The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1884-07-04


was run over by his own team. while re-
turning from Bismarck and killed.
Mrs. Darlington, wife of DR.. Barring
ton, who persisted on the prairie last
winter, has lost her house by fire, and
isleft entirely destitute. Kind-hearted
neighbors near Mares are contributing
to her relief.
A picnic party from Bathgate,
comprising some twenty-one persons,
were fishing on the Pembina river,
eight miles north of Walhalla, Thursday,
when a boat containing the daughter of
Col. Grandy was upset, and the young
lady was drowned. Her body has not
been recovered.
Near Columbia. a son of MIR. Doersch
was playing in the NOW in his fathers
barn, when he slipped from the hay and
fell within ashort distance of the ground,
and became ~entangled in a swinging
halter in such q manner as to be soon
choked to death.
An Indian mound has been opened at
Page. e Tower City, in which were
found the skeleton Of q man in a sitting
posture, facing the east, with two more
skeletons, making'a group, all in the
same position. One skeleton had the
stem of q pipe in its mouth. The re-
mains of o dog and q horse were also
unearthed, together with q curious
shaped stone, covered with figures.
Several groups of skeletons were found;
also a well defined wall Us if the ground
had deem removed to an unknown depth
and filled with soil.
J.. G. Ansley of Liverpool, Ohio, who
shot George Gibbs of Bismarck, was ar
raigned and remanded to Jail to await
the result of the shot. ThebalI was re-
moved from Gibbs neck and there is no
hope for his recovery.
f. H. Devaux, county physician, was
arrested at Valley Cityo on charge Of raw
ishing a fourteen-year-old inmate of
the country poor house named Chris
tine Collins, who it is claimed is slightly
if not wholly demented.
A body supposed to be that of John
Schmidt, had been found in the Jim
river near Rockport. 1t will be re-
membered that Schmidt, who was q
farmer living in the south part of this
county, disappeared in a mysterious
manner eight weeks ago. Suspicion
rested on q neighbor named Micheal
Bechtel, who vas arrested on a land
matter, but was afterward released on
bail.
Judge Edgerton has finally rendered
a decision in o quo warranto case invol-,
wing the legality Of the organization of
Sanborn county. In July Of last year.
in the absence of the governor and Sec
rotary Teller, the latter's clerk issued a
set of commissions which had been
signed in blank by both officials to Ro-
del, Tanneheit and Mitchell, who pro-
ceeded to organize the county and To-
cate the county scat at Letcher. Gov.
Ordway repudicted this organization,
and q few days after appointed a new
board, consisting of Corliss, Stuart and
Arnold, who made Forestburg the
county seat. Both boards have been
acting. In March last the case was ar
gued before Judge Edgerton at Mitchell,
and he decides that the first organiza-
ton was legal.
Fargo Special: From every point in
North Dakota from which information
is obtainable come. tidings that the wheat
crop is IN assured fact, and nothing is
now necessary to guarantee an eSeep-
tionatly large result ofthe seasons work
but q few showers of rain. In several
localities ven now rain would be bene-
fetal, and even desirable, but there will
be but little complaint if the showers
hold their refreshing drops from the
fields for the next two weeks. Some
points, especially those that were visit
ed by last weeks showers, do not need
any rain, an abundance having fallen.
The points needing the moisture are
chiefly to the northwest, and in Griggs,
Steele and Barnes counties. Barley is
doing well, and, as considerable was
sown, the result of this, the first extend
ed effort to raise this grain, will be
watched with interest.