Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1891-05-30
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kota agricultural farm at Fargo.
| A. NJ. Andrews editor of ihe Plankin-
ton Standard, will represent Pankinton
at the Yankton worlds fair convention.
The appointment of a superintendent to
fill the Vacancy at the Yankton insane hos.
pital will not occur until the eth.
A Sioux Falls policem an made an arrest
about 4 o'clock the other morning just TO
/ let people know he wasn't asleep on his
beat.
| The artesian bond election at Willow
Lakes was practically unanimous, only
three votes being cast against the proposi.
! tion.
! Tie once famous Mitchell team of fire
men has been G. organized and will send
first class team to the Sioux Falls tourna-
ment.
| South Dakota has sowed an acreage OF
one e-third more wheat this season than ever
before.
The flow of water aud pressure Of
Spring fields artesian spouter grows
greater
A contest case is before the Pierre land
office in which young lady jumped
mans claim.
Cattlemen in the Vicinity of Pierre re-
port their stock as in finer condition than
ever before.
Parker Buptists have new pastor. but
he can't find house to live in, and is com
| PEELED TO board around
| Hiram L. Briggs died in Yankton Thurs
day, aged 81 years He had been a m,in-
ber of the order of +. and A. Nj. for nifty
five years.
! Five hundred and six pupils were
enrolled in the Mitchell public schools for
tho month of 1pril. The schools are
reported in excellent condition.
&. IL. Lester and VIM. Kreager, two
Clear Lake farmers, have invested in u
steam plow and are now doing their plow.
ing at IA cost of IS ceuts per acre.
| The China Hall Crockery and Drug
company has been incorporated at Yank-
ton, with capital stock of $1,000. A. NJ.
Osgood is president aud ]. NJ. King, sec
retary.
! w. w. Barns married Miss L. X. Lee,
OF West Superior, Wis, at Wate rtown.
recently. 1t was quite a romantic match,
rs the groom had never seen his would be
bride until the night of the wedding.
| Professor J. X. Davis, superintendent
of the Sioux Falls schools, has resigned
and will quit whether his resignation is
accepted by the board or not. He can't
agree with the board as TO how the schools
should be conduct
| Upon the trial Of q saloonkeep per at Tyn
dali in the circuit court, IA question as to
the constitutionality Of the law passed
last winter TO secure prohibition was
raised and the court iutimated that the
point was we'll taken.
A batchelor living near Parkston con.
ceived a new plan OF getting wife, but it
didn't work. When he sent his eggs to
market he tabled one of them with an in.
scription Informing the young lady who
broke the shell that he was in want Of a
wife and she might address him at Parks
ton. 1t happened that an elderly mar
ried lady of Parkston was the purchaser
of the egg and she sent him postal card
saying that she could not comply with his
request.
Pupils in the Pierre public schools pro
vided a May party and entertained as
their guests forty five pupils from the
Indian school.
The prospects are that Yankton will
fall short of free delivery receipts about
81, 400 unless citizens try and use more
stamps before the end of June.
Professor Albert f. Foster. the Sioux
Falls bigamist, has been convicted In Cow
ington, KY, and sentenced to three years
in the penitentiary.
The Chamberlain we'll is now $50 eeet
tssfrrGGef Tie TFIsd drifting viii Continue until a
second flow is reached.
Iowa parties have bought all the surplus
hay product in the vicinity of Brookings,
and are holding and shipping it to Iowa,
leaving many dollars in the pockets OF the
farmers.
BY some means the North Dakota legis.
lature last winter failed to pass an appro-
priaton for the salary eff Professor Spear,
OF the DEVILS Lake deaf and dunno school.
James b. Fox, of Sioux Falls, has a
copy of the Frontier Scout, paper pub
lished at Rice Lake, ID. T., August 81,
, 1861, which he prizes very highly. 1t Is
a small newspaper, but Is filed with
original matter, mostly war and frontier
news.
Charles Warner, of SiouI Falls, captured
and put in cignr box what he thought
was a large spider, but when examined IL
was pronounced n young tarantula. 1t
was found in front of a grocery store. and
it is thought 1t was brought to Sioux Falls
in a bunch of bananas.
The grand jury In session at Sioux Falls
completed its lsbors Saturday, and as q
result seventeen indictments were found,
mostly against yiolatcrs Of the probibitory
law Before any arrests could be made
many Of the keepers Of hole In the walls
had left Oh a trip somewhere for their
health.
j. b. McCloud, Of Hermosa, shot a
peculiar bird the other day, which 10 very
much like seagull-web-footed, with
dark blue head, white neck and q blush.
| gray body.
Agent Lee and party have arrived at
Pierre to take the census Of the Indians OF
the ontire Sioux nation. They are required
10 Interview every Indian personally and
secure full facts.
William Aplsy, an employs of the Hart
ford tow mill, lost three fingers and had
| MS manu- terrioiy crusneu In the rollers OF
tho mill Friday. His clothing became
fast in the machinery and In attem pting
to jerk away bis hand was caught in the
coss.
| Frank Carlson, q school teacher of Oahe
was recently married, and while moving
to u new location on Cherry creek, suffered
the less of his household goods and wagon
by hre. He was compelled to leave his
wagon stack in the mud on The prairie and
60 for help. When he returned he found
the whole outfit had been destroyed by
| fire set by Indians.
In Grand Forks on Arbor day the schol-
ars Of the public schools engaged in vot-
ing contest for the most popular flower OF
the state of North Dakota. The wild rose
won, followed by the golden rod with 12s.
the pansy with 81, the violet with 80, the
red lily with 81, tho buttsrcup with 81 and
miscellaneous flowers e.
THE WORLDS DEBT.
Tho Old Globe Wonderfully Debt-Ridden