Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1890-07-19

sum of $500, the charge being changed to
manslaughter.
/ A young man named Frank c. bills IS mys
teriously missing from his hon,e in Her
mosa. He was last seen in II spid City,
April %, since which time all tri ice of him
has been lost. At the time of his disap'
pearance he had considerable me meg in his
possession and IL Is feared he has been
fouliy dealt with.
1t is proposed to locate Chr mtauqua
grounds at Lake Madison. Tbe ian is to
secure 100 acres of land including Moreno
Beach, which will be purchased by VI com.
pany representing $4,000, in shares Of 500
each, the grounds to be improved, build
ings erected, etc, from the sale of summer
cottage lots. Tine enterprise is not in
tended to be private. but one in whicb the
churchmen and educators of the entire
state will be repre,e nted.
A section of ce dar log, twens.y-eight
inches in diameter. taken from the upper
Cheyenne valley, is cp exhibition Y t Pierre.
The Indians and settlers build their
houses of these logs uIong the Cheyenne,
and at Noble they aae building a two
story hotel OF this timb err The deep can
ons in many places along this valley con-
tain thousands Of cords of this splendid
timber that cndures al most as long as
granite. The heaviest numbered region
lies in Sterling and Scobt b counties.
An original package fe ed named Barnes
was arrested at Hill City the other day on
complaint of Contractor Skinner, who is
at work on the grade of th,s Burlington and
Missouri road near Hill City. Barnes is
charged with selling beeis md whisky to
tine men on the grade, and gave bonds TO
appear beforethe Penningt on grand jury.
Skinner alleges that the men will not work
as long as they can procure original pack
ages TO play with, and that he has been put
to great pecuniary loss in consequence.
Mrs. Amelia Johnson was adjudged in.
sane ut Sioux Falls the other day and will
be sent to the asylum. She labored under
a peculiar halluciaation, behieu'ng that she
was starving and that she had TO sweat or
she would die. She was found in a small
room in her sbhnty, with the doors and
windows tightly closed and vent ilation en-
tirely shut off. She thought her little chill
dren were in the same danger of starya.
ton and treated them to the same rigid
cure she herself was undergoing, refusing
to allow them to so out of doors and feed
ing them on mouldy bread and spoiled
meat. When found the littieiones were al
most suffocated.
The Rapid City Journal contains the fol-
lowing item regarding the Addiction which
has befallen a family we'll known in South
Dakota: A letter received lE a friend in
this city conveys the sad Intelligence that
Mrs. John IL. King, who has been ia Wash
ington for some time. hos become violently
insane. Colonel King was in Mitchell
when the news reached him and left at
once for Washington to take care of his
wife. Mrs. Kings insanity is the result Of
long-cohtinued illness, she having been an
invalid for years.
Colonel EveretttW. Foster, agent for the
Yankton IndiapsJsays there are between
] COZ and leo Ynpkton Sioux on the reser-
walton and that'tte death rate exceeds that
of births. The Diseases most fatal are
s~crofula and cons unn ption. A large new
school buildings is Heing built at the agency
In which six white teachers will be en-
ployed.
Brookings county armer report much
damage TO fax by a small parasite so mi
mute that 1t can hardly be seen. Many
fields have been entirely destroyed and
have been replanted either with fax or
millet. 1t is observable that the pests work
on fall blowing that was planted early.
The Lower Brule Indians are determined
TO move south of White river on land be-
longing tc the Rosebud Sioux Indians. The
agent ct Rosebud has forwarded a letter
to Washington protesting against the ac-
ton of the Brules and stating that the
Rosebuds object to the former moving upon
their lands.
During the absence from home of Frank
Clemens, a ranchman living near Rapid
City, some unknown person entered mis-
cabin and mixed strychnine with the fsod
that had been prepared for his dinner. He
psrtook of the food and was taken vio-
len,ly i'll, but happily help arrived in time
to save his life. There is no clue to the
perpetrator.
Cattlemen on the Black Hills ranges are
excited over disclosures Of extensive stea /
ing and butchering of their cattle. The
shop of a butcher named Brightman, at
Hermosa, was searched and n large num-
Der Of branded hides found Brightman
has been arrested and warrants are out
for a number of other men, some of whom
arc prominent in county affairs.
A grist mill has been erected at the Crow
Greek Indian agency in Buffalo county, for
the benefit Of the Crow Creeks, who are
conceded to tie the most industrious,
weafthiest and most civilized tribe in the
great Sioux nation. The mill is fitted mp
with the larges. improved machinery and
the best grades Of -four are manufactured.
Their grain is bought by the government,
they receiving the same price for 1t as they
would get in the markets of the al ioindng
towns, and the -four is issued bach to them
in the shape of ~rations. This is done to en-
courage them as much as possible In raas.
ing grain. White Ghost, one of the wisest
and most honored Indians in the whoAa
Sioux nation, is head chief of this tribe.