The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1890-08-15
organization of the old and effective vigil.

Sheriff Boyd, of Pennington county, re-
cently captured an embezzler named
Smith, wanted at Lancaster, o., and
turned him over to the Ohio authorities.
Sioux Falls has just engaged thirty-four
instructors for her public schools, and has
let contract for a $50, 90 school building,
making the sixth structure devoted to this
purpose,
a thief broke open the corner stone of
the new institute building at Piedmont and
abstracted tberefrom the bright new silver
dollar placed in it when the stone was laid
short time ago.
The counties of Beadle, Yankton, Hughes
and Edmunds have been selected by the
census bureau for the purpose of making a
special investigation of real estate mort
guge indebtedness.
The Hill City Tin Minor says the Same
iias mine near that city is producing the
richest tin ore ever taken out of the ground.
The vein matter is white quartz and tho
cry stalls are very large.
The Homestake Mining company, of
Lead City, paid a dividend of ~ cents a
share, aggregatins $l2,5oo, making ssf, 5o0
paid this year. Up to the present time the
SSHRuhy pdlu lff olNlQSIuS.
1t is estimated that there are still AIT,
200 acres of vacant land in the Aberdeen
land district. Mcpherson county has 1885,
5t0i Campbell lO9,520; Edmunds, $3.50;
Walworth, 1864 and Brown, 1000.
Tue Minnesota Star figures this way:
"The Black Hills guzzles down $1,000 bot
ties of St. Louis beer every seven days
equal in cash value to $500 per week,
5000 per month and 100000 per year"
The Mellette Tribune says the present
season has fully demonstrated that farming
in that section without irrigation is fail
ure and that several artesian wells will be
sunk in the vicinity of Mellette next year.
The body of u newly born infant was
found in a well ut Clear lake, and Matte
Berge, young Swede girl, was arrested
charged with its maternity. She confessed
that it was her child, but claimed that it
was dead when born.
There is a scheme on foot to secure the
location of a tiiing factory ut Pierre. 1t is
expected that the tiling will be manufact-
nred out of the famous gumbo which exists
| in large quantities in the vicinity of
Pierre.
Two new papers, Norwegian and Swed-
ish, will make their appearance ut Pierre
about the lst of August, making
in all two dulles and five weeklies pub
lished in the city, while Fort Pierre, across
the river, has three weeklies.
About two weeks ago the little IA
month old son of j. II. Gardner, of
Huron, was attacked with violent spasms
of coughing. Physicians were summoned,
and, while one affirmed that the child was
troubled with bronchitis, another was of
the opinion that somo foreign substance
had lodged in the right lung, which in timo
would be expelled by the child's coughing.
The trouble continued for twelve days,
when the little fellow coughed up com
| mon fourpenny nail, which he had picked
up and swallowed while playing on the
floor.
Hutchinson county shows up well as n
live stock county, the aggregate value of
oil stock being s443, ,ll2. The list com
prises Case horses, valued at S250,6;S;
1888 cattle, at Sl4l $50, forty-four mules,
at 81 $40; 12,693 sheep at sl9,055, and 49,
4O3 hogs, at S&9,9l9.
One of Uncle Sans blue coats, finding
life monotonous ut Fort Sully, spiced
things up little by eloping with Miss
Maggie Jordan. The elopers only had n
half hours start, but managed to reach
Pierre and have the knot securely tied be-
for the pursuing party put in an appear.
ance.
Bill Roy, Joe Palmer and E. Palmer,
have just arrived home from the reserva-
tion country, says the Rapid City Journal.
The boys are now located on Bal river,
| where they have struck large quantity of
very rich iron ore, and are hard at wor X
developing their find. Bill says that for
the past two weeks in his section it has
done nothing but rain. Tho country
| around this location, the boys say, is q
magnificent one and abounding in every
kind of game
Sportsmen are anxiously waiting the
d ate when prairie chickens will be ripe.
Reports from various parts of the state
indicate an enormous crop of young birds
AT an old folks meeting in Yankton the
other evening the ages of twelve people
pres ent aggregated sos years, an average
of 7.1s years each. Four were 50 and up-
wards, aggresating 339 years, four were
"a and upwards, aggregating so5 years,
and the combined ages of eight reached
6i4 years, or an average of S0l4 years each
Governor Mellette has published n state
ment of the relief fund, accounting in de-
tail for each dollar received and paid out.
The total receipts Of cash were s39, G27. 46,
and IL per cent of the amount, or 50, 962. "a,
was not expended and is being returned to
he donors. The contributions of the rail-
roads in money and Transportation
amounted 10 many thousands of dollars.