Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1918-10-03

the. war department, ana ii win be
standard type OF mess hall, with Xii
chen at one end ana the principal
length i dining hail With tables along
each side. The building ii located
Just north OF the gymnasium and par.
allel to it. Enough men have been
set to work on the construction to
put the Job through in d short fime.
Al sensation was created Throughout
Perkins county when several ranchers
OF prominence. were arrested on the
charge of being implicated in the
theft of $50 head OF sheep. The de-
PENDANTS are J.. w. Mosher ana ION.
willard; Frank and FeidesnD
Ellis. all OF Moreau. The sheep al
legged to have been stolen were the
property Of Orc Cleveland, OF Bixby.
AS the result Of the preliminary hear.
Ing of the defendants, the cast against
Ellis was dismissed, and the Mosh-
ers, father and son, and Hadock were
held for trial in the state circuit court.
The two Moshers we're held in bonds
OF $4,000 each, and the bond in Had.
cocks case was fixed at $1,000.
In response to the announcement Of
the Homestake Mining company that
it would employ women laborers and
pay them the same wages as are paid
men for similar work, nearly SO won.
en- have thus far applied for work
with the company. The ages or the
applicants range from liz or 10 years
to women OF 35 and 40, a considerable
number OF them being married. There
are various kinds of surface work
that women will be able to handle sat.
isfactorily, and they will be put at this
work as fast as the necessary arrange
ments can be made. The work win
be in accordance with the strength OF
the average woman. and they will be
employed as helpers in the machine
shop, screen whippers and other
duties in the mills of the company,
assistants in the storehoyse, ore sort
ers in the tungsten mill and a number
OF other lines which require the light.
er sort of work.
A possible shortening Of all courses
i'll engineering at the University oil
South Dakota to two years, instead OF
fonr years as formerly, is foreshadow-
I'd in messages received from the war
department saving that it is spe
cially desired that members of the stu
dent army training corps be enrolled
Tor intensive work in engineering,
medicine and chemistry. The needs
OF the national service for engineers
at the front qualified to lay tracks.
make Typographical maps, supervise
and direct construction and fill in the
ranks in the engineering corps make
IT necessary for advanced students In
engineering to be rushed through tho
remainder of their courses and also
make it desirable that the enrolment
of freshmen engineers be kept up to
normal, or above, to meet the exig-
encies of war.
Mrs. benjamin A. Carlson, of Sioux
Falls, is 81, 900 richer as the result OF
a peculiar incident. Her husband was
killed in an automobile accident In
october, 1915. Among other effects
he left a life insurance policy for ST.
600, but he apparently had defaulted
in some of the payments and his Wild
ow was convinced that the policy had
lapsed. Later when the notices com.
msnced to come she thought them de.
hnquent letters and burned them with.
out opening. Finally the state agent
OF the company discovered that the
dividend checks were not being cash.
ed, and he started an investigation
which now has resulted in the pay.
ment to Mrs. Carlson OF the $1,000.
Some extended insurance on the mol.
icy had amply covered the unpaid pre-.
n'iums SO the policy had not been
yoided.
Now that hogs have become about
as valuable each al the average horse
during the palmy days OF wholesale
horse stealing in the west, gangs 81
hog thieves are expected to commences
operations through the farming dis.
tricts. Thieves Of this kind already
have commenced operations in the vi
cinity Of Freeman, n farmer report
ing the disappearance of 80 Of his
pigs, and another farmer losing 10
pigs and about 100 chickens. It ii
believed the hog thefts are committed
by other farmers who have ample
Feed and shelter for the stolen ant
mails.
Military police from Camp Funston
came to South Dakota and took Will
IAN Nagel. q Grant county cosscript,
back to that camp, where he will have
TO face q charge Of desertion. Some
weeks after reaching Camp Funston
Nagel secured a one1day Through for
the avowed purpose Of visiting KAN
sas City. Instead BIZ came back I'd
South Dakota ana secured work on
! Grant county farm. When The rniti-
ary authorities learned Of his where
tbolts and caused his arrest he had
eeen absent from camp for ! period
81 Ies days.
what is thought to have hssn j
dust explosion destroyed q thrash
iiaS ssepArst0r whiehywas At work nsar
Eureks There VAS no eyidsnce 81
my attempt to destroy the machine