Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1892-11-24
WOMAN AND THE NEWSPAPERS.
What She Reads and What She skips--'
M-arriagesand Deaths Interest Her.

characteristics of the gentler sex one
has only to watch a woman read a
newspaper. Taking it up hurriedly,
she begins to ear it rapidly, as
though hunting for some particular
thing. But she is not. She is merely
taking in the obscure paragraphs,
which she half believes were put III
out of the way places for the sole
purpose of keeping her from seeing
them. As she finishes each paragraph
so found her countenance brightens
with the comforting reflection that
she has outwitted the editor and the
whole race of men, for she cherishes
a vague belief that newspapers are
the enemies of her sex, and editors
its chief oppressors.
She never reads the head lines.
The huge telegraph heads she never
sees. She is rayenous for local news,
devouring it with keen relish.
Marriages and deaths always interest
hers advertisements, too, are stimulat-
ing and exciting,
For printed jokes she cares but
little, unless, perhaps, they reflect
ridicule upon the men; then she
delights in them. Anything enclosed
in quotation marks attracts her
particular attention, as she considers
it rather better authority than if it
were first-handed.
She rarely reads the columns in
which the editor is supposed to air
his opinions. Views are Of no
Importance in her estimation; facts
are everything.
Poetry she generally reads; not
that she always cares for it, but
because she thinks she ought to make
a practice of reading it. She reads
stories, sketches and paragraphs
indiscriminately, and she believes,
too, every word of tnem.
After she has read all she intends
to read she lays the paper down with
an air of disappointment and a half
cOntemptuons gesture that plainly
shows she considers all newspapers
miserable failures. But she also
entertains the idea that If she had
but a chance she would improve the
opportunity by marking the only
perfect newspaper the world has ever
seen. In this respect she is not
unlike a great many men
ST. CLOUDS FEMALE swINDLER.
She is One of an Extensive Gang For
Whose Capture Big Rewards are
offered.
The notorious fOrger and confidence
woman, Mrs. Annie NJ. Murphy, for
whose capture numerous rewards
have been offered was caught last
week at Montreal. The last crime
for which she is wanted was COM
mitted on Oct. 81, when she victim
lied the First National bank and
German-American hank at st. Cloud,
Mimi, by caShing forged drafts for
large amounts. A dispatch from
New York says: "a gang of bank
~swindlers are travelling about the
country, mainly through the west.
They are clever and plausible and
their victims are generally the coun,
try banks. Their method is to OBJ
tain a draft for a small sum from an
out-Of-town bank on its New York
correspondent. From this genuine
draft they have forged duplicates
made. The genuine draft, of course,
goes through all right. Then the
bogus drafts are presented, and the
~swindlers having established a sort
of credit with the genuine draft, and
being sufficiently well known to be
identified by the country bank, the
bogus drafts on the New York bank
are generally cashed without ques,
tion. The latest instance of this sort
Of Swindling was brought to the at
tentiOn of the Chase National bank
a few days ago. The victims in thi.
NdoC NClt llC IllSI NdGlOIdl Ddlh
and the German-American Nationa
bank, both of St. Clond, MINI. Eacl
of these banks on Oct. . caShed {
bogus draft on the Chase NatiOna
bank of this city, the first for $7O(
and the other for $500. Both of thu
drafts purpOrted to be issued by the
National Bank of Commerce of Tia
coma, Wash, on the Chase Nationa
bank of this city. Both were pay
able to the order of and were pre-
sented by and cashed for Mrs. Anna
a. Murphy, who is said to be a step
daughter of Andrew McCrea, formerly
a well-knOwn resident OF Minnesota
In a circular which the two victim
lied st. Cloud banks sent out-fol
the Chase does not lose the 81, 500
they say they will pay a reward o
$500 for the arrest of Mrs. Murph,
and her delivery to the proper officer
of the State OF Minnesota.