Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1891-01-31

The Union Labor Gazette and South
Dakota Agitator has made its appearance
at Mitchell The editors are E. S. John
son and John Nj. Pease.
J. s. fuckers stable and contents, in
cluding six Norman stations and driving
team were burned at Hermosa. Loss,
s4,t0n Incendiarism.
]. c. Terry, of Tyndall, who fell from
the tower of the hose house in Council
Bluffs while exhibiting his fire escape o
few weeks ago. has died of his injuries.
john Bushell, formerly a prominent citi-
zen of Sphinx county, who started a pro.
hibition organ at Seattle, Wash, has been
compelled to let the paper die for want of
support.
w. Perry, a former resident OF Wolsey,
but who four years ago removed TO Lamar,
No., recently died in the insane asylum at
Nevada, Mo, after many weeks of severe
suffering.
There is talk Mt Yaukton of suing Rand
McNally & Co. for damages. They pub
lished n railway guide crediting Hankton
with only 1000 population, while Mitchell,
was given 5000.
The authorities of Lead are promised
some fun in collecting the $50 yearly license
levied on Chinese laundrymen. John OBJ.
iects to dIscriml mlnation and says, "AIlce
white woman pay, me pay"
Colonel John II. Burns, OF Deal wood,
has prepared a lecture on the Indian stu
alton, which he will deliver in the eastern
cities He gath cred a good deal of data
a L., |.
cipant therein.
Petitions are being circulated in Charles
Mix county asking the county com ission-
ers to call q pecial election 20 deter mine
whether or not the county shall eXpend 81 >
600 in the purchase Of two or more arto.
sian well outfits.
An artesian gusher was struck last
Tuesday on the Kinds ranch near Woon-
socket. 1t is 3-inch bore 742 feet inches
in depth, and its pressure is estimated at
ll0 pounds. Its cost with ditch for inn,
mediate drainage, $40.
Fence posts are now in the marke. for
sale from Beadle county tree claims"
says e.! c Huroni,o ''Some things can be
done. Eut just give MS "A three-inch arte-
sian stream pouring in onto ten acres OF
trees Couldn't we talkf'
The Dakota Irrigation com pany ct Aber
deem has contract ID to sink three more ar.
tesian wells in Brown county. The com
pany hns n reasonable expectation OF put
ting down some twelve or fifteen wells
during The coming season.
In artesian we'll has been struck at @
depth of $50 feet ut Armour, which flows
about ! 400 gallons per minute. The first
night il inundated the south end Of Main
street, and lively work was required al
night to get the miniature flow under con
troll.
Miss II. p. Shepard, of Sioux Falls, ha'
gone to Pine Ridge, where she will ofrei
her services to the government rs n nurse
for sick and wounded soldiers in tn,
Indian campaign. Miss Shepard is
trained nurse with seven years hospita
| experience.
John c. Carne, at work in the 40O-foo
! level of the Homestahe mine, at Lead
walked into an open chute aud fell to tn,
800. foot level. lie was instantly killed
lie was an Englishman and recent ariv al
His age was 2S years, and lie leaves fam
lily in England.
r. j. Cooper the Deadwood agent of tht
! Wells Fargo express, was marriel OF
| Wednesday at Denison, la., to Miss Sadi,
Harker formerly manager of the Western
| Union Telegraph Office at Dead wood. The.
| go on a welding tour to California and OF
their return will reside in Dealwood.
Stock association will hold show a
Mitchell January q to 80. F. II. Shella
barger, of Let's, Ia, will be Judge Pre-
miums arc open to the world. Railroad
will give reduced rates. Z. A. Deane, o
Mitchell, is secretary.
South Dakota challenges the world t.
beat or even equal the following recorl
Christian Hanson, of Gem township
Brown county, is the owner of "a cow
years of age that has given birth to sever
calves in the past four years, all of whicl
are living and are called excellent stock
| Bulletin No ~ of the South Dakoti
Agricultural college experiment station, /
devoted to the sugar beet Il is pamph
let of twenty-eight pages, and contain
quite an exhaustive examination of tn
soil, method of culture aud analyses Of re
suits. Persons interested can obtain tn
bulletin free of charge by addressing tn
college at Brookings.
A blind man by the name OF H. A
Swedesburg was brought to Sioux Fall
from Valley Springs Friday and appllra
tion made to place him in the poor house
His son deserted him some time ago, goini
| to Texas, and it was seven days before /
| was discovered that the father was in tn
house during this time and was almos
starved to death. He is 20 years old an,
speaks bitterly of his sons desertion.
Judge Fuller is of the opinion tha
Mrs. Eckhardt, whom he sentenced las
summer to the penitcntiary for the nun
der of her hush in Faulk county, Is in
nocent of the crime says the Redfie
Journal. "The judge was of this opinion
we understand, at the time of the trial
and he gave her the minimum sentence o
the law, four years in the penitenti tiary
She has recently become insane, and it
likely that an effort will be made to secur
her pardon"
The North Dakota house has passed
resolution providing for the placing @
locks on the desks Of members Of th
house in order that their watches, tobacc
plugs, testaments, senatorial booms an
other articles Of vertu might not be cal
ried away. The Bismarck Tribune say
that double locks will be put on the desk
of democrats, so that any thing OF a liqui
and refreshing nature may not bc al
stracted.
Prince Bismarck's Wooing.
Prince Bismarck began his wooin: