The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1906-12-14

| y pioneer, is dead. He came to South
| Dakota in 1883, and leaves a wife and
seven children.
Chris Habeser, thresher, shot and
| instantly killed himself at the Mootz
farm, near Salem. Habeger is said to
nave been drinking.
::
DR.. w. H. Thrall, superintendent Of
| Congregational missions for this state,
has organized church at Plainville,
Deuel. county. with eighteen members.
DR.. w. H. Thrall, superintendent OF
Congregational missions for this state,
has organized church at Plainville,
Deuel. county, with eighteen members.
The Sioux Valley Nursery company
has been organized in Bookings. E.
Lollen of Faulkton is president and c.
M. Olston of Brookings secretary and
| treasurer.
AS result of using kerosene oil to
start stove fire, Mrs. Charles Monroe
Of Miller was terribly burned and she
Is not expected to survive the shock
and injuries.
Professors A. H. Wheaton and John
Cole of the agricultural college will
speak at the farmers institute at Re
villO, Clear Lake, Estelline, Castle
wood and other towns in that part of
the state.
Prof. w. A. Wheeler, professor of
botany and entomology at the agricul
tural college, has resigned an accept
ed the position of secretary and man
ager Of the Dakota Improved Seed
Company of Mitchell
James F. Brooke, formerly an at
torney in Brookings, was recently or
dained deacon in the Episcopal
church, and has gone to Fergus Falls
to work as missionary in the Episco-
pal diocese of Duluti..
The body of Martin Kerchner, who
was drowned in the Cheyenne river
near Pedro the first part of September
has been found about mile from the
point where he was thrown into the
river by an accident.
A special meeting of the Dead
wood city council will be called soon
to consider the matter of paving the
streets with creosote paving blocks.
The question has been agitated for
some time. The creosote proposition
is represented by Walter H. Bell OF
Minneapolis.
State Treasurer Collins at last has
located the last Of the outstanding
state bonds. and is now in a position
to negotiate for everything outstand
ing. This places him in position
where he may carry out his hope OF
clearing up all of that class of indebt-
edness before the close of his term.
Gov. Elrod has denied an application
for an extradition warrant for William
]. Ohlheiser, wanted in Nebraska on a
charge of wife desertion. The ground
for denying the warrant is that the al
legged act was committed q year before
the Nebraska law which put the of.
Tense in the criminal class was passed
The thirteeu-year-old son of Isaac
Watson has been drowned in the Sioux
river near Flandreau. He went to the
river to see some traps that he had
set, and not returning home his father
started in search of him. He found
that the ice had been broken, and feel
ing around with a fish spear was hor-
rified to find his sons dead body at
the bottom of the hole.
Sheriff Campbell found Mrs. Julia
fines and five children living in AN
old shack at Elkton, where they had
been quarantined for dphtheria Da-
yid Hines, the husband and father. has
been working on farm near Elkton,
and has gone to Brookings to attend
a hearing which will determine wheth-
er the children will be sent to the
cbildren';s home at Sioux Falls.
President Heston of the Madison
normal has made an estimate of the
financial needs of the school for the
next two years and has recommended
the following appropriations: For
salaries (annuaD, $4,000: for repairs
$1,000; for maintenance (annuaD, $40.
900; for a science hall Especially, 500,
600; for a brick smokestack, $4,000;
for an addition to East hall, $4,000
1t is understood the board Of regents
will also recommend the above appro
priations to the legislature. Two years
ago the legislature extended the nor
NAL course one and two years but
made no provision for carrying it into
effect. The extension of the course
requires more help in the faculty as
we'll as additional equipment and ac-
commodations.
:
A new mining company has just
been organized at Broken Bow, Neb.,
by J. U. Smith and II. Mcclellan. 1t is
known as the Gold Medal Mining com
pany and is stocked for 100000
.,,a,oe of a nor yal,,o of 81 Zach MOSt