The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1904-07-28
FIGHT AT BONESTEEL,
The Better Element of Citizens
Round Up and Drive the
Grafters From Town.

Bonesteel, S. D. July GA peaceful.
Sunday was passed, no incident worthy
OF mention occurring to disturb the
Puietude that e~nveloped the town. A
feeling Of confidence that Bonesteel has
finally been delivered from the reign
OF terror that has prevailed from the
reign of terror that has prevailed dur
ing the past week is spreading, and the
citizens and few remaining visitors
y now breathing more naturally.
A considerable number of police
n armed citizens, however. p~atrollcd
the city last night and their services
likely viii be continued as a safe
guard.
Nearly everybody except the resi-
tents OF the town has left, either for
their homes or for Chamberlain to wit
ness the drawing. q.
John McPhaul, who has had charge
Of the local registration, departed
Tor Chamberlain, where he will remain
until after the drawing. Thence he
VIII go TO Washington to resume his
duties there.
Two rumors were rife today. One
that the dead body Of a mar supposed
to have been wounded here during the
rlotnG q been found a few miles
raSt of Lanesteel, and another that q
ma had died in Geddes from wounds
blSp received mere.
Bonesteel, s. d, July 26.-As a re-
salt of a wild night or shooting and
rounding up of grafters by the vigil
hnce committee, troops have been asked
for by Bonesteel Saturday. The re-
quest was forEarded to Private Secre-
tary Warner Of Governor Herreid. by
Clerk in Charge McPhaul.
1t was a night of terror in Bonesteel.
ITO z gambler now, JEo11nHnl sc l,o
much Of the credit for the determined
stand taken by the citizens. Patsy
Magner, the gambling concessionaire,
Is the hero of the hour. The pluckv
little Sioux City man, who owns the
gambling concession in Bonesteel and
whose word is recognized in his pro-
f%ession as big and good as law, is now
suffering from a dangerous wound in
the foot. accidentally inflicted by him
self.
Two policemen, with serious wounds,
are in the hospital, II several graft
crs have Deen slightly wounded. Mag
ner promised Clerk in Charge McPhaul
last night that he would preserve order
and he risked his own life in doing so.
A special surgeon from Sioux City has
been summoned to attend him.
The trouble started shortly after 2
O'Clock, when Policemen Eli %Stanburg
and c. Fl. Harris We're shot in front of
the IlhS Sdluoll' ~ gang came out OIL
the saloon. and one of them asked the
group of officers what in h they
were doing there?'
Then one of them struck an officer
over the head and the shooting COM
menced. ~Stanburg received a scalp
wound and Harris was shot through
the right leg. Scarcely any time had
elapsed when Magner, Bob Callahan
n others, h had been %patrclling
the town. appeared on the scene. no
one seemed to know what had hap
pened. One policeman said a slim man
with a brown mustache had run
through the saloon and that he was the
man who had done the firing.
The saloonmen knew nothing about it.
We have made every train,' said
Magner with tears in his eyes, land
we were just a little too Late
One rat" as the tough element is
termed by the more law abiding gam
blers, was rounded up n told to
blow" at the point of several re-
v~olvers.
Later Wagner looked around the cor
ner expecting trouble. He cooked his
revolver and shot himself through the
foot. Nov thoroughly aroused, gam
blerS and citizens combined 10 round up
all the tough characters IN The town.
Shooting was general and a wild night
ensued. Near the railroad train a
bunch IF tough ones We're assembled
and told to run. a fusillade of bullets
followed They We're rounded UP all
over the town ana several Of the graft
ers We're slightly wounded.
"a A short time ago a long rope WAS
purchased at Gaunpen's store. The
purpose Of the purchase was not made
known.
Citizens armed with shotguns were
out along the tracks shooting freely
and rounding up the grafters like a lot
of cattle. The roundup was started
by the regular gamblers and WAS fin
ished by the citizens.
Chief O'Brien characterized his first
appearance at daylight by arresting
Jack Keefe of Sioux City, one of the
men who has assisted in quelling the
disturbance. The night had been quiet
up to the time of the shooting, but the
still evening was suddenly turned in
TO a pandemonium in the early morn
Ing hours. A police court is now in
session trying the prisoners. They will
probably be run out Of town.
The chief effort Is being directed to
the detection of the men who shot the
policemen. People are thoroughly
scared away from Bonesteel, only the
passengers arrived here last night.
There is much talk of hanging the men
who shot the policemen and the cool
headed citizens will have much to do
to prevent violence of this kind if they
are DESTROYS.