Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1891-07-30
IN THE WEST.

G.. w. MCKAY, the Kansas alliance
judge, who never read page of law
until after his election last fall, has al
ready rebelled against the supreme
court, and has placed a warrant i'm the
hands of the county coroner for the
arrest of the sheriff, who had refused to
obey his orders under instructions from
the supreme court. This was the Sec
ond positive refusal of Mckay to be
bound by the ruling of the supreme
court in the attempted mortgage fore
closure on a farm owned by Albert
Honeywell by the Commonwealth Loan
and Trust company.
The bureau of American republics is
informed that an association called the
American Colored Mems Mexican Col
onization company is planning to estab-
lish colony of negro farmers, coming
chiefly from Mississippi and Tennessee,
in the state of Sonora, Mex, and it has
arranged for the purchase of a tract of
100, 900 acres about twenty miles south
of Yuma, AriZ., on the Southern Pacific
railroad, at a place where the remains
of the Elardo colony, founded by Mr..
Andrade, of San Francisco, still re-
mains.
OBSERVATION has confirmed previous
opinions that the grasshoppers now in
Testing portions of eastern Colorado will
not invade Kansas. 1t is not the de-
structive Rocky Mountain locust which
devoured Kansas in 1874 and 1875, but a
native species of the plains-the long
winged locust. This species is now de-
vouring the forage grasses of this vicin-
ity, but leaves entirely unframed the
numerous corn fields in the infested
area. One or two good rains would re-
pair the damage done to the range.
NORTHWESTERN and central Iowa
were visited by another rain and wind
storm only second to the one of q month
ago. The water at Cherokee was within
short distance of it's former mark and
piles of lumber, gathered for rebuilding
the losses of the previous storm, were
swept away long distances and scat
tered. In some places the electrical
display was imposing. The oat crop in
central Iowa is generally total loss.
At Orange City, Jacob Van Veldhuizen
was killed by lightning.
THE Hall-Fitzsimmons fight was not
permitted to come off as advertised at
st. Paul. The churches and many citi-
zens, headed by Archbishop Ireland,
made such vigorous protest that Gov.
Merriam issued proclamation COM
handing the officers to enforce the law
The sheriff of the county was threat
ened with dismissal il he permitted the
fight to occur, and the state militia was
put in charge of the club house.
1T is stated at the internal revenue
Office at Chicago that the whisky trust
has decided to concentrate all the whisky
manufacturing at Peoria by sale from
time to time of the outside houses. The
object OF the concentration Is economy
in operation and reduction in working
force.
: THE s. A. Kean bank failure was
finally taken out of court at Chicago for
settlement. The basis is IS cents ON the
dollar. The claims against the bank
aggregate $524,s57 and there are 1,031
creditors. Settlement is effected by the
aid Of Kean's friends.
LoRING B. LOOMS, at one time men,
Der Of large land claim firm in Chicago,
has been captured in Washington City
after chase of 10000 miles for embez-
sling $3S, 900 of the firms money some
months ago.
Two men were killed in the Indian
nation by horse thieves. Deputy Uni
ted States Marshall Lilly, of Oklahoma,
is reported as one of the men killed.