Prohibition Fight and Taylor Defalcation Ties
Pierre dispatches reveal Thomas H. Ruth implicated in ex Treasurer Taylor’s defalcation with holdbacks of $200,000 during the panic era. Prohibitionists struggle in the house, favoring resubmission as senate action looms. governor offers $20,000 reward for W. W. Taylor’s capture and return.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pierre
Thos. H. Ruth
Taylor
Clay
Ruth
Sioux Walls
Ocean
Park Hotel
House
Senate
Governor’s bondsmen near settlement with state in Chicago
A description of a suspect, Charles J. Sheldon, a governor, and Taylor's bondsmen meeting in Chicago is reported. It is expected they will offer to settle with the state for about a quarter of a million dollars in exchange for release from liability and Taylor immunity. Col Ruth, lands commissioner, is arriving from De Smet. he faces civil liability though not criminally for diverting department funds.
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Taylor
Temperance Committee
Allison
Amerman
Austin
Barron
Boland
Burke
Cindell
Colvin
Crooks
Crosmer
Dickover
Donahue
Drake
Ege
Francis
Iry
Glass
Gorman
Hair
Henry
Herrick
Hollien
Hosmer
Leach
Lucas
Lumbard
Michaels
Miltimore
Melin
Non
Nelson
Olliver
Crcutt
Papick
Patto
Chicago
Col
Ruth
Public Lands
de Smet
Wisconsin Fisheries Report to Legislature Details Hatchery Demands
The state fish commissioner's report to the Legislature notes rising demand for hatchery products and incomplete fulfillment. It lists 1893 and 1894 distributions by species, including brook and rainbow trout, wall eyed pike, and whitefish, plus lake trout eggs. It also presents historical harvest and value data, with a note on poor conditions reducing recent catches.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mapison
Wis
Light Millions Involved In Pierce Swindle Claims
Sioux City dispatch reports from London alleging J T M Pierce's frauds may total 8 million dollars with receipts exceeding 100000 weekly and possibly 500000 in a final week. Victims may offer silence to avoid credit loss and ridicule. Also notes new Rosseau County Minnesota beginning to operate with officers and Jadis as county seat. Kansas City reports Missouri capital move push with organized lobby and bills for relocation. Burlington and Adams Express offer 1000 reward for train robbers.
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London
Missouri
Kansas City
Jefferson City
Sedalia
Kidnapped the Wrong Girl Reported in Toroika
In Toroika on January 14 Pearl Blount, aged 14 and daughter of J O Blount, was seized by two women on a side street bound and gagged placed in an express wagon and released after being told she was the wrong girl. Police investigation underway.
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Toroika
Kian
Pearl Blount
J. O. Blount
Line Jointly Kansas City to Atchison St Joseph Line
Missouri Pacific Santa Fe and Rock Island plan to organize a company to build a railroad between Atchison and St Joseph passing through inaccessible country. News brief reports other items including diplomats, a fire death in Baltimore, and political notices.
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Kansas City
Missouri Pacific
Santa Fe
Rock Island
Atchison and
St. Joseph
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Rath
Gover
Redfield
Northwestern Land and Improvement Company
Northwestern Land and Investment Company of
Northwestern Land and Investment Company
W. W. Taylor
Cheif
Muth
Crawford
Olaf Nelson
Lyman County
Siddley
Gregory County
Committee On Judiciary
Mussel
Yankton
Huron
Attoreney
Pipkke
Jan
Committee On Temperance
Grant
Sinclair
Union County
Judge Wellam
Rosa
Sheldon
South Dakota
Charles J. Sheldon
Wisconsin Fisheries
J. T. M. Pierce
Sioux City
Yankton, M. D
Pierce
Rosseau
Crookston
Minn
Kittson County
C. A. Moody
A. Lucken
T. S. Nomeland
J. W. Durham
R. J. Bell
O. B. Ekman
Jadis
Stephen
Orrumwa
Burlington Road
The
Adams Express Company
Clakemont
R. M. Northrop
Detroit Township
M. Meron
Galveston
Tex
M. Glandulet
Council
Vatican
Baltimore
Thomas Whittridge
Lord Brassey
Victoria
Australia
Earl of
James Taylor Jones
Congress
Alabama
Demiopoliss
Ala
John Murray Mitchell
James J. Walsh
New York
Mitchel
Chrismas Games
Beleere
Lion Corre
Zion Gown Peoples
Galether Woolson ‘Spice Co
Toledo
F. Winsor
Kershaw’s Meat Market
Mitchell, South Dakota
C.w. Brown
City Bakery and Grocery
M. H. Ward
J. P. Stewart Central Meat Market
Matl
ELY Brothers
Warren Street
Rom
Broadway
Evergreen Cottage
Mitchell Printing Company
Pansy
Universal Plan Co
Eere Peri
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