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VOLUME IT.
THE BANK OF ENGLAND.
A Visit to the Olit ljady of Thread
needle Street.
jKrom the Jiulon Telegraph.
Tlie old lady of Threudneedlc street
has been putting her house in order.
Whether under the influence of a spirit
of rivalry engendered by the new build
ings und fine machinery of kindred os
tabhbhincnts on Tower Hill, or wh'jthur
entirely stimulated by the exigencies o\
increased business, need not to be deter
mined but the bank of England is just
now the scene of unusual bustle and ac
tivity. What is practically a ilnu new
entrance into the building lias been
It ts rather a startling idea that, very
possibly flashes upon the visitor as
he moves amid these silent witnesses to
many monetary transactions that if dur
ing the past live years ho has scribbled
his name and ad ill ess across a Bank of
England note, probably that signature is
here, anil that somebody may some day
bring into the bank up-stairsa note bear
ing the same number as that which he
signed. Supposing the new arrival is
.sufficiently genuine in appearance to
pass muster—no doubt, rather a far
fetched supposition, unless it really is
genuine—within few hours a clerk
will lake down as queer a looking ledger
as ever went under the name, and will
proceed to "post" the note. Then it
will be seen that the proper space for a
note of that date and that number has
already been lilled in. Something must
lie wrong. The new arrival may bo a
good note. In that case tho other must
be a forgery, and anybody whose, name
appears on" it may expect communica
tions. Any day something irregular in
tlie history 6f one of these notes may
bring down upon any of us the atten
tions of a detective, just as Mr. l'ayn, in
bis "Lost Sir Massingoerd," makes tho
famous old Bow street runner Townsend
swoop doivn upon the simple old farm
er who lias quite innocently taken one
or two of the notes traced to him from
these gloomy vaults.
A conscience is a pleasant tiossession
as one trudges through these dark
avenues
by the glimmer of an old fash
ioned lantern. And yet a rogue muht
persuade himself that he is sale enough
amid this amazing store. The
officials give you a little printed slip
from which it appears that in the course
of live yours tho paid notes amount to
77,745,050 in number, and that they fill
]:i,4Ul) boxes, which, if placed side by
side, would reach 2 1-3 miles. If the
boxes were placed in a pile they would
reach to a height of miles, or if
joined end to end they would form a
ribbon 12,443 miles long. Their super
ficial extent is said to be rather less than
that of Ilydo park. They weigh over
!lll 2-3 tons, and their origina^ value was
over ElJ.TiO.tmijIi'K). Tlie greatest of
rogues might he inclined to find some
comtorl in the extent and intricacy of
such a store of old paper. Of course,
however, they are most systematically
arranged, anil any note of the seventy
seven "millions may be pounced upon
with the utmost, celerity nnd precision.
At the end of five years the30 old notes
are thrown into a furnace specially con
structed for the purpose and burned.
it is a curious fact, however, that so
firm in texture is the paper ot a genuine
Bank of England note that burning alone
can itardlv destroy it. The autboiities
have in a'little glazed frame the rem
nants of note which was in the great fire
of Cliicaizo. Thoiuh completely charred
and black, the paper still holds together,
and the printing ol the note is said to be
sufficiently legible to establish its genu
illness and to warrant its
cashed.
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centlv opened up from Princess street.
It has been described us anew doorway
It is hardly this, however. The door
has ahvavs been there, und some of the
oiu stumers in tno establishment can re
member its having been opeuc'.
A .cood many years ago, however,
during some time of popular turmoil,
this entrance was practically abolished
hy building up inside of it a ponderous
mass of briek-work nnd masonry. This
has been removed, and acccss to the in
terior of the bank may now bo had on
the western side. Inside the bank, too,
thore lias been a considerable readjust
ment of offices. The public drawing of
fice, for Instance, and the branch bank
otlice have been transferred to the
handsome and spacious room which
formerly was the accountant's bank note
oflice—tho otlice, that is to say, in which
old bank notes are sorted and regis
tered before being stored away in the
dark vaults of the hank, where for five
years thev lie packed away in little
wooden boxes, something "like plum
boxes, aeady to appear like so many ac
cusing angels against any body who hat.
made them the means of fraud. It is a
little irregular to have got
down into this nether world
of pecuniary ghosts so early in
The course of an inspection of the
bank, but, now that we are here, it may
save coming down again if we look about
us a little. There are probably people
about to whom a region of veritable
ghosts would be scarcely more fearsome
than these gloomy, silent avonuos, piled
up high on either hand with these little
wooden receptacles,
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There are some other note.-
liere that were cashed after having gone
down with the Kurydice a few years
ago, and reduced to little better than
pulp. Indeed, the scraps and fragments
which sometimes come into the bank to
be cashed, have a really ridiculous ap
pearance. On the occasion of a recent
visit., lor instance, the officials had
under examination number
fragments of discolored ,taper, none
much big.'er than a sixpence, and when
put together presenting to the unskilled
eye
not the slightest resen.blance to
nolo. And yet it was pretty confident
lv asserted that the paper would h.
("ashed. It is beneath the dignity of tin
Hank of Kindand take, or even
appear to take, advantage ot accidents
to their notes, and if there is any possi
bility of establishing the identity of one
of them, it is sure to bo duty honored.
Kven where a note is entirely destroy
ed proper evidence of tlie fact of de
struction will be accepted and payment
made. A lost note will in Kme cases be
paid and there in one occasion recorded
upon' which the liberal attitude ol the
directors in ft case of this kind involved
them in a loss of £:!f,000. A bank di
rector declared that lie had lost a note
lor that, amount, and, upon his givingan
indemnity for tho sum the event of
the nolo turning up, the money was paid
to him. Many yearealier liwdcauau un
known person presented the .ost note.
TIim naner was undeniably good, and
the° bank hud no alternative but to cash
St. as it was pavablo to bearer on de­
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rector who had lost it repudiated all lia
bility, the monev could not bo recover
ed. The collection ot forged notes
which have beou stopped at the coun
ters and have been accumulated in a
kind of scrap-book is very interesting
even to tnose wno nave no intention ot
embarking in this line of enterprise.
To the great fraternity of forgers—Siid
to have been entirely envolved so far ns
bank notes are concerned since the year
17i!—probably no volume extant would
atiord half the interest oi tins curious
collection. But we are fairly above
ground again, and somewhere nearer
too point at which any methodical ac
count of. tho bank's paper currency
ought to have commenced.
However methodically disposed may
I.e the stranger who should thoroughly
inspect the bank of Jvigland, ho will
prohablv soon relinquish ali attempts at
method in arranging his ideas. It is a
most bewildering place, and the stranger
cannot on the whole, do much better
than give himselfuj to his guides, and
take things us they present themselves
to his notice. He will probably leave
the establishment with a grand jimble
of ideas, in which miles of coin, and bun
bles of bank notes, and barrows of bud
ion, and whirling machinery and exten
sive vistas of clerks will be the main de
tails, and if any attempt to describe what
he has seen there is no little confusion,
his account may fairly be accredited
with the greater vraisemblance. Of
course, the place is not in confusion.
Order is the bank's first law, and every
thing is rigidly systematic, but the im
pression brought away by most stran
gers—especially if they have penetrated
into 6ome of the more obscure nooks
and corners of tho vast building—will
be of the utmost bewilderment and eon
fusion.
Pictures ot'CJairo.
Egyptian Correspondence New York Tri
bune.
Cairo is certainly a fascinating city,
but to see it under its best aspects one
must abandon donkey and driver and
plunge into the narrow lanes, right oi
ieft,
ask no questions, but just drive in
wherever chance or fancy may direct.
Here in the close courts and alleys you
find the life of the Orient, and hers in
the densest by-ways are bazars and the
minaturc factories that stlpply them.
There are originally a kind of high street
which ran north and south, and from
this innumerable lanes have diverged,
which are as crooked as the ways of
evil, and redolent of all odors froir.
frankicnense and attar to garlic. A stick is
an invaluable accompaniment on all
pedestrian excursions, for although for
eigners are as plentiful as flics, the na
tives still pursue them with
intolerable curiosity The raising of the
stick will make a man start ir.vav several
yards, and a fixed glance, even if of ad
miration, at some beautiful little girl
will cause her to scream and fly precipi
tately from the evil eye of tho stranger.
But, if curiosity or cupidity frequently
triumphs over fear, there is a deep
seated aversion in the Arab heart to ul'
those but uf his own faith. The advent
of the English tro.'ps has brought trade
and security into the country: and if
Lord Dutlenn should carry out the re
forms lie has planned, foreign capital
and machinery will soon lighten the
burdens of the people. But to this
they are indifferent, nnd prefer their
own sort of civilization and happy hutit
ing-grounds. In many a household
verses pass from band to hand, and are
hung upon the walls bemoaning the con
dition of the city. "O Masr (Cairo) how
hast thou fallen. Weep for the fate of
the beautiful pearl. Weep, let us bow
our heads and weep, for strange men
ride armed through the streets."
The M' uski and the Boulevard Moham
med Ali have cut the old High street in
twain, and monopolized tho more mod
ern shops, but the Arab trades are still
carried on in the labyrinth of lanes. In
one barely wide enough for two persons
to pausare the shops ofthe silver smiths,
and all the courts leading from it re
sounds with the furnaces and bellows of
tho workers in precious metals. The
patterns of their goods are generally re
productions of the old Cairene, and the
wily dealer lias
always a discolored speci
men of one of these forms to pass oil
upon the curious traveler as genuine
work of the Soudan. With the excep
tion of articles ot general consumption,
the value of which is fixed, a preposter
ous price is in the first instance always
demanded, so that shopping is an occu
pation oi joy to the gentler sex, as in
oilier niore fashionable capita's.
Squatting side by side upon the
shop board, the merchant and
the fair shoppers disenss their coffee,
smoke their cigarets, taik scandal, and
every now and then, as if by accident,
return to the object of the purchase.
Fifty francs is sometimes asked for an
article which may be eventually obtain
ed for five. Time seems to be of no im
portance to the trader, but the hurried
traveler finds ita sore trial to his temper
to bargain for several hours, even with
the assistance of a dozen other Arabs,
who drop in to advise and assist. In the
courts of the mosque of Muristan Kalaiin
once a spacious hospital erected by a sul
tan of that tinine, the coppersintli3 have
established their forges, and the sound
of many hammers and the voicoof many
tinkers"now break in upon the devotion
of the laithful. In a laue adjacent
groups of tailors are cutting and stitch
ing garments, embroiderers are tracjng
gorgeous ornaments for the running
footmen, and weavers are throwing oU
thousands of yards of gold lace for the
new mushroom Egyptian army. There
ire mountains of brilliantly colored Man
chester goods for woman's wear stacks
of mysterious articles from tho coasts ol
the fted Sea labyrinths of yellow slip
pers, and such a wild -rness" of red-toed
slues that one marvels how the bare
footed population will ever wear them
out.
Among the noisy mass that throngs
the streets the only crcaturea that accept
Kismet in iu absolute entirely are the
dogs. Generally of the color of the sad
desert itself, tl'iev are the most forlorn,
miserable, mangy mongrels accident
ever produced. With foxy head and
half-opened eyes, they lie in twos and
thiees in the sunniest and most incon
venient places, and when kicked out of
the way or trodden under foot they
make no remonstrance, but trail off to
some other spot equally pleasant and in
convenient for tue pelestrian. They
appear utterly devoid of pluck, spirit or
intention, and exhibit no emotion, ex
cept when they catch sight of a bone in
the list of an ^'ab munching his dinner
on the sidewalk. They about half wake
up then, and surronnd the dinner
in a semi-circle, blinking
at the bono in a iaint sort of feeble es.~
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pectancv. Indeed, uiere is but one
thing that binds them to life, and that is
to keep their beat inviolate. If a stray
dog should venture into the street
where he was not dragged up, he or
she will be instantly assailed by the en
tire detachment of that street and com
pelled to fiv or immediately become a
meal. In other parts ol Egypt the dog
displays some of the qualities expected,
but Cairo he is too degenerate a beast
to inspire sympathy and too stupid to
accept it even if it were offered.
ario is said to possess masques, a
great number of them on the line of one
cramped and ancient thoroughfare.
The mosque of K1 Ahinar, with a lofty
portal and a vast and graceful interior",
is undergoing restoration. This has been
undertaken by council recently con
sihuted to protect and preserve the pub
lic monuments, und the authorities have
wisely added the antiquarian Itogersbe)
and Id other Europeans to the body.
SCOUTlNa FOR INIKANS.
An Incident of the Present Apache
Raid in Arizona.
About sundown on the 2lid of March a
prospector.tame running into our camp
and that the Indians were only
four Jililes away, and that they bud
killed two of his companions. This
news spread quickly through our camp.
All of the miners came up out of the
shaft and went to work with a will car
rying timber, and we soon bad a strong
bold and plenty of Winchester rflies,
ready to give the red devils a worthy
reception. Some of us were appointed
scouts to go out from camp and learn the
direction the Indians were going, and if
coming towards the camp to report. 1
was one of the scouts, and as I marched
out with a Winchester rifle, six-shooter
and a big bowie knife, I felt brave—that
is until I got about one
fourth ol a mile from camp. 1 wasn't a
bit scared, but some how or other my
knees seemed to go back on me. The
darkness, too, made bad matters worse
I bad waited at my post about an hour
and was beginning to think that the In
dians had camped lot the night or were
on some other trail, when suddenly I
thought I saw soine objects
coming down
the valley toward me. I soon made it
out to be a single horseman, and I
thought that when it came within hail*
ing distance I would ask where he was
going and tell him to look out for In
dians. Tho moon was coming out bright,
and soon could see my friend acting
rather strangely. The horse seemed to
be going at will, a..d the rider would
stand up in his stirrups and look on all
sides.
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he came nearer I noticed a
rifle lying across the saddle in front of
him ready for use. Then I began to
think lie "was in tlie same business I was
and as he passed the foot of tho lull
about 400 yards from where I was I saw
that he was an Indian scout.
If it hadn't been for an
attack of chills about-that time I would
have invited his Indianship up to call on
me. I was so scared I could not run,
and is lie had come up and cut my scalp
clean ofl I wouldn't have known enough
to throw the gun at him. As soon as he
got out of sight I made for c.imp and
told them 1 had seen the Indians. They
all wanted to know how many. I told
them about 150. We were all so fright
ened that we slept within our strong
hold of timbers all nieht and were near
ly 'rozen to death. I expected to have
some Indians for breakfast but was dis
appointed. The next day the news came
to camp that the Indians, about thirty
in number, had crossed over the South
ern Pacific railroad going into Old Mex
ico, and that they had killed two ranch
man at Loda Springs, six men at Char
coal Camp near Tombstone, and five
men at a mining camp. To-day, March
27, a prospector came into our camp and
said his partner had been killed, and
that they had killed one Indian with a
tag or number on his back proving that
lie was from the San Carlos reservation.
A companv of soldiers passed here to
day from tort Bowie. They are three
days behind the Indians anil are likely
to stay that way.
Cussclango—Ut oj»ia in Equatorial
Africa-
11 is a new discovery, made by Ger
man explorers in equatorial Africa.
Stanley aoproachcd, but did not reach
it. It was supposed to be populated by
tribes of vicious and murderous dwarfs,
whom even the neighboring powerful
African kings dreaded. It is a vast ter
ritory, and from tho now published
description of it, appears to be a veri
table Utopia. Two Germans, l'ogge, and
Wissmnnn. have brought it to light from
the heart of the Dark Continent. It is
ruled over by an intelligent sovereign,
King Katsiiitsli, nnd the people, instead
of being pigmies, are a tall, well built,
handsome race, who excel in artistic
manufacture of workmanship of various
kinds, in wood, clay, copper and iron,
in weaving cloth out of the mabele plant,
and in basket-making. The country is
well timbered and watered and teems
with natural produce. No foreign in
fluence has yet touched them, and thty
live in Arcadian tranquillity and pros
perity. Dr. 1'ogae says that the inhabi
tants of one village, and sometimes of
several, live as members of one family,
in perfect friendship and peace.
They are excellent farmers, too.
Everywhere the explorers found broad
fields of fine mandioca, millet, maize
beans and earth nuts. IVbaeeo and
hemp are also raised, but whence came
the tobacco which they smoke invet
erately'.' The climate, though war n, is
salubrious. The adjacent kingdoms that
have been open to European exploration
have^dealers in female slaves, ivory,
ostrich feathers, etc., butnotCassel mge.
Travelers are conducted to the borders
of the dt lettable Utopia, but have not
been permitted to enter it for commer
cial purposes. Lieutenant "Wissmann
writes of the villages as places where "in
clean and roomy dwellings, with gardens
neatly hedged* in, forming streets as
straight as an arrow," this interesting
people live remote from a diflerent civil
ization. Their country abounds in ba
nanas, cocoanut-i and othor nutritious
fruits, but they cultivate the soil. Tliey
own cattle, goats, and fowl, which they
use.in part, tor food. And this is a region
that, until the discovery^of the enterpris
ing German travelers, baa been sup
posed to be inhabited by a strange race
of dwarfs who were cannibals, and who
have thus been accounted by geogra
phers.
A Carson City photographer gives each
customer a big "smile" of liquor to im
part to the countenance a "pleased ex
pression,"
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The Present Condition and 1'ron
pectH of thn Kntcrpriwr—Tlie
Work of Digging Vigorously Be
gun.
Boston Advertiser.
Capt. Nathan Applcton, who has been
indentihcd with the International Com
pany since the time ofthe Pans congress
which voted lor the Panama route, a
warm friend of M. De hesseps, and
one of the earliest to put faith in the
canal enterprise, having spent a fort
night or more upon the isthmus, has
just returned home to Boston. He
says that to get an idea of what
is doing on the canal one need only
cross the isthmus upon the railroad
train, from which abundant siiins ot
the extensive progress already made
can be obtained. About 0,000 men are
employed. These arc partly native lu
dians, and ]artlv negroes from .lamuica,
of whom large numbers have been
brought over. Until within tho last
six months the work has been
principally preparatory. Houses
tor the workmen have been erected at
intervals along the line, tho trees and
tropical growths have been removed,
and one can now ride on a horse along
the ax of the canal—that is, the line
which marks its exact centre from the
Atlantic to tlie Pacific. The canal com
pany has purchased the railroad, and
the fact ol there being a railroad there
lias proved an economy in time for ta
nal building of several years. Miles of
extra track have been laid for the exca
vations, large hospitals have been put
up at both ends of the canal, and a vast
amount of niachinary has been sent to
diflerent points and put in readiness foi
operation. The digging of the canal has
now (airly begun." At Calebra is the
hights point on the line, some :000 feet
above the level of the sea. An Ameri
can, Mr. Albert Millet, baa the contract
for excavating and removing game 3,
000,000 cubic metres. His place is oalled
the American camp, or section, from
the fact that almost all his machinery
was msdo in the United States and its
operations are watched with great inter
est, and even jealously, by the French
men and others, who are very
fast coming to recognize tho superiori
ty of American machines and Ameri
can inventive talent. He lias an
excavator built at Albany,. N Y., digging
sharply into the mountain-side, dump
ing into cars made in Springfield, and
which are hauled by a locomotive made
in Boston. From Calebra several miles
toward the Pacific and tenmilesor more
toward the Atlantic the laborers are at
at work digging through this, the back
bone of that part of the Andes. A con
tract has recently been made with an
American for dredging ten miles on the
Pacific end of the canal, arid at the At
lantic terminus work has already begun.
Two die :ding machines, each with a ca
pacity of about 1,000 cubic metres a day,
are employed there. The American
Ureduing.Company has the contract for
di edging ten miles of the Atlantic end,
and it will put at work there three col
ossal machines, one of which is now on
Its way there, and the other two which
are now building at Philadelphia, each
costing $12"),000. The material that is
brought lip from the bottom ofthe canal
at Colon,'where these smaller dredges
are at work, is pure white coral, which,
when wet in its place, is cut through as
easily as cheese.
The canal company is now paying out
not far from $500,000 monthly on the
isthmus, and another half million dol
lars is being spent at the Paris and New
York offices for supplies and machinery
ofallkinds. That is, the work is being
pushed ahead at the rate of a million dol
lars a month, and the company has suffi
cient money to go on on this basis for three
years to come, at which time the work
will be so far advanced that it will con
tinue by its own momentum. In every
thing that is done, Capt. Apoleton says,
the inspiring mind and the controlling
liana ol M. De Lessop is seen. He has
not only the liappy faculty of choosing
the right men to put in the various po
sitions connected with the work, but of
inspiring them with an enthusiasm for
the work, and a personal loyalty and de
votion to himself.
One matter which is of course of great
interest is the sanitrry condition of the
isthmus. There are on the average
about 150 pat ientsin the company's hos
pital at Panama, of whom only compar
atively few were stricken with fever.
Tho others were suffering from various
diseases and injuries received in work.
There were only thirty-five patients at
the Colon Hospital. When it is consid
ered that any ol the (1,000 workmen who
are taken ill are sent to one or the other
of these hospitals it is apparent, Mr.
Appleton says, that the isthmus is not
tlie pestilential place it is commonly be
lieved to be. The water from the soil
is not fit to drink, and the canal com
pany has imported hundreds of thou
sands of bottles of spring water which
is sold cheaply.
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KIMBALL, BRULE COUNTY, DAKOTA, FRIDAY, JANUARY 11, 1884.
THE PANAMA CANAL.
The lime iias now come, savs Capt.
Appleton, when Americans should re
alize that, the canal is not.au imaginary
atl'air or thecompany aspoeiilntiveorgnn
izaiion. It is a great reality, becoming
stronger and stronger every day, and
our people should take part in the work
in a manner woitliv of tlie position they
occupy, geographically and politically.
The lletalk which has been not uncom
mon in congress nnd in the American
press hits had no effect in frightening
the people ofCentral.and South America,
and it has not tended to increase their
rcspect for the United States. They
know that the International Company—
which is only French iu the sense of be
ing organized hy the strcat canal-digger,
who happens to be a Frenchman,
and having lis administrative officer
in Paris, while really the flag
of the United States of Columbia floats
over it and protects it—it is doing the
work which has b. en the dream of trav
elers, of navigators, of merchants, and
of statesman for many years. Tlie stat
ue of Columbus, sent over by the Em
press Eugenie, now stands on the shore
at Colon. Doubtless, some day, one will
tie erected to Ballioa where
"the waves
ot the Pacific come up to 'lie western
extemity of the canal. Nothing could
be more appropriate, when the canal
shall be a finished and accomplished
fact. Captain Appleton suggests, than to
erect a monument to Ferdinand De Les
seps on the bill-top of Calebra, from
which, in imagination, if not in fact, he
could see the waters of the two oceans
which it is his happy destiny to bring
together as lie has the Ked So» and
tlie Mediterranean.
A sevonteen pound trout was recently
caught on a set hook in the Witixalcoocho
river in Georgia.
The best located
town in Southern
Dakota, being situ
ated near the cen
ter of Brule County,
in the midst of the
best farming and
stock country in
the world. The
proof of which has
been fully demon
strated in the mag
nificent crops ofthe
past few years.
KIMBALL
Is located on the Main Line of
the Chicago, Milwaukee & St.
Paul Railroad, 48 miles west of
Mitchell and 22 miles east ot
Chamberlain. It has a fine pub
lic school building, good church
es, a first-class postoffice, two
banks, two jrood hotels, one
large grain elevator and mate
rial on the ground for another,
three lumber yards, all larrying
immense stocks several black
smith shops, good livery stables,
and stores representing all
brandies of trade. Still the
country demands more and to
live men great inducements are
offered to invest in this
Beautiful Town
The Brule County Agricul
tural Fair Grounds adjoin the
townsite and is one of the best
fair grounds in the Territory,
with a good half-mile track.
THE TOWN IS BOOMING
And now is the time to invest.
D. WARNER,
Proprietor of tlie original town
site, has platted and laid out
three additions, all adjoining,
with a continuation of streets
and alleys. Part ot wliich are
in acre lots, so as to enable all
classes to be suited in procuring
a residence lot. The most de
sirable blocks on Main Street
are still for sale to those who
desire to engage in business, and
great inducements arc offered
to that, class of men.
The climate in this part of
Dakota is everything to be
desired and is fully as mild
as that of Ohio, Indiana and Il
linois, with, perliaps, a less num
bcr of cloudy days. The rain
fall is abundant and always
comes when most needed, fiic
water is free from any alkali
taste
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and as pure as any found
in any ofthe Eastern States. In
short, the country, climate and
social advantages make this one
of the best, it not the very best,
county in Dakota for the emi
grant*
For further particulars, call
on or address
D. WARNER,
lnWTCAT.T., DAKOTA,
BKVL£ COUNTY.
KIMBALL,
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TAPT HOUSE,
E. B. TAFT, PROPRIETOR,'
Good Livery in Connection.
KIMBALL,
KIMBALL HOUSE
This Hotel, Formerly the Summit
DRY GOODS,
BOOTS and SHOES,
CLOTHING, ic' 'kIT-SS
HARDWARE,
TINWARE,
PUMPS,
WEEKS & WELLS,
GROCERS
THE LIVE
We wonld invite you all to call and be convinced that we are selling mor^good^
for One Dollar than any house In Kimball or Dakota. We do our own work, «ul
consequently our customers do not have to pay extra for eooda to pay clerks.
are always o.i^hand to give you prices on small or large bills, and we never get left
on prices.
We carry a full and complete line of
GROCERIES,
CROCKERY,
BOOTS and SHOES,
Our goods aro sold so cheap that we never lose any sales. If yon do aobbe
lieve it call and try us. Everybody come. Yours respectfully,
WEEKS WELLS, Ktmbaltr J&aleotm*
SMITH & CAITA
SUCCESSORS TO D. L. SMITH & SON,
NUMBER 40.
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DAKOTA.
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House, has been
BEFITTED, REFURNISHED, AND, TO A CERTAIN EXTENT, REBUILT,
And is now 4%
ONE OF THE MOST CONVENIENT HOUSES
In the County. Vtl
S LThe patronage of the publia is solicited, guaranteeing satisfaction ia every case.
A. F. OILLEY, Proprietor,
KIMBALL, DAKOTA.
The Farmers' Friend/
I KEEP IX STOCK A FULL LINE OF
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GROCERIES,
and CR0CKERT.
My prices are always the lowest, my goods_ tho bast that money, can bny.
cannot and will not be undersold by any competitor.
L. D. BABDIN,
HEADQUARTERS FOIL
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