The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1885-03-06

of any of the claims. Within one or
two sections was about as near as
could be assertained except near the
reservation line.
Monday and Tuesday was but a
repetition Of the previous days, only
in q lesser degree. There was not
the wild rush, but all the teams to be
had were employed to draw out lum-
Der to make greater improvements on
the claims, and the lumber yard men
were kept hard at work day and
night in supplying the demand for
material.
While all this was transporting In
Kimball still more exciting scenes
were being enacted in Chamberlain
and Pukwana. At the former place
only a creek a few feet wide sepa-
rates the town from the southern
boundary of the Reserve. The quar-
ter section adjoining the town is
claimed by Capt. King, he having
taken it for a homestead. At the
same time the TOWNSHIP company are
claiming it. They had it plated
long ago into two acre lots. AS soon
as the news came that the land was
opened each man in the "ring' jumped
for his lot and at present writing
every two acres has the frame of a
house upon it. We do not know
under what right they can secure the
land as the scheme is new to us.
While Capt. King and the town-site
company were wrangling over who
should bavet the leo acres along comes
Hon. II. NJ. Day and scripts the
quarter for John D. Lawler. So
there is to be an interesting triangu-
lar fight over the matter. The land
nea Chamberlain and Pukwana was
taken up even more quickly than that
near Kimball., many quarter sections
near the former town have from two
to four squatters OF each, some with
their families and stock. All along
up the creek may be seen the little
shanties and around the doors of
some are running a group OF little
children. Back farthur into the
country some are holding down their
claims with a bundle of hay, a 2x4
scantling and q Winchester, not dar-
ing to leave fearing upon their return
there will be from one to a dozen
shanties on their land. Pukwana is
only a half mile from the line and
the news shook the little burgh to its
center. In the wink of an eye men
were seen flying out Of the town in
all directions and excitement there
has been to fever heat.
On Wednesday morning a few
private dispatches were received in
kimball indicating that the plats of
the land in question had arrived at
the Mitchell land office and filings
would be received. This set things
humming, and all who had their pap
ers made out or could get the work
done before train time, either sent
them or took them to Mitchell them
selves, only to find upon their arrival
there that they lad gone on a wild
goose chase. The train had hardly
been out of sight of kimball when
postmaster Grippen posted a notice
just received by mail from Chamber
lain which read as follows:
NOTICE!
No action having been taken by
the government to open the Crow Creek
Indian Reserve for settlement, all
persons now on same are trespassers,
and are hereby warned to withdraw
and to remove their property.
All property found on Reserve after
4th inst, will be confscated by the
government.
No n except an Indian can OBJ
tain legal rights to lands on the Re-
serve by squatting, building or survey
ing.
John G. Gasmann.
U. S. Indian Agent.
Grow Creek Agency DIT.
March End, 1885.
This was a sumner and created no
end of excitement. Some predicted
that the President had never signed
any order opening the land for set
tiers, others thought it was a trick of
of the Agent to show his authority
until the last possible moment, while
many wished they had their money
back they had invested in "shacks."
No one, however, has paid the slight
est attention to the order, although
the settlers from Kimball will 20
without trouble if they are obliged
70. A different feeling exists in
Chamberlain and there are not enough
Indians on the Reservation to keep
them of. They have been waiting
for this thing for two years and
now that they have obtained posses