Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1890-11-22
All Over the state.

The ladies Of the st. Michael church OF
Sioux Falls, cleared 81, CO. ut the fair held
last week.
Mrs. Hattie c. Phillips of Sioux Falls,
offers "a lot on Main street, valued at g., 900
to the Y. NJ. G. A., provided a suitable
building be erected. A canvass for funds
will soon begin.
Some of the Chamberlain men who went
to Wisconsin to do railroad grade work,
have returned, as II was so disagreeable
that they could not stand IL, having to work
in water up to their knees.
One Iierre storekeeper has furnished
2,7OO yards of ribbon 10 be made up into
capital badges. Everybody in South Da.
kota wears a badge sho wing which one of
the two capital aspirants he favors.
A 9-months-old baby was recently
brought to a Grand Forks doctor to be
treated for a fractured collar bone. The
doctor states that this is decidedly "a unique
place for IA fracture in a child SO young.
The receipts of the Delsarte entertain
ment at Spearfsh Saturday evening were
about SlS5
Revival services are being held every
night this week in the First NJ. Il. church
in Sioux Falls.
Tie first flow Of water in Mitchell's new
a~rtesian well was reached at a depth of
375 feet and is very strong.
Silas Burton, a Iankton county farmer.
has raised a Hubbard squash that weighs
~ffty-four and a half pounds.
The Congregational church at Grand
Forks has extended a call TO Rev. Mr..
Wilcox, of A~lexandr ria Mimi.
A Grand Forks man sent all the way to
Scotland for a hired girl, after having a
varied exp e~rience with the native queen
OF The kitchen.
Joe Hughes, of Grand Forks, had his
pocket picked Of sl50 in cash the other
evening. Bill Halverson is under arrest as
the guilty party.
Thomas Thomstad Is under arrest at
Grand Po,<s on a charge of bastardy pre-
ferred against him by Annie Olson, a
comely Norwegian girl.
A party of fifteen is being formed In
Sioux Falls for an excursion to California.
They expect to start next week and remain
there during the winter.
Graders are rapidly pushing their Jobs
INV VIM navy we u DekWetn ADSfuGcn
and Fnulkton ready for the irons In d
comparatively short time.
A gang Of boys has been found at Pierre
who make n practice OF stealing every thing
they can lay their hands on. They had "a
cave where tLey stored their plumber.
The Grafton and Cavalier branch of the
Great Northern was completed and the
last spike driven on the main track at B 80
o'clock Thursday evening of last week.
The first election among the Indians Oh
the reservation occurred at Crow Creek
last Saturday, to select a chief by ballot,
and White Ghost was so chosen by a large
majority.
During the months Of September and
October 3, AGO cars Of cattle passed through
Bismarck on the Northern Pacific rail-
road. The stock trains will be kept run
ming just ab long as the weather permits.
Monday, while Joseph Pierce was at
work In the Homestead open cut at Dead.
wood, he lost his balance and fell to the
bottom, breaking two of his ribs on the left
side and badly bruising his face and body.
A young son of II. j. Richardson, resid-
ing about fifteen milee northwest Of Mad
i,o,i, was out hunting Sunday and in care
lessly handling his gun, it was discharged,
tearing away the first finger of his right
hand.
1t is not known yet when the YanLt,n
cement works will operations.
A party of stockholders froth Milwaukee,
the experime ntal tests of portions of the
machinery.
S. j. Vests hired sirl, at Aberdeen, be-
asphyIiated Wednesday from escap-
Ing gas from a gasoline stove. Whom the
family arose in the morning she was found
lying In an unconscious condition upon
the floor. She will recover, but it was a
close coll.
Left Hand Thunder, a Lower Brulc
ehisf, who was recently married,
was united in matrimony with his own
wife with whom he had lived for three
years after tie most approved Indian
Ho took this course 80 that his
prov erty would revert to her in case of his
death,
John Short, Of Lead City, ihsistsd that
Hugh McFadden should treat him. Nc
Fadden says that he refused and that
thereuron Short made a motion to strike
him, and he retaliated by cutting him
across the left cheek, inRicting a painful
but not serious wound. The courts will
settle the dispute.
Deadwood Pioneer, 4: There is a great
deal Of talk In the vicinity Of the Welcome
hotel Of thu elopement of q young French
damsel with drummer. They left hero
Saturday In a hack for Rapid City. The
young lady has q great many admirers
who are nearly crazy over the sudden de-
parture Of their ''angel."
Arthur Mars, a miner living in q cabin
Just above the Half Way house, on the Cen
trail road, near Deadwood, says that his
cabin was recently broken into and the
thief stole his cook stove and all the cook
ing utensils that were around the cabin.
This not being enough, the thieves even
the windows out and carried them
Deadwood Times, % A party Of hunt
srs, consisting Of Mr.. and Mrs. Chouteau
md A. w. HASTE, returned Sunday even
ng from a short and successful hunt In
he vicinity Of the Belle Fourche. They
back with them forty birds, I'm
= large and handsome swan, .
! trophy Of Mrs. Chouteau's unerring aim.
L 10 now In the banda Of . taxidsrmist to
DO dressed and mounted.
Ground has been broken for the new
'melter to be erected ct ,Osadwood BY
Swift, Pennypacksr, Miller and
The plant will contain two revsr-
,eratory furnaces, each Of fifteen tons en-
and the entire fup capacity Of the
will be $50 tons per day. The
osf OF the plant will be eb 1900, and the
utire amount hes bssn subscribsd md
'asd into The srsasury q ths company,
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