Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1891-04-11

bered as having written outlandish stoi les
| about the condition of things in central
South Dakota a year ago has recently
married a Chicago newspaper CORES pond =.
ent.
The minister ut the Baptist revival meet
ings in Plankinton caused some amuse-
mont the other night when he announced: !:
my theme for tomorrow evening will be
hell subject in which you arc all in
| terested -
All chattel mortgages in South Dakota
must be released within thirty days after
satisfaction. Any mortgages or his agent
failing to comply with this provision will
be claimed guilty Of a misdemeanor and
upon conviction punished by a fine of not
less than So nor more than $50.
l.. D. Hincklcy, crop reporter for the
Milwaukee board of trade and other grain
concerns, has been looking over South Da.
Eota for the past two weeks. He says
there are good indications of a favorable
seed time and that the acreage of gain
will be fully as large as that of last year.
Only three deaths have occurred at the
Soldiers home since its opening.
The Pioneer says the present season will
witness great building boom in Dead.
wood
No street cars were run at Deadwood
Saturday. The tracks were buried be
neath six inches OF mud.
mountain lion made feast out of a
dog belonging to f. c. Bowen, of Sun
dance. Mr. Bowen and a m eighbor trailei
the lion, found it and killed it,
Fifteen young men, whose ages ranged
from 5 to ~, were arrested in a house of
illfGme ut Rapid City Friday night. The
next day they were all heavily fined by a
justice.
BY the repeal OF capital punishment at
the late session of the legislature, John r.
Lehman. who was sentenced TO death by
| a Custer county jury last fall, will escape
the Geath penalty. While his neck 10
saved he VII probably have to spend the
remainder of his days in the state pen item
| tiary.
Victor DorDe, AN old resident of Dead
wood, is insane caused by softening of the
brain. He has loen in failing health for
number of years. Mr. Dornes demen-
tin has taken a peculiar form. He imag
ines that he is in Pierre, and welcomes
old friends as If lie had not seen them for
years.
strong organization has been formed
at Bismarck for the purpose of wiping out
the saloons. Shibley's saloon, which was
the scene OF shooting ARRAY about
week ago, was ralGed Saturday and FIVE
cases of beer and several jugs of wine
seized. This is the first effort toward en-
forcing prohibition since the ad journment
of the legislature.
The Brookings Press thinks it has found
the meanest man. 1t says "A farmer
ana his wife came TO Brookings in the
morning and spent the forenoon purchas-
ing supplies. About noon this freak of
nature requested his wife to remain in
one Of the stores while he transacted some
business elsewhere He made u sneak for
q hotel and got outside of dinner that
nearly bankrupted the house, while his
better half patiently awaited his return" "
The Fremont, Elkhorn and Missouri
Valley railroad purchased 100 acres of
land on Lower Falsebottom, near Dead.
wood, and expected at some future time to
establish a town there. The citizens in
the vicinity, who are mostly French Cana
dians, decided to build church. and
asked the railroad company to donate four
lots upon which to build it, The company
would only doLnte one lot. This angered
the church people, and now they propose
to establish Il Town of their own al Joining
the railroad company's plat 1t Will be
called St Onge.
paper is wanted at the new town of
Bellfourche, the end of the Minnesota
branch Of the Elkhorn.