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The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1907-10-11
AMBASSADOR TOWER TO QUIT.
Asks President to Relieve Him From
Duty in Berlin Next Spring.

~
Duty in Berlin Next Spring.
Berlin, Oct. 6.-Ambassador Tower
has writted to President Roosevelt
Roosevelt asking that he be permitted
to retire from the diplomatic service
next spring. Mr.. Towers reasons are
understood to be that he has been
abroad for nearly eleven years and
desires again to live in his own coun-
try in order to have a home there for
his sons, who are now nearly ready to
go to Harvard. and to give his per
sonal attention to his extensive finan-
cial, mining and railroad interests
that have been left to the supervision
of others.
AS the lease on Mr.. Towers house
In Berlin expires next spring, it is pre-
sumed he will remain as ambassador
until after that time. Mr.. and Mrs.
Tower and two young daughters are
at present in Baden Baden. They in
tend to return here the end of this
month.
Mr.. Towers retirement will remove
from the diplomatic list one of the
most experienced of the American rep
r~esentatives in Europe. He has been
continuously minister and ambassador
longer than any other diplomat in the
American service.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1907-10-11
General News Items.

The supreme court of Illinois has
decided the new primary election law
unconstitutional.
j. M. Barr, director general of the
jamestown Exposition company, who
recently resigned that office, finally
declines to withdraw his resignation.
The Eighteenth United States in
fantry started from Fort Leaven-
worth last week for the Philippines,
where it will be stationed three years.
Minneapolis men are interested in a
$1,S00,0 900 company which has applied
for incorporation for the development
of a gold mining proposition in the
Cook City district in Montana.
Mr.. and Mrs. William Jennings Bry-
an recently celebrated the twenty
third anniversary of their arrival in
Lincoln. Neb., by giving a dinner to
n%eighbors and friends known as the
Farmers club.
The dairymen Of Marquette, Mich.
have raised the price of milk from
cents to 10 cents a quart. The increas'
ed price Of grain and hay is given as
the reason, but the formation of a
trust is suspected.
An oil painting of j. Pierpont Nor
gan, which was recently seized by the
customs authorities of New York be
cause the %financier refused to pay q
$25 duty on it, has been sold at auc-
ton for $35, the purchaser being T. J.
Wallace, a saloonkeeper, who will
hang it in his saloon beside a stuffed
monkey which he bought at a sale in
the appraisers stores.
Negro voters were excluded from
participating In the Louisville Demo
cratic primary election for governor
in January. This action was taken by
the Democratic state central commit
tee, which declared the measure to be
the purpose and intent of the primary
election law passed a year ago"
Rev. John Royer of Switzerland
county, Ind. was tried by a committee
! Of nineteen Methodists on charges o.
! kissing a member OF his congregation
against her will and was suspended
from the ministry for one year. The
charges were preferred by the presid
ing elder Of the circuit.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1907-10-11

Herr woolning, formerly Archduke
Leopold Salvatore OF Austria, is en-
gagged to marry Maria Ritter, the
daughter of a humble Silesian.
The entire section through which
the Chinese Eastern railroad uns
has been officially declared to be
threatened with cholera.
A conflagration DESTROYED fou1
blocks in the business section of Port
Limon. entailing a loss Of 500 900 and
resulting in the death of several per.
sons.
A dispatch from Stockholm says
that the Swedish Yacht club has for.
warded a challenge to the New York
Yacht club for a series of races for the
Americas cup.
The Russion government has decid.
ed to dismantle the naval fortresses at
Libau, %Sveaborg, Usdvinsk, Kertch
and Batoum, as they are not required
under the reduced navy.
There have been four deaths from
the plague at Oran and twelve cases
are In the hospital. All of those aft
dicted are said to be recovering. The
contagion was brought there by ships
from India.
Forty-two persons, including thirty
Japanese soldiers we're killed or in.
jured by the derailment Of a south
bound train from Seoul, Korea. The
responsibility for the wreck has no,
been located.
Torrential rains have flooded the
valley OF the Canaro. neal Turin. Crops
have been ruined, stock drowned.
bridges swept away and railroad com.
munication interrupted. The popula-
ton is in great distress.
A signed document by high officials
and the commanders of the army has
been presented to the shah of Persia
to the effect that unless the sovereign
accepts without reserve and will act
according to the demands of a consti-
tutional government they will resign
in a body from the service.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1907-10-11
Plenty Of Bio Game.

Marquette, Mich, Oct. 6.-Big game
hunting in upper Michigan will be
plentiful this fall according to land
lockers and others familiar with con-
ditions in the woods. Deer are re-
ported plentiful, Notwithstanding the
havoc wrought by wolves. Black
bears, too are numerous. While
wolves are present in almost every
district of the peninsula, they appear
surprisingly large in number in Me.
lominee county, considering that the
egion is extensively settled
han any other.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1907-10-11
SHOUT SLOGAN OF
DEEP WATERWAYS
-
MEMPHIS THROWS WIDE HER
GATES TO WELCOME CHIEF
EXECUTIVE.
fAvORS RIVER IMPROVEMENT
"BE SURE YOU ARE RIGHT. THEN
GO AHEAD" PRESIDENT SAYS
TO CONVENTION.

Memphis, Tenn, Oct. 6. - With
bands playing, children singing and
enthusiastic mon shouting the slogan
of deep waterways, Memphis threw
wide her gates yesterday afternoon to
President Roosevelt, a score OF gov
ernors and many other distinguished
~personages of the Mississippi valley.
The president arrived on the steam
er Mississippi shortly after ! O'Clock,
The bluffs overlooking the river were
packed with spectators. who gave the
chief executive a warm welcome.
Immediately following the steamer
Mississippi was the steamer Alton.
carrying visiting governors and other
notables. When all had landed the
president Vas conducted to a carriage
by Gov. Patterson of Tennessee and
Mayor Malone of Memphis, and an i'm
posing parade was begun.
Mass of Color.
The president was continually cheer
ed throughout the march. The city
d a MdNjuS mass VI COIol. w ucll
the presidents carriage turned into
Main street he was saluted by a regi-
ment of Confederate veterans who.
from that point, acted as a bodyguard.
The president rose and warmly greet
ed the griZzled warriors. Despite a
lively %downpour' of rain, which lasted
until noon, the streets we're damned
with citizens.
Arriving at the Auditorium rink,
where the deep waterways convention
is being held, President Roosevelt
alighted n after chatting with sever
al friends assembled the platform.
Praises confederates.
The huge structure filled up rapidly,
and when Gov. Patterson arose to pre-
sem the president an immense assem-
blage greeted him.
President Roosevelt departed from
his printed speech in several in
stances. The Confederate guard of
honor. he said, was a touching sight,
especially as these old Confederate
soldiers carried the flag Of the Union.
If any one wanted to know how they
would fight for that flag let him ask
the boys in blue how they fought
against it. He said with emphasis
that he was as much the president of
the South as of the North. He said he
was half a S%outherner. and when he
told of two or three of his uncles hav-
ing worn the gray he was tremendous
ly applauded.
Favors crockett's Motto.
Speaking of a deep water channel
from the gulf to the lakes, the presi-
dent said he favored rapid improve
ment of the Mississippi river.
Like Davy Crockett. the great Ten.
%nesseean,' he said, 81 favor the motto,
Be sure you are right, then go ahead
and this deep water problem is almost
up to the 'go-ahead' stage, but we want
to be sure about it."
When the president closed his adj
dress ne was driven rapidly to his
train at the Missouri Pacific railroad
station and departed at 5 o'clock for
Lake Providence, La, for a hunting
TWIN
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1907-10-11
SWEDEN.

A new bank, the Swedish Peasants
bank, is to be established at Malmo,
with a capital stock Of 10000, 900
crowns.
The house famine in Stockholm,
about which l have frequently written
in these columns, still continues, and
If not abated when the cold weather
starts, will cause untold distress.
Russian capitalists have great faith
in the Swedish sugar industry, and
are contemplating the investment in
it of $500 900 crowns. The we'll
known manufacturer, Carl Hagman.
who recently visited Malmo, says tn 1T
the plans of Russians to erect sugar
factories in Sweden, entertained earli-
er. have not been abandoned.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1907-10-11
PRIZE is DEATHS AGENT.

Pennsylvania Boy Kills Brother With
Revolver Won at Fair.
Oxforfd. Pa, Oct. 6.-Edward Kuuff-
a nine years old. was shot and in.
stantly killed at Nottingham, near
here, by his brother Harry. The old
er boy recently won a revolver at the
county fair. Armed with the weapon,
he went to meet his brother on his
way home from school and pretending
to be a highwayman held the little fe,.
low up. The weapon was discharged
and Edward was killed.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1907-10-11
DEN MARK.

There are to-day 1892 churches In
Denmark, one seventh Of which are
new-that is to say, built since 1860.
Since that date thirty-fve new
churches have been built in Copen-
hagen, and three are now in process
of construction. and five more are be-
ing planned.
King Frederick will make a tour Of
the Danish provinces this fall. He
has proven himself an active traveller,
having but recently returned from
Iceland. Having an attractive per-
%sonality and being democratic in his
manners, he does much to win the
friendship Of the people by his travels.
King George of Greece will buy a
private villa opposite that of Dowager
Empress Dagmar and Queen Alex
andra's new summer palace, Hvidoere,
for his son Prince George and Prin-
cess Bonaparte. Thereafter the road
from Copenhagen to Elsinore along
the sound will be a regular interna-
tional royal avenue, passing the sum-
mer palaces of King Frederick, King
George, Empress Dagmar. Queen Alex
andra and Prince George.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1907-10-11
OIL GRIEF TOLD FALsEHooD.
Federal Grand Jury Declares Mr.. Moi.
fett's Statement unfounded.

Federal Grand Jury Declares Mr.. Moi.
fett's Statement unfounded.
Chicago, Ill, Oct. 6.-That President
James A. Moffett of the Standard Oil
Company of Indiana, recently fined
S29,240.00o by Judge Lands, had no
knowledge justifying a statement
ascribed to him in a circular widely
distributed in an attempt to show that
the Standard Oil company had not
been guilty of acts that were not COM
mon to many shippers and that the
statement was without foundation,
were the conclusions presented to
Judge Lands yesterday by the grand
jury.
Statement at Issue.
pamphlet to which the jury was in
structed to call the attention of Presi-
dent Moffett was as follows:
Thousands Of tons of freight have
beer shipped from these points whit
ing, Pullman. Hedgwisch and South
Chicago) during the past fifteen yeara
under the same circumstances as the
Standard shipments, and if the Stand
ard is guilty in this case so is practi-
cally every other shipper in this great
manufacturing territory. Is there a
purpose in selecting the Standard as a
victim?"
Has Omnibus Contract.
New York, Oct. 5.-An omnibus con-
tract, whereby the Standard Oil COM
pany obtains from every steamship
company operating between New York
and all ports in Africa a rate for lubri.
eating oil that is about one-half what
its competitor, the New York Lubricat-
ing Oil company, pays, was produced
yesterday in the hearing of the federal
suit against the alleged oil combine.
TarbeII on Stand.
w. w. Tarbell of Philadelphia, treas.
urer of the Pure Oil company and of
the United States Pipe Line company,
related the difficulties his companies
had encountered in competition with
the Standard. Mr.. Tarbell stated that
the business of the Pure Oil company
was placed in districts selected with
a view to avoiding business relations
with certain railroads whose rate dis
examinations were more feared by the
company than the opposition of the
Standard.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1907-10-11
Personal.

Maj. Gen. Sir John Charles Ardlagh.
ex-director of military intelligence at
the British war office, died at Carnar.
Won, Wales.
NJ. ]. ~Brunchorst. the Norwegian
minister at Havana. has been appoint.
ed minister Of public works in success.
sion to X. ID. Lehmkuhl, who has re-
signed.
The Ohio friends of Lieut.. Gen. Cor.
bin, retired, are urging him to accept
the Republican nomination for con-
gresham from the Sixth congression-
al district in that state.
The report that Prince Francis of
Teck will shortly be formally engaged
to the beautiful Miss Margaretta
Drexel of Philadelphia has spread
" London during the past few
days and is being generally discussed.
Miss Mary G. Burdette, sixty-slx
years old, sister of Robert J.. Burdette
and for many years corresponding Sec
rotary of the Baptist Home Missionary
society, died in Chicago at the Baptist
training school. She suffered from
n
Nine. Anna Gould's possible en-
gagement to Prince Helie de Sagan is
being discussed by those in the inner
circles of French-American society in
Paris. Despite denials that they will
marry, Prince de Sagan continues his
attentions to the American woman.
Capt. Marcus M. Drake, one of the
best known men on the Great Lakes,
died at Buffalo, N. Y. When Grover
Cleveland was elected governor of
New York. Capt. Drake was elected by
the common council to fill out his I'M
expired term as mayor of Buffalo.
Foreign.
The storm center in the South of
France has shifted eastward to Tou-
Ion. The grape crop there has been
entirely destroyed.
The epidemic of cholera which broke
out in Russia early in August is
spreading rapidly, and already twelve
provinces are affected.
The authorities at Marseilles admit
that a death from the plague occurred
on board the Italian steamer Ammonia,
which is now in quarantine at that
port, and another case of the disease
had been taken to the quarantine hos
pital, but the health Oficials declare
that all danger Of injection is over.
"A girl Of seventeen was one Of the
nercest resisters In q gang Of bandits
recently overpowered near Jojarevats,
servia. She had fed from her home
% Join her sweetheart, who was one
of the band, and declared she fought SO
stoutly In order to make ure of being
sent 70 prison with him.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1907-10-11
NEWS OF WEEK SUMMARIZED
DIGEST OF THE NEWS WORTH
TELLING CONDENSED FOR
BUSY READERS.
Washington Notes.

The new national pure food law re
curing accurate labelling of food
products has gone into effect and the
department of justice is preparing for
a campaign in enforcement of the
statute.
BY direction of the president Will.
lam II. Duvall has been appointed to
be major general in the army, vice
MAJ. Gen. William McCaskey, the pres
ent commander Of the Department of
h Dakotas.
Attorney General Bonaparte had a
long conference with Assistant Attor-
ney General Purdy. at which the in
vestigation of the Standard Oil COM
pany was discussed and a number of
other pending matters reviewed.
President Roosevelt has been pre-.
scented with a handsome jeweled Japa.
nese sword. The presentation was ar
ranged for by Ambassador Aoki and
made by Taniemon H%itachiyama, the
champion wrestler of Japan, who is on
a sightseeing tour of the United
States
A new record has been made in wire
less telegraphy by the navy. The wire
less telegraph station near Savannah.
Ga, has picked up a message from the
cruiser Pennsylvania while approach
ing San Francisco from Honolulu.
The best previous record was made
by the Washington navy yard station
several months ago, when it received
a message from the naval wireless
station at Los Angeles, Cal.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1907-10-11
Crimes.

Frank ]. Constantine, recently con-
victed of the murder of Louise Cen
try in Chicago, has been denied a new
trial by Judge Kavanaugh, and in ac-
cordance with the verdict of the jury
was sentenced to life imprisonment.
Seven moro graft indictments in the
capitol prosecutions were returned by
the Dauphin county grand jury at Har-
risburg, Pa. Every man named in the
prosecutions has now been indicted
and there are still twelve cases to be
considered.
Adelbert Schauer, a well-to-do manu.
facturer of New York, who had just
returned from a hunting trip in Maine,
committed suicide. apparently because
of the death Of his pet setter dog,
which he had accidentally shot during
his hunting trip.
With the gas turned on Mrs. Mar.
garet F. Bukelow, Madison, Wis, who
protested to be a cousin of Senator La
Toilette. was found lead In her room
in Washington. AS there was an ugly
bruise under n eye and other evi.
dences of a possible struggle, the po.
lie suspect foul play.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-08-29
READY FOR SCHOOL OPENING.
Are Made for September
 10 by Remodeling and Refurnish-

This week will see the completion of the work of remodeling and refurnish- ing many of the schools in the city in preparation for their annual opening on September 10. While many of tho schools of the state open on Septen- Der 3, the local schools are one week later.
 The only marked changes in the ae- commodation of pupils will be at the Wooster street school, where the col- lapsible building, which was used at the new Kimberly school last year is being erected in the grounds in the rear of the main building. Of all the districts of the city, the Wooster street district seems to be growing the fast est and the school authorities have been forced to o some neavy thinking in order to arrange for the accommo- dation of the large number who will appear to be enrolled this year.
 Owing to the increase in the sala- ries of the teachers but few vacancies will appear in the various staffs of in struction. What few vacancies have occurred will be filled from the list .of unsigned teachers appointed by the board of education at their meeting held in June.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-08-29
ROAD GETS NEW LINES THREE IN RHODE ISLAND. Papers Transferred Selling Them to New Haven
 Railroad.

A resolution dissolying the Rhode Island Securities company, subsidi- ary corporation of the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad com pany, was passed Tuesday at a meet ing of the directors of the company held in the offices of the Title Guaran- tee and Trust company of Jersey City, Armed with the necessary proxies and records of the Rhode Island Securities company, Secretary John G. Parker of New Haven, accompanied by two as- sistants, signed the official document that puts the concern out of commis- s1o..
 This action Is simply formal pro- ceeding to facilitate the handling of the stocks of the various corporations owned by the New York, New Haven and Hartford railroad which were held by the Rhode Island Securities com pany," said Mir. Parker. 'The resolu- ton dissolving the company was passed by unanimous consent"
 By the dissolution, Mr. Parker said, the alIalrS or the three trolley roads operating in and around Providence and Pawtucket, known as the Pawtucket Street Railway company, the Union Railroad company and the Rhode Is- land Suburban Street Railway com pany would be handled direct by the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad company. The Rhode Island Securities company was organized un- der the laws of New Jersey in 1902. 1t owned all of the $5,081 ,OOO stock of the Rhode Island company, formed in 1902, which leased from the United Traction and Electric company the three troll ley lines named The New York, New Haven and Hartford acquired control of the Rhode Island Securities com pany little more than year ago.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-08-29
ODD FELLOWS FIELD DAY.
Bib Program Outlined for Labor Day
 With Parade snd Reccntinn.

New England members of the Grand United Order Of odd Fellows will be well received here on Labor Day if the preparations of colored New Haven Odd Fellows is any criterion.
 Lodges from New York and New Jer- 9ey will be here also The newly or ganized New England Patrlarchie reg iment will hold it's first annual field ex- ercises on that day. There will be a street parade in the morning.
 The line of march will be: Form on Goffe street, right resting on Foote street, march to Orchard to Charles to Dixwell to Broadway to Elm to Tem- pie to Chapel to Howe to Whalley to Sperry to Webster to Masonic hall and dismiss. The organization will be es- corted by platoon of police. After the parade the New England convention will be held In the evening at Music hall promenade and reception will be held. His Honor Mayor J. P, Stutlley will deliver an address of welcome to be followed by Hon, w. L. Houston, grand master of the G. U. O. of O. F. in America, who will deliver an ora tio on Odd Fellowship, after which q reception will be rendered him. There will be dancing until a. m, with nu- SIC by Murray's full orchestra of 20 pleces.
 Christian starqodge, No. 14S4, of this city, in whose honor the United Order is to meet here, was organized in 1870 and has 200 members.
 Its officers are: Noble grand, George A. Pickett; vice grand, John o. Epps; past noble grand, Oscar B. Ross; per- manent secretary, Benjamin O. McIn- tyre; elective secretary, Richard E. Pierce; past noble father, Charles B. Bowman; treasurer, Edward B. Howell inside guardian, J. F, Greene; R, s. to N. G., Fred Young; L. s. to IN G., Thomas B. Jones; R,S. to V. G., George, A. Brewster; l. s. to V. E, William H. Griffin.
 Trustees, pr. L N. Porter James W. Pugh and William H. Lynn.
 Perry Banta, Almeron Harris James H, Bowman are among It's charter members, It is a sick and death bene- fit organization. Unity lodge, also of this city, formed in 1905 has 65 mem bers
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-08-29
APPEAL FROM PROBATE
 IN DELANEY WILL CASE Mary Conway, Heir at Law, Was Not Given Any Part
 of the Estate.
JACKSON WILL ADMITTED
All But Five Divorce Applica- tions in This County
 Granted This Year.

A notice of appeal from the action of the probate court in the approval of the will of the late Edward Dela- ney and the admitting it to probate was filed in the court yesterday aft ernoon by Mary Conway, who states that she is an heir-at-law of the de- ceased. In. the will, which disposed of a small estate, she was not remem- bered at all The estate went to man by the name of James J. Rey- holds, and to his wife both of whom were designated by the testator as friends. The will was admitted to probate and the appeal is taken to the superior court and is returnable the first week in October
 The will of the late Polly Jackson, of Orange, was admitted to probate yesterday before Judge studley, and her son, Frank D. Brown, of Cleve- land, was appointed executor, as the will directed. Mrs. Jackson left an estate estimated at between $S,O0O and $1O,O0O, about half of which is in real estate in Orange The real estate is left to the life use of her brother, John S Oviatt, and the resi- due to the son. Theron L. Alling and Elizur A, Russell were named as ap- praisers.
 Judge studley in the probate court yesterday denied the application of Robert J. Noble, of this city, for the appointment of an administrator on the estate of Lucy T, Colton, of Wall than, Mass. which has been in the court ten years The deceased own ed property in this district, which the heirs-at-law have since sold to MT. Noble, and he asked that proper ad- ministrator be appointed to settle the matter As the court saw no reason for any interference and the heirs by the sale relinquished all rights, the application was denied.