Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1890-10-04

The Aberdeen soap factory is now in
full operation.
Ground has been purchased for Rapid
City's gas works.
The jamestown Congreget!ohalists are
building a 5000 church
Huron, by a unanimous vote 242, has de-
cided to adopt the independe nt school dis
trict plan.
Robert Stegner, living near Aurora, re
Gently los: his stables and grain by fire,
supposed to have been set by child rem
playing with matches. The loss is about
$500.
Robert Burt, Of Lake township, Aurora
county, left last week, taking with him
some mortgaged property. The sheriff
overhauled him at Mitchell and he now
languishes in jail.
A. {. Rice is preparing TO ship "a carload
of chickens from Mitchell TO Seattle. He
will ship in n regular poultry car, which
will hold 5000 chickens, and will get away
with them the last of the week.
liver Blanes, of Taopi township, Mime.
haha coanty, was tried before Judge
Peters, Mt Dell Rapids, Monday, IN the
charge of assaulting one Ole Samuelson.
He was fined s. andscosts, a total of S2a. 25.
Professor w. A. Scott, professor OF geo.
logy in Princeton college, Is at the head Of
a scientific expedition that was sent out by
the college and is now studying the Bad
Lands of western Nebraska and South Da.
kota,
K. NJ. Slocum, clerk Of the courts of Camp
bell county, has purchased the Prairie
Picsyune at Mound City and will change
it to the Mound City Republican. 1t is
said that ]. II. Kipp, the late proprietor.
will go into the mercantile business at
some point or the river.
The old Missouri At Pierre is down at
its low water mark, but it is still several
feet higher than at this time last year.
This is used as the basis for the prediction
that the years of dry seasons are AT an
end, ard for the next ten years there will
be q cycle of rainy seasons.
While the two daughters of Harry Box,
OF Yankton, were out driving recently
their buggy came into collision with a
heavy lumber wagon, resulting in the
lighter vehicle being overturned and the
young ladies being thrown out, but luckily
they did not receive serious injury.
The Dell Rapids Granite company are
shipping considerable stone. They are
furnishing all the stone that is being used
for found and Easements at Yer
million, and for a large block ut Akron,
la. They have also shipped q number of
carloads of paving to Omaha lately.
Peter Henderson, a young man, of Yank.
ton left his boarding house Monday and has
not Teen heard of since. He took nothing
but what he had on, his clothing and 4 fleets
being left at the house. He was a Dane
and a single man. No clue ca1 he found
as his whereabouts or the cause of his dis.
apl earance.
The surveyors are running lines for the
waterways of the irrigation system in con
nection with the proposed artesian well in
Arcadia township, Faulk county, the site
of which was recently located by the ar
tesian well commissioner on tho farm Of
F. A. Seaman. The work Is being done
under the state law Of 1887.
Lead Cityhas ahorse that relishes a
tenderloin beefsteak or enjoys a fat leg Of
mutton as well as his master. He has de-
veloped wonderful proficiency in catching
and killing mice, with which his stable
abounds and which he eats with a relish.
A party of Lisbon scientists recently
opened an Indian mound In that vicinity
and found nine skeletons, a pipe, . bone
needle and awl, . bowl made of clay, q pair
of copper earrings and several other arti-
cles. The skeletons were found in q sit
ting posture.
Carl Lindell and Harry Rathmell, of
Pierre, were out picking plums and hunt
ing the other day and 1t came near being
Lindelfs last hunt They had . rife, 45
caliber, in the wagon, and Lindell seized 1t
by the muxzle to pull IL out, when II natur-
ally went of. The ball passed through
he rim Of his hat and his face wal consid-
'rably powder burned,
4 psiaful aessdsat happened 70 > fs,!SA'