The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1905-07-07
SNAP SHOTS

the name o! Pickles who advertises
ice cream. This is nice comblna-
ton surely.
ONE of the Sisseton boys who
recently returned from Ortonville has
discovered that mosquitoes and fish
bite about the same time OF the year.
If some OF the SO called reformers
got their dues number of our prin-
cipal repositories for criminals
would suddenly become over-popu-
lated.
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A WASHINGTON man who origin.
ally hailed from Kentucky makes
the statement that more life can
come from one mint jnlep than from a
thousand times its cost In either
radiu or bacterial bouillon.
The Herald Advance OF Milbank,
gets busy this week and builds an
electric line of railroad from Browns
Valley south to Wllmot, then to Mil
bank, Albee, Reyille aud to Water
town. Why leave out Slsseton?
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The Capital-Journal says:-"rhe
question of building a moter line
from Aberdeen to Presho is being
agitated."
We would suggest that someone
take up the matter OF building line
from Sisseton to Browns Valley also
north to Hankison,
John Hay, secretary of state, died
suddenly at his home iu New Hamp-
shire last Saturday. While he had
been Ill for some time his death was
not looked for. The body was inter-
red at Cleveland. O., with fitting cere-
monies. Telegrapbic dispatches to-
day state that President Roosevelt
has offered the position of secretary
of state to Elihu Root and Mr.. Root
has accepted.
BROOKlNGs has demons trated the
feasibility of municipal ownership of
public utilities. The city owns the
water works. electric lights, tele-
phone exchange and steam heating
plant. The citizens get services from
any or all of these at q great deal less
than in cities where these utilities
are owned by private corporations
and the funny part Of it Is that they
are paying good profit to the city.
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IT is gratifying to the News that
the Redfleld Press and the Howard
Spirit accept without question it's
statement that the International
Harvester Company did not bribe the
South Dakota legislature. The News
would also again remind those ex.
amples Of purity IN politics and jour
nalism that 1t has never taken money
from both sides either IN a political
or state capital campalgn.-Aber-
deem News.
The tolls on long distant tele-
phone lines in this section are SC
high that the company can easily
float half million bonds. There
was q time when the business was
au infant industry. 1t Is now q
hoggish enterprise. About tho only
thing the public can get out Of them
is . fair proposition Of taxes. 1t is
up to the state board to raise the
valuation of the company on pal
with the other common carriers.
Pierre Capital Journal,
Right you are. Brother Nipple and
We heartily concur in the resolution.
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James Ross, the ectogenarlar
post trader at Sisseton Indian
agency, has had q warrant sworn Out
B for the arreat Of Indisn Agent Jack.
son on the ground Of insanity. 1t ii
the outgrowth Of trouble that is but
repetition Of what has occurred
between Ross and every agent since
the beginning Of time. Hankinso1
NeWs.
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with this issue the STANDARD pass
e anuther mile stone and enter,
volume Is. Our business has beer
gratifying and We contemplate many
improvements in the paper in thu