Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1890-12-20
Over 800 were cleared at the oyster sup
per and ohuroh fair recently given by the

Sioux Falls at last has its great 6,0oJ,-
600 gallon pump at the new water works
plant, in operation, and pure water Is
finally assured,
Some scamp recently entered 5. Z, Viii.
sons stable at Hot Springs and cut the
name off and shaved one side Of his valua-
bic baggy horse.
Governor Meliette has decided to refer
all matters relating to contributions for
the destitute to F.. II. Hagerty, ot Aber-
deem, commissioner of immigration.
Mr.. and Mrs. B byron Ripley have retired
from the superintendency of the Samar-
itan hospital at Aberdeen, and Mrs. Old,
Of Mcpherson county, is now in charge.
q. Scofeld, republican senator from
Custer county. says that no no ice Of con-
test has yet been served on him, and that
the time for serving such notice is now
past.
A state d~airymen's association will be
formed at DeSmet on the llth inst. The
State horticulture society holds its an
nusl session at the same place December
10 to II.
John Clodfelter is under arrest ut Mitch
ell for receiving a bride. In the Brokaw
contest case he swore he received money
on election day by which his vote was in
iiuenced.
Tn Congregational church has been
asked to sit as "a council at ~Iroquois De-
cemper Is, to advise as to the expediency
Of ordaining to the ministry c. NJ. Daley
and Mrs. ]. Drake.
The W%hitewood Sentinel has suspended
] t,uhliaD,tnn ,,hhnxI b, -
attributes the cause of suspension to insnf.
fcient support from the town and the pros
poets of "a hard winter.
Felix Posnanski has commenced suit
against the Black Hills and Fort Pierre
Railroad ompany for SIS, 600 d damages, for
injuries sustained during a collision of two
trains on defendants road on September9.
John A. Swift, Of Dead wood, died Tues.
day morning Of blood poisoning, resultant
from an attack of pneumonia. The de.
ceased had been a resident Of Deadwood
since 1876, and was well known by all old.
timers.
a. NJ. Seebold, of Hot Springs, was get.
ting out some wood when n troe that was
being dragged out turned quickly, one of
the limbs hitting his right arm just below
the elbow with such force Us to break both
bones.
Governor Miller has appointed Samuel
Dean, of Mayyille, as "a member of the
board of directors of the state normal
school, to ill the vacancy caused by the
resignation OF Judge Cochane, Of Grand
Forks.
Little Harry Smith, the adopted son OF
DIR. Smith, of Bridgewater is a candidate
for the reform school. He has been steal
ing small sums of money, and recently OBJ
tanned possession of the doctors pistol and
attempted to shoot him.
The Methodist church at Custer is under
going marked improvement. a new annex
is being constructed, and the ceiling, which
was not as high as desired, is being raised,
all OF which will greatly add to the APP
pearauce, comfort and convenience of the
building.
That old landmark, the store building
that SO many years has stood as a re.
minder OF the spot where Eden was origin.
ally plated, has been moved three-quarters
of a mile east onto Mr.. Gilman's place.
The building will be remodeled and used
as IA barn.
A collision occurred between a buggy
and dray wagon in Sioux Falls Wednesday
evening which came very nearly causing
serious Injury to the occupants OF the
buggy, q lady and three children. As 1t
was the lady was thrown out on the pave
ment and luckily escaped injury.
Montrose has organized an immigration
bureau of its own. 1t is the intention to
send a man into the eastern states to use
such inducements as may be offeI ed to set
tiers, and bring in a colony here this win
ter and early spring.
There was a game cock fight in Yankton
Friday night. A red bird was pitted
against a silver gray fowl, and the red
bird had the best of it ali the way through.
After fifteen minutes Of fighting, how
ever, the silver gray fowl, by . lucky
stroke, thrust one of the steel gaffs on his
feet clear through the red BIRDS head, and
the red bird could fight no more.
A team belonging TO Frank Lusk broke
from it's fastening in front Of the Caledonia
mine Thanksgiving day and ran away.
They dashed over a cliff and fell | 0 feet
to the bottom of the precipice. When a
searching party found the outfit one of the
horses necks was broken and the other
had run a spoke of a wheel through his
= body.
John p. Bedding, administrator of the
estate of Merritt ]. Bedding, deceased,
has commenced an action in the circuit
court against the Black Hills and Fort
Pierre Railroad company, to recover $50
OF damages for having caused the death
of Merritt j. Bedding, Of Lead City, by
negligence while running it's trains from
Lead City to Piedmont, on the 18th of last
September.
Mitchell Republican: Last winter ]. X.
Smith sold John Titus a farm Of 100 acres
in Badger township, with 100 acres
broken, for $3.50. He assumed a mortgage
of 500 against the land and gave his note
to Mr.. Smith for $3.50. He sowed the 100
acres TO wheat and raised a COOL crop.
Out of the proceeds he paid OF the mort
gage a few days ago at the Security bank,
and paid Mr.. Smith the $3.50. That was
crop.
A serious accident recently occurred IN
Sphinx county. Theo. Evans three little
girls went out to catch the horses and they
were running the horses to the house.
when the youngest one, Jessie, Z years old,
was thrown from her horse to the ground,
and being ahead, the other horses ran over
her and broke her skull. 1t happened
about eighty rods from the house. The
children thought she was dead and rode on
to tell their parents. She had recovered
consciousness when Mr.. Evans reached
her. A doctor was called and found that
some of the brain had oozed out, but he
hopes to save her life.
Representative Dorsey has laid before
the commissions of Indian affairs q petit
ton from the Omaha Indians requesting
that the payment of interest upon money