Sioux County pioneer. (Fort Yates, Sioux County, N.D.) 1914-1929, 1918-11-21
NEWS OF THE STATE
A RESUME OF IMPORTANT HAP
PENlNos OF THE
WEEK.


and sheep owners report that the ami
mails are killing large numbers of
sheep Some of the coyotes are so
starved that they go right into the
sheep pens and drive out some of the
sheep and then kill them. Some of
the ranchers are talking Of having
coyote roundup. with the object of rid.
ding the range of the animals.
The high water mark in prices paid
for farm land in the immediate vicin-
ity of Centerville was reached a few
days ago when julius Snoopy, of this
city. paid $3.50 an acre for an eighty
acre tract OF farm land known as the
old fair grounds, which adjoins the city
on the southwest The purchaser is
satisfied the land is worth what he
paid for 1t. He plans on Transforming
the tract into dairy farm. He will
purchase some fancy dairy cattle and
will be able to manage the farm per-
sonally without moving upon 1t.
1t is doubtful II any town in the
country, population considered, put on
more enthusiastic celebration of the
contamination of peace than did Stick
ney. Autos to the number Of $50,
headed by a coffin containing an efflgy
of the kaiser. paraded the streets.
Later flag bedecked autos drove to
Plankinton. The Stickney city Jail
was burned to the ground. Outbuild-
ings were used as fuel for numerous
bonfires, which had died down, when
the band began playing Keep the
Home Fires Burning" which waS the
signal for another outburst of fires.
Free lunch was served on the streets
at 6 p. m.
AS the result of a fire which de-
stroyed the barn on the place Mrs.
Frank Woods, wife of farmer living
near Cottonwood, and her 6-year-old
daughter were seriously burned. The
little girl was burned so badly she is
not expected to recover, while the
mother has fighting chance for life.
The four small children of the family
accidentally started fire in the barn
while playing with jacx-o.lanterns,
the flames cutting of the escape. Mrs.
Woods went to the rescue and sue.
ceeded in getting the four children
out of the burning structure, but not
before herself and her 6-year-old
daughter had been seriously burned.
A telegram from Herbert Hoover
announces the immediate abandon
ment OF the rule requiring consumers
to buy or pledge themselves to buy
substitutes -four to one. But the
appeal to save food for furnishing Eu-
rope is intensified, by the recent war
Developments. Therefore, the con.
servation Of food campaign must go
on. A world composed in part of
vanquished countries of falu....ing
millions, is not q world "safe for de-
pocracy." Now, let there be no
"slackers" in food conservation, said
Mr.. Herried. The demand for food
for export is increasing. While our
people are no longer required to buy
substitutes" they are expected to
use the Substitutes" intelligently,
and save exportable food even to a
greater degree than heretofore.
Information that Mrs. Lloyd Smith,
a former we'll known resident of
Beresford had accidentally met death
at the new homo Of the family near
Burnstad. N. D., was a great shock
to her friends here and in this vi
entity. About two weeks previously
'her husband had loaded his shotgun
and started out to hunt ducks. He
was interrupted by some one and in
his haste he put the gun aside with.
out unloading it, and during the rush
Of the busy season had completely
forgotten about it. Mrs. Smith was
preparing to go to town when her
two little boys discovered the gun
and dragged 1t into the room where
she was dressing. The gun was dis.
charged, the charge striking the un-
fortunate woman in the back. She
lived just long enough to tell the boys
to go for their papa, who was work.
ing in a field about three miles dis
tant. She was dead long before her
husband could arrive on the scene.
commission from the government
visited Hot Springs to look over Ger.
tain buildings with reference to taking
them over for the use of sick and dis
abled soldiers Of the present war. The
Evans hotel may be taken over as a
hospital for convalescent men and the
Battle Mountain sanitarium, national
home for disabled veterans of the civil
and Spanish wars, may be taken over
for bed-ridden patients and surgical
cases. There is also possibility that
the two large hospitals of the town,
the Lutheran and Our Lady of Lour-
des, may be used for the same purpose.
The commission made a thorough in.
spection, but gave out no hint Of
the nature Of the report they will
make. They left for Washington in
the evening. The party comprised
Lieut.. Col. Northington, head of the
commission; ]. Milton Trainer, real
estate expert Richard Schmitt, archi.
tect. and Emil H!ock, secretary, accom-
panied the party.
Frank Iams, a rancher and horse
dealer who died recently of influenza
at Winner and vaa very woalthv 0ovo