Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1891-06-20

Prof. k"uuard, superintendent of the
Pierre public schools has resigned.
A $}S nugget of gold was found near n
Dcadwood livery stable the other day.
The annual salary of the mayor of Sioux
Falls is not enough to pay his poll tax.
Twenty thousand dollars in premiums
are offered by the South Dakota state fair.
Brookmga correspondent says peace
reigms supreme at the agricultural college.
The Dakotas are each TO have $4,000 ont
of the next apportionment for public land
surveys.
EX-Gov. Hoard, of Wisconsin, will adj
dress the meeting of the State Dairymen's
association at Grand Forks.
Several sections of North Dakota school
lands were sold in Walsh county and the
average price per acre was $3.50
An attractive program has been arranged
for the Black Hills Chautauqua assembly
which convcneS at Hot Springs.
John l.. Johnson. who was arrested at
Lead City at the instance of Miss Anna
Viberg for seduction and breach of prom,
Use, settled his case by marrying the plain
tiff,
y company is being organized at Water
town under the name of the Watertown
Land and Improvement company, one OBJ
ject of which is to secure the state univer
sity.
Crow Walker, Sioux Indian, who has
served one year in the Sioux Falls pcnten.
tiary for stealing &l2 from missionary.
has completed his term and gone To joIn
Plenty Horses.
frbtrt,. + Ia, L., H., W
over their signatures, protest against the
'falsehoods concerning respectable
women which emanatcd from Mrs Mari.
eta NJ. Bones. They constitute the w. II.
C., which Mrs. Bones denounced.
Nearly 1000 people attended the first
pioneers association excursion TO Custer
from Deadwood, Lead City, Central, Fena
vile, Whitewood, Spearfsh and Sturgis
a roasted was served on its picnic
grounds and all the excursionists had
good time
As the result of an old feud George Lea
plant, half-breed, and George Jackson
fired eight shots at each other, IN Fort
Pierre, at short range, without serious
harm.
outHs leit mSrSS &riSaS " NOW nSrr,nu Il, Nv,
covered wagons to begin surveys in Scobey
and the northwestern portion of Sterling
counties.
The Watertown Public Opinion has un-
dertalieu the job of marrying off several
old maids in that town. If it succeeds the
editor will have secured additional laurels
as an organizer.
Sixty Indian children from the Pierre
Indian school participated in the Memor-
ial day exercises in that city 1t is the
first time in history that the Indians have
taken part in such exercises.
The Glendale Commercial is trying to
work up a marriage boom in that county.
The editor gives years subscription free
to each lady school teacher who gets mar
ried before January |, 1892.
A Lead City married man was having
what he called a good time in one of the
fascinating resorts of that city the other
night, when his wife appeared ON the scene
with club and knocked him out in the
first round
). Barlidoll put in a blast in his coal
mine near Dudley, and, after waiting a
reasonable time, thought it had gone out
and went into the mine to investigate,
when the blast went off. He received "A
broken arm and had injuries about the
head, but may recover.
Bishop Walker is holding services in
South Dakota for Bishop Hare, who is in
Japan. On recent trip to Standing Rock
Indian agency he baptized three pap
pooses, six boys and girls, four adults and
married several couples also made
arrangements 10 build a new church there
A. d. Headley. an old ranchman who re.
sides on the Cheyenne river few miles
above Hat creek, was shot by someone
lying in ambush a few nights since while
out looking after his stock The bullet
took effect in his leg and for awhile it was
thought amputation would be necessary.
Ranchman Balau and wife while fording
Willow creek above Pierre, which was i'm q
swollen condition, came near losing their
lives. The wagon was upset and the
horses carried down stream and drowned
Balau and his wife saved their lives by
swimming.
John Lewis Johnson, of Deadwood. has
been sued by Miss Anna yeborg for breach
of promise. He was bound over i'm the
sum of 81 500 to await the action of the
grand jury.
A business man of Lead City recently
established a matrimonial bureau, and his
first application for husband is from u
woman living near Lead, who describes
herself as being as poor as IL church
mouse; is something over six feet tall and
weighs less than l20 pounds; is attractive.
but has no particular accomplishments :;
wears No. 8 shoe, shutters, and is capable
of making any mans home happy.
Joseph FELTON,, who was shot near View.
field in n qnarfel with young man over o
dog, died from the effects of the wounds
received The young man is still Mt large
The order for the removal Of the bodies
of the volunteer soldiers of the Thirteenth
Wisconsin and other regiments, who were
killed by Indians in 1865, from the posi-
cemetery at Fort Rice to the Custer battle
ield cemetery in Montana, occasions
much regret in North Dakota G.. A X
circles. A delegation has been instructed
to cal upon the secretary of war and ash
for suspension of the order until after
the annual meeting Of the national en-
campmcnt of the G. A. r.
The latest blind pig device at Bismarcl;
Is row Of boxes arranged like n post.
Office. The thirsty patron purchases a
key with number on IT corresponding to
one ON % box; the rest Is easy.
Cousiderabl, indignation is expressed
by the neighbors of Il. s. Jenner, who com
mitted suicide near Mitchell, over his
treatment by his wife and son. They claim
that Jenner, who was partially blind, was
to live at home and live among
disposed ncighbors, and finally
to end his troubles he ended his life. His
wife refused to see him on his death bed
and she and her heartless son have been
invited TO leave the country.