Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1891-05-09
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receive extensive Improvements.
Miner comfy farmers predict that they
will visit their wives folks this fall in pal
ace cars.
Twenty Norwegian families just ar
rived from the old country, have located
at Clark
Lebanon is to have limburger cheese
factory, the only one of the kind in South
Dakota.
Uncle Jimmy Starks Of Madison, is now
an inmate of the soldiers home at Hot
Springs.
housing revival meetings are being held
nightly In the Watertown Methodist
church.
Sphinx county congratulRtes herself that
she is out of debt and has money in the
treasury.
The Missouri Valley Veterans associa-
tion will hold their reunion in Tyndall the
last week in June.
The asylum trustees have u large conun-
drum to solve-how to make 81, AGO pur-
chase 8, 500 worth of fuel.
Master Harry Hutchinson, of Huron, u
6year-old boy, has u collection of nearly
$4,000 cancelled postage stamps.
The Watertown city council has appro.
priated 500 for advertising the opening OF
| the Sisseton Indian reservation.
Pierre expects soon TO have special mail
delivery, and IL successful the postofiice ut
East Pierre will be discontinued.
Citizens of Sanborn county complain be-
cause the commissioners do not publish the
reports of their proceedings in full.
n
Mt Bismarck for the purpose OF supplying
patent insides" to country newspapers
The citizens of Pierre have been holding
mass convention to urge the resumption
| OF work on the Aberdeen 81 Pierre rail-
road
Aberdeen's artesian well, ], coo feet deep,
is throwing up small fish, bright colored,
with clear eyes, and active as any brook
minnows.
The clothing store of ]. A. Fosdick at
Mitchell was closed out by tho sheriff Sat
urday on confession of Judgment for
g., eco debt.
The Watertown News thinks congress
was guilty of a piece of extravaganza
when it decided to build public building
at Sioux Falls.
limits OF Hot Springs Friday night, having
wandered down from the hills in quest of
something to cat.
The trustees of the Methodist university
at Wahpeton have voted to erect red
pressed brick building with stone trim
mings to cost S35, 100.
| The Buffalo Gap Republican notices that
people from abroad visit Hot Springs for
their health, and citizens Of Hot Springs
visit other places for their health.
S. II. Elrod, of Waterto wn, will soon
begin the distribution of $503, 900 to the In.
diaus on the Sisseton reservation. 1t will
take about eight weeks to com pete the
| task.
The editor OF the Alcester Union wishes
the town was Incorporated so an ordin-
ance might be passed prohibiting the oper-
alton of hay presses on Sunday.
Seventeen head of Hereford cattle were
sold at an auction sale in Brookings the
other day. Calves brought $40 and cows
from S75 TO $95. 1t pays to raise good
stock.
The Mountain Side coal mine at Boze-
man closed down owing to some misunder-
standing between the Northern Pacific
railroad and the Northern Pacific Coal
Company.
The current issue of the Redfield Jour
nal contains thirteen columns of notices of |
mortgage foreclosures. The editor an
nounces that the paper Is short on news
and long on legal notices.
Many laporers have been induced by
eastern employment agencies TO come TO
northern Montana under the promise of
work at So per day in railroad building,
but upon arrival are disappointed.
Mrs. Rose Belle Cong leton died in Yank-
with her husband, who still survives her,
to Yankton in 1884, and was recognized as
one of the old settlers.
Some fool turned in two false fi re alarms
at Bismarck April /, presumably rs an
April fool joke. The department. re-
sponded in both instances, and now the
chief offers reward Of 500 In each case
for Information that will lead to the appre-
hension of the guilty party or parties.
j. II. Westover, Of French Creek, near
Buffalo Gap reports that after he had
drill led on his copper claim to the depth of
100 feet the drill struck what appeared to
side 80 he could make no headway. Think
ing to break up the rock SO he could pro-
ceed, he put in stick Of giant powder. |
After the explosio he found, ON investisa-
tion, the bottom OF his we'll had been blown
into a cavern. He put do wn a rope some |
fifty feet below where he had drilled, but
no bottom could be found. He then threw
In three wagon load Of rock, but IL did not
seem to fill tho hole in the least. He now
thinks Of putting down q shaft and finding
out what Is down there.
The county com missioners OF Codington
and Brookings counties are at outs They
can't agree on the price Brookings county
should pay Codington county for keep
ing her prisoners
A meeting of the cond uctors of teachers,
institutes in South Dakota was held at
Huron Saturday the object of which was
to prepare for the summer work and ar.
range dates for holding institutes.
Requisition papers have been granted
and Prof. Foster. the 81 ioux Falls bigamist,
will be returned to Kentucky to confront
one of his numerous wives and stand trial
for unlawfully having more than one wife.
A 12-year-old son of Marve Aldrich, of
Plankinton, was accidentally and proba-
bly, fatally shot Saturday night while
handling a gun. The charge entered his
back The boys mother is dangerously
sick, and It IA feared the shock will prove
fatal.
There was foaied on John Meek's ranch
colt that, had 1t lived, would have been q
curiosity worthy Of Barnum's considera-
tion, says the Buelah Globe-News Its
legs were scarcely longer than q mans
thumb, and 1t had no ribs nor spinal col
unn; in fact, 1t seemed to be short ON sau-
sage envelopes, and when opened was
found to contain nothing but water.
Cougresationslists at Garretson have
selected the location for q new church.
The Yankton Press and Dakotsn has
doubled its size 1t says the snlargem ment
was made In order to keep In line with the
progress which Is now felt in every line OF
industry connected with Yankton's pros
perity.
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