Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1893-09-08
UNS1E OR Y !.
IL the Record of the Prisoners
Charged With Robbina the
Geiasel store.
They Have Been Under Hrrsst
Beforc--Their Bail Bond
To BE Raised.

Beforc--TheirB Bail Bond
To BE Raised.
From Sheriff Houde it is learned |
that the prisoners from Buchanan,
Chas. Harris and oseph Sand, who
We're arrested and are now in Jail on
complaint Of robbing Senator Gels
sells store at North Prairie. have not
bonn an unsullied reputation in the
past. Harris was arrested a short
time ago for stealing barbed wire at
Buchanan from Mr.. Dockins. Sheriff
Houde also had him arrested for
stealing honey. He seems to have
a weakness for honey and barbed
wire, however homogeneous the com
blnAtlOn may seem. And it seems
that the state is not without proof
of them robbing the Geissel store
Sheriff Houde sent his deputy, Frank
Armstrong, of Royalton. to Buck
man and had them arr ested and it is
said they admitted to the deputy
and Senator Geissel that they stole
goods to the amount of $500 from
the North Prairie store. They made
this confession ON the understanding
that they would not be prosecuted
and paid 1925 for goods which they
could not return.
Senator Geissel did not make the
complaint upon which they are now
lodged in jail. The matter seems to
have been dropped by him after the
goods were returned, but Sheriff
Houde would not let them Off, and
as a result of this conclusion they
are now lodged in Jail. But wit
nesses have been subpoenaed to APP
pear against them among whom are
John Burgraff and Deputy Frank
Armstrong, one of the parties to
whom the confession was made.
Sands father came up from st. Cloud
with the idea of battling his son out,
but upon investigation he thought
it was unsafe to go on a bond for
his release. The father OF Harris
was also here to bail out his son,
but Mr.. Berg, of Sank Centre, who
was expected to go on the bond re-
fused. The bond now is only $500,
but Sheriff Houde says a motion
will be made in Justice Simmons
court to have it raised to $1,000.
August Schacklnan who is thought
to he an accomplice in the burglary
is still at large.
The charges under which these men
were before arrested were dropped
when arrested for the graver one Of
grand larceny and BURGLARY for
which they will be tried at the term
OF court commencing September IS.
n SOUTHERN OUTLET.
| A place may have a magnificent
water power and excellent facilities
for manufacturing, yet if it he not a
good distributing point tor goods after
they are manufactured it cannot hope
to become great manufacturing
point. Little Falls probably has the
best water power on the Mississippi
river, but the the only railroad system
upon which its manu- 'actured articles
can be distributed without change of
roads and consequent high rates is the
Northern Pacific. And that railway
system is confined to norther,. Mime
sofa ana North Dakota except its con-
tinental line and that after leaving
North Dakota or certainly Montana,
i too far away. South Dakota is
but short distance away, yet the
Northern Pacific has not a mile of
road in that state nor in Minnesota
south Of St. Paul, to say nothing OF
Iowa and Nebraska.
The Great Northern has one line
which runs to Huron, South Dakota,
} one to Aberdeen in the same state and
still another to Sioux Falls, S. D.
and this | tier line goes on to Sioux
City, Iowa. The Great Northern is
reaching out into the cornfelds OF
Iowa and Nebraska. 1t covers South
Dakota fairly we'll at present and il
will soon gridiron all the country
south Of here. And that section is Z
prairie country devoid of timber, just
the country into which large quaint.
ties of lumber must be sent, hence the
I Importance of a railroad at Little
Falls connecting with some Of the
railway systems that extend into that
section is readily seen. The Northern
! Pacific covers part of the great
wheat belt, but it does not penetra e
at all the corn belt. It covers also
the timber region where lumber i:
manufactured and hence plentiful
but not the region where saw mills
are unknown. Little Falls surely
needs southern outlet.
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