Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1890-05-03

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Rapid City in which one of the contestants
isa woman.
a number Of Russian families arrived at
Eureka last wteI direct from Odessa, op
the Black sea.
William Johnson was found guilty OF
sealing twenty horses by a Dead wood jury
the other day,
d. f. Patterson is in Jail at Aberdeen
charged with voting too frequently at the
recent election.
Irrigation experiments will be made with
The waste water Of the Hitchcock artesiap
well this summer.
Improvements to the amount of S'5,0OQ
will be made in the Sioux Falls water
works this spring. 4,
Bismarck base ballists want TO tackle
the Aberdeen club and arrangements are
icing made for a series of games. \
Two valuable horses belonging TO Jake
Dana, near Harrison, were killed the
other day by falling into a deep we'll.
Rev. Anna Shaw, national lecturer Of the
Woman's Suffrage association, is making 3
tour of the state in the interest of equa
suffrage.
- ~ w Wv" NoNalNN va " 'hhNA
renr Bismarck the other day and wal
chased by cowboys until it dropped dead
from exhaustion. The animal was valued
at $500.
Rev. John A. Cruzan, at present pastor
u the Third Congregational church of San
Francisco, has decided to accept the pas
.orate of the Congregational church a,
Sioux Falls.
A postofice has been established at Cen
ter Point, Turner county, and Mrs. Mein
nolt appointed postmistress. An Office has
also been established at Clarkson, in the
same county.
Forrest City claims TO hold the pole in the
race for permanent capital, and the Press
Gays that when the home stretch is reached
IN November "she will be Il winner by a
.arge majority"
Johnny Petrie, a Tyndall small boy,
saved the lives of a number of rats by find
ing the poison that had been prepared for
chem first. The doctor pumped him out
and he will recover.
The new town of Shackton is at the
head of Medicine creek, thirty miles
northwest Of Cham berlain. The soil in
INC NlCiuiig - t1StiAthb hhu hSi - u
plentiful supply Of wood and water.
Settlers are taking up lands in TIE Grow
Creek reservation, in Buffalo county.
These lands are considered among the
most fertile in South Dakota. The Mid
land Pacific is expected to run through
the reese alton, and it is likely a nav town
will be established.
Ole Zeiner, who shot and killed his
brother Albert at RichardtoD, Wednesday,
has been released, the coroner's jury re
turning a verdict Of justifable fratricide.
Albert made improper proposals to Ole's
wife, and in the quarrel which ensued the
former was shot dead.
A peculiar shaped mound was discss cred
,ear Mitchell the other day, and in digging
nto IL the shele OF of an indian was un
.arthed, with the trinkets and weapons
usually found in Indian graves. The
mound was covered by heavy sod and
everything indicated that many years had
elapsed since it was made.
The investigation into the Faulk county
murder is not yet completed by the cor
oner's jury. So far only the fact that Eek
ut was murde red has been proven. Cir
;umstantial evidence duplicates the fam
ly and perhaps some neighbors. Thu
IF cers have traced the crime down to ,
.ircle of nine persons, Including FIVE of thu
,amily and -four others. The perpetrators
Of the crime have not been definitely ascer
aimed, but suspicion points strongly u
Mrs. Eckhart and her sons.
Under q decision of the South Dakota at
.orney general, druggists cannot sell liquo,
ior any purpose whatever before Jun |
Tie rrohibitory law goes into effect May
/, hut the law requires thirty days no
:ice to be given by the druggist of his in.
tention TO make application for a permit
10 sell liar or. As this law is not yet in eff
fect, notices cannot he filed before May J..
The statute is very severe on stations of
this law, and it is in nearly al instances
made a penitentiary offense for peace of-
icers who fail or refuse to prosecute.
enforcement leagues have been organized,
n every county In the state and it will 10
yery difficult and hazardous business to-
Engage in Illicit liquor traffic in South Da-
kota. !
A young child Of Nicholas Neil, a farmer
living near Hosmer, Edmands county, was
burned to death Monday. Tie house and
entire contents were entirely consumed.
in attempting to rescue the child the father
was severely burned. /.
Woonsocket is determined to enforce the
prohibitory law and assist her druggists in
carrying on q legitimate business. At q
n Getting Of the temperance people the
druggists expressed themselves as anxious
- ,y.rE - harrnnpy Nth the lau atatfpo
that they would not take out a permit IN
less their petition was signed by the tenn.
perance people.
In the United States court at Sioux Falls
Nicholas Janjcwcod, Of Charles Mis-
county, was sentenced to thirty days in the
renitentiary ord to Fay a fine of 800 for
selling beer to Indians.
Walla Walia, Wash, sent q car contain
,ng 100 sacks Of wheat, of a variety popu.
lar in Washington; 100 sacks Of Aour and
. large quantity of dry goods to Governor
Mellette this week. Tho -four and dry
goods were sent to .hc Dorcas society at
Huron, and the W ieat will be apportioned
,ut to prominent farmers of the state and
will be experimental on this season to
earn II 1t 10 q good thing to raise In South
Dakota. :.
Last week a rich body Of silver ore was
discovered on Jim creek, near Rapid City,
IN the property of Deacon Jones. The
ieacon had been away on a visit for some
lime and when he returned he found about
dozen prospectors had jumped his ranch
and were sinking shafts in all directions.
This made the deacon angry and his wrath
was added to by the fact that he had for
gears been raising potatoes and other
vegetables on q piece of ground that con-
Ia! ned soIne If the richest silver Gre In the
Iis.k Hills. His wrath vac pppeased,
Iowoysr, by the Jumpers" Offering 10 give
Lin pp equal share in their locations.
"a milk white Geev rss shot recently
rsaT ~, Katahdir, N Maine.