The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1884-08-08
500 self binders were sold in Beadle
county this year, which helps to prove
that small grain is good.

500 self binders were sold in BeadIe
county this year, which helps to prove
that small grain is good.
At De Smet, in a row in the family
of q man named Bonchey, his stepson
killed his stepbrother with buffalo
bone, fracturing his skull. The wom-
an and her son have been held for
trial.
While w. P. Atkinson, living near
Miller, was hunting with his cousin,
who was visiting him, the gun Of the
latter was accidently discharged, the
contents striking Atkinson in the head,
killing him instantly. He leaves q
wife and three children.
Mr. G. g. Beardsley, the government
land surveyor, reports that he had ten
horses stolen from the survey. about
thirty miles northwest of Devils Lake,
on the border Of Towner and Benton
| counties.
The Fargo Southern will be ready
for passengers Aug. Is.
The barn Of Sheriff Lyon Of Dell
Rapids, was burned by incendiaries.
Loss $500.
The assessors tax list shows On as
sessed valuation of real and personal
property in Lawrence county of So, 961, :
4 226 against SO, ,25O, 900 last year, an in
crease of about 100000. The assessed
/ valuation of Deadwood is 81 ,128, 900.
Dan Wheeler at Custer has fallen
heir to ssoO,OO by the death OF rela-
tive at Cincinnati.
Last week fourteen soldiers deserted
from Fort Meade.
Elk Pointers have subscribed 500 to
inforce the anti-license law.
The county board of Dawson county
offered reward OFFS 300 for the appre-
hension of the murderers of Bechtel,
whose body was found in the river ter
ribly mutilated.
4 Mrs. William Flagg, of sykeston,
Wells county, was taken i'll and given
one and one-fourth grains of morphine
in four doses by DIR. Cox. She became
unconscious at midnight, and died.
An extra night shift will be put on the
capitol building at Bismarck, and Con-
tractor Thompson says he will have the
building ready for the legislature in
fifteen days.
The bridgework for the Manitoba
crossing, Just north of Portland, Oak,
IS being pushed with all available force
Even the pile driver crew and culvert
men on the Mayville have been brought
here to help, and the tracklayers have
reached the river, and will make con-
nections with the present northern ter
minus on this side of the river as soon
as the bridge can be crossed. When
this is completed there will be an un-
broken through line and it will be the
shortest route from st. Paul and
1 Minneapolis to Park river, Larimore
and Devils Lake.
4 Capt w. E. Whaley, late captain OF
police Of Norwich, Conn.,, went into a
bedroom at Mandan with his son, a
4 young man and shortly afterwards the
inmates Of the block were startled by
the report of.a pistol. It was stated by
the son to the people who were attracted
by the report, that Mr.. Whaley was
standing with his back to his son when
the pistol, o. -calibre, fell out Of the
latters pocket, and on touching the
ground went off and the bullet lodged
IN the skull of the elder Whaley.
4 A terrific wind and hail storm passed
over the valleys outside the Black Hills,
inhicting an incalculable amonnt Of dam
age to crops. At Spearfish, Sturgis,
Fort Meade and all intermediate locali-
J ties every pane Of glass facing west and
north was broken.
George Braune, pop manufacturer
of jamestown, committed suicide by
taking morphine at hotel in Morris,
MINI.
1t is thought that not less than 81 ,O0C
worth of crops were destroyed by the
wind and hail storm that visited the To-
cality Of Huron.
There has been-auch question wheth.
er new counties in Dakota could elec,
county attorneys under the new Law
passed at the last legislature The
question has hinged on the interpreta.
ton of the words judicial organization.
i The question has been submitted tt
!, Judge Hudson at large, and he hold
that all counties in which civil organic
alton has been completed may cleo
county attorneys, but that he canno
d {1,n <,fx xloA l.,
!, unless term Of the district court b,
! held therein, the law being that th,
: prosecuting officer of the county, whel
the Indictment is found, must prosecut,
the case; but he can act as counsel fo
the board Of county commissioners an,
assist in regard to criminal prosecution
. before the Indictment is found. Unde
q this ruling county attorney may be el
. ected in many counties where they hav
not yet been elected on account Of til
J. impression that such action would b
Z illegal.
v A. a. Humphreys, Sioux Falls, Oak.
J. says in the New York Tribune Anon,
q other things that the Northwest is de
yeloping are its valuable quarries il
granite, prophyry and silica. The quail
8 ty of these stones is of the very highest
It You know that prophyry and silic
:. are extremely hard. They blunt th,
i finest tools, and polished they will Gu
i glass like the diamond. By new pro
= cess, using tiny globules Of chilled iror
we cut the stone without difficulty. Th
silica is Of rich terra Gotta shade. an
r it being cut into slabs and sent to th
/, growing cities Of the West for paw,
: ments. The cost is about what grant
!. is here; and it is polished and used fo
\ ornamental purposes.