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Grand Rapids herald. [volume] (Grand Rapids, Mich.) 1892-1959, 1893-12-20

The commitiee on parks reported
favcrsbly on the scceptance Il the gift
Of the Michigan worlds fair ccmmis-
Grand Rapids herald. [volume] (Grand Rapids, Mich.) 1892-1959, 1893-12-20

Our place h No. % Pearl street Our
holiday goods are not only beautiful. but
useful. consisting Of Ore place fixtures
in bras and iron. portable gas lamps.
chandeliers. glassware for gas ard cleo
trio fixtures
Grand Rapids herald. [volume] (Grand Rapids, Mich.) 1892-1959, 1893-12-20
HOLIDAY RATES
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Ezcursion tickets sold TO al points on
Decsmber .. -. - and Dscsnbsr 30.
81. and January 1. ell good for return
until January . 1s9l- Call telephone
6o6 Tor full informa t5on.
Grand Rapids herald. [volume] (Grand Rapids, Mich.) 1892-1959, 1893-12-20

PUT box free With every box Of Ouch
esss face powder at Thum's drug stores
Grand Rapids herald. [volume] (Grand Rapids, Mich.) 1892-1959, 1893-12-20

Look at the startling .announcement
made by the wsstern Beef q Provision
company seen in another column.
The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1893-09-23
TOW the Ruffaloes Died.

A story teller OF half a century ago
gave an account of n terrible method
which the western indians used in
destroying the buffalo, and one which
must have been the means of snufling
out an incalculable number of lives.
The red hunters, he said, were wont
to lie concealed in the vicinity of some
high precipicc, and when Il herd of
bisons came roaming thither in search
of food they would send one or two
braves out among thsn, concealed in
the etligy Of n buffalo and covered
with its head, hide, and horns. The
false buffalo being stationed between
the herd and the prccipice, the In.
dians would surround the herd, as
nearly as possible, and then rush from
their concealment shouting like do.
mons. The animals being alarmed,
and seeing no way open but III the di-
r~ection of the false buffalo, would run
toward it, and the false buffalo NOV
ing quickly to the edge of The cliff went
over. but by some preconcciyed ar
rangemcnt took refuge iu Il cave, cleft.
or Shelf. The leaders of the herd
would pause on the brink, seeing
death before them, but those behind
could not see the abyss, and would
press madly forward, SO that those in
front were forced to leap to the rocky
ground hundreds of feet below. while
those behind were goadcd forward by
the hunters until they became mad
with fear and followed in to the same
end. The Indians then selected as
much meat rs they wished and left the
The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1893-09-23
KNOWLEDGE

Brings comfort and improvement and
tends to personal enjoyment when
rightly used. The mapy, who live bet
ter than others and enjA' life more, with
less expenditure, by more promptly
adapting the worlds best products to
the'needs of physical being, will attest
the value to health of the pure liquid
laxative principles embraced in the
remedy, Syrup of Figs.
It's excellence is due to its presenting
in the form most acceptable and pleas
ant to the taste, the refreshing and truly
beneficial properties of a perfect lax
alive efectually cleansing the system,
dispelling colds, headaches and feyers
and permanently curing constipation:
it has given satisfaction to millions and
met with the approval of the medical
profession, because it acts on the Kid
neys, Liver and Bowels without weak
ening them and it is perfectly free from
every Objectionable substance.
Syrup of Figs is for sale by oil drug
gists in SOC and 81 bottles, but it is man
ufactured by the California Fig Syrup
Co. only, whose name is printed on every
package, also the name, Syrup of Figs,
and being we'll informed, you will not
accept any substitute if offered.
The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1893-09-23

F." -@Te-=-Fa--1- .
J l heard a remarkable story ii. an up
town club a few nights ago. 1t was
told by a prominent New Yorker says
the Herald. The talk had reverted to
~lunatics and to tho possibility OF sane
persons being i~ncarceratcd in insane
asylums.
"You have all cited cases Of sane
persons being locked up" said this
gentleman. "Now let me tell you an
instance of NJ insane person who once
escaped,
ale had been confined in nh asylum
III All adjacent State for some time.
The keepers got negligent, and during
one OF their lapses of vigilance the per.
son III question escaped.
"He came direct to New York, and
having met me socially several years
before looked me up. l knew nothing
about his mental condition nj the time
and there was nothing unrstal iii his
manner.
81 introduced him in my club and
vouched for him at the hotel where he
had engaged q suit of rooms. He lived
like q prince for a week, running w
big bills.
"Of course this thing could not GO
on for any length of time, and at the
expiration of a week the asylum
authorities had gotten trace of him
aud tracked him to New York.
"They came Oh and took him 10
custody. He WAS entertaining party
of newly made acquaintances Mt The
club. You would never have i'm.
asined that he was a crazy mar until
he set eyes upon the m~adhouse keep
ers.
"Then he broke into a wild laugh, a
strange light sprang to his eyes, and
everybody realized instantly that he
WIS q maniao y
The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1893-09-23
A State Soda Fountain.

II may sound like q Munchausen
yarn, but it is al actual fact that in tho
squint.eyed little burg of S~odaville, in
Linn county, in block of the town
plat, there is a soda spring. and that
the last legislature in its infinite
wisdom provided that "inasmuch rs
there is a great and growing demaad
on the part Of the public forlhe waters
of said spring" the state would spend
$500 to improve it. This, Mt last, tho
fond realization of the long-felt want
which has been loating around the
county like the ghost of b%oyhood's hap.
py days in quest Of a Watermelon
patch where happily lingeree no
vicious dog. Tits n grand and impos-
ing sight To see the legislative fancy
rising from tho sordid contemplation
of Z cold and unresponslvc hog law and
thovering on halcyon wings over the
soft mur.aur of an idylic state soda
ifOuntnin.-AS{Oyfa HnHUef
The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1893-09-23
Horses Wearing Wells.

The oldest things TO DO seen in the
streets of Colorado Springs are horses
decked with wells. We have grown
accustomed TO the jaunty little hats
worn by many horses in our town to
protect them from the heat of the sun.
We can wen see an umbrella fastened
over their heads without surprise, but
a veil gives to,,the noble beast y dandy.
ish look that is very droll. Some Of
these wells, belonging to fine saddles.
are mere fringes of fine strips of leatl-
er that hang before the eyes; others
are mosquito netting drawn tightly
back and fastened like a woman's nose
veil. but the most stylish and alto
gether effective are Of netting drawn
over a loop which hold it away from
the eyes, yet completely protects them.
These exaggerated goggles give the
gravest horse n waggish look. The
wells are not worn Tor fashions sake.
They are indeed a stern necessity, and
the comfort of it not even tho life of
the horse demands il. Colorado, with
NIL its great attractions. has one
plague-the plague of flies. Flies OF
all sizes, from tho least up to the
enormous blueblottle, are every
where. Most parts of his body the
horse a himself protect If not de-
priyed Of his tail, but his eyes he can
not, and these delicate organs aro
special objects of attack by the t]y
tribe. 1t is the least Il man can do to
provide a protecting veil for his most
faithful %servunt.-N0H0naI Issue.
The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1893-09-23
Treatment Of sunstrokes.

"What are your methods Of caring
for cases Of sunstroke?" was asked by
n st. Louis Globe democrat man of the
surgeon in charge of tic dispensary;;
awe at once strip the patient OF all
clothing" said he, "place him on 6
wire mattress, and freely sprinkle the
body with ice water, after which, in
several cases, we place ice bags on tho
head and over the region of the heart.
In such cases the temperature runs
from 1O1 to ITO and the pulse from ITO
to 1870 or ever 140, and the chief point
is to reduce these. We give bromide
Of sodium until the quantity OF blood
III the head is lessened and reduced TO
n normal eotdilion. The patient must
be kept quiet, for there is a tendency
to delirium.
1.-The first symptoms of sunsttohs
are dizziness, then things look green
after which the blood vessels of the
brain dilate and Inconsistencies soon
results. The dangers of treatment
come from collapse, which sometimes
results from a sudden application Of ics
to the vital parts. Then brandy and
atropine must be given unth there is a
revival. The chief preventives ars to
be found in the selection of airy bedA
rooms, for niGst eases occur in bed at
night, strange as this fifty seem."
The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1893-09-23
Relieving the stringency.


He might haze been a person in
need, and then again he might have
been a book peddler or some other
peripatetic parasite, just as it hap
pened. III any event he went into the
business mans Office dG Jefferson ave
nue.. Flows business Es nsked glibs
ly. "Slow," replied the merciiaHt.
more or less suspicious. Money not
plenty, Is'pose?" he continued. "Hard-
ly." Il feel it myself. Collections
are slow, l guessP" very" $50 they
fire with me, l. s'pose you'd be glad
to relieve the financial striugency il
you couldP" "Mell, Row, you bet 1
would" said the merchant earnestly:
"Of course yol would" corroborated
the visitor. "Anv business mar or
banker with tho welfare of his fellow
citizens at heart would. l knew that
when l came in here. If hadn't I'd
gone somewhere else for the price of q
beer" and he stuck his hand out so
good-naturedly that before the mer-
chant could gather his wits the visitor
had gathered a nickel and got OUT
Detroit Free Press;
The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1893-09-23
A Railroad Calculator.

IF there is any class of men / like
more than another" remarked the
drummer to the travelling passenger
agent, "it's railroad men, and l always
buy my tickets, 100"
The t. p. a. smiled blandly.
"Now," went on the drummer,
"there's S. B. Hege, the Baltimore &
Ohio agentin Washington. You know
Hege, Of courseP Go%od-looking fellow
and as smooth as velvet. We'll, l
heard a good joke on him the other
day. A friend of mine in Washington
wanted transportation to Chicago
along in June some time and he drop
ped Hege a line. Hege sen the re-
quest over to headquarters at Bnlti.-
more. forty miles away. The answer
hadn't come in ten days and the APP
plicant received an invitation to go
out in n private car. On the way TO
the train he met Hege.
"'Don't bother about that transport
tation, S. b. he said very solemnly.
i don't believe | can use it.
".Why nutP' asked S. b., who was
surprised to find n man who couldn't
use a railroad pass.
Cll, auu luc lud WAS uIoio SCI
Gus than ever, I've been calculating
on IL. That is to say, I've figured out
that a pass weighs say one-tenth of an
ounce, and I weigh 200 pounds. or
1900 ounces. Now, if it takes the Bal
timore q Ohio ten days to carry one
tenth of an ounce forty miles how long
will it take to carry 8, 200 ounces to
Chicago, say $50 miles?'
"Hegc was Knocked arithmclically
galley-wcst and was speechless.
".It will take,' resumed the calcu-
lator, just $4,000 900 days, Of about H.:
900 years. and you know, old fellow, ]
can't wait that long if l want to see
anything at all Of the Fair. Isn't that
correctp'
aBut Hege couldn't shy s word"
concluded the drummer, "and when
! asked him about it last week he Of
fered to set up the champagne at the
funeral if I Wot.ld Kill the calculator
! Detroit Free Press.
The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1893-09-23
An Arid pasert.

KIowA, Kas., Sept. 17.-sGod pity
the nan who in the wild race for homes
attempts to locate III the Cherokee strip
northwest of here" said an old Fort
Supply stage driver to a correspondent
this morning.
while there is a little fairly good
land just south of here, the great bulk
of the western third of the strip is
wholly unfit for human h%abitation.
The soil is unproductive, and for six
months in the year the country is abso-
lutely devoid of water, while the hills
are covered with ~ccystaliZed sand and
particles OF gypsum that glitter in the
sun like bits of glass, almost binding
the beholder. The two principal
streams, the Salt Fork and the CHINA
mon, are salt water, bitter and unfit
for man or beast"
The words of this old timer are only
too true. for there are a million or
more acres of land in the western end
of the strip that are as valueless and
uninhabitable as the Colorado desert.
yet there were gathered in this vicinity
this morning several thousand people
who rushed into this land when the
hour of noon arrived, and attempted to
open farms. Over on the west end at
Canadian, Tex, We're a thousand cow
boys with horses saddled and bridled
and themselves booted and spurred
ready to start in n wild race
for Woodward, the county seat
of N. county, which embraces all this
western end of the Cherokee strip. BE.
fore the start they had organized a
town government, elected officers and
proposed to run things, and will prob
ably have ITO opposition, as very few
business men will venture to locate in
a town in such a section of country.
The town will be lively for a few
weeks, but at the end of that time the
whole site will not be worth as much
as the occupants could have earned
elsewhere in the time spent there.
The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1893-09-23
THE SIGNAL SOUNDS.
Over One Hundred Thousand in tho Wi

H-r.l.f-.-E nr I-gE-ET ss..
Over Ono Hundred Thousand in tho Wild
Racs for Homes.
ARKANSAS Cry, Kas., Sept. 16.-At
12 o'clock the bars that have SO long
inclosed 100000 acres Of pubic land
were let down and over 100, 900 men
and women joined in the mad rush for
land lots. Half a dozen times before
some M would shout the hour of
noon and fifty to a hundred horsemen
would dart out of the line, only to BIS
driven back by the cavalrymen who
were patrolling the strip IN front of
the impatient throng.
At last II puff of smoke was seen out
on the plains to the north and soon n
dull report of a cannon was heard. a
dozen carbines along the line were fred
insresponse to the signal and,the line
was broken. Riders darting out at
brealneck speed soon dotted the plains
In every direction, Following them
The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1893-09-23
A Biblical Phrase.

In many of the grandest of scriptural
phrases there is not a little sngges.
ton of the simplicity of childhood, and
on the other hand it not infrequently
happens that some childish speech re-
minds one Of the utterances of the
prophets OF old.
An instance Of this was given not
long ago by a lad of S or 6 summers.
He hnd probably never heard the
biblical sentence wherein it is said o.
Jehovah that HE bowed tho heavens
and came down.; but it was in much
the spirit that he asked his father:
Papa, why doesn't the sky bend
down when God stands up"
The chief difference was that be
tween conscious and unconscioui
imagery.
The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1893-09-23
HIS OCCUPATION GONE.
The Old Time Boomer Who Has Watched
the Strip for Twenty Years. r.

the Strip tor Wenty Years. r.
ARKANSAS CITY, Kas., Sept. 17.-For
twenty years the old-time boomer has
made his headquarters in and about
this city; fer twenty years he has lived
in tent or a wagon and clnmored for
the Indians land; for twenty years he
has made spasmodic attempts to enter
forbidden lines and take possession of
and not his own; for all this time he
has done every conceivable thing but
work, and, now that his mission here
is accomplished, what will become of
him? Where will he find more land to
covet?
1t is a well known and authenticated
fact that the genuine boomer, who
spends year after year %agitating the
question of opening Indian lands to
settlement and cries long and loud for
homes for the homeless and never set
ties down to work upon the land when
it is opened, but soon wanders off,
seeking fields Of further agitation. A
hopeless task seemed these Cherokee
strip boomers to lave had all these
years; but so persistent, so clamorous,
SO i~ncessant'were they that they could
not help but win in time.
Early in the 7Os Il few settlers who
a me to southern Kansas, being una
BILE to locate tho state line correctly,
settled upon the other side on land
sacred to the use of the Indian.
just south of this city a number of
the settlers were across the line, and
began farming upon land low occu-
pied by the Chillocco Indian school.
1t was not long, however, until a de-
tachment Of soldiers came along and
removed them and placed permanent
monuments to designate the boundary
between Kansas and the Indian Terri
tory.
IL was this removal, by force, Of
honest, toiling settlers that caused the
question to arise in the minds of the
people, "Why should all these broad
acres of fertile land remain unused
and unoccupied when there are thous-
ands upon thousands of people who
have no homes?"
The only answer that conId be given
was that the land had been set apart
for the Indian. The Indian, however,
did not occupy nor use it, and the pco-
pie o began to demand that it be
opened up for settlement.
This great tract OF land bordering
upon the Kansas line from the Goth me-
ridian 100 miles west and SO miles in
breadth, had in 1924. been given TO the
Cherokee Indians as n hunting outlet
from their home reservation in the east
crn part ofsthe territory TO the hunting
The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1893-09-23
A Saffron coIored lndeY

OF the condition of n bilious stomach and
sluggish liver is the human countenance
Not only the skin, but the eyeballs are
tinged with the yellow hue when the bile
gets into the blood. Besides this, sick
headaches ensue, the tongue becomes
furred, pains are felt in the liver and
through the right shoulder blade,
and dizziness is experienced upon
rising from a sitting or recumbent posture
by the bilious Invalid. For these and
other indications of biliousness, Hostel
ter's Stomach Bitters is a sovereign rem
edy. 1t is also efficacious In chills and
fever, dumb ague, ague cake, inactivity
of the kidneys and bladder, rheumatism
and nervousness. 1t stimulates, restores
digestion and sleep, and tends greatly to
mitigate the infirmities Of age.
The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1893-09-23
TALKING WITH MONKEYS.
IN Ola Frenohman Knew How to En-.
gage the lima In Ccusersatlon.

In 1857 Jules Richard had occasion
10 visit a sick friend in a hospital, where
10 made the acquaintance OF an old of
6cial of the institution from tho south
of France, who was exceeding fond OF
animals, his love of them being equal
I'd only by his hatred Of priests, writes
Prof. E. P. Evans in the Popular
Science Monthly; he claimed also to BIO
perfectly familiar with the languages
pf cats and dogs, and to speak the Lam
guage of apes even better than the
apes themselves. Jules Richard re-
coiyed this statement with an incredu-
lous smile, whereupon the old man,
whose pride was evidently touched by
such skepticism, invited him to come
the next morning to the geological
garden.
II met him at the appointed time
End place." says Mr.. Richard, land
we went together to the monkeys
cage, where he leaned to the outer
railing and began to utter il succession
Of cultural sounds, which alphabetical
signs arc scarcely adequate to repre-
sent-.Kirruuu, kirrikiu, kirikiu'-re-
peated with slight variations and diff
tCkCuSCo VI NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Al AZ"
minutes the whole company of mon-
keys, a dozen in number, assembled
and sat in rows before him with their
hands crossed in their laps or resting
on their knees, laughing, g%esticulatins
and answering"
The conversation continued for n full
quarter of an hour, to the intense de-
light of the monkeys, who took a live
~ part in it. AS their i%nterlocutor was
about to go away they all became in
tensely excited, climbing up the bal
ton; when he finally departed aud dis.
view, they ran up to the top OF the
cage, and clinging to tho frieze made
motions as If they were bidding him
good bye.
- - - T
The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1893-09-23
Won b. tn, swiss Bicyo,ist,

PARIS, Sept. ia twenty-foul
hour bicycle contest open to all nationi
ended here last night. 1t was won by NJ.
Lesna, the Swiss, champion who Gov
cred Il distance of 60, sos kilometers, O,
n fraction over 433 miles. This
beats by about 1913 miles the worlds
record of 4l3 miles. 1,215 yards in
t~wenty-fonr hours, which was made by
L. w. Shorthand, the English rider.
Shorthand was entered for this contest,
but he did not appear.
The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1893-09-23
A 11ind-Hearted Man.

"The charge against tho prisoner"
said the Judge, addressing the witness,
lis cruelty TO animals, and you have
been called to testify in his favor.
What do you know about him9'
Witness-aI never, knowed him to
ibe cruel to animals Why, that there
imam, judge, feeds his pet bulldog on
Ibeefsteak. CrneYto animals? Why,
i've known him to kick his wife for
not taking good care3of his dog."-M.
VI. Press.
The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1893-09-23
Speaker Crisp then spoke briefly.
Attempt to Wreck Francis Joseph's Ira

Attempt to Wreck Francis Joseph's Trair
BuDA PEsTH, Sept. 1e.-The Maya,
Hirlap today publishes u doubtful
rumor that q number of Roumaniar
conspirators attempted to wreck the
train in which Emperor Francis JOSEPH
was travelling to Gucns. The scene O.
the alleged attempt was neal
Borroshe, in Hungary. The
conspirators, tho paper says, re
moved Il part Of the track, but for
tunately the dastardly attempt upon
the lives of the emperor and those
travelling with him was discovered il
time to prevent what might have proved
a fatal accident. The track was re
paired ONE time before the train wa.
due, and u guard was detailed to pre-
vent any further attempts Of the kind
The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1893-09-23

T%hirty-two schemes for a site for
the proposed International exhibition
In Paris in 1900 have been considered
by the commission having the mat
ter in hand. 1t is considered most
likely that the site of the exhibition
OF 1889 will again be selected, al
though the available space will be
greatly enlarged. 1t is proposed in
n scheme to include the Tuileries
gardens. which would give space for
an exhibition twice rs large as the
last. Tho Eiffel tower would be on
attraction.
The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1893-09-23
statistics of the Rush.

KANSAS Cry, Mo-, Sept, 1o.-Careful
estimates show hat the rush into the
Cherokee strip from various principal
points at noon today was made as fol-
lows: Arkansas City, 5000 by train.
$4,000 by other couveyancesi from
Caldwell, Kas., 10. 500; from Orlando,
Okl., $4,000; from Saltwater, Okl.,
10000; from iiennessey, Okl., 5000,
from other points, 1900, making in
all u total of 05, 900,
The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1893-09-23

OF the ehtirS ltnown coal area the
United States has 5s.7 per cent and
British America has 1911 per cent,
while England has but 2.s, and Spain,
France, Germany and Belgium have to-
gether 10 per cent. The total produce
ton OF coal in 1891 is estimated to have
been $50, 900, 600 tons, of which $50, OOO,-
900 tons were produced in the United
States.