The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1907-02-08
South Dakota
General State News Pasalraphed.
Judge Garland has appointed Will
lam C. Meyer a United Ctates commls-
sioner at Kadoka.


| The saddle the nineteen-year-old son
of Jacob Gieron, a farmer of Ethan,
was thrown heavily to the ground. He
afterward.
Casper Flick, an old pioneer and
prospector, died at Deadwood. Dec.
81 he was found near Custer Pea
mining district with frozen feet. Am
putation weakened him SO much he
could not rally. He was we'll known.
The report of the bureau of vital sta
tistics for December shows hat in
the month there were 99S births, of
which 521 were males and All fe-
males. There were 464 marriages, 33S
deaths, 81 naturalizations and 40 d.
vorces.
Over fifteen warrants have been is
sued on complaint of Prof. Bigelow, of
the board Of education of Lead, for
parents who have failed to comply
With the compulsory educational law.
This has resulted in an especially good
attendance at the school.
Lars P. Olson, a farmer, is confident
that he has located a gold mine upon
his farm near Sioux Falls. He affirms
that the claim contains gold-bearing
quartz and exhibited samples which
he stated experts had told him would
run as high as $1,000 to the ton.
After a posse of several hundred
citizens had secured the country
r~oundabout. in a vain search for him,
Otto Huff, the negro who is alleged to
have shot and killed Adolph Welsh,
was captured at James and is now
safely lodged in the Brown county
Jail.
Members Of the Clear Lake volun-
teer fire department already are get
ting in readiness for the annual tour
nament of the South Dakota Fire
mans association at Watertown in
June. The team which will represent
the department this year will be
stronger and better than ever before.
At the annual business meeting and
show of the Queen City Poultry as
ISOLATION at Sioux Falls the following
officers yer elected: President,
Charles %Spitznagle, Sioux Falls: vice
presidents, Mrs. w. A. Shellhamer,
Luverne, Mimi; H. R. Obs, Beaver
Greek, Mimi; William n. Carr, Sioux
Falls; secretary, Stacey Metcalf, FL
lis: superintendent, George c. Helfert,
Sioux Falls.
In the circuit court in Stanley Dun
ty Judge Boucher had a long criminal
calendar to clear up, and sentenced
several persons who were found guilty
on charges of horse rustling. Among
them were Alfred and Lewis Bowker,
young mixed-bloods. Alfred was tried
first and given a sentence of two and
a half years in the ~penitentiary. Both
were members Of an alleged organized
gang of rustlers.
Leading farmers around Viberg have
Of establishing what will be one of
the largest farmers cooperative mer-
! camille concerns in South Dakota.
| The company will have a capital Of
$4,000. At a preliminary meeting of
farmers interested in the project,
which has just been held, temporary
| officers were elected and Viborg was
| selected as the place to locate the
| store.
viborg is the latest town in the state
to figure on the construction of a mu-
nicipal system of w~aterworks. At a
recent meeting of the town council OF
that place a committee was appointed
to visit and inspect the waterworks
| systems of adjacent towns, with a
view of ascertaining the sort of a sys-
tenn that would be best for Viborg.
This committee consists of H. C.
| Christensen and M. V. Olsen, leading
business men Of Viborg.
Work on the railroad bridge at
| Pierre has been pushing right along
regardless of the severity of the win
ter, and every effort is being made to
| get the structure far enough along to
allow work to continue when the ice
goes out in the spring, and to prevent
| stoppage Of work from high water in
June. If this can be accomplished,
the chances are favorable for the
bridge to be in possession for traffic
by the middle of the summer.
The Nebraska Telephone company
states hat the building Of the rail-
roads from Pierre and Chamberlain to
the Black Hills will mean the install
ing of q long distance telephone to
connect the FILLS with other portions
of the state and eventually with Oma-
ha and Denver. The Bell Telephone
company o proposes to follow the
North-W Western railroad into Rapid
City from Pierre as soon as possible
after the completion of that line.
Az a result Of several petty robber-
les John Mally, aged eighteen, believ-
ed to be al escaped inmate of the
state reform school at Plankinton. IA