The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1918-05-23
WOULD KILL ALLIES
SAYS If DRAFTED He WILL
THROW DOWN GUN AND HELP
The KAISER.

A. w. Closson. deputy United States
marshal. has returned from Timber
lake and Isabel, where he arrested
wo farmers, A. j. Hansen and Harry
Bickel, living near Timber Lake, on
charges Of having made pro-German
remarks. The two men were taken
before a United States commissioner
1t Isabel and released on 81, 500 bonds
each, fer appearance in United States
court at Aberdeen for trial this week.
Hansen is charged with having said
I he were drafted for military serv-
tcs in France he would shoot ove his
shoulder and kill "a many allies as
be could, and that "all this country 10
In the war for is for the profit there
Is 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 1t 1t can. II they ever draft
me l will throw down my gun and
dessrt and fight for Germany as long
as l can. This - - country
couldn't lick Germany in a thousand
yeas"
Russell Merriam. aged %, son OF
MI. and Mrs. Wslliam ]. Merriam. OF
StoIx Falls, died frem burns ~Fecaivsd
whea his clothing caught FIRE from
gasoline. He had filed the tank OF
his motorcycle at a garage and the
tank oyernowed. splitting q quantity
of gasoline over his clothing. As he
mounted the machine he lighted q
match to light a cigaret. In an In
slant he was enveloped in flames.
Officers OF the Mitchell recruiting
station claim the honor of enlisting
volunteering for service in the United
States army. He is Robert Kleinsas-
ser, Of Freeman. 20 years old, and
is now on his way to camp. The
Huttrsche brethren, or M~ennonites,
oppose war and some Of their leaders
in this state are under indictment for
trying to bride officers of the United
States army to release some of their
young men. When asked why he
wanted to go to war Klensasser re-
piled: ut is Gods fight"
On September 80, 1916, Peter B.
Dirks, of Oacoma, s. D., died, and on
that date the affairs Of the Citizens
State bank. Of Oacoma, were taken
over by the state banking department
and the bank closed. Arrangements
were Immediately instituted for pay
ing off the depositors out of the de-
positors' guaranty fund, accumulated
under the provisions of the South Da-
kota baaS guaranty law, and on Octo-
ber 9, 1916, the department paid OF
the claims OF the depositors as rapid
iy as presented. On September %,
1917, there was paid back into the de-
positors' guaranty fund a dividend Of
60 per cent, and on May /. 1913, a final
dividend Of 40 per CEN was paid, so
that now all depositors have been paid
in full, and the guaranty fund has been
reimbursed for the expenditure thus
made.
South Dakota men announced as
having been graduated from the third
officers training camp at Camp Stan
ley, Leon Springs, Tex, are: Rich
c. Anderson, Elk Point, field artillery;
Donald NJ. Beach, Aberdeen, infanTy;
Ralph E. Browne, Aberdeen, field ar
tillery; Christian l. Warren, Warner,
infantry; Leslie R. Collins, Webster,
infantry; Vern d. Cooley, Britton, in
fantry; Arthur p. Danaher, Sioux
Falls, infantry; Eugene B. Field, Sioux
Falls. infantry: Carl B. Norton. Mitch
ell, infantry; Harry ID. Petherman,
Madison, infantry; John Paddock San
ders, Garretson, infantry; Milton J..
Sanderson, Kennebec, field artillery;
Blaine Simons, Sioux Falls, infantry;
Harold w. Sprague, Clark, infantry;
Thomas r. Tobin, Mitchell, infantry.
Andy" Lockhart, editor of Chain
Lightning at Milbank, sentenced to
serve three years and a half in the
federal ~penitentiary at Leavenworth,
Kan, for sending obscene matter
through the mails, will ask President
I Wilson to pardon him. Lockhart lost
an appeal to his case from the United
States court of the district Of South
Dakota to the United States court Of
appeals at st. Louis, and his prison
term is to begin June %.
Windows were broken and build
ings within a radius of a mile were
rocked by the explosion Of a generator
at the Gilbert Manufacturing COM
pany's plant at Aberdeen. No one was
injured, workmen al the plant being
out of the danger ZONE when the tank
let go. Excessive gases were given as
the cause of the explosion.
Donald A. Baird, son Of Mr.. and
Mrs. H. II. Baird, of Aberdeen, was
accepted as a member OF the recruit
ing corps Of the United States army,
and has assumed his duties at the
Aberdeen recruiting station.
joe williams Is the latest Aberdeen
man to be called into the aviation
branch Of the regular army. Mr..
Williams received orders to report at
Berkeley, Cal.
The executive committee Of the