The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1894-11-10
DAKOTA.


Nanized at Sioux Falls last spring has
grown to have membership of over $50.
Other unions have been started ut neigh
known as the industrial union OF
South Dakota has been organized and
the corporation papers filed at Pierre.
The state organizer will appoint deputies
for the work of organizing local unions
over the state. The union holds weekly
meetings for the disc1.s-. ion of social and
political questions. The state union is
calculated to be a bureau of Information
and will collect facts and figures of inter
est to its members. There is also u chart
table and mutual benefit feature.
The finst text book to be put out by one
connected with the South Dakota state
university has been placed in the hands OF
the printers at Verlnillion. 1t is an analy-
Sis of the civil government of South Da-
kota and of the United States. The book
ter includes much not found in other text
books, taking, as it does, both the consti'
tuition and the session laws as a basis OF
observation. In style it is closely con,
densed, and the authors, Profs. Smith and
Young, aim to make of it a text book that
will supersede the more heavily padded
treatises.
w. j. Wagner, travelling agent for the
Great Northern road, has returned from a
trip through the northern part of the
state. That part 81 the country was Sc.
yerely stricken with the drouth and the
people there are in destitute circumstances.
Mr.. Wagner says that near Osceola and
west of it whole townships were left by
the sun and wind of the hot months as dry
and barren as a desert, and stock owned
by the settlers was rendered worthless, as
there was no feed. One family was found
eating horse flesh, as it was the only meat
they could obtain.
A movement is on foot at Aberdeen to
organize u cooperative colony. The mat.
ter has been under discussion by the Pop.
ulist club, and it is expected something
definite will result in a short time. Among
other suggestions offered is one that Co.
lumbia, S. d., be secured as the central
city o. village from which the commune
would operate the surrounding lunds.
A bet which, for the odds given, will
probably go on record as the most curious
of its kind, has recently been made by
Jack Hale of Tilford and w. j. McFar
land of Deadwood. Hale bets the Dead.
wood man his horse ranch in Wyoming
against a box of cigars that Tom Majors
will not be elected governor of Nebraska
this year.
The richest discovery of gold ever made
in the Hills was last week. Two penniless
and unknown young men began prospect
ing near the Bald Mountain property, and
afterdigging three feet they ran into quartz
carrying rich gold. The rock averages $3.50
per ton, it is claimed.
Work on the -Four Mile gold property at
Custer City still progresses. They expect
soon to be able to make a run with the
mill to determine the value of the ores.
The mine is one of the best in the country.
Major Clements of the Santee agency,
who was recently suspended as the result
of charges made against him, is again in
charge of the agency, the investigation
fully exonerating him.
The South Dakota Sheep Breeders and
Wool Growers association will hold its
annual session in Mitchell, beginning
Tuesday, December 4, and continuing two
days.
Rolly Burkholder of Sioux Falls has
sold his valuable collection of Indian rel.
les and curiosities to Rev. Pichey of Dell
Rapids. The consideration is said to be
$500.
Estimates of beef cattle shipped from
the ranges of western South Dakota this
season place the number at 1O4, 900 head
and valued at 81, 900, 900.
There are thirty-eight United States
prisoners in the penitentiary at Sioux
Falls.