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Show A DAKOTA 'E03IANCE. t . .. The Btory 'of a Onrlooa 1 Bptlapb, m Told by a Bottler., Bow the Wtsa WlDrtrWMttl 4f of Uw DMtk af a rMw bm-1 Pi u ThaOfendasl la a ' Haul CaUfttrophe. ... r . ItP5i-!jJEO'to a gTvs on the Priw mwkarb marble atone and care-passaaasrrully care-passaaasrrully kept. Here and there one oomes across a grave oa the open prairie, aad the mark generally employed to designate these laiv laied tombe ocmsi.t of a pile of atone to arranged ar-ranged that the observer know at a glaccs that the formation is not of nature, but that the hand of man mutt hare abaped the UtUe aione-covered mound usually found near the summit of grasy (lope. Between this point, says a dispatch from Altamont, D. T , to the BU Louis Qlobe, and Big Stoue Lake, northeast of here, 1 a carefully-kept grave, marked by a slab of marble. It ia In the vicinity of sheet of water which originally orig-inally bora an Indian name, but which la known to the settlors a Punished Woman Lake, an interpretation of the Indian name which It received because an Indian aquaw, who waa looked upon by her superstitious race aa being possessed of witchery, waa burned at the atake on the shore of the lake eome year ago. The little marble slab strike a stranger aa being out of place there on the prairie, but the most atriking part about It i the Inscription on It weather-stained surface. It reads: |