Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1890-05-24

Ity of valga are being plowed and seeded
with fax.
The secret societies of Clark will co
in erecting a building for society
p Irposes.
Judge Williams will take charge Of the
United States receivers office at Nankton
this week.
II is expected that 1900 Russians will
in Mcpherson and ad joining counties
this season.
Large numbers of health seekers and
summer visitors are beginning to arrive at
Springs,
There are twenty-five Sunday schools in
Charles NJ Z county, with al enrolment of
J 200 scholars.
Nowlin citizens are considering a propo-
sition TO establish a ffty-barrel Touring
mill at that place.
Madison knights Of Pythias will organ
lie a uniform RAM in June with a member
chip Of of over thirty.
Plans have arrived for the new Episcopal
church at Madison, and work on the struc-
ture will begin this week.
Chamberlain and Kimball will send a
combination hose team TO the firemens
tournament at Pierre.
A stage line is now running between
Chamberlain and Rapid City, taking in the
new towns on the route.
The w. c. 7. L. of the Third district will
meet at Taulkton June 3, 4 and 5. The dis
.rict comprises ten counties.
The farm house of j. NJ. Mead, near
Blunt, with all its contents was destroyed
by fire a few nights ago. Loss, $3.50.
1t is predicted that Nowlin, one of the
reservation counties now being settled,
will cast ] 200 votes at the fall election.
Woonsocket's artesian wells will be de-
Icribed in Monteith's school geography.
and a picture OF the famous spouter will
accompany the description.
far this season the gu litor OF La
No &c county has paid bounties on 2s,OOC
Ter tails, which at 3 cents per tail rep
fesents the neat sum of $s4O.
The house Of Henry Williams, near
Arlington, was destroyed by fire Saturday.
Williams was seriously burned while at
tempting to extinguish the flames.
ThA -enusrnmant snnnlied the Flandrau
Iixty cows and Ii large quantity of house,
2old furniture AM other articles.
The Dakota knights of Labor Printing
and Publishing company has fled articles
IF incorporation with the secretary OF
state. The headquarters of the company
will be at Aberdeen.
While boring for water on a farm in
5ully county the other day a strong Gov OF
gas was struck at a depth of 200 feet. Mud
aud gravel were thrown from tne well
several feet into the air.
a general meeting of the North Dato.s
Farmers alliance will be held at James
town June 4, at which it is expected every
alliance and knights of Labor assembly iu
the state will be represented.
The annual spring roundup on the Little
Missouri ranges begins May 3. The call
crop has been exceptionally large, and
stockmen expect this year to make up foi
all the losses of the pas. two or three sea
sons.
At Kimball the other day the sheriff Of
Brule county arrested the mayor, mar hal.
city attorney and several aldermen for
gambling and they wers lound over tc
answer at the next term of the Gin c lir
court.
The Lincoln County Agricultural society
rs secured n tract of land for fair grounds
At Canton ard will erect suitable building {
and lay out a half mile track. Some in.
teresting races are being arranged for an
early date.
Col. Thompson, of Bismarck, lest a valu-
able stallion some time ago, and after &
weeks search found the animal imprisoned
in an old well twelve feet deep. Wher
rescued the animnl was found to be unin.
jured, but was suffering terribly from hun
ger and thurst.
According to the NAPOLEON Homestead
gopher hunting could be made a verJ
profitable business in North Dakota. u
some counties bounties are paid on Ia Is
in others on ears, and in some OF the Nv q :
back" counties nothing less than legs will
be taken as evidence of the sure death OF
the it'll. rests. Thus in Logan county tails
! ring $ cents, while in Mclnto sh ears are
quoted at 2 cents, Eickey county gives VI
3 cents for four legs, making an aggre
gate of 3 cents in bounties for one gopher
There is no necessity OF n boy going with.
u u hAotaNy ~ hSNhotpH
The Fremont, Elkhorn TN | Mis- oari Val
ley will commence work shortly on tho
tunnel route between Wbitewood and
Deadwood. A change has been made in
the II mel location whereby the length OF
the same is reduced from 1850 to $50 feet
The Joint commission to make a final set
Element between North and South Dahota
organized by electing Auditor Bray, OF
North Dakota, chairman, and Auditor Tay
lor, of South Dakota, sec Rotary. Elk Dep
uty Territorial Auditor Gerton, of Pierre,
and the deputy publ; examiner, of Fargo,
have been appointed clerks and will pre-
d are a statement To present TO the commits
SION which meets on the .0th.
In the first criminal case in Stanley
that of the state against Love La.
kota and Mrs. Eli Spotted Bear, charged
with adultery. the defendants were dis.
MISE ! for lack of sufficient egid snce to
ro1vict them. This is believed TO be the
frst time on record that al Indian has ap-
in a civilized court Of justice to b.
Iried for the above crims.
The travelling men of the northwest have
been offered a tract of land at Hot Springs
y Fred L. Evans, on condition that they
build a lodge on it for themselves. As
Is no better place in the country to
pend a vacation IL Is thought the offer will
be accepted.
News has just been received at Fort
1 sseion of a tragedy OF the reese rvation
that plncs. IL appears That "a Mrs.
Thomas, wife Of a negro soldier whose
ERIN Of enlistment expired a short time
lgo, in the absence Of her husband in Mon.
ana, hal bsen living with IN Indian whose
zane could not be learned. About ten
lays ago Thomas returned from Missoula,
md, IL IL belle we'd, on discovering his wife'a
aithlessness murdered both her and he's
although suspicion also points
strongly to on Indicn woman, tbs wife Of
he Indian who was killed. Thomas d.
appeared directly after the murdcs and IL
Ihouaht to have gone bsek 70 Montena.
The police are working On the case