The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1918-05-24
WOULD KILL ALLIES

JAYS n DRAFTED Ne WILL
THROW DOWN GUN AND HELP
THE KAISER.
A. w. Closson. deputy United States
naSshal. has returned from Timber
Lake and Isabel. whore he arrested
:wo farmers. A. ]. Hansen and Harry
Bickel. living near Timber Lake, On
sharges Of having made pro-Qerman
remarks. The two men were taken
before . United States commissioner
1t Isabel and released on 1880 bonds
baeh. for appearance In United States
sosrt At Aberdeen tor trial this week.
Hansen Is charged with having said
Il he were drafted for military
Ice in France he weuld shoot over his
shoulder and kill - many allies as
be could, and that 'all this country is
In the war for Is for the profit there
IL in It. Men want to get all the
money they can out Of It, and the
United States wants to get all the land
out Of It 1t can. II they ever draft
me I will throw down my gun and
desert and fight for Germany AZ long
couldn't lick Germany in . thousand
yea1s."
Rassell Merriam. aged -, SON Of
Mr.. and Mrs. William J. Merriam. OF
Sioux Falls, died from burns received
whea his clothing caught IRE from
gasoline. He had filled the tank OF
his motorcycle at . garage and the
tank overlooked. spilling q quantity
Of gasoline over his clothing. AS he
mounted the machine he lighted .
match to light = cigaret. In Al IN
slant he was enveloped in flames.
Officers Of the Mitchell recruiting
station claim the honor Of enlisting
tho FIRST man Of the Mennonite faith
volunteering for service in the United
States army. He is Robert Kleinsas'
ser, Of Freeman, 20 years old. and
IL now on his way to camp. The
Huttrasche brethren, or Mennonites.
oppose war and some of their leaders
in this state are under indictment fol
trying to bride officers OF the United
States army to release some OF their
young men. When asked why be
wanted to 60 to war Klensasser re
piled: 1T is Gods fight"
On September 80, 1916. Peter B
Dirks. OF Oacoma~ 8. D., died, and or
that date the affairs Of the Citizens
State bank, Of Oacoma, were taker
over by the state banking department
and the bank closed. Arrangement
were Immediately instituted for pay
ing on the depositors out Of the de
positors' guaranty fund. accumulated
under the provisions OF the South Da
kota bank guaranty law, and on Octo
Der 3, 1916, the department paid OF
the claims OF the depositoTs ~ rapid
II a. presented. On September Is
1917. there was paid back into the de
positors' guaranty fund a dividend o
so per cent. and on May !. 1918, q ana
dividend OF 10 per cent was paid. y
that now all d~epositors have been PAL
in full. and the guaranty fund has beel
reimbursed for the expenditure thu
made.
South Dakota men announced al
having been graduated from the thir
officers training camp at Camp star
ley. Leon Springs. Tex. are: Ricl
c. Anderson, Elk Point. fieldNaYtillery
Donald NJ. Beach. Aberdeen, infantry
Ralph e. Browne. Aberdeen, field II
tillery; Christian l. Warren, Warnel
infantry; Leslie R. Collins. Webster
infantry; Vern D. Cooley. Britton. II
fantry; Arthur P. Danaher, Siou
Falls, infantry: Eugene B. Field, S1ou
Falls. infantry; Carl B. Norton. Mitch
ell. infantry: Harry D. Pethermar
Madison. infantry: John Paddock Saz
ders, Garretson, infantry: Miltoa
Sanderson. Kennebec. field artillery
Blaine Simons, Sioux Falls, infantry
Harold w. Sprague, Clark, infantry
Thomas =. Tobin. Mitchell. infantry
ANDY" Lockhart. editor OF Chat
Lightning 1T Milbank, sentenced I
serve three years and . half in tn
federal penitentiary 1t Lsavenworth
Kan, for sending obscene matte
through the mails, will ask Presiden
Wilson to pardon him. Lockhart los
an appeal to his case from the Unite
States court OF the district Of Soutl
Dakota to the United States court Q
appeals ct st. Louis, and his prisol
term IL to begin June 2S.
Windows were broken and buil(
ings within . radius of q mile wer
rocked BY the explosion Of ! generate
at the Gilbert Manufacturing com
pany's plant 1T Aberdeen. No one Va
injured, workmen ct the plant beinI
out Of the danger zone when the tanl
let 80. Excessive gases were given q
the cause OF the explosion.
Donald A. Baird, son OF Mr.. and
Mrs. H. H. Baird. OF Aberdeen, Va,
accepted IS = member OF the recruit
ing corps Of the United States army
and has assumed his duties at TIL
Aberdeen recruiting station.