Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1889-10-26

ing Droncho at Rapid City.
A Pittsburg syndicate, headed by Com.
modore Kontze, wants to build a railroad
from Yankton TO Sioux Falls.
A man named Parkinson, living at Grand
Forks, has fallen heir to e90J a year by the
death of his brother in England.
Water is so scarce in Canton that If a fire
should break out at the present time there
would be no means of checking it.
The annual farmet's institute will I've
held at the agricultural college in Brook.
ings from December 3 to - inclusive.
August Tat, near Madison, lost three
fingers in a thrashing machine the other
day. He poked them into the cylinder.
The store and goods of Doc Mold, of Can.
ton, were injured $lS5 worth by fire, re-
sulting from the explosion OF an oil lamp.
W. Potticary, living near Watertown,
last week thrashed from ten acres 32i
bushels of wheat, making 32115 bushels per
acre.
j. j. Kleiner proposes to buy SIS, DOC
worth of ready framed houses in Chicago
and erect them in Pierre TO accommodate
the rush.
The Presbyterian synod of North Dakota,
which is in session at Fargo, will try Rev.
Charles Mclean for disloyalty to the
church.
Contracts for furnishing 5000 worth Of
dry goods were awarded to Yankton mer.
chants this week by the insane asylum
trustees.
The inflow of water has stopped work on
the coal shaft at Centervllle. Holes will be
drilled through the rock in search of an
outlet for the water.
ALI Parry was arrested ut East Grand
Forks for entering the room of Thomas
HALEY at the Windsor hotel and taking $lOC
which did not belong to him.
Pierre real estate men have entered into
an agreement to charge "a commission of 9
per cent. on sums under SO, 900 and % per
cent. on each additional 8, 1000.
Hard coal costs s.. so a ton more in Yank-
ton than it does in WATERFOWL, with the
same facilities for procuring it, and the
people want to know why this is thus.
Charles G.. Fargo is under bonds at
Deadwood, charged with appropriating
s525 intrusted to him by w. A. Tiffy to be
invested in Fall River county warrants.
Yankton Press and Dakotan Parties in.
terested in the brewing business in Yank-
ton are said to be purchasing land on the
Nebraska side Of the river opposite Yank-
ton.
A girl in a house Of i'll repute at Rapid
City tried to end her troubles by taking a
large dose Of morphine. 1t took five hours
constant work by the physicians to save
her life.
A WATERFOWL mar has an ingenious de-
vice that digs potatoes. picks them up and
deposits them in bags, and at the same
time disposes Of the vines and pulverizes
the ground.
Ed Aronson, living near Dalystown, Bon
Homme county, fell from aload of hay onto
an upturned pitchfork, which penetrated
his thigh, causing a terrible wound which
may result seriously.
Two prisoners escaped from the Oelrichs
Jail Saturday night by burning tie hinge
bolts out Of the door with a red hot poker.
One was held for horse stealing and the
other for an attempt at murder.
A franchise has been granted for a motor
line from Pierre to Farm island. This
island is situated several miles below the
city and was donated by the terms of the
Sioux bill to the city of Pierre to be used az
a public park.
Efie Eller, u Miner county girl, wanted
to marry her cousin, Charles Grain, hut her
father wouldn,t let her. She went to
prayer meeting with her little brother and
there met Grain and eloped with him, sue
cessfully eluding the pursuit of her irate
parent and his shotgun.
While Charles Dilger and wife, Of Rapid
City, were out driving they were run into
by a young man on horseback, causing the
buggy to turn over, throwing Mr.. and Mrs.
Dilger violently upon the ground and in
juring them quite severely.
William Rettike, q Grant county farmer,
owns a good farm and does not owe a dol
lar. This year he thrashed on. 1875 bush.
els of wheat from nine-four acres--an
average Of 2iH per acre, fourteen acres Of
oats, yielding 500 bushels, and seven acres
of barley, yielding l73 acres.
One day last week the little daughter of
John X. Flatten, living near Colman, took
a horse to the creek near his place to water
1t. She stepped and fell over the bank into
the water. In falling her foot caught in
the hitching strap attached to the horse
and the animal, scared at the little girls
screams, ran away, yanking her out of the
drink" The horse stopped before the
child sustained any serious injury. A run
away horse is a good thing to have around
sometimes, in this instance saving q child
from drowning.