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Newspaper
Sisseton Weekly Standard
Location
Sisseton, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Jul 13, 1906
Page
7
South Dakotans allege contest filings against permanent Stanley County residences. If the claimant appears the contestant wins. if not, the claimant loses. Some landholders report two years of crops and fencing followed by notices of filing cancellations. An informer near Grindstone is said to monitor homesteaders and plans to stir trouble, with talk of giving him troubles in return.
Aberdeen residents face widespread address mix ups due to a city council error from 1888. Stores and homes are numbered before the block, making delivery and navigation difficult. Mall carriers complain of missing house numbers, and the council is expected to correct the issue promptly and ensure all houses gain proper numbers.
Adjt. Gen. Englesby announces state land purchase west of Watertown camp grounds to expand the campsite and give lake shore frontage. About fifteen acres will be acquired with plans for improvements and a rifle range stockpiled to the north and west. If the land purchase succeeds, part of the governmental appropriation will finance a permanent state range.
Indian reservations raise cattle for government purchases. For year ending June 30, 1906 the United States will have bought about 1 million pounds of beef from Indians and another 1 million pounds from contractors. Next year plans aim for 1.5 million pounds from Indians and the rest from contractors. Indians receive about four cents per pound, roughly twenty cents above last year’s price.
Union county reports show 177 fewer school age children than last year. The current count of school age residents is 3,343, down from 3,520 previously. Officials note no major exodus or higher death rate, yet the decline remains.
Sou Smith, a South Dakota farmer who built a fortune from the soil, retires and travels to Europe. He deeds a quarter section to each of his children, except Frank Smith of Davis who receives a hardware store. The total value is estimated at not less than $50,000, part of his Dakota wealth.
The May report records 867 births in the state with 444 boys and 438 girls. Deaths total 325 with 30 from heart failure and 29 from both pneumonia and tuberculosis, eight accidental deaths, and one drowning. There were 253 marriages and 60 divorces, 46 to non residents. The state gained 256 naturalized citizens.
A Sioux Falls government building valued at 175000 faces tax sale after a bid by Thomas Sevilan, a local financier, prompts debate over future use. The city had improved East Twelfth Street near Phillips Avenue, while the Justice Department previously ruled government property not taxable.
Deadwood voices anger at Assistant District Attorney Nott of New York City following his remark on the Thaw case. The piece argues Deadwood’s long, notorious mining camp history includes wide saloon vice and a strong reaction to being labeled as sliding toward such conditions.
Government authorities assessed a special tax on the government building and delinquent properties. At a regular tax sale, Mr Scanlan bid in the government property and will seek a sheriff's deed for the valued $175,000 structure as a formal recovery action.
Aberdeen will organize a 15 000 club within days led by Gen. H Jumper and Charles Howard. The group aims to accelerate Aberdeen growth industrially and demographically to 16 000 by 1910, with a mass meeting next week to form officers and set an advertising plan to attract investment.
The Pierre land office recorded 300 homestead entries and twenty declaratory statements in June, totaling 329 filings and 51,200 acres or about two and a third townships. The office also handled nine final proofs and sixteen cash entries to secure title, while contest activity continued with seventy-four cases started that month.
Visitors report Sioux warriors on Pine Ridge prospering as many work grading for the Milwaukee Road extension and other railroad lines. Indian allotments drive farming, cattle rising grows, government beef purchases reach 1,000,000 pounds this year with future 1,500,000 pounds expected. Annuities and labor payments totaling tens of thousands are distributed by the government.
The steam ferry Jim Leighton, serving Pierre since before 1880, is retired from ferry duty. The pasoline boats gain ferry privileges and the Leighton will transfer materials in railroad work only. The vessel, rebuilt multiple times, carried cattle to the East and served Black Hills freight, with Cant. Horm and then Captain Dull among its leaders.
Work at Blacktail Gulch on the old Faust and McLaughlin ground continues quietly. Majors and Behird Dunlap leased the Columbus mill to treat ore but the mill proved unsuitable, leading to a shutdown. Workers remain at the mine with 200 to 200 tons of ore on the dump. A 10 stamp mill will be overhauled and operated in a few weeks aiming for improved extraction of free milling ore.
Oppressed by remorse and ill health the Keystone mayor James Stewart an old timer and veteran took his own life with a forty four caliber pistol. He had long feared the urge to kill himself and for months avoided fire near him. He was about sixty six and a longtime soldier.
Miss Ada Musgrave of England gives Crown Prince Olaf the Solstraale estate on Godos island per the Christiania Dispatch of the Daily Telegraph. The transfer occurs in July as reported by the London bureau.
A Vermillion writer extols South Dakota as ideal for farming and ranching. He contrasts its prolonged Indian summer with Chicago weather, touts ample rainfall, rich soils east of the Missouri, and widespread irrigation via artesian wells. Rail access, high cattle sale value, renowned wool and horse stock, and expanding homesteads are highlighted as reasons to invest in Dakota lands and livestock.
South Dakota’s sawmills operate year round in the Black Hills and eastern streams, turning out lumber for local markets. Sanford Boyles runs a KA WM mill on the west side.
Two new state banks organize in South Dakota with Draper and Scranton locations. Draper unit, capital 5100, incorporators W F McConnell O J Marshall and others. Scranton unit, capital 10000, incorporators M Briggs S Pat Webster and several others. Bank to serve site where Minneapolis and St Louis line meets Missouri river amid revival of Scranton.
The Wilker family of Hayes, in western South Dakota, faced a four foot rattler that curled on the doorstep. Mrs. Walker killed the reptile with a pine stick just as it crossed the threshold, saving the home from intrusion.
A contractor opposite What to kimown on the Missouri river was awarded the contract to furnish one million feet of lumber and several smaller orders. He will source rough material near his sawmill along the river, while a two year old boy of Lead residents Henry and Mrs. Carlson died from scalding injuries after slipping into a tub of hot water.
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