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

DR.. &. b. Afford, of Huron, has resigned
{ his Office as member of the state board Of
charities and corrections
l.. ID. Lyon, editor of the Watertown
Public opon, will get 5000 coo ms his share
of an English estate.
Holt's elevator ut Bowdle went up in
smoke together with its contents, 6,00G
bushels of fax and 5000 Of wheat.
The state agricultural college at Brook
ings has leased n forty acre tract in Sphinx
county and will make test thereon OF
irrigation this season.
Mayor and Mrs. Peck, of Sioux Falls,
mourn the death Of 7-mont this old boy.
The saloon war progresses in Sioux
Fails. The air is full of talk about dam.
age suits for arrests.
Lennox claims the best creamery ia the
state.
The Ruralist is making arrangements to
print a German edition.
The married folks of Trenton have chal
lenged the school children of that town to
spelling contest.
Peter Il. Barrett is dead at Wessingt ton
Springs. lie was 5S years old, and has
ived in Jerauld county since 1878.
1t costs something to get drunk In Ips-
wieh. +. A. Stowe, of that town indulged
too freely in the flowing bowl, was ar
rested and resisted the officer. He was
fined 500 or 800 or fifty days in jail.
The winter has been favorable one for
prairie chickens, and If the season is favor
able for Matching the young there will be
more chickens in South Dakota next fall
than for many years.
Mora Marks" who will be remem-
bered as having written outlandish stoI les
about the condition of things in central
South Dakota year ago, has recently
married a Chicago newspaper correspond
Snt.
The minister at the Baptist revival meet
lngs In Plankinton caused some amuse-
ment the other night when he announced:
My theme for tomorrow evening will be
hell, subject in which you are all In
terested "
All chattel mortgages in South Dakota
must be released within thirty days after
satisfaction. Any mortgage or his agent
failing to comply with this provision will
be claimed guilty OF misdemeauor and
upon conviction punished by fine of no.
less than S5 nor more than $50.
j. d. Hin ckley, crop reporter for the
Milwaukee board of trade and other grain
concerns, has been looking over South Da-
kota for the past two weeks. He says
there are good indications of a favorable
seed-time and that the acreage Of grain
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 u great building boom in Dead
wood.
No street cars were run at Deadwood
Saturday. The tracks were buried be
meath six inches of mud.
A mountain lion made feast out of
dog belonging to i. c. Bowen, of Sun.
dance. Mr.. Bowen and IA ne eighEor traileI
the lion, found it and killed it.
Fifteen young men, whose ages ranged
from TO u, were arrested in a house OF
ill-fame at Rapid City Friday night. The
next day they were all heavily fined by Q
justice.
A crying need Of Lead and the Hills
country generally is good, pure and whole |
some milk. The stuff we have set before
called milk would disgust we'll bred
pig, says the Lead City Herald.
By the repeal of capital punishment at
the late session of the legislature, John b.
Lehman, who was sentenced to death by
a Custer county jury last fall, will escape
the death penalty. While his neck is
saved he will probably have to spend the
remainder of his days in the state pen item
tiary.
Victor Dorne, an old resident OF Dead
wood, Is insane, caused by softening of the
brain. He has been in failing health for
a number of years. Mr.. Dorne's demen.
tia has taken a peculiar form. He imag.
ines that he is in Pierre and welcomes
old friends as If he had not seen them for
years.
A strong organization has been formed
at Bismarck for the purpose OF wiping out
the saloons. Shibley's saloon, which was
the scene Of a shooting affray about q
week ago, was raded Saturday and five
cases of beer and several jugs of wine
seized. This is the first effort toward en-
forcing prohibition since the ad tournament
of the legislature.
The Brookings Press thinks It has found
the meanest man. It says: "A farmer
and 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 IN ade u sneak for
a hotel and got outside of dinner that
nearly bankrupted the house, while his
better half patiently aw waited his return"
The Fremont Elkhorn and Missouri
Valley railroad purchased le0 acres OF
land on Lower Falsebottom near Dead.
wood, and expected at some future time tc
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 mpany
would only don ate one lot. This angered
the church people, and now they propose
to establish n Town of their own ad joining
the railroad company's plat. 1t will be
called st. Onge
A paper is wanted ut the new town OF
Bellfourche, the end of tue Minnesels
branch of the Elkhorn.
According to the statistics as furnished
by the national board of health East.
Crank Forks is the healthiest city In the
United States.