Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1891-02-14

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come into "a windfall OF s. 100 through the
settlement of an estate in Missouri long in |
litigation.
John Niles, formerly Of Grand Forks, |
has been killed, together with three other
men, in Montana, while resisting arrest on
the charge of horse stealing.
Brule county has bought of the South
Dakota Artesian Well Machinery com.
pany, of Plankn ton, three artesian we'll
outfits at cost of $3.50 each.
BY the late death of the Earl OF Caith'
ness, at Aberdeen, Scotland, j. 5. Sinclair,
his son, of Lakota-Lord Berriedale, OF
Berried ale farm-succeeds to the title.
The Aberdeen News will change from
morning to an evening sheet until times
become better. The Aberdeen Republi-
can a short time ago discontinued its daily
edition.
Bismarck Tribune: 1t is reported that
two or three original package houses viii!
close up after the lawn akers adjourn. or
course this is not meant for reflection on
the Legislature.
The Lead City authorities are trying to
get the churches of Lead to close their
doors until after diphtheria has abated.
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other business places are closed.
The 81, tting" process of boring artesian
wells has worked success fully ut Groton.
1t is a revolving pipe with teeth to tear the
ground. An average progress downward
of q foot an hour has been made with 1t.
The Butte, Mont, Miner refers to South
Dakotas own Captain Van Etten as 1.-THE
1.-the and willowy war horse with the
Napoleonic mustachios AMI Boulanger i'm
perial, who ID now prosecuting temper
ance crusade in Butte"
The starch factory at Sioux Falls is com
pleted. The work of building was begun
in December and was prosecuted without
loss of time. The three buildings OF the
factory used up nearly 10000 feet of lum
ber.
speaking Of IN oose," said Tom Hardi-
man, the veteran trainer, of Sioux Falls,
"you may nos know that at Devils Lake
the 4th of last July moose trotted below
| $3.50. am told this moose can strike
2:40 gait. | wanted Senator Pettigrew to
buy him, but unfortunately he didn't see
| il that way"
Sturgis Advertiser: The Society OF
Black Hills Pioneers viii hold its annual
meeting and banquet on February 10, at
which time a proposed amendment to their
Constitution will he voted upon. If II is
| approved of by the members il will make
all parties who arrived in the Black HIS
on or before February %, 1877, eligible to
membership, that date being made histor-
ical by the signing OF the Indian treaty.
They are still striking tin in the Black
| TT;II. mood Tines of the 3Dtu
| ult. says: "a very rich vein of tin orc was
The 6nl has caused quite an excite me nj n,
in the district"
According to Hand county papers, w
| w. Zaner, who formerly lived at Miller,
but for year or two has BEEN at Fort
Pierre is thought to have fallen victim
tohostile Indians 1t Is alleged that some
time ago he left ranch M Bad river to
round up some stray cattle and expected
TO lie absent not more than four days, but
at the end OF two weeks nothing had been
heard of him. As it is known he was
somewhat reckless in disposition, it is
feared he got too far into the hostil e region
and got pickle OFF,
Archbishop Ireland, of the archdiocese
| of Minnesota, North and South Dakota
| has issued the following order: Public
! sentiment has become so pronounced, and
! rightly 80, against lotteries and chance
! games that we deem It our duty to pro-
hibit altogether the raising of money for
religious and charitable purposes by the
sale of chances, the use of wheels of for
tune or by any method savoring of lottery
or gambling. This rule, which we now
aI, Y.
70 counties as well as to towns, to converts
as we'll as to parishes.
The st. Paul News says the suicide Of
Rev. n. w. Warren, of Bierville, who was
u member of the North Dakota Louisiana a
legislature and voted for the lottery bill,
is the ninth death that has occurred
among the members who supported
that measure, while not a single anti lot
| terry member has been very seriously ILL.,
| This fact has produced profound i'm pres
! sion in the lottery state, and many regard
the facilities as a Judgment against cor
ruption. Mr.. Warren was summoned be-
fore the trial com mittes of ten, of the
Baptist church, and pleaded guilty, saying
that his vote for the lottery was the crown
ing sin of his life. but as he did not tell
what induced him to vote that way and
would not, the committee unanimously
recommended his expulsion, and he was
| expelled
Bismarck Tribune: In South Dakota
the banks are kicking because the bank
examiner doesn't attend to his business,
while In North Dakota the state banks are
-LiaLias hscausa- -ths examiner has any bus
mess with them at all.
A memorial quilt has been prepared by
the w. X. c. of Sioux Falls to be presented
to the soldiers home. The quilt is an,v-
city and has ll5 slips of white cloth on
each OF which Is marked the name of a
member of Joe Hooker post and the resi.
ment AMI company he belon ged to during
the war. There are just lis mem bers in
the post.
The jail ut Ipswich Is being rebuilt and
repaired. 1t is less than lS months old.
but SO poorly built that the work must be
done over.
Nv. w. Orr arrived In the city Saturday
from Winneshiek county, Iowa, with FIVE
carloads of cattle, lS) head" says the
Madison Sentinel. "Mr. Orr comes from
a dry district in Iowa, whers fc,i was
lightly scarce, so hs shipped his stock oat
to Lake couity to winter"
The report of the signal Office at Bis
marck shows that there have been but
twenty-five cloudy days In the Ave m onths
including September and January, and the
mean temperature Of the codest mon tn
January, was 2i.2 degrees above zero.
Estelline Bell: Joseph Foley, of Presto q
township. 'o,kings county, was In Este l.
line SATURDAY. and told the writer that ba
had just finished .thering his corn crop,
and found 1t to be over ], 400 bushels, and
that be had done the work barehanded In
December and January.
The artesisn W ell on Kinds ranch. near
Woonsocket. will irrIgate adjoining farms,
the owners thereof paying 81 an acre for
water
The Bl ack Hills had frigid snap the
FIRST Of the week. Thermometers marked
70 to 45 degrees below zero on Sunday and
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