Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1890-12-06

Lieutenant Carnahan and IA squad of
soldiers recently escorted n psymaster and
Sl6, co in cash from Pierre to Fort Sully.
Presiding Elder {. b. Clark was injured
by being kicked by a horse, and on that
account was Unable to hold quarterly serv.
ices at Castalia.
Brooks Bros safe at data was broken
OF en- Saturday night and about So stolen
therefrom. Ed Campbell is under arrest
as being the guilty party.
c. q. Tain adge, of Touner county, is
under arrest at Grand Forks on the
charge of seduction, preferred by Anna
Thompson, of that place.
Iankton has a couple Of mysterious
shooting cases, in which two men are re.
ported to have been wounded, but the
particulars cannot be learned.
Sioux Falls is agitated because Father
Hare recently suggested that the p~eniten.
tiary at that place might be sold for Il col
lege and the penitentiary relocated at
Mitchell.
Mr.. VIM. Jewell, Of Groveland, was &C
cidentally shot in the neck last Saturday
by the discharge of a target gun, the ball
entering the side and lodging close to the
vertebra.
Seth Clifford, sheriff of Fall River county,
has offered "a reward of 500 for the arrest
and detention of Silas and Reuben Short
ridge, two brothers who left their home
several weeks ago, and whose whereabouts
is "A mystery.
1t is all gsd that at Mt one of the election
precincts in the Black Hills the clerks
were both under age, aud that the judges
were some of the time engaged in a game
of cards at one side, the voters depositing
their own ballots in the box.
W. S. Hooper, of White Lake, was
climbing into a wagon one day last week
when his foot slipped and he fell to the
ground, striking upon his head and shout
ders. The team started and the wagon
loaded with coal and lumber passed over
his legs.
Editor Oxley has been running q paper
at Earring, Presho county, and after u
trial of six months closed up his printing
Office and stored it in a building in Cham
berlain. Prosho county is west of Cham
berlain and Is part of the original Sioux
reservatson.
The Northern Pacific Railroad company
will put down six artesian wells along
their Dakota division, the first one to be
drilled at Buffalo. The sinking of these
wells will be beneficial, as it will show
farmers where flowing wells can be found,
besides furnishing the road with u more
abundant supply of water, which Is much
needed owing to the increased traffic.
Frank Lappa, who was sentenced to
three years in the Sioux Falls peniten-
tiary for stealing horses from Billy
Meyers, in what is now known as Meade
county, returned to Deadwood Saturday.
He claims lie has gotten the worst of it on
all sides during his confinement, and
threatens to sue Wilbur Smith for $40, COZ
damages because he had his feet frozen
while being taken to the penitentiary.
A gang of men is travelling about the
country offering to paint the roof of a
building for IS. When the work is done
the farmer receives a bill of s. for paint
ing the roof, just as agreed, but in addi.
tion thereto Is the following: Forty gal
Ions of paint, $3.50 per gallon, $50.
There are eighteen students in regular
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City and several more are making arrange
ments to attend. The students are fitting
themselves for practical work in chem
istry, geology, assaying, civil and mining
engineering, etc, and are all earnest and
hard workers.
j. asmusson was the victim of a thresh-
ing machine accident at Carthage last
week. The machine had beer stopped and
the young man was at work fixing the hy-
wheels to the engine when in some way
the machine was put in motion. throwing
him into the air, and in falling he struck
in such a manner as to break his arm.
The controversy for a site for the Y. NJ.
c. A. building at Sioux Falls is now on.
Six sites are offered, and after discussion
1t was finally decided to refer the whole
matter to Mrs. Hattie C.. Phillips, who
contributed $1,000 towards the building.
Mrs. Phillips promptly refused to name
the site, and an adjournment was then
taken.
A farmer named Duclow put up at the
Parker house in Sioux Falls Tuesday
night. He failed to properly turn off the
gas and was found in an unconscious con-
dition the next morning, but recovered in
an hour two. This IL his second expert
ence In the same house.
James c. Robb died in Chicago on the
18th inst. Jimmy Robb Is a very fami-
liar name of old Dakotians. He has been
connected with mercantile business at
Fort Sully, Cheyenne and other points for
twenty years or more, and Is still the
owner OF trading posts in that neighbor-
hood. He traversed the river road from
Sioux City via Yankton to the upper coun.
try scores OF times in the old stage and
blackboard days of travelling, and his gen.
ial nature and indness Of heart made him
an ever welcome visitor In every town or
farm cottage along the road.
Pierre, 8. d., bankers and capitalists
have organized a stock company, with a
capital of $5o,C00, for tie purpose Of buy,
ing and selling sheep-mors particularly
to place focks Of sheep with responsible
farmers on shares. While this section of
South Dakota has ~taine a reputation as
a stock country SO far as horses and cattle
are concerned. yet little has been heard of
sheep; but those farmers who have kept
small Aocks state tast sheep raising Is par
ticularly well adapted TO this section Of
tho state, which leads to this venture ON
the part Of these c~apisalists. In connec-
ton with their business the company In
tend 70 operate q big sheep ranch near
Pierre.