Sioux County pioneer. (Fort Yates, Sioux County, N.D.) 1914-1929, 1918-05-16
WOULD KILL ALLIES
SAWS " DRAFTED he WILL
THROW DOWN GUN AND HELP
THE kAiSER. ,l.a

THROW DOWN GUN AND HELP
THE KAISER. sl,re
A. w. Closson. deputy United states
marshal. has returned from Timber
Lake and Isabel. whore he arrested
two farmers, A. ]. Hansen and Harry
Bickel. living near Timber Lake. on
charges Of having made pro-German
remarks. The two men were taken
before United States commissioner
at Isabel and released on $3.50 bonds
each, for appearance IN United States
court at Aberdeen for trial this week,
Hansen, IL charged with having said
II he were drafted for military ssrv.
ice in France he would shoot over his
shoulder and kill - many allies a.
he could. and that AL this country il
In the war for 10 for the profit there
is In 1t. 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
desert and fight for Germany % long
as I can. This country
couldn't lick Germany IN thousand
years."
Russell Merriam, aged 70, son Of
Mr.. and Mrs. William J. Merriam. OF
Sioux Falls, died from burns rocsiyed
when his clothing caught IRE from
gasoline. He had filed 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 4
match to light cigaret. In an in.
slant he was enveloped in flames.
Officers of the Mitchell recruiting
station claim the honor of enlistinx
the 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
is now on his way to camp. The
Huttrische brethren, or Mennonites.
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: at 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-
posters guaranty fund. accumulated
under the provisions of the South Da-
kota bank guaranty law, and on Octo.
ber 8. 1916, the department paid off
the claims Of the depositors % rapid.
ly as presented. On September rs,
1917. there was paid back into the de.
positors' guaranty fund dividend of
60 per cent. and on May i, 1918, a. final
dividend of 40 per cent was paid. so
that now all depositors have been paid
in full. and the guaranty fund has been
reimbursed for the expenditure thus
made. vi
| 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 M. Beach, Aberdeen, infanHy;
Ralph E. Browne. Aberdeen, field ar'
tillery; Christian I. Warren, Warner
infantry; Leslie R. Collins, Webster
infantry: Vern D. Cooley. Britton, in
fantry; Arthur P. Danaher, Siouz
Falls, infantry; Eugene B. Field, siou,
Falls. infantry; Carl B. Norton. Mitch
ell, infantry; Harry D. 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 F. Tobin, Mitchell, infantry
candy" Lockhart, editor of Chair
Lightning at Milbank, sentenced te
serve three years and half in the
federal penitentiary at Leavenworth
Kan. for sending obscene matter
through the mails. will ask President
Wilson to pardon him. Lockhart lost
an appeal to his case from tn United
States court of the district of South
Dakota to the United States court o.
appeals at st. Louis, and his prison
term is to begin June %.
Windows were broken and build
ings within a radius of mile werl
rocked by the explosion Of q generator
at the Gilbert Manufacturing com
pany's plant at Aberdeen. No one wal
injured, workmen at the plant being
out of the danger zone when the tanl
let go. Excessive gases were given a
the cause of the explosion.
Donald A. Baird, son OF Mr.. and
Mrs. H. H. Baird. of Aberdeen, wal
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