The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1885-06-12
DAKOTA TERRITORIAL NOTES.

worth OF valuable lmDer
The barn of S. N. Newton of Crystal
was burned, together with two horses,
one colt and nine hogs. The fire soon
spread to the barn of Hon. Henry
Strong, burning that and $50 bushels OF
wheat and two hundred bushels OF oats:
d. w. Driscoll also lost 10000 feet OF
lumber. Mr.. Roberts, who occupied
the store next to Mr.. Strong's barn, had
his household goods damaged to some
extent. Total loss, $4,000.
Tw~enty-nine men and nine female
patients, who have been under treat
nent in Yankton, have been transferred
to the new jamestown Asylum. There
are now forty patients in the asylum,
and the work of the institution has
fairly begun. But one building has
been completed-the receiving ward
west. The last legislature appropriated
S63 900 for the erection of a new build
ing and sos. 900 for the transfer Of
patients from Yonkton and running ex-
penses for the next two years.
Miss Moore. a handsome brunette, is
preempting q claim near Devils Lake.
She walks from her claim to Devils
Lake, seven miles, and back frequently.
The Blunt Times, in Hughes county,
a the acreage in crop about there
this year will be 200 per cent. larger
than 1854. with diversified crops, per-
haps one-third wheat.
Miss Horning, a young lady teacher,
living twelve miles north of BrooklnSs,
was found dead in her bed recently.
Tie Harvey Peak Tin Mining and
Manufacturing company has purchased
of the Union foundry and machine shops
in New York four sets of Buchanan
rolls and four screens for that COM
pany's 200-ton concentrating plant; also
a Universal 4x30 inch crusher.
] A new discovery of tin has been made
on Warren's gulch. six miles southwest
of Custer City, causing q considerable
stampede to that locality.
The spring meetings Of the Iowa and
Dakota race circuit. with the liberal
purses offered. amo uniting 10 IS, 600,
has drawn a large number Of very fast
horses, and the Sioux Falls races, to be
held June 1918 will afford an opportn-
nifty for sport fully up to anything
heretofore held iii the northwest, Al
ready some thirty entries have been
made, and each class from the 2:2t to
the 300 shows horses that are sure to
make the competition exceeding hot.
The residence of Mrs. Thomas Mullin
on Third street, Fargo, was burned. 1t
was valued at 5000, and insured for
81, 200: the furniture worth $3.50, and
insured Tor $500, was destroyed.
An attorney named \. 4. Anderson,
a Dane, mysteriously disappeared from
De Smet. 4 letter has been received
from him, mailed at Lake Benton, a V
ing there is no use to look for him as
when the letter was received he would
be gone and his body lost.
The territorial auditor has canvassed
the recent vote of McHenrv county and
issued certificates. Scriptown gets the
county seat.
The Bismarck Tribune gives this
statement of the counties in the Bis.
marck land district, near the river,
showing that but a small portion of the
LAND has yet been taken: In Burlcigh
county there are eight townships OF
IA claims each, taken; thirty-seven
townships, including railroad land, not
taken. In Morton, six taken; sixty.
four. one-half railroad, not taken. In
Emmons, three taken, th%lrtv-nine not
taken. In Mcintosh, one taken,
twenty sever not taken. In Kidder,
five taken, thirty-fve not taken. In
Wells. two taken, eighteen not taken.
In Mclean, three taken. seventeen not
taken. In Mercer and Oliver, two tax
en-, twenty-eight not taken.
Norman r. Lewis and Frank Dow.
nay, farmers living near Nina, Oak,
and Loren A. Barbour, commercial
traveller for a Minneapolis house,
called at Fuller's shantv thirteen miles
west of Aberdeen. and asked Fuller VIII,
he misrepresented facts when testifyine
for the government in a recent hearing
in Barbour's presumption case. Fuller
becoming enraged went into the house
thrust q shotgun through the door ant
fired. The charge graced Barbour
head and the powder permanently dis
figured Lewis face. Fuller styles him.
self the Duke of Argyle" and is con
sidered crazy. He has been a terror tc
the community and will probably b,
adjudged insane. Fuller, it is said, ha,
been the principal witness for Specia
Land Agent Jaycox in the numerous
fraud Investigations.
William Wilder, living thrice,
miles south OF Aberdeen, committed
suicide by shooting himself through til,
heart. Wilder was about twentv-fv,
years old, of good habits, and had beel
working for a farmer named Childs
Wilder had threatened to kill himsel
because his eyes had been poisoned b,
paris green. He had likewise beef
disappointed in love. His relatives ar,
well-to-do people at Dunkirk, Ne,
York.
Buffalo bones sell at $12 a ton a
Bartlett, and many people are gather
ing them up.
The Bank Of Mitchell suspended o,
the 9th inst. President Buttertiel,
announces that the difficulties are til
result of mismanagement OF the cashier
w. G. Metcalf. The assets and llabili
ties are not yet definitely known. Til
suspension will only be temporary a
the securities are ample to meet claim
of all depositors.
The town of Bottineau has been lai
out OIL Oak creek, in Bottineau county
two miles from the base of the foothills