Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1890-07-12

christened by the redmen "Long-Bow-
without-any arrow"
Robert g. Allen, signal officer at Fort
Sully, has been promoted to the position OF
meteorological clerk in the Office of Gen
eral Greeley at Washington, d. G.
Madison is coming to the front as a con-
v~ontion city. The grand lodge X. of p.
and the grand lodge L O. G. T. have dc
cided to hold their sessions in that city next
year.
The city council OF Dell Rapids has
passed resolutions calling on citizens to
ala in tho suppression of the sale of intox-
icatin 6 liquors in any form, original or
otherwise.
There are ut present ninety one convicts
In the Sioux Falls penitentiary, ffty-sour
boys and girls in the reform school at
Plankinton and 254 inmates in the insane
asylum at Tankton.
A Mitchell census enumerator in his
round the other day found a scandinavian
woman 95 years cd, who tends to her reg
ular household duties, milks tie cows and
is as lively as a woman of 40.
Ned Mcdonald, u Washington Springs
small boy, was so fond Of green currants
that he poked his ears full of them. A
doctor removed the currants with..a pair Of
tweezcrs, but the boy may lose his hear
ing.
Bayley, the Northern Pacific train rob
Der In jail ut Fargo, has been identified as
the horse thief who made n daring escape
from the officers who had captured him
while crossing the Sisseton reser -stion
some years ago. His escape made quite a
stir at the time.
Memo Rustler: This item may seem
like a fish story to those who read 1t, but
nevertheless We saw with our own eyes a
nice, plump peach, as large as a hens egg,
growing on an apple tree not ten miles
from Memo. That shows that Dakota
can raise fruit, DONE &c, ehf
A petition is being circulated for the
transfer Of y owiin county from the Cham.
berlain land district to that o. Pierre.
Nowlin county will probably be organized
this fall and there ia promise Of as sharp a
contest over the location Of the county
seat as was fought In Stanley county.
The Pierre Capital says the clothes worn
by the Sioux Indians in attendance at the
tOui uhiSh IN thut wy VIM NO"IuIS lu-
vorably with the most fnstidious attire of
the elite Of any of our cities"
A ranchman on the reservation started
out several years ago with a solitary cow,
and now owns 900 head of cattle, 600
horses and thirty-two buffalo and crosses.
The business men Of Deadwood arc or.
ganizing a club. 1t will be incorpoi ated
under the laws of the state and will have
a capitalization Of $40, 900, divided into 100
shares Of. 800 each, thus limiting the mem
bership to 100. Its objects are to forward
the business and social interests OF Dead
wood.
In his charge to the grand jury at Web
ster, Day county, Judge Andrews gave in
structions for an examination into all cases
where liquors were being sold in original
packages and TO report indictments. He
held that the state law was sufficiently
broad to fully cover the ground and in
formed the jury that he proposed to see the
law enforced.
RIM Gottlieb, a Faulk county girl, was
taken TO the Plankinton reform school the
other day, but as she attempted suicide the
first night of her incarceration the institu-
tion refused to take her in charge. She
had made two previous attempts at sui
and was taken to the school In hopes
of a cure.
The Lyman Journal says the Indians are
not satisfied with the government bound
airy line on the north side of the reserva-
ton, and are endeavoring to get a new sur
vey that will give them more land. They
claim that tlIa farp,a >f thA n-A. hill
were not carried out in this respect, and
that the coal lands will be mainly lost to
them If the present line is insisted on.
The Rapid City Republican says: A
Chinaman in this city has a garden ten
feet wide at one end, twenty at the other,
ond forty feet long, that has produced
more garden truck this year and will pro-
duce more than any white mans truck
r>"t"h nf an acre ~ n-nnnd WL''- ~--
could get pointers on agriculture from
these same heather Chinese, as II has been
their study for centuries to know how to
best utilize every square foot of the land
they cultivate.
William Oman, of Bismarck, is the pos.
SCISSOR of a quilt made from the uniforms
Of the soldiers who went out with General
usttT lEoEi II u n iluCOiu W nis ltSl anu
famous fight with the Indians. Mr.. Oman
left the fort with General Custer under the
command of Colonel Weer, in the Seventh
cavalry, but on the day Of the fight his
CON pany was about ten miles FIR, M the
scene of the massacre. They could hear
the report Of the guns, but On account of
the hills could not witness the terrible
butchery.
A mad dog bit sixteen hogs belonging to
Jacob Haufin, of Childstown, Turner
county, and fourteen Of the animals died
with rabies. The dogs also bit a numb Der
os hogs belonging to Peter Stuckey, with
the same result. While Stuckey was feed
ing one of the afflicted porkers It bit him
through Il Q hand, making a painful wound
that may result seriously.
A strange legend comes to us from the
Sioux, who alone can tell the true history
of that deadly ambuscade, says the Rapid
City Republican. They say that on the
hillock where Custer fell now grows a
plant never seen there before-a curious
plant with long, slender leaves, curved in
the exact form oil a saber, with edges SO
sharp as TO infiict keen wounds upon un-
wary hands, and those who pluck II once
soon drop 1t, so strangely cold and clammy
are its leaves. 1t bears a golden bued,
heart shaped bloss ON, and in the center Is
one small spot Of brilliant red, like u drop
of blood. The Indians regard it with SUI
pc rstitious awe. They call il Clusters
heart" and cannot be induced to touch It,
claiming that the blossom crushed to tie
hand leaves a blood red stain impossible to
remove.
Hallucinations.