The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1906-12-21
South Dakota
General State News Photographed.

that the robbers Jailed 10 get d ldISe
sum OF money. The other safe yielded
$50.
August Englund died at his home in
Arlington after a short illness from IN
fammatory rheumatism. He was
about thirty years old and leaves a
wife and one small child.
Articles Of incorporation have been
filed for the State Bank of Junlus, a
new town in Lake county, with a capi
tai of So, 900. In~corporators, John Wed
den, B. f. Wedden, Geo. E. Cochrane,
all of Madison.
Mrs. William Bridggie, wife of a
prominent farmer living ear Beres-
ford, was struck by a freight train at
Beresford while trying to cross the
track in a covered carriage, and in
stantly killed.
Land sales are brisk in Davidson
county, Notwithstanding that prices
are higher than for lands west and
north. Several sales have been made
this month where the price ranged
to $50 an acre.
The state brand commission has
been called to meet on Dec. 81 Of this
month to clear up all business which
may be ready for them at that date.
There will lot be another meeting I'm
til next spring.
James Norton, Jr., the seventeen
year-old son of James Norton, a prom
inent settler near Elk Point, is dead
of diabetes, being sick only four days.
He was a member Of the junior class
of the high school.
Building operations in Mitchell have
not ceased, although the thermometer
has gone below zero. Outside work
is being lone on the Mitchell National
bank, the Methodist church and the
Becker store building.
E.. Francis Atwood, who is proprie-
tor Of a restaurant at Aberdeen, and
who has been teaching school in the
country, fell through a trestle on the
NJ. & ST. L.. road. He was severely
injured, breaking his ankle and Sc
verely bruising his head and various
parts Of his body. He was brought to
Aberdeen, and will likely be laid up
for several weeks.
The Reliance mill commenced oper
alton at Deadwood. The ore bins have
sufficient ore for a months run, anG
will be kept so. The night shift goes
on at the mill, but only one shift will.
be worked at present in the mine
The plant is running at its full capac
ity Of $50 tons, and the mine workings
have within thelast few months
opened new and valuable chutes oil
ore. The Mogul also has commenced
the operation of its 3O0-ton mill al
Puma, and in a few days it will be
running at its full capacity. Bott
companies are operating in the sill
cious ore measures in Bald mountain
Il have ore reserves almost unlim
tied,
Henry Christopherson a we'll known
contractor, died at his home in Water
town. His death was the result O
losing a leg in a railroad accident a
Revillo about a year ago. He had me-
with a series of misfortunes in the
past three years. While working OF
a large brick ~smokestack at the
Stokes mill in Watertown he fel
about seventy feet, fracturing severa
rios. A little later while laying bricl
at Clear Lake, this state, he fell from
a scaffold and broke an arm. A yea:
ago last winter he was nearly asphyx
lated with coal gas at his home. Hi
bad luck seemed to follow him, an
in attempting to board a train at Re
villo he slipped and fell under the car
and had his leg severed. The Mime
apolis & st. Louis settle,
with him for $4,000.
The case Of DIR. Drumming of Aber
deem, charged with practicing med
cine without a license, which has a,
tracted much attention on cou @
the far-reaching effect expecte
should a conviction be secured, ha
been settled by the court directing
verdict OF not guilty. Drumming is
chiropractic and last summer his al
rest vas caused by the secretary @
the state medical board. The tria
was held in the police court an
Drumming was found guilty and fine
$50. He at once appealed. H
proved hat he did not practice med
cine, and never made any %pretense t
do SO. His treatment, he said, consis,
ed Of a system Of massage Of tn
nerve centers. There are many chirt
practices in South Dakota, and had tn
conviction been affirmed, it mean tn
exodus Of most of them.
Fred Clark Of Englewood was avail
ened at midnight by the breaking G
glass. and springing from his be
found himself face to. face with