Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1891-09-19
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plant in full bloom.
The new union depot ut Deadwood is
nearly completed,
st. Lawrence people have organized an
enforcement league.
Edward b. Littlelield has been appointed
postmaster at Millard.
The Armour Tribune, as an evidence OF
prosperity, has doubled in size.
Miss Tillie Derlxs. of Yankton, has been
elected matron of the insane asylum.
The Oelrichs Times, o. B. Chcsley, ed
itor, Is the latest newspaper venture.
The Oal;es artcsian we'll has been re-
| opened and flows a great stream.
A Yaul<ton correspondent says corn
huslsing will begin there in another week.
A big flow of water has been reached in
the Tyndall artcs!an spouter at IA depth of
| 700 feet
| Several horses in the Bad River county
| affected with glandcrs were condemned
| and shot.
s. Davoll and Mrs. Moshcr were thrown
from buggy at Madison and both sus-
tanned severe injuries.
5. II. Shankland has retired from the
! Custer City Chronicle and is succeeded by
IL. r. Hitchcock.
City Marshal Charles Wright, of Yank-
ton, has never been away from home over
night in twenty years.
Large bills have been distributed an
nouncing the Hand county fair mt Miller
September 80, October and 9.
William Toomey decided three quarter
sections of land to Sully county to settle
| his 81 400 shortage as treasurer.
| Since the Kcelcy drunk cure institute
has opened up in Sioux Falls the mayor
has decided to let the saloons run.
The Union county farmers have organ
| lied to hunt horse thieves, who have been
| too predatory for comfort recently.
August Hublow, of Big Stone City, In
jumping from grain stack, was impaled
on fork handle and probably fatally in
jured.
Postmistress Mary Dunlap, of Lake
Henry Kingsbury county, has resigned
and recommended the discontinuancc Of
the office.
Colonel w. c. Plummer, Of Casselton,
receiver of the Minot land office, says he
will have the land Office in running order
by October l.
Mary c. Bonham, wife of Willis II. Bon
ham, editor of the Deadwood Pioneer, asks
for "A divorce in the Huron courts. Deser'
tion Is charged.
The board of directors of the Bismarck
penitentiary met Saturday and organized
as board of parole and adopted rules
and regulations.
T.n "A x,.t1
to Washington to look after n case in the
United States supreme court in which
South Dakota is interested
The grand jury of Sully county has re.
turned indictments agains. four election
judges and clerks for violating the elec.
tion law of the last election.
S. b. Coulsou, Captain c. E. Brooks, NJ.
Ziebach, Ole Sampson and VIM. Gemmil
will represent Yankton at the Salt Lake
City irrigation congress.
Huron grain buyers claim arrangements
have been made whereby they can pay
from 3 to cents more per bushel for
wheat than neighboring cities.
A poverty picnic was held in Summit
township, Sully county, recently That
kind of picnic is surely not in keeping
with South Dakota this year.
j. a. Ross, a defaulting township treas
urer of Kingsbury county, has been
lodged in Jail in Huron in default of s., 900
bail to await the action of the grand jury.
Many Bon Homme county farmers were
happily disappointed when they thrashed.
They did not have room in their granaries
to store their grain, the yield was so large.
A fight is imminent at Fargo on the par
ish school question. The Catholics sup
port a school of their own and Il few prot
estants want them TO attend the public
school. The sisters who teach the Catho-
lie school are not supplied with teachers
certificates.
Sarah Theophilus, Is years old, who re-
sided with her parents three miles south
of Winfred died Monday from the effects
of dose of strychnine administered by
her own hand She had been sick for some
time, but Monday said she felt much better
and that she had taken dose of medicine
that would do her good. When the true
state of affairs was discovered ply yscian
was summoned from Winfred, but before
he arrived she was dead.
Among the successful farmers of North
Dakota is w. Il. Montgomery, of Richland
county. A colored man, born slave, ho
tried cotton farming in Mississippi after
the war, but not liking the conditions there
he came to North Dakota and settled ir
the Rcd River valley.
The extra session of the South Dakota
legislature will probably be called during
the coming winter, says the Yankton Press
and Dakotan. There is n growing public
sentiment in favor of legislative action in
behalf of the worlds fair exhibit.
Touched, Crow Creek Indian, was
bound over TO the grand jury ut Pierre for
attempting to murder Warden Horn, an
other rcdskin. They were digging
grave, and while Warden Horn was stoop-
ing over to shovel dirt, Touched struck
him with a pickax and left him for dead
Allan ii. Risdon, of Huron, Is suing in
the Minneapolis courts for the possession
of Ethel Vivian Risdon, his adopted 9-year-
old daughter. On July the mother of the
child asked to be allowed to take her for q
day, which permission was granted. The
mother then took the child with her to
Minneapolis and has kept her in seclusion
and refused to give her up to the adopted
parent
Jim Mathews, in his sleep, climbed over
the top of an open wind ow and fell to the
ground, about twelve or fifteen feet, at the
City hotel, Hot Springs, Friday night, and
broke his right arm and hurt his back
badly He said he dreamed of robbers,
and in his fright left the room fast asleep.
The coal mines on the middle fork of
Hay creek in the Bear Lodge range OF
mountains, now be ing opened by George
NJ. Nix g. Co., of Dubuque, Ia. are show
ing up better than ever. They have coal
formation of Is feet and working vein Il
solid coal that ranges in thickness from
to l2 feet. They have twenty-five coal
filings made covering $500 acres of land.
1t is rumored that the Illinois Central rail-
road company will take the mine when
further developed.
A party operating steam thrashing
machine in South Dakota is required to
give bond to indemnify anyone who may
bc damaged by fire originating from the