The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1907-01-11
South Dakota
Censral State News ParAIraphsd.


was made for a days hunt by Two OPP
posing parties at Okobojo, Sully coun-
ty.
A North Western freight train was
wrecked three miles north of Aber-
deem, caused by a broken rail Nine
cars jumped the track. three of them
going into the ditch. No one was IN
jured.
Mike Kings new elevator at Stick
ney is nearing completion and soon
will be opened for business. 1hls
gives Stickney, the new end Of the
Armour division of the Milwaukee rail
road, four elevators.
A. P. Aspjeld, nearly fifty-two years
of age, is dead at his home in Nora.
He was born in Norway and came to
this country in 1870, and was gradua-
ted from the Augsburg seminary IN
Minneapolis about 1878.
Articles of incorporation have been
fled for the Hartford State bank, with
a capital of $4,000; in~corporators:
William A. Wells, Alice NJ. Wells, Chi
cago; j. C. Kingsbury, A. c. Kingsbury
md l.. H. Kingsbury, Hartford.
The Dakota hoist at Deadwood was
entirely destroyed by fire and a COM
plete diamond drill outfit owned by
This and other companies was ruined.
The hoist was located at the mine at
Bald mountain and vas valued at $1o,-
300.
There are in South Dakota 81 flour
mills which last year ground ~6,759,ol1
bushels of wheat. Fifty-three mills
have less than 100 barrels daily capac-
ity; thirty-four have from 100 TO 2oo
barrels capacity, and seven from 200
to 500.
While there will not be a public sale
of lots at Midland until some time next
spring a private sale was made last
week, and lots were sold at prices
ranging from $50 to $500. The total
returns for the first days sale were
over $1,000.
Judge E. G. Smith held a special
term of circuit court in the county
court room at YanEto1, at which Oscar
Mason pleaded guilty to the charge of
grand larceny and was sentenced to
one and one-half years in the state
penitentiary.
The vital statistics OF Union county
for the last year show that there were
236 births and 81 deaths reported to
the clerk of courts office during the
year. There were SO marriage licenses
and so naturalization papers issued
during the year.
Yankton has pledged 100000 to be
donated to the Yankton Southern rail-
road when the bridge is completed
constructed to tidewater in Texas.
Nothing is to be paid until all is in
running order, which is set for the
year 1910.
Corn stalk disease is quite preva-
lent among cattle in the vicinity of Ar
mour. Quite a number of farmers
have lost stock in this way. While
the corn all got ripe, the wet weather
in the fall kept it from maturing,
hence much of it left in the fields is
musty and bad.
Wolves are reported numerous about
thirty miles southwest of Miller. Jas.
LawIer saw six in one bunch. The set
Element of the country west of the
Missouri river is causing them to leave
that section, and as the stream is
frozen owe they come across. There
is talk of a big wolf hunt.
y,rr,, pD,r,. how, II, +ha cor,fb no NJ
OF Canton, was discovered On fire at
Gao o'clock one morning recently. An
alarm brought the department out
promptly, but not in time to save the
structure or a horse belonging to Hans
Berg, a rural mail carrier. A valuable
dog was also burned. The origin OF
| the fire is unknown. No insurance.
The divorce business has been ex
| ceptionally lively at Yankton of late
| three cases having been tried before
| Judge Smith since Christmas. A de
| cree of divorce was granted in the first
| of these, the case Of William B. Gam
| BILE VS.. Mrs. William B. Gamble. The
| Ruling VS.. RufIlng, were -held under
Amusement.
Tracklaying at Wakpala on the
| coast extension Of the Milwaukee is
about completed. A few sidetracks fol
the material yard have yet to be put in
but work ON the main line is compfet
| ed for the winter. The weather fol
| this work could not have been better
| There had not been more than two
inches of nov up to a few days ago
and the crews did not have to lay W
for cold weather at any time.
John Scobble was attacked in an al
ley in the rear of the Faust building a
Lead, knocked senseless and robbed o
what money he had on his person a.
we'll as his watch and some other per
sonal property. How long he la.
there dazed he does not know, but
young boy passing saw him ant
brought assistance. His injuries wer'
only temporary. There is as yet NJ
clue whatever to his assailant. Thi
is the first hold-up in this city for tw,
years.