The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1918-11-01
A ietter sent to Editor II. B. Tyseh.

his newspaper plant will be dynamited
unless he ceases his attacks on the
Nonpartisan league. The person who
wrote the letter may be some joker,
but in most quarters it is believed
the unknown writer Of the epistle
really is in earnest and has taken
this means to intimidate Editor Tysell.
Verbatim the dynamite" letter was
in part as follows: Dear Mr.. Editor:
This Is getting to much in your paper
about the league; if you want any OF
us c~lod-hOppers to stay readers, just
cut it out. Now you tell Of a former
printer who did not have very good
friends had mis- press bowed W, now
this same thing may happen to yours
If you say to much Of the I. w. w.
work here. /, as a hog sloper (slop-
per- think it is about time to give you
warning" The warning letter was
signed: II am Yours Truly a sub
scriber, I w. w. Social Pro-German,
clod hopper, hog slOper, etc" Editor
Tysell believes the letters means what
it says and has taken the necessary
precautions to protect his newspaper
plan against any attempt that might
be made to dynamite or otherwise
damage it, but has not been intimated
in the least, and that he
will continue to denounce the /. w. w.
element which, he says, has attached
itself to the Nonpartisan league in
South Dakota.
According to advice from Mr.. Hoov-
er, commencing November /, the
sugar allotments will be three pounds
per person per month, and for all pub
lie eating places at the rate Of three
pounds for ninety meals. This change
is due to the rapid manufacture OF
the new crop OF best sugar in the
west and the new crop of Louisiana
n sugar in the south, together with
the freer railway transportation con-
ditions. The reductions that we have
made in the consumption Of sugar In
the manufacturing trades and the pa
triotic conservation in the past four
months enables us to increase the
household allowance OF sugar from two
pounds per person per month to three.
Accordingly Mr.. Herreid instructed all
retailers to make sales on the sugar
card system at the rate OF three
pounds per person from November I.
The Jackson county authorities are
~endeavoring to ascertain the identity
of unknown persons who were respon.
a{h1n Fnr fha Inok,to- ;-Lk
stacks of wheat on the Coyle farm,
northwest Of Kadoka. The stacks
were all in the yard a short distance
from the dwelling. The telephone
wires leading to the house had been
cut, evidently to prevent assistance
being summoned when the fire in the
wheat stacks wa discovered. The oc.
cupant Of the farm has resided there
only about a year, and so far as known
has no enemies who could have sought
revenge upon him In this manner
Bloodhounds have been taken to the
scene Of the fire.
A new and important use for the
tractor has been figured out by julius
Hexom, a progressive farmer living
some miles from Madison. He DOS.
sesses one Of the latest models of
mechanical corn huskers and con
ceived the idea Of drawing 1t through
the field with a tractor. This worked
very satisfactorily, as the results
proved. With this unique combina.
ton Of tractor and mechanical corn
husker he gathered from eight to ten
wagon loads of corn per day. Thus
he tractor more than made up for the
shortage Of expert corn pickers.
Evidently desiring to emulate tho
Huns in atrocities, Caleb Hill, a Sisse-
ton Sioux indian living some miles
from P~eever, becoming angry al his
wife, forced her to accompany him to
a slough near their home, where he
stripped her of every shred Of her
clothing and then beat her unmerci-
fully with a buggy whip. The brutal
Indian was arrested by the county
authorities and when taken into court
was fined 500 and sentenced to thirty
days In jail.
The Gas Belt telephone line from
Okobojo to Pierre has recently been
divided into two branches, q large
number Of new subscribers having
been added on both divisions. The
phones In the neighborhood Of the To-
cation Of the old Fielder p~ostoface
have been cut off from the Okobojo
line, leaving only those directly north
Of Pierre on the line connecting
Pierre. Okobojo and points farther
north.
A cablegram has been received an
nouncing the death Of Victor P. Drips
In q hospital in Wales, October %.
Mr.. Drips was for a number Of years
publisher of the Gam Valley Chief.
He entered the second officers train.
ing camp at Fort Smelling, but wal
discharged because of his health and
sought service in the Canadian army.
He went across with the First Cana.