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Newspaper
Sisseton Weekly Standard
Location
Sisseton, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Jul 14, 1905
Page
3
A garbled OCR fragment references ritual phrases and numeric codes, hinting at a postmaster and postal service items. It mentions an order and a yearly schedule, with scattered names and unclear events. The readable parts suggest a damaged notice or note about insurance and distribution deadlines.
Text explains that South Dakota cities must enact ordinances to enforce a state automobile law effective July 1. It requires owners to file names and addresses with Pierre and display a machine number and registration certificates. Speed limits, signaling, and lights are specified, with fines up to 350 or 30 days in jail for repeat offenses.
The Sioux Falls divorce colony reports the disappearance of a man using the name Dr John Wanamaker after drafts he cashed at a local bank were dishonored He claimed funds from the East and the Pinkerton agency has been hired to locate him The doctor allegedly secured 150 from Heanes with the attorney endorsing and later cashing a 50 draft without the attorney endorsement Both drafts were unpaid prompting an interstate manhunt.
F D Mills a Sioux Falls contractor return home after vanishing in Kansas City last April leading authorities to suspect abduction and murder. He appeared dazed and unable to account for his wanderings as relatives speculated on financial strain or unsettled business affairs. Mills had been en route to New Mexico to arrange government Indian school contracts when news of his location reached Portland before he moved on to Sioux Falls. Meanwhile, groundwork on the De Bemid depot for the Chicago and Northwestern railroad progresses, a 22 by 100 foot combined passenger and freight facility to replace a recently destroyed depot, with hardwood finish and interiors.
A Sioux Falls delay in citizenship blanks hindered Forsythe from filing final papers, triggering a contest to cancel his land claim on a quarter section in Roberts County. Hearing set before the U.S. Land Office in Watertown. Improvements on the property valued around $3,400.
Heavy rains soak western South Dakota delaying harvest. Beadle county farmers report flooded fields, rivers eight to ten feet higher than normal, and crops backward as growers fear quick maturing grains with rain stoppage. No confirmed sign of rust in wheat.
Lead Mayor John Gilroy ordered the shutdown of two dance halls with bars in Deadwood's Hills area after gambling crackdowns. Bars attached to the venues will not sell intoxicants, and licenses were not renewed by several saloonkeepers. Mansion and Totem, major Deadwood spots, are also closed.
Wolf bounty claims are nearly at six thousand dollars this year, matching last year’s level. By July 1 the total was a little under six thousand, with a gap under fifty dollars. No distribution will occur until August first to allow late claims filed before July first to reach the state auditor. Last year claimants received about sixty one cents on the dollar, with good odds of a similar payout this year.
In Groton area farmers test alfalfa. F. J. Lasky sowed two acres last year expecting a 1.5 ton per acre yield with two additional cuttings planned. He planted five more acres this spring alongside J. B. Quiggle and N. O. P. Syneground who each sowed five acres. The Aberdeen bartender Albert Block faces case dismissal. bonds set at 1000 dollars as he testifies in the Purcell manslaughter trial for Murray’s saloon death.
A boy vanished in a 130 acre macaroni wheat field near Miller and was found with difficulty. The five foot tall crop is in blossom and will be ready for the sickle in three weeks. Estimated yield is 35 bushels per acre. Lodging fears rise if heavy rains persist.
Fort Pierre men tally flood devastation along the Missouri River from Fort Pierre to Midland. Seventeen houses washed away and forty three more damaged as wrecked ranch buildings fill the river valley. A party of women from Fort Pierre remains missing after the flood, with no word on their arrival at the hoped for ranch.
Mrs Elmer Burtness aged thirty and her sister in law Delia Burtness aged twelve were found dead in the cellar of the Burtness home at Orfordville Wisconsin when Elmer returned from work. Death is believed due to gas escape and cellar damp. Coroners jury ruled accidental death but mystery persists and further inquiry will follow.
A Diamond Jn line packet, the Sydney, struck the pier of a steel bridge over the Mississippi near Crosse Wisconsin on July 11. A swift current and strong gale kept the engines nearly powerless and hurled the boat against rocks, causing panic among passengers but leaving the vessel not materially damaged.
Three more fatalities from the Bad river flood are reported as Perry Rifenberg Ed Cook and Fred Trumbo drowned in the Rifenberg ranch at the Bad river and Squaw creek junction near Newlin Albert Rifenberg escaped by breaking through the roof of the house Albert saved his life by forcing a roof exit as floodwater swept the dwelling away
In Williston vicinity July 11, Great Northern brakeman Harry Smith died in a railroad yard accident about thirty miles east of Williston. Authorities believe he was killed during a coupling or while passing between the cars. No witnesses saw the event. the body was found minutes after, still breathing at discovery time.
La Crosse Wisconsin July 11 after completion of the state census two doubtful wards will be recanvassed at city expense and if state reports held incorrect the entire city may be recounted. Presidents of three commercial bodies acted after a careful study noting continued falling off as more reports arrive.
Fergus Falls Minnesota July 11 Magnus Johnson Geving one of the earliest settlers was found in the river apparently having committed suicide. Two bottles of strychnine and an empty revolver indicated he had taken poison and shot himself on the river bank. He was seventy three years old.
A passenger train traveling at fifty miles an hour left the track on Moose Island five miles south of Herman Minnesota last evening. All cars left the rails and three people, a woman and two men, were injured though none seriously. Officials cite spreading rails as the probable cause.
Albert Fleener accidentally shot George F. Cantor while cleaning a rifle in Belgrade Helena. Cantor’s thigh wound is considered dangerous. In St Paul crest of high water at 14.5 feet. Rivermen forecast a decline today as Mississippi water tops marked by weeklong high levels.
In Crookston Minnesota on July 9 a dispute over a potato patch led to a fatal confrontation. Mrs Bertha Woods died after a struggle with Mrs Lien and Mrs Safford, who is gravely ill, following injuries during the altercation near the Fifth ward pump house.
The Mississippi River near St Paul rose steeply with readings at 18 feet in the morning and climbing, potentially reaching 14.5 feet by nightfall on the government gauge. Officials warn of risk to life and property as a log jam above Minneapolis threatens to break free and worsen flooding.
In Red Wing Minnesota on July 9 seven leaders of a mutiny at the training school were sent to the reformatory at St. Cloud. A night watchman was struck with a hose muzzle during an attempted escape in the main dormitory but blew his whistle for help. One youth escaped by leaping from a window and remains at large.
The Missouri River flood worsens around Council Bluffs with extensive inundation on the town side. Water from Me tiger enters Lake Manhawa as the lake rises about a foot and a half, while Modale and surrounding tiger bottom areas flood vast farmland. farmers use boats to save livestock as levees threaten to break.
Stockholm reports Sweden taking precautionary frontier steps after a threatening Norwegian posture. The treasury borrowed 8.4 million to cover extraordinary costs. Rumors say two senior Norwegian officers were arrested at Christiania for refusing allegiance to King Oscar, though unconfirmed. Prominent merchants note capital withdrawals from Norwegian banks.
The Kansas Supreme Court ruled the 410000 appropriation to build an independent Port refinery unconstitutional. The decision, by Associate Justice Greene, upholds a ruling aimed at curbing Standard Oil influence in state oil handling and reflects the legislature’s offensive measures against the company.
Heavy rain near Pierre South Dakota dumped three quarters of an inch in fifteen minutes and threatens renewed flooding on the North Western track east of town. A barn was struck by lightning at the Indian school. A drowning death in Bourne was reported as Joe Branke and about a dozen others remain missing, with total losses to be determined in days ahead.
The Kansas supreme court ruled that the Kansas Natural Gas Company, a Delaware corporation, cannot do business in Kansas. The sweeping decision bars the firm from holding property or operating within the state, despite having spent millions on pipeline construction.
Charles D. May former president of Big Bend National Bank Davenport Washington was arrested as a fugitive from justice. He was arraigned before a U S commissioner and held on five thousand dollars bail amid Washington state indictment for misappropriating twenty eight thousand five hundred dollars from the bank which later went to a receiver.
The American protest over the mistreatment of A A Gargiulo, the first dragoman of the legation, yielded swift response. The sultan, informed of the incident, sent Galli Bey to Ministers Leishmann at Prinkipal Island to convey sincere regrets and announce the spy’s instant dismissal.
Nebraska politician William Jennings Bryan, who passed through Sioux City yesterday, plans a year long trip around the world starting in September. He will study social and political conditions in Europe and Asia, focusing on Russia and the Norway Sweden split, visiting capitals to collect data of political interest to the United States.
Michael Dunn, former Milwaukee city building inspector and former Milwaukee county sheriff, was sentenced by Judge Vinje to one year and six months in the house of corrections for accepting a $1,500 bribe from the Pabst Brewing company for a special building privilege permit. The conviction followed an appeal to the state supreme court, which denied a new trial.
Washington July 9 indications point to a new head of the Commerce Department as Metcalf is reported to be succeeded despite his denial of resignation. Trades and labor unions nationwide show keen interest in the forthcoming appointment and its implications for policy.
Baron Rosen, newly appointed ambassador of Russia to the United States, arrived in Washington and met Count Cassini. Cassini hosted a luncheon for embassy attaches. Rosen will depart for New York on Sunday and sail for Europe on Tuesday.
Amerlues Belgium July 9 Fourteen miners were killed and a number injured in a colliery explosion caused by fire damp.
Charles A Gould of Minneapolis, representing a seed firm, was overcome by gas in his hotel room in Aberdeen yesterday. A physician's prompt intervention saved his life as Gould read late and grew drowsy before retiring, likely due to incomplete gas shutoff.
July 9 report from Buenos Ayres notes representatives of American meat firms arrived to begin negotiations aimed at monopolizing the trade. The press and public opinion are decidedly hostile to the move.
Miss Mag ele Thoortn and Miss Eleanor Swanson, visitors in Embryville, Tennessee, drowned while boating on the Nockhee River near Embryville. The accident occurred July 3 as the pair went out on the river in a small boat. Local authorities investigated the incident and mourn the loss of two young women from the community.
The county newspaper reports varied items from Ashton to Lead. Telegraph lines extend to connect with Devon and Roanoke, while a modern hotel project gains pace in Bryant. A fatal freight incident near Sturgis, jail escape in Gregory, and bank consolidations at Ashton are noted amid fire losses and school bond votes.
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