Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1890-07-05
DAKOTA DOINGS.
Garretson now has a bank

The fall term of the University of Da-
kota will open September %.
AT the school election In Mandan 181
women voted In a total poll of BAG.
Reports from the reservation counties
say crops are in excellent condition.
A canning factory for preserving wild
plums is being talked CT at Sherman.
The "belt mines'' of the Black hills pay
ont monthly in wages about 100000
There is u wheat field in Grand Forks
county covering an area of $500 acres.
A starch company is looking over Ma
rion with a view to locating a factory.
The Deadwood city council has passed an
ordinance licensing dealers to sell original
packages.
An a~rtesian well for irrigeting purposes
will be sunk in Chamberlain township,
Brule county.
new Indian agency is to be located on
the Missouri river fourteen miles above
the town Of Lyman.
Tn Kimball Touring mill has contracted
to furnish $4,000 pounds Of -four for the
Lower Brule agency.
The Elkhorn tunnel, near Whitewood,
will be go feet long. There are now 200
men at work on it night and day.
South Dakota issues more publications
than the combined states of Nevada, Della
ware. Vermont and South Carolina.
The city council of Spearish is consider
ing the passage Of an ordinance taxing
original package houses $50 per month,
The Chicago and Northwestern company
is preparing to lay out u town site in Butte
county, three miles north Of Minnesota.
While umpiring a game of ball at Alex
and rie, 4. w, Swift was struck in the face
by a batted ball, breaking his jaw bone.
An observatory has been erected on
Gypsum mountain, near Hot Springs, and
q wagon road constructed to the summit.
In a runaway at Marion Miss Hattie
Entz Yves thrown from the buggy, striking
on her read and completely covering her
left ear.
The Lake county Sunday school conven'
ton will lie held at Lake Madison July Is,
in connection with the union Sunday
school picnic,
W. S Frost, Of Brookings, has been en-.
gagged to take the place in the agricultural
college recently made vacant by the death
of Professor j. c. Cotey.
Judge Leaper, of Pierre, census enumer-
ator of the Sioux Indians, has been
christened by the redmen Long Bow
without-any arrow
Robert G.. Allen, signal officer at Fort
Sully, has been promoted TO the position o.
metoorolog C n clerk in the Office of Cen
eral Greeley at Washin gton, D.. G..
A ranciman on the reservation started
out several years ago with a sol tary COW,
and now owns 900 head of cattle, $50
horses and thirty two buffalo and crosses.
Mad.sln is coming to the front as a con-
~vontion city The grant lodge X. of i.
and the grand lodge |. O. 6. +. have dc.
cided 10 hold their sessions in that city next
year.
Tie city council of Dell Rapids has
passed resolutions calling on citizens to
ala in the suppression of the sale of intox
icatin g liquors in any form, original or
otherwise.
There are at present ninety-one convicts
in the Sioux Falls pcnitentiary, hf y-.our
boys and girls in the reform school at
Pl|ankinton and Pa inmates in the insane
asylum at Yankton.
A Mitchell census cnumerator in his
rounds the other day found Il scandinavian
woman IS years d, who tends to her reg
ular household duties, miIks the cows and
IL as lively as a woman of 40.
The Pierre Capital says the clothes worn
by the Sioux Indians In attendance at the
tour nament in that city "will compare ia
vorably with the most fastidious attire OF
the ejt9 of any of our cities
Ned Mcdonald, a Washington Springs
small boy, was so fond of green curranls
that he poked his ears full of them. A
doctor removed the currants with.a pair OF
tweezers, but the boy may lose his hear
ing.
Bayley, the Northern Pacific train rob.
Der in Jail at Fargo, has been identified as
the horse thief who made a daring escape
from the officers who had captured him
while crossing the Sisse on reservation
some years ago. His escape II ade quite a
stir at the time.
Memo Rustler: This item may seem
like a fish story to those who read it, but
nevertheless we saw with our own eyes a
nice, plump peach, as large us Il hens egg,
growing on an apple tree not ten miles
from Memo. That shows that Dako,a
can raise fruit, don't il, ehf
A petition is being circulated fer the
transfer of n owlin c. lty from the Cham
berlain land district to t.!at ., Pierre.
Nowlin county will probably be organized
this fall and there i, promise of as sharp u
contest over the location of the county
seat as Was fought in Stanley county.
The business men Of Deadwood are or.
ganizing q club. II will be incorpoI a.ed
under the laws of the state and will have
q capitalization Ct lC,0J0, divided into l0)
shares OF 300 each, thus limit. ng the mem
bership to 100. Its objects are to forward
the business and social interests of Dead
wood.
RiEa Gottlieb, a Faux county girl, was
taken 10 the Plankinton reform school the
other day, but as she attempted suicide the
first N ght of her Incarceration the institu-
ticn refused to take her in charge. She
had made two previous attempts at sui
eide and was taken to the school in hopes
of q cure.
The Lyman Journal says the Indians are
not satisfied with the government bound.
airy line on the north side of the reserva-
ton, ana are enueayorlnS to get a new sur
vey that will give them more land. They
claim that the terms of the Dawes bill
were not carried out in this respect, and
that the coal lands will be manly lost to
them If the present line Is insisted on.
The Rapid, City Republican say A
Chinaman in this city has a garden ten
feet wide At one end, twenty at the other,
and forty feet long, that has produced
more garden truck this year and will pro
duce more han any white mans truck
patch of an acre of ground. White mer
could get pointers on agriculture from
these same heather Chinese, as 1t has beer
their study for centuries to know how t.
best utilize every square foot Of the land
they cultivate.
A company, with a capital stock Of 500,
90, is being organized at SiouA Falls foi
the purpose of establishing a linen factory.
In his charge to the grand jury at Web
ster, Day county, Judge Andrews gave in
structions for an examination into all cases
where liquors were being sold in original
packages and to report indictments. He
hold that the state law was sufficiently
broad to fully cover the ground and in: