The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1907-08-09
South Dakota
General State News ParaSraphed.

u. L. AdamSon, wanted at Hurley,
Turner county, on a charge Of forgery,
was arrested in Chicago.
Melvin Bolin, eight years old, mar
rowly escaped death while playing in
an elevator at Corona. He dropped
thirty-eight feet and escaped with .
broken leg.
Frank Johnson, an employe of a no
tel at Pukwana, was struck by light
ming and killed. He was bringing the
COWS In from the pasture when he
was struck.
The county commissioners have
made contracts with the Iowa Bridge
company to build ten new steel bridges
over the streams in Hand county. The
work will be done this fall.
Temporary organization of the So
cialist party In Lawrence county has
been effected. M. w. Atwood will be
secretary until October, when the Or
ganization will be made permanent.
A young farmer named Kuny, living
near Lebanon, was struck and instant
ly killed by a bolt Of lightning. He
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the stock home when he met death.
George Fountain, we'll known at
Washington as a horse trainer, was
6neu $25 and sentenced to 25 days in
Jail by Justice Curtis for cruelty to an
lmals. He seriously injured a colt in
breaking.
Chris Wolff fell from a wagon in
Yankton and received a broken collar
bone, several fractured ribs and a
badly bruised up face. He fell over
the dashboard and was kicked by his
horses and picked up insensible.
H. o. Mathiesen has been elected
chief Of the fire department at Huron
to fill the vacancy caused by the de-
parture Of Charles Aldrich, the old
chief, from Henry. The department
consists of two companies of sixteen
men each, and is one of the most ef-
6cient in the state.
The city Jail at Deadwood is fast
becoming filled with the representa-
tives of the great American hobo race.
For some unexplained reason the
tramps have suddenly picked Dead.
wood as a field for their operations,
and their appearance on the city's
streets as beggars has become a nuis-
ance.
Ex-Mayor c. H. Fitch is building a
new elevator at Canton, and when
completed will make the sixth. The
Farmers elevator recently held it's an
nual meeting and will pay a dividend
of 40 per cent, leaving a balance of
16 per cent, which was retained in the
treasury. Both farmers and elevators
are doing we'll.
The second annual fair of the Han
son County Agricultural society will
be held at Alexandria Sept. II, 10 and
10. AT a recent meeting Of directors
the following officers were elected:
President, Walter Slade; secretary, G.
b. Twamley; treasurer, Henry Mont
gomery. M. NJ. Bowers held over as
vice president Of the society.
c. G. Long of Lake Odessa, Mich,
was killed by a Great Northern freight,
train at Huron. He and a companion
were riding on the beam Of a freight
car when the coupling broke and the
train separated, Long failing between
the wheels. His head was crushed
and his body fearfully mangled, re-
sulting in almost instant death.
Organization Of a vigilance commit
tee nay be the outcome Of the con-
slant raids by thieves on the sheep
camps near Belle Fourche. At a meet
ing of sheep growers, representing
It's, 900 head, an assessment of a quar-
ter of a cent a head was levied to
raise a FUND to cope with the raiders,
and vigorous action was promised.
Deadwood may secure a public park
within the next few weeks. Efforts
commenced by Mayor Adams toward
the rising of a fund for this purpose
are bearing fruit and the town is TAX
ing up the agitation for a resort on
City creek, where a large tract Of
ground probably will be purchased and
by damming the creek an artificial
lake will be formed.
The secretary Of the interior has
awarded a contract for the construc.
ton Of about three miles of lateral
bitches and structures on the Belle
Fourche irrigation project to Harley
Shelving Of Belle Fourche at $8,795.
The secretary has also executed a
contract with George A. Lane of Sa-
noma, s. D., for the construction Of
about ten miles of lateral bitches on
the same project at $1,000.
Exceeding even the fondest antici.
pstions Of the sheep men. the banner
crop of wool has been brought to
Belle Fourche this year. To date
more than 1,500, 900 pounds have been
brought in from the ranges north of
that place, and a few more additions
will be made to these figures. Last
years crop was less than 1885, 900
pounds. Wool here has brought the
highest price for range wool Of any
place in the West, "a 3-8 cents per
pound.