The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1905-12-01
In Faulk county, at the recent sale
Of public school lands, the minimum
price paid was over SIS per acre.

called special meeting to clear up
accumulated business that has been
filed for action by the board.
The Herreid Milling company has
commenced the erection of an elevator
at that town, near their milling prop.
erty. The elevator will have capac-
ity Of 10000 bushels.
William Lockwood of Potter, in Pot
ter county, was blown from barn on
which he was working and fell dis
lance of thirtythree feet, sustaining
serious internal injuries.
Rev. Mr.. Saluro of Sioux City will
arrive at Lead Dec. to take charge of
the Italian portion of the Catholic con-
gregation at Lead. This part of the
Catholic denomination is strong.
I. B. Kerner of Avon Springs, in
Potter county, has demonstrated that
market gardening pays in that sec
ton. He raised ten tons of cabbage
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toes.
Work on the foundation of the new
state house at Pierre is practically
finished, and with ten days more of
favorable weather it will be in shape
for beginning the walls with the open
! ing of spring.
/ Walter Bloom, young man of Bea-
die county, committed suicide by
shooting himself. He placed the muz-
zle of a shotgun against his breast and
pulled the trigger with his foot by
means of string.
The state land department has sold
to the Milwaukee road an equity in a
lot in Rapid City for right of way pur-
poses. The lot is a part of the prop
erty which was turned over to the
state by W. w. Taylor.
The enrolment at the Huron city
schools now exceeds 700, the largest
in their history. The attendance at
Huron college is also greater than
ever before, and as soon as farm work
/ slackens the number of students will
| increase.
Rev. W. E. King, pastor of the First
Baptist church in Deadwood, has Or
ganized a club for boys under the age
of fifteen years, which is intended to
keep them from the streets. The
lumber in two old buildings to be used
for putting up quarters for the club.
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| The Great Northern railway has
made it's first bid for passenger traffic
between Huron and Minneapolis and
st. Paul, by announcing that a sleeper
will hereafter be run from Huron to
the Twin Cities, leaving here every
night at o'clock and arriving in Min
neapolis and ST. Paul the following
morning at o'clock.
"A destructive prairie fire in Potter
county wrought destruction to grain
and farm buildings over a large area.
Among the sufferers are A. w. Bar
rett, who lost his hay, 500 bushels OF
wheat and $50 bushels of oats; George
Medbury, who lost a new cattle barn,
a horse barn and all his hay; Charles
Eggert, 100 tons Of hay.
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government building at Pierre and it
will in a few days be enclosed to allow
the work on the interior finishings to
proceed, regardless of cold weather.
The contract calls for completed
building by the first Of next October,
and the indications are that it will not
be completed before the contract date.
The business men Of Deadwood are
determined to secure the Nebraska
foundry, which is about to be moved
to some place in the Hills. A site will
i be furnished free and some bonus mon
ey given, and it is believed that it will
be located either in Deadwood or be-
tween that place and Lead. 1t will
employ 200 men and will cost s150,000.
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The jury for the trial Of Sieste Bulk
hout, charged with killing George Con-
STAINS by stabbing him in the brain
with a pitchfork, has been secured at
Milbank. The case will be hard fought
Judge Thomas l.. Bouck will appear
for Bukhout and States Attorney l..
H. Bentley and Thad l.. Fuller for the
state. The defense has set up plea
of self-defense. There are many wit
nesses.
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Corn gathering is the order around
Huron. The crop is the largest and
best ever grown in that locality and
far exceeds in quality the product of
what is known as "corn-producing dis.
tricts." Farmers from Iowa, Kansas
and Illinois are astonished at this
states crop. There is disposition on
the part of farmers generally to feed
cattle and hogs rather than ship theil
surplus corn to Eastern markets
There is scarcity of help in gather