The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1907-03-29
South Dakota
General State News paraSraphed.

A farmer named Straub, living neal
Ipswich, has committed suicide by
hanging. He is believed to have been
demented.
If he proposition of Il hotel man,
just made to the commercial club. is
acted on, Aberdeen will soon have d
S150,000 hotel.
Heart failure caused the sudden
death of Harmon Dildine at his home.
six miles west of Warner. Mr.. Dildine
was on of the oldest settlers of Brown
county.
George S. Nelson, a farm hand
found dead in a field southeast of Mill
er shot through the breast, is declared
by the %coroner's jury to have commit
ted suicide.
Citizens of Oldham have just cele-
brated the twentieth anniversary of
its founding. 1t is recalled by pioneer
residents who yet reside there, that
the first building in Oldham was a
small dwelling for the section foreman
and a blacksmith shop.
The Farmers and Merchants Bank
of Webster, the oldest bank in Day
county, has been incorporated into the
Farmers and Merchants National
bank. The officers are David Williams.
president; John Williams, vice presi-
dent, A. I. Cooper, cashier.
Estelle, the t~wo-year-old daughter of
Lambert Tinholdt of Herried, met a
horrible death. She fell into a pail OF
boiling water, and before she could be
rescued she had received fatal injuries.
b child's body was so badly scalded
that the outer skin peeled off.
Johnson Brothers have purchased
the Arnold & Andrews interest in the
Lakeside State Bank Of Lake Andes;
also an undivided one-half interest in
the Lake Andes townsite. In future
county seat contests for Charles Mix
county it can be safely figured that
Lake Andes will enter the race.
Charged with filing liquor prescrip-
tons contrary to law, Ben Waterman,
a druggist, and Ole N. Anderson, a
pharmacist, We're a%rraigned before
Judge Copeland at Vermillion. They
pleaded not guilty, but the evidence
was SO strong against them that the
court fined each $50 and sentenced
them to forty days in the county Jail.
The following list of game wardens
has been appointed by Gov. Crawford:
Union county, James Halliday, Jr., Nc
Cook; Marshall county, Frank Fun
tine, %T.angford; Dawson county, H.
Collard, Mitchell; Day county, Clinton
G. Jenkins, Waubay; Lawrence coun-
ty. Andrew e. Hall, RoubaiX; Hanson
county, Fred A. Bond. Alexandria:
Hand county, A. S. Ober, Miller;
Hutchinson county, Joseph Tschetter,
Freeman.
H. F. Stolte of Redfield, who recent
ly was awarded the contract to erect
a new public school building at Hitch
cock, has been looking over the ground
in order that work pom the structure
can commence as early in the spring
as the weather will permit. The new
building, when completed, will be one
of the finest structures of the kind in
this part of the state, and will give
Hitchcock a first-claSs educational In
stitution.
Circuit court is in session at Huron,
Judge Charles S. Whiting presiding,
with fourteen criminal and nearly
fifty civil cases on the calendar. A
grand jury is in session n nearly
one hundred witnesses have been sub
poenaed. 1t is evident that matters
pertaining to reports of offenses in the
CITY are being carefully investigated by
the grand jury and developments of
more or less sensational character are
anticipated.
The reports of national banks show
that the deposits in that class OF
banks in South Dakota to have in
creased So, 09S, 505.49 in the past year.
In the Is banks doing business in The
state in January, 1907, there is depos.
tied s1S,1 1894, 923.07. The increase in
the state banks for the same period
will show a much heavier increase on
account of the great number of new
state banks which have been organ
lied within the year.
The Riverside store, near Alexan-
una, owned Dy L. j. WdlllS, was eli'
tirely destroyed by fire at ] o'clock in
the morning. The family of Mr.. Wal
lis were sleeping in the upper rooms
of the store building. The fire origina-
ted in the store room. A part of the
stock was saved. The proprietor had
been doing a thriving business during
his location at Riverside. 1t is ru
mored the store will be rebuilt imme
diately and the business resumed.
The steam breaking pillow is taking
the place of horse plows all over this
part of the state. The new settlers
west of the river are getting them in
and many Of them are scattered owe
the vicinity near Pierre, east of the
river. Several were worked in Sull,
county last year, and proved so salts
factory in every way that more arc
being ordered for the work in tina
county, while the eastern end of this
county is being worked with that nan
ner of blowing I'D the prairie sod.