The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1894-10-06
TlRTEENTH YEAR. KIMBAL sATUI
The candidates for the legislature on

was passed at the Populist convention
Don't let anyone honuy-fuggle you int,
believing otherwise.
Mr.. and Mrs. F. A. Duclos' infant bo,
died Monday morning ut 5 o'clock. TIL,
remains were brought here for inter
ment. The funeral took place at III,
Presbyterian church. Rev. Mr.. lobe Off
ciating, Monday afternoon.
J. N. Fulf0rd issued the first number
OF the Oacoma Gazette--the new Demo
cratic paper across the riyer-last week
and he has already taken in squash or
subscription aud otherwise doing finely
We wish the new paper unlimited sue
cess.
howard Dpmocrat:-We persume thu
versatile editor of the Kimball GRAPHIC
has noticed the returns from the Aslanl
Kentucky, congressional district, but fol
fear he has not, the Democrat would
like to remind him Of the fact tha,
Breckinrldge men are not always on tor
Two years ago a democratic -Populist
ticket was put in the field in Douglas
county and tue Republicans got laid out
cold. The latter tried to "bust" similar
deal this year but were unsuccessful and
the Democrats and Populists have again
combined and put up another winning
ticket.
Mud in October is something new for
this country, but that is what we have
this week. A pretty good rain fell a
week ago tonight and another and still
better one came down the greater part
OF Monday. 1t filled the cisterns partly.
laid the dust and makes fall blowing
possible.
Notwithstanding the tremedous
amount of work-which only printers
can appreciate-on,,..the delinquent tax
list: the GRAPHIC is out on time to a
minute this week. Most of the matter
was put in type this week, too. and when
you find as fine piece of typographical
work of its size in any other country pa.
per, let us see it.
AT the meeting of the Democratic
county central committee held here
Saturday, I. A. Weeks was elected chair.
man and Louis Richards, Hugh Lowe
and Jas. Morgan as the executive COM
mittee. It's good: quartette, and in
such hands Brule Democracy will be
kept to the front. ALI Burkholder was
reelected secretary, and better man for
the place can't be found.
Since Fitzsimmons defeated Creedon
at New Orleans he has been after Cor
bett, but the latter declined to fight him
until he had bested some heavy weight.
Now, Corbett is out with a sweeping
challenge Offering to meet all the fighters
in the world any week in July next, TAX
ing Fitzsimmons Monday night and
another the next night, and so on
through the list, $4,000 side on each
fight.
zone woe doth tread upon another's
heel. so fast they follow" The appalling
calamity in Minnesota was quickly fol-
lowed by cyclone in Iowa and Mime
sofa. whereby nearly one hundred lost
their lives, aud the papers nearly every
day since have recorded some similar
horror. The latest is cyclone in Little
Rock, Arkansas, by which the city was
badly wre cked, several lives lost and
half million dollars Worth of property
destroyed. South Dakota may not be a
second Eden, but it has so tar escaped
the fury of the elements. Possibly the
wind blows so continusly here that it
can't muster enongh strength at time
to go on tear.
When Republican orator or news
paper says anything about the Democrat
ic sugar steap just remind them that
OH Sept. 10, 1893, or under Republican
laws, raw sugar sold for 3ai cents per
pound and granulated at 5 3-16 cents per
pound. On Sept. II, 1894. under Demo
cratic laws, raw sugar sold at 3a4 cents
per pound and granulated at 1916
cents per pound, so that granulated cost
The wholesaler .2s cents less per pound
than at this time last year. Not only
this, but the consumer is no longer pay
ing bounty of 2 cents per pound on the
American product, which amounted to
about one-fifth cent Oh every pound con-
sumed, while the government is securing
a revenue that is deducted from taxes
collected on other articles.
1t is noteworthy fact that every Re-
publican paper in Brule county Is an
advocate to more or less extent Of the
resubmission of the prohibition question
yet there does not appear to be Repub,
lican in the county with stamina enough
to Introduce a resubmission resolution
In any Of the county's conventions, not.
withstanding 1t is one of the most i'm.
portant questions confronting the people
Of South Dakota today. The fact Of the
matter is: the party is constantly trying
to evade the question. At heart thorough.
ly disgusted with the farce, the Repub
lican leaders, after giving the Prohibi.
tionists their prohibition. seek to curry
favor with them-for vo;es-py moi
meddling with the question and wink
at the violation of the law in every town
in the state that the anti-prohi bitionists
may be kept quiet.
A good story is told on couple Of
young farmers who live not thousand
miles from Kimball and who shall be
like Lenore. "nameless for eyermore.'
It's against the law, as most everyone
knows, to dam or stop in any manner
any of the streams flowing from the
township artesian wells. But these
young rustlers know q trick or two
They obtained possession of piece Of
land near one Of the streams and put in
q nice. big patch OF potatoes. After a
blistering hot day and worse wind and
night had pulled her sable mantle and
all that. and when everybody supposed
these two chaps were in bed and snoring