The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1885-05-08
DAKOTA TERRITORIAL NOTES,

The Official elevator report shows Lis |
bon to be 5 per cent. ahead of any other
town in Dakota in the quantity Of No. l
hard produced last year, and the county
of Ransom II per cent. ahead.
The new county of Oliver has been
created out of a part of the county of
Mercer. The new county is named in
honor of Assemblyman Harry Oliver of
Ransom county, who was one of the
leading members of the late legislature.
Ida Burdick, of unfortunate social
predictions, committed suicide at the
Park house, Grand Forks. She had
quarreled with her lover.
A regiment of eighteen companies of
the Dakota National guards has been
formed and another one will be organ
lied in the south.
Many farmers in Dakota who did not
pillow oil their ground last fall have not
the stock necessary to prepare the
ground now, and will be obliged to car
ry out their original plans. Others
have bought flax and other seed and
cannot afford to change now. In some
cases where farmers have not procured
fax for seed, and have ground ready,
they may put it into wheat.
The reason Dakota is allowed 81, 600
more than Minnesota for taking the
census is that the per cent of increase
OF population since 1880 has been great
err.
DR.. O. W. Archibald, superinten-
dent OF the North Dakota hospital for
the insane, ut Jamestown, has arrived
there with his family from Fort 4.
Lincoln. II is expected that patients
will be transferred from Yankton with
in 30days.
The contractors who graded about
100 miles of the Dakota & Great South
ern railroad last Year are again ut work
with double the force. The work lacks
but a few miles of being completed
from Eliot, on the Fargo & South
western, to Bristol.
One firm at Glendale has Just
shipped 1000, 600 trees from Iowa.
That number set out in that section
would make quite a start toward trees.
d. M. Shannon of Sanborn was awak-
ened the other night, to find his barn
in flames. He reached it it time 10
barely save six horses. Fifty bushels
of wheat, 800 bushels of oats and reap
ing machine were destroyed.
Robert Fairweather, of Euclid, Polk
county, has 700 acres in seed. and will
have upwards of 5000 acres seeded.
Commissioners Wilton and Mallory Of
Rolette county, have Deer required to
give bonds of $500 each to answer on q
charge OF misdemeanor and neglecting
to appoint Judges on May y. at a
special election, as called for by law.
The first rain of the season fell at
Pierre, and farmers are happy. Nege-
tation was sadly Ill need OF moisture,
and plated crops will rapidly come
forward.
A burglar broke into Mobey's tailor
shop at Fargo and succeeded in getting
away with six coats, five vests, three
pairs of pants and one pants pattern.
Police gave chase and captured the
clothes but failed to capture the thief.
Near BrownvIle, in a camp of Fin
landers q drunken row occurred, in
which John Wcare was killed and john
Costello wounded by one Clemens.
DIR. G.. E. Vesey, q physician of good
standing at Clifton, in Sully county
lately attempted to commit suicide will
morphine and strychnine. Prompt usf
of antidotes saved his life. 1t was
thought that his mind was affected, and
the county board pronounced him In
sane. He has been taken to an asylum,
The MGndan Pioneer calls attention
to the fearful and wanton destruction
of large game going On in the northwes'
at this time.
Albert Bugemill of Darbin has bouGht
the noted farm near Sanhorn for SILL
800.
Fred Raenkel of Minor has been APP
pointed auditor of Sargent county.
The Hide s. Fur company OF Tracy
purchased an otter skin five feet il
length, which was shipped down from
Gary, Oak.
The Red River Elevator company, o
Minneapolis, will build 10000 elova
tor at Devils Lake.
w. L. johnson of Aberdeen has
fine stable of horses. Hambletonial
Pilot, by Dauntless, by Hambletonial
10: dam Flora, by Strader's Clay sec
ond dam by Pilot, Jr. Agatha, b. N.
by Alaric, by Richmond, by HANDLE
tonian 10; dam Mamie Thorne dam o
T~hornless, 2:2S!), by Hamlet. Grit, b
g., full ltother to Thornless.
In the United States court at Yank
ton, the jury in the case of William
Rust of Chamberlain, charged witt
trespRss on government timber, return
ed a verdict Of not guilty.
Bennett, accomplice of Bell in tn
Small murder, pleaded guilty as acces
sofy. This gives him five years, i'm
~prisonment. Bells corpse has been be
headed and physicians have his skull.
The Park hotel at Steele, burned. l
was owned by Mrs. Il. MCGOWAN, Wa
valued at 50, 900, and was insured 70
$500, 1880 being in the ST. Paul
Fire & Marine company Of st. Paul
MINI, and 1000 in the Hartford l!rt
Insurance company Of Hartford, Conn
The hotel was occupied and ran by i
S. Corwin and II. H. Stickney Board
ers and others had many individua