The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1918-10-04
Work has begun on q mess building

specifications for 1t were furnished by
the wal department, and it will be a
standard type of mess hall, with kit
chen at one end and the principal
length a dining hall with tables along
each side. The building is 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 a short time.
A sensation was created throughout
Perkins county when several ranchers
of prominence were arrested on the
charge Of being implicated in the
theft Of ESQ head of sheep. The de-
PENDANTS are j. w. Mosher and son,
Willard; Frank Hadcock and Felden
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 were held in bonds
Of $4,000 each, and the bond in Had.
cocks case was fixed at 1900.
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 of the
applicants range from Is 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 will
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 storehouse, 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 OF
South Dakota to two years, instead OF
four years as formerly, is f~oreshadow-
ed in messages received from the war
department saying hat it is espe-
cially desired that members of the stu
dent army training corps be enrolled
for 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 $1,000 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
nenced to come she thought them de.
linquent 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 81, 900.
Some extended insurance on the pol.
icy had amply covered the unpaid pre-.
miums so the policy had not. been
| voided.
Now that hogs have become about
as valuable each as the average horse
during the palmy days Of wholesale
horse stealing In the west, gangs OF
hcg thieves are expected to commence
operations through the farming dis
tricts. Thieves of this kind already
have commenced operations In the vi.
LA VI NhOOLAAah ia licI ICpOTGs
ing the disappearance of 80 Of his
pigs, and another farmer losing 10
pigs and about 100 chickens. It IL
believed the hog tn efts are committed
by other farmers who have ample
feed and shelter FOR the stolen ami
mails
Military police from Camp Funston
came to South Dakota and took Will.
lam Nagel, a Grant county conscript.
back to that camp, where he will have
to face a charge of %desertion. Some
weeks after reaching Camp Funston
Nagel secured a one-day furlough for
the avowed purpose OF visiting Kan
sas City. Instead he came back to
South Dakota and secured work on
a Grant county farm. When the mill.
tary authorities learned Of his where.
abouts and caused his arrest he bad
been absent from camp for a period
Of 100 days.
What Is thought to have been a