The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1891-02-13

ms hAulDdlt Is wonderfully
concerned about the manner in which
the Pukwana Press is printed, and In its
last issue says that while WI may be able
to fool the county commissioners and
hold the county printing, we cannot get
the final proof notices. Now, Tinan, who
has tried to fool the commissioners or
anyone elsep The county printing was
given to the Press, and the Press does it,
doesn't IT. II we have been able to make
q straight, Legitimate business deal to
better ourselves, our paper and our pat
rOns, and-at the same time-put the
proceedings before more readers by sew
eral hundred than do any other two pa
pers In the county, without adding one
single. penny's expense to the county, the
commissioners and the county in general
ought to be able to stand that kind Of
"fooling,." had they notY Neither the
commissioners nor the peoples are kicking
but soreheadisM from a certain class is
expected on oil occasions, and would be
missed ii 1t did not show up now. As to
the nal proof notices, the Press covers
the law both in letter and in spirit. and
will publish them regardless Of the ruI-
1ngs OF the wise man who presides over
The d%estinies Of the Granddaughter.
That's all right; go on with your rat
KILN We havn't got q thing agin'
Johnny Andrews sar his paper. But if the
present publication and circulation of the
Pukwana Press Is a legitimate enterprise
may the Lord have mercy on the press Of
state. II a newspaper can be pub
lished in Chamberlain and sent through
the Pukwana postofice as a distinctively
Pukwana enterprise, receiving and re-
tanning nll the benefits and prestige Of
any newspaper, then what is to prevent a
Sioux City printing house. or any other
foreign concern, publishing a Brule
county newspaper and gobbling the
county printing? II the GRAPHIC should
run off a second edition head 1t "Pukwana
Herald"-or some other name-and send
a few hundred copies through the Puk-
wanna pOstOffice, to bona 1de subscribers,
too, would Mr. Andrews or Mr.. Owen con-
slider the commissioners proceedings or
any legal printing u meat? Would
either of them regard it as covering the
letter and spirit Of the law? There is
only one newspaper published in Buffalo
county-the Gam Valley Chief. The law
requires tho commissioners proceedings
to be publishedin three newspapers. We
suggest that the Register run off a third
edition, call it The Buffalo Center Hum
bug-or something equally appropriate
and see il the commissioners Of Buffalo
county would regard the scheme as near
enough the law in letter and spirit to
give it the publication of their proceed
ings?
Perhaps the commissioners are not
kicking-over spilled milk. But it is a
significant fact that the Register and
Press were very particular not to consul
mate their deal until after the board had
met anu awarded the official printing.
The Press was made one Of the official
papers not because of any particular love
for MIR. Andrews or admiration for the pa
peritself but on account of its location,
acourtesy to the town OF Pukwana. No
other hypothesis is reasonable.
hMr. Andrews, personally, betters his
condition financially under the new ar
rangement we are heartily glad Of it.
But the fact remains thpt a newspaper
that cannot stand on its own, bottom
after being subsidized with $500 Of county
printing annually for four years should
not cat much of a fgsre. in the future de.
alterations OF our board of commission
orJ a.UF le