The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1885-04-24
DAKOTA TERRITORIAL NOTES.

Rapid City voted to issue bonds for
$45, 900 for the purpose of establishing
a water system.
The body of Edward Peterson was
found neal Larimore. The cause of
his death is unknown.
The order of President Arthur re-
moving the land Office to Rapid City
has been suspended, and the Office will
rema1n at Deadwood.
Marion is building a new Methodist
church.
The Fielder Times has been moved
to Winnebago City, a new town at the
mouth of Chapelle Creek.
Sioux Falls is to have o Free Will
Baptist church edifice, making the thir-
tenth church building in the city.
In the suit of Mathew Latin of Chi
cago against Joseph Taylor of Dead
wood, charging the latter with swind-
ling him in a mlne deal, Taylor was
discharged.
The Right Rev. Bishop Marti has left
for Europe. During his absence the af-
fairs of tho Catholic church in Dakota
will be managed by Rev. Father Viii
lard, vicar general.
A taxpayers union, composed of bust
ness men, has been formed at James
town, for the purpose of securing the
adoption of such measures in city gov
eminent rs are deemed advisable.
George Pratt was arrested on Willow
creek recently for stealing twentv-si1
cows from G. Corners, of . Belle
Fuurche ranch.
Among the improvements already in
progress or early promised at Wahpeton
are an Episcopal church.
The country residence of Robert Low
~, receiver of the Huron land Office,
was burned. Loss, $4,000
The gold discovered near Bismarck
proves to be q combination OF granite,
porphyry, feldspar, gneiss, hornblende,
iron, mica. and yellow pyrites, making
q %granulated rock without O trace OF
gold or silver.
B. A. Plummer of Forest City, re-
turned from Clifton with the corpse of
his murdered brother, Miles Plummer,
his widow and two children.
John Noble has been arrested at
Plankinton, charged with making coun-
terfeit dollars, and held in $500 bonds
for trial.
J. E. Wisner, one of the Lisbon rust
lers, lately sold one of his farmes fc
1000 acres for S18 an acre, to be paid
for in wheat at 81 q bushel.
A number of the leading citizens oi
Yankton, Democrats as well as Republi-
cans, called upon Chief Justice Edger-
ton to express their regret at the charges
which have recently been preferred
against him.
Judge McCalmont, recently appoint
ed commissioner of customs by Presi.
dent Cleveland, is quite we'll known in
Valley City. He is owner of some land
in Barnes county, and during the past
few years has been a regular visitor tc
Dakota and Valley City. .M.
A young man named Holbrok has
been arrested in Bismarck, charged with
sodomy. His brother was arrested o
year ago for incest.
DR.. George Vesey of Clinton, Sully
county, committed suicide by taking
poison. No cause is assigned.
Parties at Fargo obtained a warrant
for the arrest Of one W. D. Hawkins of
Peoria, Ill, for obtaining from r. w.
Coleman, an attorney at Moorhead, $50
by falsely representing that he had q
large amount in q st. Paul bank to
meet the check given for the money
Hawkins was taken back to Fargo on a
requisition.
The past few weeks prairie fires have
been very numerous in the central and
southern regions, and where there has
not been special care to protect build
ings they have suffered.
About two months ago Edward
Chamberlain disappeared from Moore's
ranch, at Dogden, in Sheridan co unty.
sixty miles northwest from Bismarck.
Two weeks ago Nathan Moore, owner
Of the ranch, was arrested on suspicion
of numbering Chamberlain. Moore,
when arrested, said when Chamberlain
left the ranch he went after two lost
ponies and he believed Chamberlain was
either frozen to death or had skipped
the country. Moore is from Minnesota.
and has relatives at Sank Rapids, MINI.
Gov. Pierce has issued the follow
ing: At the earnest request of many
citizens in various sections of the ter
ritory, o proclamation from this Office
naming the 18th of April as Arbor day
is hereby changed to Saturday, April
IS.
At Yankton the fftieth anniversary
of Rev. DR.. Hoyt's connection with the
board of domestic mission, congratu-
latory services were held in the Epis.
copal church. Bishop Hare and many
of the clergy of Southern Dakota were
present. DR.. Hoyt was the first pastor
of an Episcopal church in this terri.
tory.
The ex animation of J. 81. Bell closed
at Pierre aud he was held without bail
for the murder of T. G. Small. Ben
nett, his ~accomplice, in default of $780,
600 bail was also committed. Bell says
the Chamberlain Register, came out
from New York and stopped at Cham