Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1918-04-25

Nearly $4,000 worth OF pedigreed
Hereford cows were sold at auction
on the Sherman ranch near Murdo.
One COW brought $1,000.
The S-year-old daughter of Mr.. and
| Mrs. Zwanzigen, living on farm near
Carpenter, died from burns received
when her clothing accidentally
caught on fire.
Three children from 2 to years of
age were burned to death and the
mother, Mrs. Art Allen, is in a serious
condition as the result OF a fire which
completely destroyed the Allen farm
| house near Huron.
| In the district declamatory high
school contest held at Yankton to Sc
llect representatives to the state con-
test, Hugo Thompson, of Vermillion,
| won first place. There were 10 high
schools represented.
| Two cartoons OF the kaiser, done in
yellow paint. were daubed on the
farm house of August Lieske, near
Arlington. Lieske is reputed wealthy
and is said to be the only one in that
section of kingsbury county who re-
fused to buy Liberty bonds.
Heinrich Hennings, 40 years old,
was arrested at Aberdeen on presi-
Dental warrant and probably will be
| interned for the remainder Of the war.
! Hennings is janitor at local hospital
! and is said to have made seditieus ut
| terances. He is unmarried.
The biggest land deal ever made i'll
! that part of the state has just been
closed by the G. H. Dirks Land
Jacob S. G. Hofer, comes into possess
sion of 2,240 acres of land in the
northern part of the state, for con.
4 sideration of s105,000.
At the close Of the sale of school
lands at Parker. there were left in the
county but 40 acres of unsold state
land. About 700 acres were offered
and brought from $11S to 1892 per
4 acre The results show that rough,
raw, Turner county land is being
sought at high figures
4 Governor Norbeck has issued his
i proclamation for Arbor and Burberry
Eradication day as April 26, in the
4 following: For the purpose, there
i fore, of reminding South Dakota's Cit
ems of their responsibilities in this
4 connection, |, Peter Norbeck, COVER
Il nor do hereby designate Friday, April
4 26, 1918, as Arbor and Burberry Edadi-
cation day, and urge and request
that the day be given over to the
I planting of trees and shrubs and to
4 the uprooting and burning of the COM
mon barberry bush. Everyone can
help. Let each do what he can.
i The enlistment of John Rogers as a
/ private in the United States army
4 came as surprise to Chamberlain.
Mr.. Rogers did not need to go to war.
Il He was in position to rest on his
laurels. He already wears the hon
ored badge of 1898. He bears a
i wound conferred on him by a Filipino
/ with a Mauser somewhere in Luzon.
More than that, he has little fam
L
j the top in easy form the first day of
4 the third Liberty loan drive, Rogers
\ played an important part He signed
i for $500 in bonds, most of his life's
savings, as his portion of the burden.
4 Bloodhound evidence was regarded
as sufficient when Gregory county
/ court, hearing the preliminary ey;-
\ dence in the case of the state VS..
II Charles Overton charged with arson,
i held the defendant for trial in the
/ state circuit court Overton is aceus-
4 ed of having set fire to a barn on
1 the Wardell farm, near Gregory,
which was destroyed. s I'M III stia teiy
after the fire bloodhounds were taken
to the scene and are alleged to have
4 followed the scent from the ruins OF
the burned barn to the dwelling house
4 Of 0yertan, The defendant s attorney
asked that the bloodhound evidence
be ruled cut. but the court declined
to grant this motion.
Senator Sterling has had a number
Of inquiries relative to the status OF
4 residents of South Dakota who, in ter!
ritorial days, had fled their declara-
tion OF intention to become citizens
of the United States, and who had
yoted and are residents Of the Ter;
4 ritory of Dakota at the time when
South Dakota became a state. 1t
4 has been generally nderstood that
such persons were citizens even
II though they did NOT fax q, DIR their