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

soon TO be made by the Beadle county
council of defense
Automobile gas VS. skunk gas gave
the machine the lead down near Davis,
when Everett DeEries discovered a
skunk den. and turned the exhaust OF
minutes treatment he dug out the col
ony. and found them all harmless, ard
besides secured the pelts without a
mark or scratch upon them, which in
creased their value.
The city aut thorities of Armour have
effected a settlement with Mrs. STRAIN,
who instituted an action in the cir
cult court by which she sought TO re-
cover from the city for damages al.
legged 20 have been sustained by locat-
ing septic tank near her premises.
BY the terms Of the settlement the city
paid Mrs. Strain the sum of $500
and her costs of the action, and in ad-
dition agrees to move the septic tank
from its present location.
Relatives and friends in South Da-
kota OF the South Dakota soldiers who
have been embraced in machine gun
battery No. 340 which Is located at
Camp Funston, have just been advised
that the South Dakotans have been
transferred from the barracks to tents
II miles distant and 1t is presumed
that this is for the purpose of impos-
ing the hardening process that the
soldiers go through, preliminary to
their departure for another base.
A warrant is out at Aberdeen for
George Hurley, an insurance sales
man. who is charged with having stol.
ell a new Ford car from f. G. Jen-
nings and $40 in money from the
proprietor of garage. He took the
car from the garage in the afternoon
and returned that night, saying he
had left the car at the Jennings home
Later in the night he lifted" the $40
from the garage owner and left with
the car.
First being beaten up by a pat
riotic young American who would not
stand hearing the country vilifled and
then arrested by a deputy United
States marshal on the charge of vio-
lating the provision of the espnionage
act, Joseph Greiser, an Ardmore man,
has been lodged in the Lawrence
county jail. 1t is charged that among
other unpatriotic utterance he stated
he intended to return to Germany TO
fight for the kaiser.
Through the efforts OF their parents,
four Beresford school boys who re.
Gently ran away from home and pro.
ceeded to Sioux Falls, where, by mis-
representing their ages they were ac-
cepted for service in the army, will
be released and returned to their
homes. The boys, after their enlist
ments. we're sent to Jefferson Bar
racks, Mo, and one or two of them
had been forwarded to San Antonio,
Tex, before their parents got trace of
them.
AS the bridge gang was returning
on gasoline speeder or the North
western railroad east of Wasta, Her.
INlI HtDDtI Vi lHc
crew, was in some manner thrown
from the little car and impaled on a
crowbar, part Of the equipment of the
crew, receiving injuries from which he
died an hour and a half later st
Wasta. The bar entered his body just
above the hip and penetrated nearly
through the body, the wound being
ten inches deep.
Litigation of Is years over posses
sion Of tract of valuable land in
Custer county, South Dakota, has just
been ended by the decision of the su-
preme court of the United States in
the case of Olson VS.. Kirk, awarding
the land in controversy to Olson. Kirk
originally filed on the land as a placer
mine "a years ago, but because of the
agricultural character of the tract it
was given to the homestead claimant
by the secretary of the interior after
several years of legal proceedings.
Walter N. Nelson and John p. Mel
son, brothers, who live at Viborg, had
an interesting experience trying to
DTedh lnIO the united states army.
Because they were born "over the
fence" from Denmark on the soil of
the kaiser, they were unsuccessful in
their efforts to join the fighting forces
of the United States. They first went
tc Sioux Falls and tried to enlist, but
were rejected because they did not
have final citizenship papers They
then went before the clerk of the fed
eral court, but he could do nothing for
them. AS a last resort they went to
Aberdeen and made another attempt
before the recruiting officer in that
city, but again were unsuccessful.
While they were born on German soil,
they talk the Danish language and are
loyal Americans at heart
Lake county's banks, in their last
reports to the examiner, showed re
sources of $4,4007. 1880, and deposits
of 1885, ,537 .60-an increase in these
items of $401,67909 and S34S, S,1552S,
respectively.
The coal shortage has become so
serious in the northern part of the
BLACK Hills that the Northwestern