Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1891-12-26

The dealers are.unab!c to get enough to |
supply the demand.
Anna Hollins, years Old played on the |
railroad track at Devils Lake. a freight
train backed over her, but she escaped |
serious injury
The De Smet News and Leader of the
llth was composed OF sixteen pa ,es all
home print. 1t is one of the good South
Dakota wecklics.
The Broolings tow mill has paid out for
straw from October 10 to December the
snug sum of 81 900, and expended for labor
during the same time
\ team valued at $500 belonging to
man named Goodalc, was struck by
switch engine and killed at Valley City.
The wagon pole broke, saving the drivers
life.
a four-inch artesian well will be put
down ON the Hamilton Kerr farm, near
Huron, and arrangements are being made
to sink two other wells in the same neigh
borhood.
Tom Torgeson, of Castalia, left his home
about ten days ago, saying that he would
shoot himself. He has not been heard OF
since, and his friends are quite alarmed
about him.
Ira j. NJ. Jackson, who was sentenced
from Meade county four years ago for
manslaughter, has been recommended for
pardon to Governor Mcllette by the state
board of pardons.
DR. John &. Leslie, a prominent physi-
clan who mystcriously disappeared from
Brooklyn, n. -, some weeks ago was
found in Sioux Falls. where he has joined
the colony of divorce hunters.
Matthew Rumford IA Russian, was
frozen to death in the hills fifty miles west
Of Glendale. He was found resting
against a large stone about half n mile
from n house He had unhitched his team
and tied it I, the wagon, and apparently
tried TO find the house not far from which
he met his death Henry Miller, another
Russian, was found on the prairie with
both feet so badly froz as 20 make am
! putatiOn necessary.
As one Of the curious instances that
| sometimes arise in a mining country, a
we'll known mining operator tells of a man
who all summer had tried to sell him n
| claim in Garden City for $5O. AS the price
was so low he didn't think it worth while
to look at the ground, and finally the ven
! dor became discouraged at the impossi
bility of selling his ground, went TO work,
and in one week uncovered a bed of SO
rock The ground is worth easily 5000
South Dakota Congregationalists are all
| torn up over the fact that the national
board refuses to confirm the nomination
of Rev. Mr.. Dickinson, of Webster, who
was named by the state society AS sue
| eessor TO Rev. DR.. Waird, who recently re-
signed the missionary superintendency of
the Congregational church in the state to
accept "a similar position i'll California.
} Some of tho imnnrtnnt churches in the
Dickinson candidacy.
Senator Pettigrew has introduced bills
for an appropriation to aid the state to
support a school of mines; a public build
Ing at Deadvood; for the Indian school at
Pierre; TO prohibit the sale of firearms to
Indians; granting the state per cent of
the net proceeds from the sale of public
lands; to authorize the construction of a
Jr dge over the Missouri at Chamberlain
hnd Hankton providing for ri ight of way
grant through Crow Creek reservation to
the Midland Pacific railroad for the dona-
ton of a tract of land for the asylum in
Yankton.
Mrs Ada Snow, of Washington, ID. c.,
secured divorce at Sioux Falls in pre-
cisely l0S days, and has departed for
| home. The marriage was a case OF June
and December, although the specific allie
| CATION in the complaint was extreme
cruelty and desertion. The latter point,
| however, is n trifle at variance with what
really occurred. Mr. Snow accompanied
his wife TO Sioux Falls with the under
standing that she should get divorce.
and when he took his departure Mrs
Snow kissed him good-by at the train
Mrs. Snow is the envy of the other mem
i bers of the colony on account of the
rapidity with which she was ground out of
| the divorce mill.
| Redfeld Observer: c. H. Vinton tells
an amusing story of Russian life in Ed
munds county. One day Russian woman
| chanced to pass "a farm where man had
thrown out from Il pig pen several very
young superfluous pigs, having decided to
make way with them. 1t only required n
! few moments for the Russian woman to
become the possessor of the pigs for 80
cents About n week after the man
chanced to pass the home of the ssians
when he casually asked after the pigs
Invited to go into the house to see them,
ne did so The woman led to a huge era
die in the corner of the room, and lifting n
cotton cover there he bebeld u pig, fat
| rosy-cheeked baby contentedly nestled
down between the two pigs, who were
stretched out with the ease of being per.
| fectly at home.
Sioux Falls Press: 1t will be rcmcm.
bered that during the most recent ew
York blizzard a message was sent to the
mayor of Gotham from Woonsocket offer
ing $1,000 aid. 1t appears that the Joke had
u areactionary movement. The message was
sent out by John Il. Kean who signed the
name of Mayor Kinds, and was sent ''col-
lect" The mayor of New York reported
the case to President Green of tie tele-
graph company, and Mrs. Kean has had
| TO pay 20 cents charges Mr. Kean will
probably laugh over his jokes in the
future all alone by himself with nobody i'm
the neighborhood hat himself
Deadwood Pioneer, II John Tisdale. a
IaucHHidh iFiHR near Snuudnce, was as
sassinntcd near Buffalo Tuesday morning
Tisdale, who was noted cattle rustler,
was returning in his wagon from Buffalo,
where he had been purchasing holiday
goods for his children. when he was shot
through the heart His horses were also
shot dead. The coroner's jury had just
returned n verdic. in the case when the
body of another ranchman named Jones
was brought in shot through the back
john Smith, another ranchman, disap.
peared several days ago and il Is feared
that he met the same fate as his neigh.
bors. The victims were known as range
rustlers or cattle thieves.
A. Zicnert, of Tyndall, was indicted by
the grand jury at the past term of court
for perjury in returning his assessment
list this year. The indictment was quashed
apon motion of the defense upon the
ground of irregularity In the impanelinq
of the jury.
Illegal liquor sellers are being presecu.
ted A Grand Eo,la