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The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1907-09-20
peopl. Talked About.

August Gisin, founder OF the Balti-
more Journal, German, died al his
home in Baltimore Of acute indiges.
ton.
DR.. Michael Beshoar, pioneer, promi,
nent citizen. founder of the Pueblo
Chieftain and Trinidad Advertiser,
died at Trinidad. Colo, at the age Of
seventy-four.
John NJ. Turner, writer, humorist,
actor and originator OF trick banjo
playing. is dead at the Post Graduate
hospital in New York city. following
al operation for appendicitis. Turner
was founder OF the Vampire club and
his ready wit and mimicry were
crown from coast to coast.
James Bellows McGregor, said to be
the Oldest Mason in the world, cele-
brated his 108th birthday at Mount
Sunapee, N. H., with a public recep
ton. He was born in 1901, a mile
from where he now lives. His joining
of the Masoni corder in 1897 makes
him a member OF eighty years. stand
ing and the Oldest Mason on record
in the world.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1907-09-20
BEEF TRUST PUTS UPI PRICES
SENSATIONAL ORDER ISSUED
FROM INSIDE OFFICE OF BIG
COMBINE.

Chicago, Sept. II. - A sensational
order issued Saturday from the in.
side office of the beef trust hoisted the
prices OF all meats from 2 to 3 cents
a pound.
Price lists were sent out to all job.
bling houses in the agreement to main.
tain the price schedule. every one OF
these being under a forfeit agreement
of $1,000 for violation, the money in
each case being deposited at the trust
office when the agreement ia signed.
Cost q Cents More a Pound.
To the consumer the new schedule
means that meats of all sorts will cost
4 cents more a pound across the
counter than at present.
Beef, pork, veal and hams were
raised from 2 to 3 cents in the price
INST placed in the hands of all sales
ment for the jobbers Monday.
The wholesale price on 60O-pound
cattle is now 81-2 cents, a raise OF
2 1-2 cents; 100-pound pork loins,
II 1-2 cents, raise of 2 1-2 cents; 100
pound calves, ~ cents, raise of 8
cents; ten to fourteen-pound hams, IA
cents, a raise Of 2 cents.
Milk Also Goee Up.
Not to be outdone by the great pro-
vision trust, the milk dealers Of Chi
cago, the central market, added to the
cause for CEREAL alarm1 with the an
nouncement that milk. already at pro-
price for the poor, will cost
the consumer l cent more per quart
and cream 2 cents more per quart the
first of next month.
The general provision dealers in
Chicago oined in with the assurance
that canned goods, both vegetables
and fruits, will cost the consumer
from 4 to 6 cents more per can than
formerly.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1907-09-20
BIG GUNS IN LAND FRAUD NET.
Graft Probe Reveals Stealing That
Rivals Thofts In Oreoon

Washington, Sept. 1.-THE govern
ment hopes to turn up some land
frauds within the next few months
that will rival the gigantic frauds I'M
earthed in Oregon three years ago.
While Secretary Garfield and Commits
sioner Ballinger have not made much
noise about it, the fact is that they
have been doing more work in fer
reting out frauds connected with the
public lands Of the West than their
predecessors did. 1t Is said that sev-
eral persons of national prominence
will be caughe in the net.
Investigations have been going on
in nearly every state in the West. and
it Is said that the frauds unearthed
are appalling.
Steal Vast Area.
For the last two months e. P. Hol-
combe, a special agent Of the land Of
fee, has been in New Mexico making
a quiet investigation of alleged land
frauds perpetrated there by govern
ment officials and some big Eastern
capitalists. While the department will
give out NO detailed information con-
corning the New Mexican investisa-
ton. 1t ts known in a general way that
some big corporations of the East,
through their influence with past ter
ritorial officers, have been able to COB
BILE up Q vast r Of public Land.
Big Guns in II.
The next most important investi-
cation is at Umatilla, Or. 1t is said
that the inspectors have found that
most of this big reservation has been
corralad through fraud by bankers,
lawyers and politicians of Oregon. and
that the grand jury which meets in
October is liable to indict some men
who are we'll known throughout the
country.
Two or three millionaires in Califor.
MIA are also slated for indictments this
fall. The department claims that they
are tangled up in land frauds perpe-
trated within forest reserves of Cali
fornia. They would get dummies to
enter rich mineral lands as a%gricultu-
raj lands and then take over the land
from the dummies after patents were
issued.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1907-09-20
TWENTY-FIVE DIE
IN TRAIN WRECK
EXPRESS TRAIN AND FREIGHT On
BOSTON G. MAINE IN COL
LISBON.
DUE TO MISTAKE IN ORDERS
TRAIN DlsPATcHER's oRoEH
CONFUSE TRAIN NUMBERS
TWENTY-sEvEN HURT.

White River Junction, VT, Sept. 10
A fearful head-on collision between
| the scuth-bound Quebec express and a
north-bound freight train on the Bos'
ton & Maine railroad occurred -four
miles north of Canaan station early
yesterday, due to a mistake in the
train dispatcher's orders, and from a
demolished passenger coach there
were taken out twenty-five dead and
dying and twenty-seven other passen'
gers, most of them seriously injured.
Orders Are Confused.
The conductor of the freight train
was given to understand that he had
plenty Of time to reach a siding by the
night operator at Canaan station, re.
ceiving. according to the superintend.
ent of the division, a copy of a tele-
graph order from the train dispatcher
at Concord which confused the train
numbers 80 and "a.
The wreck occurred just after the
express had rounded into a straight
stretch of track. but owing to the early
morning mist neither engineer saw
the others headlight until too late.
Coach is Torn Asunder.
Both engineers set their brakes and
then jumped. while the two great loco
motives crashed into each other and,
locked in a Arm embrace, rolled into
the ditch.
The baggage car in the real was
hurled back into the passenger coach
like a great ram and tore it asunder
from end to end Fortunately. with
the engines of to one side, the wreck
age did not take Are and add further
sorrow to the already dreadful scene.
The train hands. ably seconded by the
passengers from the sleeping cars,
CROPPED their way among the ruins and
began the work of rescue.
Maneled Bodies Dragged Out.
Great beams were lifted, broken
1oists were thrown aside and the
bleeding and mangled forms were
dragged out. Wounds were hastily
bound up and cuts stanched by strips
OF bedding from the ~sleepers.
The neighborhood is a sparsely set.
tied one, but the few farmers were
and lent every aid to the work
Of succ0r.
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.f|R[BUGS APPLY !.
TORCH TO TOWN
BUSINESS SECTION OF kENsAL,
N. D., is ALMOST COMPLETE
LY WIPED OUT.
loss Will REACH $15o,ooo
RESIDENCE SECTION is SAVED
AFTER DESPERATE FIGHT
By FlREMEN.

Valley City. N. D., Sept. 15.-Ffre
which the to%wnspeople declare was
set deliberately and maliciously, de-
kensal early yesterday morning. with
the exception of the hardware and i'm
plement store. The damage is esti-
mated at not less than $3.50, 006, and
the insurance will not exceed 800, 600,
most of this having been on the stock
contained in the various structures.
1t was about half an hour after mid
night when the fire was discovered in
the rear of the Farmers Mercantile
compsny's building. An alarm was
Immediately turned In, but the flames
spread with intense rapidity in every
direction and 1t quickly became appar-
ent that the local IRE department
could do practically nothing in coping
with them.
Outside Help Called In.
Telephone messages for assistance
were ent to Courtenay, and as soon as
possible the fire department from that
place arrived mi Joined in the fight.
The men were obliged to do much of
their WORK within range of the walls,
which every momen seemed likely to
crash down on the fire fighters, but
the departments stuck to their posts
and only the most strenuous efforts
kept the blaze from being communi-
Gated to residences.
Among the buildings destroyed was
the Central hotel, the guests of which
were forced to rush out with very lit
tie opportunity OF saving more than
their clothing, so fierce was the spread
of the fire. The other main buildings
destroyed were the Farmers Mercan-
tile company store, in which the fire
was first started; the Peterson hard
ware store, the Holmes drug store,
Vans harness shop and the Stinson
dry goods establishment.
10 Laid to Incendiaries.
Insurance was carried on the STOCK
IN nearly all Of the places burned,
but the loss on the buildings will be
heavy. 1t is claimed that the rapidly
with which the flames gained head
way In all directions from their start
ing point Is evidence Chat the fire was
not due to accident. and the authort-
tics will make an investigation on the
theory that the torch was deliberately
applied.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1907-09-20
WOMAN LEADS MOB IN PARIS.
Prstests Against Pardon Of SoileiiIant
NiolateP Of Children.

Protests Against Pardon Of SolleitIant,
Violatsr Of Children.
Paris, Sept. 17.-The increasing in
dignation of the masses against the
escape from the guillotine Of Soleil-
liant, known as the "nonstrous VIC
lator and murderer" whose sentence
to death for tho atrocious murder of a
twelve-yeer-old girl vas committed
last week by President Fallieres to life
Imprisonment. was expressed Sunday
in a series Of the most curious public
manifestations that have occurred in
France for q long tins.
The demonstration, despite the fact
that several arrests were made, was
almost entirely an orderly one. Many
women participated. 1t was organized
not SO much against Soleillant as to
express the voice of the people against
the wave of unspsakabls crimes COM
mitted on little girls, which lately
have increased to an alarming degree.
Several thousand persons were en-
gagged in demonstrations at various
points Of the city, and especially large
was the crowd in the Place st. Am
broiss, near which lived little Martha
Erberding, the victim Of Solsillant.
The rage OF the ONE Of this dis
trict has been great since President
Fallieres showed clemency to Soleil-
liant. They assembled yesterday after
moo with their husb&ds and others
of their synpathizers, and were aug
mented in numbers by crowds of Gu
rious persons.
Their orderly cries for justice we're
quickly changed to cries of Death to
Soleillant!" and Down With Fal-
lieres!" as tho procession, led by a
woman who carried a little girl on her
shoulders with the purpose of indicat-
ing the object Of the manifestation,
moved toward the Place de la Repub-
lique.
Soon the streets were cheked by a
vast mob and the police reserves were
called out to dispense it.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1907-09-20

Mrs. John II. Williams, an aged res
ldent OF Quincy, Mich, was struck by
. rock train while picking up coal
from the track. She was instantly
killed.
George McNamara was found dead
on the Iowa Central tracks near Mar
~shalitown. Iowa. He was making his
Initial trip ~ q brakeman. 1t is not
Known Just how the accident occurred.
Mrs. Marguerite Croft, bride Of a
few weeks Of John Croft, New York,
was swept overheard from a yacht in
the Delaware river and drowned. Mrs.
Croft and her husband were on their
honeymoon.
Seven cottages on the beach and the
Avery Beach hotel were burned at
South Haven, Mich. Dynamite was
used to blow up the hotel to prevent
the spreading Of the fire. The loss on
the hotel alone was $4,000.
Two young men and two girls were
drowned In the Saginaw river at Sag
NAV, Mich, when a gasoline tank ex-
ploded In a power launch. It,, is
thought that the tank caught fire from
one Of the boats signal lights.
Wet rails cost the life of one mar
and resulted in the serious injury OF
several other persons at Nazareth, Pa.
A car descending a steep grade got be-
yond control of the motorman, and
jumping the tracks at a sharp curve
turned turtle.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1907-09-20
sIssEroN. SOUTH DAKOTA
news OF WEEK SUMMARIZED
IMPORTANT EVENTS At AoMl
AND On FOREIGN sHoREs
BRIEFLY TOLD.
Washington Nstes.

The president has appointed Gen.
B.. N. B.. Young, retired, who was his
old commander in Cuba, superintend-
emit of the Yellowstone National Park.
According to q government report
Just issued pearls to the value OF
$4,000 900 were found in the United
States during the year 1906, and other
precious stones to the value Of $685.
600 were produced.
The war department has directed
the return to duty as az assistant mil
itary aid to the president, Capt. Frank
Mccoy. Third cavalry. who has been
spending most of the summer in Vel.
lowstone Park with his troop. This
means that there are not likely to be
any nor changes in the presidents
family OF military and naval aids at
present
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1907-09-20
BO|LtRMAKtRs OUT ON STRIKE
GENERAL MANAGERS REFUSE TO
GRANT INCREASE IN WAGES
ASKED.

St. Paul, Sept. II. - Boilermakers
and helpers employed by five roads OPP
Grating out Of st. Paul went on a
strike at 8 o'clock Saturday morning,
following the refusal Of the general
managers to grant the increase Of
wages demanded. The men walked
out simultaneously from shops extend
ing from Chicago to Montana, and the
men say railroad boiler shops as far
as North Pacific coast points will be
closed. The officers of the union in
st. Paul claim that $500 men are af-
fected by the order, while railroad Of
ficials place the figure at 1900.
The roads so far affected are:
Northern Pacific, Great Northern, 500,
Chicago, st. Paul, Minneapolis &
Omaha and Chicago Great Western.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1907-09-20
NOT TIMBER THIEVES.
indictments Against Forty Indians
Are No!Ied,

Milwaukee, Wis, Sept. II. - Indict-
ments against forty members of the
Stockbridge tribe OF Indians. charged
with cutting reservation timber, were
nolled Saturday by Judge Quarles in
the United States court. This action
is due to a ruling by the United States
supreme court in the action brought
by the Paine Lumber company of Osh-
kosh against certain Indians, in which
it was held that the cutting Of stand
ing timber from the reservation lands
by the Indians belonging to tribes
which own such lands is not a viola
ton Of law.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1907-09-20
BOTH LOSE CHILD.
Parents Sue and Are Declared UnfS%
for Her CUSTODY.

Parents Sue and Are Declared Unfs%
for her Custody.
Grand Forks, N. D.. Sept. 15.-De-
Gliding that both Mrs. Alfred w. Colt
and her divorced husband. william
MCGOWAN, were unfit to have the u
tody Of their twelve-year-old child
Bsrnice, Judge Charles F. Templeton
yesterday awarded the child to Mrs.
Grace Lloyd, the widowed mother Of
Mrs. Colt, who resides In Grand Forks.
MCGOWAN failed to show that he
was not guilty Of contempt Of court in
taking the child to Canada for q year
and three months, in defiance of the
courts order that she be kept In this
Jurisdiction. and the court fined him
$40.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1907-09-20
BATTLES FoR lFE

Farm Hand Wins In Test Of Strength
Against Shaft.
Grand Forks, N. D., Sept. 15.-A test
of strength which meant death II he
lost was INDUCED in yesterday on the
farm Of Robert McGroch, near Devils
Lake, by Big Gus" Olson, in charge
of the separator. In working around
the separator his coat cleeve caught
in the set screw on q rapidly revolving
pulley and his arm was being wound
into the gearing. With all his
strength he resisted the strength OF
the shaft and pulled so that his coat
was torn from his back. He escaped
with a d%islocated shoulder and several
slight bruises.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1907-09-20
TRAIN RUNS AWAY.
Orc Cars Dash Down Mountain Side
and Are Smashed

Deadwood, S. D., Sept. 17.-The Bur-
hngton railroad had a freight wreck
on it's Bald Mountain line near here,
when a train OF four cars, loaded with
ore from the Ben Hur workings to the
Mogul mill at Puma, got beyond the
control of the crew and dashed down
the mountain side. The crew jumped
escaped unhurt. The engine and
r jumped the track, the former
turning turtle and the cars being re-
duced to lindling wood.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1907-09-20
Struck hy Train.

Tomah, Wis. Sept. NV. Barry of
TAR Valley was brought to the Tomah
hospital Thursday. He had been at
Sparta and in alighting from Train
No. 6 at Tunnel City was struck by
the train, sustaining a badly cut head,
besides other bruises. His condition
Is not serious, however.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1907-09-20
Prominent st. Paul Doctor Dead

st. Paul, Sept. II. - DR.. Gottfried
Stamm, aged sixty-four, one of the old
est and best known physicians in the
city, died at his home at 11:45 last
night, after an illness of more than a
year. Death is believed to have re.
suited from a cancer Of the interes.
tines.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1907-09-20
House and Barn Burned.

Kimball, MINI, Sept. II. - The
house and barn of David Brown burn
ed last night. One team and a few
other articles were saved. He carried
q small insurance. The cause of the
Ere Is unknown.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1907-09-20
Bio Machine Falls.

Moorhead, Mimi, Sept. 1.-THE un-
loading machine in use at Northern
Pacific construction work, while I'M
loading a lot Of cars, keeled over and
went down the fifty-foot embankment,
landing upon the surface track used
by regular trains. No n was hurt.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1907-09-20
WRONG Bottle Fatal.

Deadwood, S. D., Sept. 17.-Word
has been received here of the acciden-
tai death of N. B. Cameron, a rancher
living on upper Redwater, near Farrell,
Wyo. Cameron had been i'll. While
taking a dose OF medicine he got hold
of the wrong bottle and swallowed
carbolic acid.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1907-09-20
Killed at Same Moment.

Odin. H., Sept. 16.-Mr. and Mrs.
Edward Pool, ffty-six and fafty-two
years old. we're killed at the same mo-
ment. the husband by an explosion in
a coal mine and his wife in the rail.
road yards at Centralia, Ill.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1907-09-20
Crushed Under Wheels.

st. Paul, Sept. 17.-Thomas McDon-
ough was run down in the Great
Northern yards and was crushed to
death. His body was mangled by the
wheels of several freight cars.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1907-09-20
FIREeuo s%usp

Loss on eIenns Ferry (idaho) Hotel
Is $4,000.
Boise, Idaho. Sept. IA special to
the Statesman from Glenns Ferry, Ida
no, says that a fire which originated
at the Overland hotel Saturday de-
stroyed seven business buildings and
inflicted a loss of $4,000. 1ncendiar-
ism is suspected.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1907-09-20
LIGHTNING DESTROYS Barn.

Faribault, Mimi, Sept. H. barn
belonging to Mrs. Thomas Jackson at
Cedar Lake was struck by lightning
and destroyed with its contents-hay,
cattle. tools and a large amount of
poultry. The loss is about 5 $500.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1907-09-20
$4,000 Pound. Of P.wd., Ex,,oa..

Alton. ILL.,, Sept. Fifteen thou
sad pounds Of powder exploded at the
Equitable Powder works at East AL
ton, killing Charles NeGinnis and
shocking Charles ellison SO that, his
mind is temporarily gone.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1907-09-20
Fire Damp Explosion,

Forbach, Germany, Sept. 17.-Four
persons were killed and three danger
ously injured in a fire damp explosion
in the Merienbach mine at midnight
last night
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1907-09-20
DRAGGED By HAY RAKE.
Farmer Falls Under Machine In Run
away and Is 1adiv Hurt.

IVY d''" TO odoIy nuFt.
Sioux Falls, S. D., Sept. 15.-John
Vanecek, a farmer residing in Bon
Homme county. was seriously injured
as the result Of a runaway while en-.
gagged in raking hay. The farmer lost
his balance on the rake and fell I'M.
der the machine.
One Of Nanecek's ribs was broken
and his body was covered with cuts
and bruises. The physicians who are
caring for him have hope of saving
his life.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1907-09-20
FIRE AT RED LAKE FALLS.

Blaze Starting in Meat Market Does
$4,000 Damage.
Red Lake Falls, Mimi, Sept. H.
Fire last night started in the Office Of
the Sauer meat market from a heating
stove. The loss is as follows: Duffy
building, $500; Sausr building, con-
tents, $500; Spillane building and con-
tents, $4,000; Majerus feed store,
5000.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1907-09-20
Bolt Kills Bow In Bed

Brainerd. MINI, Sept. 17.-Clarence
w. Holt, the fifteen-year-old son of Ed
Holt, a farmer residing in the town of
Plat Lake, vas killed by lightning
while in bed with two brothers.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1907-09-20
Alcoholism Partly cav,. .t n...h

East Grand Forks, MINI, Sept. IT,
Death from alcoholism and exposure
was the verdict of Coroner Chester
man in the case Of John Lyons. who
was discovered dead back of a saloon
Oh the Red river bank.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1907-09-20
Hunters Kill Valuable Cow

Faribault, Mimi, Sept. 17.-Hunters
shooting in the fields Of Anton John
sons farm, west of here, killed one of
his valuable COWS and escaped.