The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1907-08-02

belueuls AGED SlNleen, was drowned.
The front of the new vaudeville
house at Watertown fell out, burying
w. ID. Rowe, who was passing, in the
ruins. Several bones We're broken and
he is in a critical condition.
Carl E. LUCKNOW, fireman on a freight
train, was struck on the head by q
flash bar at Lake Preston, rendering
him unconscious and inflicting a wound
that is likely to result fatally.
Coroner l.. ID. Miller of Sioux Falls
has received a telegram from Sheriff
Sheldon of Lyman county, giving in
formation OF the finding of the body
of Thomas f. Thompson, formerly of
Sioux Falls, hanging in a barn on the
Thompson claim near Pesho.
Mrs. Ellen Daley of Elk Point last
winter slipped on the~fce, broke a hip
and was confined to her bed for sever
al months. During a thunder shower
last week she rose in the darkness to
close the windows, hit some obstacle,
fell M dislocated a shoulder.
The state brand commission at its
recent meeting passed upon 1877
brands, out of which three were re-
| jected on account Of conflicting brands
already filed. The work of the board
brings the total number of brands now
registered with the state department
up to 6,172.
After a run Of two miles down the
sidetrack in Fantail and Whitehall
gulches, near Deadwood, six ore cars
belonging to the Burlington railroad
dashed through an open switch to the
main line and were wrecked. No one
was hurt, but the cars, which were
empty, were demolished.
To his skill as a swimmer, Scott
Robinson, in charge of the diversion
dam at the government irrigation
works north of Belle Fourche, owes
his life. He was knocked into the dam
after a Golfer dam had burst, and with
the greatest difficulty reached land
without being struck by some Of the
loose tim5ers in the seething water.
In order to complete the buildings
at the state normal school at Spear
fish, contracts have just been let to
ID. A. Elliott and Frank McEveny for
two different portions. The former
will finish the third floor of the DOR
nitory, thus accommodating a number
of additional pupils, while the latter
has a contract for the unfinished parts
of Science hall.
In a fit of temporary insanity, e. A.
Poore, a stenographer for the st. Paul
Foundry Company of st. Paul, commit
ted suicide by throwing himself in
front of a Northwestern train at Co
lumbia. His body was cut to pieces.
the remains being picked up In a
basket. Poore had been visiting with
his wife and children at the home of
his wife's parents at Colombia.
A very destructive wind and rain
storm did considerable damage in the
vicinity of Woonsocket. A house be-
longing to Mr.. Atkinson was blown
over. Three people who were in the
house at the time were killed by fly
ing boards and crushed beneath the
building. Several other houses in the
city were partly destroyed. The tele-
phone lines to the north are all down.
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The Armour Drivinu porlr ,,co,;.
ton has about closed a deal with H.
HI. Smith (Cyclone Smith,, for thirty
five acres of land which includes the
race track. Mr.. Smith is removing to
Oklahoma, and is %disposing of his in
%terests at Armour. The purchase gives
the driving park association control
OF the fair grounds, buildings, etc. and
lnsures the permanency of the county
! fair.
Apparently gambling is a thing Of
the past In the Black Hills. Within
the past few weeks quiet attempts
have been made to resume in several
sections, but each effort has been
promptly niDped. Sheriff Billy Moses
u DSiiO IOuiCuC TdluGu a room over a
chinese restaurant recently. The sher.
III seized a poker table, a roulette
wheel and some chips and later The
town enjoyed a bonfire behind the
court house.
Attorney Thomas e. Harvey of Lead.
h was the first practicing LAWYER in
the Black Hills, has been honored with
a request to deliver the principal adj
dress at his old home in Amboy. Ill.
on Aug. IA, at the celebration of the
10th anniversary of the towns exist
ence. Mr.. Harvey was raised in Am.
boy, and left there in 1862 for the
West. He is a pioneer citizen of the
Black Hills and one of the foremost at
torneys in the state.
Secretary of the Interior Hitchcock
has Just executed with J. E. Hinton of
Belle Fourche a contract for the con-
t