The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1884-03-07

was committed by a man named Gilbert,
formerly of Cleveland, Ohio.
7. J. Goodman of Des Moines is in
Yankton with q proposition for the or
%ganization of a stock company, with a
capital of SO, O0o, to start o pork
packery.
d. 7. Bramble, head of the firm OF
Bramble, Miner & Co., wholesale gro
GERS Of Yankton, says that the firm had
turned ver all its property to the First
National Bank OF Yankton until m
thing could be known about the stand
ing of the firm.
William E. Finch, postmaster at El-
lendale, has been taken to Fargo
to answer the charge OF robbing the mails
OF registered letters while in charge OF
the postoffice at Glendale. The case
against him is reported conclusive.
The Episcopal mission at Santee agen-
cy was entirely destroyed by fire. The
loss included church, schools and resi-
dence of w. NJ. Fowler.
Tower City has raised the necessary
bonds, and Baptist university board OF
locating have formally located the North
Dakota university ut that point. The
building will be commenced in the
spring.
G. r. Cook of Miner county has been
lodged in the Mitchell jail on the charge
of having two living wives. The charge
will be investigated. He is meek-look-
ing man, and nearly sixty years old.
A stock company has been formed to
run a pony express from Deadwood to
Belfield, Billings comfy, on the North
ern Pacific.
Diment brothers of Columbia have
made an assignment. Liabilities, So, 500;
assets, $4,000.
Beamer, the Norton, wheat thief, who
skipped his bail with q team belonging
to his bondsnen was captured in Mime
sofa and is now in custody.
A company has recently been organ.
lied in Bismarck, to be known as the
Bismarck Loan and Trust company, and
it will commence business within u few
weeks. The officers are Frank B. Allen
president; Marquis de Mores, vice-presi-
dent; II. B. Mellon, treasurer, and
Frank LAVAL secretary. Capital, $780,
GOO.
T. p. Allison, who keeps a cigar and
peanut stand at Fargo, was robbed on
the night of the 25tl, He was on his way
home about IL o'clock, when two thugs
attacked him, threw him down, and re-
lieved him Of S25.
r. j. Valentine Of Valley Springs
was lodged in the county jail on
the 18th inst. under $1,000 bonds,
for the shooting with the intent 20 kill
Henry Harvey of that place.
"Doc' McCumber, who was in Wah-
peton some months ago, has been arres-
ted and returned to that city, charged
with bigamy, it being claimed that he
has three wives in that vicinity.
The new church at Milbank was first
opened for religious service this month.
Rev. I. l.. Granger, of Bunker Hill, is
the new pastor.
Joe Keenan, of Casselton is q fugitive
from justice, being wanted to assume
paternity cfthe child of a thirteen-year-
old girl whom he is charged with seduc-
ing.
The receipts of M%innehaha county
last year were 500, sos. SO; expenditures,
SOB ,427.3 sc; leaving a net surplus OF
$3S, 07S.47.
Sheriff Allentown has just returned
to Mitchell, from Iowa, havingi in charge
@. FL. Ernst, who was indicted al
Mitchell for felony, but jumped his
bond, leaving o. II. Perry, his bonds
man, inrdefault. The prisoner brought
plenty of money with him to secure
bonds.
Frank Beamer, who was found guilty
before Judge Lavayea at Grand Forks,
or q charge of stealing seventy-five
bushels of wheat, and was bound oveI
in the sum of $500 bail, has skipped the
country. j
Malcom McGeloran, charged with
m~anslaughter, was acquitted at Fargo,
there not being evidence to convict.
The Daylight says one can stand on
the TOWNSHIP of Briton, the new town
projected on the Tower City railroad,
in Day county, and see the smoke from
q thousand claim shanties. The rail.
road is expected to reach there in July.
A call has been issued for a conven.
ton in favor of the prohibition of the
liquor traffic, the meeting to be com
posed of citizens of north Dakota, fol
consultation as to the best means of Sc.
curing the object designated in the
meeting. The meeting will take place
in the Methodist church, Fargo, or
March 4.
The sensation of the day in LaMoure
and throughout the James river valley
is the arrest by United States detee
tlves of q number of persons who have
been fraudulently holding or seeking tt
acquire title to government land
Nearly fifty persons belonging to La,
Moure and Dickey counties have laid
themselves liable to prosecution, anc
are in the tolls.
Indictments have been found agains.
~eishty-three young men in Fargo
charged with having in their possession
private keys to a well-known gambling
establishment.
Officers We're taking Je sse Pruden
arrested for horse stealing to Deaawood
Information was received there a few
days ago that IN attempt would bs
made by cowboys to rescue james Pru.
den, arrested for horse stealing at Mile.