The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1888-05-18
The NORTHWEST.
DAKOTA.


Dor for Sl0,sOO.
AT the lower Brule agency resides squaw
said to be about one hundred and twenty
seven years Of age.
More final proofs were made at he Yankton
land Office during April than for the same
time during two years past
The Bowman hotel at Ashton enjoys the
distinction of being the frs. building in the
territory heated by natural gas.
A inc monument, erected to the memory of
the soldiers who fell in the late war, Is to be
unveiled at Lisbon on Decoration day.
The editor OF the Ulivet Rural Voice loans
money. Fortunate fellow Most of his
brethren belong to the borrowing class.
Public attention is now being attracted to
the vast bodies of refractory gold ores found
in the immediate vicinity Of Custer City
l.. G. johnson, who started the Aberdeen
u Bismarck railroad, now part of the 500
line, is engineering branch from Dickinson
south toward the Black Hills
The city council of Sioux Falls has ordered
Phillips avenue, the main business thorough
fare OF the city, paved with jasper granite
ploShb. nc NOlh Will " commenced At
once
John Doyle, a farmer living near the Brock
ings and Deuel. county line, has, during the
past three weeks, burned four of his children,
the cause of death being diphtherla and
measles.
| Friday night fire broke out in the hardware
store of Enos Il Ballet at Grady A bucket
| brigade was formed, and the building and
stock saved, with loss Of $500. The fire was
In the very heart of the town, and caught
from timers stove.
NEBRASKA,
The Valentine base ball club will play an
interesting mutch game on the 10Th last with
| the Chadron club
The question OF adopting electricity as a
motor power for machinery in Seward is re-
ceivlng some discussion,
| A7-yeaf=oid A boy named Crum was drowned
in a creek near Clearwater last week while on
his way to school.
The sales Of real estate in Omaha last week
amounted to 81. ,Sol and the Herald says the
market was lively.
| Gen. John Brooke, the new commander of
Omaha the last of this week.
| man and his wife named Town, Of Grand
Rapids, Mich, were amohg the victims of the
railroad wreck at Alma last week
There will be at least thirty separate and
extensive eshibits, Mt the druggists costen-
tion to be hold at Lincoln this week.
Eastern capitalists are negotiating with
~ In oF N;,hr
able spot on which to build large -four
mill.
The code of moral laws laid down by the
city dads for the police of Beatrice to live up
| to is only slight abridgement of the holy
bible.
A man named Hawk, who Was to be tried at
! the Pierce district court for adultery, com
'nittcd suicide one day last week by poisoning
himself.
The Lincoln Y Nj. c. A. is making extcn-
sive arrangements for its third annual book
reception, which will take place on the even
ing Of Mayo.
The original corn palace city of two hcmi-
spheres, Sioux City, Ia, is already making
contracts for corn with Dixon and Dakota
counties, Nebraska.
| Twenty-seven indictments were returned by
the grand jury last Friday eve aing against
the seven members Of the Curtis election
board,
John lsttef, who murdered Thomes Carter,
MS brother, in Sheridan county last January,
was found guilty Of manslaughter at Rush
Vile last Friday, and sentenced to ten years.
Imprisonment, with one day Of solitary con-
+, hnement each year on the anniversary OF the
crime. 1t is the extreme penalty Of the lsw.
IOWA.
| The Dubuque Democrat has $4,000 libel
suit on hand. 1t called man a highway rob-
Der and won't apologize.
Prof. w. Wilcox has been engaged for three
years as principal OF the Mason City schools
at salary of 81 300 year.
Rev. VIM. Leavitt, formerly pastor of the
Congregational church of Monticello, is now
editing the Norfolk, Neb., Journal.
A homeless girl in the Burlington Jail had
ten epileptic fits in one day, and yet they
turned her out on the cold charities Of the
world.
! Fred Gilbert, an Independence boy, who
went TO Washington Territory few weeks
ago, is dying from small pox in pest house
at Seattle.
A horse which Miss Anna Powell was drv
ing at Carroll, became frightened at passing
engine and threw her from the buggy. 1t i.
feared that fatal injuries were sustained.
The Iowa Soldiers home now has 15O in
mates The family is increasing rapidly ant
it is thought by the end of the year the full
capacity Of the home, 800, will have bee,
reached.
1t is said that no less than eight schoo
teachers In the public schools OF Kcokuk vii
be married during the coming vacation.
The mayor Of Estherville has been instruct
ed by the council to contract for an artesia
well 600 feet deep in the court house yard.
The supreme court has decided that If tt
highways are blockaded persons may eros
fields and no farmer can have him arrcste
for trespassing.
The National bank of Boone has been i,
christened by the comptroller OF the currency
and will hereafter be known as the First M
tional bank OF Boone.
Mrs. B. Coniff has filed suit against tn
Wy VI heohuh Aoi Slo,ooo udiudScs, CialUlln
to have been injured for life by falling on
defective street crossing.
All of the 6,000 notarial commissions NO
force in Iowa expire July /. About 1000 al
plications for renewal have already been r,
ceived at the executive office.
MINNESOTA.
Duluth wants building inspector
st. Coul is becoming quite brick man,
featuring center.
Farmers near Perham do not fear a agras
hopper plague this season.
Fifty workmen are pushing the work on IL
new stone hotel at pipestone.
High water has destroyed constdcrab
property in and around Wincna.
I. The Pipestone County Building associate
!. mas filed articles Of incorporation.
= uniform rank of Knights OF Pythias W.