The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1900-07-07
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The extent ~ which thp HuldsoAs
Eay Trading company carried SnStraS.
dc with the Dakota Sioux during the
latter part of last eerturys and the;
8irst o. e#present Il question
tboMt whichsthere Inns conferred much
interest IN the northwest Some hare
thought that the company did not exs
tend Ats bMsiness 30 far south as the
Dnkotas, but this contention has re-
3,eiyed n substantial refutationi In q dis.
covery recently made by Dome Rob-
ilson neal Frederick, Brown county.
Mr.. Robinson has discovered what
no doubt are the ruins Of one of4the
frontier trading posts otsthe Hudson
Bay company, and he thinks that con-
temporary records show tkatathe post
was destroyed in 1905. The ruins are
located about seven miles southeast
lof Frederick on the Elm river.
What more closely than anything
else resembles q IA OF total depriv-.
ity is reported from Scotland. Anew
days ago while playing around the
ditch along the railroad grade west Of
town a half dozensboys about 15$yenrs
old found and killed a small snake.
Suggested by a devilishness for which
there is no accounting, they caught
the 4~-year-old son OF John Kelley, who
was playing near, and inter cutting
the snake in two by threats of the
'direst punishment and sundry blows
and other physical urging, forced the
little fellow to bite off and swallow a;
large piece Of the snake. The boy
was i'll for several days after from
fright or the effect of the unsayory
morsel. Mr.. Kelley is cndeavoring to
apprehend all the boys engaged.
Superintendent Pierce of the In
dian school at Fandreau, Sd, was in
Washington In the interest of that
school. He has finally succeeded i'll
persunding the treasury officials to
honor the requests for money suf-
ficent to pay back the salaries ut that
school. 1t seems that no salaries have
been paid since last September, and
while the entire amounts due wifi not.
be paid now, it is expected that full
reimbursements will eventually be
made. Superintendent Pierce reports
to the Indian Office that all the diff
fculties Mt the school have been
Strengthened out and that twill start
tho new fiscal year in good shape
financially, as well us In the matter
of attendance Of pupils.
Joseph ureck, who sued r. R. Huns
phreyyecashier of the Bank of Willow
Lakes, for $4,000, obtained q verdict of
81. This is a somewhat peculiar case.
Last January, while Mr.. Tureck was
bookkeepr at the bank, $500 was
missed. Suspicion rested on Mr.. Tur-
eek and q warrant was issued and Mr..
and Mrs. Tureck were searched, as
was also their home. The money, how
ever, was not found. Three days
later, Mt the suggestion of Mr.. Tureck
the money was found under the books
case at the bank. MIR. Tureck claims
the money was not stolen and there
fore sued for the above amount,
claiming that the search warrant be-
ing issued damaged his reputation to
the extent of $4,000.
A novel lawsuit is in progress in
the town of Irene. One of the young
men of that village has for some time
been keeping q sort Of surreptitious
company with Il girl whose parents
objected. One evening last week they
learned that the young people We're in
attendance at a dance together and
the father waxed so worth that he
Immediately proceeded to a justice OF
the peace and swore out q warrant
for the arrest of the couple on the
charge of "elopement." The warrant
was served and the accused lodged
In Jail. The ease was called the next
day, but the defendant took n change
of venue and the matter still hangs
fire.
Martin Grunske, who runs q blind
pig at Altmont, and who has figured
in the courts of the county every
term for several years, Instituted q
criminal action against Joseph John
son and Willard Tribbitt, two promin-
ent young farmers of the county, al
leging that they threw stones at his
building, smashing in the windows
and doing other damage. The trial
took place In Clear Lake before
George i. Almond, and the population
of Altamont came over en- masse as
witnesses against Grunske for the IL
legal sale of liquor. He has pub-
lished asnotice that the Arion Agri-
cultural Club, the nanle of the pig,
has gone out of business.
James f. Witherspoon, the first
white maj to settle on the present.
site of Ynnkton, has left for
Seattle on his way to the Klon-
dixie. Mr.. Witherspoon once owned
,early half of the present site
of Yankton, and at times has been Q
man of much wealth. He came to
Yankton while this part of Dakota
was still held by the Sioux, and he
remembers seeing the present site of
the city literally covered with the
tepces of the Chief Strike Bee and his
band just before the government
moved them to the Yankton reserya-
tion. Mr.. Witherspoon is ;6s years old.
William Mahanna has just returned
from Rosebud agency, where he went
to put in q bid for continuing the gov
eminent ~artcsian well at that place.
The hole is at present $500 feet deep,
but biologists calculate that water
will not be struck short of $500 feet,
and an appropriation has been Sc
cured to continue the work. This is
by long odds the deepest well that
has been attempted in the state, and
the only one known west of the Mis-
souri, river, and to q certain extent it
lis an experiment to determine whete-
er the artesian basin extends west of
the river or not.
Messrs. Schilling and Nicholl, of st.
Paul, have just returned from a tril,
Ito the White river country, where
they purchased two car loads of
horses for shipment to eastern mar
ket. Horses are bringing good prices
this spring and the men who stuck to
horse raising through the time of low
prices are now reaping their reward
for their faith in that class OF
property.
Newton w. Gilbert, the republican
nominee for lieutenant governor OF
the state of Indiana, was at one time
a resident OF South Dakota. He is a
civil engineer and surveyed the town
site of Oacoma, or, as it is recorded
IN the government land Office, Glad
stone. One Of the principal streets
of Oacomn is named after him, Gil.
bert avenue.
Charles Conklin, of Hurley, was nr.
rested on the charge of grand larceny,
he being accused of stealing a bicycle
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