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The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1907-01-11
HUG PREVENTED; USES GUN.
Iowa Lover Shoots Man in Jealous An.

ger.
Des Moines, Jan. 5.-Maddened be-
cause the girl he loved went to a
church entertainment with another
man, Frank Orr attempted to forcibly
embrace Miss Lulu Higgins at her
home. He shot and seriously wounded
Ira Bogard, who attempted to inter
fere. Miss Higgins jumped from a
window to escape the unwelcome at
tentions of the man who loved her,
and Bogard wrested the revolver from
his asssailant before Orr escaped.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1907-01-11
Family Sees Suicide.

Lake City, Mimi, Jan. 4.-George 8.
Mabey committed suicide last evening
by shooting himself in the head with
a revolver. He committed the act In
his home, within sight of his wife and
three children. Dependency over
money matters is ascribed as the
cause of his deed.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1907-01-11
BUILD BONFIRE IN BARN..
Tots Told Not to Play Outdoors Nearly
Are Cremated.

Hawarden, Iowt, Jan. 5.-Cautioned
by their mother not to play outdoors
in the rain, Clifford, aged six years,
and Lola, aged four, children Of L. L..
Young, a farmer living near here, went
into the barn and built a bonfire. The
children barely escaped from the burn
ing building in time to save their
lives, the barn and contents. including
eight horses and much grain being en-
tirely destroyed. The loss is SIS. 900.
with some insurance.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1907-01-11
BOYCOTT Postal Boxes.

Albert Lea, MINI, Jan. 5.-There is
rebellion here over the increase in the
rent for postofice boxes, and the pa.
who go to the Office for their
mail are planning a boycott Of Uncle
Sam as far as private boxes are con-
,erned.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1907-01-11
Calls Doctor: Shoots Him

Carthage, Mo-, Jan. 4. - DR.. J. w.
Meredith was shot and probably fatal.
ly wounded by Arthur Sanderson at
the latter's home here yesterday. San.
derson had called the physician to at
tend his wife, and then met him at the
door and fired at him. Sanderson, who
was arrested, asserted that DR.. Mere
dith had broken up his home.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1907-01-11

Gardner Bros, merchants at Rec
Heights, and r. w. Speirs, the proprie-
tor of the other store there, have com
bined their interests and the mercan-
tile, lumber and other store business
hereafter will be operated under one
management. The company has been
incorporated as the Rec Heights Mer-
camille company and the capitalization
is given at sec, 900.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1907-01-11
On Board of Reaents.

st. Paul, Jan. Gov. Johnson yes
terday announced the appointment of
S. M. Owen of Minneapolis to the
board Of regents of the state univer-
sity, to succeed ]. T. Wyman of the
same city.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1907-01-11
PLUM FOR FORMER PARTNER.

Roosevelt's Ola Business Mate 10
Made Federal Marshal.
Helena, Mont, Jan. 5.-A. w. Merri-
field, who in the sos was a partner of
Theodore Roosevelt in the cattle bust
ness on the Little Missouri, in the
eastern part of this state, was yester.
day sworn in as United States mar
shall for the district of Montana.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1907-01-11
Two Killed in Wreck

Livingston, Mont, Jan. A wreck
occurred yesterday at Coal Spur, a sta
ton on the Northern Pacific twelve
miles west of this city, in which two
railway men of Livingston lost thei.,
lives.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1907-01-11
Montana Minino Man Drowns.

Helena, Mont, Jan. George Gun.
vile, a we'll known mining man, While
climbing an inclined shaft in Monte
yuma, near here, fell from a ladder and
was drowned in eighteen feet of wa
ter.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1907-01-11
RECEIPTS FROM PRISON.
State Treasurer Gets %$117,ss9.S2 From
December Collections.

OeCeN1UVT OOITcClTOHS.
st. Paul, Jan. 5.-The state treasury
was enriched yesterday by $117,SSS.S2,
received from the state prison for the
December collections. The receipts
during the month from the sale of
binder Irvine We're $109, 229.65, and the
miscellaneous receipts were $S,659.17,
including sl69,50 being the visitors
fees for being shown through the in
stitutiOn.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1907-01-11
is STABBED AT COCKPIT.
Dubuque Man May Die as Result Of


Des Moines, Jan. 5.-As the result
of a quarrel over the proceeds OF q
cock fight held in a saloon in Dubuque,
John Spoo lies in the hospital so badly
cut with a knife that he is expected to
die. Dutch" Kaufman, with whom
he fought, is being held by the police
pending developments.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1907-01-11
Cans to Fioht Britt.

Tonopah, New, Jan. 4.-Ben Selig,
acting for Joe Cans. yesterday signed
articles calling for a finish tight be-
tween Cans and Jimmy Britt.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1907-01-11
FARMERS STILL THREshlNG.
Hum of the Machines Heard in West
ern Minnesota,

ST. Cloud, Mimi, Jan. 5.-Col. Viii
liam Westerman, who travels for a
harvester company, reports that farm
ers are still busily threshing nearly all
the way from Fergus Falls to Brock
enridge. Notwithstanding, there is a
large quantity of grain in the stack
which will not be threshed this winter.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1907-01-11
GOOD YEAR FOR ALBERT LEA.
Building Improvements Foot UP to
So57.165.

$257,165.
Albert Lea, Jan. S. - The building
Improvements for the year foots up
$257 ,165, and mark one of the best
years for a decade or more. Over
$4,000 was paid out for cement and
brick sidewalks and crossings. The
policy of the city is to prevent the lay
ing of any more wood walks anywhere
within the city limits.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1907-01-11
Condition Of
State Finances

tional limit to bond
the payment of TIN
summed by the state,
appears that since
bonds have been
recommends that t
pirate funds to email
assessment to perfc
upon it by chapter
making it the dut
take such means a
shall deem proper
certain, a
proper assessment !
taxable property in
from such assessme
or which has been
from assessment
the fact that the
which enacted this
vision by appropri;
into effect. I heart
mendation OF the a,
The governor poln
June 30, 1906, ther
cents of the scho,
making a total of
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1907-08-09

UNCLE SANS PEACEMAKERs -
Uncle Sam has lately ordered from
the Newport News Shipbuilding Com
pany, on bid of 81, 1857 900, and the
Fore River Shipbuilding company, of
Massachusetts with 4 bid at S4.377.-
600, for building the two "a. 0O0-ton
battleship of the Drcadnought type
for the United States navy. The de-
sign selected shows that the ships
will carry as heavy armor and as pow
erful armament rs any known vessel
of this class; will have a speed be.
lieved to be the highest practicable
for vessel of this type and class and
have the highest practicable read
mess of action, with total coal bunk
er capaciety of about 1900 tons; a
speed on trial of twenty-one knots; q
length on the load water line of about
$40 feet, and an extreme breadth of
about eighty-five feet two and five
eighthS inches. The armament is to
be composed us follows: Main bat
terry, ten twelve-inch brcechloading
rifles; second battery, fourteen five
inch rapidfire guns; four three pound
luting guns; four one FOUNDER semi
automatic guns; two three-inch field
pieces; two machine guns, caliber 30;
two submerged torpedo tubes.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1907-08-09

THE DIVORCE PARTY. Another
novelty has been set ahoat at New
port, where most society fads origi-
nate, and this is the divorce party.
to bring together former husbands
and wives. 1t was in the form OF Il
Luncheon, given by one of the fore
most opponents OF the trial marriage
idea. She conceived the plan of
gathering together all former hus-
bands and wives of her set. and send
them to the dining-room to the
strains OF Should auld acquaintance
be forgot. The Luncheon was
pretty and touching with weeping
cupids in ices and orange flowers and
rosemary decorations. Responses to
the toast of Lovers once, friends
now" concluded an entertainment as
novel rs it was said to have been en-
iOyablp.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1907-08-09

No MORE OF THE IRREDUCIBLE
MINIMUM. - Charles Sweeney, of
Spokane, declares, according to the
Spokcsmon- Rrrirw, that Wesley l..
Jones is only a cat s-paw of John L..
Wilson, which impels the admission
that he might be in worse hands.
But who is Mr.. Sweeney? A CAPT
talist of Spokane, who tried to go
to the U. S. Senate by the Ankeny
method two years ago, and failed.
The State was hardly to be raped
again by a plethoric purse, and it
was through Mr.. Wilson'S influence
largely that another irreducible
minimum" was not foisted upon the
public service by the wantOn zeal
that is sometimes inspired by a we'll
filled purse. 1t is reported that a
little experience on Wall street late
ly tore some of the lining from Mr..
Sweeney's wallet, thus augmenting
the sorrow as the truth becomes ap-
parent and he beholds the
Charm dissolve the vision die.
Twas but enchanted ground"
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1907-08-09
A Righteous and Fearless Judge.

1t is indeed conSoling in these
times of untrammclcd rapacity of the
trusts, that we have a Federal jurist
in Judge Lands, of Chicago. who
does not fear to do his duty when
brought in contract with the great
est trust of the world the Standard
Oil Trust, with Rockefeller, the
CroeSus of modern times. us its
unprinciplcd lawdefying manager.
Judge Lands, last Saturday, I'M
posed the colossal fine of 500 240, 900,
or 1852 counts of rebate against the
Standard Oil Company.
This sum is SO inconcrivably large
that it is difficult to form an ade-
quatc opinion of it's magnitude. Some
illustration will help to grasp it. 1t
would build and pay for five of our
largest class warships: it would have
paid the public debt of the govern
mcnt in 1851; il would build 1924
homes costing 800 each; it would
purchase IL, 1876 tirst-class automo-
biles, which placed in line, would
reach % miles; it would. in silver,
aggregate | .S27 900 pounds in weight,
and fill -i6 freight-cars in transporta-
ton, and would require 34 double
teams to haul the coin in three ton
loads. On the basis of five per cent
per year, the income from it would
be nearly a million and a half dol
lars a year, or 1920, S33 per month, or
81, 027 per day.
Rockefeller is said to have gently
remarked, when he heard the finding,
that Judge Lands would be dead
many years before the amount would
be paid, a plutOcratic expression that
would be reasonable if it was not
plutocratic. He and his trust have
always been law-dcfying in avarice
and cold-bloodcd in all dealings with
the public. 1t is undoubtedly the
intent to keep the matter in the
courts, for an indefinite period, prob
ably at first in the u. S. Circuit
Court of Appeals instead of an APP
peal directly to the Supreme Court.
Assistant District Attorney Wilkin-
son, in reply to query as to the
manner of collection of so large a
fine, stated that his understanding
was that the Whiting lind Standard
Oil plant was worth fifty millions,
hut he did not think that the COM
pany would attempt evasion, with
interest piling up the costs that
would ultimately have to be paid.
The company, he said would be fool
ish to resist.
Already the decision has given
Judge Lands national fame, and has
caused his name to be associated
with Presidential possibilities, in the
search for man who has so amply
shown that he is sustained by the
courage of his convictions.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1907-08-09

WHAT means this hObnobbing in
mid-Ocean by Emperor Nicholas of
Russia and Kaiser Wilhelm of Ger
many? This is the second time, il
memory serves, that these festive
monarchs have met on the raging
main to talk about their family af-
fairs over pretzelS, Limburger and
beer. The meeting took place on
the Sd inst, off Swindermunde, and
the vessels used were the Imperial
yacht HOhenzollern and the Russian
ship-Of-state Standard. The German
Baltic fleet were present when the
sOvereignS met.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1907-08-09

BATTLE BETWEEN RAT AND A
CLAM-Onc of the most unnatural
battles between animals is recorded
by an Alaskan miner, just arrived at
Seattle from Sitka. At the peril of
being denounced by President Roose-
welt as a Nature fakir," he relates
that one day q strange shrieking
noise broke the northern silence on
Sitka Sound. He followed it to the
waters edge and was astOnished to
find rat and clam locked in a
fierce combat. There was an awful
struggle and much squealing, as the
rat fought desperately. The clam
was game and settled down to bust
ness with no show of excitement.
By tensing his muscles an extra bit
the shells were brought together
with such force that two of the rat Is
feet were cut off. The narrator says
he never witnessed so interesting a
fight before.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1907-08-09

ALLESAME JAP.-Albcrt VI. Hadi. Il
native of Persia, got into trouble in
Seattle couple of months ago, and
had to pay Il fine and some court
costs. Like the little brown man,
he dignitied his personal encounter
into national affair, and through
the Persian Minister at Washington
had the State Department to call on
Gov. Mead for an inves tigation.
which consisted merely in obtaining
statement of the Prosecuting At
torney of King county, and it was
accepted by the Minister rs entire
ly satisfactory. My! don't we for
eign minnOws swim?
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1907-08-09

MORTICIAN' TO SUPPLANT THE
Word UNDERTAKER.-.it the annual
meeting of the State Undertakers
Association, to be held at Tacoma
next week, the matter of a change of
name from Undertaken, which does
not signify properly the nature of
their business, to one more appropri-
ate, will be discussed, and the word
" Mortician' will be suggested as an
appropriate term. 1t is expected
that if a new name is recommended
that is will be adopted all over the
country.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1907-08-09
The Influx Continues.

/ 1t really seems as if the United
States should be the party aggrieved
in regard to our intercourse with
Japan, from the hundreds and thou-
sands that are daily trying to come.
without lawful right into this coun-
try. They are mobilizing in Mexico
and constantly passing over to this
country. and late dates from the
north of us report 800 Japs just land
ed at Victoria, b. c., by the British
steamship kmneric, who are deter
mined to enter the United States by
stealth. Their plan is to proceed To
stevenson, u town at the headwaterS
OF the Columbia IL short distance.
from the boundary line. and where il
is hoped they may battle the efforts
of the few patrolmcn we have ON the
boundary line. Mr.. Fulton, who is
in charge of the local Immigration
service, has due notice of their COM
ing and will doubtless do his best in
restraint, but it would probably re
quirc an army to afford adequate re-
lief. Japanese are admitted to Eng
fish soil on payment of ST headtax
and meet certain physical require
mentS, SO our colonial ncighbors are
in a position to afford safe asylum to
the invading pest
1t is further reported that several
steamers are under charter to carry
Japs to the Canadian border. and the
present effort is but the beginning
of on active traffic that Great Britain
has never yet refused from any feel
ing of love or respect for Il people of
their own lineage.
What do the maintenance of the
school law in California, or the raid
ing of a few restaurants that hap
pencd to be owned by Japs in San
Francisco, amount to in. comparison
with this obtruSion of the peSky
hordes where they are not wanted,
and where their presence has been
the subject of official protest and an
agreement was entered into by the
Nippon government that their adj
mission should only be authorized
under certain stipulationS?
1t may be possible that this per-
siStent invasion will open people $
eyes as only such inpcrtencne can.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1907-08-09

IT is now said that the North Ger.
man Lloyd steamer Kaiser Wilhelm
H., that careened in the harbor OF
Bremerhaven, Germany, a few weeks
ago, which was then attributed to
improper loading while the ship was
on her keel, was in reality damaged
by a torpedo, that had been placed
aboard by members of her fire-room
crew who had lost their positions,
and it was an attempt to destroy the
vessel.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1907-08-09

The largest baby ever born in
Chicago, came on the first day of the
month. He weighed 1871 pounds,
and came within an inch of being
two feet tall. His name is Fred
Busse Ross. Mayor Busse was his
godfather at christening, which &C.
counts for his second name,
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1907-08-09

WHEN will San Francisco foolish.
ness cease? 1t is now ascertained
that Reuff's board bills amount to
-, 600 per month. At least that is
the allegation of taxpayer in ap-
plying for writ of prohibition.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1907-08-09

A NEW propeller wheel has been
tried on one of the liner steamships
which adds knot to her speed per
hour. The wheel has four bla DIES OF
the same shape and pitch of the ordi-
nary propeller, but they are placed
one abaft of another. but not in line
and are at RICH angles to each other.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1907-08-09

WHITTIER ARE WE DRIFTING IN
MORALs?-A carnival of crime pre-
walls in some of the large cities which
confirms the belief that the world is
in some manner out of joint, or is
passing under malign influences tina t
are not understood despite their
widespread nature. In Chicago and
New York, the two leading cities,
this trend is specially observable and
the latter city has asked for 500 addi-
tiOnal policemen to protect women
and children from assaults of the ap-
parently reckless mob of dissolutc
men. This condition is charged to
the open violation of proprieties of
Mrs. AstOr' sexclusive lot of 10" to
those who set the gait for the social
whirl, which has had its effect upon
all grades of society and classes of
men. There may be some truth in
the charge, but that only places the
main responsibility on other Shout
ders. What is it that is tainting
those who, from profession and am
bition, should set an example for
morality and of righteous deport-
ment?
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1907-08-09

On, THOSE WIDOws!-It is reported
from Elkhart, Ind, that at the grave
OF her husband a widow last week
received a proposal of marriage from
the undertaken and accepted him
while shedding tears for the departed
on his shoulder. She declares that
he was so gentle in treatment of the
corpse that he won her heart. The
wedding took place the next day.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1907-08-09

THE best instances of making a
virtue of necessity yet afforded, has
been in drawing the curtains of the
saloon-windows on Sunday, affording
a full view of the bar and interior, to
show that the law was being rigidly
enforced.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1907-08-09
Now the storm begins to lower.
Haste the loom of hell prepared"

THE girl students of Puget Sound
University, of Tacoma, are busily
selling doughnuts, made by them, to
secure funds to send a delegate from
the school of the Y. w. C. A. to the
Northwestern conference of that as
ISOLATION, at Seaside, Ogn., the lat
ter part of this month. That re-
minds us of the fizzling remark once
said to have been made by the dough-
nuts while immersed in a boiling
cauldron of fat: There's divinity
that shapes our ends" 1t is prOba-
bly, for this reason that they sell like
hot cakes"
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1907-08-09
Charm dissolve, the vision die.
Twas but enchanted ground "

A SPLENDID MOVEMENT FOR RE-
FORM. -ExpectoratiOn in public places
or in plain words splitting upon the
floors of cars, waiting rooms, or in
hotels, or ON the street, has been de
clared nuisance by the State Board
of Health, and punishable by fine
and imprisonment. The board in
defining this form of indecency de-
clareS that Nuisances consist in I'M
lawfully doing an act, or emitting to
perform duty, which act or Omis-
sion either annoys, Injuries or en-
dangers the comfort, repose, health
or safety of others, offends decency
or in any way renders other persons
insecure in life or in the use of prop
erty." That is surely broad enough
for officers of railroads or other pub
lie conveyances to keep their depots
and cars in a sanitary condition, and
for the city police to keep two-legged
members of the porcine family from
squirting their filth upon the side
walk, where it is liable to be mopped
up by the women $ dresses.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1907-08-09

A SINGULAR penchant for matri-
mony Tor was it the dollarsD is told
OF woman who had been married
three times within twenty-four years,
who lately appeared at Denver and
married Joseph Beeman, and after
just two weeks deserted her husband
with 500 of his money, leaving a
note which read: Il just came here
Tor a rest. have got the rest, and
will 60. Good bye"
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1907-08-09
DEMONSTRATION farms are the latest

DEMONSTRATION farms are the latest
latest thing in agriculture. The
scheme will be under the direction of
Prof Elliott, of the State College at
Pullman, and the model farms will be
conducted near ROsalia, and it is ex-
pected that an increased yield of %
per cent. may be realized.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1907-08-09

THE thunderstorm, at Centralia,
last week, put all telephones out of
service. Two buildings were struck.
starting small fires, which were ex-
tinguished without much difficulty.
The electric lights were all extin-
guished. A dance was in progress at
the rink, one of the buildings struck
and a panic ensued, but nobody was
hurt.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1907-08-09

THE figures of the U. S. Bureau of
Statistics show that there are just a
few under 10000, 600 horses in this
country, valued at 81 ,S46, 57s, 900, or
$S3 per head. Ten years ago the ag-
gregate was $4,000, 900, valued at
$500, 900, 900, or only $33 per head.
This shows that the horse has not
passed" yet, despite the bicycle
and automobile