Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1890-05-31
SOUTH DAKOTA.

pletion.
Garrison is the name of a new yostofice
in Turner county.
A brick kiln has been added 10 the in
dustries of Brookings.
The assessed valuation Of the city Of
Deadwood is 81, 500, 900.
A Norwegian newspaper 10 soon to be
started at Devils Lake.
A scheme is on foot to build a mammoth
hotel at LAX Kampeska.
Several new residences are in course Of
construction at Vermillion.
a steam yacht will be one of the attrac
tions at Lake Madison this summer.
Mitchell has seven Sunday schools with
an aggregate attendance of 600 scholars.
Aberdeen tenn psrance saloons have been
ordered to dssist from selling hard slider.
Bids are being received for the putting
in OF a system Of water works ct Hot
Springs.
Gently have been christened Faith, Hope
and Charity.
Three stores and the railway depot at
Richardson were destroyed by Are the
other night.
Ihs big Red ater ~irrigating canal, in
Butte county, is completed and in full
operation.
The business men of Buffalo Gap are
organizing a stock company TO start a
newspaper.
1t is reported that . $4,000 grist mill
will be built at Cascade, Fall River county,
this ummer.
Fay Ell OFT, Dell Rrapids little girl, fell
out of bed while asleep and fractured her
collar bone.
Springfield will soon vote on the ques-
ton of issuing bonds 10 build a system OF
water works.
There was bonded in the vicinity of Gus
ter City during the past week $lI5,OO0
worth Of tin property.
At a gopher hunt in Windsor township,
Brookings county, the other day, $500
gophers were killed.
A local company at Chamberlain has APP
piled for a pontoon bridge franchise, which
it is thought will be granted.
The wool clip of the Dakotas this year
will be about 5000, 900 pounds, an increase
Of 40 per cent. over last year.
Henry Butler, living near Marion, was
seriously in iured the other day BY being
kicked in the stomach by q horse.
Its estimated that fully 10000 people
have moved onto the reservation since it
was thrown open for settlement.
The stable Of Charles H. Ford, twelve
miles west of Tyndall, was struck by
lightning Thursday and four horses killed.
Pierre parties are negotiating for the
~, rabaua 80 . Lave. N hax 90 ahaan nth
which to stock several ranches on the res
ervation.
A site has been secured for the Fargo
agricultural college aud work will begin
on the building as soon as the government
appropriation is secured.
A Centerville miller has been looking
over the ground in the vicinity of Hot
Springs with the intention of locating q
thirty barrel Touring mill.
At Mayville the livery barn and feed
store Of E. Ellerton, with twenty head Of
horses, were destroyed by fire. Loss,
81, GOO; insurance, $500.
A couple were married at Cakes the
other day after a personal acquaintance Of
thirty minutes. A Chicago matrimonial
agency did all the counting.
Bounteous rains have fallen In the Black
Hills counties during the past two weeks,
and reports from all sections give promise
Of an abundant crop of small grain.
1t has been decided by Attorney-G eneral
Dollsrd that all county superintendents of
schools Of the state shall be elected at the
general election, the same rs other officers.
The fish commission has examined a sam
ala 90 tha nyatax fxoro ths ua rrisop avian
ian we'll lake in Besdle county aud will
send carp minnows there for propagation.
Eastern capitalists have decided to es-
tablish a boot and shoe factory at Water
town. The factory will employ Fifty men,
and it is expected that the plant will be
completed by September l.
The knights of Labor Of Pierre sub
scribed $4,000 and the Carpenters union
$1,000 toward the FUND for building the
Duluth, Pierre and Black Hills railroad
from Aberdeen to Pierre.
Brown county has a weather prophet
named Isaac Hiwaskari, whose predictions,
it is claimed, have always been fulfilled.
He is a Finlander, and his people place
u boundcd faith in his forecasts OF the
weather.
During his trip up the Missouri to the
Indian agencies Captain Jack Crawford
will deliver several lectures on his expert.
ences on the frontier, the proceeds to be
added to the Mary Washington monument
fund.
An extensive barrel factory is to be To-
Gated at Yankton to supply the Western
Portland Cement company with barrels.
1t is estimated that 1000 barrels will be
packed and shipped daily TO the eastern
market.
The Fargo fire department, board of
trade, mayor anil city council are sending
out invitations to the grand tournaments
of the North Dakota firemen, band, base
ball and wheelmen TO be held in that city
June II to 20, inclusive.
Jim river fish are beginning to "bite''
pretty freely. A Brown county man is
willing to make affidavit that while he was
81 ting in the stern of a boat the other day
a big fish suddenly Topped out Of the water
and bit a chunk cut of his back.
The second sale of North Dial ota state
Al per cent. thirty-year refunding bonds
took place on the 18th. The bonds, to the
amount Of Z 1900, were sold to a Boston
about Q. "a per cent. This is the highest
price yet paid for western securities.
Two judges, Haney, of North Dakota,
and Aiken, of South Dakota, lave decided
that there is no law in either state to pun
ish adultry, the old territorial statute
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