Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1890-06-21

'h'Na NoAh 90 u a
station has teen granted by the war de
p%artment.
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 Pofrenberger, 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 against
n. LaFlannie, charged with killing an old
man named Carter last fall.
Rabbi Rosenberg, of Grand Forks, has
been arrested on the charge of using vile
and p~rofane language, the charge being
preferred by a Mrs. Goldener.
Onida, the capital of Sully county, has
attained the size emitting its postofic, to
be made a money order office and will soon
be placed on the money order list.
The farm residence of A. G. Nopens,
near Alexandria, was burned to the ground
the other day. Mrs Nopsns was seriously
burned while trying to extinguish the
flames.
800 - loiAiNo u h'kosAdNlHE
with Yankton mel for the purpose of or
ganizing a company to build "a pontoon
bridge across the Missouri at the latter
place.
A mare belonging TO Z. b. Sheldon, Of
Alzada, gave birth to two healthy, per.
fectly formed colts, an interval of twenty
days elapsing between the first birth and
the second.
A high railroad bridge is being con
structed across Sheep canyon, Custer
county. Its entire length is 200 feet, and
it is 49, 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.
;ributed but $50 to the funl.
The body of an infant "a few months old
was found in a ~culyert two miles north Of
Milbank. 1t apparently had been dead
%ieyeral weeks. There is no clue TO itg
Iarentage or where it came from.
The Hotel Minnekahta at Hot Springs
has passed from the management of Fred
'fNoli~ ~ hlhA VI DOh IL IhIttIs ~ r.
Gillespie will assume management of the
new hotel bearing his name, now nearing
completion.
William Fheleson, n 7-year-old boy living
near Spearhsh, tied a bride strap around
his wrist while leading a horse, when the
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 rel uilt Immediately.
New machinery has been contracted for
and il il expected the mill will hs com.
pleted and ready for harvest.
The steamer Rosebud, now plying be-
tween Chamberlain and Bismarck, is one
of the oldest boats on the Missouri. Tie
played an important part in the
Sioux Indian war of sc, when it wa used
as a transport ship by Generals Crook and
\ movement is on foot TO organize a dis
trict fair association to be composed of the
of Miner, Kingsbury, Brookings.
Moody and Lake, with good prospects OF
ehecting al organization and holding fair
this fall. 1t is proposed to hold ia rs al.
ternately in the counties.
A girl baby weighing one pound and a
half was born in the family OF Horace
sls" fpeerftcuyg "fSfnfef "snu gsiuvIs.hn
signs of health. When a week old the
baby weighed just three pounds. The par
ents are large, robust people.
A colony of Russian Catholics, recently
ratflaH paar Hi1lsViau rnugpr ., nj ata N
chasing thirty acres of the town site of
that p ace, and if the negotiations are sue
will build a church and a number
Of dwellings in town, after the custom of
their people in the fatherland of living to-
in the village and working their
lands outside on the plan.
The lead body of William Conley, n man
who disappeared from Ipswich last winter,
was found on the prairie "A few miles from
that place. The coroner's jury returned a
that Conley came to his death from
exposure shortly after his disappearance.
The young man was a stranger in the
and had been working but a short
time on a farm near Ipswich.
The editor of the Buffalo Gap News
says, in speaking of Auditor Taylor
And should Auditor Taylor be a candi-
date for re election the press of South Da-
kota will stay with him until hades con
geals, and, if necessary, will keep him
on skates"
A Valley Springs m a has invented a POI
I alto planter, with which one man can plant
acres per dny, using about eight bush
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..
II will also plant corn, beans or any other
kind of seed, either in rows or hills, at any
depth or distance apart.
The Keller artesian we'll near Messing
ton Springs is developing into a wonder.
a short time ago the well gave promise of
being an oil spouter, and last week a
strong flow of water was struck at adepth
of 525 feet. From twelve quarts of water
four ounces OF pure white salt were taken.
In al proi ability the effort to secure n
aow for irrigating purposes will be aban-
doned and a salt factory established in
stead.
J. A. Frontner and George Covertson met
on the streets of Chamberlain the other
day, and although more than twenty-five
years had elapsed since their last meeting,
they recognized each other instantly. Cow
erston and Frontier were comrades in
Libby prison, and the last time they saw
zach other was W hen the latter was car
lied out CT the prison at the pointof death.
Coyertson was exchanged shortly after
Wind cave, situated about twelve miles
north of Hot Springs, is becoming quite an
attractive place for tourists. The cave is
enc of the large st in the country, and was
recently explored for a distance of twelve
miles. Improvements are being made for
the accommodation Of visitors, and il is
though { when the existence of the curios-
ity becomes more widely know 1t will DO
as popular u place of interest as the
famous Mammoth cave of Kentucky.
An enormous deposit of red hematite, or
specular iron ore, has been discovered In
jackson county, about leo miles east Of
Rapid City, by a party of prospectors from
that city. 1t 10 estimated that there Is
between eco, 0O0 and 3d. 90, 600 tons of ore
in sight. Specimens of hematite have been
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