Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1891-11-14


| land. 1t is said that is a practical way 10
destroy them,
One hundred and fifty kegs of powder IN
Thursday. tearntRnP ,et rat, RaplA- .si9y
/ the earth
VIM Grady's house near Mitchell was
destroyed by fire Thursday. 500 bushels
of grain stored in il were consumed. NO
| insurance
Violet ROLAND, pretty l5.year-old GIRL
has mysteriously disappeared from her
| home at Portage La Prairie. Her fatheris
a Methodist minister.
William Lee, sheriff of Lake county, Is
! after the scamp who stole team OF mares
! from John A. Dalen of Madison. He also
| stole wagon and harness.
/. T. Dunuing's drug store at Sioux
| Falls was damaged to the extent Of so,OOo
| bv fire Saturday night. William Clark
was seriously injured by being run over
/ bv hose cart
! 1t requires two columns of space III the
| Bismarck Tribune to give the list of pres
ents awarded Miss Grace Wilson on the
| occasion of her marriage TO w. {. Tubbs
! Thursday.
Hanson county has "A one-armed violinist
| who can play as good music as many who
| have two arms His name in Robert Buck
| nell. and he furnished good music for the
| dancers at his own wedding.
Eddie Woitha, the lj.year-old son of Au-,
| gus us oitha, near Madison, was in
stantly killed on Monday by the acci-
| dental discharge Of his shotgun.
| CLAYTON x Van Hosen, until recently
| publishers of the Miller Republican, have
removed to Springfield Mo, where they
! have purchased a two third interest in u
! daily newspaper
| D. T. Means, of Miner county, claims he
can sell his crop this fall for more than he
offered his place for year ago. There
are hundreds of farmers all over the state
in the very same boat.
The Miner county commissioners at
| their last session ordered Il vote taken at
! the coming election upon the question:
| Shall the legislature be convened in eX-
ira session to vote an appropriation OF
| i50C Geo for an exhibit at the worlds fair!'
A a Carey. n prominent citizen of Brad
} ley, Clark county, was killed Wednesday
morning at Morhead Mimi, by falling
| from the top Of freight ear. The wheels
| did not touch him, but his neck was broken
by the fall He was deacon of Baptist
J church.
| J. w. Long the horse tanner, who left
| his family at Dell Rapids in such destitute
circumstances that they were sent to the
| poor house, has joined them and removed
to Rock Valley, Ia. He was taking
course of treatment at the Keeley insti-
tute in Sioux Falls.
Eb. Clifford, an Iowa young man, made
money farming near Miller He had no
capital, but rented land on shares, team,
! implements and seed furnished. When
! the crop was sold lie cleaned up so
month above expenses for his summers
vacation in Hand county.
The clothes Of a fireman of n thrashing
machine engine, near Leola, caught fire
while the crew was at dinner He ran out
| on the prairie for n short distance and
threw off the burning garments. a heavy
wind soon started large prairie fire,
which destroyed several stacks of grain
! for farmers.
A signal service forecast station has
| been established at Oelrichs by the de-
pnrtment, being the second one in the
Black Hills country. The flags have ar
rived and a telegram from St. Paul will be
received daily, giving the weather fore.
| cast.
Ericli A. Vaugen, of Frederick, Brown
county was injured at Red Wing, Mimi,
while trying to mount n moving train, and
died before reaching the hospital He was
| - years old and leaves wife and five
children. He had been visiting friends at
| Red Wing and was starting for Rising
| Sun, Wis, to visit others.
The supreme court at Bismarck Satur-
day decided the noted liquor case of J hn
Haas, of Fargo, who was prosecuted for
| sellin liquor contrary to the prohibition
law. he only question on appeal was as
to the constitutionality Of the liquor pro-
hibition law, and the court sustains the
statute in every particular.
C. H. Van Tassell, deputy revenue col
| lector at Sioux Falls, has been removed,
and ]. +. Norton, ex-mayor of Sioux Falls
and n member of the last Legislature, app
pointed in his stead. Van Tassell has
been indicted by the grand jury of Hanson
county for distributing liquor to Indians,
which he says was secured by his enc
mics.
Mitchell claims to have the smallest
number of offenders of the liquor law of
any town in the state. They claim that
since the inauguration of the present pro-
hibitory law there has been no cause for
investigation or the institution. of proceed
ings against the druggists, nor against
any other party for violation of the law.
The Deadwood Times tells this story on
q Lead City hunter: After he had shot
an antelope and broken both legs he
I al. l..
twenty-five rounds of ammunition, then
walked four miles to camp to get a new
supply and on returning II where the AMI
nal laid he shot eleven times at it before
he succeeded in killing il.
S. II Elrod, special government disburs-
ing agent, says that he has paid out all
the money belonging to the Indians at the
Sisseton agency, except 10 per cent. which
is held back by direction of the treasury
department until the question of the legal
ity of the claim of Attorney Sanborn, of
st Paul, is decided. 1t will be remem-
bered that number of Indians entered
into contract with Mr.. Sanborn, giving
1 10 per cent Of their claims for his services
in aiding them to secure the money. The
10 al am. unit paid the Indians at the
agency Il $370, ,00J, less the per cent. above
paid to the Indians who are off the reser- |
walton.
Huron Huronite: Two years ago Ira |
Heath, living on a farm near Wolsey,
bought 225 head of sheep from Edward |
Crist. of this place, for which he paid 800 |
Mr.. Heath gave the flock only ordinary at |
tention aside from providing them with |
comfortable shelter and plenty of feed |
During the two years that Mr.. Heath has |
nSned the sheep he has sold over s7OO |
of wool and 1927 worth Of sheep and |
~ 40 sheep left, which he estimates |
h not less than 81 500. Add this |
b receipts from wool and sale of /
be has e., ,S27 30 show srr his in- |
700 two years ago. To be |
iced, labor, etc. should be |
r. Heath says, will not /