The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1885-07-24
DAKOTA TERRITORIAL NEWS.


John Keller ofLarimore, wasrobbed
Of a gold watch, chain, and pocket
book full OF money, in Michigan City,
Ind.
Rock has been found on Two Bit, in
| the Hills, which carries 40 to so per
cent of first-class saltpeter.
Erick Olson, a Scandinavian, com
mitted suicide in Bismarck by taking
poison.
A younsmanna named Conrad, former
ly ofWinona, Mimi, committed suicide
ut Casselton.
Rev. William NJ. Blackburn, d. d.,
late president OF the University of
North Dakota, at Grand Forks, has
accepted the presidency of Pierre I'M
iversity, and will at once remove hls
family to East Pierre and enter onthe
duties OF his Office.
j. f. Osborne, a horse thief attemp-
ed to break Jail at Bismarck and was
shot through the lungs by Jailer Clark
while trying to escape.
! In Aurora county a youngmanru ruin
ed a respectable young lady, and her
friends gave him q coat OF tar and
feathers.
At the Dakota Teachers associa-
tion'ssecond anuualmeetinga at Huron,
rs teachers were present.
The clothing store OF w. A. White &
Co., at Wahpeton, was entered by
burglars cutting through a rear door.
About 800 worth of clothing and
some watches We're taken.
The camp meeting at Big Stone City
was largely attended. Thirty tents
surrounded a large pavilion seating
J 1000 people. Many clergymen were
present, also Thomas McClary OF Min
neapolis and Rev. j. p. Dunnett, ID,
and party rom Dixon, III. Ira N.
Pardee, superintendent OF the M. E.
Church Dakota mission, etc.
William e. Goheen, formerly a law
yer from Springfield, H., for the past
few years a farmer in Dakota and
postmaster at Maybury, about twen-
ty miles west OF Aberdeen, was struck
with lightning on his way home, about
two and a half miles west, with Il load
of grain and feed, and instantly killed.
The census shows the crop acreage
OF Ransom county this year to be 3D.
200 acres. Somewhere about three
tfths of this vast field is seeded in
wheat, the remainder being principally
flax and barley. The crops are re-
ported magnificent. The total popu-
lation of the county is 5,673, Lisbon
counting up about 1868.
George Harlan, aged sixteen years,
was drowned ut Sioux Falls recently,
while bathing.
Hugh McConville's residence in Cas-
SETON was burned by tramps. Loss
81 900.
w. c. Cook and wife, were killed by
lightning near Chamberlain.
Thirteen Sioux Falls saloonkeepers
have paid $4,000 city license.
Hon. j. H. Drake makes Sioux
Falls a generous offer of Il valuable
plot OF ground upon which to erect q
soldiers monument
Coates, the Scottish thread manu-
tacturer, John Hamilton and Andrew
Allen, OF Montreal, haven viewthe es-
Establishment of astockfarmnearG Grand
Forks, with a capital OF 100000.
Sioux Falls Daily Press: Alnatri-
monlal agency has been startedintown
ofwhich John Cameron is the blooming
head. He has already one applicant
on his books in the person o%fagranger
who wants a lady Of some forty-tive
summers to learn the requirements Of
his household, and if suitable, Mr..
Granger will agree to protect her in
sickness and in health, etc.
A colored boynamed John Owens, OF
Hopkinsville, KY, and an employee o.
a circus, was drowned at Flandrau
while bathing. Thecircusm men left $14
TO defray the funeral expenses.