The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1905-11-17
South Dakota
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Yankton. and will open department.
store so soon as the building can be
remodeled to suit
Manager Bentley has completed ar
engagements for the appearance of the
world-famed actress, Madame Nodes
ka, at his Milbank opera house ON Dec
IL. She will appear in "Mary Stuart"
The Ideal Acetylene Gas company
has started up for business at Yankton
under its city charter and pumped gas
into its city mains, lighting number
Of stores with this new means of illu-
mination.
Safes in the saloons OF Matthias o.
son and Martin Olson at Violin were
cracked recently. The robbers Sc
cured $3.50 and left no clue to their
identity. They cut all wires and iso-
lated the town.
In runaway accident Mrs. J. II. Nc
Nabb, we'll known in all parts of the
Black Hills, was instantly killed at
Lead. and her husband was probably
fatally injured. Their team became
frightened and threw both occupants
to the ground.
BY the explosion of an acetylene gas
plant in the home of James Garland at
Armour, his wife was killed, the house
wrecked and burned to the ground,
and his two children severely burned.
A man working on the gas plant was
also fatally injured and liveS but a
short time.
The Yankton Building and Loan as
ISOLATION, after twenty years of bust
ness, will apply to the state this month
for renewal of its twenty-year char
ter. During it's years of business the
association has built over two hundred
and fifty homes for Yanllton residents
and is in a most f1ourishing condition.
Bill Egan of Meckling got into an
argument with Wesley Piersol, and
during the quarrel took couple of
shots at the latter with a revolver.
Neither shot took effect, but the bull
lets whizzed dangerously near Pier
soils head. ,Egan is now in Jail at Yer
million to await trial on a charge of
assault with intent to kill.
Owing to the recent change in the
law governing the limit of indebted
ness of towns, Clear Lake will con-
struct a sewage system. The effort
has been made on several different, oc-
casions, but owing to the law which
prevented towns of this class assess
ing the cost of sewer construction to
AUDITING property, the Improvement
was stopped.
Gov. Elrod has been hearing from
Edward Dahlheimer in regard to his
diamond mine" in the Bad Lands. He
is again DESTROYS of giving the state
an opportunity to work his mine, and
only asks that enough money be ap-
propriated to develop the great find,
the state revenue, as he does not care
for wealth himself His effusion is
dated from Chicago this time.
Maj. G. Boyd Barrett of Aberdeen,
the South Dakota member of the Dem
ocratic congressional committee, is in
receipt of letter from e. S. Johnson
of Armour chairman of the Democrat
ic state central committee, in which
the latter denies reports sent out from
Armour that he intends to leave the
state. The letter states that he will
sell his Armour interests, but will To-
cate at some other point in South Da-
kota.
been locked up in the county Jail at
Vermillion, charged with stealing
team of horses from Mike McCarty.
Ritter worked a half day for McCarty
husking corn. He quit on Thursday
night and that night the team disap-
peared. The team was concealed in a
grove that night and the next day, but
towards evening broke loose and start
ed home. Evidence points strongly to
Ritter.
Buyers are at Huron, gathering in
Beadle county's potato crop, which is
larger than usual and of excellent
quality. A small part of the crop was
injured by frost, but the bulk Of it has
been harvested and Is in fine condi-
ton. Many carloads will be sent East
the next few days and it will be but
short time till the surplus crop will be
disposed Of. Prices are better than
for several years, with indications of a
still further increase.
Business in Deadwood has been in
creasing the past few weeks, owing to
the large amount of building that has
been started. Ground has now been
broken for the big slime mill on Nc
Govern hill, to be erected by the Home
stake company. This will be the larg-
est mill of it's kind in the world. 1t
will require between 200 and go men
for its construction. Work is also to
begin Immediately on 100-starnp mill
within the city limits to be constructed
by the Homestake Extension company.
! Another plant, known as the Ogden
mill, in the First ward of the city, will
be in commission with 100 tons capac-
ity in a few days. This will give Dead
wood seven mills within it's own linn.
| its.
| The Pierre city council at its last
meeting took an important step in the
work Of city improvement in the ap-