The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1907-07-12
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Gov. Crawford has named DR.. S. H,
Graves Of Hurley as a member Of the
state board of medical examiners.
w. A. Centre. a carpenter working
at Philip, committed suicide by hang.
ing. The motive for the deed is not
known.
Mrs. Wallace, wife of T. B. Wallace.
was instantly killed by lightning dur
ing a thunder shower which passed
over Cotton.
A man named Van Kenran, arrest
ed by the authorities at Sturgis is
said to be wanted at Lead City on a
charge of forging a check.
Z. E. Webb, a we'll known farmer
residing near Aberdeen, dropped dead
on Main street after returning from
a picnic. Heart failure was the cause
of death.
John Heron, a shoemaker, sixty
years old. of Alcaster, committed sui
eide by hanging. No motive is known
for the deed. The family is highly re-
spected.
Harry Hobby was thrown out on his
head, rendered unconscious and bad
ly injured in the runaway of a horse
at Aberdeen. The horse became
frightened at an auto.
The state land department has dis
posed of 100000 worth of capitol build
ing lands, being all the remaining
syndicate clearing up that class Of
lands il Edmunds.
Miss Matte Gordon, a school teach.
err who proved up on her claim near
Miller, is the champion flax farmer of
that section this year.. She had fifty
acres broken up and sowed. She also
has thirty acres in barley.
The new lodge building which is
being erected by the Masons, Odd
Fellows, Workmen and Eagles at
Sturgis is rapidly nearing completion
and is one Of the handsomest and
most modern equipped in the state.
The people OF Cottonwood, one Of
the new towns on the North Western
extension west of Pierre, believe in be-
ing up-to-date and have organized a
cnyornnrcio1 o1yb 1,,1;oh <hDu lo,,o So
corporated, with Stephen Olson, Adam
Hilsinger and M. l.. Hickman as in
cooperating officers.
Gov. Crawford has, upon the recon-
mendation Of the warden of the peni-
Tertiary and the board Of charities and
corrections. granted a parole to Her
man Rowland. who was sent up from
Lake county for a year on a charge of
bigamy. Rowland has served half his
sentence and is allowed out on parole.
The board of county commissioners
Of Lyman county has offered a stand
ing reward of 500 for the arrest and
conviction Of any horse or cattle thief
who is caught "rustling" within the
borders Of the county. This action Of
the commissioner is meeting with
general approval among the residents
Of the county.
Mrs. Babcock, wife of DR.. F. v. Bah.
cock, a we'll known dentist of Dead
wood, is dead. The deceased was
very popular in society, and has re-
Gently come into public prominence
through her musical publications.
One Of her most popular compositions
was a song composed in honor Of
President Roosevelt.
A sad accident occurred three miles
northeast of Madison Saturday even
ing on Lars Sunde's farm, where a
number of young men were bathing in
a pool which is ten or twelve feet deep
in the center. A young man named
Hegdal, while attempting to swim
across, sank suddenly and before aid
could reach him was drowned.
The eight-year-old son Of Mr.. and
Mrs. John Leiten of Sioux Falls,
while playing with a toy pistol, placed
the muzzle of the weapon in his right
ear and under the belief that the
weapon was not loaded pulled the
trigger. But there was a blank cart
ridge in the pistol and the paper wad
and powder from the cartridge tore
the a badly and inflicted internal
injuries which may result fatally.
The recent destruction of what is
known as the Sigel Catholic church,
some miles from Utica, has resulted
in the business men and other resi-
dents of that place i%naugurating a
movement for the rebuilding of the
church at Utica instead of on the site
of the destroyed structure. The build
Ing was blown to pieces and totally
wrecked during a recent storm. The
structure was insured for $1,000. The
proposed structure will cost from 49,.