The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1903-06-05
Taxed without BENEFITS.

Taxed Without Benefits.
Between fighting the efficient (?)
water commissioner, the honorable
General Utility ~ Stewart and ex-
senator, on the one hand and worms
and bugs and insects and dandelions
and drought on the other, the man
who is unfortunate enough to own
what may be called a fairly pleasant
home in Kimball-built up from raw
prairie by fifteen years or SO OF beastly
hard work and lots of money-he's
having a hard time. What a man
ought to do would be to put up a tent
and herd his stock about and over the
town-water them at the public
troughs in summer time and pay the
city a dollar for the winter months by
tapping the mainland when he's
made his pile dig out to more invit-
ing fields.
John Stewart told Alderman
Ochsner this morning that there had
been seven feet of water taken out Of
the big tank since five o'clock last
night, in addition to two feet more
that he pumped in.
He lied
At six O'Clock last night there was
just Is feet of water in the tank; at
nine when all the lawn hydrants in
town were turned off there was 1871
feet in the tank. At 10 this morning
there was IL feet.
The pump was not running a
minute after 6 last night.
During the hours given to the lawn
users of water last night the tank was
lowered just II feet and the pump
not running. and from 9 last night to 8
this morning there was az much water
taken out of the tank as when every
thing was wide open last evening for
four hours.
At the hour of going to press this
afternoon the pump has not been run
ming since yesterday atternoon-and
the tank is nearly half empty-and the
lawn users have taken out less than
a foot of 1t.
Now, who is using all the water
the people who pay from Sc to s12 a
year or those who pay from 81 to So or
nothing at all.
IT the water-works are to be run to
suit the convenience of a water COM
missioner who would find it pleasanter
to hold down a dry goods box or work
at his trade, it's high time that we
had another one.
1t was the distinct understanding
that the water commissioner was to
give his whole time to the city.
Has he done it?
Perhaps he better enforce the rules
and regulations against himself.
The council has been lied t oand stuff
ed with tales of the hours of pumping
it required and the amount Of gaso-
line 1t took-lied to MIST shamefully.
There is a whole lot more Of this to
follow.
The Milwaukee's excursion Sunday
was a kind of a frost. It&was almost
a frosty morning to begin with, windy
and chilly, which kept many Iowa
people from boarding the trains, and
the principal attraction-the advertis-
ed ball game between Algona and
Sioux City fzzled out to a contest be-
tween two ordinary amateur organiza-
tions-Canton and a picked up nine
from the Sioux City stock yards. dis
trict. Perhaps Excursion Manager
Walker was disappointed in his ball
team, but If he wasn't that kind of
work won't pay. Sioux City played the
Council Bluffs team in Sioux City
Sunday and the game was probably
scheduled weeks ahead. Only two
trains came through; two were doubled
up at Mitchell-and a good many
people between Mitchell and Chamber
lain got left, thinking that there
would be a third train along.
81 have been troubled for some time
with indigestion and sour stomach
says Mrs. Sarah w. Curtis, Of Lee,
Mass, land have been taking Cham
berlain's Stomach and Liver Tablets
which have helped me very much SO
that now 1 can eat many things that
before I could not" II you have any
trouble with your stomach why not
take these Tablets and get wells: For
sale by f. e. Miller, druggist.
G0nSumnti0n