The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1888-12-28

for the first time last Saturday night.
Three stores were destroyed by fire at Stella
Monday morning, entailing q loss of about
1000.
The Inauguration of the electric light sys-
TEN at West Point occurred last Monday
Gvehtng.
Mike Owens, an extensive cattle dealer and
wealthy citizen of Creighton, is lying at
DEATHS door.
A II year old boy OF respectable parents
burglarized hardware store at Nebraska
City few aighss ag3.
Pierce needs brass band and professor
from Norfolk will organize one II there arc
musicians enough in the town.
r. L. Roberts grocery at Beatrice was
closed under chsttel mortgage last Saturday.
Liabilities, 5000; assets unknown.
Two new brick school buildings, two stories
high and costing over sl2, ,ci0 ea.h, haze been
accepted by the board OF education at Beat
| rice and will be used at the opening of.the
| winter term after the holidays.
The News declares that Norfolk is getting
too big to do her telegraph business at rail-
road Office. She nerds an exclusive telegraph
office.
slick rascal has been taking In Columbus
| merchants by purchasing goods of them on
credit, selling them to others and pocketing
the proceeds.
An individual giving the name OF w. B.
Allison played the role Of military ,nsFnate
at Ashland few aays ago and scooped the
| natives out Of ss5, an ovcrcoat and two days.
| board.
j. H. Lester, treasurer of Halliday's min
strels, skipped out with the box receipts after
The performance at Syracuse last Monday
/ night. The amcpnt taken wes ahout slOD,
and LETT tba company fat broke.
The Fremont board of education at spec
ial meeting held last Monday night passed
| resolutions declaring that owing to the rapid
| increase In the number Of pupils of school ge
in the city, high school building and an
other ward school were imperative needs and
recommending that proposition to vote $751;
600 in bonds be ssblnt.tsd to the people and
| that the proceeds be devoted to the erection Of
such buildings. Two new school buildings
were built this year and still the schools are
oyererowded.
IOWA
| The Fontanellc Enterprise IA no more.
The cornet band at Montczuma is being re-
organised,
| The benson Review favors electric lights
for Dcnison.
Osksloosa reports 925 boys and ,Gsl girls
OF fchool age in that place.
The Dodge light guards Of Council Bluffs
will organize a fife tam at ONE,
The Farmers Insurance company, of Boone
county, has s437 900 in risks at this date.
I Muscatine has row four establishments In
which auctioneers are crying day and night
Esthervlle citizens are donating street
lamps to the city conditional upon them being
kept lighted.
| What Cheer Is worried over mysterious
| spooks who manifest their presence by @ex-
hibting lights in the cemetery.
The Leader predicts that the first phono-
graph to find Its way into Des Moines will be
the property Of Fred ". Lehihann.
The plentifulncss of prairie wolves In the
suburbs Of Council Bluffs and their manifest
hunger 10 puzzle to the natives of that city.
The people in the sou hwestern part Of
Mahsska county are agitatipg the question Of
a new iron bridge over the Des Molrcs river.
Mrs. Henry Johns, living near Sandyyille,
Warren county, committed suicide by hang
Ing last Saturday. She was partially de-
merted.
The l5 year old son OF V. 1romblee OF Anita
was sho. in the side by companion while
rabbit hunting. The wound is not necessarI-
ly fatal.
Ducks arc very scarce In the vicinity OF
Muscatine. A game dealer says that less
than 200 Of them have been marketed there
this fall.
Dubuque men now parade the streets at
night dressed MS women, waiting for the
p!ncher to attack them. They think they will
ca ch him In this way.
A war among the butchers of Council Bluffs
has been raging for some time and the result
is that the poorest people In the town can In
dulge in good dinners at living rates.
Small boys at Council Bluffs are playing
around the electric motor line in very care
less manner and the Globe reporter is watch
Ing and waiting for a first class death item.
The merchants of Tama City are indulging
In little rivalry in the way Of cutting prices
and marking goods in plain figures The In.
habtants Of that city keenly enjoy the new
break.
DAKOTA.
Sturgis is about to have an artesan well.
Washington Springs is discussing the qucs.
tion Of incorporating.
A blacksmith chop is one of the urgent
needs at Gam Valley.
The Sentinel complains of an abundance OF
petty thieves at Whitewood.
The Chief wonders If Iroquois will be able
to secure Touring mill in 1889.
Considerable activity is manifested III tho
local stock market at Lead City.
Fish In large quantities arc being captured
daily at Lake Poinsett near Arlington.
The Catholic fair at Aberdeen closed las,
Saturday night. The receipts were over 800
The governors guard at Bismarck have re-
fitted their armory and put in gymnasium
The town Of Memo has taken steps to In
corporate at the January meeting of the
county board.
The Eighth cavalry band OF Fort Meade
will give concert In Deadwood next Wedaes
day evening.
There Is talk OF recognizing the hut of th,
Oriental Order OF Humility at Sioux Falls
There are about 200 members in that city ant
fully fifty who are desrous Of joining.
The Yankton Press tells athc following
"Dr. Ellis has In his possession the skull of .
horse recently deceased which exhibits
curious mslformation. A back tooth on tn
lower jaw had grown more than an incl
longer than its fellows and had broken ou
two of the opposite teeth on the upper jaw
and worn deep indention in the upper iay
bone. The horse died of Indigestion, bein,
unable to grind his food on account of thi
abnormal tooth growth''
MINNESOTA.
One case of diphtheria and one of scarle
fever are reported at Wfnona.
H, o. Budholz, a saloonkeeper at Red Wing
was fined S54 last Monday for selling liquo
to en- habitual drunkard.
The barn and contents belonging to Johl
Crosby, near st. Cloud, we're totally destroys
by fire last Sunday night. Loss, 1000, Wit