Sioux County pioneer. (Fort Yates, Sioux County, N.D.) 1914-1929, 1918-10-03

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Eureka. There was no evidence OF
any attcmpt to destroy the machine
by intent. and the only damage was
that to the woodwork OF the machine.
Work has begun on a mess building
for the Students Army Training corps
at Yankton college. The plans and
specifications for 1t were furnished BY
the war department. and 1t will be a
standard type Of mess hall. with kit
chen at one end and the principal
length dining hall with tables along
each side. The building is located
Just north Of the gymnasium and par
allel to 1t. Enough men have been
set to work on the construction to
put the job through in a short time.
Military police from Camp Funston
came to South Dakota and took Will
lam Nagel. Grant county conscript,
back to that camp, where he will have
to face charge Of desertion Some
weeks after reaching Camp Funston
Nagel secured q one-day furlough for
the avowed purpose of visiting Kan
sas City. Instead he came back to
South Dakota and secured work on
a Grant county farm. When the mill.
tary authorities learned of his where
abouts and caused his arrest he had
been absent from camp for a period
of 100 days.
Now that hogs have become about
as valuable each as the average horse
during the palmy days OF wholesale
horse stealing In the west, gangs Of
hog thieves are expected to commence
operations through the farming dis
tricts. Thieves of this kind already
have commenced operations in the VI
cinity OF Freeman, one farmer report
Ing tho disappearance OF 30 of his
pigs, and another farmer losing 10
pigs and about 100 chickens. It IN
believed the hog thefts are committed
ny other farmers who have ample
feed and shelter for the stolen ami
mails.
A sensation was created throughout
Perkins county when several ranchers
OF prominence were arrested on tho
charge of being implicated in the
theft Of $50 head OF sheep The de-
PENDANTS are ]. w. Mosher and son.
Willard; Frank Hadcock and Felden
Ellis, all of Moreau. The sheep al
legged to have been stolen were the
property Of Orc Cleveland. of Bixby.
AS the result Of the preliminary hear
Ing OF the defendants, the cast against
Ellis was dismissed, and the Mosh-
ers, father and son. and Hadock were
held for trial in the state circuit court.
The two Moshers were held in bonds
of $4,000 each, and the bond in Had
cocks case was fixed at $4,000.
Mrs. Benjamin A. Carlson. OF Sioux
Falls, is $1,000 richer az the result Of
a peculiar incident. Her husband was
killed In an automobile accident in
October, 1915. Among other effects
he left life insurance policy for ST.
600. but he apparently had defaulted
in some Of the payments and his Wild
ow was convinced that the policy had
lapsed. Later when the notices COM
menced to come she thought them de-
linquent letters and burned them with
out opening. Finally the state agent
OF the company discovered that the
dividend checks were not being CASH
ed, and he started an Investigation
which now has resulted in the pay.
ment to Mrs. Carlson of the $1,000.
Some extended insurance on the pol
icy had amply covered the unpaid pre-
miums 40 the policy had not been
voided.
In response to the announcement of
the Homestake Mining company that
it would employ women laborers and
pay them the same wages as are paid
men for similar work, nearly 50 WON.
en- have thus far applied for work
with the company. The ages of the
applicants range from 10 or 10 years
to women Of IS and 40, considerable
number Of them being married. There
are various kinds of surface work
that women will be able to handle sat
isfactorily. and they will be put at this
work as fast as the necessary arrange.
ments can be made. The work will
be in accordance with the strength of
the average woman, and they will be
employed as helpers in the, machine
shop, screen whippers and other
duties in the mills of the company,
assistants in the storehouse, ore sort
ers in the tungsten mill and a number
of other lines which require the light
or sort Of work.
A possible shortening OF all courses
i'll engineering at the University OF
South Dakota to two years. instead Of
four years as formerly, Is foreshadow-
ed in messages received from the war
department saying that 1t is espe.
cially desired that members Of the stu
dent army training corps be enrolled
for intensive work in engineering.
medicine and chemistry. The needs
OF the national service for engineers
at the front qualified to lay tracks,
make Typographical maps, supervise
and direct construction and fill in the
ranks in the engineering corps mako
It necessary for advanced students In
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