Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1891-06-27

Gurretson will hold town meeting
Wednesday evening to take steps toward
Incorporation.
Citizens of East Pierre have organized a
campaign against cats aud the Iat-catch-
rrs are being killed off
Children's day was observed in the Bap-
tist and Methodist churches of Sioux Falls
iunday.
The register Of Deeds of Brown county
las recorded 2.S53 chattcl mortgages since
January L.
The wants of Mitchell according to the
Republican, are Il first class hotel and an
opera house.
Charlie Long, a well-llnown Chinaman
IF Lead, has left for his native land, where
Te will be married.
Quite IA number of young cattle have
aied of black leg recently in the herds near
clifton, Sully county
The county officials of Turner county
and McCook county are matched to play n
t'ame of ball July 1.
Honorable Robert Buchanan. of Sioux
Falls, will deliver the Fourth of July ora
tion at Valley Springs.
William G. Nisbet has been appointed
postmaster at Dell Rapids in place of
Harry Riley, removed.
Union county commissioners have hired
for several years back.
Professor Q. H. Haasalud, of Casselton,
y. d., has been chosen principal of the
Woonsoclet public schools.
Okoboji boys put in their spare time
catching young prairie dogs, for which
they find ready sale at 30 cents a pair
II is estimated that single artesian
well in FauJk county has increased the
market value of the lands it irrigates
sG4O.00O.
A new $4,000 hotel and bath-housc will
De built at Hot Springs. 1t will he five
stories high and have all modern con-
venicnccs.
Hermosa will celebrate the Fourth Of
July with an old-fashioncd basket picnic,
with speeches, music, games
and horse races
w. H. Nichols, an insurance agent, was
BADLY injured at Henry by his team run
ming away and throwing him into barb
wire fence.
IF Thomas Burridgc, Of Langford, was
killed by a window falling upon her head
rs She was getting into the school house
There was severe storm through Cava-
!ier, Walsh and neighboring counties Fri
day night Much damage was done in
some localities. AT Edinburg IA large elc-
gator was struck by lightning and con
sumed.
ID. Unruh, of Childstown, put 200 of his
best ewes with lambs in his barn the other
night, out of the rain. He forgot TO leave
any of the doors or windows open and in
;he morning he found $50 ewes and 20
lambs dead from sutfocation
The auditor of LaMourc county says
lhat in his opinion the state board of equal
zation has no authority to fix the assess
nent of sheep at s. per head. LaMour
rounty believes in assessing its sheep at
II to 81 so per head.
Col. l.. ID. Lyon, of the South Dakata
division, Sons of Veterans, has issued
division order No. 3, series of 1891, taking
command, announcing the colonel's staff.
etc. Col. Lyon urges to renewed life and
activity throughout the division.
Professor A. Il. Specr, of tn, Devils
Lake daaf and dumb institute, says he has
.lirty-six applications for admission next
year. There have been twenty-threc pu-
pills in attendance during the present term,
which closed Friday. The new building
will be ready for occupancy for the open
ng of the fall term, September 5.
~ No
discovered formidable enemy of the po-
tato bug. 1t is another bug which devours
all the potato bugs it can get, and il gath
crs them in the field. This will be good
news to the small boys who have been
to bug the potato patch ever
since the potato bug was invented.
The Darlington Independent reports an
experiment being tried ia that county tlat
will be watched with interest 1t saws:
''William Jones, of Glenfeld, has put In
$50 acres OF grain this year that he will
cultivate He sowed the rows eighteen
inches apart. The experiment will be
watched with considerable interest by
other farmers.
Mrs. Chaska, the white woman who
gained considerable notoriety at the time
of her marriage to a Sioux Indian, was in
Canton Thursday enroute from the east to
her home on the reservation.
a young man named Roberts while
drunk went TO the James River house in
Yanllton and demanded something TO
drink, and because he couldn't get it be-
came cnraged and fred off his revolver
promiscuously. No one was about the
hotel at the time but Mrs Schneider and
her daughter and they were frightened
into Mysteries. Several of the shot barely
missed the daughter.
Sam Clover will ride over South Dakota
look for the Chicago Herald.
w. III. Kephart, well Known to the news
paper fraternity of South Dakota, is now
business manager of the Knoxville, Tenn
Journal.
The Rapid City Republican has informa-
tion that Colonel Robert q. Ingcrsoll will
soon visit the hills to invest in some
mines.
A special feature of Deadwood's Fourth
Of July celebration is to be fireman's
tournament with s5,0O0in cash prizes. A
special 800 prize is offered to any tenn in
eastern South Dakota that will go there
and win first money in the hose race.
The old settlers Of Turner county will
hold their annual picnic in Andrews
grove, in Spring Valley, June "a.
The last bulletin of the South Oak ota
Agricultural college and experimental
station is from the veterinary department
and treats Of ''glanders."
Israel Davy, who dcfrauded the Drake
of Sioux Falls, while in its cm-
pley, is now hopelessly insane and lock, d
up In an asylum ut Rochester, N. Y.
Il. II. Martin, of Fort Pierre, while cross
Ing the river In a skiff was swept under
the pontoon bridge and would have been
drowned il rescue had rst been near at
hand.