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

ship officers elected at the last elect.
ion, March, srd.
Treasurer. !. ..... w. circuit
Assessor. . ho's. Purcell
Constable .....e... VIM. Franklin
Supervisors {. NJ. Austin.
tTruman Pattee.
The GRAPHIC has met with compli
ments on all sides for its interesting
write up of the reservation excite
ment last week. Unjust be apparent
to all by this time that no amount Of
outside business ever caused its pub
Usher to slight the paper.
When the Register insinuates that
anybody believes the population of
Kimball will be reduced and hind
cred by the opening of the Grow
Greek Reservation it tells a double
rivited lie meaner than all the thous-
and lies that it's venom has produced
since it's first issue.
BY the way, is it ignorance Or an
over-rulling disposition to lie that
prompts the Register to say the only
officers before whom filing papers
can be sworn to are the county clerk
and probate Judge? The fact is tree
claim filings a be sworn to before
a notary public anywhere in the land
district and presumption filings are
not sworn to at all and do not re-
quire the services of any officers
Wouldn't it have been ~excrucia-
tingly funny to have seen Col. Sellers
King with a tireman's shirt on, tin
sword in hand, riding fiery untamed
jackass, at the head of an awkward
squad armed with O. T. Letcher's
old shot guns, and directing their
movements against a few paltry In
dians afraid of their shadow. Heav-
ings! but why couldn't Major Gas
mann let us turned Johnny loose.
The Register, the official paper of
the county, which is paid 5000 or
over for doing the county printing,
never lisped a word about bonding
the county, pro Oh con. Too much
wrapped up in reservation business
to give county affairs any attention.
The GRAPHIC, a newspaper for the
people and of the people, which never
asked for or received a cent Of pub
lie money, went to the trouble Of sift-
ing the matter out and declaring the
call for the election illegal.
Our truly good brother Of the Puk.
wanna Press complains of Kimball
men on the incoming trains dcceiving
passengers looking for land. Let's
see, didn't Mr.. Scott tell a newly ar.
rived immigrant at "Puk" that Elm
Creek was only eleven miles from
Pukwana? George Mckay Of Cham,
berlain who happened to be standing
near was equal to the occasion, by the
way, and said: "Chamberlain is only
four miles from it." Better keep still
Bro. Scott or we will tell something
perfectly horrid about you.
Remarkable mirages are among
the atmospheric effects in Dakota.
The Darlington ID. T.) Nous says
that q few mornings since, in that
town, the Washington Hills, over
sixty miles, distant, could plainly be
seen in all their magnificent splendol
in the horison Of the north. The
mirages occasionally seen are phenom,
email wonders. Yankton, Kimball
and other towns are plainly visible
floating as it were in the clouds
Just think of Clate Tinan, of the
Kimball GRAPHIC, soaring above the
clouds clad in his Mother Hubbard
Observation-Disclosures co., Demo
crGt.
Tie fortunes of fate are often
times swift and decisive. Not many
moons ago the little town Of Cham
berlain claimed a population OF 1,2o(
-or at least the Register did. A,
the last election, March 3rd, there
was not a man in the town qualified
to act as Judge or clerk of the elect
ton and the election went by de
fault, all of its former citizens hav.
ing abandoned their residence anG
what little business they had for g
home On a quarter section of Uncle
Sans land, determining hencefortb tc
become honest tillers of the soil
Poor id distracted town how de
funct.
Than, of the GRAPHIC, went down
to Mitchell, ene day last week, and
put up at the Mitchell House. On &C
count Of the new management, the
clerk didn't know him and asked hin
il he wanted a sample oom Tlnar
replied "No sir, | don't, Pm an editor
| and sell brains not trash.". "Ah
, yes" replied the clerk, 81 see 70,
: don't carry samples and of course 70,
, don't want a sample room."-1le.raa
, drf0 Herald.
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