Show AN IMITATION 1311 TATION BOGUS UPRISING A BOGUS rebellion scare has been manufactured in dakota after the fashion of the murray mcco mccook ok tri woo iu in utah the jail isil ure to obtain statehood on the division plan by which two states were to be fashioned out of the territory oas has undoubtedly enraged its promoters but the story was started that a civil war was imminent in bakota and rumors of revolution reached washington and were circulated throughout the country Al sensational paper about as reliable a as the liberal organ at salt dalt lake helped to spread the report the sioux falls argus boomed the news of an uprising sing and the outside carld was led to suppose that a military organization of huge proportions was making things lively in the incipient state but it appears there is no more in it than there was in the alleged mormon uprising delegate gifford informed the world correspondent i a few days avo ago that there was not a word of truth truth in the story he said in effect that it wit was 8 manufactured out of whole cloth ile he declared that there is not worth of wea ns and munitions of war in the entire territory and he be thinks that a policeman iceman with a club could set at denance policeman gol all the warlike preparations that can be found in dakota the authors of such sensational stories ought to be punished for their falsehood at criminal law and should be despised by all honorable people in in every community |