The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1885-03-13

VINO read po1n papers last week
and noted the fairness and impartial
ity Of the GRAPHIc's write-up of reser-
walton news and the uncalled for at
tack Of the Re $ter upon Kimball, it
will not be surprising. The Register
was not content with trying to boom
its own town with an utter disregard
of the truth, but it must go outside
and lie even worse in its wild and
fruitless attempt to injure Kimball
because it stands in the way of Cham
iberlain. Not only this but it must
go further: to Pierre, and make the
asinine assertion: "Pierre gets no
benefit from the opening of the Res
ervation, bnt the towns east of Pierre,
Canning, Blunt and Rosseau all
boom,'' and in almost the next ser
tence says Kimball, a town only "a
miles e1ss of Chamberlain, which has
double the amount of farming land
on the Reserve c%ontrihutory to it
that Chamberlain has, will lose one
fourth Of its population, and con-
cludes by throwing a COB of taffy to
Pukwana by saying it wills.be in
creased. Why all this ridiculous
mess of slush and inconsistency?
Simply because Pierre is destined
TO become tie town of the Missouri
river and Kimball tie town of Brule
county. Blunt, Canning, Rosseau
and Pukwana don't happen to stand
in the way of Chamberlain. No pa
per on the face of the earth but the
Register would have the gall to say
towns east of Pierre bordering on the
reservation would boom, but towns
east of Chamberlain similarly located
would not.
The GRAPHIC in all of the three
columns Of reservation news pub
lished contained not a line rejecting
in the slightest manner upon Cham
berlain, Pukwana or any other town.
ct is also well enough to note here
that the Pukwana Press was equally
as fair). 1t begrudged neither town
q particle of benefit they might OBJ
tain. Why should it when only a
few weeks since its editor helped to
secure signatures to a petition asking
the President to open the land in
question, feeling as he did, hat ii
should be opened and that Kiinball
would reap its share Of the benefit
The GRAPHIC might have said thai
trouble was feared with the Indians
at Chamberlain and kept hundreds
away from there, but it didn't left
that to the editor of the Register will
his gun kilograms. It might have
said nearly every quarter section o.
land within ten miles from Chamber
lain had from one to five men on i
from Chamberlain, but it didn't. I
might have said that of the five town
ships in Brule county thrown open t.
settlement, two were directly con
tributory to Kimball, two to Pukwan;
and one to Chamberlain, the latter
composed principally of gumbo bluff
fit only for goat pastures, but it didn't
It might have said a man going t.
Chamberlain would be about as APP
to get a piece Of land as he would t,
see the truth in the Register or b,
struck by lightning, but it didn't. !
might have said that in one year
time after the Sioux Reservation i
opened Chamberlain will be everlast
ingly dead for all time to come, bu
it didn't. It might have said tina
, either Kimball or Pukwana woul
derive double the benefit from tn
J opening Of the Reservation tina
Chamberlain would, but it didn't.
might have said that the most desil
} able lands on the Reservation wer
: more accessible from Pukwana an
: kimball than from Chamberlain, br
| it didn't 1t might have said that til
present boom % to Chamberlai
> would last just about long enough
. enable them to eat butter on the
! bread for a few weeks, but it didn',
9 1t might have said that the telegram
sent from Chamberlain to Mitche
for guns, accounts of which wer
published throughout the country an
magnified ten fold caused the peopl
to leave the trains like sheep at Sal
born, Mitchell and other points an
shnn Chamberlain as they would h.
but it didn't. 1t might have said ths
: two gentlemen from Des Moines, Ia
, went down to Chamberlain in til
height Of its boom, last week, locke
1t over, came back to Kimhall, bougf
: a business lot on which will be bui
a better store than ever will be j
Chamberlain, but it didn't. Th
GRApu1c might have said all this an
uttered nothing but the truth, but
rcfrained. Itlikes the Chamberlai