The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-01-16
IOWA
YERMILLlON, NAY Be
Press Boys Of South Dakota May
Hold Their Summer Meet
ing in That City.
Mayor Caldwell, One Of the 'Old
Guard Does the Honors
at Sioux City.
Special to Tho Journal.


Sioux City, Iowa, Jan. 1S.-The mem
bers OF the South Dakota Press associa-
ton, who voted yesterday to decline YER
millions invitation to visit that town, are
discussing holding the next summers ses-
sion there. c. J. Ronald Of Clear Lake,
V. c. Wass OF Centerville and other fav-
ored this plan. g
Secretary Farley introduced an amend
ment to the bylaws Of the constitution,
providing for the election Of the officers
at the n1id-winter meeting, instead of the
summer. The canvass showed a big ma
jority for the change and it will be made
to-day. --s. f. .-..
The members of the association at
tended the theater last evening In a body
and Mrs. J. II. Mason Of the Commercial
club took the ladies for trolley ride.
"Cal' Caldwell, mayor of Sioux City,
and member Of tho "Old Guard" OF South
Dakota editors, regaled the members Of
| the association with an extemporaneous
account OF early newspaper days in Da-
| kota. 80 .@~ s.eser
| "Car' went to Sioux Falls in 1873, when.
with ]. F. stahl. he bought the Panta-
graph, a weekly paper. founded In 1879
by ". F. Ktter. now editor Of the Madison
J Daily Leader Cap and "Jimmie"
plucked q rich crop Of ANAL proof notices
for land claimants and the Paragraph
I prospered. .5sa@ 49, x at&E
Probably thu first newspaper man In
l W
st. Paul, who founded the City Democrat
in 1858, in which the proceedings OF tbs
first legislature were printed. There
were then but two other papers In the
state. Fuller's plant consisted Of n
Runaage press aud a few fonts Of type.
It was destroyed by the Indians in their
raid in 1862. Fuller left his paper and
set up when the Indians destroyed every
thing but the bed Of the press and car
ried it away. ~ .-..- -. ..z .7s-s--
The press had a historical value, for it
: printed the f1rst papers in Minnesota and
Wisconsin. The Indians threw it in the
| Stox river. Years after a settler found it,
an dcarried it to hts home for a doorstep.
Within few years r. 3. Pettigrew
Glanced to find 1t and added it to his
collection Of relics. =
Some Of the members of the old guard
9 were: J. w. Shannon, editor of the Fiu-
I ronite at Huron, who died few years
! ago at Marshaltown; c. W. Mcdonald,
/, editor Of the Independent at Sioux Falls,
now a ranchman at Washington Springs,
q S. D.; George Kingsbury and W. S.
! Bowen, editors Of the Yankton Press and
q Dakotan. Kingsbury having sold out and
a Bowen being editor of the Press and Da-
, kotan. now banker at st. James, Mimi:
: Charles True, founder of the Vernfillion
- Republican, now dead. = 50 .f'.E
:, Charles Malahan founded the Elk Point
. Courier and is now somewhere on the Pa
. cific coast; N. G. Nash founded and is
|
. Canton; Charles Hackett is founder and
2 still editor Of the Parker New Era; f.
!. M. Ziebach, "squatter governor of tho
territory, worked for various newspapers
g Charles Collins, founder of the Deadwood
g Champion, formerly lived at Sioux, City
: and died seven years ago at Los Angeles:
. Dan Scott, now on tn eSiouX Falls
q journal, orked with Collins at Deadwood
!, All these men went to the territory in
e the days when "the bad man ran amuck
y and the song of the six-shooter was heard
d in the land"
;. 1.-THE same loyalty to South Dakota 8
d interests which characterizes the news
$ paper boys Of the state now, was present
It when the old guard was on deck in the
territory said Gal" II remember how
some Of the Iowa newspapers used to al
- Jude to the state as wind-blown. prai-
RE dog country, fit only for Indians and
rattlesnakes. And how the boys used to
s get back at the Iowa chaps. The Arizona
Kicker wasn't In it minute when 1t
came to picturesque roasting. And the
/ state to-day owes much to the newspaper
! boys who have boosted early and late. in
a prosperity and adversely. banging away
'r persistently, until the guns Of the enemy
- have been silenced."