Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1891-07-11
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Canton.
Puplie Opinion says Watertown has s
man who so abhors lying that he won'i
even lie down.
George Il, Srover has been indicted foi
rape and Mrs Mary T.. Cameron for forg.
cry at FaulSton.
Elk Point anu Hot Springs will bccom,
presidential postoiliccs July l. with salar
les at 81 ,0G0 and 81 400
The ladies OF Park River polled TS out
of IA total of $50 votes In the school elcc
ton at that place Tuesday
Eugene Van Slylxe and Miss Patton, oi
Sioux Falls. have secured engagements
with the Andrews opera company.
The Huron Huronite thinks Lebanon
will be quite news scenter when she gets
her limburger cheese factory started
Judge c. 5. Palmer of Sioux Falls, was
ON the train which was wrecked at Coor
Rapids, Ia, but escaped without injury.
The annual meeting of the Sioux Valley
Teachers association takes place this yea,
at Elk Point June 30, July and 3
The editor of the Kimball Graphic is ir
Ohio on an extended visit, and his pape'
is being creditably edited by young lady
The next payment of pensions for bott
the Dakotas will be made from milwaukee,
July 4, and every three months thereafter
The soldiers reunion which closed a.
Dell Rapids Saturday evening, was .
grand success, About 800 veterans wer'
in attendance.
\ star route mail service has been es
tablshed from Chamberlain via Cheyenne
river TO Rapid City and from Pierre &c
Smithvile, on the reservation.
Miss Nelson won the lady bicycle race
at The Fargo tournament, the score oi
miles for the four days standing: Nelson
1ll.2; Armaindo, Il0.G, and Harvey, 1902
William A. Newberry, who was con.
victed of robbng the mails on the North,
ern Pacific road, has been landed in the
Sioux Falls penitentiary to remain eight
years
The Sisscton Indian pay roll has been
returned to Washington for correction,
The probabilities are that Agent Elrod
will not dIsburse any of that S503, 900 be.
! fore the 25th
Peter Jimmy, n ranchman, living six
miles north of Rapid City, has found "a
four-foot vein of coal on his ranch at a
depth of eighteen feet. 1t burns freely
and he says it is of very good quality.
The Watertown Public Opinion says 1t
is hard TO tell whether the trustees run
the state institutions or the board of re.
gents, and thinks one end of tho double
headed management should be cut off by
the next Legislature.
The furnace in the assay Office of the
Deadwood chlorination works exploded
Thursday morning, burning the Office and
the books of the company. Nothing was
saved but the scales. Fortunately the
Office WIS situated 100 yards from the
works OF a greater calamity would have
been recorded.
The commissioners of Sully county will
have 10 reconvene as a canvassing board
and count certain ballots, which will up
set the present republican sheriff and give
the Office to a democrat.
Charles Frost, the ex-South Dakota
newspaper man who was shot In Wash.
ington, ID c., by a husband who found him
in forbidden pastures, has recovered suffi-
GENTLY to be able to be on the streets.
Fargo won first prize in the hose race at
the firemen's tournament, Bismarck sec
ond and Wehpeton third. The best time
was 2912 seconds. Fargo also won the
hook and ladder contest.
Hon. Herbert Root former publisher OF
the Valley City Record, has 12O suits
against delinquent subscribers docketed
for the present term of court in Barnes
county.
Trainload after trainload of young Texa
cattle are being put upon the ranges in the
the vicinity of Rapid City to Craze. The
cattle are received at Douglas, Wyo., and
unloaded at Belle Fourche, the Elkhorn
terminus. 1t is said that 200 head will
be brought into the state.
4 Demorest prize medal temperance con-
test was held in n large canvas tent at
Hughsons grove, near Broolsings, Satur-
day. The medal was won by Marquis
Allen, while Fred Hughson secured Sec
ond and Miss Della French third prizes.
1t was the first important temperance
meeting held in that vicinity for years.
An Aurora county farmer has knife
which he claims is 140 years old During
the days Of George Washington the knife
was in possession of the famous patriot
and was frequently used to cut his meat
and bread while out on military expedi-
tions.
A correspondent writing from Wessing-
ton Springs says the heavy rains of the
past week have soaked Jerauld county
thoroughly. He further says that all small
grain grass and potatoes are n sure crop,
and independents are growing scarcer
every hour. The same thing can be said
of every county in the state.
The Missouri Valley Veterans associa.
tion will have grand reunion at Tyndall
June 2325 Among the DISTINGUISHED gen.
tlemen who are to make addresses are
Governor Mellette, Senator Kyle. Con.
gressman J. A. Pickler, Congressman j.
II. Gamble, Commander c. S. Palmer,
Chaplain Lozier, Attorney-General Major
Robert Doller and Colonel f, w. Foster.
The Hermit Mining company Thursday
bought the Harrison lode ut Garden City
for $40, 900 and Friday the Mueller com
pany purchased the Eva and Edna lodes
In the same district for $4,000. The pur-
chasing companies control the keystone
chlorination works which started up Fri
day in Deadwood, and in which ore from
the mines will be treated.
Lewis Baker, farmer living ten miles
northwest Of Sioux Falls, tells that he has
cleared $1,000 in the last year with the help
of one hired man. When asked how il was
that so many farmers complained of hard
times and poor crops, he said: "Well,
that's easily answered. attend strictly
to my work, and while my ncighbors were
away org anizing alliance clubs was cut
ting weeds and looking after nv stock.
That's the difference between some farm
ersn
A Montana man named Christian Schil.
gel arrived in Watertown last week to
visit his aged mother whom he had not
seen since 1864, when he left home and
went into the war. He found his mother
at home alone, but she could not recognize
him and believed him an imposter, as she
thought her son was killed In o battle.
Finally he found his sister She recogl
nized him and the mother was convinced
of his identity.
The state supreme court holds that the