Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1891-02-26
THURSDAY FEBRUARY Is. 1884.
LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS.


John Telford has been given his free
dom, and he returned to the Hills Mon
day. 1t viii DO remembered that Tel
ford, Spud Murphy and Doc Doherty
attempted to wreck Homestake train in
November, 1889, and rob the pay car,
and Telford and Murphy were sent
mp for fifteen years. The statutes of
Dakota at that time provided that where
an unsuccessful attempt was made to
commit highway robbery the penalty
shall be one-half OF the greatest penalty
for a successful commission of the crime.
The seyerest penalty for highway rob-
berry is imprisonment for life. The
court in Telford's case thought fifteen
years would be half of his life, and last
Saturday an argument was heard be-
fore Judge Aikens for the release OF Tel
ford from the penitentiary upon the
grounds that a penalty of one-half of a
mans life was SO vague and indefinite
that he should not be deprived of his
liberty. The judge granted the release
of the prisoner. Murphy will probably
be released on the same grounds.
Doherty broke Jail before the trial, and
is now supposed to be spending his days
peacefully in the Otoe reservation.
Funds are being raised through the
farmers alliance to buy seed grain for
those who are in need OF such aid. The
scheme is to- make this a permanent
beneficiary fund, and to assist the needy
with temporary loans without interest,
the money to be paid back after harvest.
Everyone whether business man, a
professional man, or ward politician
will be asked to contribute to this fund,
and the alliance will see to its distribu-
ton. But, inasmuch as the alliance and
the Independent party are one and the
same, the thought occurs to the ADvER-
TrsER, that these funds might be appro-
priated for political purposes two years
hence. Recent events does not convince
the ADVERTISER that these would-be re-
formers and phiIanthrephists are any
more worthy of public confidence that
the men composing the old time-tried
republican party.
The death Of Gen. III. H. Sibley, the
first governor of Minnesota, which oc-
CURED at st. Paul on the 18th, touches
pathetic chord in the hearts of Bailey
Madison, John Coleman and one or two
Others in this vicinity who served under
deceased in the campaign of 1928
against the Sioux Indians. Mr.. Madi-
son was member of company d, 9Th
Minnesota volunteers, and participated
in the fight at Wood Lake, Sept. 81,
1852, and in short time helped release
about 100 women and children captured
at Camp Release, where the whites sue
ceeded in taking 400 hostile Siouxs.
Thirty-eight of the leading chiefs were
hanged by the military authorities.
Nearly 1000 settlers lost their lives be-
fore the Indians were subdued Mr..
Madison had great respect for his old
general.
The past week has been. of unusual in
terest in police circles. One man sue
ceeded in raising some money by for
gerry, another stole an over coat, and a
colored gentleman bought buffalo coat
of one of Uncle SANS military servants,
another stole a revolver, two others sold
whisky to their red brethren, the hospi-
tai steward was assaulted by a patient,
and Tilford gentleman had one of his
neighbors arrested for obtaining goods
under false pretenses and when he failed
to make case the defendant sought re-
venge by bringing suit for $4,000 for
defamation to character by reason of
false imprisonment. Out of respect for
the friends of these several orphans, the
ADVERTISER withholds their names from
the public.
J. J. Davenport, cashier of the First
National bank of Sturgis, discovered the
fact Tuesday evening that the new sena-
ator, Hon. James lei. Kyle, was an old
school mate of his. In 1871 they at
tended the Illinois Industrial university
Mt Champaign and took nearly the same
course of studies. Mr.. Davenport was
captain of company B of the school
militia and Senator Kyle was one of his
high feet long -privates. The gen.
tlemen have, not seen one another since
they left the university over sixteen
years ago, and Mr.. Davenport knew
nothing of the whereabouts of Mr.. Kyle
until the other evening in reading brief
biography of the new senator.
DIR. Bowman came down from Terra
vile Saturday afternoon to accompany
DIR. Sexton to Tilford, where they per-
formed surgical operation upon the