Kaukauna Times - June 1881
By Lyle Hansen
June 3, 1881
Mr. C. H. Hopkins, age
35, Editor of the KAUKAUNA TIMES, died on May 31, 1881 in Kaukauna of
paralysis. Mr. Hopkins was well known and made many friends around the state.
After working for the Appleton Post, he came to this city where he conceived
the idea of planting a newspaper here. His death came unexpectedly following a
brief illness. Since the death of C.H. Hopkins, the editorial management has
fallen upon the shoulders of Dr. H. B. Tanner. This is the Doctor's first work
with a newspaper.
A two-hundred-dollar
horse was drowned Wednesday noon in the tail race of the Waterpower Company.
The team was driven into the water, and the current carried one away.
A dispatch from Fort
Buford, dated the 26th says 1300 Indians left there that day. The
steamer was guarded by three companies of soldiers as the Indians were
transported to the Standing Rock agency, according to the plan adopted by the
war department. The Indians are said to be contented, cheerful and willing.
June 10, 1881
Where are the proper
authorities that they do not put a stop to the slaughter of hogs and sheep in Kaukauna? If the premises about one of our butcher shops are not cleaned up,
"death from cholera" may be on the headstone of one of our doctors.
On the 26th
the west bound stage from Denver was robbed by four unmasked men. After
securing $500 cash a $3300 draft, gold watches and other valuable jewelry. The
desperadoes then allowed the coach to proceed. The same robbers entered a store
at Poncho Springs compelled everybody present to hold up their hands and turn
over about $450 and departed.
June 17, 1881
Kaukauna is becoming of
so much importance, commercially, that not a day passes but what several
drummers can be seen on our streets, coaxing our merchants to buy lines of
goods, that they "surely" can make one hundred percent on.
Diphtheria has become
epidemic at Ludington, Mich. One hundred and twenty children have died recently
in a population of 4000 people. The schools are closed, and special policemen
are stationed at the houses where there is sickness to prevent ingress or
egress.
June 24, 1881
Jimmy Faulkner, who was
formerly employed in this office, went up the Central road on Monday to work in
the woods. He chopped down one tree, and then started chopping on his foot. One
blow was sufficient, and Jimmy was carried to Fort Howard with an ugly gash.
Sioux Chief Sitting Bull A Crow Warrior
A dispatch from
Winnipeg says war has broken out between the Sioux and Crows and a battle has
been fought in which 28 of the Sioux were killed. The Crows object to the Sioux
coming farther west, hence the trouble.
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