Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1892-07-16
DAKOTA.
Madison's lady band has been reorgan.

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The second telegraph wire between
Sioux Falls and Mitchell has been COM
2leted.
A smooth burglar picked tho lock on
Yankton's bastile and bid farewell to the
town.
Hutchinson county will probably have a
A fight his all over relocation of the
county seat.
Sixty thousand dollars was refused for
stone district.
The Park,ton Touring mill, costing &c.,
D0, will be ready for the machinery in q
couple of weeks.
Peter Runick, n furniture dealer OF
Bryant, committed suicide by hanging
himself in an clubhouse.
Miss Minnie Mcintyre, daughter OF
Gon. william Mcintyre, the Watertown
boomer, has married DIR. Finnerud.
The |. o. o F. lodge at Salem will build
Itself n home. 1t will be n two-story
structure and will be built of Spencer
granite.
The Redlield and Yaukton catalogues,
and that of the state university, make n
gerry satisfactory showing of progress and
prosperity.
Frank Weston, living ut Pierre, had n
pistol which he didn't know was losded,
md "a a o-anaaanapos - -h-tA.--~nf IN
The stomach.
The income of the Yankton postofice
Tor The coming year has reached the
amount necessary to entItle the city TO
tree delivery.
The school census of Brookings, just
completed, shows AS Of n school age re.
siding in the district, n notable increase
over any previous census.
1t took thirteen days to make a trip by
boat from Rapid City, on Rapid creek, in
the Black Hills, to the mouth of Emanuel
creek, near Springfield, on the NJ ssouri.
A recent discovery of galena ore is re-
ported from Bear Gulch. The ore lies in
the lime foundation and is vertical The
owners are confident of opening up a big
mine.
The A. o. L. w. of the two Dakotas will
meet at Redfeld On August 8 for the pur
pose of clecting n grand mas er workman,
The supreme lodge having declared thai
office vacant
The prospect Of n county seat fight in
Hutchinson county will probably cause
considerable strife, and If n vote Is taken
Hutchinson county will cast over 1000
votes in November.
While Pukwaua was celebrating the
Fourth four robbers took occasion to ran.
snck n jcwclry store, but they were spotted
and captured by u conductor while on the
rain ut Kimball.
The Masonic order of Deadwood con.
templates building a temple that will cost
hem So, 600. 1t is to be constructed of
stone and iron and will be a handsome
edifce, an honor to the great society.
The total postal revenue of the Sioux
June 80, 1892, was s2l, 900 10, an increase
over the previous year of $1,000. The
amount of cash handled In the money or
der department was sll0, 000, an increase of
$40, 100 over last year.
United States Commissioners Lyons sug-
gcsts to the council of Sioux Falls, as o
a~olution of prohibition, that the city en-
gage in the saloon business and pocket
the proceeds. He thinks the city would
NV S9OtNbO a NSels n SOLllhAklSS Il SOuslh-
cring the matter.
The increase In business in the follow
ing postofices In the stat, will secure an
Increase in salary: Britton, Canton, Cen
t~erville, Dell Rapids, De Smet, ~Flandreau,
Hill City, Hot Springs, Ipswich, Lead,
Madison, Milbank, Mitchell, Parker,
Scotland, Sioux Falls. Sturgis, Woon-
socket and Yankton.
Sales of school lands in South Dakota to
lie amount of sS50,OO0 nave been made
during the past eight months, or rather
since the date of assurance of last years
.rop in the state, which amounted in the
aggregate to nearly Sl25, 600, 00l. II crops
Of the present year should prove to be
equal to that of last year the late pur-
.hascrs of land will nearly or quite pay for
iheir lands from the 1879! crop.
Mrs. Maren Sorenson committed suicide
last week at the residence of her son-in-
law, fourteen milos southwest of Hurley.
She hung herself in the granary with n
:ope, choking herself to death, her feet
coughing the floor. Deceased has been
very d~espondent since the death Of her
Auop"ih1 HhN vi NV OSNosAOh "a II
Of q neighbor u few days since, she made
the remark that she would be the next one
to be buried.
The stockholders Of the Harvey Peak
company, consisting of Lord Thurlow,
chairman of the board of directors, Lon
don, England; j. Thomas, the largest
producer of tin in the world, Cornwall,
England; Henry Clnssen and ]. A. Ehret,
he wealthy brewers of New York; Drs.
c. Bruce, Veerdin Poadi, NJ. Bierrueger,
Lewis Clay, NJ. Wildin and G. Thurlow,
have arrived in the Hills for the purpose
Of making IN examination of the COM
papy's property.
Dendwood Times: Scul pier Riordan Is
At work upou a life-sized statue of Wild
Bill, which, with the Indian maiden, Min
nehaha, will be exhibited at the worlds
fair. The statue upon its completion will
represent the famous scout in full border
costume in the early days of the Hills,
buckskin suit, revolver and knives all
complete. The attitude of the statue will
be that of q man brought to bay with his
haud grasping his ever ready revolver
which reposes In its scabbard at it's side.
The statue will be Riordan's best as the
original of the subject was dear to him in
many ways,
ID. F.. Carey, section foreman on the
Northwest TN railroad at Salem, has just
made a strike that means several hundred
dollars to him. Mr.. Carey was In the
sicinity of Montrose and happened to
make some inquiries about IN eighty-acre
iract OF wild land lying northwest Of
Montrose. No one could tell him to whom
he and belonged. All that could be
found out about 1t was that in 1881 q party
lived on the place in question several
months and was generally supposed TO
nave proved up and moved away. Carey
wrote to the lane Office at Mitchell and
found out that no final proof had ever
Deen made.
Office Boy-There's a woman outside
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