Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1889-11-16
South Dakota.

Eastern parties are figuring on starting
a carriage factory at Sioux Falls.
The new Norwegian church at yolga will
be completed by the last of the month.
A prairie fire west of Rapid City, Satur-
day, did considerable damage to property.
Hill City is "a booming new tin town in
the Black Hills with a population Of 1900
souls.
Work on St. Martins academy at Sturgis
is progressing rapidly and it is expected to
be completed before spring.
While s%cufiing with another boy Daniel
Scott, an ll-year-old Mt. Vernon youth
fell and broke his collar bone.
Services were held in the new Catholi-
cathedral at Sioux Falls for the first time
sunday, Bishop Hare officiating.
Thieves broke into the general store of
House & Hawn at Canton the other night
and lugged off SIS worth of goods.
John \. Dale, one of the oldest and best
known merchants of jamestown, died at
that place Monday night of quinsy.
In a recent observation by the signal of
fcer at Rapid City it was found that the
city is $3.50 feet above the sea level.
Siegel Eddy, of Washington Springs, had
his leg broken the other day by a horse
stumbling and falling on top of him.
The light from a prairie fire twenty miles
away from Onida one night last week was
so bright that it east shadows in that town.
The Clark city council has contracted
with an Aurora, H., firm for the sinking
Of an artesian well and work will begin at
once.
Edwin Bland, of Hosmer, skipped out of
that place with a lot of mortgaged prop
erty. He was captured at Aberdeen and
taken back.
The Yankton Telegram has changed
hands, Governor Pennington retiring and
l.. d. +. Poore, an old newspaper man,
taking charge.
The little 7-year-old son of John Heron,
living near Onida, with his little match set
fire TO his fathers barn, and it was burned
to the ground with contents.
The Northwestern company recently paid
500 for damage lone to property near Do
land, resulting from a spark from an en-
CINE setting the prairie on fire.
The Redwater irrigating canal will be
sixteen feet wide at the bottom and four
feet deep. 1t will be the largest irrigating
ditch in the United States, if not in the
world.
Hundreds of tons of hay were destroyed
by a prairie fire north of Slaughter one
day last week. This is the second time
within a month that fires have visited that
section.
Pat Torney, an Aberdeen penman.
wanted to raise some money, SO he raised"
"a s.. 43 check to So. 43, and is now in jail Mt
that place awaiting trail on u charge of
forgery.
The Crystal Springs cheese factory on
Butte creek, near Rapid City, during the
season manufactured $4,000 pounds of
cheese. The milk of only seventy cows
was used.
Large deposits of mari have been found
in several sections of Brookings county.
As the substance is very valuable as a fer
tilizer the people of the county are much
elated over the discovery.
l.. II. Caulom, of White Lake, has a curl
osity in the shape of a piece of petrifed
wood, showing the grain and marks of the
AK where it had been cut off. 1t was found
on a farm near that place.
Charles Bake, a farmer living near Gus
ter City, accidentally shot himself while re-
moving a gun from his wagon, The charge
shattered his right hand and wrist, rem.
dering amputation necessary.
Sioux Falls ice men will dam Skunk
creek to procure next seasons supply of
gee. If there is anything in a name the
consumers will in all probability d-n the
ice men for furnishing them odoriferous
ice.
A soldier named Donegan is missing from
Fort Meade. As he only had twenty-four
days more to serve to complete his term of
enlistment and has s. 0 back pay coming
to him, it is thought he has met with foul
play.
An Indian outfit from the Yankton agency
is trapping large quantities of beaver near
Rosedale. The people in the vicinity are
complaining at the rate at which the fur
herring animals in that section are being
exterminated by 10.
Two waiter girls in a Rapid City hote'
took up claims near that city some time
ago and have built houses, fenced their
claims, raised stock and crops, and at the
same time waited on the hungry boarders
ut the hotel. There is nothing slow about
Rapid girls.
James L;nhart and James Snitel left
Mimic together October 25. The following
day Snitel's body was found by the road
side between Mimic and Grafton with his
neck dislocated and his head bruised.
Linhart was arrested and denied all knowl
edge of how his companion came to his
death. Monday he was bound over at
Grafton to await the action Of the grand
jury.
Harry Turpin, a tough man Of the Ellis
and who is now under indictment for shoot
ing a man named Hermosa a year ago, sho,
and killed a railroad contractor named
Mclaughlin and seriously wounded an
other man last week at Newcastle, Wyo
Latest accounts state that Turpin is under
arrest, but that IL is expected he will bs
taken away from the sheriff ant lynckcd.
General Pattee, of Canton, was in charge