The Kadoka press and Kadoka reporter. [volume] (Kadoka, S.D.) 1910-1923, 1918-04-19
NEWS OF THE STATE
& RESUME OF IMPORTANT Hap.
PEklNGS OF THE
WEEK.

tion has elected A. o. Ringsrud. of
Elk Point. as president. and +. w
Brown, Of Lead, as secretary.
The state banking department has
declared 10 per cent dividend 10 the
Bancroft State bank, this making n
total of 40 per cent which has been
paid depositors
Just when Nermillion people were
rejoicing over the fact that new de.
pot was to be erected by the Mil
waukee company this year Uncle Sam
has stepped in and under the new
orders the work of construction will
be delayed at least another year.
The belmont Study club. small
club OF only IA members, gave dance
from which it realized sl75. One hun
dred dollars was invested in a Liberty
bond and the balance given to the
Red Cross. The entire community
gave loyal support
Richard Foster. a switchman in the
Milwaukee railway yards at Mobridge
was instantly killed when he missed
his footing and fell between two cars
while switching. The wheels passed
over his body, cutting him in two in
the region OF the lungs
Two enemy aliens, Paul Gross. a
German editor, of Aberdeen. S. d..
and Ernest Wehling, a Sioux Falls
cigar maker. recently arrested as
dangerous were taken from Sioux
Falls in custody of federal officers to
an alien detention camp.
\. G. Bernau, auditor of Jackson
county, has resigned his position, and
viii move to Pierre, where he has ac-
cepted position as secretary of the
state tax commission. He is well
posted on tax matters, and is believed
will make an efficient secretary.
number of patriotic women of
Burke, in order to do their "bt" dur
ing the great war, have organized a
womenes home guard company with
Nerna Lundak as captain The com
pany starts out with about 30 char
ter members. They have commenced
yided with guns.
The work of building a new bridge
across the Missouri at Chamberlain to
replace the pontoon bridge which
went out was begun by the Chicago,
Milwaukee and st. Paul railway con-
struction crews. The bridge will be
OF new type and designed to with
stand the pressure of ice packs. which
heretofore have taken out the bridge
at this important point nearly every
spring
John II. Wolf. wealthy land own
er OF Kimball. was convicted by
jury in federal court at Sioux Falls
on six counts OF an indictment charg-
ing violation of the espionage act
Sentence was deferred. Evidence
was introduced at the trial to prove
that Wolf had predicted that the
United States might come under the
rule of the kaiser, and had declared
that Germany was justified in her
submarine policy.
County Judge Eager of Suly coun-
ty. has problem on his hands in the
way of a nine-month-old baby. The
mother was adjud3ed insane and sent
to the hospital at Yankton The child
could not be sent along, and the chill
dren's home declines TO receive il on
account of possible mental troubles
The home at Redfield will net accept
any applicants under four years of
age, and the child cannot be sent to
that institution The result is that
there does not appear 10 be any in
stitution to receive the babe, and
Judge Eager has TO find some one to
care for II.
\ Charles Mix county man has been
investigating the shales in that part
OF the state and reports that chem
ical test shows that they contain four
per cent of oil. He may have discov-
cred a particularly favorable location
from which he made his selection
but il all the shales along the Mis-
surf would show such a percentage
there are thousands of gallons along
every mile of the stream. II is sug-
gested by him that this is a solution
of the mystery of the burning bluff
which has been one of the curiosities
of Gregory county since first know
ledge OF the upper Missouri river
country.
There is evidently strong demand
for land in the state this spring. In
the western sales. in Butte county.
1,760 acres of irrigable lana were sold
at total of $32,S40, an average OF
1886 per acre; in Meade county the
sales amounted to 1867 acres, at an
average OF $13.42 or a total OF s62.-
623. In Beadle county. where the
first offerings were made for eastern
counties, the acreage sold ran up to
1882. with an average price Of
s5340. and a total of $4,000 In
Meade county one tract sold at s73
an acre. and in Beadle county one
tract at $10l an acre. In Beadle coun
ty one tract Of grazing land leased a.
81 per acre for the year.
G. II. Jaynes. OF Pierre. was elected
president OF the Black Hills and Yei-
low Trail association OF the state at
a meeting OF the executive committee
of the association at Huron. Mr..
he NJ Of oh