The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1906-08-31

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al professions, says an exchange, and
we suppose the editor knowns what
he is talking aQout.
Hon. L. S. HoUGEN of Wilmot
was in the city Wednesday, looking
after affairs. OF course the afore
said affairs may not have had any
thing to do With politics but The
senator was observed in close confer
ence with the powers that be.
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THE geateSt of all the great state
fairs of Minnesota will be opened Ia
the public on Monday morning Sept,
3, at O'clock. Last years fair vas
the largest yet held in the state, but
this years will easily eclipse it ENhl-
bits are more numernuc in all depart
ment which have closed entries while
III lIlc OtiJtt tItiS diC CCI III liitil
cations that the records of '05 will be
surpassed.
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SPEAKER CANNON has formally en-
tered the political game by announ-
eng his candidacy for the preslden-
Itial nomination Speaker Cannon is
undoubtedly one Of The most popula
and best known men, outside OF
President Roosevelt. in the United
States and the people generally rec
ugnlze n hIm man IT high ct.arnc-
ter. but we doubt very much il he
will be the nominee Of the republIcan
convention.
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ANOTHER unlimited trust and con-
ridence concern went UP in Phllade-
phla on the 2Stb. In other words,
| the Real Estate Trust Co., of which
the late Frank Hipple was president,
was forced to close Its doors by reason
OF an investigation disclosing the fact
that millions of dollars OF the trust
company's funds had been loaned to
Henry Segal. promoter without
proper security. What can be said
at the negligence OF the board of dl-
rectors who would allow such a stat e
| e {fo f,,t, liz In1f ri il,
i trust sQuandered in reckless invest
mentS?
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/ THE lnimltable Robert I Burdette
d escribeS the big river which divides
n our ate, in the following style
'sThe dust blows out of the Missouri
river. 1t is the only river in the world
where the dust blows in great clouds
out of the river bed. The catfish come
to the surface to sneeze. From the
4 great, understanding sandhars on
the Kansas shore, great clouds of
! dust and sand about two thousand
feet high, come whirling and sweep
ing across the river and hide the
town and sweep through the tram
and make every thing SO dry and grit
that man can light cigar on the
roof of his mouth. The Miss ouri
. river is composed of SIX parts of Sane
and mud and four parts of water
When the wind blows very hard il
dries the susface of the river an6
/. blows IL away in clouds of dust.
is just dreadful. The natural colo
of the river is seal brown, but whe,
1T rain for. two or three days at
time and gets the river pretty wet
lit changse to heavey iron gray 4
long rain Will make the river so THU
that it can easily be poured from on,
vessel to inta another like a cocktail
Whenit is ordinarily dry, however, i
has to be stirred up with stick be
fore you can pour it out of anything
1t has u current of about, twenty nj n
miles an hour, and perhaps the lare
= est average of andbars to the SO uar
II inch that can be planted. Steam
! boats run down the Missouri river
9 SO do newspaper correspondents. BIZ
g If the river is not fair TO look upo
there is some of TIE grandest countr
on either size of it that the sun eve
" shone upon. How came such riv.
70 to run through such paradise
ID more than l can understands
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