Sioux County pioneer. (Fort Yates, Sioux County, N.D.) 1914-1929, 1918-10-03

see bonfire made one by applying
lighted match to hay owned by III. g.
Halverson, destroying twelve tons.
Fargo.-The federal court converting
here October has q calendar Of 158
cases for trial, many of them being for
alleged violation of the espionage act.
Haynes.-William L. Rinehart, post
master at this place, has been placed
under arrest for alleged irregular
tiles in the transaction Of official
business.
Bottineau.-A new school building |
and hospital are in course Of erection
here, the former being nearly enclosed,
with probability of being completed
this winter.
Oakes.-The death Of J. a.. Denning |
at his home near this city removes q
pioneer resident Of this section who
had lived in Dickey county continu-
ously since 1888. rs
Sheldon.-A local thresherman lost
his machine. valued at $1,000, through
an explosion supposed to have resulted
from the Introduction Of dynamite into
a bundle of grain.
Fargo.-The intercollegiate football
games will not be feature Of student
work this season, the idea having been
abandoned on account of conditions
incident to the war.
Cando.-Two hundred soldiers from
Camp Dodge were detailed for work in
the harvest fields of Towner county,
owing to the shortage Of help required
for getting in the fall crop.
Kndred.-The local farmers club
and Kindred business men united in
observing Sunday, September 20. as a
day Of patriotic thanksgiving for the
favorable progress Of the war.
Minot.-By mutual agreement Minot
merchants have discontinued the SELL
ing of sugar and have turned the
handling Of that commodity over to the
Red Cross, by which 1t will hereafter
be administered.
Bismarck. twenty-ninth an
nual convention Of the North Dakota
w. G. T. U. has completed its session,
after re-electing Mrs. Elizabeth Pres
ton Anderson to the presidency of the
organization for the twenty-sixth con-
secutive. year.
Fargo.-A former Fargo lady was
recently injured at her home in Min
neapolis by the explosion of a chocO-
late coated nut which she was eating.
The matter was called to the attention
Of representatives Of the department Of
Justice for investigation Of the cause
of the explosion.
Steele.-George Beresford, a young
boy near here, was killed by being
crushed between two wagon racks
while trying to stop his team which
had begun to move away from him.
The boy was on the ground between
the two wagons, where he was caught
while endeavoring to recover the reins.
u Bismarck.---T The state a council Of
defense has been asked by the national
war industries board to act as its rep
/ resentative in enforcing the require
ment Of permits for all building and
construction enterprises started in the
state. Applications for permits will
be made to nearest local representa-
tives Of the council, with full state
ment Of the facts concerning the pro.
posed work.
Fort Observation-Disclosures J. B.
Kiteh has returned from Chicago,
where he marketed 1000 head of cattle
Of cattle raised by the Sioux Indians
on this reservation. The shipment net
ted the owners a total of $150,OOO, and
1.-THE Indians were very highly compli-
mented on the fine condition of their
stock, which was said to have been In
the finest condition Of any consign-
ment received in the yards this fall.
Fargo.-Miss Pearl de Jarnette
North Dakota director Of the Young
Women's Christian Association, has
been appointed state executive Of wo
mems work in the coming united wal
work campaign, in which the Y. w. G
A. has been asked to take the lead
. among women of the state, through
the machinery of its war organization
of which Mrs. w. B. Hancock, Of
Fargo, is chairman. Miss de FJarnette
has had wide experience in Y. w. c. A
activities.
Grand Forks.-Farmers Of the Ret
river valley and other parts of tn.
state have effected saving Of man,
. thousands Of dollars worth Of grair
by raking their fields this fall. The
excellent harvest weather has made
this possible where it might not have
: been under less favorable conditions
and 1t is estimated that If the practic,
had been universally followed through
the state large percentage of in
: crease In the states production woull
! have resulted.
Bismarck.-Private Ben Mooney o
: Company A in the old Fighting First
Of North Dakota has been invalide.
(; back from France with an empt,
!, sleeve, and has been quoted as sayin,
that 'you can't say anything too goo,
D for the Red Cross. and the Salvation
Army-they're there looking out 70
e the boys over there every minute
. Private Mooney is home from th
}, Walter Reed reconstruction hospita
h at Washington on 30-day furlough