Sioux County pioneer. (Fort Yates, Sioux County, N.D.) 1914-1929, 1919-11-13


ness property here.
Stanley.-L. H. Larson, Great
Northern brakeman, was killed while
coupling cars in the local yards.
Hillsboro.-More than. 5000 was
taken in at the stock sale held here by
Trail county breeders few days ago.
McHenry.-The local telephone sys-
TEN is being materially improved by
the installation Of a new copper wire
circuit
Drake.-The early erection Of
25O,OOO-bushel elevator is announced,
in connection with the state-owned
mill ut this place.
Fargo.-Gilbert G. Grafton post of
the American Legion is discussing the
organization Of stock company to
build suitable "home" for the Or
ganization.
Fargo.-The city commission has
placed on file petition from the local
Trades and Labor assembly asking an
eight-hour day for all city employees,
including street laborers.
Mandan.-John w. Nelson, a we'll
known farmer of Huff neighborhood,
was accidentally shot while attempt
ing to fix gun. 1t is hoped the acct
dent will not prove fatal.
Mandan.-Local boys anticipated
Halloween with few "indoor sports"
Sunday night when they broke into
the office of the Farmers elevator and
turned things topsy-turvy.
Watford.-A local booster is dis
playing two potatoes raised here which
weigh 211 pounds each. They were
grown upon Il non-irrigated tract, and
the quality is unusually good.
| Bisnarck.-State headquarters of
the North Dakota Anti-Tuberculosis
association have been moved from
Devils Lake to this city, and DR.. Ida
NJ. Alexander, Red Cross relief
worker during the war, has been In
!. stalled as state director.
| Bismarck.-The wOrkmen's cOmpen-
sation law of the state has been de-
clared constitution by four to one
vote of the state supreme court, which
also affirms the right of the depart
ment to receive and dispense it's own
funds.
Portland.-Tom Arnold, local far
mer has shipped nine carloads of po-
tatoes from his field of 90 acres and
still has 1,5OO bushels Of good stock
left for seed. The average price real
lied from the potatoes was from $1.35
to $3.50 bushel.
Sehafer.-NIcKenzie county commits
sioners have been made defendants in
| n inSttt1pfnf1 ct INV
dents of Rawson, small community
on the Great Northern line which had
requested village incorporation for an
area of "a square miles. The commits
sioners declined to act upon their Pc
tition.
Hankinson.-A proposed shortening
of divisions on the 500 railway rum
ming through here, it is believed, may
make this city "a division point. A
transfer of the railroad shops from
Enderlin to Rogers is also one of the
possible changes which have been
rumored.
Eismarck.-Indian lands in the
Standing Rock reservation in North
and South Dakota will be offered for
sale by bids on November 10 and De-
cember 10. The land is said to COM
prise some of the best farming and
grazing land in the states, and some of
1t Is appraised as low as So per acre.
LaMoure.-Erna, the eight.year-old
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Henry KEEL
Ter, is dead from burns sustained from
an Overfilled kitchen stove in which
wood had been crowded to such an ex-
tent that it was necessary to leave off
the covers. The child was alone in
the room when her clothing became
ignited.
Fargo.-Dr. Christian Kachelmacher,
a prominent specialist of this city, sui
cided by shooting himself in the head,
while stopping at hotel in Chicago
while en- route to sanitarium in
Michigan. The doctor is said to have
been suffering from an acute nervous
ailment, for which he was planning to
undergo treatments.
Mandan.-Stories of the alleged
murder of his wife many years ago by
ALBERT Brooks, an aged transient who
recently died here, are held to be
fabrications by relatives of the de-
ceased, who say they have known Of
his whereabout and actions for many
years, and that he was at one time a
well-to-do contractor in Kansas.
Sanish.- their wits and
superior numbers against the GOODNESS
and bravery of Cashier Henry Schoen-
rock. of local bank, would-be robbers
were recently foiled here in what APP
pears to have been carefully planned
attempt at bank robbery. The yeggs
called Schoenrock out of bed in the
night on the pretext that they had Inn
portant valuables to deposit for safe
keeping. They then bound and gagged
the cashier, forcing him to ride with
them in their auto toward the bank to
assist them on the vault combination.
Wrenching himself party free, Schoen-
rock caught the steering wheel, threw
the machine into the curb and over
turned IT. then getting cIpnr NJ tho