The Kadoka press and Kadoka reporter. [volume] (Kadoka, S.D.) 1910-1923, 1917-12-28

Qre. Inc loss was only parity covered
by Insurance. Lagner had $2oe in sill
yer coin in the house. This was found
In the ruins OF the home The coins
had been heated Just enough 10 Gauss
them to adhere to each other. but
they were not ruined.
Tom Hubbard, a tramp. convicted
utory crime, is seeking pardon. hav-
ing received a letter from another
tramp that the latter was the person
who committed the crime for which
Hubbard was sent up. The authorities
are Investigating the case and are con
vinced Hubbard is innocent Hubbard
has been an exemplary prisoner at the
state penitentiary and there is little
doubt he will soon be liberated.
Forty demonstrations and discus,
sions for patriotic and profitable farm
ing and home making will be offered
10 South Dakota farmers and their
wives in the annual state college farm
and home course during the week De-
eemoeT 81 TO January > I hese
courses will be handled comparatively
by the college faculty and the staff
OF the extension division through the
local short course as required by law
The Dallas home guards have placed
in custody a man aged about 40. H.
was found begging and acted strange
ly. He refuses 10 talk about himself
or occupation, but gave the name OF
James Riley. He claims he is from
st. Joseph but the authorities there
know nothing about him. From his
actions and appearance it is thought
he might be a firebug or anarthist
He was turned over to the county
authorities and held for investigation
Some hours after Edward j. Leary,
claiming to be resident of Rapid City,
had enlisted in the United States army
az the Lead recruiting station and had
departed for Aberdeen with other re
cruits, young woman called on the
recruiting officers and stated that she
was the wife OF Leary. At the time
Leary represented himself as single
man. 1t is probable that because OF
his misrepresentation Leary will be
sent back TO the Black fills from Aber.
deem.
Clyde Vaughn, OF Olivet. and an in
dividdal known as bill, the Trapper."
who is an expert trapper. dug out
den OF polecats on a farm some miles
from town, securing II pelts, which
are worth from So TO 81 each. The
Kratz boys found a den on the farm
Of Ed Brady. from which they secured
Is pelts. Because of the high prices
Of pelts OF all kinds of wild animals.
trappers in South Dakota are making
good money this winter with their
trapping operations.
John Okeson, a well known Roberts
county farmer, was almost instantly
killed when he attempted to stop his
horses from running away, the ami
mails having been frightened by
passing automobile. Okeson, because
of the cold, was walking beside the
wagon when the horses started to run.
He grasped for the lines. hut instead
seized hold of OF of the tugs. He
was jerked off his balance and thrown
under the heavily loaded wagon which
passed over him, crushing out his life.
1t is probable Il t the methods used
by DR.. :. w. Freeman, in charge of the
hospital maintained by the Homestake
Mining company in the Black Hills. in
the treatment of those who are
"gassed" while working in the Home
stake mine, will be utilized on the
west front in Europe to save the lives
OF British, French and American sol
diers who are overcome by the fumes
from the gas shells fired by the Ger
mans and the clouds of gas sent down
upon the allied lines by the Teutons.
More than 100 students of the
Washington high school at Sioux
Falls decided to withdraw from school
rather than to be vaccinated as re-
quired by the ruling of the city board
OF health. A slight decrease in at
tendance prevailed in all city schools
on account of the health board ruling.
The students Withdrawing from the
schools contend that the epidemic OF
smallpox or danger of epidemic has
passed and consequently there is no.
necessity for enforced vaccination.
According to people who have Wis
tied the Mennonite and Hutterische col
onies along the Jim river south of
Mitchell, a plan is on foot to move the
colonists to some more peaceful coun-
try. According to members of the col
onies, the draft is to blame. There is
no particular objection to the country
as a whole, and there is no Mennonite
law against going to war-as a nation.
But when that war necessitates light.
ing on the part of the colonists-weN
it just won't do, that is all. The Rock.
port Hetterische colony, through Jim
Wipf, boss" of the tribe, objects to.
the Interpretation placed on an offer.
ing OF cash made by the five colonies
some time ago. Wipf and other lead
ers had been to Washington to en-
deavor to get their boys exempted
from military service. While t.,re.
according to Mr.. Wipf, they made a
free Offering of $4,000 TO the govern