Sioux County pioneer. (Fort Yates, Sioux County, N.D.) 1914-1929, 1918-02-14
COAL PROFIT LIMITED
DAKOTA FUEL ADMINISTRATOR
PUTS HALT TO PROF.
ITEERlNG.

PUTS HALT TO PROF.
ITEERING.
Because Of reports to the effect that
some OF the coal dealers in the state
are receiving excessive margins in the
sale Of coal. w. G. Bickelnaupt. fed.
eral fuel administrator for South Da-
kota. has issued an order limiting the
profit that can be taken by the retail
dealers and otherwise supplementing
the order of October 1. 1917. The
order limits the profits on anthracite
and Ignite to $1.75 per ton at the
yard. On soft coal the margin ia
placed at 81 per ton. Where delivery
charges are made. the charge shall be
no greater than for similar service on
July l. 1917.
The 3-year-old son of Mr.. and Mrs.
Oscar Pfantz. of Leola. was found dead
in Jar of water. Mrs. Pfantz was
washing and had gone outside to hang
up some clothes. She left the 3-year-
old child and q brother a year older
in the house. The child, playing
around the ar, which was partly filled
with water, fell in and was helpless.
The brother, too young to realize the
danger that the child was in, did moth
Ing to rescue him or call the mother.
1t was not until fifteen minutes later,
when the other children came home
from school, that the child was dis.
covered dead.
The report of Insurance Commits.
stoner Van Camp recently submitted
to Governor Norbeck, shows that the
department for the fiscal year collect.
ed In fees and taxes the sum of $780,
644.51, and that the cost Of maintain.
ing the insurance and fire marshal
departments was $21,29147, which dis
closes the fact that the department
for the year was operated at a profit
to the state of s177.342.95, which in
cludes $29,5S6.58 distributed among
the towns of the state maintaining
organized fire departments.
j. c. Parkin, rancher homestsader
living near Provo, in the Edgemont
district, has just sold his alfalfa seed.
the product Of last season, and finds
that the crop was very profitable
one. From about seventy acres he
secured 476 bushels of alfalfa seed.
which brought him a financial return
of nearly $50 an acre for the tract
devoted to the alfalfa. Farm land in
his district is worth only from $50 to
$25 an acre.
The state department has appealed
to the court for authority to pay q
Is per cent dividend to the depositors
OF the Dakota State bank of Eagle
Butte. which failed before the guar
anty law went into effect. This is
the first payment to be made to the
depositors since the bank failed sew
eral years ago.
Grain men and farmers are getting
anxious about the stored corn in South
Dakota. 1t is claimed that unless the
grain is moved within the next month
that it will SPOIL as it's already soft
ened condition will not stand storage
in cribs when warm weather begins.
The state railway commission and the
food administrator have been appeal
ed to-
President E. C.. Perisho, of State
college at BOOKINGS, has appointed
war information committee at the col
lege which will collect and co-ordi-
nate all the information available for
state and college use in the interest
of greater food production and con-
servation as a war measure.
Governor Norbeck has received an
urgent call from the general manager
OF the emergency fleet corporation, in
which he asks for men to help in that
work. The county chairmen of the
council OF defense have been supplied
with enrolment cards.
Reports from H. O. Herbrandson,
field agent for the department of agri-
culture for South Dakota, shows that
the number of horses in the state has
increased during the past year. Cat
tie also show healthy increase in
number.
Commencement at the University
of South Dakota will be held on May
10 this year. This is earlier than any
previous commencement. The reason
is to give the men students who wish
to do so chance to work on the
farms.
Mrs. John Hausman. of Pierre, is
in a hospital, badly burned, as the
result of pouring kerosene over her.
self and applying match. She had
shown signs of mental trouble for
several days before committing the
act.
John Bossee, 1. w. w.. and recent
resident Of Selby, has been arrested,
charged with violation of the espion-
age act. He is alleged to have said:
+Wilson ought to have his brains
blown out and would like to help
do It,"
Miss Laura Brookman, of Vermil-
lion. has been chosen as editor of the
Volante, the student paper of the Uni
versity of South Dakota. Miss Brook
mon 10 Tho fourth wn,non IN ho th,,.