Sioux County pioneer. (Fort Yates, Sioux County, N.D.) 1914-1929, 1917-01-11
SOUTH DAKOTA NEWS NOTES

John Jensen, son Of a prominent
Trip county farmer was seriously in
tured in runaway. His team, hitched
to hayrack, became unmanageable.
1t is expected that Lars Peterson.
Colman man, will make fortune from
a wild oats separator of his invention,
on which he has just been granted
patent by the patent office at Wash.
ington.
A wagon load of fish, containing
about 1000 pounds, the property of
the Rosedale colony, Hanson, S. D.,
was stolen from the farm home of
Jacob Mandel. The fish were valued
at $3.50.
E. E. Kneedy, who has been prac.
ticing law and serving as pastor of
the Christian church at Aberdeen, both
very successfully, for five years, has
resigned his pastorate to devote all
his time to the law.
While sitting up in bed talking with
his physician, Ferd Miller, q we'll
known farmer, near Scotland, who
was recovering from an illness, was
seized with an attack of heart failure
and fell back on the bed dead.
D. v. Hill, of Pierre, has received
word that Ed Young, formerly Of this
city, now with the Canadian Rifles,
has been twice wounded and three
times mentioned in dispatches for
bravery, and has been recommended
for the Victoria Cross.
John Amber, homesteader living
sixteen miles from Wasta, was found
dead within mile of his home. He
had ridden a bicycle to Wasta for sup
plies and was returning home. 1t is
thought that he died from heart fail
ure due to over exer.ion.
Because he ran amuck with a gun,
Pat Farragher, a Kidder man, was
arrested and has been sentenced to
a term of six months in the county
jail on the charge of carrying con.
cealed weapons and with making
threats to take the life of another man.
Nortonville, N. D., was snowbound
for week, during which time no train
reached the town. A Milwaukee snow
pillow finally opened the line to Norton.
vile. The people had plenty of fuel
and provisions, and suffered no great
inconvenience from being shut OH
from the world.
The biennial banquet given at the
Aberdeen Commercial club to mem
bers of the legislature from the north
ern part of the state was not so we'll
attended as usual, owing to the ex-
tremely cold weather and delayed
trains, but perhaps 200 men were in
attendance.
The 3-year-old son of Peter John.
son, homesteader living some miles
from Newell received serious burns
and other injuries as the result Of
peculiar accident. He was playing
near q stove in his home when he &C
cidentally kicked away one Of the sup
ports of the stove. tipping it over and
precipitating the fire over him.
The father of Olus Olson, a well
known farming living near Summit
was burned to death in fire which
destroyed the Olson home. The fire
broke out at night and had made great
Roadway before it was discovered. The
other members of the family made
their escape from the burning build
ing, but 1t was impossible to save the
old man.
The coroner's Jury which heard the
testimony given at the inquest into
the death of Night Patrolman James
Hawkes., who was killed at Rapid City
when he answered call for help al
a local hotel, found that the dead man
was killed by three revolver shots
fred from a gun in the hands of End
sley Spiking, the man Hawkes. went tc
the hotel to arrest.
William Kean, a Terry man, who
was arrested on the charge of grand
larceny for the theft of sack of jew
elry, and lodged in the county jail
claims that he is the victim of con
spiracy. The sack of jewelry was
found under the pillow of his bed. He
claims that some unknown enemy
stole the jewelry and placed it where
found in order to get him into trouble
with the authorities.
The recorded auto fatalities for De
cember in South Dakota numbered
ave-Selma Krutz at Canton by an auto
c1SH{v,o nNnhonErHanfs p0oc
Alleman near Pierre, when auto turned
turtle; Donald DeVore near Milbank
when auto turned from fast diving;
Frank Roberts near Rosholt, and
James Gilreath near Geddes, by autos
overturning and crushing them. Many
minor accidents occurred for the
month.
Presence of mind of Louis Plant, son
of Ray Plant, a Grant county farmer
and the timely aid of his mother
saved the boy from a terrible death
after his clothing had been nearly
burned from his body as the result OF
an explosion of gasoline. The boy
was attempting to start gasoline en-
CINE when the gasoline tank exploded
throwing burning liquid all over him.
The force of the explosion dazed him
for few minutes. Then the pain of
the fire burning in his clothing caused
him to recover his senses and pres
ence of mind, and he rushed from the
barn at top speed and rolled over and
over in nearby snowbank.
Mrs. Joseph varilek, of Wagner, re-
ceived telegram stating that her
father. Paul Wysup, ST., a pioneer
farmer of the Tyndall territory, has
died from injuries received when he
was kicked by one of the mules on
his farm.
The financial condition of the peo-
pie of Lake county is shown to be
very gratifying by the reports of the
fourteen banks doing business in the
county. These reports show the
banks have aggregate deposits of ST.