Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1891-01-10

The Decatur Dispatch says the white
men of that town sell too much VIII ky to
the Indians.
Wesley Anderson, a prominent cit izep
aud old ~settler of Lead, is dead, aged
about 62 years.
Francis Reandreau, a pioneer of Union
county, died on the Bourrette farm on the
23d, aged so years.
Edith Valentine, who lately shot herself
to death at Seattle, was formerly a variety
actress at Deadwood.
The first Congregational church at Lin
colin will fit up one room in the Cbadron
academy as a donation.
The Huron w. II. c. distributed during
the holidays 1859 in clothing, provisions
and cash among the needy.
Stewart Rawley and Frank Sykes, held
for burglary, broke jail at Bloomington
and mad good their escape.
Hezekiah Bedford, IA farmer living near
Grand Island, is under arrest for assault
ing his l4-year-old daughter.
Harry Lee, IA barber, is in custody at
Lincoln charged with robbing his late EN-
ployer, Nate Hawk, at Pomeroy, la.
Victor Studley, aged 10, who is we'll con
nected and whose home is App.egate, Wis,
is under arrest at Lincoln for forgery.
The Liberati band failed 70 keep it's en-
gagement at Bismarck Saturday night on
account of the burning of its car at Hell
ena.
The Farmers alliance of Yankton
county proposes to send two carloads Of
supplies to the drought sufferers of South
Dakota.
The Casselton Reporter notes the sale Of
a half section of land near its town at Sl1
per acre, and declares that the purchaser
got n bargain.
Colonel Plummer is sick Of the cold and
slush in New York, and wr ties that he
longs for the pure ozone and balmy ar Of
North Dakota.
The Nankton Journal, which claims to
be the only democratic morning paIer in
both Dakotas, opposes Judge Bartlett
Trip for senator
huron's new artesian we'll is $50 fe t
deep, is 6-inch bore, and has a pressue Of
80 pounds to the square inch Tn flow is
abou' 1000 per minute.
TIE Travellers Insurance of
Hgftford, has refused to pay $1,000 insur-
ace on the life of DR.. Robbins, who lately
committed suicide at Lincoln
Train Haraldson, who has been living in
a cave alone near Nebraska City, has
been declared insane. He is 90 years old
and has been in an asylum before.
The Dead wood Times says that al. F.
'Whitbeck, formerly city editor of the
Deadwood Times, now holds "a CORES pond-
ing position on the Chicago Herald. ~
Among the new enterprises talked of for
sSaessr ava q wataE worlsa =a--~A-s
;>NNa grain elevator, al opera house and
yzN4 al store buildings and residences.
Shewster, a brakeman on the Bur
lMS<S$&p and Missouri, walked of a broken
It Oreopolis Tuesday night and was
under the wheels of the last sec.
1H4tzFn gentlemen supposed to be keeping
t&1ioons," as the Tribune puts it, nave
been served with papers at Bismarck on
complaint of the attorney general of the
state.
The city council OF Deadwood has passed
an ordinance licensing saloons, billiard
halls and gambling dens. A saloon license
costs s75 a month; with a gambling annex,
$25 more.
The Ponca Journal reports that Geo. b.
Smith, who lives a few miles above Ionia,
on the Dakota side of the river, was sun
struck while on his way home from Ponca
one day last week.
Frank Shuttle, a farmer living on Elm
Island, Buffalo county, has been arrested
IN the ,borra - uanI;,n tkn gf.- -.
chine to L, A. Disco, of Gibbon, which ex-
ploded while being opened.
The editor CT the Bowdle Pioneer lately
visited his farm near Gary, and found
that his house and barn, which cost him
$500, had been stolen to the last splinter.
The thieves did not take the well.
Andrew Ballweg, of Bath, lately had q
sample of sugar beets raised by him ana
lived by the chemist of the agricultural
department at Washingto ton. 1t was found
to contain 1884 per cent. of sugar.
The National Farmers alliance will hold
It's annual meeting at Omaha January q
and 2S, to which Nebraska is entitled to
three delegates. This body will nave rep
resentatives from about ten states.
John Bagley is under 49, eco bonds at
Springfield for shooting W. E. Owens.
Owens rented Bagley's farm near town,
and they quarreled about the ownership of
some grain. The bullet struck a rib and
glanced around, lod ging in Ovens back.
1t has not been found.
The Grafton News and Times issued a
holiday edition of sixteen pages, printed in
red, with ~rhyming write-ups of the towns
in its constituency.
Tie Mitchell Republican hears q rumor
that L. p. McClarren has severed his con-
nection with the Sioux Falls Press, and
will travel for a Sioux Falls blank book
house.
The Huron Huronite good-humoredly ac-
cepts the invitation to be represented at
the second inaugural ball" at Pierre,
and declares that it knows how to behave
at a wake.
The Peck Manufacturing company, Of
Storm Lake, is making the largest piece of
.gell machinery ever put upin Storm Lake,
~doubtless in any place in the United
1t is a mammoth well drill for
Glendale, N. d., where they
10 go down 1900 feet for