Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1891-03-28

Bras.
The Garretson Progress advises farmers
to raise sheep, ana says IL they have q
mortgage there will be no trouble in rails
Ing it.
vocate to to'14f 14fghhqRi hhqi JRf9vssa sd his Hoiaerl Ad
future be known as the Hyde County Ad-
yocate.
Rapid City drug clerk received a
white cap letter, the contents of which ad-
vised him to leave tie city within twenty
four hours
Charles Gray, of cody county has reg
istered at the Sioux Falls penitentary
whore he will be guest for six months
for grand larceny.
The professors of the normal de partment
of the state university at Nermllion will
have their pay stopped on account of the
scarcity of funds.
{. 5. Peasley, who has been deputy state
treasurer for two years, has accepted n
position with the Minnehaha National
bank, of Sioux Falls.
The alliance wants Aurora county to
furnish seed grain TO the farmers who are
unable to procure it for thems selves and
take security on the crop.
The Irisoners confined In the Dead W ood
jail issue paper every Saturday giving
the pedigree of those confined there and
Items happening in the jail.
Professor A. I. Free has been appointed
financial agent Of the Yankton college. He
takes the place OF Rev James X. Kyle,
elected United States senator.
Business men, Of WAtertown have in
duced large German Russian colony to
settle In Kodington county. Three car
loads OF them arrived last week.
George Parker, u farmer living twelve
miles south of Sioux Falls, laid out in a
snowdrift all one night while IN an intoxl-
Gated condition and was badly frozen.
fellow named Hermann, in Jail at
Devils Lake, assaulted the deputy sheriff
with bed slat and would have killed him
If another prisoner had not interfered
1t Is the opinion of the Sioux Falls Press
that Judge G. ). Palmer, of that city, will
be chosen department commander ut the
state encampment to be held at IAN kton
next week.
Some miscreants entered the room
where a corpse was laid out in Dead W ood
the other night anil stole all the clothing
belonging to the dead man, except what
was on the body.
After April the government signal sta
tion at Yankton will be discontinu no /, but
the instruments will b, transferred to
Yankton college aad Yam kton will possess
O station as fully equipped as the one aban-
doned.
Watertown knights of Labor ask that
the city put in scales and create the Office
OF city weighmaster. They claim ], 200
pounds does not make "A ton and by having
the city do the weighing dishonest dealers
can be made to deal fairly with the public
Judge Bartlett Trip lectured at the
university at Vermiilcn Saturday. His
subject was "A Trip Up the Rhine and
Through Switzer erland,n aud ths lecture
consisted of narration of the events aud
incidents of a six weeks trip through Eu.
rope in 1885,
Peter Selvilie, Of Galena, an old timer
in the Hills, died Saturday of pneumonia.
He was poisoned while working In silver
smelter and while he was In a delirlous
condition wandered out into the cold with
out proper wearing apparel, and the re.
suit was pneumonia.
The gold miners who have staked out
claims and organized a town IN the bad
lands expect to leave Pierre in d-ovss us
soon as spring opens so they can COM
mence active work. just now they are
busy planning what they expect to do with
their bushels of money whom they get It
'panned" out.
Though one of the sm allest Of the states,
South Dakota is already taking high rank
In educational circles. According to n
late census bulletin she has 6f, $50 pupils
enrolled in her public schools. Minnehaha
county exceeds any other. her figure being
4,4l9, with Brown county next with 2,S46.
While the gain in the state in population
from lSS to 1890 was 234 per cent.-a gain
more than twice that Of any other com.
monwealth.
Mrs. Marie Winston, a widow lady aged
nearly So years. died at Aberdeen Sunday.
She W as en- route from Portland, Ore, to
Fremont. Neb., and during the journey
contracted pneumonia which resulted ia
tally at Aberdeen. An l:-year. old daugh.
ter and little son were with her.
Wool buyers from Philadelphia are al
ready travelling through North Dakota
making contracts to purchase wool mex,
summer. The Aocks of sheep are increas-
ing rapidly in the state, and the Fargo
Argus thinks q factory should be estab
lished and this business handled by home
parties.
The Good Templars In session at Aber-
deem considered the action Of the late
lower house In regard to resubmission
and resolved that It was an insult to the
intelligent voters of South Dakota.
A correspondent writing from Tyndall
says there Is q man In that county who al
lowed his daughter to die week or two
ago and refused to call in medical aid, al.
though n physician passed the door while
the girl was writhing In agony. He as
signed as the reason for such bsartless-
ness that the girl was weak and siskly ard
unable to do much work, SO lie preferred
that she should die and be out OF the way.
Such depravity in q civilized community
seems almost Incredible.