The Kadoka press and Kadoka reporter. [volume] (Kadoka, S.D.) 1910-1923, 1917-10-26


family had on. Insurance s4OO II is
supposed to have caught from an oil
stove
State Sheriff Shanks is looking into
violations OF the automobile license
law and is sending out a letter to all
county sheriffs in the state asking
them to look after enforcement. A
number of private owners of autos are
neglecting TO take out licenses and
dealers are using autos with dealers
numbers for private use and evading
the payment of the regular license
fee.
Gov. Norbeck will issue a proclama-
tion calling upon the people of the
state to assist in making the afternoon
of October "a legal holiday. follow
ing the suggestion OF President Will
son to that effect in which the date
is made a legal holiday for all federal
employees Gov. Norbeck will call up
on mayors of different cities OF the
state to take action TO this end to
make the Liberty Loan Day" one OF
the events OF the year.
The explosion OF kerosene stove
in the home of Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Du-
Marse, near Veblen, resulted in the
death OF the mother and two daugh-
ters. DuMarse was filling the stove
and had neglected TO extinguish the
flame. He poured too much of the IL
,I,A ,AyNtx
caught fire and the explosion resulted
The interior of the house was badly
damaged by the explosion and the
burning liquid was dashed over the
members of the family.
Action in connection with an im-
mense drainage ditch through parts
of Brown and Marshall counties soon
will be taken. and il is hoped to have
the work of construction commence
at the earliest possible date An en-
gineer now is going over the route or
the proposed ditch in an effort TO de-
eide upon changes that will permit
the construction of the ditch at less
cost on a smaller scale and yet be
ditch will reclaim several thousand
acres of valuable farm land which for
a number of years has been too wet
to cultivate
Jesse c. Hager of Amherst of Sioux
Falls met death as the result of a pc
culiar accident. A colt kicked a pitch
fork in such a manner that the tines
entered his throat, intlicting fatal
wound, Himself and companion were
walking through a barnyard when one
of them touched the colt with the
fork to make it move out of their way.
When touched by the fork the colt
kicked with both hind feet striking
the fork and driving the tines into
Hager's throat The injured man sue
ceeded in reaching the house, where
minutes later. He is survived by a
widow and two children.
While no indictment against lichard
Franklin Pettigrew of Sioux Falls, for
mer United States senator from South
| Dakota. has been returned in open fed
eral court there is an apparently vel
| founded rumor ~ circulation that a
| indictment has bcun returned charging
him with violation of the espionage
! act Federal officials will neither af
| firm nor deny the report that such ar
| indictment has been returned. II al
! indictment has been returned it is be
! lieyed to have bee based on newspa
per interview given the Sioux Fail!
! Argus-Leader and Sioux Falls Daily
! Press on October 8, in which he sc
verely criticised the entering of The
! United States into the war and, amont
other things, stated that he countr.
should back out of the wal at the ear
liest possible moment. The eX-senato
left Sioux Falls on the day Of givinl
the interview and it is unders' ood ha
since been in a Chicago hospital.
After several several years litiga
tiCn Judge Jones Of the state circui
court for Lake county, has DECIDED il
favor of the children of a common iay
marriage The contest involved Ia
estate of ellison r. Reynolds. IN
! CldluldHIS DelHB his aDdUuOneu CIV
dren, Frederick d. and Gordon S. Rey
nolds. The estate, following the deaf
of w r. Reynolds, bother of the dea
man, who claimed that the propert
had been given to him as a gift by hi
dead brother. The mother and Gilso
Reynolds were married by commo
law at Milwaukee One son was bori
and following this a formal marriag
ceremony was performed in Colorado
Reynolds and his wife separated afte
that and the abandoned wife and chi
dren returned to Milwaukee, wker
they lived in poverty, supported b
the labor of the mother. II wa
brought out during the trial Of the ca
that w. K Reynolds visited the litti
family in Milwaukee and offered T.
make a considerable settlement on tn
two sons as a gift or as a residue ,
the property left by the children
father. The brothers and sisters
ellison Reynolds were the original III
gants for the estate. and then the tw
sons of ellison Reynolds put in an al
pearance and now have beaten out tn
brothers and sisters OF their father b
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