The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1916-11-17
SOUTH DAKOTA NEWS NOTES

Western Newspaper Union News Service.
William Bull was the victim of an
unfortunate accident at Andover, re-
sulting in the loss Of his arm. Bull
was feeding a corn shredder and his
glove became caught in the swapping
rollers. His arm was drawn in with
the glove and the lower part torn to
shreds. He narrowly escaped death
from loss Of blood.
Mrs. Barney Dahlhoff, wife Of Bar
ney Dahlhoff, near Bowdle, was found
dead in bed by her family. During
the night her husband found her walk
ing about the room and assisted her
to bed again. She seemed to fall
asleep, and when the doctor. who had
been summoned, arrived he found her
dead. The physician pronounced it a
case of acute B~right's disease.
While barring down rock in the
high line drift of the Golden Gate
shaft Leo Mannick, age "a, of Terra
vile, was crushed to death. An inn
mense boulder struck him on the head,
crushing in his skull and so disfgur-
ing his face that he is unrecogniZabie.
Deceased was the main support of a
large family, his father lying at the
point Of death with tuberculosis.
According to Philip Dale, agricul
tural superintendent OF the Great
Western Sugar company at Belle
Fourche, estimates on the sugar beet
yield on the experimental acreage are
said to average from eight to fifteen
tons per acre, tests showing the sugar
content to be from IA to 20 per cent.
The entire crop will be harvested by
November Is.
After many hot county seat fights
during the past fifteen years, when
nearly every town in the county has
tried and failed. Lake Andes received
approximately 100 votes more than the
required 50 per cent at the last cleo
ton, and the county seal of Charles
Mix county will be transferred from
| Wheeler, a town fifteen miles from a
railroad on the Missouri river. where
it has been ever since the county was
| organized, to Lake Andes.
Several persons from Springfield,
/, making an automobile trip to Vermil-
lion, met with an accident just west
Of Yankton. The car turned turtle
at a turn in the road where a high
culvert is apt to throw a car going
at high speed. Mrs. Pattee, of the
Springfield Normal. and Mrs. Turner
were the only injured parties, they
En1irr / nnnaccnry ~ hnrn $hAx~
wounds dressed al a Yankton hospital.
The car was completely wrecked.
While hunting near Ottumwa John
Lidder was instantly killed by the ac-
cidenta1 discharge of his gun. In COM
pany with some neighbors Lidder
vent out to the sloughs east Of his
farm to bag some ducks. In watch
ing the birds he failed to notice a
stone lying in his path. stumbled and
the gun was discharged, the full
charge striking him in the head. He
vas dead when his friends reached
him a moment later.
Herman Lehrkamp, a German farm.
er. found a purse containing $470 ly-
ing in the middle of the road near
belmont. Investigation proved that it
belonged to an Indian. Narcis Drap-
peau, who had dropped it in going to
town, but when 1t was returned to
him he claimed 500 was missing.
This was later found by the roadside.
Drappeau offered the German half the
purse al a reward, but it was refused
and $40 accepted as sufficient pre-
| MUM.
To secure a return OF more than
$34 per acre from a tract of 80 acres
of his farm for one seasons crop is
the record made by G. Hoffman, liv-
sown to fax. He now has thrashed
500 bushels of fax from the tract.
The high price of fax gave him a
| return Of over $34 per acre. In addi-
ton to his fax crop, Kleffman also
raised 1000 bushels Of wheat and
about the same amount of feed and
q large amount of corn.
Wentworth claims the state record
for the ~peaceable character of its pop
ulation. For a period OF eighteen
| straight months the Wentworth Jail
was without an occupant, no n dur
ing that period having committed a
crime serious enough to warrant them
being placed in Jail. The eighteen
months record has just been broken,
L having been necessary to place an
Intoxicated man in the long unused
Jail. The prisoner, however, was not
i resident OF Wentworth. but a tran
| sient, so the good record Of the towns
| people remains unbroken.
Hard luck Is coming in punches for
]. A. Nathan. a merchant Of Alaska.
In a fire which wiped out half the
small town. Nathan lost his building
md stock Of general merchandise. And
| close upon that catastrophe, his son,
aged 16 years, disappeared after hay
ing, it is said. cashed a check for 500
at an Aberdeen bank. No reason is
known for the youths disappearance.
A local human fly at belmont met