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Newspaper
Sisseton Weekly Standard
Location
Sisseton, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Jun 09, 1905
Page
3
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A survey of Gregory Dixon County Idaho states thriving rural towns with farms, blacksmith shops, stores, hotels, and prospective newspapers. It notes Herrick Burke Carlton and Carlock as growing communities in a fertile Bull Creek valley, with plans for development, water access, and new businesses expanding into the region.
The Belle Fourche irrigation effort accelerates as cement and materials pour in and large steam shovels move on site. Engineer in charge Raymond E. Waller forecasts 500 workers and hundreds of teams, rising to about 1,000 within a year as the diverting dam and storage dam prepare to form a 200 to 300 acre lake. The 43 foot high, 400 foot long concrete dam will be on the Belle Fourche river one mile below town, using Portland cement from Yankton.
Residents of Cheyenne River agency who visited Aberdeen challenge claims of mass livestock losses from range fences. They say Indians now own far more cattle, funded by leases and cattle trail rents, with up to seventy added by a single owner. Some losses occurred as storms drove stock into gulches, and fences are blamed only in a few cases.
Clay county crops show good health despite heavy rains, with fears of rotted corn seed diminishing. Farmers learned seed selection and avoided replanting, small grain stands strong, early corn looks fine, truck patches and gardens thriving, fruit trees loaded, and strawberry beds productive promising higher profits this year.
At a Pierre meeting city bankers proposed forming a state land company to raise 130000 for a new wing of the capitol. Directors would include POR McChire AL Ewart and C C Bennett, with 150000 in stock to buy 13000 acres. Cash on hand 24000, sales hoped to fund construction by early 1907, expediting completion.
Sioux Indians from Crow Creek and Lower Brule agencies work as graders and teams on the Chicago Milwaukee and St Paul line from Chamberlain to the Black Hills. Led by Maj H D Chamberlain and supervised by John Von Potter, they contract for several grading sections proving capable laborers and contractors. Louie Lowden also holds a grading contract relying on Sioux crews rather than white labor. The shift marks a move from traditional roles as many Sioux now work on reservations and elsewhere to support families.
The state livestock commission has declared most Missouri river counties east of the river and the section between the Missouri and Jim rivers scabies infected. Compulsory dipping is required for cattle at least twice within eight to fourteen days apart. Counties named include Aurora Beadle Brule Buffalo Charles Mix Campbell Douglas Edmunds Faulk Hand Hyde Hughes Jerauld McPherson Potter Spink Sully and Walworth. Inspectors aim to dip all cattle simultaneously to eradicate the outbreak this year.
A newspaper piece praises Yankton Indians for temperance, noting federal and state prohibitions on liquor sales on ceded lands and in Charles Mix County. It credits Rev John P Williamson and church leaders for religious uplift and cites rare intoxication among locals in Wagner and the Yankton agency area.
W B Davenport announces Sioux Falls has a site chosen for an independent packing plant by local capitalists. A new company with 100000 dollars capital will build a plant with initial capacity for 1000 hogs and about 200 cattle weekly, employing around fifteen men. Construction starts soon with operation hoped by late summer, on the old linen mill site by the Big Sioux river one half mile north of the Queen Bee mill.
State auditor reports over fifty new telephone companies to be taxed this year. These lines, mostly small mutual and farmers lines, spread across farming communities linking them to market towns. The telephone becomes essential to whites and Indians, with a private line at Leslie on the Cheyenne River stretching ranch to ranch and extending into the reservation for both communities.
Ed Nicolson mobilizes workers in Rapid City to convert a brick building into a creamery. He brings extensive creamery experience from eastern South Dakota, betting on success since the Black Hills have only one existing creamery. The Homestake mine orders the world’s largest compressor from Ingersoll Sergeant.
The Milwaukee Exposition building, a landmark on the west side, was gutted by a blaze that started from an electrical wire. About 1,500 people were inside but all escaped unharmed. The fire caused extensive damage including the collapse of a canvas, and nearby structures were threatened. The building, dating from twenty six years ago, hosted national gatherings and events for decades.
Fire broke out at 2 45 in the morning in the Daniels block on Jackson street and, hampered by hydrants slow to supply water, men and rain battled the blaze. Despite quick fireman efforts the Daniels block burned, with losses estimated at 27000 dollars or more.
Mike Spellacy of Virginia died in Eveleth Minnesota from a cerebral hemorrhage after a fall down stairs at Virginia last Sunday. He was transported to More hospital with brain concussion and a broken rib. Spellacy operated in the saloon trade and was a well known figure over the Mesaba Range.
Allen, a butcher employed in Hitchcock, died after his legs were crushed in the Chicago and Northwestern rail yards. He reportedly fell onto the tracks and was run over by the witch engine and cars. He had lived in Oles, Huron, and had been out of work since August 3.
In St Paul on June 6 Adolph Klein seventeen was drowned when a boat overturned in Jake Johanna at about 10 am. His brothers Albert and Edward Klein and Joseph Homen were rescued by W M Perry.
A blaze swept through three business buildings at Burirum, a Northern Pacific station fifteen miles east of Sauk Center, Minnesota, destroying the structures on June 6. No further details on casualties or causes were provided in the report.
Digs well and dies in St Dickinson North Dakota. Fred Alverson recently of Tomah Wisconsin was killed by falling thirty feet down a well he was digging northeast of here where a colony of Wisconsin people has located.
The Milwaukee Sentinel notes Niles Ohio, once famed as McKinley’s birthplace, now hosts the Dollar Savings Bank on the old homestead site. The bank president reports placing a tablet at the entrance declaring McKinley was born there.
A humorous, fragmented reminiscence from a village resident about a nephew named Lester. The speaker notes changes since Lester’s graduation year, recalling him yelling Greek, growing hair, and engaging in various pursuits. The passage blends satire and dialect with references to farming, government, and a surreal solar system metaphor.
Moravia New York June 5 Benjamin Wilson praises Dodds Kidney Pills after his wife endured four years of sugar diabetes and rheumatism. She fell from 200 to 130 pounds, then rose to 190 pounds and recovered strength. He credits the pills with saving her life and health.
Miss Estelle Rees, head of Indian schools, argues cruelty stems from lack of imagination and sympathetic development. She recounts a tale of two plaster pink sugar images given to a boy who is warned they are poison. The boy secretly considers eating one after a friend Richard Howe spends the day with him, prompting the dramatic threat to consume the other if Richard dies.
A testimonial notes improved digestion, kidney relief, steadier nerves, and sharper thinking after switching from heavy meats to Grape-Nuts. The speaker says work lasts longer with ease and credits Postum Co. Battle Creek Michigan and the booklet The Road to Wellville for guidance.
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