The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1883-10-12
War ut Chamberlain
Humphreys Reply to King.

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Kimball made the first record of the
new towns In Brule county when A.
l.. Sueter & Co went up the flume
To say they failed for want of trade,
or because klmball has no water and
because kimball was a poor town for
trade would be just like saying Dick
inson & Humphreys failed because of
poor trade and because Chamberlain
was a poor trading point, as a hired
man down east tries to say.
Dickinson & Humphreys have had
a wonderful trade. They averaged
800 a day the year round, winter and
summer. They have sold over sixty
thousand dollars worth of goods in
Chamberlain and their failure is no
more due to their location than was
the failure of any half dozen firms
that have failed at Mitchell during
all its boom; nor of the great failure
at Sioux City the other day. A good
town is the best place in the world to
fail. 1t takes a trade to buy large
and fail paying. 1t Is the same old,
old, story ove again unexplained
untold. Every man has a theory.
No man but Humphreys knows exact
ly how nor why and probably never
will. The debtor claims his exemp-
tons, and the creditor looses half or
all his credits. We might criticiss
Humphreys for claiming his exemp-
tons, but it would do no good. He
has that right under the law, SO our
first attack should be on the law. 1t
does not seem the clean thing to do.
Especially an goods bought on credit.
A home can well be retained, but if
buy $1,000 worth of goods and
put them on the shelves and then re-
fuse to pay the man we bought them
Of is a "a Of different complexion,
and is to say the least, an outrageous
law. His stock in trade ought all to
go to pay his honest debts.-Register.
EDITOR DEMocRAT:-After having
been persuaded to come to this town
in its infancy, by Mr.. King, of the
Register, and others, I have stood the
storms up to the present, and find
that, as is generally the case after it
is too late, all of Mr.. Kings promis-
es have proven to be scheming lies of
the blacklist type And after being
the first nan in this town to make a
start in business and standing the ex-
posLre of 1882, a winter never to
be forgotten, and all my efforts to
keep the business alive and bring it
up to what 1t was in its best days and,
as now, by force of circumstances, 1
am compelled to stand hy the wreck
alone in It's darkest hour of distress,
The article which appears IN the Reg
lister, of last week, is a sample Of
what ! am compelled to bear in the
way of being advertised by an nm
principlci and infamous liar. Not
satisfied with adding insult to injury,
the little Mormon would have people
believe our failnre was due to me
alone, ard has the audacity in my
absence to call me, in language to
effect, a common thief. 1t is an old
saying and true, that "people who
live in glass houses should not throw
stones" Now all 1 ask of my friends
or neiglbors, if l owe them a cent, is
to present their bills and their pay is
ready. Can Mr.. King do the same,
even here at home? If I owned (?)
Chamberlain and everything therein,
and was the grand Dictator, and
could not pay my help, and had to
get people to accept checks dated a
month ahead in payment for the fin
cry my family used, aud would not
pay my neighbors for building mater
ial, and vas mortgaged for seven
thousand dollars or upwards and
when | walked the streets have Ia
borers say "there goes the damndest
liar on earth" ! would by some prob
ably be called Honorable, and would
not have a thief to call "stop thief!!'
at my retreating footsteps as a ruined
merchant.
In his endeavor TO conceal the hon
est and present condition of the town
he has tried to sacrifice what little
there is left of an unsuccessful man.
He begins his article with a lie and
closes by presuming to say l should
rob the mouths of my Young and in.
nocent family to pay my debts. ID.
& II. are not recorded as the first OF
Chamberlain's failures neither will
it be the last, Notwithstanding / have
not that feeling toward any of my
late brother merchants as to wish
them to be compelled to endure the
siege that is sure to come and sure to
bring the best of our citizens to the
wall. With enormous taxes, in.
surance, incidental expenses, fatal
rates of interest which the blood
thirsty money %loaners demand, fou,
times as many business houses as the
trade will support and a clique recon-
mending more, III exceedingly small
territory for trade and the darkest
outlook yet for a boom on r~esesvatior
openings, how is ucces to he obtain
ed? Will some level headed MAI
whom the people have confidence in,
rise and explain, and let the shallow
bra,ned "dude" hold his forked
tongue. l have advertised with the
Register since its birth, and since Mr.
Kings management have received
the first voluntary notice in his COW
ardly and unprincipled attack of last
week. 1t was uncalled for but shall
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