Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1889-11-09
south Dakota.

The town of Blunt has been placed on
wheels and is meandering Pierreward.
An industrial school building will be
erected at the Yankton Indian agency.
The Salem gas well has a flow of 24o,o0l
cubic feet of gas every t~wenty-four hours
The South Dakota Publishing company
has been organized, with headquarters at
Aberdeen.
The mine owners are constructing o
wagon road from Deadwood to the Squaw
creek mines.
An Iowa firm has secured the franchise
for putting in an electric light plant at
Chamberlain.
The business men of Huron have organ.
lied a mercantile agency for mutual pro
lection and benefit.
The winter meeting OF the South Dakota
Horticultural society will be held at Madi.
son December Is and 10.
The Black Hills mission conference OF
the Methodist church will be held at Spear.
hsh on November 4, 3 and 6.
Brule county claims a smaller delinquent
tax list than any other county in the state
in proportion to population.
Alfred Bard fell from a load of hay, on @
ranch necr Rapid City striking on his head
and dislocating his shoulder.
Miss Clara Manful was thrown from o
buggy in a runaway near Gettysburg and
suffered a fracture of the right arm.
a. a. Mccoy, a workman in the Home.
stake mine at Deadwood, slipped and fell
over a pile of rock, breaking two ribs.
Allie Carr, a 10-year-old son of w. IL
Carr, of Yankton, while visiting in the
country fell from "a wagon and broke his
leg.
Thomas Martin, a Lead City miner, has
started for the gold fields of South Africa,
where he intends to prospect for the pre-.
cious metal.
As soon as the president issues his proc
lamation opening the reservation a stage
line will start running between Pierre and
Rapid City.
The Dakota Chief, of Buffalo county, en-
phatically denies that it is lead and
threatens to prepare the man for the sepul-
chre who first started the report.
+. Mummert, for years manager of the
Waterloo Mattress and Parlor Goods com
pany at Waterloo, Ia, has established a
factory of that kind at Sioux Falls.
The Plankinton reform school will issue
n paper from that institution shortly.
Printing material has been secured and
the work will be lone by the inmates.
Mrs. Tiete Pool, of Castalia, was thrown
from a wagon by a runaway horse, the
wheels passing over her, breaking her col.
lar bone and dislocating her shoulder.
\ parry OF Indian boys and girls from
the different agencies in the vicinity of
Chamberlain are enroute for Hampton,
Va, to enter the government school located
there.
Robbers got ahead of the Pierre real
estate men by entering a boarding house
and holding up two of the boarders, one
Sl5 and a silver watch.
John Howard got his name in the paper
and his body in the bastile by tumblins
through the front window OF the Press and
Dakotaian Office at Yankton while in u
state of anti-prohibition.
OFScs "HD bs 9NNAA NsSi oASdp
peared from Dell Rapids about two weeks
ago, and who was supposed to have made
away with himself, has turned up in Utah,
where he is working on q canal.
John Braden, a workman in the Mandan
stock yards, was found lying beside a lum.
Der pile wieh the top of his head blown off
4 shotgun was found near the body. 1t is
supposed he committed suicide.
Burglars at Mitchell had the nerve to
enter a house and take the only pair of
pants their victim had. A collection was
taken up TO purchase a pair of jeans sc
that he could come out on the streets.
John Zangl, of Davidson county, who
shot Peter Stangl in a quarrel over some
property, and who was released on a plea
of insanity brought on by suIstroke, has
now been arrested in a civil suit brought
by Stangl for damages for injury to his
person.
Jack Keefe, a notorious ''bad man"
made an unprovoked assault on a citizen OF
Pierre named Steiner. Keefe was arrested
and lodged in Jail. Steps will be taken 70
purge Pierre of the professional pugilists
prowling around her precincts.
Dave Ducharme, ''tfe toughest boy in
the Hills,' has been transplanted to the
Sioux Falls penitentiary, where he will
iinger three years for robbery. He is ~
years of age, and his age tallies with the
Der of times he has been in jail.
a. l.. Mclean, while on o spree at Hill,
City. drank carbolic acid An mistake for
whisky and died IN terrible agony. Before
dying he Stained that the acid had been
placed in the bottle by his enemies, know.
ing he would drink it. Tle authorities
are investigating it.
Roy Ellis and Charles johnson, two Siou,
Falls boys, aged IL and IA respectively
have disappeared from their homes and IL
is supposed they have started for Califor
mia, young Johnson having made the trir
before. The mother of young Ellis is o
widow and Is almost heartbroken.
One day last week a son of Daniel Null
10y, of Canistota, fell from a load of as1
to the ground, striking on the back of his
neck and causing total paralysis of the
body. About the same time another son
fell from n stack and ran the tine Of q
pitchfork through the calf of his leg.
Joan Christianson, of Letcher, owns an
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