The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1885-01-23
Building Improvements in Huron the

Building improvements in Huron the
past year amounted to $146,475.
Dakota spent $3.50, 900 for school
houses. last year.
Ex.Gov. Ordway is confident chat
congress will do nothing toward the
division of Dakota this session. J
Buildings and public improvements
at Sioux Falls last year amounted to
$40, 900.
Efforts are being made by J. H. Mar
lette to establish o rolling mill ct Man.
dan.
Frank johnson, reported frozen to
death near Custer, is alive and we'll.
Elk are being killed by the hunters
on t99ae Jim river, in Brown County.
Building improvements at Mitchell
last year were $2S3,425.
Osborne Benson OF Burlington writes
to the Lisbon papers thass he was not
hanged by vigilantes, as reported.
At the term of court held at Glivet
Levi Wallisas was convicted Of rape,
md sentenced to twenty-five years and
six months III the Siouz Falls peniten.
tiary.
The building of NJ. It. Kennedy ia
Dawson, occupied By him as q harness
shop and residence, burned, with its
contents. Loss, 5 $500; Insurance, l..
! $50.
George Stickney, treasurer of Union
county, is reported short in his &c
counts $4,000 or more. Ills affairs
are in bad shape. 1t is thought the
shortage Will be made good.
The county seat wal cost Sphinx cossnty
$1,000.
The skeleton of Bill Styles. alias Bill
Caldwell, one of the Mortified bank
robbers, was consumed in the recent
fire at Grand Forks. The skeleton Of
William Pitt, another ,of the gang, is in
possession of DR.. Murphy of St. Paul.
A chattel mortgage for s7,26s,s s,
covering the stock, stores and their fix
lures of Goodman &Grange of Sheldon
and Lisbon, in favor of George r. New
ell & Co., Minneapolis, was tiled in the
registers office, and Newell g. Co. are
in possession of the stock,
The county treasurer Of Hamlul
county, accompanied by several other
men, went to Castlewood and removed
his records back TO Spaulding, which
was the county seat before the recent
canvassinr board threw out the vote Of
several precincts in orIer to count
,Castlewood in.
Taxes in Dakota become delinquent
the first Monday in February, ct which
time a 5 per cent. penalty attaches up.
on all unpaid taxes, and interest ut the
rate of ] per cent. per month is added a
the first of each month rntil the taxo:
are paid.
Matt Miller, who attempted to xii,
IsOliver Lane, near Mitchell, was con
victed and Sent to thenrenitentiary FOL
four years. 1t o stlrns suit tina
through a flaw in theanGictment he will
escape further punishment. tho grant
jury failing to charge Kim with using
deadly weapon in the assault.
D. t.. Fries, q slafr, slipped Will
working on the new Slate roof of til,
railroad r%oundhouse o. Mitchell, an,
J. fell to the ground, bret&ting his leg ant
fracturing his skull The wounde.
manlis in q dangerous condition. II
: has a,wlie and child living in Minneapo
lis. u
Chambers is SO president and fata
among the Bismarck and Pierre stag
: horsestthat the Fort Yates military au
h thoritiss have excluded them from with
o in the post limits. Large numbers 9
horses and mules are siA and dyin
from this dreadful plague all over til
territory.
On Sunday night, Dee. a2S, q fin
: mare and,top carriage wenesstolen frol
r. =. FiHlay Of Beadle county. Til
matter of 'hunting up the ssalcn prope,
ty was put in the hands Of Sheriff v
q Fl. Cobban,of Howard, who on Tuesda
found the mare and buggy. the latte
broken down, at Joseph GRANTS, a farm
, or, residing a few miles Of Madison
= Lake county, but the thief lad skil
ped.
&c The county commissioners & Spin
q county offers reward of $500 to til
n parties who wifi find out and cause ii
arrest md conviction of tile person
who broke open the Sphinx county wat
g on fte morning OF Dec. 6, 1884, an
20 stole dherefrom the books and raear(
of Spank county therein contained. i, s
le Noyes, chairman. and S. +. Hamnaem
d county clerk, sign the offer.
Col. Wm. Thompson. Of Bisnark. q
d sisted in laying the corAer stone of ii
!. Washington monument. being n men
Der of congress then from Iowa. E
y, = comnandeS the garrison at Fort LII
d coin for years, and is now o benans
. farmer of Burleigh county. He wi
II visit Washington to be present at ii
y dedication of the monument.
T. The book and stationery hrn, of ]
II r. Polk & Co.. OF Fargo. meda al n
y signaent for the benefit of their credi