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The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1906-04-06
Aluer's Heart Weak.

Atlantic City, N. j., April 3.-United
States Senator Russell A. Alger of
Michigan, who is i'll here is slightly i'm
proved. He is ailing from weak
heart. His condition for brief period
is said TO have been serious
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1906-04-06
SIGNED "ABRAHAM LINcoLN."

Land Patent of 1864 Is Filled at st.
James.
ST James, Mimi, April 3. - Yester-
day there was filed with the register
of deeds an ancient document contain
ing the signature of Abraham Lincoln.
The instrument is United States
land patent issued to Edward Nicker-
son of Fieldon township, Watonwan
county, and dated Oct. ], 1864. For
many years the document has been
lost and only recently the family, in
looking through an old trunk, found it.
1t was filed to perfect title to the land
granted by it.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1906-04-06
Three in Family Die in Week.

Ashby, Mimi, April 1. = Returning
from Wisconsin, where she had at
tended the funeral of her father, Mrs.
George Huggett, ST., was taken i'll, and
died d few days later While in Wis
consin her brother died, making three
deaths in the family within week
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1906-04-06
RAILWAYS FILE PLATs.
Minnesota, Dakota G. Pacific Line Is
Outlined.

The Minnesota, Dakota & Pacific
railway filed in the state land depart
ment its plats of state school lands to
be crossed in Mcpherson county. The
tracts are in the northeast quarter of
section &c. township 1875, range &c; the
northwest quarter of section So, town
ship 1875, range sc; the southeast quar-
ter of section 16, township 1875, range
So; the southwest quarter OF section
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1906-04-06

Elmer Algren. seven years old. while
crossing the Milwaukee tracks at
Milbank. was caught by an engine
and dragged 200 feet. One leg was
cut Oh and he sustained other iniu.
ries.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1906-04-06
CAUSES A $4,000 LOSS.
Pardeevile (Wis.) Nearly Wiped Out
by Fire.

by FTTe.
Pardeeville, Wis, April 3-Pardee-
vile was nearly wiped out by fire at
an early hour Saturday when two
business blocks, in opposite sections
of the city caught fire and spread
over the entire city, causing a loss es-
timated at $4,000 Ten business
houses were destroyed. The fire de-
partment was unable to play upon the
blaze for half an hour because of de-
festive water works and aid was called
from several of the surrounding cities,
but the fire was under control when
they arrived.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1906-04-06

"What do you think of those new
patent couplers?"
Haven't paid any attention to them.
The old way of coupling with the aid
of minister and prayer book is
good enough for me"
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1906-04-06
ARRESTED; KILLS SELF.

Farmer Charged With Shooting at
Tenant, Commits Suicide.
Yankton. S. d.. April 3.-Brooding
over his arrest for shooting at Albert
Olofson, his tenant, in a quarrel over
cattle, c. A. West of Violin committed
suicide by hanging He was a promi-
nent pioneer farmer and was seventy
years old.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1906-04-06
Fire at Written.

Marshalltown, Iowa, April 1. = Fire
at Written destroyed three business
houses last night, including Blair's
general stock. Loss. $4,000: insurance
! $4,000.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1906-04-06
UNCLE SANS CANAL FILLED.

milwaukee, Railroad and Portage, Wis,
Are Indicted.
Portage, Wis, April /. - Portage
city has been indicted, in connection
with the Chicago, Milwaukee & St.
Paul railroad. by the United States
grand jury. The charge is the filling
of the government canal with sand at
the Ketchum Point bridge through the
sewers. The city was served by Uni
ted States Marshal Lewiston.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1906-04-06

Trust Baking Powders
sell for As or so cents per
pound and may be iden-
titled by this exorbitant
price. They are a menace
to public health, Us food
prepared from them con-
tains large quantities OF
Rochelle salts, a danger.
Gus cathartic drug.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1906-04-06
AGED MAN TAKES MORPHINE.
Dependency Over Financial Affairs is
the Cause

Hayfeld, Mimi, April /. Nat
Patterson committed suicide by TAX
ing morphine at the farm of Jens J.
Peterson early yesterday morning. He
was eighty-four years old and was de-
spondent over adverse financial condi-
lions. He had no known relatives.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1906-04-06
COUNTESS AFTER DIVORCE?
Wife Of Count Bosdari of Italy Is
Yankton.

Yankton, S. d., April /. - Countess
Bosdari, accompanied by her sister, ar
rived here yesterday direct from Italy
and at once engaged the best apart
ments in local hotel where the wo-
man of Italian rank will reside, it is
reported, while seeking a divorce
from her husband
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1906-02-27
RELICS OF EXTINCT BIRDS.
Eggs of Species No Longer Extant
Treasured by the Great
Museums.

Funk island, off the coast of New
toundland, used to afford shelter every
year at breeding time to countless num-
pers OF natatory birds, among them be-
ing the white BOBBY (sula bassana)
These birds have met with the same
Iate as the great aux. They are extinct.
NOW their eggs are great rarities and
would fetch large sums, but there are
none IN the market. Some specimens are
on view at the Smithsonian institution
and at the American Museum of Natural
History in New York; they range i'll
value from $500 to $3.50 apiece.
Large sums are also paid for the eggs
of the aepyornis or moa, a gigantic wing
less bird OF from IL to Ia feet in height,
which as long ago as 200 years was al
ready dying out in Madagascar. In APP
pearance the bird much resembled the
ostrich, and its egg was one foot in
length. The first specimen was brought
to Europe (Paris) by a French merchant
in 1851, and caused quite a sensation
from the amount of interest it attracted
Eggs of the aptornis, a recently eX-
tinct wingless bird, also bring very high
prices, fine colored specimens fetching
as much as $3.50 to $1,000 apiece. The
apteryx or New Zealand kiwi is bird
which, though still living, is becoming
scarcer from day to day, and its final
extinction is only question of years.
These kiwi breed very slowly. only one
or two very large eggs being laid DIR
ing the season, and as yet there is no
record of the successful rearing of young
in captivity.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1906-02-27
STRIKE At DRINK EVIL.
Ohio House Passes Local Option Meas
misunderstanding Bill Fa-
vorably Reported.

Columbus, o., Feb. 24.-The house by
vote of 81 to 16 passed the Jones bill,
backed by the Ohio Anti-Saloon league,
which provides for municipal local op-
ton by petition instead Of by cleo
ton, places the initiative exclusively
In the hands Of temperance people,
and 1t is claimed by the Anti-Saloon
league that it will enable the people
to drive saloons from all the residence
districts of cities. Only the main OF
central business section of city is
exempted from local option.
The house committee on temperance
favorably reported the Spangler anti
treating bill The measure makes it
unlawful for any person to buy drink
for another in saloon or in any place
where liquor is sold. 1t also prohibits
bartenders giving away drinks. The
penalty provided Is fine of one dol
lar to five dollars for the first oftense.
IS to $50 for the second offense and
IS to 500 for the third offense.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1906-02-27
CAR STRUCK BY A TRAIN
Accident Occurs at Street Crossing in
Milwaukee, and Fourteen Per-
sons Are Injured.

Milwaukee, Feb. 26.-The papssenger
train on the Chicago, Milwaukee & st.
Paul road from Chicago crashed into
a South Milwaukee street car at the
Kinnickinnic avenue crossing, near
the Thomas furnace plant, injuring IA
persons and overturning and wrecking
the car and delaying railroad traffic
for more than an hour
William Royals. the 1lagman at the
crossing, says that the signal to lower
the gate was given him too late by
the operator at the Beecher street
crossing on the road, and to the fact
that the smoke and steam from the
furnace had obscured the train, the
accident was due. The crossing is one
of the most dangerous in the city, and
Bay'View people have fought for years
to have the tracks elevated to prevent
accident.
Pittsburg, Pa, Feb. 26.-Three street
car motormen and a colored man were
seriously, and probably fatally, in
jured, and many passengers were bad
ly bruised as the result of two street
cars on the Pittsburg, McKeesport and
Connellsville division of the Pittsburg
railway company meeting IN collision
while going at full speed on a steep
grade at Boston, Pa, few miles
above this city. The accident is said
to be due to defective switch. Both
cars were demolished.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1906-02-27
BLOCKADED.
Every Household in Crest
Should Know How to Resist II

The back aches because the kidneyI
are blockaded.
Help the kidneys with their work.
The back will ache no more.
Lots of proof that Doan's KidneI
Pills do this.
It's the best proof, for it comes frols
Cresco.
A P. Mosher, Of Market ST., says|
"For number of years had attack
OF kidney complaint sometimes so sel
we're that it was decidedly painful Il
stoop or to lift anything. So thsi
there might not be any mistake aboll
the cause difficulty with the actioI
and condition of the kidney secretiorS
plainly proved that in some way thosa
organs were deranged. l was oftel
misery. When l learned about Doana
ksdney Pills, commenced the treat
ment, 1t helped from the fret. Whns
the action of the kidney secretiors
was righted the backache ceased,
l was not certain that the stomaca
trouble arose from disturbed action 81
my kidneys until its disappearance
after the treatment wi b Doan's Kid
ney Pills positively proved it.
For sale by all dealers. Price Soc
Foster-MiIburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y.
sole agents for the U. S.
Remember the name Doan's and
take no substitute
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1906-02-27
TRADE CONDITIONS GOOD
ENCOURAGING REPORTS FROM
ALL LINES.
Larger Volume Of Business Induced
by Springlike Weather-Planting
Begins in the South.

New York, Feb. 26.-Broadstreet's
says: SpringliKe weather stimulates
jobbing distribution, inducing larger
volume of house trade and also help
ing retail business in spring and sum-
mer fabrics. Crop preparations are 60
ing forward actively, and at the south
some actual planting has been done
Shipments on orders are heavier than
ever before, and no complaints of
freight congestion are heard. At prac-
tically all points an early and long
spring season is predicted. At the
same time there is an air of conser-
vattsm as to the more distant future,
due mainly to the larger stocks of
winter goods carried over, and also be-
cause of the recent heavy drop in raw
cotton making buyers for next season
cautious in placing orders. Like condi-
tons are noted in the leading indus
tries. Iron and steel production, while
OF unprecedented volume, is largely
for the first half of the years REQUIRE
ments, far future orders being of light
or volume. just how much of this ia
due to uncertainties, as the coal strike
situation, is not clear, but that this is
factor is unquestionable"
r. g. Dun & Co.'s Weekly Re-
view of Trade says: Holidays and
erratic weather were calculated to in
terrupt progress in commercial chan
nels, but business has become estab-
lished on too sound a basis to reflect
adverse influences of such a temporary
character. Sections that experienced
especially high temperature report the
early opening of spring lines with most
satisfactory results; excessive mois-
ture elsewhere proved beneficial for
manufacturing purposes, while at 9TH
er points seasonable merchandise was
distributed freely. Jobbers of dry
goods, clothing and notions are ship
ping large quantities of spring goods.
accumulations of heavy weight wear
ing apparel having no depressing eff
feet on the new seasons business.
Prices are firmly held as rule except
in the markets for farm staples, which
are still higher than normal despite
general reaction. Manufacturing plants
report new orders that assure activity
still further into the future, and sew
eral dividend announcements show
gains over recent preceding years.
while some New England cotton mills
are only deferred from full activity by
scarcity of labor.
Failures this week were 21s in the
United States against 252 last year and
10 in Canada as compared with 20 a
year ago."
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1906-02-27
DAY GENERALLY OBSERVED
NATION PAYS TRIBUTE TO FA-
THEIR OF OUR COUNTRY.
Anniversary of Washington's Birth
Commemorated with Appro-
pirate Exercises.

Washington, Feb. 23.-Washington 8
birthday was generally observed at
the national capital. Reports from
several cities show that the day was
also generally observed in an appro.
pirate manner. Celebrations were held
by various local patriotic societies
here in commemoration of the ami.
versary. All federal Offices and munic.
ipal offices as well as most of the bust
ness houses were closed. President
Roosevelt celebrated Washington's
birthday, in part, by taking long
horseback ride with Secretary Root
and Senator Lodge, of Massachusetts.
The day was ideal and the president
and his companions left the White
House early in the afternoon, the pres
ident announcing before his departure
that he would transact no further
business during the day. Compare
lively few people called at the exeeu-
tive offices before the president left.
He talked briefly to Senators DolliveF.
of Iowa, and Crane, of Massachusetts,
about the railroad rate situation and
later saw Senator Beveridge, of In
diana, on minor matter.
Chicago, Feb. 23.-Chicago's clubs
and organizations of various types
Thursday celebrated the one hundred
and seventy-fourth birthday of George
Washington. Patriotic programmes,
with songs and speeches, dances in
which patriotic costumes and music
figured and religious meetings were
among the different manifestations of
remembrance planned. Banks, most Of
the courts, the board of trade, the
stock exchange, schools and number
of offices were closed in honor of the
day.
Philadelphia, Feb. 23.-Washington's
birthday was observed by the Univer-
sity Of Pennsylvania with the custom
airy university day exercises at the
Academy Of Music, the comforting Of
honorary degrees upon public men
being part Of the celebration. DR..
Henry Van Dyke, professor of Eng.
lish literature at Princeton university,
was the orator Of the day. His topic
was Washington and the Men Who
Stood With Him."
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1906-02-27
FIND STlNSON MURDERER
MYSTERY OF TRAGEDY OF 1905
MAY BE SOLVED.
San Francisco Police Declares Slayer
Of the Millionaire Miner Has
Been Located.

Portland, Me-, Feb. 24.-Mrs. Sarah
Conner, who claims to have evidence
that her brother, John Stinson, q
wealthy miner of San Francisco, was
murdered in 1898, says that Mr.. Stin-
son at the time of his death was be-
lieved to have had property valued at
between 100000 and s1,000,O00.
San Francisco, Feb. 24.-Local de-
tectives believe they have located the
murderer of John Stinson, wealthy
mining man who disappeared from
this city in 1898. At that time the
body of an unknown man was found
floating in Stowe lake and was buried
as a pauper. A few months ago it
was discovered that the body
found in the lake was that of Stinson
and also that his deposit box with q
local trust company was empty, al
though it was known to have contained
a large sum of money and other val
uables at the time of it's owners dis
appearance. Since then detectives
have been at work ferret
ing out the mystery in connection
with Stinson's death. Mrs. Frank W.
Sawyer, of Boston, niece of Stinson,
arrived at her mothers, Mrs. Sarah
Conner, of Portland, Me-, with the news
that detectives hired by her to investi-
gate the death of her uncle had located
$4,000 worth of bonds belonging to
Stinson in San Francisco, and are
now closely watching the man who
has them in his possession. This man,
says Mrs. Sawyer, was an old COM
panion of Stinsons in the mine and
worked with him for 40 years.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1906-02-27
H0Ch IS HANGED;
LONG FIGHT ENDS
CONVICTED WIFE MURDERER
MEETS DEATH ON GALLONS
IN CHICAGO.
THREE TIMES HE
BARELY ESCAPES
Superhuman Effort to Save Guilty
Man on Technioality of Law Is
Fruitless at Eleventh Hour-His
Neck Is Broken by Fall of Trap.

Chicago, Feb 24-Johann Hoch,
bigamist. robber and poisoner of wom-
ell, paid the penalty of MS crime Fri
day afternoon wnen he was hanged in
the county Jail. His neck was broken
by the fall. Hoch's body will be
cremated, in accordance with his
wish. expressed to religious advisers
just before the execution Hoch hoped
for reprieve to The last, and resigned
himself to his tate only when the
hangmans moose frightened about his
neck. Chief Deputy Sheriff Peters read
the death warrant in the death chamber.
Then the death march began. Grow s
fiocked about the Jail, openly gambling
on Hoch's fate, many believing with
the condemned man that he would
again escape the moose. Hoch's neck
Was broken by the drop, and death
followed quickly
Final Effort Fruitless.
A final effort almost without prece-
dent in Illinois was made in Hoch's
behalf a few hours before the time
set for the execution Friday. A petit
ton was filed in the United States cir
cult court by Attorneys Comerford
and Niger asking that the federal
court interfere to save the condemned
man.
The petition stated the state authori-
ties were endeavoring to execute Hocl
in violation of the fourteenth amend
ment of the constitution, without due
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1906-02-27
Business Section Burned.

Dawson, Wis, Feb. 24.-The busi-
ness section of this village was almost
completely destroyed by fire early
Thursday morning, and the blaze was
not subdued until nine o'clock. The
fire started between one and two
o'clock in the general hardware store
of Fedetterdal Co., and Its origin has
not yet been ascertained. By eight
o'clock two whole blocks had been en-
tifeiy wiped out and nothing remained
but the smoldefing ashes of the towns
business section. The fire loss lie es-
timated at over $4,000.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1906-02-27
Beginning of Life on Earth,

Life on earth began when the sur
face was a sea of molten rock, if we
may expect the theory of Godfrey Mar
tin, of Kiel university. 1t must have
been based on silicon instead of car.
bon, and associated with it as funda-
mental elements were perhaps phos.
phQrns, sulphur, and oxygen, in place
OF the hydrogen, oxygen and nitrogen,
Of modern life forms. This silicious
life is supposed to have flourished in
the sea of molten rock, with which it
blended at death, leaving no trace. A
possible trace, however, may remain
in many remarkable minerals, whose
fiber like structure may be due to
former existence in organic form. as.
bestos being an example. With the
cooling of the earth, carbon entered
more and more into the composition
of living matter, and the silicon solid
flied out. There may now be worlds
at high temperature, 1t is contended.
with life in it's silicon age.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1906-02-27
franklin Union Is Beaten.

Chicago, Feb. 23.-The supreme
court at Springfield Thursday handed
down an opinion affirming a decision
of the Cook county court in filming
members Of Franklin union No. for
unlawful assaults on nonunion men
and filming the union for being guilty
Of illegal conspiracy. The supreme
court holds that the strikers had no
right to picket plants, and that the
union can be held liable as corpora
ton, Justices Boggs and Scott dis.
sented, holding that there was not
evidence to justify verdict against
the union. The dissenting Judges ex-
press individual views, sustaining the
right Of strikers to persuade and in
duce by peaceable means others to join
in strikes.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1906-02-27
FLOUR FOR JAPAN.
Canadian Government Makes Cen.
erous Contributions to Relieve
Famine Sufferers.

Ottawa, Ont, Feb. 24.-The Canadian
government has purchased $4,000
worth of wheat -four to be sent to
Japan for the sufferers from famine In
the northern part Of the kingdom. 1t
is being put in 49-pound sacks, of
which 10000 will be required The
first shipment starts from the Pacific
coast ON March 5. The bags bear an
inscription in Japanese stating that
the -four is a gift from the govern
ment of Canada to famine sufferers.
Directions in bread-making and sam.
piles Of yeast used in the process are
also being sent.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1906-02-27
Quake Empties a CAPITAL.

Fort de France, Martinique, Feb. %.
Another earthquake has occurred
here. No great damage was done, but
the people Of the city were very much
alarmed and fed to the hills They
have now resumed their ordinary oc-
equations. Mont Pelee remains quiet.
No manifestation of any activity was
registered at the observatory during
the periods of seismic disturbances.
Several slight earthquake shocks fol-
lowed those Of February 16 and IL,
but without causing any new damage.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1906-02-27
Mont Pelee Again Violent.

Barbados, B. w. l., Feb. 26.-Mont
Pelee, the voclano in the island Of
Martinique, is again in eruption and
the inhabitants are in horror of re-
currence of the great disaster of May
8, 1902, when $4,000 persons lost their
lives in the destruction OF the city OF
St. Pierre. Most of the residents of
the towns have fed for shelter behind
the mountains to the southwark. Many
houses have been demolished by earth
quake shocks and the walls Of many
others are totterins.