Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1890-11-01

WYNN
A n lumber of horses have been stolen In
the vicinity of Rapid City within the past
week.
Jamestown Is utilizing it's artesian we'll
to drive several motors for manufacturing
purposes.
DIR. Ian gdon Is investigating alleged ex-
istence of scab among sheep In the vicinity
of Medina.
". Gilman had his collar bone broken
by falling rock in the Terra mine in the
Black Hills.
II. j. Pratt's store mt Grandin was burg.
larized Monday night and 500 worth Of
clothing AIKEN.
The Masonic fraternity Of Huron are
considering the ACCESSIBILITY of erecting a
Masonic temple.
Garretson has taken a census Of its own
which shows a population Of 34l for the
1-year-old town.
The new opera house at Grand Forks
will be opened by Emma Abbott on the
10th of November.
The t~ri-state convention Of the Young
Mems Christian association meets at Sioux
Falls on the Gath inst.
Cattle and hogs are no longer to be seen
on the streets of Lead City, the pound law
having gone into effect.
Typhoid fever is prevailing among the
graders at the Burlington and Missouri
railroad camp in Pennington.
A Wyoming stock man swan $50 head of
horses across the Missouri at Chamberlain
and did not lose one of them.
The crack shots of Lead City are arrang.
inc fn,. a Iaar hunt nf aayaral xyaaHs I'm thu
southern part of the Black Hills.
Charles Howard has shippd two trains Of
cattel from Pierre to Chicago, the total
value of which was about 1. 1900.
Grand Forks citizens are proposing an
ihmigrato on convention for the purpose of
making known the advantages of the Red
River valley.
The Russian thistle has already taken "a
strong hold Tn the eastern part of Sully
county, and will next season cover the
western part.
A farmer by .he name of Greene, living
about twelve miles west of Dell Rapids,
had 100 bushels of flax stolen from him ono
night last week.
Gankton citizens have subscribed funds
to keep the electric street lights running
pending the settlement of the question by
the city council.
Ben Nann, of Rapid City, was recently
completely knocked out of time by a horse
that planted both his hind hoofs in the pit
of Nann's stomach.
a couple of hay stacks belonging to the
Tokhiem Bros, farmers living three miles
northeast Of Valley Springs, were de-
stroyed by fire last week.
John Green, of Lisbon township, Dawson
county, raised vhis year l,5OU bushels of
wheat, 1000 bushels of oats, 3 0 bushels of
fax and 2, o. bushels of corn.
The farmers in the vicinity of Valley
Springs are building granaries and storing
their grain at home instead of hauling IL
to town and storing in elevators.
A needle was removed from the left
knee of Mrs. John Hogan, Of north Sioux
Falls Monday. Mrs. Hogan got the nee
die embedded In her knee while kneeling
on the noer.
The Sioux Indi ans predict ten years Of
rainy weather. They say the last dry year
ended with this season, and they are max
ing preparations for the deluge by moving
their tepees to higher ground.
State Veterinary Langdo on recommends
to the governor that the sheep in Stuts-
man, Kidder and Logan counties be quar-
untincd and that no sheep be allowed to be
shipped out of the state unless they have a
clear bill Of health fl ON the state veter-
mary or from n competent inspector.
A destructive prairie fire recently swept
over a portion of the county near Virgil
Several farmers met with small losses, but
tho heaviest loss was sustained by ]. S.
Thompson, whose house, with most OF its
contents, and forty-fve tons of hay were
destroyed.
The Fremont, Elkhorn and Missouri
Valley Railroad company is to straighten
the channel of the Whitewood from the
Deadwood street bridge to the north end
of NJ. G.. SO, the channel to be forty feet
wide and confined by a bulkhead, main
tanning the same depth rs at Lee street to
the foot of Wall street.
Fred Cole, of Ethan, broke his nose by
falling sixteen feet from a railroad ~tressie.
Gust. ~Swedburg is missing from Valley
Springs and a few creditors are in mourn
ing.
Shaft, the Aberdeen shoe man, on a re.
cent visit to Chicago, sold to Marshall
Field, the great merchant prince of Chi,
cago, 72o pairs of the papoose moccasins
he is manufacturing. He says Mr.. Field
wac much amused at the cdea of buying
for his house, one of the largest in Chicago,
a stock OF goods from Aberdeen. At the
same tims he WIS much pleased with the
goods, and considered that lie had an
article that void please his customers.
On the Star s. Bullock ranch, three miles
east of Spearfsh, is a large field of green
cats, which the owner expects to harvest
as soon as they are ripe, and there ia every
indication that a few days more will see
them fit for the sickle.
A blast fired by workmen on the Bur.
iington and Missouri grade, back Of Fish
q hunters store, threw a rock weighing
about four pounds across the gulch and
through the window of Fred Chausse's
dwelling, striking his 7-year-o old daughter
on the ear and just grazing the skull.
Beaver In The Woods, the Rosebud
brave who stood off fifteen Indian police.
as long as his ammunition lasted, to resist
arrest, was sentenced to eighteen months'
m Imprisonment in tie penitentiary at siuus
Falls.
e. t, Westerly has completed a tubular
well on his farm two miles south of Madi'
son. At the depth of / 6 feet a vein Of
water bearing sand and gravel was stfusk
that furnished an inexhaustible supply OF
water.
The county Jail at washington Springs
contain ed a prisoner one night last week
for the first time in many a month.
Joseph Wants, of Crow Lake, was in Gus.
tody for having mortgaged some chattels
too often.
A FIRE at Richardton late Saturday night,
destroyed ten horses, twenty wagons, fifty
sets of harness, the barn, forty bushels OF
oats and twenty tons Of hay belonging &c
the Richardton Land and improvement,
company. /,
Mrs. Sarah Armstrong, Of Thompson,
wife of a prosperous farmer residing in
that vicinity, has been I'D iud ged insane by
the board Of lunacy commissioner and
will be confined in the insane asylum at
Jamestown, pending her recovery OF
otherwise.