Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1891-11-07
DAKOTAS.

county Jail at Pitrre.
Work is progressing steadily on the tin
coucentrator al Hill City.
The Plankinton elevator and roller mills
were destroyed by fire Friday morning
Two children in the Hovestead family at
| Brandon have died of black diphtheria.
Rattlesnakes have invaded Pierre. Sew
eral were killed on the streets there last
week.
The projectors Of Deadwood's big hotel
are still hustling for cash to complete the
building.
The new Episcopal church at Deadwood
will be ready foH dedication by the 18th of
next month.
Ben Lehman, the murderer OF OAicer
Burns, will be hanged at Custer City No
vember4
A Milwaukee train set fire to the prairie
grass near Canton and considerable hay
WAS burned
Recent assays of ore from the Comstoclt
mine in Lepee gulch show an average of
Sl0+ % To the ton.
William Lyon has been indicted at Can
ton charged with criminal intimacy with
his own daughters
The \. NJ. G. A. rooms at Sioux Falls
were burglarized Friday night. The
thieves securcd$l5
Il. p. Taylor was instantly killed at Til
! ford by his wagon load of wood turning
over and crushing him.
Some of the farmers object TO the slnu yh-
ter of the prairie chicken because they are
| great grasshopper destroyers.
A 7-year-old son of Robert Scott was
caught in a moving machine near Miller
and sustained the loss of leg
Mitchell spots enjoyed some fine jack
rabbit chasing Friday. a large number
| OF greyhounds are owned there.
Boys playing with pieces of plate glass
as a sun glass started what might have
proved disastrous fire at Mitchell.
Garfield Patton, q runaway boy from
Ashland, Wis, who was captured near
Bath, was sent 20 the reform school.
Sioux Falls expects as much notoriety
| over the Louisiana lottery trial as she re-
! ceived from the trial of Plenty Horses.
A Deadwood admirer Of the dancing SOU
| brette with the Ole Olson company threw
her $50 gold piece in lien Of bouquet.
Allen NJ. Lyon, living near Huron, has
| bNth hilCS'Sh lp8 SNhINiHE ~ DlolllN ilt
which destroyed large amount Of prop
erty.
The talk of building another smelter at
Deadwood is assuming tangible shape.
| Rapid City is said To have offered bonus
! of $4,000 for IT,
1he Lead City butchers have l,gun n
war among themselves on prices Of meat,
and as consequence the best bcefstcak
sells for 6 cents pound.
1t is thought that grading on the Sioux
| City, Madison and Northern railway be-
| tween Dell Rapids and Madison will be
commenced at an early date.
The Deadwood Terra mine has paid its
| owners to date Sl030,000; the Father De
Smet, 81, 1885, 900; the Homestake, S4,73l 900
and others smaller amounts.
The county superintendent of schools
of Potter county revoked a teachers GER
! tiiicate for not attending n teachers insti-
tute, and the case has been appealed to
the state superintendent.
There is greater demand for dwelling
houses in Buffalo Gap than can be sup
piled. No one seems TO have had time 10
build houses this summer, and new set
| tiers are coming in daily.
The Driving Park association, of Huron,
| has purchased seventeen more acres of
| land and are at work grading their new
track. When completed it will be the
| finest mile track in the state
Congressman Pickler assisted ladies
| down the ladders at the burning OF the
Minnekahta hotel at Hot Springs and
helped to carry water just as though he
was not Il member of congress.
Stages over the new mail raute between
| Chamberlain and the Black Hills, have
commenced running, and the move is
| meeting with the approval of the numcr.
J Gus settlers on the ceded Sioux lands.
The members of the Fifth Avenue The.
ater company, which stranded at Dead
wood, gave n benefit performance and
secured enough money to take them to
| Chicago. The manager left them in the
| lurch.
The Masonic Aid association was re.
fused certificate to do business in the
state without the payment of fees or taxes.
| An appeal was taken to the supreme court,
which has just decided that the auditor
! was right.
Mrs. Jocuua Walker, one Of the early
settlers of Yankton, died Tuesday at the
home of her daughter, Mrs. Z. NJ Coates,
near that city. She had been an invalid
for year and had passed the allotted
years of life.
Samuel Scott, of Rapid City, has re-
| ceived letter from the commissioner of
fisheries stating that about the end of the
month there will be shipped to the Hills
from the station 1T Leadville, Colo, 5000
brook trout and 5000 black spotted trout
| for distribution in the Black Hills streams
Frank s. Macomber, station agent OF
! the Elkhorn road ut Blackhawk, has skip
| ped the country, leaving numerous un-
| paid bills, wife and bad reputation.
| His accounts with the railroad were
] found straight. He left young girl wife
whom he married couple of weeks ago in
| Omaha.
Several members Of the grand jury and
| a reporter for the Argus-Leader were by
| mistake locked in the county Jail for IA few
| hours at Sioux Falls Wednesday. The
| older prisoners assembled their kangaroo
| court" and the new comers were fined 20
cents each, which was paid into the to-
bacco fund
An Aberdeen lady took her little girl to
the river to see the baptizing of some peo.
pie. Shortly after returning home she
found the child preparing to baptize her
doll. She held the doll over the rain bar
rel and said: Dolly, baptize thee in the
name of the father, the son, and in the
hole you go." And in the dolly went.
A prairie fire north of Yankton, Tues
day, consumed 100 tons of hay for Felix
Dilger, 100 tons for George Mint and Il.
Colburn and smaller quantities for several
others. The territory burned over was
two miles long and half mile wide, and
the fire is supposed to have been started
by some Russians.
The Deadwood and Delaware smclter
has begun buying all ores containing gold,
! silver, lead or copper, and the Pioneer
thinks that means that Deadwood is to be
the smelling point of the world.
The finest of weather prevails, and il it
continues two weeks longer grain in the
vicinity OF Bismarck will be in the grana.
ries. Twenty-Five machines nre in opera
tion near that city. The In rain did but
very little damage.
The record was broken in loading stoch