Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1891-03-07
THE DAKOTAS.

Aberdeen is TO have shoe factory with
. capacity OF 800 pairs of shoes per
day.
The Homestake Mining company paid
| 81, 13l "a taxes in Lawrence county this
year.
The county commits ssioners of Miner
county have reduced their per diem from
/ So to $3.50.
A project is on foot TO build 500, 900
building for the Baptist university ut
Sioux Falls.
Comm sstoner of Public Lands Ruth has
been offered $50, ,000for one piece of land
| owned by the state.
| The Yankton cement works has more
orders than it can fill. 1t has an output Of
800 barrels per day.
Olivet has the largest dog in South Da'
kota. He weighs l51 pounds and is of the
English mastf breed.
A. j. Ross has invented new artesian
well boring machine, which will he manu-
featured in Sioux Falls.
The latest novelty in Bryant is walk
ing saloon-a man with high top boots
filed with pint bottles,
Not Il single life was lost by railroad sc-
oident in South Dakota IN 1890, although
they carried 155, S6 passengers.
Myron Willsie, of Rapid City, the mine
superintendent, had the honor of being
the chaplain of the third house.
Peter Ha s. late of the Lennox In de pen
dent, has bought and will run the Dakota
! Deutsche Ietung of Sioux Falls.
w. j. Holton, of Holton Bros, mer-
chants, II Huron, and member of the board
of county commissioners, was married TO
Ida J. Wedger, at Viola, Miun.
At Huron on the oath sixteen carloads
of sheep arrived. They came from Colo
RADIO and Ne ebraska, and numbered 300.
They were sold to farmers in that locality.
The insurance companies are notifying
| their agents that while the valued policy
is now pending in the legislature not TO
issue any new policies or renew any old
ones.
Alex Donefson and Peter Bergen, both
! of Garretson, have been arrested by the
United States authorities for selling liquor
in Garretson without "A government IL
cense.
So many applications have been received
already at the Brookings Agricultural col
lene that it will be impossible to aecommo-
date all the students a. the college during
the coming torn.
The board of trustees Of the town of
Clark has made a contract for an artes an
well, work to commence May J. 1891, The |
agree ment calls for 500 feet, unless o Bow |
Is sooner secured.
John II. Miller who escaped from the |
Brown county jail Decein Der /, has been |
recaptured at South Bend, Ind e., and !
lodi IN, Foil He
stay nine months for grand larceny.
John Brooke died in Vermilliou town
ship, Clay county, on the 18th, agei about
G5 years He came to Dixon county, Ne |
braska, thirty-three years ago, but for
fourteen years had lived in Clay county
Hon. b. b Powell, representative from
Lake county, and Miss +. l., Niiloughby. !
Of Madison, were united in marriage at
Huron February -, by Rev. d. T. New
house, pastor of the Methodist church.
1t is rumored that the late Ira a. Clark,
ESQ, who was killed in Boston in arsit-
J days previous TO his death the Syndicate
block IN Sioux Falls, OF Theodore Gerrish
| 7, Dick Archer, formerly station agent
of the Chicago and Northwestern at HUI
ron, recently died in California where lie
u.
| was well known in railway circles in the
| west.
Mrs. Orlin Royce, of Carrots on, has
made application before Judge Parliman,
at Sioux Falls, to be appointed guardian
over the property Of her usbaud who
was recently ad judged insane and sent 10
! Eankton.
| II. J. Hewett of Wakonda, lost his wife
! by death January TO- January 26 his
daughter Mary died In the Sth year of her
age, and February 2 his soa Arthur. In
his 10th year, was taken by death. All
! died of diphtheria.
The state encampment of the South Da-
kota G.. A. II. will be held at Yankton
| March %, 20 and ~. At that time will also
occur a reunion of the First Dakota cav
airy. 1t will be the first reunion of this
command hell since the war.
| Charles Buss, the man sho shot and
killed d. A. Shannon, tie .ews agent, on
a Northern Pacific train a short time a 90,
has been declared crazy by the Billings
county board of insanity and will be con-
fined in the jamestown asylum.
The annual oratorical contest between
the students Of the Sioux Falls university
will be held at the opera house next Fri.
day evening, February ~. This is one Of
the events of the yeari which have always
been greatly enjoyed in the past
A Sheep and Wool Growers association
has been organized in Potter county, with
the following officers: President, n. Ring,
Arena township; vice president, S. +. Ed
gerton, Owatonna township; secretary ana
treasurer, 5 c. Leppelmsn, Gettysburg.
In Sphinx county nine artesian wells are
flowing or In process of boring. They will
water 1000 acres of land. The Chicago,
Milwaukee and ST. Paul and the North.
western Railroad com mpanies have encour-
aged farmers to make wells by bringing
in the machinery free of freight charges
A queer case Of hydrophobia is reported
to have occurred on the farm of William
Beele, near Vermillion. A dog got into
| his hog pen and bit sixteen amin ais, which
have since been shot. Some sixteen dogs
in the neighborhood have been killed be.
cause of the rabies.
The state engineer of irrigation. +. F. B.
Coffin, in his annual report says thst Sioux
Falls has an elevation of 1854 feet above
the sea. There is a rise at Salem, the ee.
vation going up to !,5l7 feet. Flandreau
is ,464 feet above Huron l,2S7. Brook
ings, 1895, Watertown, I,7a3, and Pierre,
l,43S.
Pierre Capital: "Compulsato meas.
ures are not entertained by the senator's
who oppose an "extortinous" rate OF In.
terest The words in quotation marks
may be new to some of our readers, but
not so to the grave an1 reverend senator's.
Last week there was organized In Supe-
rior, Wis, a DAKOTA club. the object of
which is to prom ote the interests Of the
Dakotas and to advocate their prosperity.
Any person living in Superior and hailing
from the Dakota banana belt, is entitled
to become n member. e. NJ. Hills, for
merly Of Sioux Falls, Is one Of the organ
izers Of the club, and aided in drafting the
| constitution.
| The school land Of Clay county 10 to be
offered for sale at yermillion March 20.
There are 1900 acros Of the best soil In
the county comprised In the holding.