The Mobridge news. [volume] (Mobridge, Walworth Co., S.D.) 190?-1917, 1910-10-07
SURROUND Diet
GORDON OF DEPUTIES PREPARES
TO CLOSE IN ON CAM.
ERON DAM.
GIRL TAKEN TO ASHLAND
Machine Guns May Be Used on House
At Last Resort.-Winter Still
Armed and Inhabitants
Quake in Terror.


Winter. - John Dietz, the uncon.
quered defender of Cameron Dam, win
be the object of a grim siege from
now OF until his capture, or escape.
The tide of battle changed with the
establishment of a Gordon of sharp
shooters and woodsmen at vantage
points on the approaches to the log
cabin on Thornapple river.
Regardless of the fact that from
now on the fight will be pushed into
Dietz's territory, the guard on Winter
has not been relaxed, the city officials
at any time fearing an attack by Dietz.
On the Thornapple turnpike the cor
don extends to the bridge that crosses
the Brunnis river. Here, just above the
ford, the men have ambushed them
selves in the bluff behind a blind Of
fallen trees, and underbrush. They
command a two-miIe view of the long.
undulating swamp that comprises the
m%eandering valley of the Brunnis river
and also a view for a mile to the top
of a hill on the T~hornapple turnpike in
the direction of the Dietz farm.
Along the Price Dam road, the out.
posts are stationed five miles from
Winter at a sharp turn in the road,
where from an eminence on a wooded
hillside a view Of the highway can
be had for two miles. Three men have
been assigned to guard the Kaiser log.
ging road which plunges from the
country road in the densest of the
forest and is almost impossible except
to pedestrians.
Fight to be to Finish.
Fred Thorbin, who is at the head Oh
the armed deputies and is the recog-
nized head of the martial law" which
still prevails in this section of the
country, says: This will end forever
the controversy over DietZ. There
will be no abatement to this endeavor
to wrest him from the fastness of his
fortified cabin. No doubt some of us
will be killed in doing it and Dietz
niIlSSll Will Sultiy uS hiilSu IL lie re-
sists. The thing has gone far enough
and this will simply be the finish of
it. If he holds out too long, the chair
nan of the county board has advised
the use of a field gun and has given
his official permission for its use"
By special order of Sheriff Mike
Madden at Hayward, no. newspaper
correspondents were allowed withins
the lines drawn around the Dietz
place. A party of newspaper men was
held up at the point of guns at Brunnis
Ford and turned about. Sheriff Mad
den is authority for the statement that
there had been too much publicity, and
that Dietz was receiving much Of his
moral support from this source. A
correspondent who rode along the
guarded road while armed men in the
brush on either side let him go u n
molested, was expected to return with
news of great worry and despair in
the Dietz household, but disappoint-
ment was evident when, upon his re-
turn to Winter, such information was
not Forthcoming.
When Under-Sheriff George Arnson,
left Winter with Myra DietZ, suffering
~excruciating pain, in the baggage car
he had been instructed by DIR. S. j.
Burns to take the wounded girl imme-
diately to the hospital at Chippewa
Falls, as it was a case of life and
death. At Tuscobia, Arnson received
a telegram from District Attorney
Davis also, it is said, ordering the
girls removal to Chippewa Falls.
William Dietz, brother of the defend
err of Cameron Dam, met the train
and tried to console the wounded girl
who showed plainly On her face, the
suffering which the enforced trip on
the floor of the baggage a meant.
william Dietz demonstrated with the
under-sheriff and demanded his niece's
removal to st. Joseph's hospital at
Chippewa Falls as originally intended.
but Arnson was obdurate and insisted
in changing the litter from the bag
gage car of one train to another and
the girl was taken to Ashland, Wis.,
instead.
According to a confidential state
ment made by Myra to Mrs, ?helan
when she was confined in the Hotel
Winter the first words spoken during
the ambuescade were vile and insult
ing. That this statement by the
wounded girl is true, is verified BY
the fact that Clarence from his cell
tells the same story and Leslie after
his fight through the woods. placed
the same words in the mouths of the
attacking party. Since the ainbuscade
there has been absolutely no chance
for the three children to get together
and make up the story.
"
Twin City Markets.