Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1890-06-14

1880
of the Lake Madison Veteran association
has been chan ged TO July 3, 4 and 8.
The law prohibiting the sale of tobacco,
cigars, cigarettes and snuff to persons un,
der l6 years of age goes into effect June s.
Hon. n, NJ. Johnson was elected presi
dent of the North Dakota Sunday Schoo.
association at the Grand Forks convention
Minnesota people are jubulant over the
proposed extension of the Fremont, Elk
horn and Missouri Valley railroad to that
point,
Buffalo county Is without a bank and
the Chief says there is a good opening a,
Gam Valley for an ms ,itation of tina,
kind.
I. b. Dings, of Hot Springs, has invented
a bicycle attachment with which a greater
amount of speed with less work can he Sc.
cured.
Oscar Tifemany, a miner employed in
the Terra mine, near Lead City, was
crushed under two tons of rock and fatally
injured.
Ralf the windows in the town of Fair.
mount were broken by hail during o storm.
Crops in the vicinity suffered considerable
damage.
Woonsocket's artesian well gives matt
nee exhibitions Wednesday and Saturday
afternoons. The rest of the Time it is kept
muzzled.
General AIger has accepted an invitation
to be present at the encampment of the
Dakota Veterans association to he held a,
Oakwood.
The request of settlers TO nave For,
Abraham Lincoln retained as a military
station has Leen granted by the war de
partment.
At Sioux Falls Frank Eaton was &C
quilted by the grand jury of a charge OF
robbery after lying in Jail a whole year
awaiting trial.
While the family were at church the
house of Scott P~offenberger, near Roanoke,
was burned to the ground. There was nc
insurance on the property.
The grand jury of Meade county re
turned an indictment for murder agains
N. L~aFlannie, charged with killing an old
man named Carter last fall.
Rabbi Rosenberg, of Grand Forks, ha'
been arrested on the charge of using vii,
and profane language, the charge being
preferred by Il Mrs. Goldener.
Onida, the capital of Suliy county, has
attained the size emitting its postofice to
be made a money order Office and will soon
be placed on the money order list.
1t is said Pierre parties are negotiating
with Eankton meh for the purpose of or.
g~anizing a company to build a pontoon
bridge across the Missouri at the latter
place.
The farm residence of A. G. Nopens,
near Alexandria, was burned co the ground
the other day. Mrs Nopens was seriously
burned while trying to eItinguish the
flames.
Alzada, gave birth to two healthy, per
fectly formed colts, an interval of twenty
days elapsing between the first birth ana
the second.
A high railroad bridge is being con
structed across Sheep canyon, Custer
county. Its entire length is 700 feet, and
it is 1877 feet from the bottom of the canyon
to the top of the rail.
Clay county leads in the amount re-
ceived from the lease Of school lands, the
amount being $3.50 40. Lawrence county
stands at the other extreme, having con-
tributed but $50 to the fund.
The body of an infant a few month"; old
was found in a culvert two miles north of
Miibank. Il apparently had been dead
teveral weeks. There is no clue to its
Iarentage or where IL came from.
The Hotel Minnekahta ut Hot Springs
has passed from the management Of Fred
Gillespie to that of Don H.. Porter. Mr..
Gillespie will assume management of the
new hotel bearing his name, now nearing
completion.
William Fheleson, a 7-year-old boy living
near Spearfsh, tied a bride strap around
his wrist while leading a horse, when tho
animal becoming frightened ran away and
dragged him to death.
The Mennonite mill at Midtown, Hutch
inson county, which was destroyed by fire
last winter, is to be rebuilt Immediately.
New machinery has been contracted for
and it il expected the mill will be com
pIeted and ready for harvest.
A colony OF Russian Catholics, recently
settled near Hillsyiew, contemplate pur.
chasing thirty acres of the town site of
that pace, and If the negotiations are sue
cessful will build a church and a number
of dwellings in town, after the custom Of
their people in the fatherland of living to-
gether in the village and working their
lands outside on the plan.
The lead body of William ConIey, a man
who disappeared from Ipswich last winter,
was found on the prairie a few miles from
that place. The coroner's jury returned .
verdict hat Conley came to his death from
exposure shortly after his disappearance.
The young man was q stranger in the
LEGALITY and had been working but q short
time on q farm near Ipswich.
The editor of the Buffalo Gap News
says, in speaking OF Auditor Taylor
And should Auditor Taylor be q candi-
date for re election the press of South Da-
kota will stay with him until hades con-
gesis, and, II necessary, will keep him
company on skates"
A Valley Springs m m has invented q 10
tato planter, with which one man can plant
ten acres per day, using about eight bush.
els of seed to the acre. 1t plows a furrow,
drops in the potatoes at regular intervals,
covers them and rolls down the seed, at
the same time marking out the next row.
1t will also plant corn, beans or any other
kind of seed, either In rows or hills, at any
depth or distance apart.
The steamer Rosebud, now plying be-
tween Cham beriain and Bismarck, Is one
of the oldest boats on the Missouri. The
Rosebud played an important part In the
Sioux Indian war of $40, when IL was used
as a transport ship by Gsnerals Crook and
Terry.