The Kimball graphic., August 05, 1904, Image 1

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

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REFERENCE.
Any man we have bandied
Rea'. Estate for
Milking a specialty of groceries
gives us the best deals going and enables
us to make the prices right to you. AYe
have had a splendid business since occu
pying our present quarters and have had
the reputation oi! doing the grocery busi
ness of Kimball, We want to hold it and
if square treatment will do it we intend
to. Contrary to expectations, we failed to
close the deal svith Jowa parties and let
go of our stock .March 1, but our customers
have lost nothing by it and have profited
thereby in our reduced prices. And inas
much as we are to remain in business it
has become necessary to put in a lot ot new
goods and consequently we are better fix
ed than ever to sell you the freshest of gro
ceries. Free delivery anywhere in town.
'.Phone your wants. Highest price for but
ter and eggs.
Wanteds
UP TO DATE GROCERY
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House Furnishing Goods
"We have the finest line this side of
Mitchell, right up to date in style
Price very low. Lots of new goods
Bowles' Furniture Stored
I'IIES A. AY. HANXKMA
Kimball State Bank
(i.NronroKvrri) 1
Does a General Banking Business
We sell you a draft that is good in any part of the world.
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We can give you every accomodation consist
ent with sound and conservatiye banking
Fred GriswoSd Cashier
Buffalo, ChasMix, Aurora and
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Alt KIMBALL, SOUTH DAKOTA, FRIDAY, AUGUST 5,
Y. PI:ES
Estate.
A'iuch wil] prova v»ry nttractivo to Home Seekers or investors. Terms all that enn
be desired. If you linvo town lot or farm to sell, call or write to nie and if anyone
can find yon a buyer I can If yon have a freind who has property to dispose of re
fir him to ine. If you want to buy a pioce ot property no one serve you quite so weil
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Collections a Specialty and
Remitted on Day oi'Payr.-.ent
F. A. Reynolds.
Kiuiball,
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1 low did Pierre secure the state
capital fourteen years ago?
There never was in all the history of
TOWN LOT ItOOMKliS
Away back in the early settlement
of this northwestern country tie
name of Pierre, or rather Fort Pierre
as it is sometimes called, became the
most famous location on the Missouri
river as a trading point for dealing in
furs and bulTalo hides between St.
Louis and the head waters of the
river and it has held that distinction
until the present tune except that it
is now dealing in sheep pelts and cat
tle hides.
During the discussion of the divis
ion of the territory of Dakota ir, the
early eighties several land boomers
from the east became attracted to
Pierre by reason of its much adver
tised name by the Northwestern Fur
Company and its apparent"geographi
cal center" of what was to be South
Dakota and they came to Pierre, the
terminal of the railroad. Now, who
were these land and town lot boomers,
where did they come from and what
did they do after their arrival?
They were "Billy" Wells, Mr. Well
man, .James Ward, Tracy Pratt and
others, most of whom came from Xeni-
1 hey could impress on the people the
necessity of locating the state capital
near the '-geographic center" of ihe
state without regard to iis availabili
ty to produce farm products that
would sustain a population. These
schemers and town lot boomers were
right in their ideas about fooling the
people to vote to put the capital at
the -'geographicalcenter"even though
the eastern half of the state would
sustain eight times as many people as
the western half. They had secured
absolute cont ro! of all lands surround
ing the village of Pierre and they
proceeded to lay this gumbo land out
into lots with a 20-foot front. The
division of Dakota territory baying
occureil in l&S'J and the state having
been admitted into the union, these
20-foot town lot boomers established
East Pierre and erected the Wells
hotel and tin: Paik hotel. They built
a street car line from Wells hotel in
East Pierre to the old viiliago a mile
and a half away, they built several
residences, a bank and a few store
buildings and then asked the'North
western to give them a station at East
Pierre, a federal postotlice, and they
secured the erection of a denomina
tional college. They wen now ready
to open the boom for Pierre for the
capital as soon as they could secuic
money for their scheme.
How were they to secure it?
issriN-.
i'.onds
Thcv conceived the idea of going in
to the business of issuing bonds and
selling them to men and women who
had money for investment and the
records or liughes county, and I he
city of Pierre and the school district
of the county will show they issued
and sold hundreds of thousands of dol
lars worth of bonds more than they
ever redeemed or paid the interest on.
The county of Hughes was bonded for
$100,000 to build a railroad from Pierre
to Aberdeen and from Pierre to the
Black Hills.. They made a prelimin
ary survey of the road to Aberdeen,
and then hired some farmers to plow
and scrape dirt at and near Pierre, at
and near Aberdeen.at and near Faulk
ton, and when anyone visited any of
The east was thoroughly canvassed
by these gumbo land and lot boomers
C. R. TINAN, Publisher. THE ONLY STRICTLY MORAL NEWSPAPER IN SOUTH DAKOTA $1.50 Per Year in Advance
How Pierre Got The Capital
Through Minnesota Lot Men, Illegal Bonds and
a Lot of Suckers.
this or any adjoining state so much people all over the country for bonds
fraud prepetrate'J, so much bribery
resorted to. so much premeditated
swindling done in one form and an
other to secure a state institution as
Pierre did in the campaign of LSiiOand
years prior hereto.
brota, Minnesota. They settled on or which a few years later were permit
bought from 1,000 to .1,500 acres of ted to revert back to the city or coun
land directly east from the Missouri ty for taxes, because there was no sell
river back from the gumbo bluff's be- ing value for them. (Jut of all this
lieving when the state was divided I Pierre boom and Pierre pledges of
these rail way towns they were shown I divide and has left Ward to skin ihe
the Aberdeen. Fort Pierre & Black Alabama, suckers,
Hills railroad, "now (then) beinsr'
built."
rAUMHUS- i'.AILKOAI) OUAD1C
Men from Pierre traveled in every
precinct in the state to boom Pierre
for the capital. Money taken from
tliat were unlawfully and fraudulen
tly issued and for gumbo 20-foot-front
lots sold was lavishly spent by Up
town lot boomers of Pierre for the
capital. Voters were bought either
with cash fraudulently obtained or
with the promise of a deed to a
20-loot gumbo lot on this l,"00-acre
tract of land that the /.ambrola,
Minn., boomers had brought at prices
ranging from two to live dollars an
acre These town lot boomers went
back in the country for miles and
bought 40 and 80 acre tracts of $2 and
an acre land, laidout addition after
addition to the town Pierre and Fast
Pierre in 20-foot-front lots and thous
ands upon, thousands of these lots
were given away to men who would
work or agree to vote for Pierre for
capital. These lots were scattered all
over Hughes county, some in the St.
Louis addit ion, the Chicago or Mil
waukee addition and some of them in
the Woonsocket Capital Investment
Company's addition down near the
Missouri river south of the Indian
school. A book of 200 pages might be
written giving the facts how these
Pierre town lot boomers swindled
thousands of men out of money. The
present governor of Wisconsin and his
iaw partners bought eight of these 20
foot lots north of the East Pierre
railrc.-'l depot, paying near.v $2,000 for
and land and lots were promiscously boomers are still at Pierre telling the
sold to people wanting to invest wl^j. (people of the state to "stand pat" and
wlu-n they visited lliese towns were keep the capital there until they can
shown the "farmers ailroad grade," unload some more of those 20-foot!
which extended a mi .-, or two each gumbo lots, and procure a few more,
way from the towns. gas wells that produce hot water, and
Bonds were issued and sold against "stand pat"' until they can open up I
everything possible to bond. A rail- their cement mines, and pay the state
road was promised to the Black Hills. (Coatinu'J on inct pasoj
fourteen years ago site has never re
deemed one of her pledges, to die
shame of this young state. Pierre
!i'. \. built the railroads promised to
Wessington Springs, Gamivalley. Mt.
Vernon. Plankinlon, Letcher, Park
ston, Mitchell, Woonsocket. Howard,
Lennox, Alexandria, Bridgewate.i,
Parker, Sioux Falls, Salem, Oneida,
Orient. Faulkton, Bockliain, Mcranda,
Zoll, Xorthville, Redlield, Mellette,
Mansfield, Warner, Aberdeen, llapici
City, Sturgis, BulTalo Gap, Custer,
Hot Springs, Whitewood, Deadwood,
Lead or Spearlish.
No other promise made by Pierre
has been kept. The men who bought
town lots for cash or with their votes
either have them yet or they hive
been sold and re-sold for taxes.
$20,000
HACK MAKKS.
Today Pierre owes the state 820,000
back and unpaid taxes. The men
who bought lots near the street rail
way have .seen the tracks torn up and
es burned for fuel and the iron sold
to scrap iron buyers. The East Pierre
railway station has long since been
closed, the East Pierre postotlice has
been abandoned, the college has gone
to Huron, the Wells House has been
closed fur years, the East Pierre stores
aid most of the residences have been
torn down and moved away, residences
lnve been sold at half or one third
original cost. The Woonsocket Cap
ital Investment. Company nearly all
went broke. 6ne of these board of
directors had to skip the state to
avoid the pen, another one of them
went broke with his bank at Armour
and hyes on a cattle ranch near Picric
wnieb the 7,000 suckers who each
bought and paid for a share of Woon
socket capital investment stock at
a piece.
But the real town lot and Pierre
c-ipital boomers of fourteen years ago.
where are they? Hilly Wells and .lim
Ward who promised so much, went to
Puntsville. Alabama, and bought
some cheap land a couple of miles out
ol the city and built another street
car line and are booming the west ad
dition to Huntsville, but recenlly'j
Biily Wells passed over the great'
Well man started a
national bank there out of Hie clean
up he made at Pierre from the sucker
voters of this state.
TO STAND I'AT.
A few of the original town lot
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J. H. Wolf Co.
"The Corner Store"
Kimball, S. Dak.
Begin. NOW and save your,
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PAID SLIPS
which you get at our store with ^CTva
"every cash puiyf^ase and when you rU
have them toamount of $35.00- .v
worth you are entitled to -your M.1
choice of any one of the beautiful
Oriental Rugs
to be seen at our store. Anyone of -vWife
•them a good value at
We offer you this simply as a
Further Free
•to you 0 buyjf^.ur goods ^vvheTe
prices are alws^ right and where
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you can get what you want when *1')^'$
you want it.
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Leather and Cotton Flynets
of all kinds and sorts
Light Horse Covers and Bur
laD Horse Covers
FOR SALE
W." JAMES
Bu^ Nothing But
SPECIAL BREW
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Made £ioux Falls famous
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