Sioux County pioneer. (Fort Yates, Sioux County, N.D.) 1914-1929, 1917-04-19
Pioneer Special Service by Western Newspaper Union
South Dakota
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Lydia Morlang, living on a home
stead seventeen miles from Colome,
died from injuries received by the
accidental discharge of a shotgun.
H. A. Sturges, editor of the Beres.
ford Republic. has been appointed
city auditor, to succeed Frank Brueh.
Ter, who recently rendered his resig.
nation.
The Violin electric light and power
plant, which is conducted by syndi.
cate of local men, will be greatly en-.
larged at once, TO meet the growing
needs of the town.
Presence of mind in throwing her
baby from buggy when the horses
ran away resulted in Mrs. Ben Baker,
wife of farmer living near here, saw.
ing the life of the babe.
One of the largest eagles ever seen
in this section was killed by Toilet
Tollefson while hunting near Elk
Point. 1t measured seven feet four
inches from tip to tip Of wings.
James o. Winjum, prominent
farmer near Lake Norden. sold an
80-acre tract of farm land for $50 an
acre, establishing new record for
the price of farm land in Hamlin
county.
About so of the farmers living in
the Freeman territory have organized
a cooperative company, with a cap
ital of $4,000, and will establish and
operate farmers lumber yard in
Freeman.
That will cannot. be changed by
an oral statement made just before
death was the decision Of Judge Nc,
Nenny. of the state circuit court, in q
contest involving the will of Ed Dan.
ielson, a Lawrence county man, who
died some weeks ago.
A band of antelope which wintered
in the Bad Lands in the vicinity of
interior are reported to be out on the
prairie between Philip and Kadoka
The band numbers nine of these little
animals, and they are said to be very
tame and easily approached.
The melting of the snow on the
prairie north of Pierre has filed all
the sloughs and lake beds. and travel
ers over the prairie say that there
are more ducks on the ponds thiz
spring than in any former year since
the settlement of the country.
Mrs. Iron Bear, an Indian woman
from the Yankton reservation, wal
struck by an automobile and serious
ly injured while crossing a street II
Wagner, and as result damage
suit for the recovery of $4,000 will be
instituted in the state circuit court
R. 1. Hayenga, farmer of Kings
bury county, marketed the champion
South Dakota hog. so far as the RECORD
price received is concerned. The no,
weighed 600 pounds and brough
$84.50. 1t is believed this is the high
est price ever paid for a single no,
in South Dakota.
!: During six months an express mes
} senger running on the branch of tn
Minneapolis & st. Louis road betwee1
Condo and LeBeau, S. D.. handled 10
913 cans of cream and 1923 cases O
eggs. The value of these two al
ticles Of produce sent over tina
branch of the road totaled more thai
$4,000.
Josef Cermak and William Gel
mscheied, Germans, were refused fina
citizenship papers by Judge Frank E
Smith at the opening of the Davidson
county circuit court. The reaso
given by the court was the existenc
of state of war between the Unite
States and Germany and the law pre-
hibiting the naturalization of an allie
enemy.
If story told by the Aberdeen r.
!, cruiting Office for the regular army
correct, Carroll Campbell, a Newe
young man. has won the title for d.
!. termined patriotism in the Dakota,
Young Campbell is said to have wall
ed from Newell to Bowman, N. D.,
distance of 140 miles. to take trai
for Aberdeen, in order to enlist in th
regular army.
Il Miles Hump. son of the old India
, chief Hump, in whose hands rests
peace or trouble among the Cherr
, Creek Indians at the time Of the las
!. Indian uprising in the Dakotas, con
|. mitted suicide by shooting, while {
? Dupree a few days ago. The youn
i. man was namesake of Gen. Nelso
= A. Miles, who was friend Of the Of
Sioux chief, father Of the young MAJ
Captain Foster, of Sioux Fall
mustered into the service of til
United States the new Troop d, Sout
' Dakota volunteer cavalary, which hs
D in its ranks many young men fro
4 Flandreau and Moody county. Sc
Z eral Indian students at the COVER
D ment Idian school in Flandreau q
!. listed in the troop, and it Is expecte