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Sioux County pioneer. (Fort Yates, Sioux County, N.D.) 1914-1929, 1917-07-12
Important Decision /.
Given By 5. b. Judge
Judge McNenny of the South Dakoea
Circuit Court Renders an Important
Decision in Test Case

A decision was recently rendered
in circuit court in South Dakota
that will have far reaching effect
and mean that Sioux county in
North Dakota, and a number of
counties in South Dakota will re.
cover thousands of dollars in back
taxes from homestcaders who have
refused to pay, or paid real estate
taxes under protest, ON land which
they have proved up under the
homestead laws but to which they
have not received patent.
The decision was rendered upon
the following issue as reported in
South Dakota state press:
Judge McNenny of the circuit
court for the northern district OF
the Black Hills, has rendered al
important decision ina test case in.
stituted by Jesse NJ. Squires, a.
homesteader, against Butte county,
to determine whether lands under
the Belle Fourche irrigation projec,
are subject to taxation prior to the
issuance of patent (title) by thu
government. The case was decided
in favor of the dcfendent county,
Judge McNenny holding in sub.
stance that the interest of the home
steader in lands of this kind NAV
be taxed Squire's farm was as.
sessed at 81 1,085, or SO per acre, thu.
farm consisting of 12O acres, Of
which 87.5 acres are irrieable.
squires had made final proof on
the tract, but patent had not been
issued to him by the government
when he was taxed in 1914 and
1916"
The position of the South Dakota
homesteader against whom the
court decided is identical with the
position of ho1nesteaders in Sioux
county who are located on that DOR.
tlon OF the reservation opened in
1909, and who have made final
proof, but have not received patent
for the reason deferred payments
due the government have not been
made.
Sioux County pioneer. (Fort Yates, Sioux County, N.D.) 1914-1929, 1917-07-12
100 KRuPP FACTORY
WORKERS ARE SLAIN

Amsterdam, July 11.-Les Nouyelles
of Maestricht, Holland, reports that
Dutch workmen who we're laid off at
the Krupp works on account of the
destruction of buildings in the recent
French air raid assert that a quarter
of the Essen plant was destroyed
The material damage is placed at
millions of francs, and it is said that
100 employees were killed and hundreds
of others, including forty-fve French
prisoners, wounded.
One. and possibly two, French air.
planes dropped bombs on Essen last
Friday. The official German report
of the raid said only two bomb holes
were found.
Sioux County pioneer. (Fort Yates, Sioux County, N.D.) 1914-1929, 1917-07-12
Russians Continue To
Gain In East Galicia
Deep Wedge Driven into Austro.Ger-
man Front Southeast of Lemberg
Credit Goes to Slavs

London, July 11.-Several villages
captured and more than 1000 addition.
al prisoners and three field guns taken
attest the success of the second days
attack by General Korniloff liz Eastern
Galicia.
Already this branch of the Russian
offensive has resulted in deep wedge
being driven into the Austro-German
line between Stanislau and HalicZ
southeast of Lemberg. 1t took strong
German reserves and the launching OF
heavy counter attacks to slow up the
rush of Korniloff's men.
The strategic position in this sector
is now clearly in favor of the Rus.
slams.
The long established Teutonic line
has been broken definitely and the
continuance of the Russian pressure
points to the probable speedy fall Of
Halicz, opening up the way to Lem.
berg along two first class railway
lines. A dangerous salient already has
been created around Halicz.
Each day now witnesses new at.
tack by the German crown prince
along the Aisne front In Northern
France, suggesting an attempt at a
sustained offensive. The French guns
are proving too much for the attack.
ing ranks of the Teutons, however.
The latest attack on the Chemin
des Danes plateau, the high ridge
which the Germans lost in the spring
campaign and are now trying desper.
ately to recover, was even less fruit.
full than others have been at the out.
set. The Germans were not able even
to get near the French lines at the
Hurtebise monument and The Dragon,
where their attacks we're launched,
and they fell back with severe losses.
General Haig again is nibbling at
the German lines in Belgium. During
the night he took another bite into the
territory east of the Messines ridge
and advanced the British lines slight.
ly near ssosssssaverno, a mile northeast
Of Wytchaete.
Sioux County pioneer. (Fort Yates, Sioux County, N.D.) 1914-1929, 1917-07-12
u. S. Food Control Bill
Faces Possible Defeat
Provision for Government Purcha.e of
All Distilled Liquors Declared to be
Unconstitutio

Washington, ;july 11-Increased diff
ficulties beset the administration food
control bill with it's drastic prohibition
features.
Convinced that the bill is "loaded
down" and that the provision for gov
ernment purchase of all distilled
spirits is unconstitutional and either
must be amended or stricken out sem
ate leaders held conferences while the
debate proceeded on the floor in an
effort to devise amendments to pave
the way for final passage of the bill.
The Democratic steering committee
met before the senate convened, but
was unable to reach an agreement and
definite action was deferred. Sena-
tors said the situation among the
steering committee members was as
chaotic as that in the senate.
To meet the constitutional objec-
tions that his amendment illegally i'm.
poses upon distillers the price to be
paid for their liquors Senator Smoot
proposed to add an amendment to an.
other section of the bill. Another
plan considered by the steering com.
mittee was to recommit the bill to the
agriculture committee with instruc.
tions to correct the Smoot amendment
and also eliminate cotton, steel, iron
and possibly other products from the
government control proposed.
Hope for agreement later on
changes which will remove most of
the objections and secure a final vote
by unanimous agreement without re-
sort to the pending cloture motion was
expressed by several leaders.
Senator Lodge, acting Republican
leader, in long speech said:
"What troubles me in this bill is
the attempt to set aside economic
laws. This bill undertakes to give to
the president absolute control of all
the business in this country"
Sioux County pioneer. (Fort Yates, Sioux County, N.D.) 1914-1929, 1917-07-12
Exemption Board Ors.nixed

The Local Exemption Board for
Sioux county organized last Friday
with Chas. Mclaughlin, chairman;
c. Christensen. clerk; DR.. P. F.
Rice, physician. The board made
and compared copies Of all registra-
ton cards and then numbered the
cards serially and sent the copies to
the Adjuant General at Bismarck.
The list containing the names and
serial numbers goes to the Provost
Marshal General at Washington.
1t is expected that the drawing will
he made this week, after which the.
persons whose name are drawn will
be notified to appear before the Lo.-
lcal Exemption. Board.
Sioux County pioneer. (Fort Yates, Sioux County, N.D.) 1914-1929, 1917-07-12
Negroes Arrested For
Stealing Auto Tires
Bismarck Shines Fined $1,000 and Cost.
For Stealing Auto Tires and Tools
From Disabled Truck

Walter Millet and William Mar
shall, two colored men whose no.
mes are Bismarck, plead guilty last
night before Justice of the Peace
Berg to the charge Of stealing two
tires Oft the auto truck belonging
to Hokanson-Turner Company. A
fine OF $40 and costs was assessed
against each which was paid.
Marshall and another colored
man named Anderson came down
from Bismarck last Friday night.
Their car broke down near Fort va.
tes and Saturday they telephoned
Millett who came down in another
car Sunday to bring the marooned
darkies home.
On the road near Cannonball
they stopped and took the front IT,
res OIL the abandoned auto truck
as we'll as the tools and everything
else they could get away with con.
veniently.
At Solen Millet sold the car he
was driving to a farmer, and on
Monday the colored party took the
train for Bismark. In the mean
time somebody who had seen them
remove the tires made complaint.
and Tuesday Deputy Sheriff Urell
went to Bismarck and placed them
under arrest.
After being confronted by States
Attorney johnson with the evidence
against them they decided to plead
guilty, and were brought to Fort
Yates for sentence.
Sioux County pioneer. (Fort Yates, Sioux County, N.D.) 1914-1929, 1917-07-12
Indian Land Sale To Be
Held About October l
A List of 60 Tracts Submitted to Heads
In Washington-Will be Published
In Pioneer On Return

The date for the next Indian land
sale to be held at Fort Yates has
not been set yet, but Superinten-
dent Kitch expects to be able to
fix the date and start advertising a
list of 60 tracts in the near future.
A list of about go tracts of nom
competent and inherited land in
North and South Dakota, has been
sent in to Washington, and as soon
as approved and returned the land
will be advertised. t.
After the appraised values have
been approved by the proper
authorities in Washington, there is
little likelyhood that the sales will
be held up, and for this reason Mr..
Kitch has decided to await the ap-
proval Of the higher authority be-
fore placing the land on the mar
ket. In the past this has not always
been done and for that reason a
number of sales has been rejected
and the purchaser caused consider
able Inconvenience.
The list will be published in the
Pioneer GO days prior to the sale,
and if the list is given out for pub
lication about the first of August,
the sale can be held about the first
of October. By then the present
crop can be safely harvested and if
returns are commensurate with pre-
sent prospects the sale should at
tract many purchasers.
Sioux County pioneer. (Fort Yates, Sioux County, N.D.) 1914-1929, 1917-07-12
More Locals

Mrs. Roy G, Robinson and daugh-
ter Murie], Mrs. Capt. Bowen and
daughter Mary, autoed down from
Bismarck Tuesday evening, and
after visiting friends returned home
Wednesday.
Mrs. G. w. Hokanson and child
rem left this morning for Fingal,
North Dakota, on a visit with Mrs.
Hokanson's mother. Mr.. Hokan-
son accompanied them as far as
Mandan.
Married, at the Catholic, church
Monday morning, Rev. Father Vim
cent officiating, Rosa Yellowbird to
James Black. Both are we'll known
young Indian people who have the
best wishes of their many friends.
George Santee was down from
Cannonball Tuesday to attend In
dian court and while in town SUBJ
scribed for the Pioneer. He is
staying with his aunt Mrs. Little
Shield and is taking care of her
stock.
Geo. P. Menu of Santa Cruz, Cali
fornia, was here Saturday with his
son-in-law Ed. Hodgkinson of
Thunderhawk, on some business at
the Agency. Mr.. Menz is the father
Of the Menz boys and an old timer
who left here 16 years ago.
Saturday at the Catholic church
was solemnized the marriage Of
Miss Adella Azure to Frank Deco
teau, Jr., Rev. Father Bernard Of
ficiating. The Pioneer joins with
the many friends of the happy
couple in extending congratulations.
Chas, H. Hartung, the McLaugh-
lin real estate man and banker,
was here Tuesday on some business
in connection with closing an i'm
portant deal. Mr.. Hartung Is a
hustler and is doing more than his
share in getting the reservation
country settled with progressive far.
mers.
Alex Fairbault came down from
Cannonball Tuesday to receive treat.
ment at the hospital for a while
during the absence of his neice Miss
Ferdette, who left the first of the
week for Fairbau]t, Minnesota on 6
visit with her brother who is {
member of the Minnesota Nationa
Guard and expects to leave in tn,
near future for the south.
Sioux County pioneer. (Fort Yates, Sioux County, N.D.) 1914-1929, 1917-07-12
Shield. Boo.t.r. Her. i.

James Mccormick, editor of the
Shields Enterprise and one of the
live boosters of the enterprising
city of Shields and C. J. Kahn, U.
8. Commissioner at Shields, were
here Friday with l.. L.. Brown and
wife of Porcupine. They came over
for the purpose of ascertaining what
action had been taken by the county
commissioners in the matter of the
proposed bridge over the Cannon.
ball river east Of Shields.
Sioux County pioneer. (Fort Yates, Sioux County, N.D.) 1914-1929, 1917-07-12
A New Ruling

Under a new ruling from the To-
cal Indian Agency marriage licenses
are now secured from the county
court where the superintendent
deems this advisable. Under the
North Dakota laws, parties apply
ing for a marriage license must have
a physicians certificate as to health.
and if this policy is followed there
will be a stop put to parties affected
with tuberculosis and other diseases
contracting marriage.
Sioux County pioneer. (Fort Yates, Sioux County, N.D.) 1914-1929, 1917-07-12
MRS. M'AD0O is CHAIRMAN
Women Plan to Assist Liberty Bond
Campaign.

Washington. July 11--Plans to as
sist in floating the>neXt Liberty loan
were made at meeting of the wont.
ans Liberty loan committee. Of which
Mrs. w. G. McAdoo, wife of the secre-
tary Of the treasury. is chairman.
Those In attendance included Mrs.
Frank A. Vanderlip of New York, Mrs.
r. L. Higginson of Boston, Mrs. Gull
ford Dudley of Nashville, Mrs. George
Thatcher Guernsey Of Independence,
KAN; Mrs. Carrie Chapman Gait of
New York and Mrs. Kellogg Fair
banks, Mrs. Antoinette Funk and Mrs.
George Bass of Chicago.
Sioux County pioneer. (Fort Yates, Sioux County, N.D.) 1914-1929, 1917-07-12
booking Over Road.

Commissioners j. A. Stiles, j. G.
Leach and W. R Chart went to
selfridge Monday accompanied by
A. Colville and Louis Endres to
look over the route Of the proposed
new road from Fort Yates to Self
ridge, and from Selfridge to the
Yellowstone Trail From Selfridge
Messrs. Leach and Cibart went to
Thunderhawk to look over some
work in Menz township and meet
with the county commissioners of
Grant county and take up the mat
ter of building bridges over the
Cedar and Cannonball rivers.
Sioux County pioneer. (Fort Yates, Sioux County, N.D.) 1914-1929, 1917-07-12
County Council Of D.f.n..

At the meeting of the board Of
county commissioners last week,
the organization of the Sioux County
Council Of Defense was completed.
This committee is expected to work
in cooperation with the North Da-
kota Council of Defense appointed
by the governor some time ago.
The members of the County Council
of Defense and their postofiice> ad-
dresses are:
c. Christensen, Chairma n; Fort
Yates.
L w. Colebank, Secretary; Swaa-
tika. ..".--
j. A. Stiles, Fort Yates.
&c. Leach, Solen.
w. r. Cibart, Keldron, S. D.
r. +. Underhill, Cannonball.
E. L. Carter, Shields.
Martin Swift, Selfridge.
TIE. Colahan, Thunderhawk, SD.
Frank Jakes, Morristown, S. D.
H. H. Clary, Mcintosh, S. D.
Sioux County pioneer. (Fort Yates, Sioux County, N.D.) 1914-1929, 1917-07-12
Indian Court

Indian court is in session this
week with Judge Grayeagle of South
Dakota, presiding. The other Judge
is Thos. Kidder of Fort Yates. who
takes the place Of Chief John Grass
who is sick. There are a large
number of cases coming up and a
jury has been drawn. This ia the
Indian tribal court and deals with
all misdemeanors arising among the
Indians.
Sioux County pioneer. (Fort Yates, Sioux County, N.D.) 1914-1929, 1917-07-12
Surveying. Timber Allotment.

4. A. Farmer, who has charge
of the work Of surveying timber al
lotments for the Indians along the
streams on the reservation and who
has spent two summers engaged in
this work on the Standing Rock
reservation, was here the first of the
week from Porcupine, where he is
now working. lie expects to move
over on the Missouri in a short time
and finish up the work along here.
Sioux County pioneer. (Fort Yates, Sioux County, N.D.) 1914-1929, 1917-07-12
Fast Train Kills Three.

Detroit, July 11.-Three members of
A company, Michigan engineers of
Calumet, Mich, were struck and killed
by passenger train west Of the city.
The mon, Joseph Schneider, twenty
four years old; Joseph Bullock, twen-
ty-three years old, and Arthur Smith,
thirty years old, were standip. on =
track watching freig4s train pass
when the PASSENGER train, soing in the
opposite direction. struck thsm~
Sioux County pioneer. (Fort Yates, Sioux County, N.D.) 1914-1929, 1917-07-12
".2as' Nit Der Fat. Al.o"

T. j. Reedy is in receipt of a let
ter from his son, DR.. Reedy, who is
a lieutenant in the medical reserve
corps at the Fort Riley, Kansas,
training camp. DIR. Reedy states
that he has lost considerable avor-
dupois since he went into training
and weighs now 1856 as against 23C
when he started in to pass the ex.
animation.
Sioux County pioneer. (Fort Yates, Sioux County, N.D.) 1914-1929, 1917-07-12
Fl. Yates School Board
Hold Annual Meeting
Several Important Matters Taken Up
Several Delegations Before Board .
Wanting New Schools

Ihe annual meeting OF the school
board for Fort Yates school district
was held at school house No. 1 in
Fort Yates Tuesday. Owing to the
absence of Director Swift of Self
ridge, number of important mat
ters, especially the proposition to
bond the district to refund the OUT
standing Indebtedness was not acted
on. A special meeting will be held
in the near future at which the res
olution to issue bonds will be passed
and a day set for voting on the
question. a.
A delegation was present from
Selfridge and presented a petition
to move one of the school houses in
Selfridge to a new location north
west of town, where it will be more
convenient to number of the
patrons. The board decided to call
a special election in order to give
the parties interested chance to
vote Oh the proposition. The elec-
ton will be held on July 80 at
Selfridge, and the polls will be
opened from 2 to 5 O'Clock in the
afternoon. All women of legal age
can vote at this election:
A delegation was also present
from Township 1880 to talk over
the matter of a new school house in
that township with the board. A
number of new settlers have located
in that vicinity during the spring
who are from three to six miles
away from the Nagel school which
was built last year. As soon IA Pc
!. .titions is.asillsz pr lorm afe pre-
sented the board will take action.
The matter Of building two tenn
porary school houses west of Fort
Yates was also decided on. One
will be built near the Turner ranch
west Of Barren Butte, and another
in Township 13O-81.
With the country settling up rap
idly the need for new school houses
is becoming pressing, and the board
of Fort Yates district are anxious to
do their duty by the new settlers
who have come here to make their
homes and aid the development OF
the county. With the funds avail
able under the assessed valuation ol
the district three new school houses
is about all the finances will allow
this year. If these buildings are
erected it will make nine schoo
houses in Fort Yates district, anc
the cost of running same will reach
between 500 and $500 per month
Officers of Fort Yates district fol
the ensuing year were chosen az
follows: G.. w. Hokanson, presi.
dent; A.. Colville, clerk; P. J
Jacobson, treasurer.
Sioux County pioneer. (Fort Yates, Sioux County, N.D.) 1914-1929, 1917-07-12
TWO MORE TO BE INTERNED

Chicago Germans Charged With Anti.
American Acts.
Chicago, July 11.-Henry Orthmann
and Peter Backes, Germans, are under
arrest preliminary to internment, in
accordance with orders from the war
department.
Backes Is said to have admitted par
tictpation in the plot to blow up pow
er plants at Niagara Falls on the Cana
dian side.
Orthmann is said to have malinged
President Wilson. He derfies this.
Sioux County pioneer. (Fort Yates, Sioux County, N.D.) 1914-1929, 1917-07-12
Largo Increase In Exports.

Philadelphia, July 11.-Exports from
this port for the first six months of
this year, ending June 80, increased
nearly $59,o00,00Q as compared to
those of the same period in 1916 and
about $121.00o,000 over the first six
mouths Of 1916.
Sioux County pioneer. (Fort Yates, Sioux County, N.D.) 1914-1929, 1917-07-12
SWISS FOOD IS HoARDED'
government to Prosecute Those Gull.
ty Of Cornerina,

Berne, July 1.-THE government,
having discovered that considerable
quantities of food produced in Switzer-
land never appears IN the market, has
decided 10 create u special department
~ discover and prosecute those guilty
OF cornering supplies. Huge pretlts
have been realized by persons who
have withdrawn provisions srom cir
culation and shipped them elsewhere.
Sioux County pioneer. (Fort Yates, Sioux County, N.D.) 1914-1929, 1917-07-12
AUSTRIAN CABINET QUITS

German Papers Declare New Prenier's
Administration Ended.
Amsterdam, July 1l.-The Austrian
cabinet, the Lokat Anzieger of Berlin
says, has decided to resign. A new
ministry, it adds, already is in course
of formation.
The cabinet, under the nremiership
of Or: Won saydisr, has been in office
only tive weeks. It succeeded the cab
met of Count Claln.Martinic, which
had q stormy career of six months.
Sioux County pioneer. (Fort Yates, Sioux County, N.D.) 1914-1929, 1917-07-12
Garage Completed

The Baumann garage is Just
about completed and is now open
for business. Mr. Baumann has
mQyea his tools and cars into the
new building and will have his oil
tank installed and supplies and re-
pairs on hand in a few days.,
Sioux County pioneer. (Fort Yates, Sioux County, N.D.) 1914-1929, 1917-07-12
Five Perish in Frisco Fire.

San Francisco, July 14:-The heiies
OF five men have been taken from two
lodging Aeuses which were partly de-
stFeyed by ftre on the water front.
The men were all suffocated, accord
ing to the police and coroner. Search
for more bodies is proceeding,
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1917-08-30
THOSE RICHMOND CROSSINGS.

Up from the South came a great limousine,
One Of the finest Vermont had e'er seen !:
Power and beauty and workmanship fine
Were shown in each graceful movement
and line.
In ease and comfort and luxury great
The family toured the Green Mountain
State,
Enthralled by the beauty Of valleys and
hills,
Lakes. fertile meadows and crystal-clear
rills.
Till they struck those crossings at Rich
mond!
Then there was tossing and jouncing and
shaking.
Bruises and bumps and cruel awaking;
And they cried
May they be everlastingly bumped.
May they be eternally thumped,
May their cars forever be dumped,
Who planned those crossings at Rich
mond.''
Down from the North came a long, heavy
truck.
Skillfully steered by brawny Canuck.
Cumbrous and heavy and hard was its
Yet safely borne DER long miles Of the
road.
Twas packed with such care and science
and art,
So perfectly balanced in every part,
That rough roads were taken without a
Jar
And bumps counted naught to that sturdy
car
Till it struck those crossings at Rich
mond!
Then thrown into the ditch was that heavy
truck;
Then thoroughly mad was that little Ca
muck;
And he swore
by gar. when a roads laid out OH a
level.
IT'S a crime to spoil 1t for auto travel.
Those men should be sent right straight
to the (censored)
Who built those crossings at Richmond. "
From the East and the West came a
swarm Of Fords:
They came in droves and they came in
hordes.
The roadway was filled with the happy
throng
That ratified" along with laughter and
song.
No blue-blooded aristocracy they
But the common people. blithe and gay;
And they snapped good jokes about the
small car
That had sturdily brought them from
near and far.
Till they struck those crossings at Rich.
mond!
Then from those "fivvers' they flew ION
high"
And came down again with blood in the
eye;
And they groaned
oh you taxpayers. thrifty and wise,
Through all the land we will advertise
Your street the meanest beneath the
skies;
And to skip your town we will loudly
advise.
TIL you fix those crossings at Rich
mona. Mrs. A. E. p.