The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1891-02-06
THE DAKOTAs.
Tn. .aria is being debated in the eountr

Sioux Falls graded over ten miles si
streets last year.
Merle D. Smith, highly respected citi
zen Of Blunt. is dead.
Morgan Culbertson, aged 66, pioneer
of Brookings, ia dead.
Redfeid Observer: Pierreward the moss.
back wends his weary way.
The Yankton Press and Dakotan, the
pioneer Of the Dakota press, is 80 years
old.
a new $fa5 chicken house on tho Union
county poor farm shelters twenty -fou,
fowls,
Bishop Hare told the New Workers abou,
the Indians in sermon in Gotham last
Sunday night.
The first shipment Of Yankton cement
was made Friday, when $500 pounds wa.
sent to Menno
Moody county has been repaid all but 1
per cent. Of the 81, ,009 loaned In seed
wheat last spring.
Brule county, it 10 claimed, has IL, 00e
sheep, six times the number credited to 4,
by the auditor of state.
Hard times' dances are a late social
wrinkle. Everybody wears his old clothes
and goes in for good time,
The Huron leo company is putting up
ice eight inches in thickness, but it dares
not wait longer for thicker.
Gettysburg wants test we'll. The
Herald believes flowing water could be
got at depth Of 1,S0O feet.
Henry F. Rutland, in Jail at Deadwood,
charged with passing counterfeit money,
Is insane, or feigns insanity.
Armour has ordered 1000 feet of hose,
and with its spouting we'll hopes to be in
better shape to fight fire ir the future.
The county commissioner offer $50 re
ward for the arrest and cfnviction Of any
and all thieves who arr, taking empty
buildings from farms in SPHINX county.
Twenty-Five persons have received votes
for senator in the South Dakota legisla-
ture, and that number by NO means ex.
hausts the senatorial timber Of the state.
john Harding, Of Carroll township
Charles Mix county, has buried four of his
little ones within month. They died oi
dfphtherin. The mother was very low. bu,
is recovering.
Wahpeton has been selected as the loca.
tion of the North Dakota Methodist col.
lege It pledged 6a9, 0Oo cash and 100 ac re- 1
OF land. j. Q. Adams, Of Chicago, will
give $40, 900 Of the cash.
In Douglas county it is proposed to pe
titton the county commissioners to call an
election for the purpose of vot,ng on thz
question ofissulns bonds to :nake an ar
testan we'll in each tsS-:Aship.
! The Woonsocket Times says the wife Of
Leon Stevens. the bursted banker, has be
haved generously, turning her own prop
erty over to aoms OF the most needy vic.
tins OF the husbands failure.
Prof. McLeuth, of Erookiugs college.
who has analyzed the waters of the Dakota
artesian basin. declares that it is not only
not Injurious to vegetation, but that Its
commitments supply good plnnt food.
The Miller Republican wants to see the
2-cent railroad fare bill passed, because, i,
says, railroad building in South Dakota.
whsre there is but little grading and
bridge building, can be done chsaply.
Seed wheat notes to the amount of s51.
6ss.l4i in North Dakota remain unpaid on
account OF poor crops, and the time Of
payment has been extended to next fall.
The total amount Of seed wheat notes was
Ssa, ,104.9O.
Ching Wee, a Chinese gam bier of Dead
wood, dropped dead of heart disease just
as he had cashed in his checks at a faro
game. He ewas noted for his ty pically HI
bernian cast of countenancs and an un-
quenchable aversion to labor.
The American Fibre association, of New
York, has offered to put up fax factory
at Aberdeen If the city will guarantee 1t
5000 or 9, 900 tons of fax straw and give it
bonus. The company announces that it
contemplates erecting at least twenty
plants this year.
Jacob Koch,' says the Mitchell Repub-
licap, who has been in South Dakota
since 1879, says he's willing to wager all
he's got that this section will have several
rainy seasons In succession, beginning
with 1891 He thinks this dry winter is
sure to be followed by wet SUNNI
The Gam Valley Chief hears story
that one Of the members-elect Of the lerfs-
lature started for Washin gton few days
before the assembling of the leg
islatnre to take his scat In the
national house Of representatives
elected. He was intercepted on the road
by telegram from a friend informis q
him that his presence would tS needed at
Pierre instead of Washington.
Mrs. =. Fits is stockholders. director
and the vice president of the First M.
tional bank, Of Madison. Ellen j. INN.
"a director of the First National bank Of
DeSmet, and has been for two or three
ysars. These instances are mentioned by
South Dakota newspa in refutation Of
q late press dispatch stating that Mis-,
Emily Holland, Of Auburn, N. Y. en- loved
the distinction Of being the only lady di-
rector Of a national bank.
Charles E. Frost tells the Fargo Ar1us
that he has introduced a new industry at
Tower City. 1t is the culture Of worm.
wood. I'VE plant In hills about four fee.
apart says Mr.. Frost. 1--WE cut the tops
cutting of about a foot from the ground.
and distil the oil, which is used in making
beer, for medicinal purposes, cts, and is
in good demand and sells from 81 to 80 Der
pound. have three acres out and enough
plants to set out two acres more, The
yield is abons twenty to thirty pounds OF
DaA w tuO hcro. ~ Is Cultlv0Geu like DOtR-
toes or corn. It set out In beds: never
set it out but once, and it's good for fifty
years. 1t will grow In North Dakots, and
will be great industry. There will be
about sixty acres put out around Tower
City this spring. Il natures in Septem-
ber.''
Six half grown indian boys in the gov
crnment school at Lower Bruie agency
ran away Tuesday morning, but were ca ~
tured and brought back by Spotted Horse
and Old Lodge, two Indians. : When
caught the boys claimed they were ON
their way to Pine Ridge agency for the
purpose Of joining the hostiles. They prob.
ably do not read the papers, and were not
aware that the Indian war was ended.
The Press intimates that .sBsefvteak
Bob fired out of Covington, Neh Is In
Sioux Falls, and suggests that = mSh too
bad for Covington is not good enough for
Sioux Falls.
There Is a South Dakota Law compelling
practicing physicians to file record viii,
the county clerk. No doctor, NO matter
how well learned ho may be. or how sue,
.fs,t 4.