The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1890-07-11

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on her head and completely sevcring her
left ear.
The Lake county Sunday school conyen-
tion will be held at Lake Madison July 1s,
in connection with the union Sunday.
school picnic.
w. s Frost, Of Brookings, has been en-
gagged to take the place in the agricultural
college recently made vacant by the death
of Professor j. G. Cotey.
Judge Leaper, of Pierre, census enumer-
ator of the Sioux Indians, has been
christened by the redmen "Long Bow.
without-any- arrow.n
Robert G. Allen, signal officer at Fort
Sully, has been promoted to the position Of
meteorological clerk in the Office of Gem
eral Greeley at Washington, D. e.
Madison is coming to the front as con-
vention city The grand lodge X. of p.
and the grand lodge l. o. G. t. have de
cided to hold their sessions In that city next
year.
Tho city council of Dell Rapids has
passed resolutions calling on citizens to
aid in tho suppression OF the sale of intox-
icatin 8 liquors in any form, "original" or
otherwise.
There are at present ninety one conviots
in the Sioux Falls penitentiary, ffty-four
boys and girls in the reform school at
Plankin and 1854 inmates in the insane
asylum Mt Yankton.
| a Mitchell census enumerntor in his
rounds the other day found Scandinavian
woman 93 years o.d, who tends to her reg
ular household duties, milks the cows and
Is as lively as a woman of 40.
| Ned Mcdonald, Washington Springs
small boy, was SO fond Of green currants
that lie poi1ed his ears full of them. A
doctor removed the currants with:a pair of
tweezers, but the boy may lose his hear
1 Ing.
Bay1ey, the Northern Pacific train rob-
| Der in jail at Fargo, has been identified as
| the horse thief who made o daring escape
from the officers who had captured him
while crossing tho Sisseton reservation
some years ago. His escape made quite
stir at tho time.
Menno Rustler: This item may seem
like fish story to those who read it, but
nevertheless We saw with our own eyes
nice, plump peach, as large as a hens egg,
growing on an apple tree not ten miles
from Memo. That shows that Dakota
can raise fruit, don't it ems
A petition is being circulated for the
transfer of N owlin county from the Cham
berlain land district to that of Pierre.
Nowlin county will probably be organized
this fall and there is promise of as sharp o
contest over the location of the county
seat as was fought in Stanley county.
The Pierre Capital says the clothes worn
y kl,.~ l, ,ln, okx
tournament in that city twill compare ia
vorably with the most fastidious attire of
the elite of any of our cities"
A ranchman on the reservation started
out several years ago with a solitary COW,
and now owns 900 head of cattle, 600
horses and thirty two buffalo and crosses.
The business men of Deadwood are or
ganizing club. 1t will lie incorpora
under the laws of the state and will have
q capitalization OF 10000, divided into 100
shares Of 500 each, thus limiting the mem
bership to 100. Its objects are to forward
the business and social interests of Dead.
wood.
In his charge to the grand jury at Web
ster, Day county, Judge Andrews gave in
structions for an examination into all cases
packages and to report indictments. He
held that the state law was sufficiently
broad to fully cover the ground and In
formed the jury that he proposed to see the
law enforced.
Rina Gottlieb Faulk county girl, was
taken to the Planhinton reform school the
other day, but as she attempted suicide the
} first nj ght of her incarceration the iustitu-
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had made two previous attempts at sui
, eide and was taken to the school in hopes
of cure.
Tho Lyman journal says the Indians are
not satisfied with the government bound
, ary line on the north side of the reserva-
} tion, and are endeavoring to get new sur
vey that will give them more land. They
claim that the terms of tho Dawes bill
were not carried out in this respect, and
that the coal lands will be mainly lost to
them If the present line is insisted on.
Tho Rapid City Republican seys: A
Chinaman In this city has garden ten
, feet wido ut one end twenty at the other,
and forty feet long, that has produced
more garden truck this year and will pro
duce moro tLan any white mans truck
patch of an acre of ground. White men
, could get pointers agriculture from
these same heather Chinese, as it has been
J their study for centuries 20 know how tc
best utilize every square foot of the land
they cultivate.
.. William Oman, of Bismarck, is the pos
sessor of quilt made from the uniforms
, Of the soldiers who went out with Genera
Custer from Fort A. Lincoln to his last and
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left the fort with General Custer under the
command of Colonel Weer, in the Seventh
3 cavalry, but on the day of the fight hi.
: company was about ten miles firm the
scene of the massacre. They could hea1
the report Of tho guns, but On account Of
the hills could not witness the terrible
butchery.
4 A mad dog bit sixteen hogs belonging t.
jacob Hautfip, of Childstown, Turne,
county, and fourteen of the animals died
os hogs belonging to Peter Stuckey, will
J. the same result. While Stuckey was feed
ing ono of the afflicted porkers it bit hin
= through the hand, making painful wounG
that may result seriously.
a strange legend comes to us from the
Sioux, who alone can tell the true history
of that deadly ambuscnde, says the Rapit
d City Republican. They sas that on the
iilock where Custer fe. now grows q
:. plant never seen there before-n curious
plant with long, slender leaves, curved IL
the exact form Oh saber, with edges sc
$ sharp as to inflict keen wounds upon un
wary hands, and those who pluck 1t once
!. soon drop 1t. SO strangely cold and clammy
are its leaves. 1t bears q golden hued
henrt- shaped bloss ON, and in the center is
one small spot of brilliant red, like droI
Il of blood. The Indians regard it with su
perstitious awe. They call 1t "Custer',
heart" and cannot be induced to touch 1t
claiming that the blossom crushed to tls
y hand loaves blood red stain impossible tt
remove.
g Miss Alice Bunncli. o bright and Mt
tractive young lady, is the census emu
u merator for Berkeley township, ocear
: county, New Jersey. 1t is said thathe
work is better and more carefully done
!, than that of the male enumerators. She
has been at work two weeks, doing par
OF it on foot and part of it in buggy
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