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The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1907-03-29

Mrs. J.. O. Andrews returned
Wednesday night from Mankato
and Minneapolis.
Always something new in en-
quisite perfumes here. Sample
our latest. Palace Drug Store.
Geo. Hendrickson is making
arrangements to build a resi-
dence on his lots ON East Oak
street.
Thos. Thompson comes before
the readers of the STANDARn
this week with an advertisement.
1t will pay you to read it,
At the recent election n NJ
nesota townshpit was voted to
build a town hail Ono n size,
10 foot posts, to cost about
$1,000. This will be the first
town hall in Roberts county out
side Of an incorporated village.
Hankinson News.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1907-03-29
MARK ct REPORT

Burns & Wolf have a change
of adj in this issue.
A. A. Drake, of Corona, was
in the city Monday.
Oscar Beaver represented
Wjlmot in the city Tuesday.
Lloyd Folkestad spent Sunday
visiting relatives in Wilmot.
To make gardening pay, SOW
our sure seeds. Palace Drug
Store.
Howard Babcock, returned
Saturday from a trip to Fergus
Falls.
Hon. C. F. Porter, of Wilmot,
tarried in the city between trains
Saturday.
Hon. Thos. Bouck, of Milbank,
was attending to legal business
in the city Saturday.
Mrs. John Minder and little
daughter visited relatives in
Wiimot last Saturday.
E. C. Gamm, manager of the
Sisseton Lumber Co., returned
Saturday from a trip to the Twin
cities.
Miss Phyllis LindGuist visited
with the family of her uncle c..
c.. knappen Friday and Saturday
of last week.
Thos. Peever, of the Peever
Mercantile Co., went down to
Aberdeen Monday to attend some
Masonic doings.
Fred Sheldon and wife, of
Winans, visited in the city Sat
urday. The STANDARD acknow-
lodges a pleasant call.
Mrs. L. S. Babcock entertained
aclass of young people from the
Methodist Sunday school last
Monday evening.
The fair association meeting
which was to have been held at
the city hall last Saturday was
postponed to a future date.
The purchasing committee of
the library association have Sc
lected and ordered a list of ITO
new books, eighty Of which are
juvenile books.
The faculty Of the Good Will
training school will give a con-
cert April 5th, the proceeds of
which will go towards the pur-
chase Of instruments for the
new band.
Mr.. and Mrs. Lee Babccck.
having sold their farming uten-
sils and interests near Wig, are
in the city for a time with Mr..
Babcock's parents. Mr.. and Mrs.
L. S. Babcock. They will locate
in St. Paul in the near future.
Mrs. A.. d. Paulson and two
oldest children, Arthur and
Easter, and Mrs. Paulson's
brother, Elmer Hanvik, who
have spent the winter atAstoria,
Oregon, returned home Monday
evening and A. D. no longer
wears that Gloomy Gus expires.
sion.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1907-03-29

IN SlsSeton.
Rev. D. Evans was in the city
Wednesday.
Miss Edna Mckeever is home
this week from Mitchell, for the
Easter vacation.
Sheriff Minder went over to
Summit Tuesday on official
business.
Leon Cheezig has purchased
lots on Maple street and expects
to build a residence thereon this
coming season.
Here is suggestion of value.
Old d%ressers, tables or sideboards
are most expensive looking after
getting a coat of Perma-Lac.
Buy it from A. b. Matthews.
Bert Horton. Harry Horton
and Nels Olberg were passengers
south-bound Tuesday. They
said they We're going to Eureka
maybe they We're, anyhow we
hope they did.
Mrs. Howard Babcock enter
tanned a number Of friends at
her home Saturday evening, at
cards. Refreshments We're served
and a most enjoyable evening
was spen- by the participants.
John Jackman, of Harmon
township, was in the city
Wednesday. He informs us that
be has sold his farm in section
tTverty SIX 70 :. 2. Gao~, md
will shortly move to British
Columbia.
Martin Fellbaum, one Of Min
nesota townships industrious
young farmers, is loading a car
to-day for shipment to Denhoff,
Mclean county, near which place
he will settle on his homestead.
Hankinson News.
Mr.. Horace Brown, who has
been visiting the families OF
Harve.y Brown and w. II.
Muffie.y, returned to his home n
Usage, Iowa, last Friday. lie
was accompanied by Miss Flossie
Brown. who Will remain there
during he summer.
You we it to your own com.
munit! to buy your goods from
home r archants and stand by hel
busineGs men. You can always
find tt announcements of repre-.
sentative business men in fthese
columns men who will stanC
back of every statement anC
price they make.
John McColeman. of Sisseton,
S. D., was an arrival here
Wednesday for a visit with his
daughter, Mrs. Pierce Egan.
Mr.. McColeman is we'll pleased
with our little city and surround.
ing country and is thinking
strongly of locating here per.
manently and going into BIS.
mess. Tagus Mirror.
The Woman's Missionary so.
ciety of the Presbyterian church,
will give tea at the home OF
Mrs. w. K. Morris, on Saturday
afternoon, April 6, 1907. A
large attendance is desired. A
special offering will be received:
any having mite boxes that have
not been collected will please
bring them. A program will be
given and light refreshments
served. Program will begin |
$3.50.
A valuable team belonging t.
Philip LaBatte was drowned
near the Agency Saturday night
Mrs. LaBatte was driving home
from Sisseton, accompanied b,
Miss Crawford. In crossing /;
bridge over a small stream tn,
women failed to notice a wash
out on the further side where
the water was deep and turbu
lent. The horses plunged in
and the tongue Of the Wagon
held them down so that the,
were drowned before assistance
arrived. Both women escape,
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TIGHT LID" FOR ST. PAUL.
Rigid State Law to Be Enforced il
Minnesota.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
ST. PAUL Mimi, December 21.-The IL
o'c'ock lid" goes on in st. Paul tomorrow
light, and every thirst parlor in the city
will close tight Sunday closing is al
lady an accomplished fact This action
-ollows the notice of the attorney general
served on Mayor Robert A. Smith that tn
tate closing law will be enforced in ST.
Paul, and after st. Pau, gets the lid ii
will be applied to every other city in the
T:ate.
The thirsty men viii have to provide for
his wants early or go dry in Minnesota
rhe lid has apparently come to stay. since
9othing but the repeal of the state law
can restore oid-time conditions.
Mayor Smith is on the Nwarpath and
brands the action of the attorney general
as a piece of foolishness. "Some laws
IRE put on the books merely to serve
as clubs to hold over the heads of the
people," he said. "I've been mayor of st
Paul for fifteen and a half years In all,
serving at different times seven full terms
md the unexpired term of former mayor
addition, and this Is the first tim
any one ever thought 1t necessary to pre-
,ent respectable citizens from getting
glass of beer after the theater.
St. Paul already had a midnight lid.
but the prohibitionists weren't satisfied
They poked up the attorney general and
he has ru ed for the full and rigid en-
torcement of state law which has lain
dormant for years.
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tomobile Club. in a group of those ex-
traordinary Paris business men VINO are
at the same time sports. athletes. racers
balloonists, f1ying-machine enthusiasts,
lady-killers and friends and companion
workers with grimy artisans. 1t is new
kind of man, my friends; look out FOR
these Parisians-they will astonish you.
All was enthusiasm, and one man had just
said:
Certainly, I'd like to traverse Boring
strait upon the ice. The thing appeals to
me!'-when up spoke the inevitable
thrower of cold water. 1t was Georges
Dupuy of the sporting Paris daily, the
Auto.
IT myself played faro bank upon the ice
of Boring sea, two miles off-shore, in
front of Nome City, in the winter of
l9O3-4" he said; land that seems. near
enough to Boring strait, don't 1t? The
game was running in the extraordinary
Monte Carlo Casino built of pine logs
calked with tow. Ten red-hot stow IS
made the establishment warm for the
miners and the demoiselles of Nome City
dance halls-whoSe smart sled-teams OF
Eskimo dogs were waiting for them at
the door,"
well, just before twilight, say p.m.,"
he continued, "a mile distant, we could
see the little blue waves Of the sea, out
there, beneath their gray fog. Never
once, while I was at Nome. did Boring
sea freeze over. lnree OF lOuT EllieS Vi
salt water freezes good and hard. 1 was
told. When the day is very clear good
marine glasses permit you to distinguish
the two high black points of Diomede Is
land-far off, up there. in the strait
which island itself is thirty-eight miles
distant from Siberia. Nome City is near
nough all right, for all the arrangements
of crossing and establishing supplies. and
York is up there on the spot; but Boring
sea was never frozen farther out than
three or four or five miles when was at
Norne!'
Were you at the strait itself?' asked
some one.
NO
1T might have been frozen hard on each
side of those islands might it not?" con-
tinued the romantic-viewed Partisan.
Yes replied Dupuy. And moreover,
it would not detra ct from sporting inter-
st-should the strait not happen to be
frozen over in these years of solar maxi.
mum-that the contestants be carried
hose few miles in boat that might also
land the supplies for the first Siberian
station
Then up spoke a silent man:
BEST wait for Bering strait to freeZe!
he said. STERLING HELLO
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official committee of the race arranged
to assure deposits every 300 miles AS to
exchange pieces, I was to have found
them at Omsk. where they had not ar
rived. and did not need them"
AS fact. the Peking-Paris contestants
| never needed supply stations as close to-
gether as 800 miles. A specially reser-
voired automobile of, say, forty horse
| power or sixty horsepower, with the pres
| sure system, can easily carry, say 50o
| quarts good for $50 miles or 700 quarts
good for over 1000 miles. The one-third
| loss by evaporation in summer will be
altogether saved, and today a company
| can be found that guarantees to estab-
! fish relay stations between Yakutsk and
| Boring strait in Siberia not farther
or still closer together If deemed neces-
sary
| On the other hand, the first cables from
| America were taken by Parisians as dis
couraging, with respect to the route up
| through Alaska.
Few American Automobiles consider
seriously the proposed race to Paris via
Alaska" ran a commercial cable pub
Eshed everywhere in Paris. THE first
| opinion is that the project is impracti-
| cable. owing to the difficulties in crossing
| Alaska. Men who have been to the Klon-
dixie have before this ridiculed the idea
| of traversing the snow wastes in automo-
| biles.'
Partisan Sports Optimistic.
All over Paris, however, at the present
| hour. they are discussing the various
possible American routes. One is traced
| in diagonal straight line from Mime
| apolis to Dawson city.
| I'VE shall be happy to depend on the
| Americans for much" says Bourcier
| Saint-Chaffray, who was commissioner
| general of Peking-Paris, and we are sure
that there will be as many American as
| European contestants Our ENJOYS will
soon arrive in New York, when the plan
with all its serious details will be sub
nitted to- America. We are delighted with
| the offer of the greatest trust of the
| world
| AS to the supposed chaos of mountains
peaks, glaciers, rocky plains and frozen
| swamps that must be crossed to get to
Nome city, II Is known that the Nome
| ity-Dawson-Ashcroft Telegraph Com
pany accomplished the thirteenth labor OF
Hercules in planting up there fifteen hun
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dred thousand telegraph poles from Ash
croft on the Canad an Pacic railway to
the very shore of Boring sea close to
the Strait.
ing cost the lives of 100 men is marveled
at. in Europe anyway but it is argued,
from the ver.' fact of its successful con-
struction and present-day repair, that
something in tha nature of road must
exist along it's line. Repair men must go
back and forth in winter, say Parisians.
Though slightly modified machines trav-
ell continually in the hard SHOWS and in
tense cold of the Alpine roads. particu-
larry around great posts like Briancon, 1t
mobiles must be specially adapted to the
terrible conditions. On this subject the
Marquis de Dion's staff of engineers is
already at work.
I'VE recognize that it is vast under
taking" says de Dion; ''but the Amer
leans and The Canadians will join hands
with us. There are routes to create, for
ests to pierce and posts to establish over
1000 miles of the new world. How shall
we modify our automobiles? On construc-
tive bases different from those of Picking
Paris.
Il shall confide my chances in autos
of thirty or forty horsepower, doing
twenty-five miles per hour and capable OF
sustained speed as low as two and a
half to four miles per hour" continued the
Paris manufacturer. "They will be set
high enough on their wheels to pass the
deepest ruts without the mechanism
scraping the earth. To obviate the conse-
quences of freezing. they will carry ex-
change cylinders, air-cooled only. We
must find a way to slightly heat the motor
before starting ito loosen up the frozen
differentiation. At the front will be a
winch worked by the motor to pull the
automobile out of holes and up steep
slopes.
1.-The wheels, mounted on heavy pneu-
MATES, will be unmountable at their cir
cumferance. Circles of wood on 'un-
mountable tires will be ready to replace
the pneumatics over ice-covared regions
excessive cold may render india-rubber
brittle. AS to metallurgy t. general,
have been told that az between 80 degrees
and 10 degrees below zero, Fahrenheit,
metals become horribly brittle. We are
beginning experiments on this subject
with the intense cold of liquefiad air." con-
cludad the one-time hard sport and gilded
spendthrift, who is today the most be-
loved employer of labor in all France.
Throwing Cold Water.
Tho oopyarso tfop took placa at tho An
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Rivers no longer flow. The sun moves
round at the height of few degrees, clean
cut and strong, without red halo.
Through pure and cloudless air. the crow
flies weakly, leaving a light trail OF
vapor!"
The escape from the coolest town of
Siberia, the discovery of the beloved OBJ
ject at Yakutsk and the elopement to a
station of the Transsiberian were ac-
complished in 40-horsepower automobile
specially equipped for such desolate snow
bound stretches and belonging to a wag-
gish inspecting official with grudge
| against the GovernoTof Irkutsk
Beneath and behind its body were two
reservoirs" explains Lelouvier. Each
held 400 quarts of essence on the pressure
system. In its laudaulet cover, without
seats and arranged for interior conduct
ing. three men could sit snug on piles of
furs laid over neatly ranged boxes of pro-
visions and sleep divinely.
over the hard snow from Verkhoiansk
to Yakutsk, steering by compass mostly,
no roads being visible, it was like speed
ing on a smooth race track" he contin-
ues. Not once did we have a puncture
or bursting. In such cold the motor,
never heating, gives its full force without
loss by evaporation or danger of grip
ping. With a 60-horsepower or even a
4O-horsepower automobile, equipped in
the style of my benefactor, the Siberian
prince, with sextant and compass for de-
| termining my route, 1 guarantee my own
success in carrying my supplies from sta
ton to station as far apart as 1000
miles" exelaims Lelouvier.
Confidence in the Plan.
This confidence is evidently shared by
foremost Paris automobile manufacturers
like Charron. de Dion. Brazier and the
others who have made their entries for
New York-Paris. Prince Scipione Bor-
| ghese says he will try for the "Itala"
mark and that the Siberian supply sta
| tons can be established on the same prin-
| ciple as his own arrangements for Peking-
Paris.
1.-THE stations, of course. must be set
up simultaneously from Russia and the
United States.
From Shanghai was sent to my BROTH
er. charge d 'affaires at Picking. a cargo of
essence and oil, to be forwarded by cara
val to the only two stations deem>d nee
essary at each extreme of the Cobb des-
ert" he says From ST. Petersburg the
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ARMY AND NAVY, NEWS

at West Point has pointed out that he
possesses better facilities for selecting a
few horses which might be used in the
practice of polo and other exercises of ad-
vantage to the cadets in equitation. The
recommendations have been approved, but
1t will require legislation to place a fund
at the disposal of the superintendent of
the academy.
Wireless Between Moving Trains.
Wireless telegraph experts at the United
States Army signal station in Omaha have
made discoveries which permit of COM
paratively long-distance telegraphing from
very short towers. The discovery will
permit, among other things. of telegraph
ing to and between moving trains. Re-
Gently messages were sant twenty miles
by using towers less than twenty feet
high. The experts believe that that distance
can be lengthen d materially without in
creasing the altitude of the towers. The
wireless engineers at Fort Leavenworth
have trained during the fall on spe d in
putting up the towers receiving and send
ing wireless messages and taking down
the towers and scurrying off to some
other spot. While they did not try for long
distances. they found that with the
changes made In their instruments they
are enabled to send messages much far
Their than under the old system without
increasing the height of the towers.
ceoSrdl mLltla 1or coast OeIenSeS.
An interesting suggestion has been sub.
mitted to Gen. Murray. chief Of artillery
by the 'djutant generals of California
and Washington. 1t is that steps be
taken to organize a federal militia to man
the coast defenses and to supply the land
guards which are essential to the proper
defense of modern Notifications. Incl
dentally. the militia officials of both OF
these states hive declined the invitation
Of Gen. Murray to pc nit the state militia
to participate In the maneuvers which
II Is designed to hold during the coming
summer. with militia drilling with the
coast artillery and on the seacoast forti-
fications. such as proved so successful las,
year. 1t Is stated by the officials OF the
states til I their militia organizations
are so small that they deem 1t wiser te
retain them to cooperate with the mobs,s
army. but they urge upon Gen. Murray
the advisability of obtaining authority
from Congress to organize a nationa
guard of volunteers which shall be drilled
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in coast defense work under the super
vision of commissioned and non-commis-
stoned officers of the regular army.
Big Gun Target Practice.
The battleship Georgia made the best
average In the target practice held off
Cape Cod bay last fall. and the Illinois
which carried off the honors at the small
arms practice In Cuban waters last win
rank In practice as follows: Georgia
Connecticut Virginia, Pennsylvania
Maine. Kentucky. West Virginia, Mary
land. Alabama, Kearsarge, louisiana H.
linois Ohio, Rhode Island New Jersey
and Missouri.
Vacancies at Naval Academy.
There are $40 vacancies at the Naval
Academy in the position of midshipman
to be filled before March by senators
and representatives. These positions in
Guide the vacancies to be created by the
graduation of next June. Allowing TO-
the usual percentage of failures in the
entrance examination, there will prob
ably be $50 members of the next fourth
class. Each senator and representative
may name a principal and three alter
mates.
Punishment Declared Inadequate.
t1rst Lieut.. william b. RenZlehauSen,
4th United States Cavalry, was tried by
genera. court-martial. convened at Jolo,
Mindanas, P. l., on charges OF neglect of
duty. and of conduct to the prejudice OF
good order and military d scipline in hav-
ing ignored and neglected to reply to GER
tain official communications from his SUI
perior officers in regard to returns of ord
nance stores and signal corps property.
He was found guilty of the charges and
sentenced to be confined within the linn. t.
of the post where his squadron Is serv-
ing until it is relieved from duty there for
change of station. Brig. Gen. Charles L.
Hodges. who reviewed the proceedings
approx the findings of the court, but
disapproved the sentence, which he said
was inadequate. Lieut.. REM ehausen was
released from arrest and restored to duty
Squadron for Midchipmen.
The Navy Department has determined
that the squadron of warsh!ps attached to
the Naval Academy shall be retained a,
Annapolis permanently for the instruc.
ton of the midshipmen and for the an.
nual summer cruises. 1t has also beer
acidAd to add the old frigate Hartford
Admiral Farraguts flagship at the battle
! Of Mobile bay. to the summer cruising
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MUSICAL MENTION.

A young basso Of this city. Mr.. wilbour
Bache. is prom sing very well in Berlin.
Germany, where he is cultivating his
voice. He last month sang at the studios
Of Mr.. J. Arthur Galloway. a specialist on
the voice. when some OF the most prom
inent musicians and operate managers In
Europe were present, and so great was
his success that he was imme 1iately adj
vised to study for the opera. with the
promise of an engagement when he was
ready. He sailed for this country the
18th instant, where several engagements
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Allowances to Militiamen.


Oficers of the National Guard who are
attending the army service schools have
been advised that they will receive. in
addition to quarters, the allowance of fuel
and light which is now paid to officers Of
the regular army when they occupy quar-
tiers at military post. or when they are
regarded as in a position emitting them
to Communication of quarters. This is an
important concession to the militia Of
hcers who have chosen to take the in
struction at service schools, and shows to
what extent the War Department is dis
posed to encourage in every way posi-
BILE those officers of the National Guard
organizations who desire to increase their
individual efficiency.
New Arms for Army and Militia
Army ordnance officers are making
every effort to rearm the army and milit a
with new Springfield rifle. rechambered
for the pointed ammunition, before the
beginning of the next target season. The
facilities of the ordnance establishments
at Springfield. Mass. and Rock Island.
Ill. are being utilized to the maximum ex-
tent in the plan to have these improved
rifles ready for the marksmen to use
when the competitions of 1905 begin. The
first sh pment of the new rifles will go to
TIE fnl lppinSS, Wnere II Will De heccssatS
to send about 10 600. The next shipment
VIII be made to Cuba. provided the troops
arr still there. as seems probable, and
where about 5000 will be distributed.
Tn the stribution will be made among
tn, troops in the United States. After
tn. regular army is fully equipped with
the nsw riff the National Guard will be
furnished with that weapon.
Polo Ponies for Cadets.
The superintendent Of the Military Aacd-
envy has recommended to the War De-
partment that he be authorized to pur.
chase ten ponies each year for the use OF
the cadets at West Point in instruction in
horsemanship. At present such horses
are purchased by the quartermaster gen.
erai under the usual system of acquiring
the animals under contract for genera
military use, and certain horses which
are believed to be of special value at West
Point are sent there. The superintendent