The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1884-06-13
DAKOTA NEWS NOTES.

school house.
Elkton, Brookings county, has bank
with $25, 900 capital.
One hundred and five timber claim
entries were made at Deadwood in April.
kother delegation of Dakota farmers
is interviewing Milwaukee railway Off
cials. s4ssss.srs.4es,.
Prof Bailey says the tin ore found in
the Black Hills is practically inexhaus-
tible.
The Homestake company are prepar-
ing to build a 2o0-stamp mill near the
mouth OF Gold Run, Black Hills.
Jack Miller, drunkard at Spirit
Lake, resisting arrest and firing on the
officer, was shot and mortally wounded.
Experienced veterinary surgeons say
qhere are no cases OF foot and mouth
disease among cattle in Sanborn coun-
ty.
Thirty thousand dollars of insane asy-
lum bonds have been taken in New York
and work on the Jamestown asylum will
proceed at once.
IN A new townsite has just been laid out
at the confluence Of the Redwater with
the Belle Fourche, in the Black Hills,
and called De Mores.
Goold Brothers of Morris and New
Windsor, Ill, have begun work on
$25, 900 Touring mill at Howard, with
capacity of 100 barrels day.
The State Bank of Dakota, occupy
ing the first brick building erected in
Columbia, opened its doors for business
last week with capital of $780, 900.
Another shortage has been discovered
in Barnes county in the treasurer's tax
certificates, making the latest amounts
of the defalcation discovered, $29, 6S5.99.
N. @. Dakin of Clinton, Mass, has
presented Yankton college with an 500
pound bell, worth, in position, $500.
The college has also been presented
with clock worth $3.50.
An important arrest was made at Nil
bank by City Marshal Merry. The
prisoner is Lyman 9. Burke who helped
burglarize the postoffice at Luverne,
Mimi, on the 18th inst.
A. J. Worthington of Madison, Wis,
who bought large farm near Mitchell
last winter, is dangerously i'll from a
bite on the thumb, inflicted by man
with whom he had struggle.
A raid was made upon the town of
Belford by horse thieves. -Four val
| liable mules and one horse were stolen
from Gallien's farm, also one fine mare
belonging to William Tuttle.
There is again a prospect that the
United States court may wind up for a
lack of funds, the appropriation having
been exhausted and no more money be-
ing available until after July I.
At Lisbon 9. 7. sperry, prosecuted
for selling liquor without a license, was
fined $40 and costs, and he has COM
menced an action against the city to
compel the issuance of a license to him.
The Northern Pacific has made ar
rangements with connecting railroad
lines for several grand excursions to
North Dakota. The rates for these ex-
cursions have been made one cent a
mile.es
| A young son of Mr.. Burgess, living
| near Castlewood, while playing with o
bottle containing some two pounds Of
| powder, set fire to the powder, blowing
the roof off the house and tearing the
boys side open.
A hodcarrier named Burke and an.
other laborer had been on a spree al
Mitchell, and were quarreling on tht
street in front of Corbin's livery stable
when City Marshal Eller tried to arres
them. One of the men escaped, ant
Burk was struggling to get away wher
Eller pulled out his revolver and sho
him through the bowels. Burk is no
dead but the extent Of the wound ha.
not been definitely ascertained.
Newton Edmunds, T. G. Shannon ant
James Fl. Teller, members Of the Siou,
Indian commission, returned from thei
official trip to the Sisseton reservation
whittier they went to arrange with th
Sisseton Indians for the sale Of por
ton Of their lands. The commission
told the Indians briefly what they wer
: instructed to do, viz, to arrange wit
them plan by which the Indians coul
sell the greater part of the million acre
owned by them at not less than $2.5
per acre. 1t is estimated that the land
would bring at least 80, ,000,0 900, whicl
at per cent would yield 800, 900 pc
year, there by making cash annuit,
of nearly $500 for each family Of 81:
. persons. In reply to the commission
the Indians said they had fully consid
! cred the proposition, and they did no
care at this time to sell the lands. Th,
Indians expected parley, and wer
doubtless surprised when the commits
sioner left them with the remark tha
- when they got ready to sell they woul
come back and talk with them. Will
this is discouraging news to those VIII
J would like to buy these valuable lands
the Indians will probably communicat
with the commissioners before long.