Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1889-12-21
SOuth Dakota

N anvil.
The first bill introduced in the North Da.
kota legislature was one to enforce prohi-
oition.
The Milwaukee company will erect a
handsome new depot in Sioux Falls in the
The Sioux Falls Y. NJ. c. A. are fitting up
a first class gymnasium in connection with
heir rooms.
Three carloads of food and grain were
'hipped from Yankton Saturday for the re
ief of the Miner county sufferers.
Clayton Childs, ii brakeman on the Mil
%aukee load, had HIS hand terribly crushed
While coupling cars at Mitchell Thursday
light.
Miss Lida Kent, a school teacher Of Mil
ard, had her shoulder bone broken and
was otherwise injured in a runaway the
other day.
The game of football between the uni
Sersity of Dakota and the Nebraska uni
gersity teams has been postponed until
early in the spring.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton has been en-
g. N'f - NNib VI fh
he principal cities of Sonth Dakota in the
interest of equal suffrage.
a petition will be forwarded to the post
office department ut Washington asking
hat IA daily mail service be established be-
tween Deadwood and Spearfish.
The Bank of Roscoe made an assignment
Tuesday to L. l.. Hopkins, of the Exchange
Dank of Eureka. The liabilities are placed
at about $4,000; the assets at $4,000.
Indian police are securing the country
in the vicinity of Madison in search of
White Horse, "a Sioux brave who killed
Black Bear some months ago, and who re
Gently escaped from that city.
A Spearish paper claims that hat city
has more and greater Asources to make a
large and hourishing city than Denver ever
had, and hat the railroads cannot afford
much longer to ignore the fact.
IS. II. Randall" with a round dozen Of
aliases, stole sis from Louis Mann, of
Sioux Falls, and skipped to Worthington,
Mimi, where he was arrested and held TO
swat the issuance of requisition papers.
While riding through an arched gateway
in Dell Rapids Lou Morgan's head came in
contact with the crossbar of the arch,
knocking him from his horse and causing
al injury which may result in losing the
sight of one of his eyes.
c. ID. Savage, of Kimball, has in his pos.
session n relic of the revolutionary war in
the form of an old powder horn. 1t is GOV.
cred with engravings, representing sol
diers and old Independence hall, and the
date, 171G, is plainly legible.
A son of NJ. A. Gilmore, of Winfred,
rode one of his fathers horses onto the ice
in a pond near that place to see whether
the ice was strong enough to skate on. The
ice wasn't strong enough and the horse was
drowned and the boy rescued with some
difficulty.
A young man named Louis Welcome is
under arrest at Rapid City on u charge Of
horse stealing preferred by his father.
Some time ago Louis skipped out Of Pierre
with a horse and vas finally traced to
Rapid City by his parent, who claims that
although the horse was bought with his
sons money, the money was earned while
the young man was still n minor. There
is some doubt as to the legality of the
young mans arrest.
A bad wreck occurred on the Milwaukee
road at Dell Rapids Saturday. Seven cars
ran down grade and crushed into part Of
the freight train standing in front of the
depot, demolishing two box cars and tear
ing up part of the depot platform. One OF
the wrecked cars was loaded with oats
Some unknown person is supposed to have
u~ncoupled the seven cars from the rear
part of the train, which had been left o
short distance up the track to facilitate
switching.
The Deadwood Pioneer jumps onto ar
alleged newspaper correspondent for ar
Omaha paper who, after visiting the city
and receiving the hospitality of the citi
zens, deliberately wrote a lot of gibberist
to his paper with the apparent intention Of
injuring the interests of the city. After
the sianderer in a way that he de
serves the Pioneer advises Deadwood mer
chants to patronize cities that are not ir
the habit of sending out slanderous CORE
s%pondents.
One day last week a young man named
living near Vermillion, went tc
city to fix himself up for his wedding
which was to occur the same evening
While making the rounds he stepped into
Bridgeman's shoe store, where, In some In
explicable way, a number of pairs of shoes
e~ntangled beneath his overcont
The bride waited, but 10, the bridegroom
cameth not. She finally went in search VI
him and found him behind the prison bar,
with a fine of $25 registered against him
larceny. The wedding has been post
poned until the groom feels a little more a
liberty to become "a Benedict.
John Lambertson, keeping a boarding
house near Deadwood, returned home sud
denly from a hunting expedition one
day last week and surprised his wife ant
one of his boarders named Karl In a com
promising position. Having left his gun a
the w~ood-camp he started out to borrow
one from n neighbour and met a man named
Fish on the way. They returned to Lam
bersson's house together, and on entering
found the unfortunate woman lying on the
floor bleeding from two self -inAicted
In her neck. They bound up hen
and sent for "A nhvsician uho nro