The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1916-08-04
|. ". ". TROUBLE
AT 0RTONVILLE
Citizens Drive Three Humid
red from Town.

Ortonville citizens took up
farms last Thursday against an
invasion of more than 300 L. w.
WIS and before the latter had
been put to flight and driven
from town a number of shots
had been fired by both sides.
Down in the "jungles" of the
city the idlers had been accumu-
lating for days-virtually all
professed l. W. w. adherents.
There have been some minor
difficulties experienced because
of their presence, but the trou-
BILE did not become serious until
the arrest of one of their num-
ber for begging.
Thursday they thronged about
the city lookup and warned the
authorities of dire results should
the incarceration of their mem
ber continue. Then when little
attention was paid to this small
number the l. w. w. army
moved ON the Jail in force. Fear
ing serious trouble With no
means of combating it, the au-
thorities released their prisoner
and with his companions he re-
turned to the "jungles."
\ Aroused by this display of
boldness between $50 and 400
citizens-mostly business men
armed themselves with every
thing from shot guns to baseball
bats and set out upon a deter
mined expedition to rid the city
of its oppressors.
They came upon the mob OF
l. w. w. followers, numbering
about $50 or 300, at the edge OF
the city where they had been en-
camped, and ordered them to
quit the town. One member Of
the |. w. w. drew a revolver
and pointing it at the citizen
posse, threatened to shoot should
the latter advance.
The citizen army did not
pause. A shot was fired by the
|. w. w. and from the oncoming
posse it brought a response OF
about 25 shots, all fired over the
heads of the invaders. Stones
were resorted to by many of the
Industrial Workers, but when
they saw baseball bats begin to
flash i'm the sunlight, supported
by determined display OF other
weapons, the army of invasion
lost heart and their retreat soon
became rout.
With their enemy vanquished
a number of Ortonville men
crossed Big Stone lake to Rig
Stone City, where some trouble
with /. w. WIS had been report
ed. Here it was found that
about so business men had
rounded up about IS /. w. WIS
and, assisted by the Ortonville
contingent, soon had them out
of sight of town.
Considerable trouble, due to
the Industrial Workers, has been
reported in this vicinity recent
ly. Today a number of that or
der held up st. Paul freight No.
63 near Milbank, where they al
so robbed four laboring men
who had refused to Join them.
Four prisoners broke out of the
Marshall county Jail early Monday
morning: They escaped through
a hole which they made in brick
wall. Sheriff Russell went to Alb
erdeen Monday i'll an effort to find
them. Authorities i'll this part OF
the state have been notified tc
watch for the escaped prisoners.
Two of the men were in Jail fol
bootlegging, one for assault and
battery, and the other for shooting
a man.
To have the top of a cream
can explode, striking him in the
face in such manner as to
break his nose, was the unique
but painful accident that befel.
Harold Gilbert, an express EN-
ployee at Lennon. The ex
treme heat and fermentation
formed a large amount of gas
in the can and when Gilbert at
tempted to move it ON a truck
the top blew off with the above
results.
H. d. Batterbury and family al
rived home Tuesday from a visi
lat New London, MINI.