The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1885-05-29
DAKOTA TERRITORIAL NOTES,

is a leading merchant at Fargo. 1t is
understood that the son is u candidate
for the Fargo Office.
Fargo Special :-About half of a clio.
ony of 100 Roumanians sent out by emf.
grafton agents to settle on the Cana.
dian Pacific, near the scene of the Riel
trouble, reached Fargo, on their way
to locate in Foster county. They are
thoroughly disguised with Manitoba
and their treatment there. They only
stopped one day at Qu'Appelle and
turned about. They found the country
full of soldiers and Indians, and every,
one going for their money, Part OF
the party stopped at Winnipeg from
lack of means, but will follow, and
many more will settle in Dakota.
Judge Francis ~pronounces the act Of
the legislature unconstitutional provid-
ing q way for him to- admit young
Maeill to bail. He was tried for shoot.
ing o man and the jury disagreed.
About Blunt in Hughes county, there
is a third more land in wheat than last
e 1t is the increase in new sections
that will make up for the shortage in
the older settled sections.
A camp meeting on a large scale is
being arranged for in Lincoln county
in June.
A farmer in Lincoln county claims
to have discovered thot flax seed eaten
Inv stock is fatal to them.
The Daily News at Devils Lake has
retired for q year, leaving the field to
the Inter Ocean. 1t will continue as a
weekly.
The past year 1o1 final proofs were
made in Yankton county. Probably
most of them were tree claims, as it is
one of the Oldest counties.
G. NJ. Clark, "Chet," as called, who
died at Caledonia recently, was a char
acter of considerable note in Trail
county, of which he was the first sheriff
and about the first settler, having gone
there in 1870. He was a very large
land holder.
Miss Stevens, a Devils Lake belle,
has returned to her claim with the
mean to prove up, earned on the vaude-
vile boards during the winter.
Members of the bar at Wahpeton e1.
press themselves highly pleased with the
appointment Of w. b. Mcconnell to
succeed Judge Hudson. u
Two hundred and fifty immigrants
settled in Edmuads county recently,
Mayor Stow of .Deadwood was re-
elected by an almost unanimous vote.
Grant county claims u population OF
over 5000 and the value of it's property
is estimated at So, 600, 900. The county
produced over a million bushels of
wheat in 1884.
Fargo has suspended Chief of Police
Wood, and q conflict with the council
is looked for.
President Cleveland signed the com
mission of William B. Mcconnell of
Fargo, to be associate justice Of the ter
ritorial supreme court.
Four burglar1es were committed at
Yankton, making ten or twelve in ten
days. The people are stirred up great
~.
The G. A. r. territorial reunion will
be held in Aberdeen the second week
in September.
Farmers in the vicinity of Frederick
have planted 100, 600 trees this spring.
Several parties living in the neigh
borhood of the Washington hills have
discovered myriads of grasshoppers
already Matched where the old grass is
still left unburned.
a billiard tournament is being ar.
ranged between Yankton, Sioux Falls
and Mitchell experts.
The late storms in the Black Hills
caused heavy losses of stock.
Near Steele, seven men were riding
on a hand car, aud, while running at a
rapid rate, the car jumped the track
and rolled down an e~nbankment, iuiur-
ing every man. The seven wounded
laborers were taken to the Northern
hospital at Brainerd.
A young man named Sidney S. Jor-
dan was struck by lightning and killed,
on Unions ranch, three miles north of
Rapid City.
There are eighty-eight G.. A. R.
posts in the territory. with an aggre,
gate membership of something like
5000.
Mr.. Babcock, living zeal Sioux Falls,
has captured six cub wolves.
In Woonsocket, Contractor Payne
horse-whipped q young school teacher,
Fred Slack, on the main street. The
latter had been keeping company with
Payne's daughter ind she attempted to
dismiss him, but he vas persistent, and
she appealed to her father. Payne was
arrested and fined.
The Homestead Mining company has
declared dividend No. 80 or 25 cents a
share, or $31, $50. Total dividends to
date, 81, 71S, $50. The Father de Smet
has declared its forty-fourth dividend,
20 cents a share, aggregating $40. 600.
Total dividend to date, 1890, 900. or $40
o share.
The vote at Steele, for the division
Of Kidder county and the formation OF
Stanton county stood: 1876 for. Z
against; at Happen, As for, - against
Crystal Springs, 5 for, 6 against.
Fifteen car loads of telegraphic equip
ments Went up to the jamestown s.
Northern recently, in charge of Mr..
Willoughby, as foreman, and the work
Of finishing up the construction of the
line to the Minnewaukan will be pushed
fOrWaru with the oreatast ra niait,. ,,os.