The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1906-12-07
South Dakota
General State News Paraaraphed.

The state board of pardons will meet
in Pierre on Dec. 7.
The annual convention of the Brook
ings County Sunday School association
was held in Brookings.
Frank Carney has been placed in a
Sioux Falls hospital as the result OF
having his under lip chewed off in
fight.
Joseph. the two-year-old son OF Mr..
and Mrs. Edward Healy of Canistota,
died as the result of swallowing car
bolic acid.
AS the result of meeting Of lead
Ing farmers of Aurora and vicinity. IL
was decided to incorporate farmers
elevator company.
The family of C. Christianson of
Vermillion was nearly asphyxiated by
coal gas. All were nearly uncon-
scious, but a physician called in re-
vived them
George Berberick, proprietor of the
Germania house at Yankton, is very
dangerously i'll with conclusion OF the
brain, the result of falling from an
overturned load of hay.
State Land Commissioner Bach has
returned from trip to the Black Hills.
| where he selected several sections OF
land for indemnity for state school
| lands lost in that region.
Charles Wahl farmer of Bristol,
was found dead by the roadside about
| e mile from his home. 1t is thought
that he went to sleep and fell from his
wagon, breaking his neck
| State Treasurer Collins has located
| the last of the outstanding state
| bends, and is in position to negotiate
80. everything outstanding, and will
| 1ure than likely be able to clear them
| up before he goes out of office.
| 1t cost Charles Jones, resident OF
| Sphinx county, the sum of $3.50 for
| making use Of his teeth during phys.
| ical encounter with young man named
Lake A jury found Jones guilty OF
the crime of manning and a fine of
| $3.50 was imposed.
| The Aberdeen police believe they
have uncovered what is probably the
| most daring and extensive case OF
shoplifting ever attempted. More than
| $1,000 worth of what are held to be
stolen goods have been seized at the
home of L. T. Gauchey, and two men
and two women have been placed I'M
| der arrest.
The department Of legislative refer
ence has received forty applications
Tor information in regard to bills
proposed to be introduced by members
at the coming session. The greatest
number of inquiries are in regard to
primary elections, followed by good
roads inquiries and rate legislation In
order.
Scores of men are engaged in a
search for a man named Ed Smith,
who has disappeared from the home of
Louis Larson, a farmer residing in Au-
rora county. The missing man is be-
lieved to have wandered away while
temporarily deranged. A brother, John
M. Smith of Trowbridge, ILL.,, has az
rived and has offered reward.
Authority Is expected at any time
for the payment of the semi-annual
per capita money to the Indians on
the Cheyenne River reservation. The
amount will be about $4,000, divided
among 2,400 Indians, each receiving
$22.S5. The traders near the different
agencies have been putting in heavy
stocks of goods for several weeks, and
expect to reap a harvest
Gangrene developing in one Of his
legs forty years after the close Of the
War Of the Rebellion with fear that
tho affected limb will have to be ampu-
tated in order to save his life, is the
sad experience of Isaac Farnsworth,
an aged veteran Of the Civil war who
resides at Canistota. The gangrene
developed from an injury received dur
Ing the wal.
The North-Western's train recently
brought to Rapid City 100 homeseek-
ers who came from different parts of
Minnesota and Iowa, with the intention
of taking up land and making their
permanent home in that vicinity. The
number of homeseekers coming to this
country increases daily. The land
taken up at present chiefly lies east
and north of Rapid City. between the
rim Of the Black Hills and the Mis-
souri, river. Much of 1t is in the val
!eys and is very rich
/ After forty years mystery the story
Of the hermit of Rattlesnake Butte ap-
pears about to be revealed. The old
man, who went by the name of James
Unison, came to Dakota forty years
ago anu settled among the Sioux west
Of Yankton. There he remained until
his death few years ago. w. W. Nc
Donald Of Columbus Ohio, a deputy
marshal Of the supreme court of that
state, writes that he noticed an ac-
count of Jimson's death and that he is
convinced he was his missing brother.
from whom he had not heard in many
years, but who went to Dakota Terri
tory. The case is now being looked
into by Mcdonald