The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1890-07-18

The strawberry and raspberry crops of
this season are SAID to be the largest ard
the berries the finest evel produced in tho
Dakotas
Walter Storrs, of Pisrre, has been bound
over to the United States court on charge
OF furnishing original packages to Indians.
The highest point on the Black Hills ex-
tension of the Burlington and Missouri
road will be ut an altitude of 7,1O0 feet
above sea level
Lightning struck the house of w. G.
Perry, near PLANK inton, descending
through the roof into a room where Mrs.
Perry was sitting In a chair, and broke the
chnir into small pieces without injuripg
her in the least.
young man named Frank Coils Is mys
teriously missing from his homo in Her
mosa. He was last seen in Rapid City,
April 25, since which time all trace of him
has been lost. AT the time OF his disap-
pearance he had considerable money in his
possession and it is feared he has been
fonlly dealt with.
Cattlemen on the Blnck Hills ranges are
excited over disclosures Of extensive steal
ing and butchering of their cattle. The
| shop Of o butcher named Brightman, at
Hermosa, was searched and a large num-
ber of branded hides found. Brightman
has been arrested and warrants are out
for number of other men, some of whom
are prominent in county affairs.
1t is proposed to locate Chautnuqua
grounds at Lake Madison. The plan is to
secure 100 acres OF land including Morena
Beach, which will be purchased by com
pany representing $4,000. in shares of SlOC
each, the grounds to he improved build
ings erected, ETC., from the sale of summer
cottage lots. The enterprise is not in
| tended to be private. but one in which the
churchmen and educators of the entire
state will be represented.
| A section of cedar log, twenty eight
inches in diameter, taken from the upper
Cheyenne valley, is on exhibition at Pierre
| The Indians and settlers build their
houses of tAese logs nlong tie Cheyenne,
and at Noble tley a1e building two
story hotel of this timber. The deep can
ons in M any places along this valley CON
| tain thousands of cords of this splendid
timber that endnres almost as long as
granite. The heaviest timbercd region
lies in Sterling and Scobey counties.
An original package fend named Barnes
was arrested at Hill City the other day on
complaint of Contractor Skinner, who is
at work on the grade of the Burlington and
Missouri road near Hill City. Barnes is
charged with selling beer and whisky to
the men on the grade, and gave bonis to
appear before tho Pennington grand jury.
Skinner alleges that the men will not work
as long as they can procure original pack
ages to play with, and that he has been pu,
to great pecuniary loss in consequence.
Mrs. Amelia Johnson was adjudged in
sane at Sioux Falls the other day and will
be sent to the asylum. She laborea under
a peculiar halluciaation, believing that she
was starving and that she had to sweat OF
she would die. She was found in small
room in her shanty, with the doors and
windows tightly closed and veni i!ation en-
tirely shut off. She thought her little chill
dren were in the same danger of starya
tion and treated them to the same rigid
cure she herself was undergoing, rcru using
to allow them to 60 out Of doors und iced
ing them On mouldy bread and spoiled
meat. When found the little ones were al
most euffocated.
The Rapid City Journal contains the 70,
lowing item regarding the affection whcl
hns befallen a family well known in Soutf
Dakota: letter received by Il friend II
this city conveys the sad intelligence that
Mrs. John II. King, who has been in Was!,
ington for some time. has become violently
insane. Colonel King was in Mitchell
4 Wien the news reached Linn and left a
| for .toIr ,,>e1 III =.
wife. Mrs. Kings insanity is the result o
'long.continucd illness, she having been NJ
inynlid for years.
Colonel Everett w. Foster, agent for th.
Yankton Indians, says there are between
l,C0o and ,fC0 Yankton Sioux on the reser
. vation and that the death rate exceeds tha
Of births. Tie diseases most fatal ar,
scrofula and consumption. "A large new
school building ia being built at the ngenc.
: in which six white teachers will be EN-
ployed.
Brookings county farmers report mucl
damage to fax by small parasite so mi
mute tina. 1t can hardly he seen. Man:
fields lave been entirely destroyed an.
have been replanted either with flax o
millet. 1t is observable that The PESTS worl
3 on fall plowing that wcs planted early.
!, The Lower Brulc Indian. are determine,
10 move sCUln OF w Nlte rfVPf on lanu De
longing to the Rosebud Sioux Indians. Th
agent ut Rosebud has forwarded a lette
q to Washington protesting against the nc
tion Of the Drules and stating that til
: Rosebuds object to the former movin upo
their lands.
During the absence from home of Fran
Clemens, ranchman living near Rapi
! City, some unknown person entered hi
cabin and mixed strychnine with the fe o
a that had been prepared for his dinner. H
partook of the food and wns taken vic
1 lently Ill, but happily help arrived in tim
r to save his life. There 10 no clue to til
perpetrator.
(, A grist mill has been erected ut the Gro,
Creek Indian, agency in Buffalo county, fo
the benefit of the Crow Greeks, who nr
. conceded to lie tile most industriou,
. weattliiest and most civilized tribe in til
great Sioux: nation The mill is ft.el u
!, with the largest improved machinery an
:, the best grades of -four arc manufactured
Their grain is bought by the governmen
: they receiving the snme price for it MS the
/, would get in tho markets Of the nd djoinin
towns, and the -four Is Issued hack to thcl
: in the .slnre of raticns. This .:s done to e,
!, courage them as much as possible III raj
ing grain. White Ghost, one Of the wises
and most honored Indians in the whol
Sioux nation, is head chief of this. ribe.
"a, Silence Is Golden.
y Terry Haute Express
Briggs-By the way,sI never hear
/, young Simp]sins say anything abo,
where he:gpt all his money! -.
). Braggs NO ;wonder. He inherite
: from his father, who blew out the 6;
some five OF six years ago.
d Explained.
10 Chicago Times.
. CHOW much ice did you leave me We
tcrday2" =
= "Fifteen poun's num-
: "You did? Well, weighed it tho i
: slant you left and there were seve
y pounds exactly
"Yis, mum. we sells it Just as we gi
- it in Maine, widout maxim no allo,
o, ance for shrinl1age in New Yorruk."