Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1889-12-07
South Dakota.

an artesian well.
A democratic weekly paper Is TO be
started at Parker.
The new Norwegian church at Center
vile is nearing completion.
Senator Gilbert A. Pierce is 81 years of
age and a native of New York.
THE farmers OF Sanborn county will Or
ganiEe a cooperative creamery.
Blunt business men nave organized q
company TO prospect for coal in hat vi
entity.
John Fox was found dead in bed at the
Mcclellan house in Grand Forks Saturday
morning.
George V. Ayres has been appointed re-
teiver at the and Office at Rapid City, vice
J. B.. Lafabre.
General Beadle, OF Madison, has been
elected presiden. of the Equal Suffrage
stub of Lake county.
The farmers of Minnehaha county are
contributing literally to their suffering
leighbCrs In Miner county.
F. L.. Mease, editor of the Madison Sen
inel, and Miss L. Nora Scoggin were mar
tlcd III NdulSOn 1DuFs lay.
A number of cases of diphtheria are re-
ported from Hermosa, and it ia feared the
disease will become epidemic there.
A l4-year-old boy named Matte, living
south of Relay, shot his right hand OF
while playing with a shotgun Sunday.
DR.. Londen, of Deadwood, had his feet
frozen while Oh a professional trip Sunday
and was compelled to go TO the hospital.
A large bed of mineral paint has been
discovered FIVE miles from Hermosa. The
co'ors are light and dark red and purple.
Il. r. Bartlntt a brakeman, had the first
and second fingers of his left hand So er,d
while coupliny cars at Henry Wednesday.
Father Hare, of Aberdeen, one of the
most popular priests in the state, has been
superseded by Father Kelly, of Wakonda.
The Pionesr soap factory at Sioux Falls
is compelled to run day and nigh. to supply
its customers with that luxury of ~civiliza.
ton.
Fifty coal filings, embracing 5000 acres
of land, were received at the Buffalo land
Office from Crook county during the past
month.
The demand for bottled Hot Springs
water is constantly increasing, large guam.
titles being shipped all over the western
states.
A regular stage line Is soon to be estab-
lshed between Fort Pierre and the Black
Hills. The trip will be made in about
thirty hours.
Miss Tart, Of White Bear, Mimi, SAYS
DIR. Romans, of Yankton, has been triaing
with her affections and will sue HIM for
brsach of promise.
There are eighteen prisoners in the
Brown county jail, aud the building is SO
small that IL is sail some of them have to
sleep standing up.
Ex Manager Blood was arrested a.
Aberdeen and held in "a 0 bonds on the
charge of embezzling SO from the Western
Union Telegraph company.
Water sells at 40 cents a barrel at New
castle, n new town in the Hills. Ho gever,
things are somewhat evened up by the
presence Of eighteen saloons.
70 n soldiers left Fort Meade Tuesday
under com nitment to the military prison
at Fort Leavenworth. Desertion and
larceny occasioned servitude.
The Delsarte system Of physical culture
has been adopted by the state university at
Yermillion, and Gwyneath King, of Rapid
City, engaged as instructress.
The +, IN y of Martin Brown, of Rec
Heights, narrowly escaped sufocation by
gas from q coal o.e Thursday night.
49, L. 1901, ~.
A Rapid City man wants SIS damages,
from the Northwestern Railroad company
for the loss of his cat. In escaping from @
dog the cat run under a moving train and
lost its life.
Charlie Ross has been discovered. A
Deadwooi man named Peck discovered
him stealing vegetables out of his garden
and he was arrested and fined $50 in the
police coIrt.
Sturgis is evidently 'laid out'' for a large
city. Aside from the original town, which
contained about 80 rcres, there are now
sixteen additions, varying from twenty to
l0J a.res each.
Thirty mileJ of the Redwater canal will
be constructed this season, and will be
completed by March /. The ompany will
charge consumers sl.o0 per inch for water
for the entire season.
While Mrs. Richard Swift, Of Alexandria
was wringing clothes the other day her lit
tie daughter, unobserved, managed to get
her fingers mixed up in the cogs of the
wringer, taking two of them of.
While on a 'toot" in Sturgis the other
day a miner, evidently fearing some one
would go through him for his money, made
the matter as hard as possible by chewing
VI and swallowing a 80 and a so bill.
1t Is asserted that the water In lake Ham
peska rose a foot during the month of Oc-
tober, which is considered curious owing
to the fact that no rain had fallen since
September and no streams run into the
lake.
The whereabouts of Sam Charleston, who
dis appeared from Yankton about two
months ago. is still a mystic y. The sheriff
and friends Of the missing man have with
drawn the rewards offered f.r his re-
covery.
The Engleson crop don't seem to be very
much Of q failure this year. Mrs. N.
Engleson, living near Waterfowl, In