Kimball enterprise. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1883, 1883-05-04
DAKOTA NEWS.
A $4,000 hotel is TO he built in,sned;
atejy ut White Loke.

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Ten dollars has been subscribe by
citizens of WATERFOWL for the purpose
of erecting q $3S5 900 hotel in that city.
Rufus Trowbridge was killed near
Huron, while stoning up a well, by a
rock falling and crushing his skull.
John w. Turner, of Turner county, an
cd and well known Dakotian, died re-
Gently, aged eighty-four years.
The Masonic lodge at Rapid City will
give a grand public reception June Is
and IA. upon the occasion of.hc meeting
of the grand lodge.
1ankton county has $4,000 in the
treasury which will be used in paying off
a part of her railway debt. This will
leave about $500, coo.
Mr. George McNeir, assistant post.
master of the national house of repre-
sentatives, will go to Fargo, to enter
upon the practice of law,
A new grade of wheat will be estab-
ished the coming season, to be known
as extra No. l hard, 1t must be clean
and very free from cookie.
Walter Drummond has been appoints
ed a special agent of the pension bureau
for northern Minnesota and Dakota,
with headquarters at Fargo.
George B. Coburn, of the general land
office, will be designated as a special
agent to visit the Devils lake land dis
trict TO locate the new land Office.
1t is reported that a syndicate, COM
posed largely of railroad men, have pur-
chased 10000 acres of land contiguous to
Ordway, paying for the same $4,000 in
cash.
The recent law passed in Dakota ex-
acting a deposit from all the insurance
companies in that territory is being Sc.
verely criticised by the companies rep
resented in Chicago.
The firm of o. G. Meacham & Co. has
been organized to do a general banking
business at C%arrington. OAK, on the
jamestown branch of the Northern Pa
cihc, with a capital of $25 900.
Arson j. Rudsdill was arrested in HUI
ron on the charge Of attempting to COM
NIT rape on the person of Mary TIE uber
on the fourth day of April. The prison.
er was married a few days previous.
Numerous indictments, found in 1878
against H. W. Bingham, formerly Indian
agent at the Cheyenne River a.gency.
and others in his employ, were finally
dismissed at Deadwood the interior de-
partment. +
An immense deposit of coal is said to
have been discovered in the coteaus be-
tween Grade Siding and Summit, in the
western part of Grant county. The vein
struck in three feet deep, of genuine
quality and promises a rich yield.
At Deadwood during the street-clean-
ing an old revolver unearthed proved to
be that used by the notorious Deadwood
Dick in 1876, when he killed Texas
Charlie. At the time, and until now,
h most careful search failed to reveal
it.
Three other arrests have been made
in the st. Thomas murder case. Archer
the victim, and others were in a saloon
md had a general fight. when the de-
ceased drew a knife and attempted to
stab one of the parties. Judge Cox of
Grand Forks has been retained for the
defense.
Michael Colligan, whose claim is north-
east of Aurora, is mysteriously missing.
He left the residence of Mr.. Kelley, a
neighbor, for home on the night ofApril
9during the rain storm. and up to the
present time of writing has not been
found, although dilligent search has been
made.
Mrs. John Hayes OF Sioux Falls has
sued for a divorce from her husband
with a division of property, alleging
abuse and wicked treatment. Mr..
Hayes is g jealous Seventh Day Baptist.
worth $4,000, and the trouble arose be-
cause his wife would not adopt his be-
lief.
Miss Reise and Mrs Oskerday hold
claims near Highmore. Seuatters de-
molished the shanty of the latter, and
Miss Reise, fearing similar treatment,
secured a pistol, and learned how to
use 1T. Some men being near her sham
ty, hearing q shot fred, went in, and
found Miss REESE dying with a bullet
hole in her temple.
Charles Mix Chronicle: Quite a sem
sation has heen created at Fort Randall,
yer the action taken by the wife of the
late Capt. Hooker, who died last Jan
uary. It seems that his wife, who has
been separated from him over a year,
claims that the captain was poisoned,
and she will have the body exhumed
and an examination made. Its claimed
the captain had $4,000 in cash, which
she is making a point to look after.
A branch order of the railway con-
ductors' association has been organized
at Fargo. 1t is named after Col. Greer,
the Northern Pacific yard master. The
following are the officers for the ensuing
year: J. H. Phillen, C. c.; L. P. Vim
cent, A. G. c.; &c. Comstock, secretary
and treasurer; B. r. Palmatier, Sr. c.;
G. E. Paine. Jr. c.; S. Newbery, s.; P.
j. McWonagle, 0. S.
A. Mardan dispatch says a round house
and railroad shops have been located at
that point by the N. P. Company. The
improvements, include a round house
with twenty-five stalls; a machine shop,
85x1OO feet; a boiler shop, S5x6O feet; a
smith shop, 6Oxl25 feet; a car shop,
6Oxl24 feet; boiler, engine and coal house
24xl25 feet; storehouse, 40xS0 feet; oil
house, 2Ox30 feet; sand house, l4x42
feet; coal shutes, 4Sx300O feot, and two
16x24 water tanks.
A prisoner in the penitentiary at
Sioux Falls. committed suicide in his
cell by hanging himself to the upper
v%entilator by his handkerchief. He
was John Fasco, aged about thirty.fve,
and was ono al the men transferred