Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1890-05-10

The water in the Red river the present
spring is lower than II has been for many
years.
New Jerusalem is the name of a new
town on the boundary line of South Dakota
and Wyoming.
The wheat acreage in Hughes and Sully
counties is considerably larger than in
former years.
H. b. Gilbertson, of Garretson, was seri-
ously burned last Saturday while fighting
a prairie fire.
Allen Roach, of Castalia, shot a hole
through his hand while carelessly handling
a revolver.
The knights Of Labor fair at Central
City for the benefit of the drouth sufferers
netted 500.
The annual roundup Of stock on the
Belle Fourche and Cheyenne ranges will
begin May 10.
A stock company 10 being formed at
Iankton to build a pontoon bridge across
the Missouri.
A postofice has been established at South
Sioux Falls; also one at Pleasant Ridge,
Turner county.
Enforcement leagues rave been pretty
thoroughly organized in most of tn, coun-
tie of South Dakota.
Mrs. Stricken, a Hyde county postmis-
tress, is alleged TO be short in her accounts
and has disappeared.
Reports from Charles Mix county says
small grain never looked more promising
than il does this season.
A white crane, measuring eight feet
from tip to tip Of its wings, was shot near
Rec Heights the other day.
The Faulkton Republican has passed
from the management of Thompson g. Grit
fee TO that of Evans g. Young.
Mcpherson county farmers are talking
OF organizing an artesian well irrigating
company On the co operative plan.
The American Swineherd, which has
been published in Alexandria since it's first
issue, hos been moved to Chicago.
Peter Kerfel, Of Mitchell, was thrown
fro a wagon by srunawsy horse and suf
fered a fracture of the collar bone.
Frank Gosslee, a Faulkton school
teacher, has become violently insane as a
result of a sunstroke received four years
ago, ard will lie taken TO the Yankton
asylum.
A farmer in North Dakota figures from
his own experience that a man can pay all
expenses and get fair wages for himself in
raising wheat when the yield is ten bushels
FER acre and the price is 6s cents.
The site Of the erstwhile booming town
of Sherman is now the property of Chief
Left-Hand- Thunder. Sherman was the
first town in Lyman county plated by the
boomers, but was evacuated IA few weeks
ago by order of the government.
A farmer named Duhamel, near Letcber,
set out seventy five trees on his farm tie
other day, and when he arose the next
morning TO admire his embryo forest he
found that IA thief had visited 1t during the
night ard carried of the entire lot.
d. T. Patterson, the man who voted in
every ward in Aberdeen at the recent cleo.
ton and then started in TO make the round.
a second time, has been bound over to the
May term of court at Columbia, notwith
standing a plea of innocence.
The Whitewood Sentinel says that con.
tracts have been let 70 construct a large ir.
rigating canal twenty miles long, and with
n capacity of 1000 inches, from opposite
the mouth of Hay creek, on the Belle
Fourchc, to some point further below on
TIE river.
At he date of division Hutchinson county
had "a balance due in the territorial treas.
ury of 81, 300. The treasury was legislated
ont of existence and the only redress that
can now be expected will be to put in a
clam at the fnal settlement of the two
states, which takes place on May G. An
effort will he made to nave the two states
refund an equal share IF the amount.
The Little town Of DeVoe is excited over
an attempted murder and suicide at that
place last III az. Some time ago ]. d.
Oliver and his wife quarreled and the. lat
ter left her home and took up her residence
with a %neightor. Thursday night while
she was alone in the house her husband
cal ed and tried to induce her to return
home with him. She refused, when he
drew a revolver and shot her, the bullet
taking effect in her leg. He then fred a
bullet into his own breast, but missed q
vital spot. Oliver is now under arrest at
Faulkton.
Within the past six weeks five women
have died during childbirth in the Russian
settlement near Marion, Turner county,
owing to the ignorance of midwives in at.
tendance.
The Fort Pierre Gateway 10 a shining
example of newspaper enterprise in the far
west. 1t is the original and only newspaper
published partially in the Sioux Indian Ian.
gvage.
Provisional Commander George b. Win
ship, of Grand Forks, was unanimously
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North Dakota q. A. #. at the recent son.
We ntion at Grand Forks.
Mrs. Hannah Sullivan, of Newcastle, in
the Black Hills, has reached the age of ITO
years. She Is a native of Ireland and came
to America in 1879. She has been twice
married and 10 tie mother of ten children,
three boys and seven girls, most of whom
are living. She is grandmother of forty
people, great grandmother of twenty-five
and has been great grandmother for
twenty-five years. She has enjoyed good
health most of her life and has been able
to walk up to three weeks ago. she could
thread q needle with perfect ease at the age
of l09, and her eyesight is still good and
health fair, with the prospect of reaching
the age of l25 or 100.
Major r. Fleming, of Cass county, IL
putting in 500 acres OF wheat on the new
cultivation scheme. He Is using only one
third of q bushel per acre in rows eighteen
inches apart. The experiment will te
watched with great interest, as the large
area will be a good test of the system.
The grand commandery, Knights Temp.
Plsrs, of the two Dakotas, will meet in
dividing the two states is expected to come
up for discussion, but IL 10 not pIohsbls
thss anything will te dons with the mat
ter, for the reason that II the commandery
bbould he divided according to state lines
North Dakota would not be very strong In
nun bers. Delegations from Iowa and Min
ncsota will attend the cc pclsve,