When the village of LaPorte, Minnesota became incorporated in May of 1908, it came after a decade of frontier struggles. The Brainerd and Northern Railway cut its grade through in the spring on 1898, and that same spring, Carl Datte came to settle on Horseshoe Lake in the spot he called home for sixty years. Shortly after, was the Battle of Sugar Point on nearby Leech Lake in Walker. This proved to be the last Indian uprising in the continental United States, but left the settlers in Walker uneasy. Nelson Daughters became the first postmaster on March 23, 1899, but the position was short-lived. Daughters was charged with illegal liquor trafficking, which went against an 1855 treaty with the Indians that forbade the sale of liquor to Indians. Daughters was then taken to Walker, but on an impulse, he slipped away to return home and resume handling the mail. The deputy sheriff at the time learned where Daughters was picking up the mail, and ambushed him, shooting and killing Da...