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Newspaper
Sisseton Weekly Standard
Location
Sisseton, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Oct 22, 1909
Page
9
A collage of fleeting observations and jumbled lines touch on comets, forests, taxes, international affairs, inventions, and agricultural forecasts. Names, places, and dates blur amid offhand musings about California split into two states, European noblemen, and Mars life theories, ending with grain crop projections for 1909 and scattered political quips.
Nels P Swenson was found guilty of murder in the death of Bertha Swenson at the Garfield township farm near Alsen. The jury fixed the penalty at Imprisonment in the state penitentiary. Eyewitness testimony focused on whisky bottles found under Bertha's pillow and alleged theft of $500 from Swenson’s cache. The trial revealed family tensions and accusations of poison, with the defense planning a motion for a new trial as the case moves toward appeal.
Jor getivon attorney for Emil Victor announced that Victor’s relatives failed to raise funds for an appeal to the court and no appeal will be filed. The condemned murderer of the Christy family faces the execution with no remaining hope for clemency or delay.
Brazinzeky a former Treasury agent testified before the federal grand jury in a bid to punish American Sugar Refining executives for long running fraud at the Have Meyer & Elder docks in Brooklyn. Weighers and checkers tied to conspiracy to defraud customs may testify to escape prison terms. penalties of about 134 thousand dollars were levied in March. Discovery at Williamsburgh docks revealed tampered platform scales using steel springs to cheat sugar weighing on a creamship Stra thyre. Brazinzeky later vanished from government service and could not be found when needed as a witness.
Shortly before De Lambert’s return to Paris, Blanc a 2 Frenchman attempted his first flight in a Bleriot monoplane. A rudder shift caused a crash into the tribune injuring a woman and dozens of others.
A prairie fire at the M. B. Murphy farm eight miles northwest of Bridgewater, BC, destroyed wagons and wood supply and damaged rough feed after crossing the road. Fire crews with teams and plows eventually got the blaze under control, with assistance reported but details are unclear.
Cable dispatches report rising unrest from Barcelona to Lisbon with bombs killing five and wounding 21, a failed fortress raid, and calls for revolution. Leaders like Jane Leroux forecast a republic while across Europe anti Spanish demonstrations ripple through Paris London Brussels and beyond with boycotts and church vandalism reported.
L Y Derrik an agent for J P Morgan reports a vast stream of crude petroleum in northeastern Alaska within the Arctic slope between Point Barrow and Colville river. Natives claim Derrik is the first white man shown the river of fire water. Perkins will study the find next spring. oil may be piped to water and shipped to market.
Judge A B Anderson of the U S district court dismissed proceedings against Delavan Smith and Charles R Williams, owners of the Indianapolis News, who faced removal to the District of Columbia for trial on criminal libel charges over articles alleging a $28,000,000 Panama canal profit. The judge criticized the move to drag citizens to the capital and discharged the defendants.
Washington reports Charles R. Crane has resigned as U S designate to China after Secretary Knot urged acceptance amid alleged indiscreet talks on Far East policy. Crane blamed restriction by President Taft and unfair State Department treatment in a post resignation statement.
Counterfeiters flood Washington districts with spurious 25 and 10 cent coins patterned after the 1903 issue. Operatives say the fake money is a poor imitation and Chief George P. Proctor has assumed charge of the investigation.
Washington reports martial law in Managua Nicaragua with the Atlantic coast ports closed by President Zelaya. The revolution led by Estrada gains ground across the east and into the west, while Gen Juan Estrada emerges as a key, popular figure connected to Zelaya’s rival circles. Zelaya in New York says the country supports the government and has sent regiments to quell the uprising.
Washington's Dr Wu Ting Fang, near retirement as China’s minister to the U S, investigates spirits at a public meeting. A trace medium reports messages from President McKinley and the minister’s mother, delivered in Chinese, intriguing the diplomat.
An office here was invaded by a band of 110 Indians who sought to register for land along the Minneapolis and St. Louis extension. Officials told them registration required leaving their tribe, prompting protracted discussion and their eventual departure in quiet, disapproving grunts.
Snowplows cleared tracks east of Winnipeg as 16 inches of snow fell overnight. Western Canada recorded temperatures around six degrees above zero while Houghton Michigan saw rapid snowfall easing from six inches to a foot and a half.
President Taft crossed into Mexico to meet Gen Porfirio Diaz in El Paso, crossing back to attend a banquet later. Troops lined the scene as El Paso welcomed the chief executive with music, flags, and formal introductions by Governor Creel in a ceremonial border encounter.
Pierre plans a $25,000 artesian test well with a $5,000 drilling rig. A 5,000 foot target depth is set, with an expert to assemble the rig and prepare the hole. All gear is secured for the artesian flow as the city proceeds to a practical test.
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