The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1918-10-24

name was not learned by those who
witnessed the incident, Fad a narrow
escape from instant death while rid
ing a horse along a highway near
Nisland, several men and boys being
engaged In duck hunting nearby. The
horse was seen to suddenly rear up
and hen fall heavily TO the ground,
with the woman beneath Il. The
horse had been killed by a bullet,
which it developed, was fired from q
high powered rifle In the hands OF q
13-year-old boy. The boy stated he
fred at an object other than the
horse. and that the animal had been
killed accidentally. The roman was
badly bruised and cut, as the result
Of being caught under the horse when
II fell.
Roy Austin, a Hanson county man,
had an unusual experience and a nar-
row escape from death when a gaso-
! line tractor exploded while he was
engaged in road Improvement work.
The engine was totally destroyed.
Austin was at the engineers place On
the machine when the explosion oc-
Cured, and his escape from instant
death was miraculous. IS pieces OF the
engine flew In every direction, one
large section Of the fywheel being
thrown fully 500 feet. A mail box
several rods distant was smashed by
a part OF the flying pieces of iron and
steel, and pieces Of iron and steel OF
various sizes were scattered about
promiscuously. The cause OF the ex-
piosion was the %loosening OF the rod
controlling the governor and gasoline
feed, allowing the engine to race at
will.
DR.. G. T. Notson, member OF the ex-
ecutive committee of the state u
Gil Of defense, declares that the
charge that the council has modified
the orders prohibiting the use OF the
German language in public and quasi.
public places SIS false and without
any foundation in fact" The council
has provided for permits that will al
low a 15-minute resume of a sermon
In the German language. Having COM
piled with all the provisions set forth
by the council OF defense. the appli.
cant for such a permit must pledge
himself to cooperate in every way
possible with the council of defense
to secur the enforcement of it's or.
ders and also along all lines of 40.
tivity to win the war;"
Enlarged demands by General
| Dnrchtno fa~ prtnrs.I -~,,u- &c.,
progress on the western front has
necessitated temporary diversion OF
grain ships to his service" says Her
bert Hoover In a message to Food Ad.
ministrator Herried. This temporarily
curtails wheat movement from sea-
board and has filled our seaboard and
terminal elevators and thus checks
movement. Reports that some
farmers have become panicky and are
selling wheat at less than govern
mental price. No occasion for this,
II holders will have a little patience
wheat will all be moved and full
price secured by every grower.
A freight train was wrecked two
miles east of Bonesteel and two oil
tank cars were totally destroyed, one
tank thrown off on the south side Of
the grade and another on the north
side. Another oil car was derailed
and the way car and one freight were
thrown off the track and turned up
on their sides. The conductor and
brakeman were badly shaken up but
neither-was seriously hurt. The wreck
occurred just at the foot of the Fair
fax hill on the Bonsteel side and APP
rsrently was caused by one Of the oil
cars jumping from the rails. About
500 feet of rails were junked and the
ties broken to kindling.
1t is reported that the members of
the Rockport Mennonites colony have
decided not to move to western Can.
ada, they having recently been con-
sidering such a move. They are said
to have come to the decision that
they will be better OF in the United
States. even II their sons are subject
to military duty, and in accordance
with their determination not to leave
the United States they now will sub
sIiiDC Lux tiiC1t QuUtd Oh LlU0Tty DOuuS
and aid In the war work SO far ~
they can.
Now that Il has been established to
the satisfaction Of many South Da-
kotans that a new 'hell-fre" gang OF
the I. W. w. is operating in South
Dakota. every %precaution is being
taken to guard elevators, barns, grain
stacks. g~ranaries and other places
where grain and other supplies OF
foodstufs are stored. During the past
few nights a large number of addi.
tional guards have been placed at such
places throughout the state.
The city council OF Mitchell has
granted the Dakota Contra Telephone
company a 12-year franchise, in set.
Element Of the controversy between
the city and the telephone company.
The city claimed that the Dakota Cen
trail had 10 right to conduct a local
exchange under its existing franchise.
The Nels Madsen farm, some miles
from Doland, was the scene OF a dis
astrous fire. The large barn on the
Mace was toSsther With