The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1885-01-02
DAKOTA TERRITORIAL NEWS.

Sphinx county, Oak, must pay the
piper to the tune of at least So 5000.
Okoboji will soon have o first-class
iouring mill, the first in Sully county,
The town of Fountain, in Brookings
county, had two deaths from smallpox
recently.
During the past year Devils Lake
has invested $S5, 165 in buildings and
improvements.
Building improvements in Madison
the past year. totaled forty-three new
buildings, costing $3.50, 900.
Petitions are circulating at Huron,
and vicinity asking the legislature to
grsat woman suffrage.
Capt. Isaac Stockwell, an old and
prominent citizen Of Yankton, died in
that city from the effects of a cancer
Hank Lewis, charged with the murder
Of City Marshal Pierce of Mitchell has
been granted a change of venue to Au-
rora county.
Stahl's hotel, Neche, burned and sew
oral railroad men who were staying there
over night had a narrow escape from be-
ing burned to death.
A recent fire in jamestown destroyed
property to the amount of 81, 1000, and
not $ls, 600, as at first reported-which
was largely covered by insurance.
Among the prominent candidates for
for speaker of the next house are Mark
Ward, of Mitchell, Williams of Bis
marck, and Martin of the Black Hills.
Ex-Vice President Colfax will deliver
an Grafton at the sixty-sixth anniversary
celebration to be held by the Odd Eel.
lows of South Dakota, in Huron, OF
Monday, April 81.
Business ut the United States land
office in Watertown has materially in.
creased of late, SO the officials state, in
the line of contesting, cancellations and
original filings.
Holabird, on the Dakota division of
the Northwestern, and Po%rterville, Wis,
on the Chippeway Valley division of the
Milwaukee & st. Paul. have been made
regular stations.
X. Thompson, E. Estenson, J. J
Gunderson, S. O. Henjum and J. w.
Walters were arrested for removing
stone from a school section at Dell Rap
ids, and taken to Yankton.
Capt. Rockwell of Fort Lincoln has
been appointed chief ordnance officer
Of the department of Dakota, vice Cap
tain Bennett who goes to Washington
As inspector of rifle practice.
A deputy United States marshal at
tempted to arrest Lean Elk, Red Shirt
and other Indians at Cheyenne agency,
for horse stealing, but Agent Swan re.
fused to give up the redskins.
The we'll known Towner farm, neal
Mapes, comprising 2 ,24O acres. 1000 o,
which is broken, and upon which Their,
ire some first-class buildings, was pur'
chased by John S. Sinclair, a Scotcl
capitalist.
Claus Slegiman, formerly agent o:
The st. Paul harvester works at Andov.
sr, has been convicted of robbing
George Humphrey Of $103, the money
being found under the floor of Slegi-
mans claim shanty.
E. J. Travis, formerly agent of the
Gilmer & Salisbury stages, of the Fort
Benton steamer line, while suffering
from mania potu at Deadwood, attempt
ed to kill himself with q knife. Travis
had been sheriff of Lincoln county,
New, but lost friends and standing
through gambling.
The Episcopal Indian women Of Elan.
irau have established q guild on the
sewing society plan. They not only
manufacture fancy articles with the nee
die, but make pipes, ornaments of
pipestone and retail the latest gossip,
according to the most approved fashion
of their white sisters.
Robert Earl, of Howard, was arrest
ed and pleaded guilty of adultery with
the wife of James Otter, formerly of
Grand Meadow, Mower county, MINI.
Mrs. Otter was recently adjudged in
sane, and is the mother of a large
family, some of them grown to manhood
and womanhood.
A board of officers has been appoint
ed at each of the posts of Fort Magin-
mis-, A. Lincoln, Meade, Totten, Ran
dali, Ellis, Bennett and Pembina to ex-
anime and report upon the qualifica-
tons of enlisted men for appointment
as post q~uartermaster sergeants. The
pay and allowances which attach to the
position Of post quartcrmaster sergeant
make it a very desirable one, and the
appointment is much sought after by
those who consider themselves eligible.
Edmund Hackett, the husband of the
woman who attempted suicide by cutting
her throat with a butcher knife at Min
%newauken, is a former mayor of Bis
mark and OF present a commissioner Of
McHenry county. The following note
was found concealed in the woman's
sleeve: Edmund, I do not know the
secret. I am innocent. That child is
yours. I swear it. I die easy. See
what your oldest son has done for both