The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1886-11-26
DAKOTA TERRITORIAL NEWS.

1 term OF court IN Hughes county un-
til January.
! A branch of the First National Bank
I of Columbia has been established at
/ Oakes.
! A young woman living at Armour
I died a few days ago from the effects OF
taking the wrong medicine compound
ed by mistake by q druggist.
/ About twenty travelling men hap
pened to be at Huron on Sunday and
they all went to church in n body.
There are hundreds OF gold, silver,
/ tin, lead and mica claims in the Black
Hills now lying idle and non-pro-
ductive, merely for the lack OF cap
ltal to work them.
The recent election in La Moure
county resulted in majority OF SO
for removing the county seat from
! Grand Rapids to La Moure.
The LIST day OF October there was
not one house in the new town OF
Monango, in Dickey county, and the
list day OF November there were fifty
John Wilson, O. farmer living near
VERONA, died from the effects of %
gunshot wound in the leg, accidentally
received. Wilson was thirty five years
OF age and from Wisconsin.
The Sioux Falls Savings bank, with
a capital OF $50, 900, has Just been or
ganized. The officers are: President,
j. Il. Gilbert; treasurer and cashier,
Mark Russell.
A man named Cleveland, cousin Of
the president, was elected coroner of
Trall county.
Those with means of comparison
state that there have been more land
and home seekers in Dakota this fall
than q year ago A large proportion
have means and prefer to buy land
The Milwaukee & st. Paul has asked
the New York stock exchange to list
81 100000 first mortgage bonds of
the Dakota & Great Southern.
The Sioux Falls Press believes the
Burlington road will move northwest
ward from Sioux Falls and from Wa
tertowH In two lines-that these lines
Will forn, Il junction at Glendale, and
front there one line will be sent on to
Bismarck.
An Indignation meeting was held at
Huron, all on account OF the fact that
the street cur company had large
lorce OF men at work on Sunday, and
a committee of three was appointed
to look up the law and see ii such rep.
rehensible Sabbath desecration can
not be stopped.
e. S. Kneeland OF Hillsboro has lust
completed a greenhouse, which is the
largest institution OF the kind in the
territory. 1t is heated by steam and
contains between two and three thou
sand plants.
A party OF eight or ten men and
women, who call themselves the Pray
ing Band, have gone from jamestown
to Storm Lake, Iowa. They have
rented houses, and will make that
town their Dakota headquarters.
They are a similar organization to
the Salvation Army, and propose to
make a canvass OF the town, hold
meetings and do ali possible to reclaim
lost sinners. They begin their work
at once. having already billed the
town with large posters.
The grading on the Milwaukee & st.
Paul line, between Preston and Madi-
son, is nearly completed, and the
track is being laid at the rate OF one
mile per day.
An Aberdeen dispatch says: secre-
tary Quinn has closed up the head
quarters of the Democratic territorial
committee here and has gone home to
Bismarck. The official returns have
not been very generally received vet,
but it is understood that Gitford's
majority will not vary much from 49, I
900. The legislature, SO far as heard
from, shows three Democrats in the
council and five n the house, with two
farmers candidates from Cass county
and one independent from Ramsey.
At the district court at Lakota the
impo rtant case OF the term has been
the trial OF young Wheeler for the
murder of Andrew Abrahamson at
Michigan City some time ago. The in.
~ returned q verdict of not guilty. |
w heeier was q watchman at an eleva- !
tor at Michigan City. Abrahamson
was proving around the premises, I!
and, not obeying Wheeler's command |
to halt, was shot dead
The body OF a dead man has been
.ound near Bristol. An examination
developed that he had been shot three +
lines, twice in the face and oncei in the
back OF the head, and in addition to
5hls had his throat cut from ear to
ear. Not a thing could be found on
Or about the person of the dead man
20 Indicate who or what he was, and
1ot n person in or around Bristol
snew anything OF him, or remembered
having seen him. The jury returned
verdict in accordance with above
acts. The mystery was partially
cleared up q few days ago, when q
Foung man named Miller, who had at
,empted suicide by poison. confessed
hat he was party to the murder.
The management OF the Rapid City
Republican changed, c. E. Bishop, the
present editor, retiring, and j. w.
hcManus assuming the editorship and
ontrol.
1ankton special:-M. H. Day, F.
4. Ziebach and other leading Demo-
rats are of the opinion that the sue
essor OF Gov. Pierce will not be ap-
,ointed till after the adjournment of
he legislature. Mr.. Pierce is perfectly
amiliar with the affairs OF the terri
orY, and to put a. new MAJ, into flo