Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1891-05-23

vorces.
G. J.. Osman. of Estelline, moved to Or
| egon, stayed month and returned to
South Dakota, having had enough Of Ore
! gon.
Brookings has a homo minstrel troupe
and Carthage quintette club that are
visiting neighboring towns giving exhibit
tlons.
Some time ago the popular cry In South
Dakota was 'irrgrate or emgrate, aud
| the people decided to take the former
course.
| A couple of nrtesiau we'll drilling outfits
| purchased by the Brule county commits.
sioners prove to be worthless for their
| purpose.
David Patton, of Henry, left his bed the
other night while asleep and fell down
stairs, breaking rib and otherwise bruis-
ing himself.
Master Harry Hutchinson, of Huron, a
6-year-old boy, has a collection of nearly
twenty-five Thousand cancelled postage
stamps
Frank Lewis was arrested at Big Sam
mine, nenr Dead wood, for cruelty to an.
| imals. lie Is said to have beat mule
with stick filed full Of nails aud lace r.
ating the animal in a most cruel manner.
| The Parkston Advance says: "There
Is a large lake in Hutchinson county well
| filed with corn-fed fish (bullheads).
They got away with seven acres of corn
which was left in the field shocked but not
huskedn
Carl Smith, of Buffolo Gap is good
shot, but he can't tell the difference be-
| tween a polecat and common house cat
on dark night He mourns the loss of u
pet Table, which he killed, thinking it a
cat of the smelling variety.
| Frank Graves farmer living near
Fsulkton, after eating a hasty breakfast,
went out to the grainery and taking a
| double barrel shotgun with him, sat down
! on an old cot and blew out his brains. He
had been sick some time with la grippe.
The man named Billings who struck a
boy at Lead and broke the lads arm was
arrested and compromised the case by
agreeing to pay the boys doctor bill, board
and pay him his wages, $40 per month,
which he was earning at the time he was
\ Tequis,t,on pnpers nave teen gra an,eo ana
Professor Foster, the Sioux Falls bi igamist.
will be returned to Kentucky TO confront
one of bis numerous wives and stand trial
| for unlawfully having moro than one
wife.
| There is at least one honest man in Ohio.
He has just written to Mrs. II. Dots9n, of
Deedwood, saying TINT lie owed her father,
who has been dead twenty years, the sum
Of So, and that IL she is his heir he will for
wari the money.
Fast Horse has written q letter to Dr.
McGillycuddy, of Rapid City. stating that
the man who killcd Teamster Miller is II
| Rosebud Indian named Shoots the Enemy
The murderer has Mller's belt and pis toll
in his possession.
James Calleran, near Montrose, is pre-
| pairing to reyolutionize the business Of sod
breaking. He has just received gang
| plow with four fourteen.inch breaking
| plows attached, which will be propelled
across the prairie by twelve horse power
| traction engine.
A 2JD-barrel -four mill will be running
| In Larimore before August
Tho News suggests that while the In
dians are in Watertown receiving their
| money they be entertained with ball
| games, lacrosse matches and horse races.
| a butcher of that town Is already ad,er-
| tising for fat dogs in anticipation of the
| event.
G. II. Frey, of Sherman. Me-, has locat
| ed at Hankinson md is building y potato
starch factory, the first Institution of the
kind In North Dakota. The state pays
cent ger pound bounty for oil stnrch IN ado
in the state Of potatoes grown in the state.
| Mayor Peck In his coming message will
recommend great reduction In the sal.
aries of city officials. The largest one Is
in the mayors salary, which he thinks
| ought to be reduced from : 200 to $50.
Malinda Borsik, Of Gregory, was con.
victed of s,lling liquor without govern.
ment license and sentenced to eighteen
months in the renitentiary.
| Five out of six families that left CARLISLE
township, Beadle county, last fall for Kan
| sas and other states have ieturned and
again settled upon their farms, and the
sixth writes that he will lie here with his
| flock ns soon as he can get the "where-
'wisM' TO rnxe tne trip.~~-~-7rs7.
| A woman started 10 clean out q Dead.
wood gam bling house the othe~ night. She
commenced by tearing the faro layout to
pieces and threw the faro box at the deal
| er's head. Friends interfered and carried
her off tefore she hat entirely wrecked
| the place.
| A moose team owned by Senator Petit.
grew Of Sioux Falls is In the hands Of a
trainer of trotting horses, and is being
trained for q driving team. One Of them
has shown much speed as trotter, ani "a
| race with Fanchon. 2:2l has been ar
ranged for the next state fair.