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Progress of the Cremation idea.

The friends af crem Ation are making
steady and rapid progress. This mode
of disposing of the dead snow legalized
n every country of Europe. The En-
glish Cremation Society has q furnace
in operation at Woking. Physicians
point to the condition ofI.ondon, which
contains, in all the stages of corruption,
almost as many dead as living inmates;
they urge that the presence of enor-
nous masses of ~decaying bodies in cities
polsons both tho air and water, and that
general cremation is the only chance for
the living. Boston has a society for the
promotion of cremation. Philadelphia
has a similar society. The old Lee
moyne furnace at Washington, Pa, cost
but about $1,700, and tho charge for
cremations is only $45. A large and
hrst-class establishment would not cost
over SIC, 900, and there is very good
reason for believing that one or more,
convenient to every important city in
the United States would in a few years
prove q profitable investment. In the
Boston society the payment of $12, or
the annual payment of 81. so for not
more than twelve years secures crema-
ton OF the subscriber, in case of death,
az the exoense OF the society.
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The pricessof nearly all commodities
are lowersnow than they have been for
years. This is not confined to the
United States, but extends to every
country in the civilized world. Early
in 1850 wheat was worth 81. Goa bushel;
In 1852 iitswas worth $1.45; now it is
selling for abouts$1. The same is true
of other cereals. Two years ago POI
tatoes q q bonanza to the New Eng.
land farmer who had c~ellarfull. Now
they have scarcely a price in the chief
potato raising regions of New England.
The same is true Of hay and most other
agricultural products. Cotton is the
d great staple the price of which has
materially declined during the, past four
years. The fall in metals has been even
greater than in agricultural products.
In four years pig iron has fallen from
tt3S55 to 441D, and steel rails from $50 to
st35 per ton. Copper, which sold four
years ago.at:25 cents a pound, is now
worth but "A cents, and lead, which
brought s cents, can scarcely be dis
posed Of at II cents. Coal alone re-
Aains its price, because it's production II
sestricted. In NIL articles Of clothing,
carpets and manufactured goods gem
orally the decline in price has been
1uitasas decided asin the department Of
agriculture.
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Hon. Charles O,,Ccnor, formerly Of
New York, andfor many years consid-
srsds one ofsthe greatest lawyers Of the
ccnntry has recently paid q visit to his
bid homo. why, 4 thought Charles
DsConor was dead doubtless remarked
morethangonegreader. And 30 he would
have beenif hashad not done as the doc
tors said he was bound to do years ago.
He lay for weeks at the brink Of death,
and thephysieians declared that his a $
was absolutely hopeless, but the yeter-
IN lawyer took al exception and Sc
.nred . final verdict ia his favor. Since
then he has seen moret than one ofthose
physicians pass away, while he himself,
] man Of 50. ia. still able to sally forth
occasionally into the world from the
l~uietretreat whiehhe selected on the re-
mote Island of Nantucketawhich he found
q be the most healthful place, lfor him
Atleast9 in the country. II ia probable
Fiat complete retirement from practice
NaEch was not possible in New York,
md other influences besides climate
had s goodsdealto do with his recovery.
Many menin his former condition would
have accepted the sentenced Of the medi-
sal men, I3nt No had enough will power
III contin,ls the battle for life, instead
.pf yielding up the ghost without an
snort, and To result in his ease is :
s9GEf EF HfgFSEzt
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rersonsl Points.

Clara Barton and her Red Cross relief boat,
the Matte Belle, ERE in New Orleans.
The bulk of H. B. Hurlbnrt's fortune, about
~, 100000, goes, after his wife's death, to found
an art gallery for Cleveland.
Mrs. Ole Bullwin leave Boston in the sum
mer for Norway. She thinks that her daugh-
ter Olea, now II years old, may become as great
o ~violinist as the father.
Rev. Father Francis ]. Sanehese, the only
one remaining of the early Franciscan mission
aries at Santa Barbara, Cal, il dead. Fathe,
Sanchese went TO California in 1874.
Rev. John Jasper secured d contribution OF
$10oto the debt of his church by closing the
doors of the church on a large congregation,
and Offering to give his "sun do move ser.
mon if the amount was raised.
It is stated that Lord Lansdowne has totrsv.
81 under tho,escort of government detectives.
He is at present on u visit to Montreal, and has
secured the services of Superintendent Sher.
wood, chief of the government police.
The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1884-05-02

TheSIowa Legislature, at its recent
session, passed 8 bill for improving the
country roads. It does away with the
old and cumbrous system Of working
out taxes upon the roads, and permits
each township TO levy a tag for highway
improvements to be paid only in money.
The township will then let a contract
Tor the construction und repair Of the
road, and there is q reason to believe
that the work in most cases, will be
done in : satisfactory manner. This is,
for themost part, the reform which two
state road conventions, one held in Iowa
City in March, 1883, and one in Dss
Moines, in the present year, have rec
ommendad. ! details as to the manner
Of performing the work, matters which
have been discussed, q great deal
throughout the state, are wisely left to
the township officials. The law, as il
stands, is much like the Ohioroud law
which has given great satisfaction
through years Of. experience, and the
reform seems to promise only well for
Iowa..
The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1884-05-02
canad1an Pao1ao se1,ius Ont.

The fact has TRANSFERRED that before Duncan
Mcintyre left for England, he sold out his s5,-
0oO,0W worth of shares in the Canadian paci-
fc at 81. Rnmor has it that Angus, vice pre-
sident Of the company, is also about to retire.
J; J. Hill, it will be remembered, disposed of
his interest in the company come time ago.
Members of the syndicate have found the
company has approach the most difficult por-
ton of the line to construct, the
prairie section being built, and consider that
the sooner they get ont of the company the
better, There will be no surprise manifested
if the government will have to finish the road.
1t is rumored here that the shares had been
either bought by or for Sir Charles Upper, who
from the first to the last has been a great be-
lever in whathe calls the "greatnational high
way,n
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,mroRrAur TO rnn.nnrrons.

The Duluth Land Officers Overruled by
the Commissioner Of the General LAM
Office.
Duluth, Special:-The land officers here re.
ceived from Commissioner Mcfarland, OF the
general land Office, II decision on the question
whether a pre-cmptor can mortgage or sell his
presumption, after final proof has been made,
to a party for n money advance, being unable
to make improvements or payments omit The
case is that of Michael Sobiesky and Fredericl.
Engel, who entered y presumption here ana
carried out the requirements of the
law regarding settlement and improve
ments. When proof was offered 1t wa
shown by the agent, W. r. Marshall, that th9
ter proof to Michael Fink, to secure the pay
ment of money advanced for supplies and IN
formation furnished them. The land officers
here, Sept. 25, 1888, on this showing rejected
the proofs and claims, on the ground that pre-
cmptors did not take the land in question ior
their own exclusive use and benefit. The case
was appealed, and the following decision, over
ruling that of the local land officers, has been
given:
There being no other objection to proof
than agreement for mortgages, the question to
be determined is their effect on homestead en-
tries. In that regard you are informed it was
ruled by the honorable secretary of the interior
in the case of Larson, VS.. Wcisenecker, involv-
ing n pre-emption entry, tCobbs L. o. vol. .,
page 6N) that a mortgage issued by apre-emp-
ton entry-man pnor to final proof, to secure
money loaned him to pay the government price
of land, is not such u conveyance for agree
ment as will invalidate his entry under the law.
BY analogy the same principle applles TO the
case of committed homestead entries, and it Is
| imlnaterial as effecting entries that a part of
the money borrowed is applied in a manner to
enable the claimant to comply. with
the requirement of the law, and for the better
ment of the claim, as well as pay the govern.
ment price for the land. Therefore, the proof
of the question submitted in support of the re-
spective applications TO commute should be
accepted and final certificates issued thereon,
and the same il herewith returned.
The decision is very interesting for all pine
land regions, as n great amount of loaning
money by pre-emptors is done, and this decis-
ion virtually overrnlcs a great mary decisions
by officers here and elsewhere and puts new
light on the matter. Under the regime of Ex-
Gov. Marshall as government agent here, he
was continually looking after just such cases.
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Indian TERRITORY n.tters.

Washington, April ~. A bill has been intro
duced in the senate by Dawes IN relation to the
rights of persons of African descent living il
the Chickasaw Indian nation. It provides that
all such persons resident of that nation on the
date of the treaty of Fort Smith, aud their de-
scendents, heretofore held i'll slavery in said
nation, and mentioned in the third article of the
Choctaw and Chickasaw treaty of 1866, shall be
declared citizens of the Chickasaw nation and
entitled to all rights specified in said treaty.
Secretary Teller has decided that the Creek In
dian nation is entitled to payment for ISL ,s7s
acres OF land ut 80 cents per acre, with interest
under provisions of the treaty of June II, 1866,
over ane above 3,21p,56 acres coded by that
treaty
The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1884-05-02

There has snsw been fall of about
s26 ccntssin tis. price Of wheat this year,
and snostfd IL within month, and no-
body can sly that the bottom has yet
been reached. It may 60 up audit may
30 no still lower figures. But wheat
growers mithe northwest cannot cease
%toBrowswheat all Of assudden, OF until
they havolhad time and opportunity to
turn their attention to something more
lpfoataEae. Farmers farther east where
hand j. more costly, will be the first to
dropswkeat for something else. North
westsrnsfarmers, Mr. the present, must
make up the difference in price by
greaser production, with an eve out oil
t6he while for better fields for 1abortand
'capitalin the way Of Investigation.
The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1884-05-02
The Draphic.
KlNBA1sL PRINTING GO publisners.
KIMg,ALL, .s DAKOTA.

- papers ot both parties call at-
stention TO the fact that no man is eligi-
ible to he Office Of presidential election
who hcids Any other official positios.
& ~ believed that both parties WILDE
specially carefh in the formation Of
Electoral tickets. to select men who are
cisarly eligible TO the sofice. We have
shAd one giave admohition on She sub
Est, and thcre;can be no excuse for the
nomination Of ineligible or even doubt
ful candidates, In the face of the con
yulaions at 1876.
The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1884-05-02
One Of the Dominion 1oakages,

Some time ago the custom authorities got il
into their heads that the Canadian Pacific rail
way was Sinking payment of duties at Elmer
son Manitoba. An investigation followed, the
result being that q deiicitof $4,000 was dis
covered in the accounts of the collector at that
port. Mr.. Hickey abscondea. Mr.. Bradley
was placed under arrest, but death went bail
for him. Since that the Canadian Pacific rail
way authorities have held an investigation on
tlieir Gwn account, and it liz learned that tiers
is a difference between their vouchers and the
vouchers of the Winnipeg custom house OF
over S3Do,Go against the latter. This astounl-
ing variation occurred under Mr.. Spencor's
regime Ms collector.
The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1884-05-02
nscord Of cassus1a.s.

A large part of salineville, Ohio, sank in
Sunday.
Fire at Alton, Ill. destroyed the Globe store.
Loss, over 22,0 Insured for $500
Mrs. H. @. Fillmore Of Fayetteville, N. Y, q
guest ut the Palmer house, Chicago, who blew
out the gas on retiring, died. Her husband,
who was also asphyxiated, is unconscious and
not expected to recover.
A fire at Tacoma, Wash, Sunday morning
18th inst, wiped out nine buildings and contents
in the chief business block of the city. The
losses on buildings amount to about $40, 600;
losses and insurance., exclusive of buildings,
other losses $l15,0M.
The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1884-05-02
l a won't Run.

A party Of leading Democrats and friends of
Iilden, say that under no circumstances will
he bel candidate for the presidency, and under
no circumstances will he accept if nominated
They regard his last refusal as final, and say
the field is now left, 80 far as Democratic can.
didates is concerned to flower and Cleveland.
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st. Paul MARKETS..

Wheat. No. 1 hard, CSC; No. /. SOC; No. 9
hard, 95c: No. 3, S5c. Corn, No. 9, spot, $50;
No. j, ata52c; new mixed, 5tta52c. Oats, No
2 mixed, Bic; No. 3, SOC; No. /. white, see; No.
5, Bic. Barley, No. 2, Csc No. 3 extra, 56c; No.
3, 47c. Rye, No. 3, 55c. Hay, $3.50; timothy,
5000. Seed, timothy, sl.25; clover, So.
The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1884-05-02
10 the Hon. Secretary of War.
Gen. Swain denies the charges.

a duel with swords took place in the Bots de
Bolougne, Paris, between Joseph Casey a
fehlan who was confined in Clerkenwcll prison
IN ieo1, at the time of the attempted explosion
there, and Capt scully, an American, who was
a solder in the Union army during the late
the Mexican war. Ssully had been susnertcd
as an lnformer, and the duel resulted. Scullv
was wounded slightly in the neck. His sword
was broken. The combatants were afterwards
The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1884-05-02

Wheat, No. :, Chicago spring, sa@s64c.
Corn, cash. 5lssss@5llac. Oats, cash, 311zc.
Rye, Gie. Barley, 730674c. Flax seed, III. 6Il
l.h5. Pork, cash, s1dS7H@l7. Lard, ts8
The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1884-05-02

Dayton, Ohio, Special: 1t is now all but
certain that John Michaels, who has been kept
in Jail hero the past two days for safe keeping,
il the ma.a who wrecked the train at
Beaver station, on the Panhandle road. Two
detectives took hin. to the scene of the wreck.
John Steiner, q farmer. the first on the scene
the night of the disaster, identified him as the
man he saw in the baggage car, struggling
with the wounded and dying express messen-
ger, George Confer, for the keys to the safe.
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Misoellaueou. news Note..


Miscellaneous News Notes.
Abbesy's operate benefit in New York netted
him $4,000.
The recent Purim ball in New York netted
414,1 100 for the Hebrew orphan asylum
Yale college concludes to bnild a $50, geo
Young Mems Christian Association building.
William Courtney, near Miles City, recently
sold 1000 head of cattle, on the range, for $780,
600.
Boston's tax levy is q a,466, eco, or an advance
of Is per cent. over last year, making the rate
&16 on $1,000.
Mrs. Mary Walker Of Boston sues the own
ers OF the wrecked City OF Columbus for $50
900 damages by the death of her husband
When Or. Lehman Wells of Philadelphia
died, his estate was found in five envelopes in
q bank vault containing bonds and notes to the
amount OF 10000. Each envelope was adj
dressed to the heir TO when he wishedit to go.
The Democratic convention OF Buchanan
county, Iowa, instrusted its delegates TO vote
The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1884-05-02
milwaukee Market.
Chicago Markets.

Wheat, No. 2 cash. gDc. Oats, No. 9, $50.
Rye. No. !, 651Gc. Barley, No. :, Csc. Pork,
SlGT5. Lard, sS25.
The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1884-05-02
m. Criminal calendar,

Ml8 49,
CHARLES Frike, an Jagged German and an old
resident, Of Waukegan, murdered his wife Sun
day nightly beating her brains out with q club.
Joseph Allen was arrested at Hamilton, Ont
on a charge of being the principal in the Crouch
murder at jackson, Mich last fall. He was
taken to Jackson.
A young man giving the name of William
Spencer, who a short time ago betrayed young
lady in Cory, Pa, " itch resulted in her sui
eide, was arrested Mt st. Joseph, Mo-, and will
be taken back to Cory.
Near Irving KY, 10 Finn and Bill Hale, two
desperadoes, engagedin ashooting ARRAY, Finn
shot Hale through the heart, but before Hale
fell he shot Finn twice, from the effects of
which he died two hours Inter.
E. II. Latham, Mcmphis-young, rich and
good looking-took a deadly dose of morphine,
went to a honse of i'll fameand died in the arms
of a virtueless woman nameAGeorgie johnson
who had refused to marry him
Walter r. Davis was found guilty Of murder
ut Versailles, Ohio, and punishment fixed at
penitentiary for life. He with Mrs. Lowry
Munday, was indicted for tho murder of Mr..
Munday, the motive being to secure a life in
surance Of 2 1900. Munday died two years
ago..
The bingham, III. bank was closed recently.
President T. A, Yangassy left town Saturday,
the 10Th, and went to Chicago, and it is sup
posed to Canada He took all the money and
securities in the bank, amounting to about S40,-
600. The heaviest loser i Joseph Partridge, a
merchant, who is out about $4,000.
Henry Martin, a fireman on the Chicago,
Milwaukee & St Paul road at Mitchell, Oak,
robbed an old man, named Samuel Newell, of
$297 in Curley Il Linser's saloon. The parties
had been drinking together, when Martin saw
the money, when the. old man, who lad be-
come very drunk, took his pocket.book.
Bozeman, Mon, } Courier: Regarding Joseph
W. Hanna, who is nnw under sentence OF death
for the killing of George i. Nelson, tho Benton
River Press says: He is n brother of Bayliss
w. Hanna, one Of the most prominent lawyers
and democratic politicians of Indiana. Joseph
was induced to come west on account of M I'm
fortunate scrape he got into while attending
Wabash college, at Charlottesville, Ind, and
he has benin this territory ever since.
James Nicholson of Boston entered his wife's
room. Shortly afterwnrd the report OF u pis-
tolsyas heard. A brother of Mrs. Nicholson
rushed to the room, and found Nicholson had
shot his wife through a shoulder. He Crap
pied with Nicholson, but was unable to pre-
!! vent him shooting his wife n second time, Kill
ing her instantly. The murderer then cody
pocketed his pistol, remarked, tIm a murder
ser," aud left the house. The couple had not
lived together two or three weeks.
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Col. Bob. Ingcrsoll and family will spend tho
summer and part of the fall on the Dorsey
ranch in New Mexico. The colonel had built
an enormous log house, handsomely finished
inside with hard woods, and twenty-three
miles from a railroad station.
The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1884-05-02

Mr.. Chenery, he late editor of the London
Times, left an estate valued at Sos. OO0.
The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1884-05-02

decidedly for Mr.. Iilden.
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Gen. Swain Charged With Fraud.

A b. Bateman, of Washington the firm Of
bateman d Co, bankers filed with the score.
tary of war a letter in which he says: ~
1T becomes my duty to prefer charges against
Brig. Gen. D. G. Swain at the head of the but
reau OF military justice of the United States
army for fraud and for conduct unbecoming
an officer and gentleman. / stand ready to
prove that said d. G. Swain has committed
frand to all intents and purposes upon the
banking house of Bateman& Co, of which I
am q member. Some two years ago said D.. G.
swami, having deposited the sum of $4,000 re-
ceived upon his departure for the West a
simple due bill at his request to have in case
accident should befall him. This amount was
checked ont subsequent to that
date by said D.. G.. Swain, for which we
nave o number of vouchers. After having
drawn all the money out, and a settlement
Icing made, he negotiated and transferred the
que blil for the full amount with certain par
ties In thisc city, | am further ready to prove
that SAID ID. q: Swain assisted to negotiate
army pay vouchers with our firm, which he
knew to be fraudulent and triplicates of out
standing accounts. / ask that a court martial
be ordered for the trial of saidD G. Swain on
tho charges preferred. / desire. when it il Or
dered, to amend this by presenting other
charges under the head of conduct unbecominp
spectfully, Il Barr,r;S
To the Hon. Secretary of War.
Gen. Swain denies the charges.
Washington Special: 1t is stated on good
authority that Secretary Lincoln will refuse to
permit the withdrawal of the charges of deal
ing In fraudulent pay accounts against Judge
Advocate General Swain, and will direct the
examination to proceed. 1t is well known that
Lincoln was never friendly to Swain, who was
forced on him by Garfield. 1t is understood
that Lincoln will make it very warm for tIa
Judge advocate general. 1t is said that tjva
other military officials have been engaged in
me business of manipulating pay accounts. and
uaere Is prospect for a brief scandal over the
ahair. beside army Jay accounts, there are
various sensational rnmors concerning tho on
efatlons OF Swain. He was treasurer of tie
GARFIELD fair enterprise, which was supposed
10 nave netted something like $4,000, bntit is
now developed that Swain has never made q
report of the returns, and his enemies pro
posed to have that investigated also.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-05-22
THE FIRE ladies.

The Date of Their State Convention Al
tered to Suit Public Convenience.
GALVESTON, May 17.-Capt. w. O.
Conner, president of the State Fire
mems ASSOCIATION, yesterday received a
telegram from G. w. Hoelzel, chairman
of the iiremen's committee, of Fort
Worth, asking that the meeting of the
State Firemen's association be post
poned from June II to II, on account
of the State Democratic convention,
which meets at Fort Worth on the 18th
of June, which would conflict with
iiremen's convention. Mr.. HoelZel
stated that such a postponement would
be satisfactory to Dallas, Waco, Gaines
vile, Sherman, Austin, and objectiona-
bleto no one as far as known. Upon re-
ceipt of this communication Captain
Conner sent the subjoined dispatch to
Mr.. HoelZel, and also wired w. H.
COyle, Of Houston, secretary Of the
association, to issue circular an
nouncing the postponement. Captain
Corners telegram is as follows:
GALVESTON, May II.
G. w. HoELZEL, President Fire Dept,
Fort Worth.
Iregret the necessity of postpone
ment Of our meeting, but as it is at
the unanimous request of your de-
partment, and feeling myself that the
converting of the two conventions at
the same time and place will detract
from each other, l have instructed
our secretary TO give notice of post
ponement from the 18th to the 18th.
w. G. CONNER,
Pres't State Firemen's Ass'n.s