Ranchman Murdered   

Short Five Times by Unknown Assassin in Sioux County, Nebraska

Lincoln, Nebraska, May 19. --  A Journal special from Harrison, Sioux County says:

Alois Standemyer, a ranchman, was murdered yesterday and his body left lying on the prairie ten miles from here, where it was found last night.  

He was an extensive cattleman and had gone out to look after his stock.

The inquest today developed that he had been shot, four times, and after falling from his horse, face downward, another bullet had been sent through his head, the missile being found on the sand beside him.

There is not clew to his slayers.

Sioux City Journal - May 20, 1900

Electric Lines Reach Out   

Will Try to Secure Right of Way Across Reservation

Sioux City, July 23. --  Efforts will be made by the promoters of the electric lines in Northern Nebraska, at the next session of congress, to secure a right of way through the Omaha and Winnebago Indian Reservations in Thurston County, Nebraska.

If successful, the Sioux City & Homer Line and the Decatur, Tekamah & Northern will be consolidated.

It is reported that the Decatur line has ficated $300,000 of bonds, and that it must have the twenty miles of line from Decatur to Tekamah equipped for steam within seven months and for electric power within one year.  

Decatur will probably offer a bonus for the location of the power house at that place.

Omaha World Herald - July 24, 1903

Sioux County Scared  

The Settlers Threaten to Go if Troops Are Removed

Harrison, Nebraska, January 9. --  (Special.) --  Company D, Second Regiment Nebraska National Guards, stationed here, has five printers.

They commenced the issue of a paper today called Company D Daily Bulletin.  It gives all the late Indian news and will be published as long as the company remains here.  A report to the effect that the guard would be removed from Harrison was current today.  

A petition is being circulated and signed by all the citizens who see it, praying for transportation out of this county as soon as the soldiers are removed.

Citizens of Sioux County find no comfort in the assertions of General Miles that there is no danger.  The old Indian trail between the Brule and Pine Ridge Agencies is just north of here.  The settlers claim that in case the Indians break from the regulars this route would be taken to go from one agency to the other, and, therefore, consider Harrison a more exposed point than any other frontier town in Nebraska.

The majority of the settlers in Sioux County are poor having failed on two crops.  If they can get transportation the country will be depopulated.

If protection is taken from them before the Indian trouble is quieted.  The homesteaders are building a fort a few miles north for protection against the savages.

Omaha World Herald - January 10, 1891

Relief For Sioux County   

William E. Jones of Montrose precinct, Sioux County, Nebraska, is in the city soliciting contributions to a fund to relieve the worthy destitute in that county.  

He bears credentials from the county judge, attorney, clerk and sheriff and is vouched for by Mayor Sloane of South Omaha, who has known him for seven years.

Mr. Jones will circulate among the people soliciting contributions and hopes to be liberally treated.  He says the people in his county need seed and other necessities badly.

They are entirely destitute.

He asks that any one who desires to contribute should send their money or supplies to Ardmore, South Dakota, the nearest railway station, and notify him at Montrose, Sioux County, Nebraska.

Omaha World Herald - April 4, 1891