Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1891-11-28
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Custer lake will he improved and made a
summer resort.
hc Yankton fire department gives its
annual ball November %.
John Babb, living near Wakonda, raised
10000 bushels of grain this year
The officials of the Northwestern road
made "A tour of the Hills last week
Range cattle are in better condition for
winter than for a number of years.
Mrs Geo W. Pontine died ut Columbia
from consumption caused by la grippe
a band of robbers is operating at Valley
City.
a new hotel is projected at Fargo tc
cost 100000
Major Edwards new afteraoon daily
| paper at Fargo will appear this week.
The Hermosa Pilot is arranging for n
daily weather report and the customary
flags
w II. Waters house was destroyed by
fire at Miller, thought to be of ineendary
origin
l he first business house TO resume oper-
atious after the Buffalo Gap fire was n sa-
| loon
The states attorney in Rolette county
refused to prosecute farmers for threshing
on sunday.
The whole family of /. IL. Kintigh. near
Miller. were sick with diphtheria at once
Two children died.
Mrs Judge Nowiin died at Rapid City
on the 18th. The Judge is very i'll and not
expected To recover
fIh, Ehary,. rlt t.,h f..
years in Lead has been declared unsafe
and will be taken down.
Richmond Li.lcy has resigned and rec
ommended John Il. Vorhees as postmaster
at Andovcr, Day county.
The members of the Northwest Ne
braska Editorial association are enjoying
nm excursion through ,he Hills country.
Hankcy Bros. at Towncr lost 6iO head
of sheep in the storm They got into Deep
river and could not get out and were
drowned and smothered
The iewelry Store of IL. Levy, at Huron,
was burglarized of between 500 and 500
III goods including ABOUT $50 in cash
Three young Indian men are spending
the winter in Sioux Falls, two of whom
are Episcopal clergymen and one is can
didate for holy orders.
Robert B, Boyd, demcntcd soldier who
escaped from the home at Hot Springs. was
found in a canyon where he had taken
refuge He will be sent TO the Nankton
asylum
Hon. {. 4. Mccoy, of Aberdeen, is likely
To he appointed To the govcrnorship of Ok
lahoma, made vacant by the resignation of
Governor Steele
Martin Silrood, on n scventy-acrc farm
three miles west of Marvel. th-cshcd ffty-
three bushels of wheat per acre This il
the largest crop reported in North Dakota.
Phil Matthews, of Sykeston, lost forty
tons of hay and 600 bushels of wheat by
leaving n broom which he had used to
make n rebrcak inside the break The
fire from the broom was not all cxtn-
guished
The stones TO make the boundary line
between North and South Dakota are
nearly all set. Only twenty-five miles yet
remains to he completed.
Some of the staid old citizens of Yank-
ton were shocked because the girls in the
ole Oleson' show made too lavish a dis
play of hosiery and tights
Nearly all the buildings destroyed by
the recent fire at Buffalo Gap will be re-
built and in mony instances fine large
stone buildings will take the place of the
burned ones.
Nermillion believes she has a fire bug in
her midst Several haystaclls and barns
have burned recently and the citizens have
decided that the fires were set for the pur-
pose of plunder
The acquittal of Rev. Clifford, of Mil
bank, the alleged adulterer. is stirring up
much bad blood in that community. II is
said there has been but one conviction of
crime in Grant county.
Judge Edgerton has recently presented
the Sioux Falls university with valuable
cellcction of geographical maps, charts
ana photographs, callected by him while
in the United States senate
Jim Fluey, a Chinese merchant. was
burned out in the big fire at Buffalo Gap.
He takes his loss in matter of fact way
and said: Me all sanime us Mclean
man, dame foolee no insulsncc, all
rome"
Wesley Judd has disposed Of his inter
est in the rich Spokane river mine and
work has been resumed on n more exten-
sivc scale. Ore is again being Slipped to
TO the Omaha smelter. Judd was the dis
coverer of the mine.
The Marion Sentinel is authority for the
statement that paid emissaries Of the Chi
cago and Milwaukee anarchist societies
trying To plant their hcllsh doctrine in
Dakota soil by organizing secret societies
within the ranks of the independent party
1t is not the big beet that beats as a
sugar beet. Professor Shepard, chemist
of the South Dakota agricultural college,
says that the richest beet analyzed at that
station weighed only eleven. and three
fourths ounces.
A genius with a smelling process which
will extract s7l from a ton of ore which at
present yields but s4 is haunting the
Hills The Deadwood Pioneer says the
owner is entitled to life situation in an
asylum for the feeble minded
The editor of the Huron Huronitc is
learning how to keep hotel the Huronite
Office having been recently removed to a
fine large hotel building, which was
erected with the expectation that Huron
would be chosen the capital of South
Dakota
When Chct c. Brown. of Hazelton post.
office. Hanson county, went to call his
hired man Friday morning he found him
lying dead in the bed. He came from.
Michigan about one month ago and Ills
name is not known. lie left no letters or
papers To show who he was
Annie Vabayda, of Perth, was adjudged
insane and taken 20 jamestown. She is
the wife of farmer and mother Of three
children, the youngest 10 months old. Her
last a of insanity was to completely de-
stroy new granary on their place, work.
ing all night with an AK.