The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1896-03-14

Gne celebrated walnut DOCK coal TO
$5.25a ton.
The Beloit orchestra play ut Chamber
lain Monday night and at Mitchell We'd
nesday hight.
Thirteen commercial men lodged at
the Klmtall House Thursday night. It's
a good place to stay, you bet.
The snow fall last week gradually ill
creased towards the north in the state.
At Aberdeen about sfoot fell.
John Smith returned Friday from
Bear Valley, Wis, where he was called
at the bedside OF his dying mother.
John Smith bought a quarter section
of wild land adjoining his farm, through
l.. A. Weeks this week. Price SEQ. This
gives Mr.. Smith 64O acres in a body.
Cattle men will be interested in the
ranch for sale on Elm creek. advertised
in another column. Mr. Mccarthy will
b. in Kimball this week and can answer
inquiries.
The April meeting of the county com.
missioners Will reveal that some of those
resolutions introduced New Years by the
Hon. John I. Hoover and his colleague,
Louis Richards, were not pnt in for
effect.
Charley Drake sent a copy Of the
GRAPHIC back to New Hampshire and
received word that people walked over
the hills from five miles away just to
read about the artesian wells of Brule
comfy.
TIE pipe was pulled from the Ochsner
we'll and the trimmer which got caught
released Saturday. The $50 feet Of cas-
ing was put back Tuesday without
trouble and work is now progressing
satisfactorily.
Mrs. L. G. Scott remembers the GRAPHIC
with copies of the Worchester (Mass.)
Spy, giving an account Of recent heavy
floods there and Of the new Worcester
Art Museum to be founded by Hon.
Stephen Salisbury.
A lawyer sent the following letter of
coincidence to the widow of an editor: !
cannot tell you how panied Twas to hear
that your husband had gone to heaven
We wele bosom friends, but now we
shall never meet again.
In a test case before Judge Jones at
Sioux Falls, the court ruled that a coun-
ty commissioner can draw but 1925 a
year for all services required, except as
oyerseer of the poor, for which alone an
extra fee Of $500 a day Is allowed.
The sheriff OF Aurora county wen,
down to Mitchell Monday and served
summons OH forty-nine men alleged to
have had a hand in the destruction Of
the Mail. The case is to be called in
Aurora county at the September term.
II one buys a chicken one does not
have tn eat the feathers, and music Low.
ers who may not care for nor approve OF
dancing will not be obliged to indulge
by patronizing the concert next Tuesday
evening. Let the opera.bouse be filled
The Turgeon artesian we'll, which has
flowed about IL inches above the opening
for the past year, broke loose the othel
day is said to be throwing solid eigI
inch stream eleven feet into the air. The
Volume Of water and pressure is tremen.
dous.
The citizens OF Redleld entertained
the newspaper boys nicely at the winter
meeting last month, and the Jonrnal-Ob.
server lets Redfield know how it was ap.
preciated by publishing a page of most
fattering comments from the state
press.
Ofthe forty or more Republican edi.
tors at the Redieid meeting the Pettigrew
men could be counted with the fingers OF
one hand. But the pickerel statesman
has the whole kit and caboodle Of thu
Republican editors of Brule safely tuck.
ed away in his coat-tail pocket-except
Sister Gwen. This will be explained
later.
Salem Observation-Disclosures hayt
long told US that the prohibition law
would empty Our prisons and almt
houses. South Dakota has a prohibition
law and the state penetentiary has more
inmates than it ever had before. Tht
Gatlin Gun, a prohibition paper of Siou1
Falls, says there is not a prisoner ther,
for tho violation Of the liquor law.
Fred Smith has a window display O
games in Reynolds drug store. A gam
OF chess occupies a conspicuous position
and a game is in actual progress. tn
contestants beng MI. Smith and Chic
OF Police Henry Sllellbark Dains. Til
latter studies the game through the Win
.. dow from day to day and makes hi
moves accordingly. The game has beel
in progress for two weeks now.
The new county board have been hunt
] ing out artesian well pipe belonging t
J the county aud have jumped on. to Glen
niger and Morrison for $257 for pipe al
legedto have been taken from Willow
Lake. The board attached pipe c. & \
are using in tho Sanford well. Commis
sioner Richards states that they hav
turned into the county treasury abou
!. $500 in cash since the January meeting
licked up here and there.