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

build temple.
Grading has commenced on n spur rail
road four miles long to connect the Addie
mine with Hill city.
VIM. j. Hannum and wife, of Miller,
celebrated their golden wedding anniver-
sary on the 2lst inst
A dozen quarter sections of land were
sold around Trip last week at prices
varying from 81 to $40 per acre cash.
john Rodamaker, while stacking grain
near Abercrombie, fell from the stack upon
an upturned fork and his recovery is doubt
full
The S-year-ol child of Andrew William
son, moving from Potter TO Edmunds
county, was thrown from the wagon and
killed.
A commercial club has been organized
at Watertywn and plans are being ma
tured TO push the industrial development
of the city.
A DeSmet lady, while curling her bangs,
met with n serious accident The hot
curling iron slipped into her eye, making
a bad burn.
Samuel :. Locl<hart, a prominent attor-
ney of Milbanll, has been appointed by the
president agent for the Indians of the
Sisseton agency.
The S-ycar-old twin boys of Joseph
Brooks, living three miles south of Sioux
Falls, were playing with n rifle. One was
shot, but not fatally.
Cha les Lusll, who was in business in
Deadwood last winter, has just been ar
rested for selling olcomargarine without a
government license.
The government boat Josephine has ar.
rived at Bismark with Il snagging outfit
and will commence operations III the Mis-
souri, river near that point.
The Chicago, Milwaukee and st. Paul
railroad has ordered its trainmen to fur
nish water and to assist in putting out
prairie fires when necessary.
Colonel Sheafc, of Watertown and
Judge Campbell of YanlIton, will probably
be the congressional nominees of the dem
ocrats and independents respectively.
Custer county resident, while driving
his cattle over to Wyoming, was overtaken
and number OF the cattle levied on - 81
cient to liquidate bill of delinquent
taxes
hS iIpol tNA Sult VI lIc tDlOhA Il dllo
Press to Ohio parties has fallen through,
and the paper will remain under the man
aEement of E. w. Caldwell and Mrs. w.
IL d. Bliss.
Thomas Lyon was arrested at Aberdeen
Wednesday charged with attempting to
rape an S-year-old girl at Groton. The
charge could not DC proven and lie was
fined S4S. 90 for vagrancy.
L. q. Spilmau, register at the Devils
Lake land office, has forwarded his resig-
nation to the president 70 take effect Octo-
Der 81. f Shelly, of DEVILS Lake, may
be appointed t, the vacancy.
A prairie fire started Tuesday near Ros-
well and burned about eight miles north
east till it struck the Northwestern rail
road track, when it was put out. In its
course much damage was done.
A subscriber left the country and forgot
to settle his subscription and the editor of
the Montrose Herald has come to the CON
clu-ion that about the most Objectionable
won't pay his debts"
A Beresford citizen who had been drink
ing freely on recent night was sober
off III novel manner. While vending
his way homcward in the small hours he
was attacked by buck which butted him
into the gutter as fast as he would get up
until he was sober
Rev II. d. Wizard, superintendent of
Congregational missions in South Dakota,
and prominent and we'll known citizen
of Mitchell, left for California last week
1t is reported that he has been offered the
pastorate of n number of thrifty charges
there, and that he has gone to loo; the
field over.
good Joke is told on Major Picllcr, in
the Watertown Public Opinion. He at
tended services at the Methodist church
on a recent Sunday and also staid to Sum
day school. At the close of the lesson the
superintendent invited the congressman
TO say a few words. The lnvitation was
accepted, and raising his towering form
before the congregation the major pro-
ceeded to point moral adorn n tale
He took bank as n texc, and was explain
ing to the scholars how the Sunday school
represented a bank, where they could draw
their checks when temptation overlook
them and have them honored, etc, and was
making some good points when the fire
alarm sounded, though unheard by him
and as the boys commenced to file out he
couldn't understand what it meant, and he
was obliged 10 stop and look in blank as
Constituent. The superintendent broke
the news to him about the alarm and the
major subsided. Perhaps he thought the
BOYS were making n run on the bank
All three parties held their county con-
veutlons in Yankton Saturday.
Mrs Amanda Chaplin was arrested nj
Sioux Falls Saturday on the charge of
horse stealing. Her husband boarded
their horse at a livery stable and the ac-
count for same was unpaid and in dispute.
Mrs Chaplin had the horse hitched up one
day last week to drive to the fair, and for
got 20 return it to the stable. hence the
arrest The lady threatens to sue the
livcryman for damages for the humiliation
the arrest has brought upon her.
Bohemia miners average Si32 year.
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Farmer Furrow-We must pick al
the peaches today and hurry them Off
TO market.
Mrs. Furrow-The peaches? Why,
they're green as grass and sour as
pickles.
Farmer Furrow-Can't help that.
The price is falling a cent basket
every durn day now.
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Young Mother-WalSe up! Quick'
You must run for the doctor!
Young Father-Eh? What's the
matter?
Young Mother-Baby has stopped
smiling in her sleep
Caller-Is Mr.. Scribbler, one of your
reporters, in?
City Editor with dark frown)--No,
sir. have discharged him.
Caller-Indeed! May ask the rea-
son?
City Editor wrathfully)-Ile wrote
up an account Of suicide without