Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1918-04-04

Robert Jacob, a farmer living near
Yanktou, was attacked and seriously
gored by a young bull
Rural Mersaarar 4I&na " cat." is
the title Of rev course in tif2 daaa.t-
ment of journalism at the University
of South Dakota.
The Frank Wiedman farm of about
100 acres adjoining the city limits Of
Parkstou. has Just been sold for S1a9
per acre to Gustav Slelzer, OF that
city.
w. L. Darnell, radical Socialist and
pro-Gorman sy~mpathizer, a wealthy
farmer living near Burke, has been ar
rested by federal authorities on
charges of violating the espionage act.
C. Fl. Billings, a homesteader and
5tockman living near Belvidere, who
recently was arrested by federal
agents and bound over to the next fed
eral grand jury under a bond of So
900 IN the charge Of threatening the
ed in Phillip as the man who held one
end of the famous '~'ringtailed COW
case, which made its way through all
the courts of Stanley county about 10
years ago, developing as it progressed
into a wealth of humor and an ac-
formulation of costs which made it
notable.
The school board of Pierre has fol
lowed the suggestion Of the state
meeting at Sioux Falls, and will eli
inmate German from the school
course OF study for next year. 1t will
be continued through this year, as the
state educational department holds
that If it is eliminated now, the pupils
who have been taking this study for
the past two years will not be allowed
any credits for any of the time put
in, and will lose the work Of both
years. which would mean that a num-
ber of students who expect to gradu-
ate would not be able to SO do.
Federal officers are investigating an
alleged attempt of Harry Zetman, a
conscientious Director" of Messing
ton Springs, who is serving a sever
oIlltSIiSS III Sooia' J"a'
at Sioux Falls for failure to register
for the selectiye draft, to evade mill
tary service by removing several gold
crowns and other dental work from
his mouth. Zetman has been ordered
to report to the district board for phys
ical examination and it is claimed he
mutilated his teeth in the belief that
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discovered by the sheriff when Zet-
mar attempted to mail it to a Milwau-
kee firm that purchases dental work.
For some time a weighty question
in South Dakota has been as to what
profit farmers or dealers were permit
ted to make on seed wheat under the
government regulations. F. o. Simon
son., OF Pierre, while in Sioux Falls,
stated that after taking up the mat
ter with the federal officials he was
informed that with the price Of wheat
fixed by the government at 81 per
bushel. the farmer or other dealer in
seed wheat may add to the local
market price of wheat Is per cent
where it is sold in his home market.
II the wheat is shipped in by them,
they are permitted to take a reason
able net profit, not to exceed S cents
a bushel- These prices, it was Of
ficiaily announced by Mr.. Simonson,
are ixed by the national food commits.
sion and are based on No. j wheat.
To utilize jitney trucks for bringing
coal down the Missouri river is the
plan OF w. II. Lyman, of Gettysburg
That is. the trucks will help get
barges up stream but the current will
bring them down. His plan being to
construct several coal barges at up
river points where the coal can be
cheaply secured, and float the supply
down the Missouri The power te
drive the barges back up the river
will be supplied from the trucks which
he has been using for freighting pur
poses. There is a plentiful supply
of ignite coal further up the river, ant
il il could be laid down at points Will
. freight rate which would make Thu
price reasonable q large amount of /
would be used. But up to the presen'
the freight rate has been so high tina
there could be no practical market 10
the Ignite coal.
The supreme court of Iowa has de
cided a case OF Importance to bank
ers throughout South Dakota who's,
customers are in the habit of shipping
livestock to Sioux City. The WHINE
of the ease was the Farmers and Mer
chants National bank, Of Webster
The bank felaa mortgage On catt1
which the Iaartagor agreed to shiI
IN the name Oh one OF the bank ID
dcers, but which ne shipped Iii III
own name. a Judgment creditor .
the r~norfgagor garnigheed the pre
leeds of the sale or the stock III Iii
handsaof commission merchants la
ME bank INTERVIEWED, losing the cas-
I'D the district court. The Iowa 81
prerne court decided that since IA
! agreement was that the stock Shout
10 shipped In the nan Of an office
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