The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1885-07-10
La Moure county farmers have OF

A. M. Morse, the Big Spring rancher,
was the first man in the Black Hills
to introduce German carp.
Karl Roock OF Trail county is only
twenty-three years old, and is six feet
seven and one-half inches high and
weighs 36S pounds.
AS Ed Oney of Clearwater was tax
ing q valuable bay team from water.
ing to the barn, one of the horses, for
which he had been offered S200stepped
into q hole and broke its neck.
Edward Whalen, editor of the Mad
ison Sentinel, has begun suit against
j. h. Stahl, of the Leader, to recover
$4,000 damages forlibel.
G. X. King, publisher OF the Trail
County Times, has unaccountably dis
appeared.
The MAJ known as "the duke OF
Argyle Special Land Agent Jaycox's
chief witness in certain cancellation
cases, was, at Aberdeen, bound over
to the district court in $500 on the
charge OF manslaughter.
st. Johns day was observed by the
Masonic fraternity Of Huron and visit.
ing members from various parts of the
county. DIR. j. II. Moore OF Lake
Byron delivered an address.
j. NJ. Tuohy, night editor oftheFa
go Argus, has been appointed clerk OF
the court for Pembina county.
An Indictment for libel has been
found by the grand jury of Kingsbury
county against J. c. Stowe, formerly
editor OF the Howard Farm
er, but now managing editor OF the
Winfred Ledger, on complaint
of Rev. j. c. Shetland, a Meth
odist minister of De Smet, The form
er last March published anarticle con-
corning Rev. Shetland and a Young
woman living in the latter's family,
upon which the charge OF libel is based.
Rev Shetland is under Indictment in
this county for holding up ut thcpoint
OF /. pistol an Alexandria doctor at II
hotel ut Villas ir March last, at the
time the article above referred to was
published, and compelling him to sign
l'"t'i' ~" CIV Wy Niiht 'P'ic NiitlilSc
he possessed. The affair was shroud-
ed in mystery, but enough came to
light to show a woman VAS ut the bot
tom OF it.
Mayor E. NJ, Fuller OF Bismarck,
took the remains OF John w. Edwards
to Kulpersville, Pa. Edwards was
drowned from Sibley island last Nov
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last II asandbar opposite Fort Yates.
The body being identified us that Dian
Odd Fellow.
There was a slight touch of frost in
many places on the night of the 21st.
John A. Wilson, oneofthew ealthiest
pioneers of Moorly county, was found
dead in his bed.
Ore has been discovered in the Poca.
hantas mine that runs 5000, 900 to
the ton.
Three inches OF rain fell Mt Huron
the first fifteen days OF June.
Two physicians of Aberdeen recent
ly charged DR.. Bergoff OF Wesrport
with malpractice, in consequence OF
which said doctor brings a $4,000
libel suitagainst the complaining doe
tors.
Henry Spencer, a young man about
twenty years OF age. living in Hand
county, committed suicide by shoot
ing himself with a shotgun.
The next meeting OF the territorial
board OF agriculture takes place at
Huron July s..
In one OF the newest counties OF the
eNtremenorth the asscssorstates that
he found fully 200 vacant shacks. per-
haps a fourth OF all the claims taken.
Young men. without families in most
cases, had invested Sl5 or $50 in a
shack, plowed the few acres required,
and" perhaps occasionally spent a
night on the claim during the six
months, and p~rovedNp andsone, hold
ing the land for speculation.
The school census at Bismarck
shows females OF manageable
age than males-239 to 21O. Several
of the Dakota towns afford similar fig
ures, Which do not bear out the i'm
preston that the young men are all
frantic to marry. 1t is claimed at
Bismarck that the big count is ofthose
under 6 years OF age. In most of the
towns there will be found an astonish-
ing number less than 1 years old.
Forest City, Potter county, suffered
from a cyclone lately.
At the freman's tournament at
Sioux Falls, in the hose-coupling con
test Sioux Falls takes first prize.
Time, 6 40 seconds. Aberdeen was
second. In the novelty hook and lad
der race, Mitchell took first prize; time,
4l3-lO seconds. In the three-hundred-
yard hose race, Sioux Falls took first
prize; time, 40 1-6 seconds; Chamber
lain second, Deadwood third, Huron
fourth.
Andrew Helgerson, a prominent
young merchant of Minor, afew days
ago married Miss Grace Phelps, q
charming belle OF the place, and the
happy twain have gone for a bridal
tour.
At Highmore, in Hyde county, a
justice of the peace who could not find
anyone in his section up to his ideal,
correspondent with "a young. educated
and loving orphangir as shedescribed
herself, III the East, and a marriage
engagement resulted, on thestrenpth OF
letters and photographs, and he com.
Piled with her request t. send her 5000
for an outfit. This is the last the
tiecced Justice has heard of her or his
money.