The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1884-02-08
Dakota Territorial News.

Dakota Territorial News.
AT Mitchell, J. B. Mershon, has been
arrested for embezzlement.
Bismarek's fire company has 5000 in
the treasury.
Mitchell has dedicated new Baptist
church.
Fish an inch and halflong have beer
found in the water from the Aberdeen
artesian well.
Maj. Carrier of Yanktor has bought2,
400 bushels Of wheat from the Grow
Creek Indians since harvest.
A colony of forty families from Huron
county, Ohio, will settle in Hand county
in the spring.
The Sioux Falls Packing company has
paid cut $4,000 for hogs this winter.
The Yankton postoffice has changed
hands Fl. w. Howard retiring and
Wheeler l.. Bowen, OF the Press and
DakGtian, assuming charge. Mr.. How
| ard has been postmaster since 1878.
Anew freightroute is being established
between Deadwood and the Northern
Pacific road. 1t is called the Dickinson
route. The distance is given at l75
miles, and teams have come through il
twelve days.
A Jamestown couple made the most
economical bridal tour on record. After
bidding their friends an alfectonate
goodbye they went upstairs and went tc
bed.
Mike Archer was caught while at
tempting to burglarize the De Smet
postofiice.
Nels Swensson committed suicide neal
Deadwood by hanging himself.
A telegram from Vermilion, was re-
ceived at Bradstreet's announcing that
that B. +. Eeen, proprietor of a genera
store at that place, had made an assign
ment.
Bismarck Tribune: The new capito
building was again photographed by Mr..
Gotf on the 10Th and copies will be sent
to the East to show to the world the
magnificent gift rendered by the cti
zens of Bismarck. Many persons are
laboring under the delusion that the
capitol is as yet on paper. When spring
opens another sale of lots from 80 acres
of land, also donated, will take place
from the proceeds of which the south
wing and the dome will be built.
A dispatch from Henry, Dakota. says
DR.. J. Smith of Iowa and Doctors Ben
net and Briggs, of Watertown, amputa-
ted log for Mr.. G. B. Elwood on the
10th inst, for gangrene above the ankle
The leg was removed quickly and care.
fully under ether, but, singularly. the
the day following-though there had
been. an arterial ooz,ng in the tissues
and the limb was warm, the doctors
think obstruction of the main artery
near the knee may have caused the
death OF the foot.
Jerauld county has at last been fully
organized and the officers will at once
enter upon their duties. The officials
will be as follows: j. NJ, Spears of Ell
mer, sheriff; P. c. Stevens, deputy sher
iff; l.. G.. Wilson of Parsons, assessor; III
NJ. Rice of Waterbury, probate Judge;
w. j. Williams of Elmer, probate Judge
J. A. Mcfarland of Stetson, surveyor
Dr. d. F. Royer of Alpena, coroner: r
Y. Hazard of Crow Lake, superintendent
of schools; r. NJ. Magep of Elmer, prose
cutting attorney; A. B. Swart of Elmer
S. P. HMocher of Grow Lake, and II
d. Fisher of Elmer, county commissions
ers;J ]. G. Gray of Alpena, +. Totfmeie,
of Elmer, and M. w. Young of Parsons
justices; James Paddock of Waterbury
o. G, Solberg of Parsons, G. w. P. Os
good of Elmer, and l.. w. Castleman o
Alpena, constables. The county seat is
not yet permanently located.
An aged Scandinavian lady named An
ME Grimsend fell down stairs at the
Victoria hotel Fargo. She died a shor
time after. She was about eighty years
old.
j. B. Mershon, clerk of the Bradley
at Mitchell, has been arrested on a charge
of embezzlement of funds of the hotel.
DR.. Ellis of Sioux Falls reports the
value of new Baptist churches built in
Dakota last year $22 2.954. Churches
now completed and being completed
Mitchell church, $1,000 nearly; Dell
Rapids, 81 900: Columbia, 81 800; Hurley
81 900; Brookings Scandinavian, ST. 900
Lodi Danish, 5000: Centerville, to cos
50 600; Frederick. 81 200; Estaline, ST..
600; Puston S6 70; and for improvements
there was expended by the church a
Brookings, $1,000; Huron, $500, and
Vermillion, $40O.
Mr.. Reid of st. Paul has declined the
presidency of the First National bank O
Mandan to which he was recently elec
ted.
Timothy Long has disappeared from
Fargo, leaving CREDITORS to the amoun
| Of $500.
Mitchell, had trouble in arresting {
! belIiuerant oin seller