The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1885-09-11
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WASHINGTON, Special Telegram, Aug. "a
Governor Pierce. of Dakota, has succeeded
In completing the business which brought
him here, i'll Il manner That lights up his
with 10y. He thinks that Secretary Lamar
and the other officials of the interior de-
partment have shown so much respect Tor
Dakota that there is announcement to cN-
poet that they Will recommend congress to
take of her childish kits and put on the
pantaloons of a state. The COVE nor got OF
the train here on Thursday, took the bag
fall of 900 pounds OF statistics under his
arm, paid S47 express charges and lugged it
up the hill to the interior department, where
he laid it ut the feet of secretary Lamar and
said:
There are the census returns from Dakota
We've got 10000 population as against &c.,
900 in 1850. and So, 700 farms"
Good for you, said the secretary. Slt down
and tell me all about it..
And the colonel filed Lamar's head so full
of Dakota that he now asksfor a plate of No.
l hard at the breakfast table, and when
inquired of as to the time Of day, replies,
absently. that its about forty bushels to the
acre. When the governor had told his story,
the secretary of the interior got a hammer
and brokeo omen the Eox, murmuring to him.
self:
Is it possible? L. it possible? 41G.O00 popu-
Iation as against l35, 900 in 1850, with forty
bushels of No. l hard to the acre on $500
farms?
Then he sat Gown to his desk and wrote
out a requisition for T36, 900, which repre-
sents the governments share of the expense
of taking the census of Dakota. Col. Pierce
seizedit and rushed up to the treasury.
BEATS THE RECORD.
The way was cleared for the agile COVER
nor, and before the official day was over he
hah transacted all the legal formGities and
mad only to wait until the check was written.
Never was a similar case acted upon with
such promptness. 1t usually require three
or four weeks to get these things passed
upon, and the governor did up the job in
two days. The census returns for Colorado
and Nebraska were in some days ago, but
the agents of those states haven't gotten
fairly started with the untangling of the red
tape that ties up all official matters. The
Dakota case is the only on record where GOO
pounds of documents were filed, examined
and disposed of in a government office il
twenty-four hours, and will never be for
gotten. As long as time lasts the oldes
clerk will tell how the bars were let dow1
and the governor of Dakota went through
the interior and treasury like a streak OF
creased electricity. Your correspondent
sought an interview with the governo,
Tonight. He wore a smile as big as the Dial
rymple farm and answered:
I've nothing more to say. I've told all ! know
and more too, and have done all the talking In
going to on this trip. I was interviewed AT Bis
marck before I came away, and told EN- we hat
Ale, 900 population and 81, 700 farms; the Argn
man came aboard and asked me some questions
] and I told him we'd got 4l6. 600 population ant
> 81, 700 farms At St. Paul the newspaper boy
came down to meet me, and / gave them TIL
information All the way from St. Paul t.
Washington every chance / got / announced it
! .asd when L got here 1 told everybody that it wa
, AlG.OUO population and 50, 700 farms, and no,
: TIL keep quiet awhile. I've had glory enoug
, for enc trip.
THINKS LAMAR CONVERTED.
Did you have any talk with Secretary Lama
about territorial matters?" he was asked.
;, Yes, / told him all about them"
And what did he say
q +. He didn't say much. but listened and took
!. all in. He said he had been watching the mar
velous development Of Dakota with the pro
foundest interest, and was anxious to do all /
n his power to advance its interests, and shat o
j the great West generally
Die you talk about Dakota's admission as
state?-
You may he sure I did. / gave him some goo
points on that, and l told him that he ought t
recommend admission in his report, and til
president ought to IL in his mes
sage"
And what did he say to that?"
"He didn't promise, but l think he will, II
: has got Il level head.