The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1905-01-13
Earned FORTUNE TO
BLOT OUT DISGRACE
Back Of Wonderful Success Of
Father kroeger Of Epiphany
Is Tragedy.
LEFT DEBTS AT ELKHART
eleeine Indiana Town at Night, Priest
Healer Built Up Business at
Epiphany to Repay Last
Dollar of Obligations.
LEFT DEBTS AT ELkHAR7
ISiomX City Trihunc.l


tuition to tie last iot;.
Inst ,bir,aan ra,r. horo~c his death
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mart ma where ne mace most
markabe record as priest OF one pa"lsh
there TO carry out his pans tor the
material nlicnment OF The parish. he
had engaged in numerous financial in
vestments. He became involved and
left one night. Next morning k.lkhart
was amazed TO find they had been de
ccired III the man they had loved and
trusted
But Father Kroeger did not forget.
Sin yea $ later they first heard of him
and tina, was through checks sent back
to Itlkhart in payment Of debts he had
left there. While he built the towns
of EpiphHl> and Er,,eger $. d. estab-
lishcd n medical practice that extended
almost from ol can to ocean and died
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ials worm oi property 'hlS was p"t
incidental. He embarked IN these en-
terpriseS because he Was an honorable
man and determined to live up to his
ag.ement to puv the debts left at Elk
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Case Taken to Rome.
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cnulth ne LlShnp h;lu bt' ONE ulS-
pleased because he though, Father
Kroeger was not attending strictly
enough to his parish duties at Elip-
hlny Father i>rnc..er u,s hoIdinp
:; ,n IL; ,7;,, , uii,ai
services III ms nos itai, ana poii'ei!
Dut Ilrn1lF declared ltlAl ne must con-
/ tlnue to do so. Ii" asked Tor an as
SiStant priest but the bishop thought
one man should be able to Gaze for
50 small Il parish and refused The
case eyrni,,,llv w:,s ,nrri.d tn Rome
,''se c' e.. 49, 's" ~ ie'',le
ana ra'hei N'"'S@' nia"e Il UP 10 . IN.
vatican, and. II Is SUPPOSED from the
cnsuin" silence that he made Il salts
faclc aeer planatiCn
Tn, lowing account of Father
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Elkhaft, md, orc. =" ne dea' Il OF KEY.
fathtl Nlil'dln -. h'"'Stl ~ Ms home
IN hllpnanA ., -, OK ~ ~ 9u"S DG't ~,
Der s, mas brought NN:Giy to nina the
sensation ana uiSutsS Wn'cl was caused
among ms l'aii9n'o,'St ,H ana menus Wh zen
one morning III i'St1ninrI' lS'i, II vas uis
covereI tnal me trusted PfcEtte nag DC
oamned :eaNins ctSu,tois w %I, c 81,
asSresateu many liouIahu uoiElrs 10 en-
pan .'iei, ~ ~ iI,,JI - ~, w.
nSsJ nncv ,nmners mamH,rs et'
his parish. including widows whose scant
savings were implicitly and uureservedly
intrustcd TO the holy father and even
brother ccrgymcu. who We're at the head
Of parishes in neighborlns towns. Rev Mr..
business sponsors were dumbfoundcd and
their chuurin ana observation-disclosures were in
/ tense aud most depressing for he had held
his friends with Il magnetism of unusual
mower and tncr belief in him was Dhc-
nomcnal. The mans ability TO tavorabl
impress his intinatCS WAS augmented by
his general reputation for executive ca
pac,tv and administrative ability. After
coming to E,lkhart in 1850 to- be priest OF
the only CathoIlc church here, that OF ST
Vincent de Paul Il struggling parish he
had set about to erect a suitable and at.
trlc1ivc edlnct so much more prctentiol..
than any other church building in Elk
hart up to that time and for severa
wears after that 1t was dGmiiicd with tn,
descriptive term cathedral. Through i'll
dcratIgibie energy and the application o
exceptional zeal and reSourcefuncss tn,
head of the parish Mil.; able to see his am
bitionS rea liZyu so FAR as the church propc
was conc, rne.i though the dcnonmrnt il
his financial affairs came before he h;.,
huili the rcctury that lie had planned
c;.;. ,hj,e iI,ax,sotad
ISIS w
Ihc crisis III llcN; MI. N'oeSc! atialfS !,
Eikhart came qu,te u.tcApcttsutA ~ al
save himself anu even !cl 'ns inpuis
that caused MN 10 uiol' PilesiE ulshl.,
and oDllsalion 70 seek taeanG L!oin en-
Darrassihcnt III X ho'lIii.'o" ilShl Is ~ !!
: ject Of con!cctuiS: ms STRESS ol !i't.ll
5 cal difhcuty came as me result OF TO
much speculatlnn IN nlatterS secular; Il
, overwhelming aniDltlon 10 SHINE IN Dus
mess affairs or the community as wen a
the head of {; prosperous ana CONSTANT
growing parish IN nltlc city mat wa
fast forging to the 1ront as one or IN IN