Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1891-09-12

against 1874 last year.
The Grafton record says smudges did
great value in saving grain.
1t is estimated that about !, 100000 acres
Of land in the Jim river valley can be put
under irrigation by artesian wells.
Jacob Lampert and w. A. Wheeler have
found two veins of coal, each about four
feet thick, not far from Hot Springs.
A little 9-year-old girl named Gunnelson,
was run over by a switch engine at Man
dan Friday and had both legs taken off.
Charles Burgett, Of Sioux Falls, was
fined s. and costs for breaking into
ncighbor's house and eating an apple pie
The teachers institute, which just closed
its session ut Sioux Falls, resolved that
the worlds fair must be kept closed on
Sunday.
j. NJ. Bailey, ir., of Sioux Falls, who was
dangerously sick ut Freeport, H., is re-
ported improving and it is thought he will
recover
j. Francis Harris poet who is i'll jail
at Deadwood, is also a mechanical genius
md has reputation rs an expert on com.
bination locks.
DR. George Dix, of Mitchell, recently re.
turned to his old home in Wisconsin and
paid for n horse he had purchased twenty
years ago.
traction engine got away from parties
taking il into the country from Grafton,
ran into a slough, and it took two days to
get it out
Sheep in MeHenry county supposed to
be afflicted with scab were simply troubled
with prairie needles getting into the wool
on their backs.
Lee Conlin, of Bottineau county, drank
some poisoned medicine his father had
prepared for application on a horse, but
prompt action saved his life
w. S. Bowen, popular Sioux Falls
business man, was married Tuesday in
Madison to Miss Mary Louise QuIgg, a
Sioux Falls teacher.
Mary Mears, John Mears and Alvina
McGiven, of Hurley, have been held TO the
district court for sending obscene litera-
ture through the mail.
The preliminary arrangements have been
completed so that Sioux Falls secures the
Kecley hospital Work will be commenced
on the building at once.
The Madison Leader intimates that Fri
days hailstorm in the eastern part of
Lake county damaged uncut fax and corn
to the extent of about $4,000.
Attorney Robinson, who left Dell Rapids
about ten months ago to locate in Tacoma,
Wash, has returned and will in the future
De satisfied with South Dakota.
Harry Sanders, bookl1eeper for Beggs q
- Ill .,l
day for embezzlement. He confessed, but
The amount of money he secured is not
known.
George Snover, charged with rape at
Faulkton, was found not guilty. The
same kind of a verdict was found in the
,ase of W. u. Munroe, ex-county treas
laer, on trial for embezzlement.
]. p. Nissen, of Alexandria, thrashed
100 acres of wheat which yielded thirty
,wenty-six and one-half acres which went
forty-one bushels per acre.
L. NJ. Purdy, respected citizen of
Yankton died at his home in that city
Tuesday morning, aged A years. He To-
cated in Yanllton in 1889, and during his
residence there was prominently associa-
ted with the business and social life of the
town.
A Watertown man who gave some of
his old clothes to benevolent society for
the destitute last winter, short time
since recognized a part of his gift on the
person of prosperous farmer who lives
near the city.
H. G. Hoyt, the Northern Pacific depot
agent at Dazey, was taken before United
States Commissioner Spaulding at Fargo
Wednesday on charge of violating the
lottery law, by mailing request for cir
eulars on postal card signed Express
Agent" He furnished $500 bonds to ap.
pear before the United States grand jury
and was released.
A Scandinavian says the smudge to pre-
cent frost may be new in the northwest,
out it is as old as the mountains of Nor
| way In the mountainous country frost
comes very early, and crops are only saved
| by the protective smudges.
Ten stations on the Chicago and North
western, in the vicinity Of Huron, which
| we're closed last fall because of lack of
business, have been reopened. They
are Esmond, Cavour, Holabird, Appleby,
Dempster, Broadland, Zeli, Seneca,
Manchester and Rockham. Several
other stations will be reopened in few
! days.
Hollis s. Quinn died at his home In
Sioux Falls Saturday of consumption,
aged 60 years. He was at one time the
largest farmer of Cherokee county, la.
| Hon. II. ]. Rice, chairman of the state
| board of railway commissioners, will rep
resent the state at an irrigation congress
to be held in Salt Lake City, September Is.
| Yankton county farmers are holding
their grain for better prices and are
actually borrowing money to pay thresh-
] ing expenses, says the Yankton Press
and Dakotan. Just now they are devot-
ing every moment to fall plowing and
| improvements about their homes, and
will leave going to market to the
weather when they can do nothing else.
G. H. Hendrick has been appointed
postmaster ut Myrtle, Bon Homme county,
and z. s. Hahn at Roanoke, Faulk county.
! John Inglis, the celebrated crop expert
employed for eight years by syndicate
comprising the heaviest spectators and
wealthiest commission houses on the Chi.
| sngo board of trade, was sent TO Grand
Forks immediately ON report of frost to
ascertain the amount Of damage done.
He says that the frost seems to have come
In streaks; that where strips fifteen feet
long have been touched 200 yards often
intervene before any other damaged grain
Is found. He says the reports In the
| Chicago papers are grossly exaggerated.
He estimates the loss at 2 to per cent.