Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1891-02-21
THE DAKOTAS.

| pIeSSnlsA IHG NllhaiO.
An GluminuA clay deposit has been
found near Chamberlain.
Nh, Parker schools have abolished re-
cess ty an unanimous vote.
The sgd Dakota Ekko has made IT first
appearance at Sioux Falls
The grand jury of Walsh county has in
dicted twonty. five o. p. vendors.
Winter got here at last, with both feet,
and cold feet, says the Huronite.
/ The "Artesiun state" +, suggested as II
/ descriptive by-name for South Dakota.
Thomas Kennedy, an old timer of Dead
wood, died at Hot Springs Wednesday.
! The Sioux Falls starch factory is said to
/ be tie wosternmost institution of its kind
| The rost Office at La Foon, / Faulk county
| will lie discontinued after ST. Valentines
! day.
| "l et'g take another ballot" is the sug-
/ gestion for spirituous refreshment at
| Pierre.
! The Salem Special reports that two or
! three farmers n that vicinity sowed wheat
last Friday.
! 4 man advcrtlses in the Rapid City Re
publican, one branch of whose business is
to ''disinter bodiss.n
/
milk inspector would be more useful
than an oil inspector.
! j. NJ Quinn, the wel.known North Da.
kota newspaper man, is editor-in. chief of
the Butte, Mont, Miner.
| Gary Riley, widows ll-yoar- old boy,
was run over by an omnibus and killed at
! Grand Forks on Saturday.
hishop Hare, OF Sioux Falls, was an
nounced to preach in st. Paurs church,
! Boston, on Sunday morning.
! Tie South Dakota school lands remain.
ing unsold in April will be leased to the
highest bidder for FIVE years.
VIII II. Clark succeeds II. T. Haas rs
editor of the Lcnnox independent, and
wilt make it democratic paper.
The cement clay which exists in such
large deposites in tho vicinity of Mitchell
contains 24-0i percentlm of aluminium.
Fifty five persons have receiy cd the COM
pltment-in some cases n left handed one
OF a ote in the legislature for senator.
Iha principal character in n Scundina.
Wan play now running at Brooklyn, NY,
is "Non Yonson, of Yimtown, Nord Da.
kota."
More money was received by the county
treasurer Of Iankton county in he month
of January, o., than during any month .
for four years pust.
Lhas. y. Turney, who used 10 run as o
postal clerk between Eelield and Tracy, !
has just died at st. Charles, La, whittier .
he moved about IL year ago
The kimbau Graphic says the news.
paper subscriber who hasn't paid his sub
scripioI for four years may not be
pioneer, but he is an old settler.
The Bismarck saloonkeepers who have
hermeticaIly sealed their places, are en-.
joying the punishment Of the class who
drink one way ana vote another.
The receipts of the oil inspector of
North ID akota are between 81, % and S..
IOJ per year; but there are expenses to
Jay, which reduce the velvet to about
). 1000.
An artesian we'll at Doland was putdo
SEQ iNst in twelve days with the letting
and rotary machinery. The well has
gool yo'ume Of water and l35 pounds
pressurs.
The Parker Kew Era eiasme tha. the
Pan ker stone is superior to the Sioux Falls
jasper quartzte. The Sioux Falls Pr ss
says it is not quite 50 good as the Sioux
Falls stone.
The Sioux Falls electric motor people
promss to expend 1000 in improve
ments, for the accommodation of the state
tar and for means OF tran sportation to
the grounds.
clever gang Of counterfeite rs has been ,
unsarshed at Rapid City. The Hills couu-
Try has been flooded with counterfeit |
money of late, the main constituent of |
which is Black Hills tin.
Bismarck Tribune: Some men shine !
brigdtes. in sbate. aui thus their laurels 4
cara, but the men who carry greatest
weight maze the motions TO ad ourn.
That is, with the employees.
MAJOR Williams, of Tynda.l, notifies the |
citizens of that town that If ;hey d n OF H.
force the prohibitory law the city author
!ties will operate "A Palmsr license law,
ana he gives them their option.
IL G. Sessions, grand receiver of the |
grand lodge of the Dakotas A. .. L. W., |
has commenced the publication at Alb. /
erdeen OF the Dakota Visitor monthly |
paper devoted to the interests of the
order.
Six printers empl Jyed in the Pier re !
Free Press job rooms, on state work, |
walked OUT Friday on account of a hor- !
izon,al reiu,tion in wages The cut was
from 20 cen 8 a thousand on ''phatr work /
to % cents al hour.
Fargo Republican: Ten thousand dol |
lars for boiler house for the state uni.
versity, $500 70; hen house for the in.
sane asylum-and II number OF the mem
Eers of the legislature living in sod shacks.
Queer world isn'tit!
GO onsl ). III. jumper, who, with Mr.. |
Bach, went east on an errand connected /
with the sheep industry returned homo /
Sunday morning." says the Aberdeen /
News of Monday. "The gentlemen se.
cured a conference with Roswell Miller.
OF tha Milwaukee, and Marvin Hughitt,
Of the Northwestern, and when Mr.. |
jumper left for the west Friday morning |
there wsre excellent indications that the |
railroad men would put In their money |
and Eel lp forward the movement
The Northern Pacific dining car con-
ductors adhere rigidly to the rule and sell |
no liquors while trayersing the state A |
gentleman cannot get wine for dinner,
but n passenger can step off at nearly |
every station and have bottle filled with |
cheap whisky.
.hinks he can make moro money raising |
potatoes than sugar beets. HIS farm near |
town is too valuable, he says, 10 grow
wheat, but he can make money raising po-
tatoes at q ceHts a bushel. He raised |
100 bu aels last year and got 81 a bushel |
Tor some OF them
Chief of Police Wheelock says IL is a |
rars sight 10 see drunken man on the |
streets of Sioux Falls, because tho liquor
sellers take care of intoxicated persons. |
THE law he says, requires the justice, !
in cases OF drunks arrested, to ind out of
them where tn y get their liquor. For a
while many drunks were arrested and |
much evidence OF tLis kind was given. But
ths keepers sooa found out that consider !
able trouble could be avoided II they kept |
their drunks out of the way. II is now
true that when man gets intoxicated In |
these places, he is either sent home in a |
hack or put away in back room until he |
Is able to appear decently on the streets" |