The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1900-07-21

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It stands alone, it towers above.
no other, It's natures wonder,
a warming p0ultice to the heart OF man.
kind. Such is Rocky Mountain Tea. So
cents. Ask your druggist.
80 cents, So cents, not 25 cents, not 60
cents, 50 cents, the price of Rocky Noun
tain Tea the world over. None genuine
made bv the Madison Medicine
Company. Ask your druggist.
James w. Sanford has secured the con-
tract for furnishing the coal for Grow
Creek and Lower B1ulc agencies, and the
Chamberlain Indian school. The con-
tract calls for an aggregate OF about $50
tons, including both hard and soft coal,
or about fifty a loads.
An awful raid storm with some tor
nado and hail, swept the country around
Sioux City, Vermillion and Yankton Sat
urday night. The country was flooded.
Ten inches Of rain within fifty hours is
reported from Yermillion, while at Sioux
City one downpour left five inches.
John Byrne cut off the heads Of four
prairie chickens with a mower and the
legs of about as many more, while
making hay n day last week. he
telephoned Game Warden Miller asking
IL he could eat the birds, and he was told
that he could bnt not to let it happen
again.
Chicken cholera got u foothold among
Carl Ehlrs fowls and little three-year-old
Willie took it into his young head to take
heroic measures with badly gone rooster.
He took it to q pond and nearly scrub
bed the feathers of, then chased the bird
around the place with q club until it
was dry. Next morning Mr.. Rooster was
as we'll as ever.
Volga Tribune: The residence Of G..
R. Tinan. editor of the Kimball GRAPHIC,
was struck by lightning II night last
week, but was only Slightly damaged.
Bro. Tinan claims to run "the only strict
ly moral newspaper in South Dakota"
and we hope this little incident will not
shake his faith. "Whom the Lord loveth
he chastaneth."
A Democrat who has attended every
Democratic convention Of Importance in
the state told the GRAPHIC that the
Yankton convention last week surpassed
them all. II attendance and enthusiasm
at the two conventions at Yankton is
any guide the fusionists will give the
Republicans n race for their money this
campaign.
The base ball game at Pukwana be-
tween the Kimball club and Pukwana
ended in a tluke. Our boys went down
with the understanding that they were
to play nine men; when the umpire took
q hand in 1t they quit. This was In the
sixth inning, and the game 8 to 8 in
favor Of PukWana. The boys say thai
8 scores were run in on the rankest kind
Of a decision, and that the umpire wal
rotten.
-Four years ago, in November, RICH,
after Bryan was defeated, two Chamber
lain men, WIN. Dent and Clyde KenneY
got into a dispute and Dent offered tt
! bet Kenney 500 that Bryan would Fever
again be taken up and nominated bv the
! Democratic party. Kenney called til.
! bet and each deposited 800 in one of the
!. banks. A few days ago the 5000 and in
terest, amounting to $50, was handed
over to Kenney.
!. A good story IN an eating house mar
is going the rounds: A travelling mar
stopped at his restaurant for breakfast
!, At dinner time, while standing outside
the proprietor came out and rang thu
, dinner bell, at which a small dog be9a1
to howl dismally. Turning to the dog
i the travelling man said: "What the d..
are you bowling about? You don't have
to eat here" The aforesaid proprietor
didn't do a thing to the dog!
Chamberlain Register: G. L. Aurner
veterinary surgeon, went over to The
Carpenter ranch at Pukwana Monday tc
examine their herd of cattle with a view
,, to determining the disease that is among
them. Mr.. Aurner pronounced the di
sease anthrax, a malady very similar t
black leg, and equally as fatal, % heat
of fine cows having saccumbed to 1T
rayages in three or four days after max
ing its appearance III the herd.
u According to all accounts affairs ii
China grow worse instead Of better
There is considerable news on the sec
ond page, which is the latest at hand
3 The latest dispatches state that the for.
D eigners in Pekin were safe on the 9th
which is the only encouraging news fol
the past week, but even this may be off
set BY later dispatches. At any rste, nj
one knows yet whether the foreign rel,
resentatives at the capital have beer
, murdered or not. There has been somt
hot Fighting at Tien Tsin, and the allied
forces we're at the second assault victor
ious. Full particularsQf the battle will
be found on the second page.
The GRAPHIC regrets TO note that the
prospect for q new city. artasian well IL
Chamberlain is not encouraging, though
it looks as though the project is to enc
exactly as predicted by this paper wher
it was conceived. We said at that tim,
that it was a waste Of money. Mahanni
& Johnson have been at work for week.
sinking another we'll near the old ont
on top of the hill, but though they ar,
9 down 100 feet deeper than the old one
J no flow has been struck. The experienc,
undergone with the big wells in thu
g western part Of the county should hay,
Z been enough to have made Chamberlall
9 hesitate before investing money ii
another wpll-at least within a few fee
, OF one already useless. It takes SOM
: people q long while to- learn anything.