Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1891-08-08
A horse walked out on top Of a Dead,

The Telegram says "blind pigs" are a
numerous in Yankton as flies on a mC
lassas barrel
| Deadwood's new hotel is to be 100 by Is
feet in size, five stories high. and contai
200 rooms.
George Edes, of the Watertown Mess
enger, receives $1,000 by the death o
a relative.
The city of Grand Forks will construc
a system of sewers at an approximate cos
of $4,000
| Yankton county has already this yea
grown a head of cabbage that weigh
thirteen pounds.
The mains for Armour's water works ar
being laid. The plant will be completed
inside of thirty days.
Some boys set fire TO Farmer Strickland
barn, near Gary, and II was destroyed
with other property.
Some of Grafton's citizens claim to have
seen ghosts in an old unoccupied hote
building in that city.
John Ross, "a young man who was sturcl
by lightning at Larimore and reported
killed, has recovered
| 1t Is reported that Mike Madden,
| printer In the Eanllton Journal office, ha'
| fallen heir to 900.
| The cry all over the state ia for help t,
aid in gardening bountiful crop. Har
vest hands are in demand
Wells Franklin had au ore car fall oil
| him at the Golden Reward mine, Blacl
Hills, but he still lives.
Dominica Rophart n miner in the High
land mineNt Deadwood, was seriously in
jured by fall of stone.
| jamestown thinks she will ship 300, ,00
pounds of wool this year, IN increase o
100000 pounds over last year
DIR. &. T. Clifford has just received, a
Madison, fine string of horses, which h,
purchased in Wisconsin.
Arthur Ellsworth, n brakeman, had &
hand crushed while making coupling a
Madison. Amputation was necessary.
All the Dickinson saloons are in tn,
hands of the sheriff, having been declared
common nuisances and ordered closed.
The police authorities Of Huron arc max
| ing an attempt TO rid the city of the pres
ence OF numerous undesirable residents
Judge Kinyon, one of Plankinton's es
| teemed citizens, is dead. He was wei
| known in business circles in South Dakota
The new school law makes il obligatory
upon teachers TO join reading circles and
several are already being organized in the
state.
John Kindle, q workman, fell from tn,
top of a five story building ut Grand Forks
and received severe injuries, but may re
| cover.
The laying of the corner stone of the
new Lutheran college at Grand Forks will
occur August G, and will be followed by a
grand banquet.
| CJohn Reider and X. Colby, while pros
peoting in the hills east of Lebanon, found
u nest containing four young eagles which
they captured
w +. Martin, of Mandan, has been
awarded the contract to plow fire breaks
from Glsndive to Livingston-7OO miles Of
travel for horses and plows.
The Masons Of South Dakota are col
lecting fund TO erect monument at
Yankton 70 Hon. Geo. II. Hand, who died
suddenly ut Pierre last winter
The Turner county agricultural fair will
be held at Parker September 80 and Octo-
Der and .. One thousand dollars will be
awarded in the speed department.
W. II. Donaldson, of watertown, offers
"a reward of $50 TO anybody who can find n
square foot OF winter killing in his entire
field of l20 acres of winter wheat.
The Flandrau foot ball team challenges
any other like organization in the state.
They defeated the Brookings Agricultural
college team at Ellston Friday.
A Pirre correspondent says that an ex-
ira session Of the Legislature Is n certainty.
The hotels have agreed 10 reduce rates TO
members to onefourth the regular rates.
Hans Lukken, of Grafton, deposited s405
in IN old stovepipe for safe keeping, but
II mysteriously disappeared. A peddler
has been arrested charged with the theft.
By the capsizing of Sioux Falls parties
at Lake Madison Friday, the Rev. Mr. Jor-
don lost u purse containing between $50
and $40 In cash and 1000 railroad ticket
Saturday Carl Rivers, one of the prison
ers who broke Jail at Deadwood Friday,
tired Of liberty and returned and gave him
self up. Only two of the prisoners are now
at large, the others having been appre-
hended.
The first number of n new paper, the
Cascade Springs Geyser, has appeared. 1t
Is published at the new health resort in
Fall River county of that name by l. II.
Crow, of the Sturgis Advertiser
A government engineer with corps of
assistants is making a survey of Red Lake
river TO ascertain If it will be practicable
to construct a dam at its source without
overfowing the country surrounding Red
Lake, and at the same time making Red
Lake n reservoir from which water may
be drawn during the low season.
rie county auditor of Sully county has
been instructed to levy school poll tax of
81 on each woman over 81 years old in that
county. They must pay for the privilege
of voting.
The Doland Times Re cord understands
that there are several parties making ar
rangements to bring sheep into SPHINX
county to sell or PIT out on shares .or q
term of years..
The Okaboji Times says: without q
doubt the local drought has affected the
crop In this part of the country, but yet
there will be great deal of grain har-
vested and the corn crop is all right"
Arthur Vandenburg working on a
farm near Mitchell was poisoned Friday
by inhaling paris green, which he had
been scattering in garden. For time
II was feared he would not recover. 4.
A bucket of cement weighing 100 pounds
fell on James Haslsins while he was work
ing In n cistern at Warner, breaking one
of his logs. If it had struck him on the
head IL would have killed him.
The bodies of soldiers buried at Fort
Hale, opposite Crow Creek agency, will be
disinterred and taken to Fort Omaha, be-
cause they are In danger of being washed
away by the Missouri, which encroaches
upon tue bank near the present bufying
ground.
YANKEES AND BRITISH FIGHT.