The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1892-05-20
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Deadwood.
for De Snet
An A. Q. U. w. lodge hos been organ
lied Mt kimball
lodge of the A. @. u. W. was recently
Instituted at Klmball
Several threshing machines are still at
work in Edmunds county.
Flandreau Is making preparations to
put up an electric light plant.
The driving park ut Mitchell is being
fitted up for racing and base ball.
convention of sheep growers will be
held ut Aberdeen beginning June I.
A. NJ Knight, of Webster, ono of the
firm of Knight Il Dean, has been arrested
for forgery.
Governor Mellettc will investigate the
stories regarding fraudulent sales Of
school lands.
South Dakotn now has ninety-two char
tered Masonic lodges and 3,5O5 affiliated
master Masons.
DcSmit has votod on issuing q, 500
bond to build an addition to the present
school building.
Water has been struck in Hassell g.
Myers nrtesian we'll north of Redfeld ut
q depth of $50 feet
Deadwood's popular Star shows no signs
ofwaning. For the Fl tn time Sol Star was
elected mayor of the city.
The Catholic church Mt Columbia has
N ted yvik ri nj nf
Christ, 25x33 inches In size. -
Dcadwood will como right in line with
q 100000 hotel. Work will commence ns
soon the bonus is guaranteed.
1t Is reported thnt over 10000 acres of
Deuel. county land has exchanged hands
during the past four mouths.
The Red6eld Journal will probably nb-
sorb the Obs ervcr, and S. B. Milton go as
cityeditor on the Aberdeen News.
A new republican paper has made Its
appearance at Huron. 1t Is called tho
South Dakota News and is published by
Harvey c. Afford
There has been some trouble In the In
dim school Mt Pierre over some of tho
pupils rcbelling against the authority Of
the superintendcnts.
J. W. Thayer having resigned the post
mnstership at Howard, Congressman
Jolley hns recommended the appointment
of James A Cox for the place.
L. O. Jeffrics, secretary of tho Russian
relief commission, ,snys that South Dakota
will undoubtedly give fifty cars of flour
and grain to the famine sufferers.
1t is clnimed that there are parties in
Yankton who nre thinking seriously of
sinking nn nrtesian we'll for the purpose
of obtaining power for big manufactory.
AT the request of Senator Pettigrew, w.
E. Oliver, of Canton, has been appointed
on the weather bureau us assistant OBJ
server. He will probably be sent to Pierre.
A monument will be put up over the last
resting place of Rev. Joseph Ward, D. D.,
the first president of Yanlston college. 1t
will be of tho finest Quincy granite nnd
will weigh eight tons.
Chester Marsh, q young man about &c
years ofagc, was caught between large
belt and fly wheel In one of the lumber
mills nt Spearish and instantly crushed
to death last Monday.
Mrs. N. A.. Kirk, of Elk Point is having
q log cabin made, eight by ten inches in
size. containing piece of wood from
every state and territory. It will be on
exhibition at the wosld's fair.
The pres ent scarcity of hay was prob
ably never equnllcd in the history of Deuel.
county In some cases stock is actually
going hungry. AT an auction sale at Gary
ten tons of wild hay sold for so
Deputy United States Marshal Griffin
has arrested Bcllatti Bros, fruit dealers,
of WATERFOWL, for violating the United
States revenue laws. Peter Erickson was
also arrested for the same otfense
The new Minneknhta hotel at Hot
Springs is fast nearing completion. Four
stories are up and work is being pushed
on the fifth. This mammoth structure
will have no less than 150 rooms when
completed.
Charles Fl. Bates expects to leave Yank-
ton early next week for the country west
of the Missouri river to enter upon the
completion of the work of locating the
boundary line between North Dakota and
South Dakota,
At q recent meeting of the directors of
the Lake Madison chnutauqua assembly,
who are philnnthropists of high degree it
was decided TO open the grounds to the
public on Sundays and to charge gen
ernl admission fec of 25 cents
johnson and Toncy Cumsky, the two
young sons of Thomas Cumsky, OF Belle
Fourche, while playing on the banks Of
the Belle Fourche river accidentally fell
into the stream and were drowned in sight
of their companions who wore too small to
render assistance.
1t is reliably reported at Deadwood that
strike of n large body of sll gold ore has
been made on the 6oo-foot level of the
foN oft
Monitor mines, where prospecting hos been
done with diamond din, thus proving
the ore body of grent extent.
During the last term of the United
States court ut Sioux Falls there were In
attendance 227 witnesses and jurors, who
travelled to get there In the aggregate 82,-
A94 miles They were in town l,526 days
and have received between 5000 and
$4,000.
d. j. Mclaughlin, editor of the Dead
wood Pioneer, was summoned before
Judge Thomas on n bench warrant to cx-
plain how he secured the contents of q
sealed verdict lie published in his paper.
The issue of the case involved was very
important mining point and some crook
cdncss on the part of the jurymen was
suspected Mclaughlin swore thnt he
guessed the verdict from the nnture of the
testimony, and was discharged.
The new crystal cave which has re-
Gently been discovered near Elk Creek
will be made grand pleasure resort Ar
rangements are being made to light the
entire cave by electricity, and n large
force of men are ut work clearing and en-
lnrgiug the small openings.
John NJ Egnn, now president and gem
eral manager of the Chicago, St. Paul
and Kansas City railway, has presented a
fine bell to the Baptist church at Egan,
the first house of worship erected In the
town named after him whilo he was con.
strncting the Southern Minnesota
The partly dccaycd romans of man,
which have since been identified US those
of William Doyle, n blacksmith, who mys-