The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1891-01-16

| The report submitted by State Treas
urer Smith is an interesting document,
He took charge OF the Office November
8, 1883, and his report covers the anan-
cial transactions OF the state to Eovem-
ber 30, 1890 When the state made its
change from territorialhood there was
IN the treasury $50, ,29O.O7 belonging to
the general fund. S3s, 1O8. 90 in the bond
fund. $l4,66035 in the bond interest
fund. The total receipts for 1890
amounted to, including the items above,
$671, 500 o.. The counties paid S23l,.
32661; railroads, SOL, 7so.6l; insurance
companies, l2,ss5.35; bond premiums.
S19.Sl2. so; fees from state officers, Ss.-
76e.3 81: Western Union Telegraph com.
pany, $5Ss.33; express companies,
| SG7l.1I.
/ In the matter OF disbursements there
are some interesting figures. On audi
| tors warrants the treasurer paid $i34.-
! 672o3. He paid counties sci, lO5. so OF
railroad taxes; board of agriculture. Ss,-
! 640.20; interest on auditors warrants
/ S1,s916s; January and July coupons,
i S34, ,6e3.9l. A total OF 1861, ,26T.16 was
paid, leaving a balance of SlO, ,052. 80 in
the treasury.
| The Black Hills and Fort Pierre rail-
road paid tax of $l,556 SO; the Chi
cago, Milwaukee and ST Paul, S47,-
9S2.36; the Chicago and North western,
S26, Ga; the Winona and st. Peter
division of the Chicago and Northwest
ern, s476.0e; the Fremont and Elkhorn,
S5, 449.5 SO; the Chicago, st. Paul, Min
neapolis and Omaha, $2,245.62; the
Deadwood Central, $497.92; the Grand
Island and Wyoming, $4,000; the Hi
! nois Central, 1885. SS; the Great North
ern, Ss10.6l; the Sioux Falls division OF
the Great Northern, s2,177.0l; the
Sioux Falls Rapid Transit road $7s. Is;
the Minneapolis and st. Louis, $377. 96.
The treasurer's statement shows that
the state Is carrying bonded indebted
ness of $3.50, 10000. Fortunately most
of these bonds are drawing only small
rate of interest, and the bur.
den is not heavy on the peo-
pie. 1t should not be forgotten
that most OF this large debt came down
as heritage from the old territory of
Dakota. The limit of Indebtedness
above the old debt is $100,00o, which
has been reached. At the last election
proposition was before the people to
amend the constitution so that the debt
could be increased, if necessary, to
$250.0 900, but it was voted Down. and
/ tHGEo WILL uhVb 10 Do
economy to pull through for a few
years. 1t is expensive in getting the
machinery of the state in operation,
and where to call a halt is the question.
1 BY preserving these statistics, the
reader, at the close of the present ses-
sion of the legislature, will be able to
see whether this body of economical
statesmen will revolutionize the ma
chinery OF the state, and place the ex-
! penditures within the income. If they
can do this they should each be remem-
bered with monuments commemorative
| of the fact
4 All Over tho States.
! Mr.. Sidey, of Hot Springs, has pet wild
cat.
The Spearfish normal school has l26 stu
dents.
Judge Stouts residence at Ipswich was
burned.
Yankton's improvements aggregate
$45S.3l7
Kellogg g. Waldron, general merchants,
of Hazel, have failed.
| North Dakota ranks as the forty first
state In point of population.
i TWENTY-FIVE wolves have been killed
near Ainsworth this winter.
4 The epicures of Hot Springs had bear
meat for their Christmas dinner.
Emmanuel Baptist church, at Grand Is
land, was dedicated last Sunday.
Vincent Toogood, aged II, skated into an
air hole at Crete and was drowned.
Grand Forks sent as Christmas pres
ent to Dickey county carload of -four.
The street sprinkler was brought out TO
| RI hnt ba 1,,ot I'LL
day.
Milton Miller, of Blue Springs, was
dragged to death b. runaway team on
Tuesday.
Huron boasts that it has more school
children than any other town in South Da-
| kota-620.
4 The Decatur Dispatch says the white
men of that town sell too much whisky to
the Indians.
! Wesley Anderson, a prominent cit izen
and old settler of Lead, is dead, aged
about 62 years.
Francis Reandreau, pioneer of Union
/ county, died on the Bourrette farm ON the
2sd, aged 80 years.
! Edith Valentine, who lately shot herself
to death at Seattle, was formerly variety
actress at Dendwood.
The FIRST Congregational church at Lin
coin will fit up one room in the Cbadron
academy as donation.
/ The Huron w. r. G. distributed during
the holidays $3.50 in clothing, provisions
and cash among the needy.
4 Stewart Rnwley and Frank Sykes, held
for burglary, broke jail at Bloomington
and made good their escape
\ Hezekiah Bedford "a far,par livtp1 ,.,,
Grand Island. is under arrest for assault
ing his l4-year-old daughter.
1 Harry Lee, barber, il in custody at
Lincoln charged with robbing his late en-
4 ployer. Nate Hawk, at Pomeroy, la
/ Victor Studley, aged 10, who is we'll con
nected and Whose homo is Apptegate, Wis,
is under arrest at Lincoln for forgery.
The Liberati band failed to keep its en-.
gagsment at Bismarck Saturday night on
account of the burning of its car at Hell
ena.
Tho. Farmers' alliance Of Yanhton
4 county proposes to send two carloads Of
supplies to the drought sufferers Of South
Dakota.
j The Casselton Reporter notes the sale Of
a half section of land near its town at $l7
per acre, and declares that the purch aser
got bargain.
Colonel Plummer is sick Of the cold and
slush in New York, and wr ties that he
longs for the pure ozone and balmy air of
/ North Dakota
/ The Yankton Journal, which claima to
be the only democratic morning paper in
both Dakotas, opposes Judge Bartlett
Trip for senator.
4 Huron,a new arteaian we'll IL 900 f> at