Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1890-10-04

ter named Bob Hunt at the d. g. d.
smelter at Dead wood Tuesday afternoon.
He was driving a bull outfit, wagons
loaded with coke, when one Of the animals
fell. Bob, in his effort to get it on its feet,
was badly gored by one of its horns, which
penetrated the scrotum, tearing IL in such
a name hat the right t~esticle protuded.
In July, 1850. w. M. BATHS, of Glen
Ullin, bought SEQ sheep, for which he paid
800. During the next year he took no
care of the sheep himself but hired them
kept and fed, for which he paid 1925, max
ing u total Of 81, 1926 for sheep and keeping.
This year, the wool-3, 001 pounds at II
cents per pound and the lambs at market
value amounted to 81, l72, and he had the
original flock of 800 in addition. To make
81, l72 on g., 225 in one year comes very near
being a good investment.
But few people in the Black Hills have
more friends or sympathizers than NJ. G.
Lincoln. In the pioneer days he was a
placer miner, later on a drill polisher, and
then a clerk in the Merchants National
bank at Deadwood, where he soon became
cashier, and where he remained until fail
II t1 SsihhN "uihSu Mn tnub ut ihust tuhS
a vacation. He went east and had the
best medical skill for two or three years,
and now he returns 10 his old friends with
the light of heaven shut out forever.
N. Hutaf runs a sheep ranch west OF
Pierre. Last Monday he moved camp to q
point on n prominent butte overlooking
Bad river with a perpendicular embank
ment OF about fifty or seventy-fve feet.
After supper and in the darkness of the
night he drew out his pipe for a peaceful
smoke and let the pipe fall to the ground.
He stopped down and began crawling and
feeling around for the missing campiop
and crawled to the edge of the precipice,
the bank caved and he fell to the ground
below. When found all he could say was,
"Are you taking me away to bury me!"
His skull Is crushed, and unless the physi.
clans can raise 1t and relieve the pressure
on the brain the old man will die.
Redfeld college has received 81, 600 from
the estate of Duncan Mackay, of Morri
son, Ill.
A ~6-year-old son Of Peter Gaffnoy, Of
jamestown, was following a moving ma
chine while cutting hay last week, and by
some means became caught by the sickle
bar. The child's leg was badly cut.
w. {. Bartlett, the contractor for the
new hotel at Huron, met with an accident
whereby he will lose the thumb and one or
two fingers of his left hand. While ad
iusting a derrick, in operation, his left
hand was caught and drawn through the
gearing.
The city council of Aberdeen has con.
tracted with Lawrence Wheeler TO sink a
six-inch artesian we'll at the price of 81 SO
per foot, with the understanding that for
each 100 feet below 600 feet the price in.
crease SO cents per foot, and further that
the outside casing 10 the depths OF about
$50 feet remain in the ground, the addi-
tional cost Of this pipe to DO at the hole
sale price and freight. This is a great re.
duction in the prices that have been paid
heretofore.
A Dakota paper shys; Put sl,C0), 900
into artesian well and in a few years South
Dakota could build a Suez canal and give
it to the government.
Eighty dollars was stolen from the trunk
of Mrs. Ross, who runs the boarding house
on section Is of the Burlington and Mis-.
souri, road in the Black Hills, on Tuesday.
Professor Free, the well known geologist
OF Yankton college, after repeated and
careful examinations of Dako as Ignite
deposits, says that they offer a solution Of
the problem of cheap fuel for North Da.
kota. In order to secure the best results,
he recommends the use of Ignite stoves,
which differ from other stoves as much as
soft coal stoves differ from hard coal
stoves.