Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1890-05-03

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bushels of potatoes for seed the past week.
In Mcpherson county a larger acreage
Of wheat will be sown this year than ever
before.
The building improvements in sight al
NJ adison foot up in the neighborhood Of
10000.
Madison wants the Dakota Press ssso
citation to hold its meeting in that city this
summer.
There is an election contesr case in
Rapid City in which one of the contestants
isa woman.
A number of Russian families arrived at
Eureka last wee direct from Odessa, Oh
the Black sea.
William Johnson was found guilty OF
s~'ealing twenty horses by a Deadwood jury
the other day,
d. F. Patterson is in Jail at Aberdeen
charged with voting too frequently at the
recent election.
Irrigation experiments will be made with
the waste water Of the Hitchcock ~artesiap
well this summer.
Improvements to the amount Of SIS, 00C
will be made in the Sioux Falls water
works this spring. +,
Bismarck case ballists want TO tackle
the Aberdeen club and arrangements are
teIng mad, for a series of games. y
Two valuable horses belonging to jake
Dana, near Harrison. were killed the
other day by falling into a deep well.
Rev. Anna Shaw, national lecturer of tn,
Woman's Suffrage association, is making 9
tour of the state in the interest of equa
suffrage.
"A buffalo COW escaped from a ranci
renr Bismarck the other day and wal
.ha sed by COW boys until it dropped dead
from exhaustion. The animal was valued
at $500.
Rev. John A. Cruzan, at present paste,
II the Third Congregational church of San
Francisco, has decided to accept the pas
,orate of the Congregational church al
Sioux Falls.
A pcstofice has been established at Cen.
ter Point, Turner county, and Mrs. Mein.
nolt~ appointed postmistress. An Office has
also been established at Clarkson, in the
same county.
Forrest City claims to hold the pole in the
race for permanent capital, and the Press
says that when the home stretch is reached
IN November "she will be a winner 10y a
.arge majority"
Johnny Petrie, a Tyndall small boy,
saved the lives of a number Of rats by find
ing the poison that had been prepared for
them first. The doctor pumped him out
and he will recover.
The new town of Shackton is at the
head of Medicine creek, thirty miles
northwest of Chambe rlain. The soil in
the vicinity is excellent and there is a
plentiful supply Of wood and water.
Settlers are taking up lands in the Crow
Gre elk reservation, in Buffalo county.
These lands are considered among the
most fertile in South Dakota. The Mid
land Pacific is expected to run through
the resIr alton, and it is likely a d W town
will be established,
Ole Zeiner, who shot and killed his
brother Albert at Richardtop, Wednesday,
has been released, the coroner's jury re
turning a verdict Of justifable fratricide.
Albert made improper proposals to Ole's
wife, and in the quarrel which ensued the
iormer was shot dead.
A peculiar shaped mound vas discss cred
lear Mitchell the other day, and in digging
nto it the skeleton of an Indian was un
.arthed, with the trinkets and weapons
usually found in Indian graves. The
mound was covered by heavy sod and
everything indicated hat many years had
elapsed since it was made.
The investigation into the Faux county
murder Is not yet completed by the cor
oner's jury. So far only the fact that Eek
n was murdered has been proven. Cir
sumstantial evidence duplicates the fam
ly and perhaps some ~neighbors. The
of GERS have traced the crime down 10 /,
.ircle of nine persons, Including five of thu
,amily and four others. The perpetrator'
Of the crime have not been definitely ascer
aimed, but suspicion points strongly I.
Mrs. Eckhart and her sons.
Under a decision OF the South Dakota at
torney general, druggists cannot sell liquo,
'or any purpose whatever before June |
The Trohibitory law goes into effect Ma, |
|, hut the law requires tbirty days no
:ica 10 be given by the druggist Of his in.
tention TO make application for a permit
10 sell liqr or. As this law is not yet in eff
feet, notices cannot be fled before May /. !
The statute is very severe on vie lations of
this law, and it is in nearly al instances
made a penitentiary ofense for peace of- |
icers who fail or refuse to prosecute.
enforcement lea CUES have been organized
n every county In the state and it will 10
,ery difficult and hazardou business to-
engage in Illicit liquor traffic in South Da-
kota. i
A young child Of Nicholas Neil, a farmer
living near Hosmer, Edmands county, was
burned to death Monday. TIE house and
.ntire contents were entirely consumed.
in attempting to rescue the child the father
vas severely burned. /
Wo.nsocket is determined to enforce tho
prohibitory law and assist her druggists in
carrying oil n legitimate business. At q
n Getting of the temperance people the
druggists expressed themselves as anxious
to work in harmony with the law, stating
that they would not take out a permit un
less their petition was signed by the tenn.
perance people.
In the United States court at Sioux Falls
Nicholas Janjewcod, OF Charles Mi,
county, was sentenced to thirty days in the
renitentisry ord to Fay a fine Of 800 for
selling beer to Indians.
Wallis Walia, Wash, sent a car contain.
ng 100 sacks of wheat, of a variety popu.
lar in Washington leo sacks Of Aour and
. large quantity Of dry goods to Governor
Mellette his week. Tho Aour and dry
goods were sent to the Dorcas society at
Huron, and the " ieat will be apportioned
,ut to prominent farmers of the state and
will be expeTimented ON this season to
earn II 1t is a good thing to raise in South
Dakota. IL
Last week q rich body of silver ore was
discovered on Jim creek, near Rapid City,
IN the property of Deacon Jones. The
leacon had been away on a visit for some
line and when he returned he found about
q dozen prospectors had jumped his ranch
and we're sinking shafts in all directions.
This mad the deacon angry and his wrath
was added to by the fact that he had for
Sears been raising potatoes and other
on . piece of ground that con-
Ia ned some IF the richest silver ore In the
Hills. His wrath was nppeased,
Iowevsr, by the Jumpers" Offering 10 give
Lin cp equal share in their locations,
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