The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1884-10-17
DAKOTA NEWS NOTES.
Brown county has built forty -eigh
school houses this year.

school houses this year.
Elk Point voted thirty eight for
to eight-two against bonding for 5000
to build town hall.
Surveyors are engaged in laying out
q road from Spiritwood, on the North
ern Pacific, to Spiritwood lake, a dis
tance of twelve miles.
E. Shane of Lead City, Oak, was
fatally injured by being struck by a
stick of wood coming down chute.
Joe Lacy, Brule county horse thief,
was captured at Fargo and taken to
Chamberlain.
The grain crop of Hutchinson county
for this year is estimated as follows:
Wheat, 100000 bushels; oats. 200, 900
bushels; fax, 100000 bushels; corn,
$4,000 bushels.
1t has been supposed that the wood
cock never came so far north as north
Dakota, but one was shot near La
Moure recently.
A vein of coal ten inches in thickness
has been found at Park river, near Dew
IFS Lake, at depth of twenty feet.
The report from New York that Sit
ting Bull took q bath in that city is not
credited in Dakota. It is thought there
is an impostor in the case.
While threshing for M. L. Squire in
the northern part Of Sargent county, a
spark from the engine ignited the straw.
The separator was destroyed with 200
| bushels of wheat and q new wagon.
Brown county claims eighty-eight
school houses, forty-eight of them built
the past year, which speaks well for
that fine county.
G. X. Howard of Sioux Falls killed
cinnamon bear over twelve feet long.
and weighing seven or eight hundred
pounds.
| Wesley McLoud, at one time police
man at Sioux Falls, shot himself dead al
Alpena.
The general store of P. j. Landin
Flandreau, was closed by the sheriff
Landin was rated as worth about
$4,000.
An Indian visited Scranton, in whose
blanket half bushel or so of fine
anthracite coal was found. He came
from the Moreau valley, and reported
that members Of the government geo
logical party had taken it out there.
F. M. Smith, of Vermillion is build
ing monster barn, 82x110 feet and 5!
feet high.
J. M. Mcleod shot gray eagle with
in the city limits of Carrolton.
w. Pettigrew, plasterer was arrest
ed and lodged in jail at Bismsrk TO
committing or attempting to commit,
rape upon an eight year-old coloret
girl, purportlng to be the child Q
D Christ Garvey, colored.
Several artesian wells have recent
been bored near the Red river and pure
soft water found in abundance at from
200 to 800 feet. Some of them have
q moderate flow rising several feet abov
/. the surface.
The Grandin, one of the bonanzas O.
the Red river, has threshed 100, 00
bushels of wheat, with an average c
about nineteen bushels 1t is not prob
: able that any of the big farms will ay
I erage higher.
Devils Lake city will issue $500
, bonds, with which to establish fire &c
Q partment.
: Mortality among children OF Madison
II Lake county, Is unusually great.
/ Hanson county farmers state that til
). cause Of the difference in the growt
u of wheat this year-some fields givin
9 an abundant yield whilo adjoining one
d will not give an average yields ov
i. ing to the different depth of plowin,
!. the deep plowing bringing forth
bountiful crop.
! Mrs. Curtis, who was arrested
q Chamberlain on the charge of settin
n out prairie fire which burned up a
81. S. Philips hay, had a prelimina,
Il hearing, and was held to the grand j,
IS ry In bonds of $l0o.
. The seventh legislative district r,
: publican convention nominated A. /
! Smedley of Grant county, and D.
8 Kennedy of Brown county, for mer
y bers of the council, and N. 7. De Woo
% ly of Ipswich, E. Huntington, Frar
/. A. Eldridge of Big Stone, and II.
Johnson of Groton for members of Il
assembly.
) Deadwood times: Five monst
:. bricks. the result of two weeks run
:, the Homestake, Gold Star, Highlan
y Deadwood- Terra and De Smet mill
= valued in the aggregate at $97, 900, we
g brought down and with much 9th
Is treasure went east by the Pierre coac
j. The valuation of Beadle county is 81
645, 476, with tax of $75 $40.
The Fifth Dakota Legislative di
- trict convention met at Egan and non
y mated the following ticket: Membe
4 of the council, w. B. Cameron of La
ID county and H. II. Natwick of Brookin
1s county; members of the house, Jol
90 Hobart and George Rice, of Moo
= :. county, and J. @. Southwick and v.
y Barnes, of Kingsbury county.
- - As Mayor Gale of Canton was abo
y entering his house, some unknown pt
= !. son stepped behind him with an if
H. rod and feIled him to the sidewal
It's Three blows on his head and a cash
ey his chin were received. That the mt
" derous assault was not for the purpe
- Of robbery is apparent, as Gales watt
~ money and personal effects were I