The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1904-09-02
PlERRE'S LATEST GAG
Sunday Excursions. free Boat Rides
and Free Beer


and free Beer
The Madison Outlook has caught
the cue from the Pierre strikers and
remarks:
The general assault on Pierre
for capital seems to have settled
down to the single proposition
that Pierre is located in the CEN
uncultivatable. and which will
never be occupied by human be-
II ings. Pierre is taking represen-
tative citizens from all over the
state and showing them this
desert" ana they go back home
strong missionaries for Pierre.
AT last accounts the country all
around Pierre was occupied by hui
man beings, though there are less OF
them to the square mile than in
some other regions. According to
this kind Of rot you must either ac!
cord Pierre the center of the finest
country on earth and in sight of the
densest population between the two
oceans-or you are a knocker and
credited with characterizing the
country west Of Pierre as a barren un-
inhabitable waste. All those who re-
fuse to admit that the country be-
tween Pierre and the Black Hills is
just as COED as any part Of the state
for sustaining the same population
are slanders and liars.
Now, the editor of the Outlook is
just home from trip to- the Pacific
coast. We'd like to have his personal
opinion in cold type on the great
stretch of country he crossed after
passing the center Of North Dakota?
We'd like to know if he thinks that
all it lacks is a few years more of age
to make it like his Lake county
home?
We'd like to know if lie thinks that
once upon time Lake county was
exactly like it is SO far as natural con-
ditions go?
We would like to know if he thinks
the time will ever come when any
given area he saw before reaching
mining district or the coast country
will ever catch up with, the ,popula-
tior5 Of Lake county, square mile for
square mile?
"Pierre is taking representative
citizens from all over the state and
showing them this desert' That's
what she's showing them if she is
showing them anything outside of
Pierre. Hughes county has had some
pretty dry years, but she meyer had
much worse one than this. There
isn't enough crops for a hundred miles
west of Miller to wad a cannon. Any
body who knows anything about that
part Of the state this year knows that
Hyde, Hughes and Sully have almost
total crop failure. Get bulletin of
the state experimental station at
Highmore, Hyde county, and read it.
Pierre is taking men, women and
children to Pierre to give them
boat ride on the big muddy and free
bath in the Locke pond and all the
beer they want--to make them feel
good-and root for Pierre. She first
requires the men TO sign an atlidavit,
so we are informed, that they will
vote for Pierre before giving them the
junket. She is making speciality of
Saturday excursions, so that in loos-
ing three days time getting; to Pierre
and back one OF them will be Sunday
and it wont be missed. Three days
lost time in the middle of the week
would make most men think, when
they Can get out to Mitchell and home
again in a day. She is running them
into Pierre at midnight and after
routing them out Of bed three hours
before daylight to start home. Any
man after taking daylight ride from
Wolsey to Pierre and back who would
vote for Pierre because he believed it,
was the proper place for the capital OF
South Dakota would vote to place the
capital OF Colorado on Pixies Peak.
Pierre is running the same old cam
paign of fourteen years ago-bulldoz-
ing, bribery and beer.