Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1891-03-14


contestants for pound master at Highmore
aud got a tie vote. Mccormack is a me IN
Der of the present legislature.
During the month of February there
was not case before Judge Hawkins,
Sioux Falls police magistrate. February
was short month, you know.
The postmaster at Sp1ttswood got lone
some staying out on the prair.e alone last
week and threw up his job The fixtures
were moved to the Bonils office,
McCook and Hansen counties will hold
a joint spring fair at Emory, March 2,
the object of which is to sell farmers
stock and machinery to the highest bidder
Court 10 in session at Huron. The
docket contains 20! cases, among which
are fourteen criminal There Is one muir
der case, one divorce and several whisky
cases.
Alex Donelson and Peter Bergen, both
Of Garretson. have been arrested by the
United States authorities for selling
liquor in Garretson without a government
license.
Thomas wilkins, of Blackfoot, Idaho,
after serving two years in the Sioux Falls
penitentiary as United States prisoner
on the charge of polygsmy, was asdischarged
Monday.
Dan Washburn, a prisoner In the South
Dakota penitentiary from Day county,
Washburn says he will reform. His crime
was robbery.
+. G job nson, . general all arou nd
newspaper man, who Is representing q
syndicate Of papers At Pierre, has been
presented with fine gold watch and chain
by his admirers
The Sioux Falls Gas company Is cogni-
rant of leak somewhere on their line and
25, 900 foet of gas is escaping daily. Four
men are searching for the break so me
ter can be attached.
The Big Foot band Of Indians which ar
rived at Fort Bennett last week consists OF
twelve men and sixty-four women, and
they make night and day hideous with
their lamentations.
Mrs. Florence Lassard died at Hot
Springs Monday In tbs tn year of her
age. She left six sons and one daughter.
At Redfern, a small station near Hill
City, Sunday morning a laborer named
Pat Gallagher was shot through the
stomach and probably fatally wounded by
the section boss, Mike Rooney, in an alter
cation about wages.
While Professor Bailey, late of the
School Of Mines at Rapid City, was in
Washington in charge Of the Indian Wis
itors, paper OF that city reported him a,
being q squaw man Of great influence be-
longing to the big Fish tribe.
The millers throughout North Dakots
have promised to do the hand some thing
to help the worlds fair commission. They
will furnish -four in all the most attrae-
tive shapes for making a good exhibit
The sheep raising industry 10 attracting 4
. great deal of attention In the vicinity OF
Highmore. Hon. James Mcdowell, Of the
Huron land Office, recently stocked his
ranch near Highmore with 500 fine sheep.
Stanley county wants the law repealed
on wolf scalp bounties That county has
been paying bountiss for scalps brought
from all over the reservation and realizes
she will have to 60 broke unless . changs
of the law 10 made.
The stage driver on tho Spsarfsh and
Miles City stage line reports that the man
Ferry, who mysteriously disappeared
from the government supply train en- route
70 Powdsrville, has been found. He had
become temporarily dementsd.
One Of the first houses ever built in Bis
marck was destroyed the other night By
Ars. In the early days IL was occupied a.
. government store. the proprietors doing
business Of $s)O,0Oo 20 sj50.OJ0 year.
Whsn the Northern Pacific railroad built
westward It cut OF their Black Hills
business, and the river business decreased
and the firm vanished. OF late yasrs the
building wss occupied ~ cigar manu-.
factory.