Sioux County pioneer. (Fort Yates, Sioux County, N.D.) 1914-1929, 1918-02-07
DRAFT FOE is JAILED
DAY COUNTY FARMER PLACED
BEHIND THE BARS At
ABERDEEN.

ABERDEEN.
Chris Sauer, wealthy Day county
farmer, was put in Jail at Aberdeen
on charge Of violating the espionage
act by attempting to obstruct the
draft. Sauer. who is we'll along in
years. has son at Camp Funston
who is drafted man. He claims
his opposition to the draft was based
on reports from his son who he said
told him the soldiers were not we'll
fed at Camp Funston and he had only
an apple for breakfast.
Adolph Hoberz, president of the
Farmers Equity exchange, at Eagle
Butte. and Aso president of the Eagle
Butte Farm Loan association, as the
result OF visit made to President
Hogan, of the federal land bank, at
Omaha, Neb.. reports that an import
ant concession has been made rela-
tive to loans on homesteads on which
final proof has not been made. MIR.
Hoberz states that he was assured by
President Hogan that in future home.
steaders could secure from the federal
land bank loans sufficient to cover
the making of final proofs, and that
upon receipt from the United States
district land Office of receipt show
ing that this amount had been paid,
the balance Of the approved loan
would then be made by the federal
land bank on the land.
A letter has been received by Ed.
ward Byrne, of Madison advising him
that his grandson, Roy Dugall, who
twice was reported killed on the Cana
dian front i'll Europe. is alive and we'll.
Young Dugall enlisted with the Cana
dams about two years ago and served
many months In the trenches. In ad-
dltion to being twice reported killed,
he was once on torpedoed boat and
was supposed to have been drowned,
but turned up all right. He now has
decided to enlist in the navy and will
be assigned to duty on a submarine
chaser. His soldier record is some.
thing remarkable, and il he comes
through the war all right he should
be able to write an interesting book
of his thrilling adventures.
At the meeting of the state board
of education, popularity known as the
vocational board, at the capitol in
Pierre, it was decided. because of
federal rulings on the Smith. Hughes
bill for federal aid to states for voca.
tional training, to have teachers
trained in agriculture at the state col
lege at Bookings and in home econ
omics both at this school and at the
university at Vermilion. The four
normals Of the state cannot receive
this federal aid for training teachers
in these vocational branches, under
the ruling of Washington federal voca-
tional board, because they do not offer
sufficient years of study in them past
the high school training.
The local advisory board of the
American Defense society at Lead has
been investigating number OF al
legged cases of disloyalty in that COM
munity, and as result of a report
made by its secret agents the cases of
eight Lead residents charged with
making disloyal or seditious remarks
have been reported to the United
States attorney at Sioux Falls, and
1t is expected arrests will be made.
Letters have been written to 40 per-
sons in Lead notifying them that they
had been appointed secret agents of
the society and IS per cent of these
already have accepted the appoint.
ment.
Rev. H. G. Atrops, pastor of a Ger
man Lutheran church near White, this
state. and Rev. Carl Graf. pastor of
Methodist church at that place, were
arrested and taken before the Unit
ed States court commissioner at Wat.
ertown on charges of violation of the
espionage act. in the case of the for
mer, and pro-German activities on the
part Of the latter.
Mrs. Gladys Gary. who is living
with her mother on farm near How.
ard, has received letter from her
husband, Major Franklin Jude Gary,
who is a member of Canadian regi-
ment fighting at the front, in which
he states that he was among those
recently decorated for bravery by be-.
ing presented with the Military Cross.
Garrett Dopter of Webster, grad.
uate Of South Dakota State college.
has been appointed emergency DEM
onstration agent in Beadle county
with headquarters at Huron. Mr.. Dop-
ter will also act as assistant to Coun.
ty Agent 0. P. Drake.
Following Governor Norbeck's in.
structions, every unnecessary light in
the capitol building will be dispensed
with and the temperature of all rooms
will be kept as low as can be done
with moderate heat for working pur.
poses.
John Bosse, employed in restau.
rant at Mobridge. is awaiting a hear.
ing before federal authorities for Sc.
ditious utterances. He refused to OBJ
serve wheatless day and says he
wants to destroy all the wheat he