The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1907-05-10

tip to tip and weighed over forty
pounds.
Charles Kinney, who was arrested
charged with stealing a jewelry sam
pie case from the lobby of the Ward
hotel at Aberdeen, pleaded guilty. He
was sentenced TO one year i'll the state
~penitentiary.
The graders camp or the M. & ST.
l.. near Lowry, in Walworth county,
was destroyed by fire and all books
and records We're burned, nothing be-
ing saved but grading Instruments and
clothing.
Owing to III health, Charles Good
Boy. a Sisseton Indian, near Wilmot,
committed suicide by shooting. He
was about fifty-fve years of age, and
had always been considered a good
Indian.
The statement of business of the
national banks of South Dakota for
the call of March %, shows total indi-
vidual deposits to be $19,947. 1893. SO, a
gain of $1,752, 460.51 since the call on
Jan. 26. There are now eighty nation
al banks.
The secretary Of the interior has
awarded the contract to j. E. Hilton
of Belle Fourche, S. D., for the con-
%struction of sections Z and s of the
south canal of the Belle Fourche irri-
cation project at $4,000. All bids re-
ceived for sections ? TO 6, inclusive,
We're rejected as excessive.
The Mitchell board of education has
elected Prof. NJ. NJ. Kramer as principal
of the high schools for the ensuing
year at a salary of $1,000. Prof. Ra-
mer retired the first of the year as
state superintendent of public in
struction. Superintendent Hoff's sal
airy was increased to $1,700.
AT the sale Of town lots in the new
town of Dallas, on the Tripp county
line west of Bonesteel, fourteen lots
We're sold, a%ggregating $10,59O. Among
the high prices paid, the Nye-Schnei-
der-Fowler company gave $1,000 for
an elevator site near the railroad
track. To-day is expected to be the
big day Of the sale.
Fire broke out in the Peeves depart
ment store, the largest mercantile
building in Sisseton, and it was
thought for a time that the entire
stock and building would be destroyed.
Prompt work by the fire department
ever, and the greatest damage was
done by smoke and water.
The schools of Independence town
ship, Joubert township and the vii
lage of belmont, Douglas county, are
closed, owing to an outbreak" of small
poX. So far no fatalities have oc-
CURED, and precautions are being
taken that the pest does not get from
under control. 1t is thought that the
disease was brought here by travel
ing men from the north part of the
state.
Articles of incorporation have been
filed in the Office of the register of
deeds at Fairfax in connection with
the recent erection of a new Catholic
church edifice at Gregory, one of the
new towns in the coded portion of the
Rosebud Indian reservation. Rt. Rev.
John Stariha, bishop of Western
South Dakota, is n of the incorpo-
rators. The new church is one Of the
finest in the newer portion of Gregory
county.
While chopping wood in the timber
south of Vermillion H. Mount was
caught under a falling tree and re-
ceived injuries which will lay him up
all summer. His skull was fractured
and his shoulder blade broken. For
several hours Mount was pinioned be.
meath the heavy timber, and when
found by a neighbor had fallen into
an unconscious state.
Arthur Cowan was killed in a we'll
near Pierre. He was assisting in dig
ging out the we'll and vent down to
clear out the material loosened by a
blast, and, feeling himself becoming
overcome by gas, asked to be drawn
out. His companions at the top had
drawn him up about thirty feet when
his hold gave way and he dropped,
striking OF his head and breaking his
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Articles of incorporation have been
filed with the secretary of state for
another bank on the line of the Mil.
waullee extension west from Chamber
lain, the location selected being Ka-
doka, and is capitalized at $4,000. The
~incorporators are F. H. Meyer of
Chamberlain, l.. d. Turner and C. A.
Craven of Interior, and Frank j. Rob
inson and others of Kadoka.
Isaac Forest, one of the pioneers of
1876, died at his home in st. Onge of
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