Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1891-09-26

There is not an open saloon in Pierre
and gospel temperance meetings are being
held
Martin Peasc. Of Watertown, shot him
self in the hand while fooling with Il re-
volver
One stock shipper used l56,S0J pounds of
hay in bedding cattle cars at Belle
Fourche.
Twelve cars of machinery have been re-
ceived at Sioux Falls for exhibition ut the
state fair.
1t was "a degrees above zero in the
shade s.t Huron Monday. 1t was % at
Mitchell
The foundations for the Indian indus
trial school at Flandrau will be completed
this fall.
Antoine Jurich exhibited turnip in Lead
City the other day that weighed six
pounds.
The cattle men on the reservation pro-
pose to offer Melbourne SlOo a shower for
rain until n flood is created TO fill the
ponds.
The Independents of Minnehaha county
will hold mass convention ut Sioux Falls
September "a.
Mary Moore, a Hot Springs servant
girl was arrested for stealing $50 in money
from her employer.
y meeting of the State Republican
league will be held at Aberdeen during
the state convention.
The 3-ycar-old child of John Dennis, liv-
cnne river Saturday.
The Union National bank of Sioux Falls
has been authorized to begin business
with capital of 100000
a young son of A. a. Booth, of Sioux
Falls, was shot through the hand while
walking along the street by some boys
who were fooling with gun.
Henry Geneosc, a half breed, was ac-
cidentally shot and killed ut the Pine
Ridge agency last week during the beef
issue
Two cattle trains OH the Elkhorn col
lided at Fairburn Friday. One engine
was badly demolished and several freight
cars burned.
Harry Newton's safe ut Wolscy was
burglarizcd Friday night and about $500
in money taken The job was done by ex-
perienced craclismen.
St. Thomas is to have a new school
house. 1t is to bc erected at cost of
81, 7l5 and to be ready for occupancy De-
cember 10 II will be the finest school
building in Pembina county
The first agricultural and live stock dis
play ever made in Butte county will be on
the occasion of the Butte county fair ut
| Belle Fourche October 10, 16 and II.
! ID
cultural association has been incorpo-
rated Land will be purchased for track
and buildings erected in readiness for
next season.
a man named Brown was caught in the
act of offering a bribc to Il juryman named
Morris at Custer. Brown was fined s. and
Morris received Il rcprimand from Judge
Thomas.
a plan to release George Rich and John
Nolan from the county Jail at Hot Springs
was frustrated Friday night by the sheriff.
B,th are waiting trial on the charge of
| grand larceny.
Already this season 1,033 cars of cattle
| have been forwarded from Belle Fourche
to eastern markets This number will be
increased before the shipping season
closes to at least $500 cars, or total of
81, 500 head.
Ringer q Jandell have just arrived in
jamestown with S,l0O sheep, driven from
Idaho to Miles City and shipped there by
rail Most of the flock are market sheep.
Ole Knutson an aged Norwegian at the
Brown county poor farm, tried to hang
himself Monday with piece of binding
twinc. The superintendent's wife cut him
down and saved his life.
Richard Schotz, Smithwici farmer,
! had some trouble with ncighbor named
| Charles Algrin Schotz was kicked in the
bowels, sustaining serious internal in.
| juries.
Work on the Madison Presbyteriar
church is being carried forward by large
of men. The structure is of stone, and
when completed will be one of the hand.
soonest in the state.
A steam thresher on the farm of EriclS
Eggen, nInc miles north of Sioux Falls
burned Monday night. The fire in the EN-.
/ gine was put out and il is supposed the
blaze was started by trumps. Several
stacks of grain were burned.
For organization under the new banking
law, the Brown County Banking company
capital 20000 Farmers and Mechanics
Bank of Groton. capital $1,000, ahd Secu.
rity State Bank of Faulkton, capital So.
600, among others, have filed the necess AIRY
| papers at Pierre.
Senator Pettigrcw is of the opinion that
| SO long as the Indians are located in South
Dakota the State should have the benefit
that may be derived from money expended
for their education and support.
Insurance companies have declared the
jamestown fire department insufficient
| and unless improved the rate of insurance
will be raised.
South Dakota can boast of the pretticst
stage driver in America. Miss Jessie
Pratt, formerly pupil of Woonsocket
schools, is driving stage from Washington
Springs to White Lake, making two trips q
week.
The Leola Northwest and the Leola
Blade have been consolidated and appears
this week hyphenated. 1t will be repub-
lican.
Miss Ida Roschko, living near Lake By
ron, adjudged insane n few days since
was taken to the insane asylum at Yanlx.
ton.
A Lead City man accidentally stepped
on a lady's dress i'm church, damaging II
some. and a few days later was presented
with bill for n new dress.
A barn on the Ayers farm near Huron
was destroyed by fire Thursday, suppose d
to have been caused by spark from a 10.
eomotivc. Loss, $1,000.
Secretary Downey, of the trte fair, re-
ceived letter from the ''heaviest man on
EARTH" who lives I'm Iowa, in which the
947 pound monstrosity offered to exhibit
himself during fair week for $50. The
secretary was compelled to decline tho
offer, informing the heavy man tina,
the association would consent to an exhi
bition II they received the $50 instead.
DIR. s. A. Brown, of Sioux Falls. while
driving In the country the other night. ran
into barbed wire fence which had been
built across the road. The horses were
lsall,, c,,t Ha foal ha In n. ,o1,. , a 4 !.