Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1912-11-14
SOUTH DAKOTA NEWS
Items of Interest From All Parts of the State.
United States Court SENTENCE,

United States Court Sentence,
Sentence day in federal court founc
several defendants facing Judg,
Elliott at Sioux Falls last Thursday
Mrs. Mary J lBowersox, who entered
plea Of not guilty to an indictment
charging herself and her husband and
two other men with conspiracy to
defraud the government out of public
lands in the Gregory land district,
Ichanged her plea to guilty.
Arthur Shepherd. one of the defend
ants, was sentenced to term of five
months in the Minnehaha county Jail
and fined 81, 500 and costs. Orville l..
Bowersox was sentenced to six months
imprisonment in the Minnehaha county
Jail and fined 81, 500 and costs. Daniel
Bowersox was fined 5000 and costs
and sentenced to term of ten months
in the Minuehaha county jail His
wife, Mary J. Bowetsox, was also
fined SIS, 900 and costs and sentenced to
six months in the Minnehaha county
jail. All Of the defendants are promi-
nent residents of the Rosebud country.
John A. Rankin. for nearly quarter
century railway postal clerk between
Sioux Falls and Cherokee. Iowa.
pleaded guilty to abstracting IS from
letter. He was sentenced to seven
months in the Minnehsha county Jail
and fined $500 and costs.
Charles Anderson. or his plea of
guilty TO conspiracy in the robbery of
the postoffice at Yale. was sentenced
to term Of one year and six months
an the federal prison at Leavenworth,
Kansss, and fined 500 and costs. al
sentence and fine of the same period 7
and amount was imposed on another
count in the indictment. the terms to
run concurrentlyt. i' w it'N1
Harvey j. Piper was sentenced to
two years in the federal /penitentiary
and fined 500 and costs. He was con-
|victed of larceny, committed on the
Rosebud reservation.
John La Monte. convicted of assault {
with a dangerous weapon on another
Indian on the Yankton reservation, was
given term of one year and one day
in the federal penitentiary.
Stephen Soldier, an Indian, who
pleaded guilty to introducing liquor on 4
the Yankton reservation, was given r
npa war apd ona day =, A. foIo-aI | 81
and fined 500 and costs. N
.Sohn Snyder, who pleaded guilty to .
selling liquor at Lake Andes, in prohi- u
oition territory, sentenced to a sixty 70
lays in the Minnehaha county Jail and u
lined 500 and costs. A similar SEN m
tence was imposed on another count in al
The indictment, the two sentences TO al
run concurrently. F al
In the case of James Young and Geo. d'
Fountain, who pleaded guilty to selling 1T
liquor at Washington without having
bald the special government tax, a y
sentence of eleven months imprison- l.
nent in the Minnehaha county Jail and p'
! fine of 800 and costs was imposed m
lgainst each. Each also was fined $40 81
md costs on another count in the e
Indictment. str d,
Charles Good Beaver, an Indian, was ~
'iven one year and one day in the D
ederal penitentiary for the theft of
orgs@n the reservation. 81
UP motion of United States Attorney
Wagner, the indictment against Ida > :,
hepherd. charging her with completely :
, the land conspiracy case in which q
)aniel Bowersox and his wife and two :
len were involved, was dismissed. u