Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1891-08-01

A dozen new buildings are being built at
Belle Fourche. A Giles has been mp.
pointed postmaster and boring will soon
commence on an artesian well
Michael Toole, of Aberdeen, convicted
of attempted rape on the person of SER
want girl, has concluded to pay his fine of
$500 and costs, about 81 500 in ALL
John Hart, living on the Cheyenne not
far from Rapid City, was compelled to
shoot three horses on account of injuries
they had received in the recent hail
storm.
The shop of Gunder Gunderson, gun
smith, Sioux Falls, has been burglarized
by bold, bad burglars four times in four
years. Saturday night the nocturnal
thieves secured about 800 worth of re-
volvers.
Two hundred head of roundup cattle
were drowned in the Belle Fourche river
while they were being driven across dur
ing heavy rainstorfn. Two of the horses
ridden by the herders were drowned, but
their riders escaped.
Jimmie Bell, night clerk of the Dakota
hotel in Grand Forks, has just received n
certified check for $4,000 as n birthday
present from his father, who lives ut Fer
gus Falls, MINI.
Iti said that the effect of the new school
law is the breaking up of the township sys-
tenn and the division of the schools into
separate independent districts, greatly
multiplying the number of officers and
consequent expense of administration.
Orson W. Cochrane. of Ipswich, was
| driving a cow ani riding in n road cart.
| The pony made n quick turn, and as Mr..
Cothrane weighs $50 pounds, the result
was disastrous The gentlemen luckily
escaped without any broken bones.
Some Sioux Falls citizens are trying to
effect an arrangement whereby the Pal.
mer license system" will be tried as an ex'
| pertinent. The Committee of One Hun
dred has been asked to keep hands off
pending trial of the system, but the COM
mittee fatty refuse to be parties to the
deal.
The land department at Washington has
refused to receive homestead filings on
lake beds in this state when the original
survey returned them as lakes. These dry
beds may be resurveyed by the surveyor
general, and if then returned to the depart
ment as agricultural lands they will be
subject to entry.
| The Sturgis Advertiser learns that Jack
Hale will shear about 1000 head of sheep
this year. He is having excellent luck
with his flock. the increase being 1900
lambs from 800 ewes. At 2 months old
the lambs are worth Sl75 and the clip will
net nearly 81 per head, which will aggre-
gate an income this season of over 5000.
The sheep industry pays big in South Da-
kota.
The Alpena artesian well had 10 be
abandoned at n depth of 730 feet. A
stratum of fine gravel and sand was struck
that resisted the drill, and instead Of
going deeper the hole had filed up seven
ty-fve feet before it was abandoned
NJ. Griggsby and others, Of Sioux Falls,
will fight the Minnehaha county commits
sioners on the $4,000 raise of their assess.
ment. The point they will make is that
the county board has no authority to raise
individual assessments which have been
passed upon by the city board.
| The dea In of Mrs. d. Peters at her resi-
dence eight miles north of Lennox last
week was caused by fright She saw heI
| sons team run away and the excitement
caused her dissolution. After the team
had been captured the son went to the
house where he found his mother sitting
in a chair looking about wildly. She was
questioned as to what was the matter and
| she said she was going TO die and gave
| directions as to how and where she was to
! be busted, who were TO be her pail bearers
and all the particulars of her interment.
Then she turned to her son and said: "Oh,
Willie, IL you hadn't let that team run
away should not have had TO die" She
remained in that queer condition for three
hours incoherently talking of strange un-
seen things and then passed away.
A post horse that entered the speed ring
on the Fourth at Sturgis, proved to be
high flyer. When coming in on the home
stretch he became unmanageable, left the
track and jumped over a farm wagon con-
tanning four people. Strange TO relate,
neither the rider nor occupants of the
wagon were hurt, but the horse was pretty
we'll Jared up.
The law enacted last winter requiring
railway companies to construct fire breaks
along their lines is proving effectual. In
number of cases recently brought against
| the Northern Pacific for damages sus-
tanned from prairie fires the plaintiffs were
successful Since then the Northern Pa
cifc officials have gone vigorously TO work
constructing fire breaks, Us the law pro-
vides.
! Architect Schwarz, of Sioux Falls, has
received notification from the interior de.
partment at Washington that he has been
appointed architect for the Indian school
buildings to be constructed at Flandreau
this summer. There will be four or five
buildings in all, three of which will be for
school purposes solely. The notification
outlined briefly what was needed, which
was Dormitories for seventy-five boys,
dormitories for fifty girls, dining room to
hold 175 pupils, apartments for twelve en-
ployes, kitchen, laundry, infirmaries for
boys and girls, four or five recitation rooms
and an assembly room which will hold 115,
with shops and barns. The total cost of