The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1894-09-29
DAKOTA.

Phinney said the cause of the disturbance
was Miss Conklin, q pretty assistant of
Phinney's in his Office. Mrs. Phinney said
she came into the office suddenly one day
and found the pretty Office girl sitting in
her husbands lap. She then insisted that
her husband discharge the girl. This he
refused to do, INT out of his relations to
the other woman grew the family troubles
The jury was out about an hour and,
when it returned Il verdict in favor of the
defense
syndicate is being formed at Grand
Forks to dispose of the thousands of tons
of straw in the valley to farmers of South
Dakota, Iowa and Nebraska. whose stock
is liable to suffer for want of food during
the coming winter. 1t is estimated that
throughout the Red river valley 100000
tons of straw will be burned during the
next sixty days unless some other DISPOSE
ton can be made of it. The scheme is to
get this vast quantity under control of
one body Of men as near us possible and
allow the farmers from the drouth stricken
states to ship it to their homes or drive
their stock here to feed.
The Guild hall. belonging to Christ
church, Yankton, was almost entirely de-
stroyed by fire. The second floor was oc-
cupied by Rev. Wyatt Klamath as a par
sonnge. The fire originated from the
explosion of a gasoline stove i'll the
kitchen and spread SO rapidly and so
ficrcely that nothing was saved. Mr..
Klamath was quite severely burned about
the face and hands while endcavoring to
check the.f1ames.
A remarkable break of nature is pre-
sented in u Siberian crabapple tree grow
ing in DR.. Harding's orchard on Ingleside,
seldom, if ever, known to occur, says the
Black Hills Times. The tree has been a
prolific bearer for several years past, but
this season it is TRYING to surpass all pre-
vious records by bringing forth two crops.
Fully developed fruit and blossoms are
now to be seen on the same tree.
Many farmers in the central portion of
the state have within the past year ex-
pended from s400 to $500 on small artesian
wells on their farms for the purpose of ir-
rigation. In several instances their addi-
tional crop yield has more than paid the
cost this year alone when compared with
their neighbors where they depended on
rainfall
Flowing by steam has become a reality
in Codington county. On one farm may
DO seen w sets of gang plows attached to
a threshing engine INT by this method
twenty-five acres are easily turned over in
In n day.
The accounts of the defunct Plankinton
bank are being gone over this week by an
expert accountant for the purpose of using
his report in the coming trial Mt Alexan-
dria on the part of the state.
TIL Pierre Daily Capital, now run indie
pendently, nails the name of J. A. Ward
to the mast head, but continues the re-
publican ticket without break except the
governor.
Diphthcria has broken out in Canton
and other parts of Lincoln county, partic-
cularly in Highland township, in a very
malignant form. AS yet no deaths have
occurred.
Charles a. Ryan of Charles Mix county
has been bound over at Chamberlain to
appear before the next term of the United
| States court on the charge of counter
feiting.
In Sully county farmers and others
shoot horses when they are found trespass-
ing on farm lands. Horses are a drug on
the market and it does not pay to herd
them.
/. III. Hall, n farmer of Garden Prairie,
lost his house and contents by fire caused
by a gasoline stove last week. A subscrip.
,tion was taken up and 5000 raised for himA
1t Is said that in Yankton county the
young lady teachers are vigorously pro-
testing against married ladies as teachers
in the public schools.
School Superintendent LANCE of Nc
Cook county received n beautiful silver
water set from the teachers attending
the late institute of that county.
Th first artesian we'll in the coded Sioux
lands west of the Missouri has been struck
on the farm of G. S. Grant in Lyman
county.
TIL Clay County Fair association feels
gratified at the success of the recent fair,
both financially and otherwise.
The annual meeting of the South Da-
kota Educational association will be held
in Huron in December.
Buildings for a cheese factory will be
erected at Hitchcock, Beadle county, this
fall.
A farmer named Ritchiein Hand county
struck a flow of gas while sinking a well.
A new school for Indian children is be-
ing erected at Forest City.
The Congregational church at Hudson
is without a pastor.
Cantonites want their city divided into
wards.
The brevity of insect life is illus
trated in the case of those insects that
modest and ruin the mushroom. The
latter. whose life is measured by hours.
is often ruined by an insect who de-
posits eggs that hatch out grubs while
the mushroom is still apparently in the
full vigor of youth. Before the .nush-
room has reached the lettering ago Of
forty-eight hours the grubs may de-
velop into the full blown insects.
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The pope has an egg which he ra-
ceived from an English lady on
Easter. The shell is made OF ivory,
its lining is of white satin and the
yolk is q golden case containing a
large ruby set in diamonds; the whole
is worth upwards of go, 900.
In Russia the bishops are beginning
to have their miters made of alumni
num-. This takes n load off their
heads, as the ordinary inter weighs
five or six pounds, and u metal one
only one pound or SO.
In the Sandwich islands the apple
has become wild and forests of trees of
many acres are found i'll various parts
of tho country. They extend from the
level of the sea far up into the noun
tain side.
Objector Holman, if he lives to serve
GU the new term for which he las
been nominated, will beat the con-
gressional record. No man has yet
served thirty years in the house of rep
resentatives, although two members,