The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1907-09-13

Dakota
General
State
News in
Paragraphs.

~ SAhs WIN.
The six troops of the Sixth cavalry
of Fort Meade departed from there
last week for the Philippines. Ten de-
sertions were reported here from the
troops.
Joseph Lopas of Deadwood, better
known as Mexican joe" is dead. For
the last quarter Of a century he was
a familiar figure on Deadwood's
streets.
A milk famine menaces the city Of
New York, according to prominent
dealers. They say the shortage is now
sc, 1000 quarts a day mt the supply 10
decreasing daily.
DR.. E. T. West. the new governor for
Battle Mountain sanitorium. and his
bride, have arrived at Hot Springs.
They were received with military lon
ors upon their arrival.
Prosperity seems to be coming Key
stones way. The regular quarterly
statement Of the keystone bank
shows figures in deposits of over
$4,000 in the past three months. The
bank now has nearly $50, 900 subject
to check and $4,000 in certificates OF
deposit, yet keystone is only a small
mining camp.
The past month Ed Butt, a farmer
living near Cavour, has received $44
from the local creamery for cream
separated from the milk Of five cows,
or an average of $3.50 a COW for the
month. In addition to what he sold
the creamery, the family had all they
wished to use. Mr.. Butt figures that
his and will make greater returns
planted" to cows than to small grain.
F. p. Dewey of Washington, D. c..
has just completed the first thorough
investigation of the United States as.
say office in Deadwood. The object of
this visit at this time was to look ove
the new equipment that the office has
just received with the idea of ultimate
ly putting all branches of the service
at Deadwood on a uniform basis, as
they are in assay offices In other
cities.
William Peck, aged seventy-two
years, a pioneer of Deadwood, is dead.
He was a prominent agriculturist
when he went to Deadwood in 1873
with his family, and for many years
made his living and finally acquired a
competence off a small garden patch
of less than an acre which he cultivat
cd Nv DnoI uyoc n ya{iun 80 Ach1@y
| Ohio. A widow and three children
| survive.
By a misstep, Steve CASTELAR,, one OF
the miners in the Homestake mine fell
through the shaft from the 3OO-foot
level to the 500-foot level and was in.
stantly killed. CASTELAR, was a cage
tender and was being hoisted to the
surface with a sack of sand which he
had on his shoulder. This Sane
aused him to take a step backward
and he fell from the cage while 1t
was rapidly ascending.
Circuit court will meet at Miller on
September II. The somewhat famous
civil action of the aged widow, Mrs.
bring, against st. Lawrence township
for several thousand dollars artesian
we'll bonds that she has not beer able
to collect will come up at this term.
1t is expected that Mrs. bring, who ia
nearly ninety years old, will appear
in court and testify in the case.
Jacob Shops, an alleged silk thief,
was brought to Waterloo from his
home in Maynard to answer to the
charge Of grand larceny. Shops 10
charged with taking several dozen
bolts of ribbon from the Rock Island
freight house while loading his hoase-
hold goods, which had beer shipped
from Rowley, into a dray. Shops is a
well-to-do farmer and has wealthy reL
atives.
After a quarrel with her lover, Mar
guerite Hodson Of Deadwood, destroy.
ed all of her personal belongings, tear.
ing her handsome clothes into shreds
and then jumped from a third-story
window Of the Mansion hotel. She
landed in an alley but at the hospital,
where she was taken, physicians say
she will recover. She received a
broken jaw. three broken ribs, wrist
fractured in two places, and a badly
cut head.
The hotel situation in Washington
Springs, which has been a serious one
for the past four years or more. is
about to be relieved through the eff.
forts of a number of business men
here, who have induced J.. L. Coram. a
we'll known hotel man of Plankinton.
to build a modern hotel and run it
This news will be received with much
Joy by the many travelling men who
make that city.
AS Mrs. Laccoss and her daughter
Belle were sitting hY the kitchen