The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1890-10-03
RULE COUNTY, SOUTH DAKOTA, FRIDAY,

hrSaua toWhship, rauiK county, the site
of w aich was recently located by the ar
tesian we'll commissioner on the farm of
+. A. Seaman. The work Is being done
under the state law of 1887.
Carl Lindell and Harry Rathmell, of
Pierre, were out picking plums and hunt
Ing the other day and it came hear being
Lindell's last hunt. They had rifle, 45
caiiber, in the wagon, and Lindell seized it
by the muzzle to pull it out, when it natur-
ally went off. The ball passed through
the rim OF his hat and his face was consid-
erably powder burned.
A painful accident happened to freigh-
ter named Bob Hunt at the d. s. d.
smelter at Deadwood Tuesday afternoon.
He was driving bull outfit, wagons
loaded with coke, when one of the animals
fell. Bob, in his effort to get 1t on its feet,
was badly gored by one of Its horns, which
penetrated the scrotum, tearing 1t in such
manner that the right testicle protuded.
In July, 1880. w. NJ. BATHS, of Glen
Ullin, bought 500 sheep, for which he paid
$9t0. During the next year hs took no
caro- of the sheep himself but hired them
kept and fed, for which he paid 1925, max
ing total of 81, ,225 for sheep and keeping.
This year, the wool-3.0Ol pounds--at IL
cents per pound and the lambs at market
value amounted to 81, 1T2, and he had the
original flock of 3C0 in addition. To make
Sl,l72 on Il ,225 in one year comes very near
being good Investment
But few people In the Black Hills have
more friends or sympathizers than NJ. G.
Lincoln. In the pioneer days he was u
placer miner, later on a drill polisher, and
then clerk in the Merchants National
bank at Deadwood, where he soon became
cashier, and whore he remained until fail
ing eyesight warned him that he must take
a vacation. He went east and had the
best medical skill for two orthree years,
and now he returns 10 his old friends with
the light of heaven shut ont forever.
N. Hutaf runs sheep ranch west ct
Pierre. Last Monday he moved camp to a
point on prominent butte overlooking
Bad river with q perpendicular embank-
ment OF about fifty or seventy-five feet
After supper and in the darkness of the
night he drew out his pipe for peaceful
smoke ard let the pipe fall to the ground
He stopped down and began crawling and
feeling around for the missing campion
and crawied to the edge of the precipice,
the bank caved and lie fell to the ground
below. When found all he could say was,
Are you taking me away to bury mean
His skull Is crushed, and unless the physi-
clans can raise 1t and relieve the pressure
on the brain the old mai will die.
Redfield college has received 81 600 from
the estate of Duncan Mackay, of Morri-
son, Ill.
(. A 6-year-old son Of Peter Gnffney, of
jamestown, was following moving ma
chine while cutting hay last week, and by
some means became caught by the sickle
bar. The child's leg was badly cut.
w. c. Bartlett, the contractor for the
new hotel at Huron, met with an accident
whereby he will lose the thumb and one or
iusting a derrick, in operation, his left
hand was caught and drawn through the
gearing.
The city council of Aberdeen has con-
tracted with Lawrence Wheeler to sink a
eix-inch artesian well at the price of So 3S
per foot, with the understanding that for
each 100 feet below 900 feet the price in
crease SO cents per foot, and further that
the outside casing to the depths of about
450 feet remain in the ground, the addi-
tional cost of this pipe to be at the whole
sale price and freight. This is great re-
duction in the prices that have been paid
heretofore.
a Dakota paper says: Put s1,to,0o0
into artesian well and in few years South
Dakota could build Snez canal and give
it to the government.
Eighty dollars was stolen from the trunk
of Mrs. Ross, who runs the boarding house
on section 7s of the Burlington and Mis-
souri, road in the Black Hills, on Tuesday.
Professor Free, the we'll known geologist
OF 9ankton college, after repeated and
careful examinations of Dako as Ignite
deposits, says that they offer solution of
the problem of cheap fuel for North Da-
kota. In order to secure the best results,
he recommends the use Of Ignite stoves,
which differ from other stoves as much as
soft coal stoves differ from hard coal
stoves.