Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1890-08-23
slaughtered by white men, the red men be.

ing excluded from the slaughter pens and
receiving their rations in the form of clean
meat.
Rev. w. II. Maston has resigned as pas
tor of the Methodist church at DeSmet
and will labor at the Yankton Indian
agency. He will be succeeded by Rev. @.
L. Beswick, of Brooklyn, N. Y.
The Artesian Power company, of Yank-
ton, with Il capital stock of 500, GOO, is now
being Incorporated under the laws OF the
state. The object of the company is to de-
velop the artesian water power In Yank-
ton and vicinity.
George Hahn, Of Joubert, the other day
found his little son playing with u three.
foot rattlesnake. The youngster had been
pohing the reptile with "A stick for some
time, but fortunately IL had shown no dis
position to retaliate.
Spring lake, the former home of
myriads Of wild ducks, is almost dry,
leaving the young ducks without means of
support, and the farmers in the vicinity
are gathering them up by the hundreds
and will attempt to domesticate them.
The Minnesota Star says that, as q
starter, IA Butte county cattle COM
pany will make a shipment of 10, 900
head of beef cattle over the Fremont, Elk
horn and Missouri Valley railroad from
Minnesota just as soon as the the track is
laid and cars received.
A Mitchell man is experimenting in rails
ing sunilowers for fuel. He claims that
from an acre of ground about ten cords of
stalks can be produced. 1t is said that the
stalks, by reason of the resinous and woody
substances they contain, make "a hot fire
and burn for n considerable time.
The Hermosa Pilot says that through
some careless blunder IN dividing the state
into senatorial districts Fall River county,
which should be in the Forty.Grst district,
was overlooked and was left out in the
cold, Custer county com prising the whole
district. The matter will be brought be-
fore the legislature at the coming session.
Alarge barge of l25 tons burden is being
built at Bismarck and will bs used during
the harvest season in transporting grain.
After harvest The barge will be put in the
coal trade between Bismarck and lower
Missouri river points and will be towed
back and forth by the steamer Abner
O'Neal.
Two years ago Hon. &c. Sage, OF Farlk
county, purchased 543 sheep, for which he
paid 81 ,5?4. The next year he raised 800
lambs and sold 800 old sheep. The 800
sheep and the wool yielded 81, 5S7-more
than the original price paid for them-and
the original number still remained.
a party Of workmen in e~xcavating q
sand pit near the cement works at Yank-
ton found Il tusk or molar of n mastodon.
The tusk was six feet long and four inches
in diameter, and was of the color of ivory.
When exposed TO the air 1t crumbled to
pieces. In the same pit were found a
tooth four inches long and a human skull.
During q storm the other day a bolt of
lightning struck the car track at the Ger
tie tunnel near Hill City and followed the
rail for IA distance of 60J feet. A number
of men at work on the track were knocked
senseless, but non were seriously injured.
The bolt resembled a ball Of fire when it
struck the rail.
A. S. Drake, one of the trustees of the
Methodist church of Ipswich, and one of
the leading attorneys of the town, was
called on by a party of fifty citizens the
other day and given the choice of leaving
town peaceably or of being transformed
into a spring chicken and escorted to the
outskirts on IA rail. He chose the former
and is now supposed to be located in
Fargo. His numerous escapades with
young girls of the place was the cause of
his sudden and involuntary departure.
He leaves vacant the Office of county JUS
tice, which position he filled. He also
leaves a wife.
Little Florence Hale, the 9-year-old
daughter of a ranchman living near Rapid
City, while riding one pony and leading
another, was thrown from the saddle, sus-
tanning IA broken arm. The child was
some miles from home, but she caught the
ponies, remountei one, rode home, put
them both in the corral and then went to
the house to have her injuries dressed.
Her arm was frigbtfully mangled, one of
the bones protruding through the flesh,
but the little heroine never whimpered
while the doctor was setting the broken
bones and dressing the wounds.
One hundred and sixty acres of cement
land at Yankton were sold last week for
$4,000.