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The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1906-10-19
A PETRlFlED REPTILE
Found In Bad Lands Near Buffalo Gap
Weighs Over Five Thousand

Found In Bad Lands Near Buffalo Gap
Weighs Over Five Thousand
Pounds.
A valuable and interesting find
was made by a party of Custer county
people while delving in the bad lands
of western South Dakota, few miles
south of the little village of Buffalo
Gap.
The find was a huge petrified rep
tile. Many interesting discoveries Of
prehistoric animals and reptiles have
been made in the famous bad land re-
gion of western South Dakota, but in
the opinion of biologists this sur
passes them all.
The parties who found the reptile
went out with team and low wagon
and hauled it to Buffalo Gap, where
it now is on exhibition. Hundreds of
persons are daily examining the in
teresting object 1t is shaped like a
huge oyster, and in it's petrified state
weighs $500 pounds.
1t requires close inspection to dis
Germ the reptilian coils and the head
of the snake, as it is incrusted with
white, limelike substance. Although
resembling lime, the white substance
is as hard as flint.
fled reptile, when it was alive, buff
falo calf or two would have just about
made it good breakfast.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1906-10-19

printed in our journal. which is sent
into every state in the Union.
l wish to tender the thanks Of the
department to the bugler, the Aber.
deem band and the Sioux Falls drum
corps, for the excellent music fur.
nished, and also to the Watertown
band which furnished music for the
department of Michigan. The bands
are all No. I. There were none bet
ter.
The Little General, the boy and
girl musicians, young ladies represent.
ing liberty and union, were conspicu.
Gus in the parade. I have received
many compliments for the neat and
soldierly appearance Of the men, for
which they have the thanks of all the
officers.
Our surgeon, DR.. Smith, is entitled
to great deal of credit for the splen.
did manner in which he performed
his duty, especially on the day Of the
parade.
eTnvre was one thing that marred
our pleasure there that was the alb.
SeuC6 VI Cuo pIeSluSul VI IuC w. ~.
c., caused by sickness. learn that
she is still in the hospital at Chicago.
Let us hope and pray for her recovery
to health and return to her home
The commander of each post is re.
quested to appoint a comrade as pa.
triotic instructor, and send his name
to B. D. l.. Dudley, Canistota, S. ID.
Let us work this year. comrades, to
bring every old soldier outside the or
der into the ranks, so they will all
be entitled to wear the bronze button
that button means a great deal.
Learning of the death of Mrs. JAS
Tanner, | Immediately on behalf OF
the department, sent a telegram OF
coincidence.
1t is not settled yet where our next
national encampment will be held but
let all work to increase our member
ship that there may be good at
tendance wherever it is held.
THOS. FITCH,
A. A. General.
N. l. LOWTHIAN,
Dept. Commander.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1906-10-19
South Dakota Capitol Fund.

The capitol building fund is approx
imately $134,000, including money ex-
pended and on hand, either in treas
ury or due within few months. The
amount secured from The sale of lands
to the present date is S109, 1877 90,
which, with approximately $4,000 in
the way Of lease and interests money
brings the total to Sill, 17476 There
has been expended to date on the
building $17,614.11 This means that
the sale of dozen more quarter Sec
lions between now and the first OF
January will bring the fund to the to-
tai sum of s15O,000 provided by the
last legislature, and at the rate at
which the lands are being taken the
balance will be disposed of long be-
fore the first of January.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1906-10-19
/ STATE NEWS OF INTEREST
,cu,NEsE ORGANIZE CATTLE co.
.FlIday' Sheds Queue and Rides
Range With Recklessness Of Ameri.
can Daredevil.

sFlIday' Sheds Queue and Rides
Range With Recklessness Of Ameri.
can Daredevil.
A company has been formed in the
Black Hills by Cinnamon who have
gone into the cattle business. Some
of them are Deadwood residents,
prosperous laundrymen, and the man
ager of the company, who has made
years, is one of the best known Chi
pamen in the West.
The company starts in business with
between 500 and 600 head of cattle,
which 1t will keep on the ranges near
here. The manager, known as eli
day." though his real name is Fon
Kuhn, lives on one Of the most beau
tiful ranches In the southern Hills,
and has home that for neatness and
comfort can hardly be surpassed. This
and his worldly welfare, however,
were due to his white wife, who died
only short time ago, and whom he
cared for during a long, distressing
and expensive illness, with gentle
, ness and thoughtfulness that were
marvellous.
"Why should not be good to herr"
he said Cali I know she taught me;
all am she made me-" 1t was his
marvellous riding which enabled him
to crafty one of the many notioAs OF
his wife during her illness. He was at
Edgemont, gambling, for he is IA
nous gambler, with the luck Of one of
fortunes favored. when word came
to him that his wife wanted straw
berries. The train had just pulled
out; she was in Custer forty-fve
miles away; there were no berries
there, and it was night. All of these
things mattered not to F'liday. He
bought his berries, mounted his horse
and rode pellmell through the night
to Custer to take the fruit to his wife.
Fliday and his wife, a middle-aged
German woman, older than htr ORR
entail husband, came to Custer eight
years ago from Nebraska. She had
been married before the Chinaman
crossed her path, and had one son
by her first husband. No father could
have been more lldulgent or kinder
to an own son than was Friday to this
boy. He INDUCED him in every way
possible; bought him expensive
clothes, gave him spending money and
paid $145 for watch for him.
The cattle company has good
start in business, and bids fair to be-
mr.
members of the company work at
their various trades nthe upper Hills
towns, while Fliday, in American
clothes, with his queue gone, and his
high-heeled cowboy boots on his feet,
rides the ranges, buying and selling.
always at profit.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1906-10-19
CORN ESTIMATE MADE.
Robinson Puts Acreage at 2,o47, 4ee;
Yield 81 Bushels.

Doane Robinson has made his esti-
mate of corn production of the state
for this year, based on 600 reports
covering every county, but gives the
estimate subject to revision in De.
cember. His figures put the acreage
for the year at 2,047, 1866 acres, and
the yield at 76,2O7,S66 bushels, with
an average of 81 bushels to the acre
for the whole state. Bon Homme
county claims and lead in both acre.
age and total yield with 159,545 acres
and 6,3S3,S00 bushels, and an average
of 40 bushels to the acre. The high.
est claim for acreage yield comes
from Yankton county with so bushels
as an average. twenty-five out of
fifty-three counties of the state show
total yields in excess of million
bushels.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1906-10-19
SOLDIERS, BODIES MOVED.
Remains Of Victims at Wounded Knee
Taken to Fort Riley.

REMAINS OF Victims at WOunoe0 NnSe
Taken to Fort Riley.
The famous battle of Wounded
Knee, the last great struggle with the
Sioux Indians in this state, in Deem
Der, 1890, has been brought wildly to
mind by the news that the remains Of
the Twenty-Five soldiers who fell in
the engagement and were buried at
Pine Ridge have just been disinttrred
and will be shipped to Fort Riley,
Kan, from where the famous Seventh
cavalry started on its fatal Grand
This company has been fatal in In
dian warfare. With Custer at the
Little Big Horn it lost full five troops;
later in 1880 with General Howard in
his pursuit of Chief Joseph, the un-
ruly Nez Perez Indian, it lost two
troops; and again, just a decade af-
forwards at Wounded Knee, it said
goodby to Captain Wallace and about
forty-fve of it's men.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1906-10-19
SOUTH DAKOTA ROADS
Will Receive Some Attention From
the Department Of Agriculture Next

Will Receive Some Attention From
the Department Of Agriculture Next
Year.
Through the efforts of Senator
Gamble Negotiations have been made
with the good roads department Of the
department of agriculture by which
the local situation will receive atten
ton next season. The department
has corps of engineers in the field
now at Brookings making inspections
Of the roads, but the active work on
this work will not be done until next
season. The proper blanks for appli
cation of the assistance Of the depart
ment are now in the hands of the 10
cal parties interested In the project
and 1t is understood that the neces.
sary steps are being taken to secure
the cooperation Of the department
looking to the work here next season
1t is likely that an engineer of the de-
partment will be spent here to make
an inspection this fall. 1t is not to be
understood that the department OF
agriculture Is in the business of build.
the purpose is to offer to communities
throughout the country the services OF
Its corps Of engineers and experts
who will advise as to the best meth
DDS OF construction to be employed in
particular locality. Those object
lesson roads are roads constructed for
the purpose Of showing by practical
demonstration how to build and i'm.
prove the highways in particular To-
cality, and the nature Of construction
depends upon the conditions found in
each place. All cost of making the
sample roads must be paid by local
citizens interested in the project. 10
cal business men who have the prof
ect in hand expect to greatly profit b.
the object lessons in road making, and
IL the work is extended from this CITY
in each direction for a radius of ten
miles it is expected that business will
be greatly augmented.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1906-10-19
LODGES LAY CORNERSTONE.
stursis Is. D. Benevolent Hall cere-
monies Are Held.

monies Are Held.
The cornerstone of the new Benevo-
lent hall building was laid at Sturgis
last week. Four lodges are joining
in the erection Of the building and all
participated in the ceremonies, which
were conducted under the auspices Of
the Masonic lodge, ]. j. Davenport
acting as grandmaster. The old fra
ternal building, erected in 1892, was
destroyed by fire in March. 1906. 1t
was owned by the Masons, Odd Eel
lows and Workmen's lodges. The new
building is to cost $21000, and will be
owned by the same orders with the
local lodge of Eagles added.
The Sixth cavalry band furnish mu-
sic. All the lodges had speakers pres
ent to elaborate upon the advantages
and benefits of fraternalism. An inn
mense crowd from city and country
was present. Ali business houses and
schools were closed during the cere-
mOny.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1906-10-19
FIGHTS HoLpuP MEN.
TIVE Masked Robbers Attack Peter
NeWatny.

Little Falls, Mimi, Oct. 13.-Peter
Newatny, eighteen years old, an en-.
ploye OF the Pine Tree mill, had q des-
perate battle last night with two mask
cd men, who attempted to rob him of
the pay he had drawn during the day
ut the mill. Nowatny had gone down
town IN the evening to cash his check
and was walking toward his home in
an isolated part of the city when tho
masked men suddenly leaped upon
him from the dense underbrush in a
grove.
Just as the robbers had begun to
search their victims pockets thew an
parently became anicstricken, fancy.
ing they heard some one approaching,
and fed without taking any money.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1906-10-19

big tent is now in Sioux City, and 1t
is likely that 1t will be secured on
that occasion, though this matter has
not yet been closed up. The local
Democrats have committee on trans.
portation which is now seeking to get
a rate Of one and one-third fare for,
the round trip, and which will co.
operate with the committee of the
MONDAY club in securing ample car
service for the regular trains.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1906-10-19
WILL TOUR BLACK HILLS.
Dates Are Set for Crawford and Gam
BILE Rallies.

Dates have been set for the appear.
ance in the Hills of Coe l. Crawford
and Senator Gamble, who will tour
that part of the state in the interest
of the Republican ticket. Rallies will
be held in six OF the Black Hills
towns, the first one taking place at
Rapid City on Oct. %. From there
the party will go to Sturgis, then to
Belle Fourche and next to Spearfish.
After the Queen City, the next stop
will be at Deadwood, and the trip will
close with a grand rally at Lead on
the night of Oct. 81. Extensive plans
are being made by the various COM
mittees tor the entertainment of these
guests and also for the accommodation
of the crowds that are expected to be
in attendance at these meetings.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1906-10-19
STEPS ON BURGLAR.
Woman Is Awakened by Hand Placed
Over Her Mouth.

GAINESVILLE, Wis, Oct. 13.-Mrs. Mag
gle Bugs. daughter of David Law
renee. who is visiting at her fathers
home. was awakened shortly after
midnight by some one placing a hand
over her face. She called to her sis.
ter Esther Lawrence, who sleeps with
her and as the younger girl sprang
out of bed she stepped on a man who
was hastily crawling beneath the
couch.
The combined cries Of the women
brought the father into the room, and
as he entered the man sprang Up and
rushed out Of the house.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1906-10-19
MILWAUKEE LINE TIED UP.
Freight Goes Through Bridge and Pas
sengers Arc Delayed.

Aberdeen, S. D., Oct. ia bad
freight wreck occurred on the Milwau.
kee line near Nina, few miles west
OF here. Spreading rails caused the
engine to leave the track while cross.
Ing bridge over Snake creek, and
five cars plunged through the struo-
ture. demolishing 1t. Several cars
loaded with wheat were wrecked and
the contents scattered over the rayine.
The track will not be cleared until
noon. In the meantime many passen.
gers are detained here en- route to
Western points.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1906-10-19

ner county. captured three burglar.
with stolen plumber, including 10000
cigars. The three prisoners were turn
ed over to the authorities of Lincolr
county and were lodged in the count,
JAIL from which they escaped and hav.
not been recaptured.
1t appears that when the men wer,
turned over to Lincoln county author;
ties the Turner county officials re
tanned the 10000 cigars, and Judg,
Jones will be asked to issue an ordey
requiring them to surrender the sigar,
to Lincoln county.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1906-10-19
Law Student Arrested.

vermillion, S. D., Special.-Deputy
Frank Patten, of Charles Mix county
arrested David Dudly, a second-year
law student at the university, on
charge of seduction preferred by Ja-
sephine Weston of Greenwood.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1906-10-19
LUMBER YARD BURNS.
Livery Stable Also Is Licked Up by
the Flames.

the Flames.
Fire originated from defective flue
in the Office of the Queal Lumber COM
pany at Lake Andes and spread so
rapidly that before the flames were
gotten under control the entire build
Ing and yards were a mass of ruins.
The fire jumped across the street and
destroyed Donahue's livery barn, and
for time threatened to become
widespread conf1agration. The direc-
ton of the wind, however. aided the
fire fighters, and the flames were
brought under control after the lum-
Der yards and stable had been de-
stroyed. The loss to the lumber
yards is estimated at $4,000, while
the livery stable probably sustained
a loss of $4,000. Both were partially
covered by insurance.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1906-10-19
$4,000 FOR wlFE's LOVE.

Falter, Who Found Mate by Adver.
Using, Brings Two Suits.
Waukesha, Wis, Oct. 11.-Frank
Falter has brought suit against Ed.
ward Burton of the town of Eagle for
$4,000 damages for the alleged alien.
'tion OF his wife's affections.
The Falters were married in Chica,
go In 1901, when she was bet fifteen.
They became acquainted through q
matrimonial lad" in a paper.
Burton is the defendant in crimi.
nal case brought against him by Fal.
ter and pending in the municipal
court.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1906-10-19
MEMORIAL is DEFAcED.
Act Of Vandalism Laid to Cornell Co
lege Boys.

Mt. Vernon, Ia, Oct. 13.-Last night
in the college campus the beautiful
memorial fountain recently presented
to Cornell by Armstrong Spear of Phil.
adelphia was defaced by paint, and it
is doubtful whether the stains can ever
be wholly removed. Suspicion points
strongly toward certain members OF
the student body.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1906-10-19
FALLS INTO ROCK cRusHER.
Man ls Fatally Bruised and Lacerated
in Accident.

Livingston, Mont, Oct. 12.-Word
has been received that ]. White, res.
ident of this place, who was tempo
rarily employed in Portland, Or, met
a horrible death while at work on q
rock crushing machine He suddenly
fell into the machine, which broke al.
most every bone in his body and bad.
ly bruised and lacerated his flesh.
Strange to say, he was not dead when
his Mortified fellow workmen managed
to stop the machine and rescue him,
He died, however, few hours later.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1906-10-19
TWO SETS OF CANDIDATES.
Day County Is. D. Republicans Get
Into Nomination Tanqle.

Day county Republicans are tangled
up over the nomination of county COM
missioners, the county convention hav-
ing selected one list of officials and
delegates from different commissioner
districts having selected another, all
on account of disagreement as. to
the provisions Of the caucus law. Both
sides have come into the supreme,
and each secured orders to show
cause on Oct 16 to learn which list
of nominees shall be placed on the
regular Republican ticket.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1906-10-19
WHO GETS CIGARS?

Case for Arbitration Between South
Dakota Counties.
A dispute between Lincoln and Tur-
ner counties, with 10000 cigars cap
tured from expert burglars as the
bone of contention. will have to be
settled by arbitration. Judge J. w.
Jones Of Sioux Falls, during an ap-
preaching term of state circuit court
in Lincoln county. will act as arbi-
rtator in the case.
The authorities at Centerville, Tur-
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1906-10-19
DEATH BY cHLoRoFoRM.
Collins Case Reported on by Coroner.

Collins Case Reported on by coroner's
Jury.
The theory that Mrs. Emma M. Col
Inns was killed by chloroform is sus
tanned in the verdict of the coroners
Jury returned at Parker. The verdict
also lays the blame for her death on
unknown persons, and is directed
against the men alleged to have
broken into the house and burglarized
It. Mr.. Collins was also put under the
influence of the drug, but he revived
later.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1906-10-19
clothe the Storm Sufferers.

Washington, Special.-Clothing for
the use of storm sufferers along the
gulf coast has been shipped by the
Red Cross from Boston, Philadelphia,
New York, Baltimore and Washing
ton.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1906-10-19
Pig FELL UPON HIM.
Well Digger at Dunlap, Iowa, Has tn.
Surprise of His Life.

OUT PI Toe OF TITS E16.
Dunlap, Iowa, Oct. 12.-While in
the bottom of we'll which he was dig.
cling, Robert Lee was surprised and
stunned by the descent of pig weigh.
ing about fifty pounds that had come
too near the edge above in his investi.
cations. Nothing but his being in q
leaning position, SO that the pig
glanced from his shoulder. saved Lee
from serious injury.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1906-10-19
AFTER DELINQUENT INTEREST.
Commissioner Bach Soon "a H,v. Al,
School Fund Claims Settled.

State Land Commissioner Bach is
out after delinquent interest. on the
permanent school fund, and he ex.
poets to have it all cleaned up by the
time he leaves the Office in January
AT the present time, out of SOL 900 in
terest due. all has been paid in but
$4,000, and that will be gathered in
soon, as county officials are asked to
urge immediate payment.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1906-10-19
TREED BY BEAR THREE HOURS
Brnin Gnaws at Roots OF saplng In.
til Doq Drives Him Awav.

Brnin Gnaws at Roots OF saplng I'm.
til Dog Drives Him Away.
Roseau, Mimi. Oct. 13.-For three
hours H. j. Wells, farmer living near
Maluns, southeast of here, was held
up on slim sapling few yards away
from his house by big black bear
The bear found the tree too small
for 1T to climb, and after spending
three hours gnawing at the roots was
finally driven away by a small dog,
which had been attracted by Wells
cries for help.
Schooner Sinks; Four Lost.
st. Johns, N. F., Special.-The fish.
ing schooner Julia struck a shoal in
Cod Boy river during gale last night
and went down. Four seamen were
drowned, but the captain succeeded in
reaching the shore.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1906-03-14
PRETENDED SUICIDE KNOWN HERE
Once Indicted For Wreckins Thresh'
ing Machine.


The Lyon County jail now holds
man by the name of Theodore b.
Schemperlen, who has been arrested
for stealing horses and is wanted on
charge of having pretended suicide to
enable his relatives to collect several
thousand life insurance from different
companies to which he belonged.
He placed a suit of clothing beside
the river near. Sioux City in one OF the
pockets of which there was a letter to
the effect that he had committed sui
eide and when this was not taken as
conclusive he wrote to the authorities
stating that he had murdered Schem-
perlen and placed the clothes there to
allay suspicion.
The father of this man several years
AGO preached in the vicinity of Ft.
Ridgely and the young fellow to get
even with some of his neighbors,
placed rocks in the bundles of wheat
that were to be threshed with the re-
suit that the machine was wrecked.
Suspicion rested on him and he was
indicted for the offense. He seems to
be a thorough black sheep as the rest
Of the family are all right.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1906-03-14

council of administration will meet in
the capitol on the morning of March
20 for a business session.
The following are appointed as a
credential committee: Orion S. Clark,
George p. Arnold, n. N. Palmeter. Z.
P. Baldwin, A. ferguson, D. p.
Newton.
A campfire under the auspices of the
Minneapolis posts vii be held at the
Minneapolis Auditorium on the even
ing of March 81. This will be open to
the general public as we'll as the dele
gates to the encampment and to the
convention of the Relief corps and the
Ladies Of the G. A. r. At the campfire
the department. commander will present
the prizes for the three best essays on
the subject, minnesota S Part in the
| Warrior the Preservat on ofthe Union
The competition has been open to
students of state high schools and a
committee has been at work this week
making the awards.