The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1893-08-05
DAKOTA.


I. Track laying has commenced on the
e'oux rails, Yankton and Southwestern
sailroad
me Brule county teachers institute
% held in Kimball August IA and
son1inuing two weeks.
our stables We're entered by thieves at
.eheli and dozen sets of harness
ssoien. The thieves are supposed to have
oeen party of emigrants who camped
aear town
ne Deadwood Pioneer says that the
~ we iamented chief, Young Man A fraid-
aorsss, was an exemplary savage
~" true friend of civilization and gov
ernmelt supplies.
= disease called pinkeye has made its
sppearance near Yanktcn Cattle so
smlcted become blind. AS the disease is
eported contagious cattle quarantine
may be established in the district.
ole o. Opsall, of Kimball, abused his
we last week and threatened to kill her
saa everyone around. He was thought to
.e insane, but after an inquiry was made
was decided that he was mentally sound.
r. NJ Linnander, of Huron, has insti-
tnted proceedings against the Chicago
& snd Northwestern Railway company for
sU,ouo damages for injuries sustained
whlle employed in the companys shops
In that city
Ayonng boy of Lead a few evenings ago
Das running wheel of fortune on one of
she public streets when an officer came
slong and took tho whole outfit. The boy
IS thinking of bringing suit for the recov-
ery of the wheel
MAJOR Pattison, the regular army Of
hcer, who had been assigned to the For
sss Slty agency, under the new law rcgu-
'atihs such matters, has been relieved at
AIS own request and ordered to report for
anty at Fort Smelling, ALnn
u u. 2uigley, at present vice president
u the Mitchell National bank but for
many years prominent in school work in
NcW York state has been elected superin-
sendent of the Mitchell schools and has
accepted the position. The school year
oeeins September IA.
The contractors who are putting in an
Artesian well at Miller have lost a /, 500
pound drill in the we'll at depth of ,0oo
teet and all hope Of getting it out has been
practically given up. The drill shuts off
sully one-half of the pressure and the city
Is likely to sue the contractors for the
damage done.
Robert Jarvis and Andrew Mnliette. of
Deadwood, had nn alteration, and jarvis
gave vent to his angry passions by swip.
Mallette across the wizzen Mallette
yielded up the ghost without murmnr,
and now Jarvis is under a load of grief
and bond of 50, 500 to answer the charge
Of manslaughter in the first degree.
Charles Hutton and r. B. Hart. presi-
nd
funct Farmers and Merchants bank of
Plankinton, have been arrested on war;
rant sworn out by Joseph Freudenfeld
tor receiving deposits after they knew
the concern was insolvent. They were
placed under bonds of $4,000 each
Tramps broke into the Chicago and
Northwestern depot at Lake Preston
ritling the cash drawers of the railroad
company and the American Express com.
pany of small change. They went'through
trunk which happened to be in the wait
ing room and tore off the combination OF
the safe, but did not succeed in opening it.
The Missouri river stockmen completed
their roundup and they report the cattle
In especially fine condition. Last winters
losses will not amount to one-fourtl. of
per cent The recent heavy rains have
6lled all the water holes and no scarcity
of water will be experienced over the
range during the remainder of the sum
mer and fall.
Parties in Miller are buying up all the
E idle hay lands they can get hold of with
view of cutting and shipping the product
to England. 1t seems that a sample ton
was recently sent to London from this
state, and it created q dcmana for large
quantities of Dakota hay. There is al
ways large surplus of hay in this por.
tion of the state.
For the purpose of purchasing grounds
Tor public park. for the use of the citi-
tens of fYankton. the Yankton citycouncil at
recent meeting passed an ordinance pro.
gliding for the issue of coupon bonds to the
amount of S3l 900. A special election is
called for August Is, for the purpose Of
submitting the question of issuing these
bonds to the electors of the city, for their
approval or rejection.
Deputy Sheriff Harry Knott, of Sioux
Falls, who has had charge of drug tore
recently closed by the sheriff, left his vest
containing his gold watch and n small
amount of money in the store and went
to the RACES. When lie returned he found
Ing admittancc through the cellar, and
had taken his valuablcs as well rs several
articles of worth from the store
The Huron Manufacturing company
has fled articles of incorporation with
the secretary of state. Hamilton Kerr is
president and Edgar L. Shank, secretary;
capital stock $4,000. The company has
purchased the track of land upon which
the Huron tow mill stands, and will at
once enlarge the plant Mills ut Center
vile, S, D., and Sanborn, MINI, which
are owned by the company, will be put in
operation at once. The capacity of the
three mills is twenty-five cur loads of tow
per day
On Tuesday the 25th, there was un.
veiled at Fort Riley Kas., a monument to
the memory OF the officers and enlisted
men who fell at Wounded Knee and
Drexel Mission, S. d, Decem ber 80 and
30, 1890 This is the second monument
erected by the gallant Seventh in memory
Of the dead officers and men, the other
being placed on the battlefield OF the
Little Big Horn, where Custer and his
brave band succumbed to foe of more
than si. times their number.
A number of leading citizens of Pierre
have formed themselves in an association
to investigate the recent discovery of pc
trolenm in Lafferty Gulch, Stanley
county.
Professor Grant Smith of Madison has
been engaged as principal of the Miles
schools for another year.
Joseph Dunn and two other men en-.
ployed by Gray Bros, in sinking an arte-
sian we'll, were tried at Pierre on the
charge of trying to defraud Hughes
county out of $1,000 by falsely pretending
that the artesan well they were sinking
In Dry Run township was 1900 feet deep
when it was only l,a5s, and by swearing
they used 4if inch pipe when they used
3a inch one. All were bound over to
the grand,jury with bonds fixed at s2, ,0OO
each.
A movement has been inauguratcd in
Huron for the creation of a fund to be
known as the Veterans Monument
Fund" Members of the G. A. r. have
taken the initiative and pronoso ,.o ;a; >, :,