Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1891-10-17
THE DAkOTAS.

daily edition during the grain palace.
Two hundred Mitchell people attended
the Plankinton grain palace Friday.
Fort Pierre secured the premium for the
largest potatoes at the state fair.
Nicholas Zirbes has resigned as post.
master at Lone Tree, Ward county.
The Hcrmosa Pilot advocates the forma-
tion of Black Hills press association
A train load of sheep have been received
at Roscoe for the farmers in that vicinity.
a Mrs. Summerill was killed by being
thrown from road cart near Custer City.
DIR. c. a. Burdiclf, of Lidgerwood, has
been stricken with paralysis and life is
despaired of.
w. {. Ilumley is now managing the af.
fairs of the Fargo Argus, the receiver hav-
ing Withdrawn.
Don c. Needham has charge of the press
department of the republican state cen
tral committee.
The Stockmen west of the river will meet
at Fort Pierre, October 20, TO organize
stock organization.
Deadwood has been visited by heavy
frost, and the Bald mountains have had
fall of seven inches of snow.
Gilbert f. Smith, New York man, has
been made happy by a divorce from his
Wife secured at Sioux Falls.
{. Bablishky, a young man, was run
over by threshing machine engine near
Aberdeen. His right leg was crushed and
amputation was necessary.
The superintendent of the Pierre Indian
school is having trouble with the big boys
who run away whenever occasion offers
! They will be confined in the guard house
The Scandnavians, of Brookings, have
organized a hospital association and pro-
! pose to erect suitable building for hos
! pital purposes.
Ole Olson was held up by four men at
Fargo and robbed of 800 and silver
watch. One of the highwavmen hit him
with revolver and knocked his eye out.
AT gathering of county school superin.
! tcndants at Columbia it was resolved to
memorable the next Legislature in favor
of subsidizing the high schools and of free
text books.
! The presbytery of South Dakota, which
has been in session at Woonsocket for
several days, has adjourned after trans
acting much important business Resolu-
tions were passed sustaining the prohibi-
tory law, declaring the sentiment of the
church as opposed to resubmission and
pledging it to an enthusiastic temperance
revival
A Grand Forks dispatch says J. S. Sim
clair, the Earl of Caithness, will not be
entitled to a seat in the house of lords un-
less elected by the Scotch assembly.
Sinclair did not come into the title sud
denly, as claimed, but was visiting in
England a the time of his fathers death.
Senator Casey estimates that he will
have 10000 bushels of wheat this year.
This will be enough to fill ll6 cars and will
make four train loads of twenty-nine cars
to the train, all raised on 5000 acres, and
at the present price of rs cents bushel
would make the nice little sum of $4,000.
J. A. Rose of Niagara. paid 81 92O for a
quarter section of Land last spring. This
was new land, broken and back-set. He
raised and marketed 5,440 bushels Of
wheat-thirty-fou bushels per acre
which he sold for IS cents, yielding him
q OPS, or 81 ,S05 over the total cost of land
and crop.
J A South Dakota fa rrr,sr who has had
perience with prairie fires says the proper
way TO squelch the flames is to fill sack
with straw and tie n rope around the end,
wet il thoroughly, hold to the rope and run
a pitchfork in the end of the sack and
push it before you over the fire. This
beats the old fashioned wet sack whipping
process all 10 pieces and doesn't kill the
man who operates the machine either.
Any ordinary fire can be put out in this
way as rapidly as a man can get over the
ground.
The Cass county fair races were de-
clared off and the fair closed two days
earlier on account of rain. Premiums were
paid in full and the association will be
5000 out of pocket.
All the railroad companies are calling
attention to the critical situation in the
North Dakota wheat fields, where the
grain Is still to great extent in the shock
and little thrashing done. General Traffic
Manager Hannaford, of the Northern
Pacific, says: In the six Red river coun.
ties of North Dakota alone there are 40,-
100000 bushels of wheat. The farmers
are utterly unable to get it thrashed.
There are two months work there and
!
Illinois, Indiana, and even Ohio, to help
out the farmer"
The following story, the scene of which
Is laid in early Dakota days, Is told on
Jud La Moure, the North Dakota states
man: La Moure was smitten with n young
| lady who was teaching the school in Yank-
ton. An Indian outbreak occurred and
the settlers were fleeing in CONSERVATION.
Jud mounted pony, and, in spite of the
declaration of the settlers that he would
certainly be scalped, rode to Yankton
nearly a hundred miles distant, to prove
his devotion and If necessary to fight for
the protection of his inamorata He
arrived in Yankton about fifteen minutes
too late to attend the wedding of the
young lady for whom he was anxious to
spill his blood ANY Sioux buck that
had a brought me the scalps of that couple
could had $40 apiece for 'em," was Juds
comment in speaking of the matter years
afterward.
The october term of the United States
district court convenes today at Sioux
Falls. There are sixty or seventy GRIM
inal cases. One of the most important
cases on the calendar is that of William
A. DeKay VS.. the Chicago, Milwaukee and
ST. Paul Railway company. 1t is an old
case which was first tried in Freedom
county, Minnesota, and judgment oh
:ained. DeKay asks for $4,000 in dam
ages and claims that In 1885 he was run
into by train at Parkston, November IL,
| permanently injuring his left hand and
his body, while his right foot was ampu-
tated
The sale of South Dakota school lands
so far this year amounts to sl8l, 900, and
the leases s24,Sl7. In a few years South
Dakota will have the finest school fund of
any state in the union.
Yankton people are not pleased with
the recent change in time on the North
western railroad. Although IL gives them
better Chicago connections, it cuts off
local business with surrounding towns
The managers OF the Brown county fair
wanted Melbourne, the rainmaker. to pro-
duce rain the last day Of the fair II
ra in cd so that the ast dav nf the e.. ,.o 4,