Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1890-08-16

tion, which Is expected to occur before the
present congress a~diourns, about 9 O,L0o
acres Of the finest farming lands In South
Dakota will be thrown open to settlement.
The Hill City Tin Miner says the Same
las mine near hat city is producing the
richest tin ore ever taken out of the ground.
The vein matter is white quartz and the
cry stalls are very large.
The Homestake Mining company, of
Lead City, paid "a dividend of 10 cents IA
share, a~ggregating $4,000, making ISL 900
paid this year. Up to the present time the
company has paid 144 dividends.
1t is estimated that there are still 49,
200 acres of vacant land in the Aberdeen
land district. Mcpherson county has 1856.
800; Campbell, 100, $50; Edmunds, 95,4SO;
Walworth, 1904, and Brown, 1000.
Tue Minnesota Star figures this way:
The Black Hills guzzles down $1,000 bot
ties of st. Louis beer every seven days
equal in cash value to 5000 per week,
g., 900 per month and 800, 900 per year"
The Mellette Tribune says the present
season has fully demonstrated that farming
in hat section without irrigation Is u fail
ure and that several artesian wells will be
sunk in the vicinity of Mellette next year.
The body of IA newly born infant was
found in a well at Clear Lake, and Matte
Berge, a young Swede girl, was arrested
charged with its maternity. She confessed
that it was her child, but claimed that it
was dead when born.
There is a scheme on foot TO secure tho
location Of IA thing factory ut Pierre. 1t is
expected that the thing will be manuface-
ured ous of the famous gumbo which exists
in large quantities in the vicinity Of
Pierre.
Two new papers, Norwegian and Swed-
ish, will make their appearance ut Pierre
about the LIST of August, making
In all two dailies and five weeklies pub
lished in the city, while Fort Pierre, across
the river, has three weeklies.
About two weeks ago the little IA
month old son of j. H.. Gardner, of
Huron, was attacked with violent spasIns
OF coughing. Physicians were summoned,
and, while one affirmed that the child was
troubled with bronchitis, another was of
the opinion that some foreign substance
had lodged in the right lung, which in time
would be expelled by the child's coughing.
Tn trouble con tinued for twelve days,
when the little fellow ~coughed up a com
mon fourpenny nail, which he had picked
up AID swallowed while playing on the
floor.
Hutchinson county shows up well rs n
live stock county, the aggregate value of
oil stock being Slab, liz. The list COM
prises Case horses, valued at S250,6iS;
1888 cattle, at Sl4i ,S2J, forty-four mules,
at 81 GAO; l., 6g3 sheep, at $40, U55, and le,"
403 hogs, ut SZ9,9l9.
One of Uncle Sans blue coats, finding
life monotonous at Fort Sully, spiced
Maggie Jordan. The clippers only had q
half hours start, but managed to reach
Pierre and nave tho knot securely tied be-
for the pursuing party put in an appear
ance.
Bill Roy, Joe Palmer and T.. Palmer,
nave just arrived home from the reserva-
ton country, says the Rapid City Journal.
The boys are now located on Bad river,
where they have struck a ls-se quantity of
very rich iron ore, and are hard at work
developing their find. Bill says that for
the past two weeks in his section it has
done nothing but rain. The country
around this location, the boys say, is Il
magnificent one and Astounding in every
kind of game.
Sportsmen are anxiously waiting the
date when prairie chickens will be ripe.
Reports from various parts of the state
indicate an ormoa crop of young birds.
At an old folks meeting in Yankton the
other evening the ages of twelve people
pres nt aggregated sos years, an average
of ~ years each. -Four were SO and up
wards, aggregating 339 years, four were
"A and upwards, aggregating 3O5 years,
and the combined ages of eight reached
6i4 years, or an average of 500 years each.
Governor Mellette has published a state
ment of the relief fund, accounting in de-
tail for each dollar received and paid out.
The total receipts of cash were $50, 627. As,
and ~ per cent. of the amount, or 50, 9G2. "A,
was not expended and is being returned to
the donors. The contributions of the rail
roads in money and transportation
amounted to many thousands of dollars.
A beautiful cave has been discovered on
Elk creek, Lawrence county, containing
three large chambers from the ceilings of
which depend very large and exquisitely
beautiful stalactites, while the walls are
Of spar and vari- colored rock. The cavern
has been located as a mining claim, for
which patent is pending, but it is con-
tended that no patent can issue for prop
erty of that kind, as it should be reserved
by the government as national property
and added to the list of natural wonders.
The other day Miss Belle Ross, of Pitts
burg, Pa, arrived at Jamestown, and was
married to Samuel Mcdowell, of New
Rockford. Neither of them had seen the
other before, the union being effected
through a Chicago matrimonial journal in
which he inserted a personal notice, to
which she replied. Mcdowell is a weli-to-
do farmer, 3S years old she is %. Nc
Dowell has 7S5 acres of wheat and 500 head
of cattle and sheep. This 10 his sixth mat
rimonial venture, two of his wives having
died and three leaving Tim.