Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1891-10-24

day ana nlght TO keep up Win the uc
mand
Glib Dziewanowslii has been placed in
nomination for commissioner il Sanborn
county
II. Gamble, young man about % years
of age, died at Westport Thursday of ty.
phoid fever.
Six tailors employed by Olson " Kpell.
man, at Fargo, are out on II strike for
higher wages.
Thirteen cars of cattle were wholly con.
sumed by fire in a railroad accident near
Fargo last week.
The management of the grain palace at
Planliinton have decided to hold it open
one week longer
The total losses Of the North Dakota
Alliance Hail Insurance company are
S36,61S i6 for the year
Henry Wilbur, of Brown county,
thrcshed 300 bushels of wheat from $50
acres.
+. T. Evans opera house at Hot Springs
has been rented for u term of court at IS a
day
Every South Dakota paper reports de-
partureS for Sioux City to see the Corn
Palace.
Hand county will vote on a proposition
to buy n 81. 600 we'll outfit to put down
wells for stock, etc.
From $4,000 to $1,000 sheep have been
shipped into Edmunds county within the
past two weeks
a w Ransom has purchased a onc-half
interest in the Redtield Journal and the
firm name will be Gcddcs g. Ransom.
Indians are supplying the market at
Fort Pierre with an immense amount of
wood. which they sell as fast as they can
deliver the same.
Pine Ridge agency Indians have mar
keted over 5,C0J bushels of wheat of their
ow growing at the towns adjacent on the
reservation.
John Bodamakcr, while stacking grain
near Abercrombie fell from the stack
upon an upturned fork. There are doubts
as to his recovery
A farmer in Bottincau county objects TO
the slaughter of prairie chickens on the
ground that they are great grasshoppcr
dcstroyers.
The South Dakota Stock Growers as
sociation is doing good work Its next
meeting will be held on the 18th inst. at
Custer.
Fred T. Evans, president of the South
Dakota's worlds fair commission, is re-
ported TO be opposed to "A separate exhibit
for tho Black Hills.
a young daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
Richard Lawless af Madison, last week
suffered the fracture of her left arm by
falling from horse.
A disastrous prairie fire is raging in
Emmonds county. The eastern end of
the county has been swept by flames, en-
failing losses of over $l00,0O0.
Bills have been presented TO the county
commissioners for over S400 for the liquor
rrerfruirfng the 'Iasf dnafrGf: ''"'" IA
The farmers between St Mary's and
Roosevelt who lost property a few weeks
ago by the prairie fire set by the Milwau-
llee road, have all received ample pay for
the property destroyed,
The superintendent of the Pierre Indian
school is having trouble with the large
! boys, who run away whenever occasi II
| offers. In the future they will be confined
in the guard house.
The first election in Beadle county un-
der the Australian system will cost the
| county $500, and for each succeeding year
| the expense will be about $500.
The army post at Fort Bennett has been
abandoned. The company of infantry sta
toned ut that point will be sent TO Fort
Yates and the troop of cavalry to Fort
| Meade.
SO far this season there has been shipped
from Belle Fourche station, on the Elk.
horn road, l,SS2 cars containing IS, 57s
head of stock, against 1915 cars carrying
27,6l5 head of stock last season.
A man belonging to IA thrcshing crew
working near Vienna had his arms broken
while endcavoring to stop the cylinder by
hanging onto the belt after it had been
thrown off the engine pulley.
The gambling houses in East Grand
law against gambling will be strictly
enforced. 1t seems that the big harvest
has attracted to the northwest scores of
gamblers, pickpockets, swindlers, etc.
Clerk of Courts Drisco.i Mt Deadwood,
has received IA letter from Palmer 81
Rodge, attorneys at Sioux Falls for Mrs
James G. Blaine in the suit she has
brought for divorce, inquiring as to when
the different terms of court are held in
that circuit.
Miner county, reported by the Howard
Press: Henry Gossman threshed two
acres of wheat that measured forty-seven
and one-half bushels to the acre and
weighed out fifty-five bushels. John
Schoos thrashed forty acres that yielded
an average of thirty-two and one-half
bushels per acre.
The county commissioners of Hughes
county have refused to allow all of the
bills in the liquor prosecutions that have
been going on in that county for the past
few months. This has disgusted some of
the county officials, and hereafter they
may refuse to serve papers.
The boa:d of commissioners of Miner
county has resolved to submit to the voters
of that county on November 3 next the
question of calling al extra session of the
Legislature for the purpose of making an
appropriation of $50. 600 to defray the ex-
penses of state exhibit at the worlds
fair
Commissioner Harmon, of Cass county,
says that grai.s in the Red river valley Is
in bad condition. Not over 25 per cent
has been threshed and n large per cent of
the unthreshcd is still I'm shock. There
has been no clear weather for about ten
days and wheat is beginning to sprout
Howard Democrat: A. L. McCloud OF
Villas, who has Iented land the last year
from l. p. Christianson, with his two boys,
says he will clear 5000 this year over and
above all expenses. He has about 20 ,
acres of wheat, besides barley, oats, corn
and potatoes. Some people say 1t don't
pay to farm, but Mac says it Is good
enough for him.
The Huron Times says: "Ihe sheep In.
dustry is one of the saving industries OF
South Dakota 1t tends to diversity agri.
culture. In the drye,t years, in the dryest
districts of South Dakota the sheep farm.
ers have actually made money. Every
worthy farmer can get start in sheep
South Dakota ought to be the first state In
the union in sheep raising within five