Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1890-11-29
THE DAKOTAS.

J. " VI u - "a 1880 -
The issue of annuity goods to the Indians
begins at the Cheyenne agency on the gath.
The contract will soon be let for the
building OF a Presbyterian church at
Hoople.
The gross receipts OF the Catholic fair
recently held ut Montrose amounted to
s., Joss.
Julia Rivers, of Pierre, is looking for
one of her callers who recently passed a
$50 counterfeit bill on her.
The electric light plant at Sioux Falls 10
TO be increased from a capacity OF l'2vo
incendescent lights to 3,OOl.
L. B. Meredith, Of Sioux Falls, goes on
crutches because of injuries recently re
ceivcd in a defective sidewalk.
{. II. Agar, Of Onida, at the depth OF
sixty feet struck q vein of water which
rose twenty four feet in his well.
The county board Of Faux county has
decided not to bond the county for the pur-
pose OF refunding the county debt.
The G-year-old daughter of Mr.. Eiick-
son. of Lis on township, Davidson county,
died Saturday morning of diphtheria.
Lieutenant Carnahan and a squad Of
soldiers recently escorted a paymaster and
$4,000 in cash from Pierre to Fort Sul!y.
Presiding Elder {. r. Clark was injured
by being kicked 10y q horse, and on that
account was unable to hold quarterly serv-
ices at Castalia.
Brooks Bros. safe AT Ojate was broken
open Saturday night and about $50 stolen
therefrom. Ed Campbell is under arrest
os being the guilty party.
{. q. Talmadge, OF Touucr county, is
under arrest at Grand Forks on the
charge Of seduction, preferred by Anna
Thompson, of that place.
Nunkton has "a couple Of mysterious
shooting cases. in which two men are re
ported TO have been wounded, but the
particulars cannot be learned.
Sioux Falls is agitated because Father
HARE recently suggested that the peniten
tiary at that place might be sold for a col
.ege and the r~enitentiary relocated at
Mitchell.
Mr.. VIM. Jewell. Of Groveland, was ac-
cidentally shot in the neck last Saturday
Ivy the discharge of u target gun, tie ball
entering the side and lodging close TO the
vertebra.
Seth Clifford, sheriff OF Fall River county,
has offered a reward of $500 for the arrest
and detention Of Sila, and ReuEeu Short
ridge, two brothers who left their home
several weeks ago, and whose whereabouts
IS a mystery.
1t is all & d thet at at one of the election
precinct, in the Black Hills the clerks
were both under axe, aud that the judges
were some Of the time en- gagged in n game
Of cards al one side. the voters depCsiting
their own ballots in the boz.
Twelve families Of German immigrants
from the vicinity of Odessa, Russia, have
reached Yenkton, and from that point will
distribute themselves over South Dakota.
They number about sixty persons and pos
sess money, lcalth and am b.tion,
". :. Hooper, of White Lake, was
climbing into a wagon one day last week
when his foot slipped and he fell to the
ground, striking uron his head and Shout
ders. The team started and the wagon
loaded with coal and lumber passed over
his legs.
Editor Oxley has been running n paper
at Earring, Presho county, and after n
trial Of six months closed up his printing
office and stored it in a building in Cham
berlain, Prosho county is west of Cham
berlain and is part Of the original Sioux
reservatson.
a farmer named Duclow put up at the
Parker house in Sioux Falls Tuesday
night. lie failed to properly turn of the
gas and was found in an unconscious con-
dition the next morning, but recovered in
an hour two. This 1, his second expert
ence in the same house.
a gang of men is travelling about the
country Offering 20 paint the roof of "a
building for 50. When the work is done
the farmer receives a bill Of - for paint
ing the roof, just as agreed, but in addi-
tion thereto Is the following; Forty gall
Ions of paint. $50 per gallon, SO.
There are eighteen students in regular
attendance at tie school of mines in Rapid
City and several more are making arrange
ments 10 attend. The Students are fitting
themselves for practical work in chem
istry, geology, assaying, civil and mining
engineering, etc, and are all earnest and
hard workers.
J. Rasmussen was the victim OF a thresh-
ing machine accident at Carthage last
week. The machine had been stopped and
the young man was at work fixing the fy-
wheels TO the engine when in some way
the machine was put in motion, throwing
him into the air, and in falling he struck
in such a manner as 10 break his arm.
The controversy for "a site for the y, NJ.
{. \. building at Sioux Falls is now on.
Six sites are offered, ana after discussion
it was finally decided to refer the whole
matter 10 Mrs. Hattie {. Phillips who
contributed So C0 towards the building.
Mrs. Phillips promptly refused to name
the site, and an ad j]ournment was then
taken.
The Northern Pacific Railroad company
will put down six artesian wells along
their Dakota division. the first one TO be
drilled at Buffalo. The sinking of these
wells will be beneficial, as it will show
farmers where flowing wells can be found,
besides furnishing the read with a more
abundant supply OF water, which is nue.
needed owing to the increased traffic.
Frank Lappa, who was sentenced to
three years in the Sioux Falls peniten-
tiary for stealing horses from Billy
Meyers, in what is now known as Meade
couu;y, returned TO Deadwood Saturday.
He claims lie has gotten the worst of it on
all sides curing his confinement, and
threatens TO sue Wilbur Smith for $40, 600
damages because IL had his feet frozen
while being taken TO the penitentiary.
James G.. Robb died in Chicago on the
18th inst. Jimmy Robb is a very fami-
liar name of old Dakotians. He has been
connected with mercantile business at
Fort Sully, Cheyenne and other points for
twenty years or more, and is still the
owner OF trading posts in tina neighbor-
hood. He traversed the river road from
Sioux City via Yankton to the upper coun-
try scores OF times in the old stage and
blackboard days Of travelling, and his gen
la nature and kindness OF heart made him
an ever welcome visitor in every town or
farm cottage along the road.
The tests of the machinery at the Yank.
ton cement works are now being made
and within thirty days IL will be definitely
known whether or not any changes in the
machinery will be necessary. That por-
ton of the process begun is the grinding
and mixing Of raw materials. The clay