Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1889-12-28
South Dakota.

Among the donations from the east to the
arouth sufferers is a box of plug hats.
Custer City wants the proposed western
South Dakota insane asylum located in that
city.
John W. Dwight owns a farm in North
Dakota almost as large as the state of
Rhode Island.
Tn merchants of Sioux Falls have agreed
90 close their stores at 6 p. m, commencing
with the New Year.
Stokes Bros, Watertown millers, have
contributed a carload of -four TIE the Miner
sounty sufferers.
Two deserters named Crawford and Way
we're sent from Fort Randall last week 10
the military prison at Fort ~Leavenworth,
Kan.
Colonel Carpenter, late dean of the school
Of mines, is building reduction works at
Deadwood, which will be in operation in a
short time.
\ railroad man named Nutmeyer had
one of his legs crushed TO a pulp while
coupling cars at Pierre last Friday. He is
not expected TO recover.
The farmers of Hughes and Sully coun-
ties were still engaged in making hay last
week. They haul it to Pierre, where they
get s. and s. a ton for it.
Henry Wiersback, a member of the city
council of Watertown, was caught in n hay
press, tearing the flesh from his arm be
tween the elbow and wrist.
The Rapid River Mining company is
buildi1g a Touring mill at Rapid City,
which, it is claimed, when completed will
be the finest west Of Minneapolis.
Work ON the houring mill at Parker,
which was burned recently is being pushed
rapidly, and it is expected to be completed
ana ready FOR business by February.
Pierre has sent Il committee 10 Wash
ington to labor for an appropriation for
the Improvement Of the river front, for an
Indian school and for . public building.
In a row over some cattle near Eden
George Scott, a hired man, shot "a finger OF
the hand of a 10 year-old boy named Nc
Ney and then skipped to avoid arrest.
IN a runaway at Yankton Mr.. and Mrs.
Dinoer were seriously injured, the latter
suffering a brokea shoulder blade. The
horses became frightened at a locomotive.
Van b. Baker, formerly principal of the
Spearish normal school, was recently SEN
fenced to Imprisonment for life in West
Virginia for the murder Of his wife and
mother in law.
a son of Chief White Eagle, at Grow
Greek agency, near Chamberlain, commit
ted suicide Saturday 10y shooting himself.
Death resulted Instantly. Domestic trouble
was the cause,
The fire at Mitchell Saturday night de-.
stroyed a building owned by n. Grant and
occupied by Mrs. Conway as "A millinery
store. Most of the millinery stock was
saved. Insurance on building, 5000.
Captain George z. Waldron, who was
removed from the Sioux reservation op-
posite Pierre the other day, was the first
provost marshal of the territory and was
at one time a member Of the house of rep
resentatives.
a box of tin rock specimens was shipped
from Rapid City last week by the Harvey
Peak Mining company to their Office in
London, England. The specimens were all
taken from locations owned by the com
pany in the Black Hills.
The prisoners in Columbia Jail last week
Matched up "a scheme TO escape, part of
which was to slug the jailor insensible and
secure the keys. TIL plot was given away
10y one Of the number and the ringleaders
are now doing the SOLITARY act'' in the
steel cages.
a few days ago A. Ketchum, of Clear
Lake, was found lying in his barn in a pool
of blood. An examination discovered a
scalp wound penetrating TO the skull, both
eyes blackened and the nose broken. APP
parently the wounds were inflicted with n
club. William Erickson was arrested for
the crime, but discharged for lack of evil
dence. Ketchum is in a bad condition.
Intelligence has been received at Sioux
Falls from Boston, Portland and New
York capitalists that insures the location
of two more manufacturing establish
ments for Sioux Falls. One IS an extern
sive knitting works with a capital of $780,
BOO and the other a felt boot factory, rep
resenting a capital of $4,000 Both
establishments will locate in South Sioux
Falls and will begin active operations in
the early spring.
While at work in the Caledonia mine,
near Lead City, last Thursday, Henry
Stewart fell from an upper ledge to the
one below and rolled down q steep incline,
falling a distance of over 100 feet. When
picked up it was found that his skull had
been fractured, his nose and collar bone
broken, and the rest of his body cut and
bruised In a fearful manner. He was taken
to the hospital in Lead City, where he lies
in q precarious condition.
Gunder Gunderson, living on the Chi
cago, Milwaukee and st. Paul railroad
about four miles north of Canton, was
Tuesday night detected in in the act Of
placing large boulders on the track and
arrested By a detective sent out to dis
cover the author of several recent attempts
at train wrecking He was brought to Caa-
ton and bound over in s2,00O TO await the
action of the grand jury. In default of
bondsmen he was sent to jail. Gunderson
Civ IS no explanation of his attempts to PRO
duce a whole sale Loss of human life.
The White Lake Times has discovered
the nearest man in the new state. His
name is Mos. Last spring Mos wife lost
her life fighting fire in trying to save her
husbands property. Last week the man
from whom he bought the lot in which she
was buriea brought suit for payment of the
lot and lost the suit, the justice deciding
that no legal papers were made out when
the lot was bought, and that the sale was
not proven. Mos still owes for the coffin
in which his wife was buried, and last, hut
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