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Don't Be Foolish
and let a good opportunity
slip. We refer to our invita
tion to buy your FINE
GROCERIES
from us. First because we've
got what you want, second,
because our prices are right,
and third because we want
your patronage. All very
good reasons as you will ad
mit. "Don't be foolish" and
procrastinate Be wise and
buy today while the assort
ment is unbroken.
Please keep ill mind that our large depart
nicnt store is tilled to the brim with new
goods, and you'll find the prices right.
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COMPANY'S DEPARTMENT STORE
Furniture
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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 Store
Wji. Hinhicus, Piiks A. W. IIaXNKMAX, v. PliES
Kimball State Bank
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Does a General Banking Business
We can sell you a draft that is good in any part of the world.
We can give you every accomodation consist
ent with sound and conservative banking
Buffalo, Chas Mix, Aurora and
Brule County******"^******'
Real Estate,
which will provo very attractive to Home Seekers or investors. Terms all that can
be desired. If you have a town lot or farm to sell, call or write to me and if anyone
can findyou a buyer I can If you have a freind who has property to dispose of re
f-jr him to me. If you want to buy a piece of property no oneserve you quite so wejl
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Cashier
P. A. Reynolds.
Kimball, S
KIMBALL
The Mitchell Gazette man has been
digging up some capital history of
fourteen years ago, at which time the
lion. K. C. Caldwell, who is now in
the employ of Pierre on a big salary
to pound Mitchell, was editor and
owner of the Sioux Fails Daily Press,
and the Hon. John Longstatr, owner
and editor of the Daily Iluronite. was
doing bis level best to land the capi
tal at Huron.
Replying to the Deadwcod Times,
a Pierre paper, on July 2f, ]S90, where
the Times had accused the Huron
supporting newspapers of calling the
western part of tho state "a region
of utter desolation, unpopulated and
without a pleasant feature," E. W.
Cladwell in his Sioux Falls Press of
that date said.
Nobody has intimated that the
region is one of 'utter desolation,
unpopulated and without a pleas
ant feature', but the Huron and
Sioux Falls papers candidlj sub
mit, that however many 'pleasant
features' there may be over there,
there are more, and will be more
over here. That is all there is to
it. There has been nothing to
justify the insults of the Dead
wood Times.
""Excepting five counties, the
entire region west of the river is
lit only for grazing purposes, ac
cording to the declaration of
Pierre and Black Hills authorities.
It will not maintain an agricul
tural population. ]t is not to be
compared with that part of the
state east of the river as a countrv
for homes and people. There
have been no slurs of Huron and
Sioux Falls papers. If the Dead
wood paper wants the seat of gov
ernment located entirely with ref
erence to its little and selfish in
terest, and without reference to
the principle of the greatest good
to the greatest number, let it say
so llatlv. But don't let it attempt
to blackguard that greatest num
ber."
Read the first paragraph of the fore
going again.
Nobody has intimated that the
region is one of "utter desolation,
unpopulated and without a pleas
ant feature," but w? candidly
submit that however "many
pleasant features" there may be
over there, there are more and
will be more over here. That is
all there is of it.
Now, doesn't that sound like Ti
tian's writing of 31)04. fourteen years
after? Readers of the Jn.wine will
go on the stand and swear that almost
the same words have appeared in
these columns time and again during
the last fifteen months. In the quot
ed paragraph is contained the whole
sum and substance of the alleged
knocking" by Mitchell, which has
been .magnified by Pierre into whole
volumes of slander and abuse of the
country west of the river that has
never been uttered by anybody. She
has done this to make her own cause
the concern of the stare.
Again, on July 1!), ls:)0. E. W. Cald
well (now Pierre's Sioux City hired
writer) said regarding the country
west of Pierre, in his Sioux Falls
Press.
"It is to be remembered that,i
comparison of the countrv over
there with that on this side is not
the same as a comparison of South
Dakota with Iowa. There are
special features in the former case
which do not appjv to the latter.
The country west of the Missouri
river is not calculated for so dense
population as that this side of the
river, stock raising does not main
tain so many people as agricul
ture.
That sounds as though it came
right liot oir from the Mitchell grid
dle, too, doesn't itr
On May 7, 1!)0:, four months after
the city of Huron had been knocked
out of the box in the capital caucus in
the legislature, and its chief spokes
man was able to sit up and take no
tice. John Longstaf! said in his Ilu
ronite:
The Pierre Reuri-tor in its im
agination sets tho.v plains dotted
with thousands of settlers. It
watches the passing of the stock
man and the squaw and in their
places sees a population which sur
passes in density that of any por-
THE ONLY STRICTLY MORAL NEWSPAPER IN SOUTH DAKOTA
WHO IS THE BIGGEST "KNOCKER?'
Is It Tlnan of the Mitchell Press Bureau, Or Is It Caldwell of the
Pierre Press Bureau, Or Is It Slippery John Longstaff of Huron?
The Tierre I'teire-for-capital or- lion of the state. The Huronite
would much rather see the country
west settle up and develope than
that lying to her east, but It can
not share in the imaginary expec
tations and optimistic predictions
ol our Pierre Register friends.
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gans are howling themselves hoarse on
tlie "knocking" proposition, and
PierrH is supplementing the work by
Hooding the state with literature tell
ing how the Mitchell press bureau is
injuring the entire state by "knock
ing the country west of the Missouri
river." Vou have probably seen some
of it, and will continue to either read
it whenever you chance to run across
a newspaper subsidized by Pierre and
have it handed out to you by her paid
agents—though both her newspapers
and her agents are mighty scarce
hereabouts.
KIMBALL, SOUTH DAKOTA, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER !. 1904 NO. 1.160
Such an outcome is contrary to all
history «f settlement. The coun
ties west of Beadle will not set
tle up until there is a surplus pop
ulation in the counties to their
ist. Our great range country is
Vjritined to be slow in settlement
and development.
That's what Mitchell savs: that's all
that Mitchell says: that is the true
height and sum of Mitchell's offend
ing.
On July IS, 18!)0, l:. W. Caldwell
made the following prediction to the
Pierre people which was absolutely
true then and true now. He then
said.
"The fact is that the location of
the capital at Pierre will not
stimulate the building of a single
rod of railroad. How could it?
Is there anything in the seat of
state government which would
lead capitalists to put their money
into transportation enterprises?
Does the location of the capital
add one iota to the productive ca
pacities of the section in which it
may be situated? Does it stimu
late immigration? Does it avid to
the fertility of the land? Does
it do anything that maices a rail
road necessary? Certainly noth
ing. If Pierre is so situated that
there will be business for rail
roads, she will get thcin, other
wise she will not. and there is
nothing in the capital which can
make her any business."
On August 5, 1890, fourteen years
ago. the iluronite, which up to the
time that its town was forever put
out of the running in the legislature
of 1903, has been the most active par
ticipant for pulling the capital back
among the people, contained a dis
patch from one of the one hundred
members of the South Dakota Press
association who had just been driven
from 'Pierre by team to Rapid City by
the Pierre board of trade and wired
back their impressions of the country
west of Pierre, and this is what the
dispatch said.
"The editors have arrived here
after a four-days journey. The
general impression of the country
passed oyer is that it might be
good for stock, if there was more
water, but that it is almost whol
ly unfit for cultivation and gener
al agricultural purposes. In l(iij
miles travel we met only one man
trying to farm."
At the time when these editors
crossed from Pierre to the Hills the
government census showed there were
l, t21 people living in what at present
Is Stanley county, yet the editors only
saw "one man trying to farm."
Speaking of the trip of the editors
crossing the cattle country on July :U.
1800, in the Sioux Falls Press E. W.
Cladwell made the following quota
tion from the Pierre Free Press of
a few days before which spoke of that
country as follows.
"It would be a black eve to the
interests of that country to take
one hundred writers from all over
the state over the Dead wood trail
where it would be nothing but a
bleak prospect and an up and
down hill view. That would an
swer for bull whackers and mule
skinners as it has in years past,
but the editors deserve something
better.'-'
The Deadwood Pioneer, then a
Pierre, supporting newspaper, as it is
today, had this dirty fling to make at
the editors who crossed the cattle
country and Bad Lands, by hauling
several kegs of Missouri river water
for drinking purposes in their vehicles
because the editors would not call
that a "farming country." In its
columns ol the last week in August,
1S90, Editor Bonner said:
"The editors of South Dakota
who dead headed their way across
the recently ceded reservation to
the Hills, where they were shown
every possible courtesy, were with
a few exceptions a scrubby lot.
Onlv a small number of the better
class of papers was represented."
It can be seen by reading the above
quotations that the capital fight four
teen years airo Pierre called everybody
"ktiocUers" and a "scrubbv lot" who
would not misrepresent the grazing
lands and Bad Lands west of th. Mis
souri river. They have now had the
state capital fourteen years, and they
have 1.000 less people at Pierre and
2,000 less in Hughes county, and
acres of vacant government land in
their own county, nine times as much
vacant government land in the one
country where the capital h.is been
located fourteen years and the North
western railroad twenty-four years as
there are in the kihhtkkn'counties of
the Mitchell land district.
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"The Corner Store"
Kimball, S. Dak.
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PAID SLIPS
which you get at our store with
every cash purchase and when you
have them to the amount of $35.00
worth you are entitled to your
choice of any one of the beautiful
Oriental Rugs
to be seen at our store,
them a good value at
AVe offer you this simply as a
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