Sioux County pioneer. (Fort Yates, Sioux County, N.D.) 1914-1929, 1916-11-17
SOUTH DAKOTA NEWS NOTES

6QT0QS. f10 udlIO"V 0oSaQoU @Ssssee
from loss of blood.
Mrs. Barney Dahlhoff, wife OF Bar.
ney Dafltoff, near Bowdle, was found
dead in bed 6y her family. During
the night her husband found her walk
ing about the room and assisted her
to bad again. She seemed to fall
asleep, and when the doctor, who had
been su1tiiDaH6a, arrived he found her
dead. The physician pronounced it
case Of acute Bfighfs disease.
While barring down rock in the
high line drift Of tie Golden Gate
shaft Leo Mannick, age a4, Of Terra
vile, was crushed to death. Al I'M
mense boulder struck him on the head,
crushing IN his skull and so dishgur-
ing his face that he is unrecognizable.
Deceased was the lsin support OF a
large family, his father lying at the
point 81. death with tuberculosis
According To Philip Dale, agricul-
turai Superintendent Of the Great
western sugy3ar COMPANY Of Belle
Fourche, estimates sR the Sugar beat
yield on the experimental Sefsage are
said to average from eight to ffeeeH
tons per acre, tests showing the sugar
confetti te be from IA to 20 per cent.
The entire eF1y will be harvested by
November IS:
After mary hot eSaRty seat fights
during the past fifteen years, when
nearly evef;y t0*H III Tie County has
tried and failed, Lake Andes received
approximately 100 votes more than TIE
required 60 per cent at the last cleo
ton, and the county seat OF Charles
Mix county will be transferred from
Wheeler, a town fifteen miles from
| railroad 6R the Missouri river, where
TT has been evefa Since the county was
organized, Is Lake Andes:
Several persons from Springfield.
making an automobile trip t. vefalil-
lion.a met with an accident Just West
of Yahkton. The car turned turtle
at a turn ia the road where high
culvert Is apt to throw car going
at high speed. Mrs Pattee; OF the
Springfield Normal, and MIS-: Tufter
were the only injured parties. they
finding it. Necessary to have their
wounds dressed at a Yankton hospital.
The car was completely wrecked.
While hunting near 0ttdhwa, John
Lidder was instantly killed BY the &C.
cidental discharge of his gun. HI Com
pany with some neighbors Lidder
went out to the sloughs east of his
farm to bag some ducks. In watch
ing the birds he failed to notice
stone lying in his path, Stumbled and
the gun was discharged, the ftA
charge striking him in the head. He
was dead when bis friends reached
him q moment later.
Herman Lehrkamp, q German farm
er, found a purse containing S470 ".
ing in the middle Of the road near
Delmont. Investigation proved that it
belonged to an indian, Nareis Drap-
peau, who had dropped 1t lib goiag to
town, but when 1t was returned to
him he claimed 800 was missing.
This, was later found by the roadside.
Drappeau offered the German half the
purse as reward, but 1t was refused
and $50 accepted az sufficient Pre-
MUM.
To secure a return Of more than
$34 per acre from a tract of 30 acres
of hts farm for one seasons crop is
the record made by G. Kleftman, liv-
| ing near Wecota. The 80 acres was
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, Hoffman also
raised 1000 bushels Of wheat and
about the same amount Of feed and
a 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 one DUR
ling that period having committed a
crime serious enough to warrant them
being placed in Jail. The, eighteen
months record has just been broken,
it having been necessary to place an
intoxicated man in the long unused
Jail. The prisoner, however, was not
resident of Wentworth, but tran
sient, so the good record Of the towns
people remains unbroken.
Hard luck is coming in punches for
]. A. Nathan, merchant Of Alaska.
In fire which wiped out half the
small town, Nathan lost his building
and 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
with disaster when he attempted to
climb the State bank building, a height
Of thirty feet. He made it all right
until he grasped the sandstone cor
nice at the top of the brick wall, about
feet from the ground. The
cornice came loose, and the human
fly" dropped to the cement sidewalk
below, but escaped with spra;ned
ankle and wrist.
Information has reached Baltic that
Gilbert p. Riswold, a rising young
sculptor of the country, who was rails
ed in that vicinity, is meeting with
great success in the east, where he
opened studio some years ago. He
was recently awarded the contract for
a statue of Stephen A. Douglass, which
will be erected on the state capitol
grounds at Springfield, Ill. The con.
tract price for the statue was $4,000.
The young South Dakota sculptor is
said to also stand good chance of
being awarded the contract for a
statue of Abraham Lincoln, to be
erected on the same grounds
Fast Mixers Are Best.