Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1891-08-15
Dickey county, that suffered SO severely

| butlS COuutN DlOEc UDllcS Ol trTl-
eating canals and more reservoirs than
any other county in the state.
The tools used by the five desperadocs,
who escaped from the deadwood jail, were
a hickory stick and case knife.
The new water works system at Canton
| was officially tested Saturday, and tie
/ day was made one of pleasure.
| If Watertown will furnish n room and
invest $50 in few instruments she can
have IA government signal station.
II is thought in Sioux Falls that the
foundation for the government building
will be laid before the snow flies.
! The Dell Rapids Times prints list OF
twenty-five farmers who have made sue
cess of farming in Minnchaha comfy.
Judge f. q. Smith, of Yankton, who was
appointed a member of the board of the
Nermillion university, has declined to
serve.
A reward of 800 each is offered for the
pture of the two prisoners that escaped
from the Dcadwood Jail and are still at
large.
An actress at the Gem thcater in Dead
wood by accident took an overdose of NOR
phine for an aching tooth and came near
dying.
Arthur Dennis, of Sioux Falls, has n
badly mashed hand, the result of being
caught in the machinery at the polishing
works.
Belle Fourchc is already talking about
having water works and electric lights.
1t doesn't take very long to make n town
in the Black Hills.
| Minnesota is short on laborcrs. Every
man who will work can find employment
there. Harvesting, cattle shipping and
| coal mining is the cause of 1t.
| a Sioux Falls contractor says there is
no excuse for men being idle in that city,
and that there will be plenty of work for
everybody till the snow flies.
Hon.John Reagan, of Eureka, member of
the last legislature from Mcpherson
county, vas united in marriage Wcdnes.
day to Miss Gcrtie Kniokerbocker.
The postofliccs of Hopeland and Slick.
Hand county, have been discontinued
The Hopeland mail goes to St. Lawrence,
and the Slick mail to Washington.
George Reistal, n private in company F,
was arrested at Grand Forks and placed
| in Jail. HIS uniform was taken from him
Oh account of his unsoldierly conduct.
II, L. Loucks wears for watch charm
one of the black balls that was used by
the members of the Minneapolis board of
trade to deny his application for member
| ship.
The second annual reunion of the Vet
erans and Sons of Veterans association
was held at Oalies the % inst. Hon. j. ii.
Worst and Judge Bartholomew were the
orators.
Hunting parties TO go out for chickens on
the 10th of next month are already being
formed in Yankton. The crop of chickens
like other South Dakota crops, Is said to
be very large.
A carload of Newcastle coke was re-
Gently sent TO Chicago to determine how
much of the heavy and ash producing parts
can be removed by running it through
centrifugal machine.
The Indians are bringing in great guam
titles of buffalo elk and other bones to
Minot. Over l20 carloads are now await
ing shiument Mt that point. Buyers pay So
a ton for them on the spot.
Custer, not TO be outdonc in the summer
resort business, has al artificial lake at
what is called Sunday gulch, and report
says 1t is thirty feet wide and . mile long.
1t is about six miles from Custer.
The frame work and two stories of the
addition 20 the capitol buildingJat Pierre
are now up and work is progressing very
rapidly. 1t will not be long before the
state officers will be quartered in their
new home.
Jacob Ridgeway, of Minnesota, was
| leading couple of bronchos when he be-
came entangled in the rope and they ran
away with him. He was dragged several
hundred yards before he got loose and sus-
tanned dislocated shoulder and was badly
bruised.
Mrs. H. l.. Livingtone had Mayor Sol
Star and the Deadwood city council and
j. H. Damon, contractor, arrested,
charged with trying to deprive her of
quartz claim known as Rose lode. The
trouble grew out of an attempt of the city
authorities to extend and improve u street.
An Elk Point couple married themselves
the other day without inviting the aid of
either magistrate or priest, by drawing up
and signing q formal contract of marriage
in presence of witnesses. The modern de-
mand seems to be not so much for uncere-
monious methods Of tying the knot, as for
some easy plan of untying it.
An unfortunate young lady, after fruit
less search for employment in Canton,
asked for nights lodging at the home of
a city official, which was granted The
young woman was taken Ill during the
night, and now the charitable ladies of
Canton are caring for her and child few
days old.
The Indian bureau has recommended to
the secretary of the interior the establish.
ment of an Industrial training school on
the Rosebud agency, and the expenditure
of at least $4,000 in the erection of a
school building. The bureau has also
recommended the extension of the school
at Pine Ridge to accommodate the grow
ing number of pupils.
young couple from Terraville APP
peared before a minister on the belt Thurs.
day evening for the purpose of having the
matrimonial knot tied. The reverend gen.
tleman promptly called for their license
and was informed that they had left it at
their home in Terraville and the friends of
the couple guaranteeing that such was a
fact, he performed the ceremony and they
went home happy The minister called on
the newly welded pair the next morning
and papers were given him which proved
to be the naturalization papers of the
groom, who, thinking these papers suf-
ficient, had secured no license. After
some difficulty and much embarrassment
the parties went to Deadwood and made
matters right.
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DISCOURAGiNG TO THE SIOUX.