How It Looks At Aberdeen

AliKUDKKN. Jan. 10.- Krom absolutely reliable sources it is learncd that the deialoatlon of State Treasuror W. W. Taylor will reaeh quite $300,000. Paroüoftlly all the stntc nioneys were in his own hands except some 5,000 or $50,000 on ileposit in varloui banks. The wreek is complete. It has been known for a year that ïaylor person&lly was in bad straits, but not 0110 of liis most intímate friemls thought his situation bopelesa or even desperate. When the officials niake an Investigation of the treasurer's office they will be sfmply ap])alled at the condition uf affairs. w alter w . Taylor waa born in Indiana bout 1SÖ4, and tor a timo assoriated with his fiitlui-, William Taylor, in the wholeaale coat business at Lafayette, that state. Froni the timo he was lt years of age lie had almost exclusive charge of the business, and doiuonstrated a wonderful eapactty for grasping the details uiid iiitricacies of u very largo trado. He canie to Diikdtii in 1S6 and ustablislied the First National tank of lied Held, which he soon made onc 3f the leoding flnancial institutiong of thls section of the country. He took an active part in politics from the Iir3t, was oarnest in the struggle for statehood, and was a delégate from Öpink oounty to the flrst state convention, held in Huron in 1889. At the approval of the convention of 1890 he entered the race for stato treasurer, and secured the tion after a sptritod and eicitfng eoj He was renoininntod and reelected for ,1 secoud term, wh ch ho completad on the Ut of Jiyñuary óf tho pre.-iout year. Jlis i bouts dow Bre unbuown.