These articles are copied and printed. The misspelled words and the missing lines were in the originals (Courtesy of Candy Nagle, Sauk Rapids, MN - granddaughter of Rose Litke Solinger)

Royalton Banner, Thursday, Oct. 15, 1891
Lost in the Woods
On Thursday afternoon, C. Cheeley came to town and reported that Rose Litka, the 10-year old daughter of John Litka, of Morrill town, had gone in search of the cattle Tuesday morning and had not returned, in fact, that she was lost. Dr. Smith of the Kickapoo Indian medicine company announced the fact from the stage and urged that Royalton send a searching party at once. After the show an informal meeting was held at the engine house. Sixteen volunteered to go. Those who could not, contributed money toward procuring teams. J. O. Baker organized a company in Buckman. One hundred men were on the ground early Friday morning and a systematic hunt instituted, but the girl was not found. On Sunday Buckman and Morrill turned out in masse. There were fully 200 men in the woods that day. Tracks, apparently those of a barefooted child, were found in a cranberry marsh five miles in the woods. Those who saw the tracks inform us that there is no doubt they were those of the lost child. Her tracks were followed a short distance and were then lost. No track or trace of her has been since seen.
Tuesday morning, the editor of the Banner joined a party composed of J. Watt Bell, I. W. Bouck, and Dr. Lonsdale. When we reached Morrill our party was increased by a brother of the lost girl, Henry Foss, George Johnson, John Young, J. O. Baker and Floren Meyer, ten in all. We hunted till night and slept in the cellar of an old building on Hillman Brook, renewing the search in the morning, and returned home Wednesday evening tired and disappointed.
The girl's mother is dead and her father is married again. She was not living at home, but was living with her step-mother's father, Kattsmorinski. The neighbors say that the old people abused her in a most shameful manner, visiting upon the helpless child the severest punishments for the most trivial offences. She was sent after the cattle if they stayed late and was threatened with punishment if she failed to find them, and once before staid out all night fearing the inhumanity of her unnatural protectors should she come home without the cows. Kattmorinski has a boy 17 and another 14 years old, but they were kept at home while this poor little 10-year-old child, barefooted and but poorly clad was sent out into the almost impassable swamps and marshes to search for the strayed cattle. We have societies for the prevention of cruelty to animals. The time is ripe for a society for the prevention of cruelty to children. The case should be investigated.
An effort has been made to procure blood hounds to hunt for the girl but none could be procured in the twin cities.
The people of Buckman and Royalton have raised a purse of $100 for the person who finds the girl.
A large crew of men from Senator Buckman's farm joined the searchers today.

$100 REWARD
A reward of $100 will be paid to the person who finds Rose Litka, the girl who was lost in the town of Morrill on Oct 6. Fifty dollars has already been raised in the town of Buckman. The balance will be raised in a short time. Those in Royalton who wish to contribute to the fund will please leave their names and money with Dr. Lonsdale at the drug store. Floren Meyer, Buckman, Minn., Oct 14, 1891.

Little Falls Transcript, Friday, Oct 16, 1891
Royalton, Minn., Oct 14 - Little Rose Litka, the girl who was lost on Tuesday, Oct 6, has not yet been found, though there have been hunting parties out every day. On Sunday, 200 men scoured the woods in the vicinity and found unmistakable traces of her in a cranberry marsh, about five miles from her home. The men found the place where she had been gathering cranberries and tracked her to a logging road, where the print of her bare feet could plainly be distinguished in the mud. An attempt was made to follow up the trail, but it was lost a mile and a half from the marsh. Since then no trace has been found of her.
Your correspondent returned this evening from a two day's hunt for the missing girl. The party he was with hunted all day yesterday and today, but could not find a trace of her. One not familiar with the woods in this locality can only get a good idea of what it really is by a tramp through it. Three-fourths of what we traveled were tamarack and spruce swamps and cranberry marshes. The grass, moss and fallen timber make progress slow. In some places it is almost impossible to get through.
The lost girl's mother is dead and her father is sick and dying of consumption. There is a step-mother in the case, and neighbors tell that treated and left home to stay with her step-mother's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Kattmorinski. She had lived with them four years, and it is said that she had been abused by them also in a most shameful manner. She was made to go after the cattle, though there were two boys in the house, one fourteen and the other seventeen years of age. She was always threatened with punishment if she failed to find the cattle.
Sheriff Quinn of Benton county arrived here on the midnight train tonight with 100 men from Sauk Rapids and Rice to join the hunt. He will be joined by a large number of men from this place.

Royalton Banner, Thursday, Oct. 22, 1891
Morrill. Rose Litka has not yet been found and the gloom which envelops our neighborhood will not be cleared away until she is found. Your correspondent has tried to find something to base suspicion or murder upon, but thus far has not found it. Slavish worship of their worldly possessions, and the brutal treatment of the child during its stay with them, are the only grounds for suspecting the Katchmorinski's of murder. C. Cheeley $100 REWARD.

St. Cloud Daily Times - Lost in the Woods. Royalton, Minn., Oct 12, The village is all excitement over a report which reached town late Thursday night that the 10-year-old girl of C. Litna, of Morrill, Morrison county, had been lost in the woods. The child, thinly clad and barefooted, was sent in search of some young stock on Tuesday. Her parents and one or two others searched for her far into the night on Tuesday and all day Wednesday, without success. Friday, a large number of citizens also joined in the search, but returned without tidings of the lost one.

Still Hunting for Her. Royalton, Minn., Oct 16 - Little Rose Litka, the girl who was lost Tuesday, Oct. 6, has not yet been found, though there have been hunting parties out every day. Sheriff Quinn, of Benton county, has arrived here with 100 men from Sauk Rapids and Rice to join the hunt. He will be joined by a large number of men from this place.

St. Cloud Daily Times, Oct 24, 1891. A Poor Child's Death. From Sauk Rapids Free Press,
Little Rose Litka, the girl who was lost on Tuesday, Oct 6th, while herding cows near Royalton, has not been found, although strenuous efforts have prevailed. It is thought she has been eaten by a bear. Her father's grief is uncontrollable. The little girl had been most shamefully abused by her step-mother, which was the cause of her leaving her home to live with her step mother's parents. She had lived with them four years, and it is said that she had been abused by them also in a most shameful manner. She was made to go after the cattle, though there were two boys in the house, one fourteen and the other seventeen years of age. She was always threatened with punishment if she failed to find the cattle. Sheriff Quinn went up one day last week with 100 men from Sauk Rapids and Rice, but he reported that no trace of the girl could be found.