The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1890-08-01

tion of moving the county seat from Cas-
tlewood TO Bryant at the fall election.
| over 500 voters signed the petition.
Ella icdedro, aged IL, died at Forest
City after an illness of seven years. She
was afflicted witha peculiar ailment her
skin mt intervals turning black and then
gradually fading to its natural color
John b. Cronk is under arrest at Fland-
rcau charged with refusing to turn over
the money in his hands belonging to the
school district of which he was treasurer
1t is said that he is something over 500
short.
Henry Bentner, IA year old boy living
at Grow Lake, Aurora county, committed
suicide by hanging himself with u harness
lire. Hc lie. n horse fall in u well, and,
| fearing the disp! !easurc of his father, hung
himself
Excitement around the new lend find up
the Bad river valley still continues The
vein is much larger than 1T first thought
md Il number of mineral claims have
been staked out in the vicinity of the find
The work of developing will Legin at
once.
Forest City is preparing for Il big cele-
bration on the completion of the Sioux City
and Forest City road from Gettysburg to
that point. 1t was expected the road
would be completed in time to celebrate
the event on July 3, but delay in the ur.
rival of iron prevented.
| The report that Mrs. John II King had
become deranged is denied jim nletter from
| Washington to the Sioux Falls Press She
had been very i'll forsthe pas, six weeks
but has fully recovered, and is now in bet
ter health than she. has been for some
months. There was nothing in her illness
of tho nature referred to.
| Professor Free of Yankton college who,
with Professor Culver, has leen making u
! geological survey of the clay deposits in
the vicinity of Yank,on, says that the sup
/ ply is practically nexhau stibie. Analysis
shows that the clay is identical with the
famous Thames clay, from which the
| famous Portland cement is made.
| II. ID. Cooper, of Folsom, Custer county,
reached Pierre the other day after an eA
tensive trip over the reservation country.
i In an interview in the Capital he states
| that the reservation is being fast settled,
despite the stories of bad lands and worse
indians, which, he says, are set aioat by
the big stockmen, who want to monopolize
the country for grazing purposes.
The Deadwood Pioneer says George H.
Willard, of that city, "has received the sad
and painful news of the death of IL great
uncle in England, who leaves an estate of
sit, ,IOo, 600, of which lie is heir to one
eighth, and that lie will so over ond ge.
his share of the "scads'i us lie re-
covers from lis pain and Sadness
| Judge kinyon, of Plunkinton, is the sole
owner OF u peculiar town site. Three
years ago TWO prairie dogs took up Their
abode in the judges pasture. Beng the
| first he had ever seen he would not allow
the boys 10 kill them. They luid out
town, which has ever since been on con-
tinual boom, and at a census taken the
other day it was found that the opulntion
has now reached fully 500.
Among the most prosperous people in
| South Dakota ure the Mennonites of Han
son and Hutchinson counties. In the
former county, u short distance south OF
(, Alexandria, is located what is known as
the Rockport colony. They deal largely in
! stock and arc extensive WOO growers.
| Although the colony is small it possesses
some goodly herds, the crop of lambs alone
| N~>-'S.-
day they marketed 1900 pounds of WOOL
the product of $500 sheep. This year they
have 500 acres OF wheat which is in fine
condition and promises to yield high above
| tie average.
Bishop Marty, of the Sioux Falls diocese
has appointed the following priests as
members of the diocesan school board F:
Rev. Geo. Sheehan, of Mitchell; Rev. Syl-
vester Maddox, of Huron Rev. Cyrile
st. Picrre, of jefferson: Rev. Thomas F.
| Hopkins, of Yankton, and Rev. George A.
| Rtcklin, of Sioux Falls. The board will
have charge of all the Catholic schools Of
the state, which includes the entire diocese
of Sioux Falls
| There arrived at the Yankton insane
asylum the other day poor 10y, nn timer.
ant bootblack, in charge of the sheriff of
Edmunds county. He was known in many
Dakota cities as "Dutchy,n and made his
living by blacking boots, running errands
and doing odd jobs. While in Ipswich
some time ago he was struck on the head
with club by u brutal citizen, and his
reason it is thought permanently i'm
| paired.
When the Deadwood and Sturgis stage
coach was makinga trip the other night
cabin midway between the two places
wns discovered to be on fire. The coach
was stopped and passenger, through
curiosity, went over and peeped through
the window to see if there was anyone on
the inside Three men We're lying in bed
| fast asleep and would undoubtedly have
been badly burned but for the timely nr-
rival of tho coach The fire, which caught
from camp fire near by, was extinguished
before much damage was done.
William Craven, census enumerator for
Ziebach, the extreme western reservation
county opened for settlement snysa very
large immigration Is pouring into that sec
tion and the good farming land is being
rapidly taken up The county is well
watered and there is not better county
in the state for agricultural purposes.
At Fort Rice, in Morton county, in tile
post graveyard lie the remains of some
fifty soldiers who were massacrcd by the
Indians some years ugo while building the
fort. The place was visited by relatives
the other day, who repo, the graves in q
wofully neglected condition. An effort
will be made to have congress pass n
special act consecrating the grounds ns n
national cemetery and thus secure prorer
care OF the graves by the government.
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A Hero Burned to Death.
/ DENVER, Colo, July 2l.-The Com
mcrcial hotel, an old time structure,
burned near the union depot at an early
hour this morning. The loss was net
large, owing to the worn out character
of the improvements. About forty per-
sons came near being suffocated, and
seven were carried out of the burning
building in an insensible condition
John johnson, having carried out a
number of people, mostly women, lost
his own life finally in attempting an.
other rescue.
Fool Boy and n Revolver.
LINCOLN, Neb., July 21.-While Tom
Benninghall, youth Of II, was fooling
with a revolver last evening, he asked
4 a group of boys: (Which one of you
wants to be shot?" Eugene Warmers