The Kadoka press and Kadoka reporter. [volume] (Kadoka, S.D.) 1910-1923, 1918-02-15
COAL PROFIT LIMITED
DAKOTA FUEL ADMlNiST OR
PUTS HALT TO PROF
ITEERlNC.

sale Of coal, w. q. Blckelhaupt, leu-
eral fuel administrator for South Da-
kota, has issued an order limiting the
profit that can be taken by the retail
dealers and otherwise supplementing
the order OF October /, 1917. The
order limits the profits on anthracite
and Ignite to s1.75 per ton at the
yard On soft coal the margin is
placed at 81 per ton. Where delivery
charges are made, the charge shall be
no greater than for similar service on
July /, 1917.
The 3-year-old son of Mr.. and Mrs
Oscar Pfantz, of Leola, was found dead
in jar Of water. Mrs. Pfantz was
washing and had gone outside to hang
up some clothes. She left the 3-year-
old child and brother a year older
in the house. The child. playing
around the ar, which was partly filled
with water, fell in and was helpless.
The brother, too young to realize the
danger that the child was in. did moth
ing to rescue him or call the mother.
1t was not until fifteen minutes later,
when the other children came home
covered dead
The report OF Insurance Commits
sioner Van Camp recently submitted
to Governor Norbeck. shows that the
department for the fiscal year collect
ed in fees and taxes the sum of $685.
644.5l, and that the cost of maintain
ing the insurance and fire marshal
departments was $21 ,291.47 which dis,
closes the fact that the department
for the year was operated at profit
to the state of $177342.95, which in
cludes s29 ,5S658 distributed among
the towns of the state maintaining
organized fire departments.
j. c, Parkin, rancher homesteader
living near Provo, in the Edgemont
district, has just sold his alfalfa seed
the product Of last season, and finds
that the crop was a very profitable
one. From about seventy acres he
secured 476 bushels of alfalfa seed,
which brought him a financial return
of nearly $50 an acre for the tract
devoted to the alfalfa. Farm land in
his district is worth only from 500 to
S25 an acre
The state department has appealed
10 the court for authority to pay a
10 per cent dividend to the depositors
of the Dakota State bank OF Eagle
Butte, which failed before the guar
anty law went into effect This is
the first payment to be made to the
depositors since the bank failed sew
eral years ago.
Grain men and farmers are getting
anxious about the stored corn in South
Dakota 1t is claimed that unless the
grain is moved within the next month
that il will spoil, as its already soft.
ened condition will not stand storage
in cribs when warm weather begins
The state railway commission and the
food administrator have been appeal
ed to
President r. c. Perisho, of State
college at Brookings, has appointed a
war information committee at the col
lege which will collect and co-ordi.
nate all the information available for
state and college use in the interest
of greater food production and con
Servation as a war measure
Governor Norbeck has received an
urgent call from the general manager
| OF the emergency fleet corporation, in
which he asks for men to help in tina,
| work. The county chairmen of the
council OF defense have been supplied
| with enrolment cards.
Reports from II. o. Herbrandson
! field agent for the department of agri
/ culture for South Dakota, shows that
! the number OF horses in the state has
increased during the past year Cat
! tie also show a healthy increase in
number.
Commencement at the University
of South Dakota will be held on May
/ l3 this year. This is earlier than any
previous commencement. The reason
is TO give the men students who wish
/ to do so a chance to work on the
farms.
! Mrs. John Hausman, of Pierre, is
in a hospital, badly burned, as the
result of pouring kerosene over her
self and applying a match. She had
shown signs Of mental trouble fol
several days before committing the
act
/ John Bossee, |. w. W., and recent
1 resident of Selby, has been arrested
charged with violation of the espion
age act. He is alleged to have said
Wilson ought to have his brains
blown out and | would like to heir
DO it."
Miss Laura Brookman. of Vermil
lion. has been chosen as editor of the
Volante, the student paper of the Uni
yersity of South Dakota. Miss Brook
man is the aourth woman to be thus
honored.
4 The enactment of law by the state
I legislature which will be designed tc
mobilize labor and make it unlawful
for a physically capable individual