The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1905-03-17

column ABOUT IL WlUIl unrec-SUOTY scare
head he kept swelling up until, with
a frightful sound, he exploded like
key of sourkraut. People rushed INTO
the hotel office from the street, tore
up the stairs, bursts open the door
and all that remained Of the once
portly and popular George Tibbitts
vas his remains plastcred on the walls
and ceiling.
When Tibbitts came to town and
got the Joshing he was furious. He
walked up and down the street like a
raging lion and wanted to whip the
whole street from the corner to
corner. He particularly wanted to
kill Dains and Willis both-but he
didn't-aEd as the next best thing
came into the GRAPHIC Office and Of
fered me all kinds OF money to rip
Willis up the back, This couldn't be
OF course, for Willis and were chums
and thicker than three in bed-so
Tibbetts meyer got any satisfaction
out OF it.
What made Tibbetts so firing mad
was because Willis topped off the story
with a full obituary of the deceased"
told all about all about what nice
man he was, where he came from and
all about his life since his arrival in
these parts-not forgetting the usual
words Of sympathy and coincidence
to his family.
When Willis didn't haye anything
else on hand he'd come over TO my
Office and inyeigle me into the coun-
try or out hunting. One pretty spring
afternoon in 1883 he came oyer and
boned me to walk out to Will Ochs-
ner's place to seeing what he was driy
ing at. Will then owned what is now
the Charley Knowles place. 1t was
his homestead. When we got across
the track we noticed blue haze out
that way and as we approached the
We found Will out on piece Of open
prairie with a yoke OF oxen and
breaking plow-and Of all the crooked,
ragged furrows and scratches on the
face of OLD mother earth, those were
the worst ever. And the words that
Will said. Whew, never in all my
born pays heard man rip and tear
and cuss a pair of living things as
Will did those oxen. Willis laid down
on the grass and rolled and laughed
until he couldn't sit up.
"Dod CAST their measely blankety
| hides, they can't understand the
English language" Will explained as
an excuse for his letter "S" burrows,
81 got them out of a car yesterday
shipped from Scotland and the blank
ETY. blank ded rated fools don't un-
derStand anything but Russian"
I We finally left HIM to his sorrow
{ and strolled back to town. Next day
!, when Will came in he took pains to
hunt us up. "Say," he said, edo you
, know / had those damned critters
yolled up wrong side to. When l
+ changed the off OK over to the nigh
: side they went straight as a bullet.
, The gentle OK was the favorite beast
, of burden in turning the virgin
, prairie in to fertile fields in those earl,
!. days The pioneers broke prairie witt
: them by day and when night came
with the delightful breeze and cooling
air, the yoke was lifted and the crit
, ters turned loose on the homestead tt
pick of the succulent grasses and con
q tently chew their cud until the hus
r bandman broke the morning air will
o a call to labor. More often than not
Il the steers were made to do the duty
t of a team of equines.
j. There lived less than two miles from
II town young couple who had pal
n of the critters that were not NOR
r than half broken. One early morning
is in summer, the young husband yoke
,c the pair to a wagon in which he pu
:, his wife, babe and trunk to take ther
y to the railway station, where the
y were to board the train for a visit t
T. "mamma." Before he could get int
81, the wagon himself, the crazy crlttel
~ started, threw their tails in the al
- and lit out for Kimball hell-to-spi
~ over the prairic-aS Secretary Of Stat
ut John Hay wrote in Little Brltches
,d and they never stopped until the
reached Main Street. The h|ushin
10 bride was gently lifted from the co,
a. veyance. the cynosurc Of five hundre
he startled and amused eyes, while tt
rt steers stood painting like a couple
~ huge bellows. 1t was great frolic f;
vi them, but a ride that Mrs. you'll ha,
as to guess her namel has never been 70
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