The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1885-11-27
DAKOTA TERRITORIAL NEWS,

dead at Bismarck.
Eighty acres of landnearR Rapid City
recently sold for S12, 900.
Alden & Waters elevator at Pin.
gree burned. Loss, $4,000.
A colony Of tw~enty-four persons
from Vermont have joined the Ed.
munds county settlement.
Two months ago the Rev. j. B. Nc.
Corkell OF Stanton, gave Joseph Bo.
beau $1,000 to buy ponies in Mon,
tana. That was the last seen OF 10,
seph.
The Estelline creamery just closed
made26,o35 pounds of butter during
the season. The average price paid
Tor cream per pound was 1912 cents.
1t is estimated that 2,ooo,o 600
bushels of grain from the present crop,
l,5OO, 900 of which is wheat, has been
taken out OF points tributary to the
Hastings & Dakota.
One hundred and sixty thousand
bushels of this years crop OF wheat
has been marketed in Aberdeen this
season, half OF which was received last
month.
E~S-Register GeorgeB Armstrongand
family left Huron for their new home
IN Davenport, Iowa, where he will be
the editor of the Gazette.
The new Congregational church at
Cooperstown will cost So. 900, and is
to be q frame structure 32x56 feet.
Marshal Billy Wilson of Rapid City
was shot and killed while attempting
to disarm jesse Borland, Arthur Or
gan and Bud Baird. Borland was
shot twice, and is now under the care
OF physicians. He may possibly re-
cover. Wilson lived q half hour after
the shooting.
The old settlers OF Lincoln county
met at Canton and formed an old set
tiers organization.
William Wilson is twenty-six DAYS
turned over 156acres, mostly stubble,
an average OF six acres a day.
The grand total of all horses, mules,
oxen, COWS and other cattle in 1850
III Dakota was but lSS,512; now it is
1,Oi2,31S-tive and one-half times
greater than 1880, or an increase of
400 per cent. In the spring of 1856
Dakota's stockmen will 60 into bus.
mess with 1.25O.OO0 head of stock.
y Burlington & Northern circular
states that Altoona, a new station on
the Iowa Falls division. eight and one
half miles south OF Elkton, has been
opened for business.
A Flandreau druggist has just re-
ceived a supply of Drugs for the In
dams, among which are 20 gallons of
castor oil, 40 pounds of salts and
4'ooo COMPOUND cathartic pills.
A large number OF white swans have
beer killed in the vicinity Of Mitchell
this season.
Two merchants OF Beresford we're
victimized out OF $500 by buying n
patent fence post.
William Morrison of Valley City was
bound over for selling mortgaged
property.
Rev. Shaffner, who was sentenced to
the penitentiary for six months at the
last term of court at Mitchell for as.
sault with a deadly weapon and who
secured a stay OF sentence pending an
appeal, has skipped, leaving two
bondsmen in the lurch.
John D. Smith, sheriff OF Kidder
county, arrived at Steele with w. N.
Bremen, charged with burglarly near
Steele.
The First National Bank of Sioux
Falls has changed hands. A party
from Chicago is there, and will take a
large share OF the stock of the bank.
j. b. Young, who has been president
OF the bank since its organization in
1850, will retire, to be succeeded by
r. j.. Wells, a prominent attorney.
The elevator of Alden & Waters, at
Pingree, was burned. There were
several thousand bushels OF wheat in
the building, which was insured. The
elevator cost IS, 500, and the owners
are two large farmers at Pingree.
A granger from thelower end ofDavi-
son county, named James G,rundy,
was arrested fer passing spurious
money on Charles Rhodes Of Mitchell.
The mar gave Rhodes IN ancient relic
Of the Rebellion in an 1860 Missouri
bond OF the value OF $50, which
Rhodes accepted with guilcless inno-
cence. In Grundy's possession were
found ahalfdozen ~wretchedly executed
dollars. A smallmint for bogus
dollars IS supposed to be runningsome-
where IN the country, as numbers of
The product are aHoat at Mitchell.
irundy was bound over to the United
court.
The newly appointed register and re-
'eiver at the Huron land office have
assumed their duties.
The Minneapolis & Northern Eleva-
or company are building a 5000
'ushel addition to their large elevator
Ut Park River, making a total capaci-
OF $4,000 bushels.
The grand jury at Yankton returned
Indictments against w. E. Dickey for
murder, J. c. sharpforgran4 l~arcency,
Charles Wabsan for assault and
The destruction of properly by the
Washing OF the Missouri river in the
Bend district is assuming alarm
ng proportions. Two miles below
eiferson the river has washed out a
reat tract os land, and is now within
so rods OF the Chicago, Milwaukee &
It. Paul track, stretching along it's
ath for moro han half q mia {