Sioux County pioneer. (Fort Yates, Sioux County, N.D.) 1914-1929, 1918-09-12
NEWS OF THE STATE
A RESUME OF IMPORTANT HAP.
PENiN09 OF THE
WEEK.

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Damage to- the extent Of $500 or
$500 was caused at Huron when three
blocks Of heavy cable wire OF the
Dakota Central Telephone company
fell to the ground.
Ferdinand Schmidt, aged 50, was
attacked by heart failure and was
found dead in bed at the home of
Julius Dumpke, near Lennox, where
he was employed.
Rev. w. Blair Roberts, for the las,
copal church at Dallas, and also In
charge OF different missions in the
Rosebud country, has departed to
serve as chaplain.
The new city manager law of the
last legislative session is unconstitu-
tional. This is the ruling Of the South
Dakota supreme court in the case of
Toohey VS.. board Of city commission
ers, Of Sioux Falls.
A South Dakota young woman, Miss
Gertie Edmonds, daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. Ole Edmonds. of Madison, has
departed for Madagascar, where she
will serve as field missionary for
the Norwegian Lutheran church.
William Mayer, aged "a, Of Yellow
Creek, was caught in the rock crush
er in the Bismarck mill at that place
and had his left foot mangled to such
an extent that 1t had to be amput-
the time and the fact that the heel
sufficiently retarded the power to
throw OF the belt saved him from
being crushed to death in the ponder
GUS rock crusher
Mrs. Harry Runchey. Of Madison,
has been advised that her brother, j.
w. Hoyland, who was severely wound
ed by sniper's bullet in France .ast
November, has been discharged from
the army. The bullet lodged near his
heart, interfering with the action of
that organ and making him unable
to perform further military duty. An
other Of Mrs. Runchey's brothers
was killed in the trenches last July.
Arrangements have been made by
the business men Of Parker whereby
two members of the local home guard
will be on duty throughout each night,
for the purpose Of guarding the local
grain elevators and other business
houses. Citizens have been warned
to keep to the sidewalks when about
town late at night and not to act
suspiciously. and to throw up their
hands promptly II called upon to do
80 by the guards.
Louis Batinovitch, for some time
employed in Rapid City, was arrested
on federal charge of making dis
loyal statements in violation of the
espionage act. AS the result of his
preliminary hearing before United
States Commissioner Hull, he was
held for appearance at the next term
of federal court. In default Of bonds
OF $4,000 he was lodged in the county
Jail. The defendant is an Austrian
by birth and has been in the United
States a number of years.
Many horses on farms in eastern
and northern Hand county are dying
from some unknown cause. County
Agent Risjord, of Hand county, was
called and diagnosed the cases as
spinal meningitis, the same disease
that ia affecting herds in Beadle coun-
ty. Mr. Risjord Is said to have made
the statement that the animals con.
tract the disease by drinking the stale
water in ponds and pastures. Veter.
inarians say that the disease is caused
by vegetable poisoning from feed in
pastures which affects the spine.
John Ronneberg, formerly of Lead,
now of Anaconda, Mont, who had
been called to the colors under the
selective draft from Lawrence county
has deliberately renowned his inten
ton of becoming a citizen Of the
United States. and by taking this I'm
patriotic action has escaped military
service. He is Of Norwegian birth
and had taken out his first citizenship
papers in Lawrence county, where he
resided many years. By his i'll ad
vised action he will be deprived for
ever of the right to become a citizen
OF the United States.
County Auditor Shenkle, of Sioux
Falls. has sent 1880 ballots for the
November election to men of voting
age from Minnehaha county who are
serving in the national army IL
France and those who are undergoing
training in various camps. Some o.
the voters may be hard to locate ant
1t Is expected that some of the bal
Tote will miscarry. as they may b.
transferred to other points while thu
ballots are in transit to them. 1t /!
estimated that OF he 1900 ballots sen
from that county probably not NOR,
than 500 will reach the South Dakots
soldiers for whom they are INTENDED
and be returned to the county audito
after being marked in accordanc,
with the wishes Of the soldiers. Thes,
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