The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1906-10-19

was jolted off, fell beneath the wheels
and was crushed to death.
/: $50.
The county commissioners of Stan.
ley county have offered reward OF
5000 for the apprehension of Harry
Brooks, the man who, it is alleged,
killed Frank Under at Midland.
Brooks is a young man about six feet
tall, very slender. and with hair and
eyebrows so light that he was given
the name of Whitley" among his com.
panions.
An Adjournment of the September
term of circuit court at Huron has
been taken until Nov. ], when the
case of Ella r. Sanford VS.. Edward H.
Sanford ct al, will come on for hear
ing. This is one of the most important
cases on any calendar in the state at
this time, involving the title to more
than one hundred quarter sections OF
land in South Dakota.
One of the largest single real estate
deals ever recorded in Brown county
was closed recently, when F. B. Can
non, president of the First National
bank of this city, purchased nineteen
quarters in Portage township for $780,
| 900. The deeds were transferred by
w. C. lehman, Chicago capitalist,
and D. A. kimbark of Aberdeen. Can
| non will use the land for ranching
] purposes.
An idea of the rapidity with which
| Aberdeen is growing may be gained
from report by the mail carriers
which states that since Jan. of this
year 1872 new homes have built here.
| This report was called for In connec
| ton with the request made by the
postmaster for another carrier. 1t is
understood that the postoffice inspect
or will recommend that the request
be granted.
|
The schools of the Black Hills and
the various districts are all in good
condition financially and constantly
Improving. The total school appor-
tionment for Lawrence county from
the collection of taxes for Sept. 30 was
S29.23O.O4. OF this amount Lead City
alone receives $16,3o9.25, while Dead.
month of September the amount Of
taxes collected aggregated $108,593. 05.
/ (:
| H. w. kellogg, a well-known farmer
of Vienna, has reason to be we'll salts
fed with an investment he made q
year ago last spring, when he pur.
chased half section Of land short
distance from Vienna. He has just
sold the farm at an advance Of 81 ,440
and in addition has the proceeds from
two valuable crops raised on the land
Mr.. Kellogg's health is failing, and he
sold the land so he could spend the
winter in California.
A movement is on foot at the pres
ent time for the formation of an or.
ganiZation to be known as the Brown
County Fair association, or something
similar, and it's object will be to ar.
range and conduct fair each fall. II
is likely that within few days, or at
the most, weeks, this organization will
have been perfected. This associa
ito nwill be we'll backed financially
Whether or not the association incor
porates, it will start out with from
$4,000 to $4,000 paid into the treas
ury, and will be in shape to at once
if necessary, begin to get ready fol
next falls fair.
The Harrison Telephone company
which for many years did large bust
ness in all parts of the Hills, has
died a slow death and the stock of the
company that remains is about to be
sold out. In earlier days the com
pany had not less than 700 instru.
ments in use, and also maintained ex
changes in all the principal towns Of
the Hills. N. w. Thompson of Omaha
is. disposing of the property. In less
than two weeks all the old instru
ments, tools and property Of various
kinds will have been gathered togeth
| Cl, ldUClACo luS ucIullCJ
line" and shipped to the Western
Electric company at Omaha.
!: :
The prospect of finding natural ga.
and oil within twenty-five miles OF
Deadwood is creating considerable sti,
and excitement. The region is located
on the westerly slope of the Black
Hills at point called Rocky Ford, be
tween Beulah and Sundance. A com
pany to be known as the Rockford
Wyoming Coal company has been or
ganized and owns already a tract Of
fifteen or twenty thousand acres.
The company was organized because
, of the discovery, while prospecting
through this part of the country, Of
oil sand, which was encountered at
depth of 400 feet and was penetrated
, for seventy-five feet when break oc
CURED. The sand, which is really &
) black, porous rock, was found to be