The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1895-07-13

ti0f--a new GrgaDiHh ion wired an In
vitatiOn to remain over an extra day in
Sioux City, aad for the courtesies shown
the party while in Sioux City outside OF
the royal entertainment provided by the
Mondamin the ass0cietion are deeply in
debted to the wide-awake members of
the District Fair association. Upon their
return from the Hills the editorial party
We're met at the station with carriages
by members OF the organization named,
representatives Of the local press and
others and with their baggage at once
driven to the Mondamin. We were
tired and dusty lot OF m0ltals. and at
once sought the quiet seclusion of tie
elegant apartments assigned us. The
next forenoon was largely passed by car
rage drives about the city with friends
OF those who were interested in enter
tanning the visitors and tho afternoon
was pleasantly spent in looking over and
enjoying the attractions of Riverside
Park. The Sioux City Boat Club and
the Riverside Boat Club largely monopo-
lize this delightful spot and have ex-
pended thousands of dollars in beautiry-
ing the grounds and in the erection of
buildings, purchase of boats and so on.
The Park is about five miles from the
city, just nice drive and easily accessi-
bic by the motor line. Between it ard
the city are the fair grounds and the
famous Riverside track ON which Out
line lowered his record from 2:07 to 2:Ol
last fall and where in September will
occur a week Of the finest racing over
seen in the west. The best seats in the
feavy Grand We're provided by those
whose guests we were for the evening.
They wanted to give us a swell banquet
at the Mondamin instead, but a telegram
from Secretary Halliday from the Hills
accepting the invitation to partake of
Sioux City's bread said, I'VE draw the line
on banquets" and so that was eliminated
and the whole entertainment the most
informal and jolly imaginable.
1t seemed like getting home to get
back to Sioux City. The interests of
South Dakota and those of Sioux City
are so identical, business relations are
SO close and commercial acquaintance
so universal that it is difficult to realize
that Sioux City is not actually part
and parcel of South Dakota as so many
easterners really believe. And the aver
age South Dakotan feels that he has
more than passing interest in Sioux
City in that he has largely contributed
to its growth and prosperity and is CON
tlnuing to do SO more largely every year.
And Sioux City realizing this, too, makes
no bones OF acknowleGgi ,g it, and with
that wide, open-handed generous Sioux
City way" now so gen lily recognized,
welcomes the South Dakotan as none
others are ever welcomed. 1t is not
strange then that as representatives, of,
what Capt. Lucas in his welcome speech
at Hot Springs termed, che best weekly
Press in the United States nothing in
Sioux City was too good for the boys
who have been such powerful factors in
the building up OF this commonwealth
and incidentally Of Sioux City, and that
the entertainment was the most royal
and in financial sense the most gener-
GUS bestowed upon the cXcursionists dur
ing the two weeks trip.
This is particularly true Of the Monda-
min Hotel company. 1t is no small ex-
pense to care for fifty or sixty people in
So day hotei for couple of days.
The proprietors could not do enoush-in
their own minds and when the
ladies' of the party-some twenty or thir-
ty-appeared in the dining room, the
first night OF our arrival on tile return
trip, they each wore bouquet of beauti-
ful roses, compliments ofthe gallant pro-
prietors. This was only one Of the many
little informal courteses shown the
ladies and ther escorts.
The Mondamin Hotel comprises Frank
Hunt. president; NJ. S. Bullock, vic
president and r l.. Cheney, secretary
and treasurer, and taking them all in
all there's trio hard to equal. They
own and manage the Mondamn and the
New Oxford. The Nondamn, as is
generally known, is the Booge made
over. But tue only resemblance to
the old time hostelry that now remains
is that it occupies the same corner. It
is said that $4,000 was paid out IN the
alteration and renovation and an inspec-
tion of its rich interior and expensive
furnishings makes the sum appear small
In some features the hotel has 10 equal
in the west, il i'll this country, and at the
price is the acknowledged leading hotel
of the west. Everything about its
interior is spick-span-new and mp TO
date AMI the carpets, furniture, uphol-
stery, china aud linen Of the most cx-
pensive kind. The dining room and Or
binary are done in pure white, with
delicate gold leaf tracings, which with
the brilliant "lartr'c chandeliers gives a
most beautiful eli. ct. The service in
this department is a near perfection as
choice CUISINE, good taste and the best of
trained walters can make it. The din
ing-rOom is in charge Of Mr.. N. II. 5my-
ley of Chicago. aud as Il head waiter lie
Is a bird, a dream, a poem, symphony
in G flat on moonlight night.
Ito be continued
With singular persistence the farmers
of South Dakota have gone on increasing
their 1locks in spite of the Iuin to that
industry precipitated by the latest tariff
act of which we read such dolefu ac-
counts i'll all the Republican papers last
fall and during the campaign. They
have actually gone into the sheep ranges
of the west and bought sheep, and
brought them east and doubled their
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