Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1891-12-12
The DAkOTAS.

The Howard Press has just celebrated
its sixth birthday.
Machinery has been ordered for stamp
mill at Custer City.
The Mandan artisan well has reached a
depth of 600 feet
A farmers institute will be held at
Plankinton next month.
Major Olmstead of OIobojo, has Sc
cured 81, 500 back pension.
Hand county will invest $1,000 in an out
fit for boring artesian wells.
The diphtheria scare is over at Miller
and the city schools have reopened
winter camp of Burlington graders
has been established in Nevada gulch.
The new morning democratic paper at
Sioux Falls will be called the Gazette.
An explosion of stove at the Canton
depot badly scorched the night operator.
NJ Haggart, of Washburn, had his leg
broken in two places by runaway team
The Parker roller mills will start up this
week. L X. Lord has been appointed re-
ceiver.
The Pierre council is at loggerheads
over the extension of the gas company's
franchise.
A flock of 200 sheep in Sully county wan
dered fifty miles from home in recent
snowstorm.
Mrs. Rearick. convicted of numbering
her husband ut Woonsoclset, will be SEN
fenced December %.
The Gettysburg Herald reports heavy
losses among Potter county sheep owners
from the recent storms
The bichloride treatment is about TO
| tackle Deadwood whisky. Long odds are
offered on the native fluid.
Corn is being piled on the ground in the
vicinity of Springfield because help can
not be secured to build cribs.
bert Reeves had his right leg broken in
three places at Plankinton by being
thrown from his wagon, the wheels passing
over him.
Mrs. +. De Vrier, living in the vicinity
of Hurley planted, raised and huslied
eighty acres of corn this season, doing the
work herself.
An old lady, 20 years old, was frozen to
death near Grafton, Thanksgiving night
She got up in the night and wandered out
on the prairie.
Edwin Harmon, of Carthage, met with a
serious accident while riding colt. The
animal slipped and fell on him, badly in
iuring his hips
Two weddings occurred at Parker
Thanksgiving-C b. Graves and Miss
Chan Tate, and b. S Mendelsshon and
Miss Ethel Pearce.
There is only one state certificate held
among the teachers of the public schools,
and that one is held by George L. Beard
slcy, of Garretson.
The boiler of a threshing machine en-
| gine, while at work near Northwood, eX-
| ploded killing two men and severely
wounding four others.
The editor of the Okobojo Times says he
| has been sentenced to Sioux Falls for an
indefinite length of time to act as jurymam
in the United States court.
\ rich vein of free gold was uncovered
in the Keystone mine located near Har-
ney City 1t is thirteen feet thick. \ re-
cent assay nettcd $3.50 per ton.
The little l3-year.old daughter of y.
| Sampson, living at Oaliwood, plowed 100
| acres of ground this fall and did it in good
| shape, too So says the Tribune.
The Onida Journal says that the cold
weather makes the rancbmen wonder how
| high their cows will have to hump their
backs before warm weather returns.
One hundred and fifty cars of $4,000
bushels of grain have been shipped from
| Gettysburg this fall, and there is now in
the warehouse about 10000 bushels more.
a farmer living near Louisville is said
to have put sand in his wheat, and sold
something like 500 bushels of it before the
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wife plush cloak with the proceeds.
The Langdon Democrat says the man
who will take a newspaper for two or three
years and then put it back in the Office
marked refused when dunned by the
editor is mean enough TO grease his jaws
| with pork when he goes TO church to make
| his neighbors believe he has had meat for
| breakfast
a. j. Spain is one of Hand county's
Young hustlers who will pull through all
right barring all accidents, says the St
Lawrence Journal. Three years ago he
ran in debt for 81, 800 worth of sheep Poor
crops pinched him until this year-same
as many others. This year he had 1900
bushels of good wheat. He now pays out,
has got about 500 sheep all paid for and if
he has no misfortune will in five years be
n well fixed man of Hand county. Grit,
industry and sheep are the prime factors
of his success
| Last year the State Soldiers home at
Hot Springs was opened the day before
| Thanksgiving, seven men and the com
mandant sleeping on the floor. These
eight men ate their Thanksgiving dinner
Of canned beans and meat and crackers
from a table made of rough boards in the
engine house. This year sixty-four men
sat down TO roast turkey and all the deli
cacies of the season in the spacious dining
room, while perhaps as many as thirty
more have gone away from the home
greatly relieved of rheumatism and other
ailments, able to resume their selfsup-
port.
Bristol News: Last Saturday morning
IN invalid and u cripple named Lewis
| Hogus, aged 35, who had been living
| alone on Il farm seven miles northwest of
| mere was found dead in bed in his claim
shanty. Those who prepared him for
| burial built fire in small stove, which
pad been used to heat the room, but the
lmolse and gas which escaped drove them
| ,uto the open air. AS no marks of violence
| ~ere discovered, 1t is supposed that the
| unfortunate man came TO his death by in
| Galing gas which escaped from the stove
and filed the room while he was asleep
| George G, Parker, an engineer in the
employ of the Elkhorn road between Dead
wood and Chadron, met with an accident
| Thursday morning that has cost him the
| ,ight of his left eye, The train had reached
| clifford when Parker discovered that the
| iey to his reverse lever had dropped out
and been lost. He took piece of wire to
| Improvise one. His fireman held the wire
while Parker cut il with coldchisel and
| hammer. When the blow was struck n
| piece of the wire an inch and a half long
flew up, lodging in his eye ana penetrat-
ng the ball just above the pupil. Force
] was necessary to remove 1t.
Andrew Anderson, who lives near Dell
| Rapids, went to Sioux Falls to buy Christ
mas presents for his family. He got
| drunk. was robbed of his Christmas money
and landed in Jail. The Judge let l.::n go