Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1890-01-04
South Dakota.

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lroquois and stole seven sacks of -four.
The Kimball Graphic says South Dakota
ill soon be the banner poultry state of the
Mon.
Canton Hobleit has been bound over 20
he circuit court at Doland on a charge of
iorse stealing.
a lodge of the Brotherhood of Locomo.
i've Firemen was organized at Grand
Forks last week.
A public spirited citizen of Sturgis has
offered to donate IA site in that city for q
aew court house and county Jail.
Plymouth church, at Grand Forks, which
was damaged by fire November 10, has
been rebuilt and was reopened Sunday.
State Examiner Blanchard inspected the
leaf mute asylum at Sioux Falls last week
and found everything in first class order.
TIE early closing movement i~naugurated
by the W. {. L. U. OF Sioux Falls has been
'uncessful and will go into effect January l.
John Brake, of Deadwood, tried 70 stop
q herd of ~stampeded cattle near that place
asst Friday and was run over and badly
INJURED.
James Davis, living near Ipswich, was
lS"A Aibih ihH buEkg ny 80 -
lorse while returning from church Sunday
and suffered a compound fracture of one
If his legs.
Mrs. Annie Olson died Friday at Yank.
on after Il short illness, leaving a little
oaby. Her scamp of Il husband deserted
3er some time ago and the little one is
without father or mother.
Specimens of ore have been forwarded
from Alaska 70 the Rapid City school Of
mines TO be assayed, "a dispute having
arisen as to its value. Prof. q. L. Bailey,
Of the school, will act as referee.
Ole Olson, jr.. of Sioux Falls, claims to
re the first white child born in what is now
the state of South Dakota. He first saw
the light March =, 1869, on his fathers
Farm, eight miles west of Vermillion.
A mountain lion jumped on a Toy named
McAuley near his home at Galena, and but
for the timely arrival of a party of wood
haulers, who were attracted by the boys
cries, would have made short work OF him.
y savage animal, dog and wolf, mixed,
Bit little Pearl Sedgwick, of kimball, in a
terrible manner las; week. The brute bit
OFF IA portion of the child's scalp and a
shunh out OF ner arm IA ahiAhaA was
shot.
Sheriff Sundback, of Sioux Falls, ar
rested VIM. Perkins at Pierre and took
him bach to the former city on a charge of
appropriating $40 belonging to Il Sioux
Falls s~aloonkeeper for whom he worked
and skipped out.
;. q. Masters, of DeSmet, has invented
an instrument with which he can detect
the presence of any kind of mineral or vein
Of water at any depth below the surface,
and tell the exact location, depth and ex-
tent of the vein.
In addition TO the Soldiers home a half
dozen other public buildings are in process
of construction at Hot Springs, among
them IA sanitarium, to be run in connection
with the Hot Springs company's large
stone hotel.
A new disease has broken out among
horses ranging on Dry creek in the Black
Hills. 1t has so far proved fatal in only a
few instances, but stockmen are neverthe-
less greatly alarmed, fearing it will be
some more violent in form.
A disease resembling diphtheria has
oeen affecting Deadwood cats, and the at
:ention of the local physicians has been
called to it to determine as To whether it is
aot the cause of several cases of sickness
among the children who have been playing
with the felincs.
The house OF John Silfen, near Rare
Butte, together with contents, was entirely
destroyed by fire last week. Silfen is a
poor man with a wife aud seven children,
IL H. lfIa.al ,aApla Of Gtnroia anI uio;p
ty came to his relief and helped him out ia
ais need.
The Pioneer says that Deadwood Is now
owing to the success of the Iron Hill and
Syndicate smelters and the possibility of
reducing ore as cheaply there as at Omaha
or Kansas City, independent of railroads,
but that they will probably come soon, just
the same.
George Haigh, an aged Englishman, was
found lead in his bed at Bismarck Friday.
He had two sons living in England, but no
relatives in this country. He had been q
resident of Bismarck eight years and was
much respected citizen. Old age and de-
bility were the causes of death.
Aliens tow mill at Centerville, one of
the most important manufacturing enter
prises in the town, was burned to the
ground on the 18th inst. The loss was
fully s., %, with no insurance. The citi-
zens held a meeting last week to devise
means to make good the loss and rebuild
the mill.
Deadwood Times, 81: Representative
on Wednesday introduced a bill in
the house granting risht-of-way to the
Sturgis and Fort Meade motor line across
the Fort Meade military reservation. The
enterprise suggested is purely local, and
doubtless will be pushed to early compile
tion.
Lehman, the murderer of Constable
Burns, of Custer county and who was a
short time ago found guilty and sentenced
~ death, has been granted q new trial by
Judge Nowlin on account of an irregular
ity in charging the jury. He is thought to
be insane, and will be examined by the
commissioners of insanity.
The diphtheria epidemic in the Heyd
settlement near Leola is now fully under
control. Out of forty cases twenty-six
deaths occurred, more than half children.
Every precaution is being taken to pre-.
vent the spread of the malady, and the
physicians believe it will be confined &c
the settlement where the first cases broke