuation on all classes of personal
#property, $47,750,21S.
ID Among counties Minnehaha easily
leads with a valuation of $11,794,012,
= with Lawrence next at $10,134,9lo.
II Brown comes near the ten-million
q mark with $3.50 1856, but no other
n county comes near that figure. Buffa-
81 10 county is the smallest in valuation,
Il with but $433.S77.
a The following is the valuation by
s&
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1905-09-15
CONTRACT FOR NEW BUILDING.
Committee of Livestock Association
Holds Meeting at Mitchell.

Messrs. P F. Wickhem of Alexan-
dria, J. w. Wilson of Bookings, l.. A.
Larson of Vermillion and c. F. Ray
mond of Mitchell, who comprise the
building committee of the South Da-
kota Improved Live Stock association,
held meeting in Mitchell and opened
the bids for the construction of the
building of the association. There
We're seven bidders as follows: Cross
& Slater, s4,OS3; Curtis & Wagner,
s4,324; G. F. Leary, s4,365; G. H. East,
$4.S70; A. j. Kings, $4,525; 1. H.
Wright, s4,615; j. NJ. O'Conner Of
Alexandria, $4,375. All the firms but
the latter live in Mitchell.
The contract was awarded to Cross
& Slater, who were the lowest bidders,
and the members of the committee feel
we'll satisfied that they were able to
get contract for less than the appro-
priation of $4,000. This will leave a
goodly sum to fix up the odds and ends
around the building.
Messrs. Cross & Slater expect to be-
gin work on the structure right away,
and will have it completed by Dec. 1,
which the contract calls for.
When this building is completed it
will be the only one of it's kind in the
United States. Other Western states
have tried to secure an appropriation
for a building like it, but they have
been turned down by the legislatures,
and it remained for South Dakota to
set the pace for the recognition of the
stock interests. Other Western states
will cite South Dakota hereafter as a
progressive state, having the interests
of the stockmen at heart sufficiently
to provided home for them.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1905-09-15
New Town Bursts Forth.

A new town Is struggling for place
among the more progressive and small
err towns of the state. 1t is the town
of Carpenter, situated in Kingsbury
county. The new townsite was plated
only recently and number Of new
business enterprises will be secured
by the town at once. Among them
will be bank. hotel. lumber yard and
general store. as well as other smaller
establishments. Carpenter is sur
rounded by rich agricultural coun-
try and is practically certain of be-
coming an important business point.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1905-09-15
Boy scaIded to Death.

Eveleth, Mimi, Sept. 10. = Dominic
Beluscci, seven-year-old boy living at
the home of James Maria, died Tues
day noon of scalds which he received
Sunday noon. During the absence of
Mr.. and Mrs. Maria he lodged under
pan OF hot water, which twelve
year-old girl was carrying, and upset
it on his head, neck and shoulders.
His mother died last winter, and since
that time he and brother have been
living with the Maria family.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1905-09-15

While Mrs. George Dixon at Can
ming was picking beans she took hold
OF a rattlesnake. which she let go of
SO quickly that it did not bite her.
Despite unusually favorable weather
conditions at the opening of the hunt
ing season the majority of the hunters
who have started out from Aberdeen
have returned disappointed, few secur-
Ing prairie chickens approaching the
fifteen day allowed by the South Da-
kota game law. The scarcity of the
game birds is accounted for by the
rainy weather that prevailed during
the Matching season.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1905-09-15
Rush Cattle pippino,

The cattle shipping which has been
delayed at Pierre this season on &C.
count of the dipping regulations is
now on in earnest. Last week three
special trains were started for Chica-
go, and in the last three days more
than one hundsed cars of cattle and
about twenty cars of horses and sheep
have been started east from this city.
The railroad extension west from
Chamberlain hardly will get out far
enough to affect shipping from Pierre
to any extent, unless for late ship.
ments.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1905-09-15
RUNAWAY ENGINE KILLS.
Heavy Machine Gets Beyond Control
and Runs Over Man.

anu nuHS OveF Mdn.
Winona, Mimi, Sept 10. - Crushed
to death beneath the wheels of a
traction engine Jas the horrible death
of Ludwig Larson, farmer residing
near Pigeon Falls, Wis, this week, &C
cording to report which reached
here yesterday. The engine was
about to be attached to the thresher
and moved to another setting. 1t had
to be backed down slight enevation
to make the connection. Mr.. Lawson
was holding the tongue of the thresh-
er and was about to attach it to the
engine, when control of the engine
was lost. The heavy machine backed
down upon him before he could get
out of the way, throwing him to the
ground. One of the wheels passed
over his body, crushing his hips and
abdomen.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1905-09-15

Fourteen-year-old Clarence Lums-
den of Deadwood has the making of a
irst-class detective. He was robbed
of his watch while attending the circus
the other day. Instead of bewailing his
luck he recalled every incident of the
day and finally decided that certain
man with whom he had been in CONVEX
sation was the guilty person. He had
seen the man but once. However, he
went directly to the grounds, identified
him and demanded his watch. which
was returned.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1905-09-15
GET TAXES BY ROUNDUP.
Big Outfits That Use Stanley Range
Have to Paw

In Stanley county the authorities go
after the taxes in ways Of their own
and generally succeed. Big cattle out
lets which range in the western part
of the state use part of Stanley
county as grazing ground. A short
time ago Deputy Sheriff Moore of Stan
ley county rounded up number of
these cattle, drove them to Midland.
where they were advertised for sale
for taxes. The stock owners came to
Midland accompanied by the sheriff
of Pennington county, and announced
their intention of taking possession of
the cattle, but the bluff was called by
the Stanley county deputy, and he
soon started to Fort Pierre with about
$4,000 in taxes to turn into the county
treasury.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1905-09-15
IGNORE ANONYMOUS CHARGES

Scandal Rumor Circulated in La
Crosse Will Not Be Investigated.
La Crosse, Wis, Sept. 1O-secretary
Luclus G. Colman of the board of DO.
lice and fire commissioners announces
that the charges against Chief of Pc.
lice II. H. Byrne, conveyed in an
anonymous letter which was circu-
lated throughout the city, will not be
recognized nor investigated by the
commission. Several arrests were
made by the police department in con-
nection with the letter but the real
author of the attack is still unknown.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1905-09-15
AUTHORS SONS GO WRONG.
Thomas and Fred Pugh Of Lehigh
Sentenced for Burglary.

Fort Dodge, Iowa, Sept. IL. - At a
hearing before Judge Evans Of the
district court Thomas Pugh of Lehigh
was sentenced to one year at hard
labor for burglary. and Fred Pugh, a
younger brother, who was implicated
in the act, was given six months in
the county Jail. The Pughs burglarized
the general store of the Lehigh Min
Ing company at Lehigh on June 10,
escaping from posse of citizens with
considerable amount Of cash and
goods. They were captured a few
days later in this city. Their father is
a we'll known teacher and text book
writer.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1905-09-15
MURDERER WANTS PARDON.
Application Will Be Made for Edward
Wilson in South Dakota.

Pierre, S. D., Sept. 12.-At a meet.
ing of the state board of pardons on
Oct. application will be made for a
pardon for Edward Wilson, who is
serving a life sentence on the charge
of numbering Otto Solquist in Moody
county in 1894 for the purpose of rob-
berry. Solquist was beaten to death
with a monkey wrench and his body
hidden. Neither the murderer nor his
victim was a resident of that county
The murder was planned for a few
dollars. 1t is argued that Wilson is
dying of consumption.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1905-09-15
SHUT OUT MINNESOTA.

Wisconsin Warehouse Commission is
Expected to Take Action This Week.
Superior, Wis, Sept. IL. - Develop
ments are expected in the Wisconsin
grain inspection fight this week. Com.
missioners Shanahan of New York
and Swanston of North Dakota will be
here to-day or tomorrow and the com
mission will then get down to it's line
of work. Although the law allows the
commission to invite Minnesota in.
spectors to allow competitive inspec-
ton of grain, it is not expected that
the commission will take any such
action at ALL
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1905-09-15
MILLERs MEET AT HURON.
Industry Looks Forward to One of 1t.
Best Years.

Millers from various parts of the
state and some from Minnesota, met
in Huron last week to discuss mat
tiers bearing upon the milling interests
of this part of the Northwest. George
Sexauer of Brooliings presided. Much
valuable information to those directly
concerned was cleaned from brief ad-
dresses and the relating of expert
ences. The last year was one of I'M
cause of the scarcity of good quality
of milling wheat, but the present year
gives promise of being one of excep-
tional success and profit to those in
the grain and milling industry.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1905-09-15
In the summer of 1904 an artesian

In the summer of 1904 an artesian
well was sunk on the ranch of the Iowa
Livestock and Investment company,
eight miles southwest of Bangor, in
Walworth county. At the time it was
noticed that the water was strongly
impregnated with gas, but no attempt
was made to utilize it until recently.
Last week the manager of the ranch
piped the gas into his house and it
furnishes enough light and heat to run
the building.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1905-09-15

A leak in the artesian we'll at the
mill at Ashton is causing the residents
OF that town some uneasiness. The
leak was first discovered through a
spring which gushed forth at a dis.
lance of 400 feet from the we'll. The
water in the we'll is heavily permeated
with natural gas, and it is supposed
the leak is due to this cause. AS the
we'll has great pressure, some I'M
easiness is felt lest the leak become
more extensive and cause serious dam
age
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1905-09-15
10 PAYS THE FIDDLER
Dances Instead of Prays, So Does Time
in Guard-House.

IN 0udFQ.7OuSG.
Some time ago an Indian writing
from the Cheyenne river country, bit
terly criticised the Indian agent at
Cheyenne river agency for allowing
the Indians to attend celebrations off
the reservation on the Fourth of July,
where they indulge in dances and Sc
cure liquor. The agency officials as
sert that number of Indians who Sc
cured passes to attend religious
gathering attended dances; that the
leaders in this trouble even yet are
doing time in the guard-house for their
misdoings, and that squad of the In
dian police was sent along with the
party which is now attending the CON
vocation at Lake Andes, to see that
nothing of the same character occur
red on the present trip.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1905-09-15
sEoUoYAH CHARTER READY
Constitutional Convention of PROPOSED
State Adtourns.

Muskogee, Ind. T., Sept. 10. - The
constitutional convention of the pro.
posed State of Sequoyah completed
its work at noon yesterday and ad-
journed. The constitution as a whole
was adopted by unanimous vote,
after several amendments, more or
less important, were made. The con.
yention adopted an appeal to congress
asking that the tribal schools which
cease to exist after March 4, 1906, be
cared for by the national government
until the state government shall have
been established.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1905-09-15
OLD MAN LOST IN THE WOODS.
Workman, Said to Be insane. Disap
pears From Lumber Camp.

Ingram, Wis, Sept. 10. - Starving
and possibly insane, Abe Hangar, an
aged employe of the Ingram Lumber
company, is wandering in the woods
in the vicinity of the companys log
ging camp. He is said to have shown
signs of insanity, and it is feared that
he may have persisted in the woods.
A large posse is securing the sur
rounding district in the hope of find
ing him either dead or alive.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1905-09-15
PUSH CORN CUTTING.
Fields In Western suIIy County Are
Matured.

Fields In Western suIIy County Are
Matured.
Pierre, S. d., Sept 12-W. H. Har-
rls is In from western Sully county
and reports that number of the farm
ers there are putting their machines
to work in their corn fields, and are
pushing the work as rapidly as possi-
BILE, the crop being fully matured.
The corn yield is estimated at forty
bushels an acre. Threshers are at
work on the small grain, which shows
a machine yield of from Is to 20 BUSH
els an acre for wheat. and an, average
of about 60 bushels of oats. The hay
crop was exceptionally fine and a
large amount of forage has been Sc.
cured.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1905-09-15
VILLAGE is TERRoRlzEp.
Threshing Crews carousal Compel,
Building Of Jail.

Sioux Falls, S. d., Sept. 12. - I'm.
PEELED by the conduct of farm hands
and members of threshing crews who
are working in the vicinity of the
town, and who by carousals for two
days have terrorized the people of the
little town of Cavour, Beadle county.
the authorities. of that place have ar
ranged to build a Jail. Ordinances
providing heavy penalties for disturb
ing the peace of the town have been
enacted and marshal has been ap-
pointed, with strict orders to enforce
the ordinances to the letter.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1905-09-15
ST. PAUL DAY A HUMMER.
Attendance Is $1,000, Making 1t Sec.
ond LARGEST Day Of the Fair.

Attendance Is $1,000, Making 1t Sec.
ond Largest Day Of the Fair.
st. Paul, Sept. 1O.-There were at
least $4,000 people on the fair grounds
yesterday, st. Paul day at the fair.
This is the estimated attendance, and
President Cosgrove says that when
the official figures are prepared they
will bear out the estimate. 1t was the
second largest day of the fair this
year, so far as attendance is con-
cerned, and right up with the record
of any day of prior fairs.
With an attendance of $4,000 vest
terday, the total attendance at the
fair for the first five days of the week
has been 250,613. This is far in ex.
cess of the record of any prior year
for the first five days, and considera.
bly, in excess of the best weeks rec.
ord.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1905-09-15
New scaIer Named.

Washington. Sept. 10. - Senator
Clapp yesterday filed a petition for
the appointment Of julius H. Brown of
White Earth as scaler of logs under
the provisions of the Morris act. The
petition is signed by the Indians.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1905-09-15
Tip Over Grave Store.

Dodge Center, Mimi, Sept. 10. -
Some person or persons entered the
cemetery on Claremont street last
night and tipped over twenty-three
gravestones and monuments, many
being badly damaged.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1905-09-15
KILLED WHILE THREsHiNG.

Blower Pipe Falls on Farmer and
Crushes Skull.
Hutchinson, Mimi, Sept. 12.-C. H.
Ohland, while engaged in threshing
near this city, passed under the blow
er of the machine, when the props
gave way and the great pipe, weigh
ing several hundred pounds, fell d.
rectly on Mr.. Ohland's head, crushing
his skull and resulting in death in a
short time.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1905-09-15
WHEELS CRUSH RIBS.
Horses Throw Woman to Ground and
WAGON Passes Over Her Body

Hutchinson, Mimi, Sept 12.-Mrs.
William Ostrum was accidentally
killed a short distance west of this
city. Her son had just finished put
ting on load of straw, and asked his
mother to hold the horses while he
climbed the rack. She stepped before
the team, which became frightened
and threw her to the ground, the
wagon passing over her body, crush
ing her ribs and killing her instantly.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1905-11-30
GchoOl Rsport Of Di1triCt 8s.

For the month ending Oct. 70
Total enrolment %, males IS, f.
males Z. Those neither absent mol
tsrdy number IS and are as follows
Harry and Thomas Somnsr, Mary
and Irwin Daetwiler, Lillian, Violar
Anna and Maggie Friedl, Alvin, Her
bert and Harry Wuthnow, George
Piper, Clarence Schmidt. Peter and
Lawrence Welsh.
Report for month ending Nov. "a
Total enrolment 20, males 81, fs'
males Z. Those neither absent NOT
tardy are Alvin, Mary and Irwin Daet'
wiler, Harry and Thomas SOmmer'
Harry Wuthnow, Clarence and Harvey
Schmidt, Irma Hoffman, George
Piper, Anna and Maggie Friedli. Wis
itors welcomed. Mabel E. Pray
teacher.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1905-11-30
Thanksgiving.

When review 10 made Of the many
things for which we have to be thank-
iul, we wish to express our gratitude
to kind Providence and also the peo-
pie Of this vicinity for the liberal
patronage we have enjoyed.
We wish slso to remind our people
that we have everything necessary to
make our patrons thankful and CON
tented in the future as in the past. II
will always be our earnest endeavor
to give you the biggest value for your
dollar and make 1t pay you to trade
at The Racket. tao DUCKwALL BROS,