Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1892-02-06
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south Dakota Tribune.
An effort is being made to organize n G.
a. X. post Mt Carthage.
The Journal says Rapid City people are
too careless with regard 10 fire.
The young lady stenographers of Sioux
Falls will z We "a leap year ball.
An Incorporated company will put in q
Turkish bath house at Deadwood.
1t is said that there is positively not n
dwelling house to rent in Rapid City.
! The new Congregational church at Cen
t~erville will be dedicated next Sunday.
there are ffty-four boys and thirteen
| girls in the reform school at Pianiinton.
The Evans sandstone quarry at Hot
! Springs has n monthly pay roll of $1,000.
Andrew j. Orness, auditor of Bookings
county, died of consumption on the 18th
inst
An ordinance has been passed at Dead
wood prohibiting minors from entering sa-
looms.
Tophile Dubec, of Central, has IA record
of having lifted 1925 pounds on a testing
machine.
1t Is reported that n countless number of
pIulIlN NulShNhS AS" ONNl oAlhESNoNOA
the other day.
Willie Ferguson, a l7-year-old boy of
Wolsey, was arrested for tapping a till
and confessed.
spearfish and mutilated his pet deer so
that il will probably die.
Miss Maud Stevens, who teaches school
near Centerville, had her arm badly frozen
while walking to her school.
Wentworth Rice, an architect, broke his
leg In the chlorination works at Rapid
City, and was otherwise injured.
Papers are out for the arrest of Frank
f. Lake at Hot Springs, for having i'm
personated n United States officer.
Thirteen four-horse teams are kept busy
hauling ore from Annie creek TO the Key
stone chlorination works in the Hills.
Volante, the monthly journal of the Uni
versity of Sou h Dakota, has issued a
timely and interesting military number.
The Fort Pierre Fair Play man reflects
that "the man who never gives up misses
tho answers to some awfully good conun-
irums.n
The house of Martin Vested, nine miles
northwest Of Parker, was burned last
week and the family left in a destitute
condition.
1t is estimated that Bon Homme county
will furnish the eastern markets with
over 1000 carloads of stock during the
winter.
Alfred Dodd, living near Ethan, lost his
house and goods by fire, and was himself
Earipns1y burnaA In natt;pn htc fau1ily ont
of the house.
A staff 100 feet high will be erected at
Madison, from which the farmers for
some miles around may see the weather
signals.
Silver has been found in Bear Butte dis
trict, which has never been explored until
now, and great excitement prevails at hat
place at present.
A Salem man has invented q stove which
Is said to possess really wonderful quail
ties in giving the maximum of heat with
the minimum of fuel.
Centerville newspapers urge citizens of
that town to organize n building and loan
association instead of patronizing foreign
societies of the kind.
James Wilson, the promoter and one of
the heaviest stockholders in the Harvey
Peak Tin Mining, Milling and Manufac-
turing company, died III London of dropsy.
John King, IA miner living in the Bald
mountain district, attempted suicide by
shooting himself in the head because the
lady he loved Tilted him. He will recover,
and now feels much Inundated over his
foolishness.
A lumber of families have returned to
Codilgton county from Washington,
where they had gone TO improve their
fortunes. Similar reports come from
many other parts of the state and all seem
glad enough TO get back to South Dakota
again.
II NJ. Pickens, superintendent Of the
water supply for the Wyoming division of
the Burlington and Missouri, was thawing
out Il valve on n pumping engine when the
engineer turned on the steam and the
boiling water scalded Mr.. Pickens' head
terribly.
A number Of sheriffs in various parts of
the state who nave advanced money out
Of their own pockets for the purpose of
taking prisoners to the Sioux Falls peni-
thbl u oA NlS wv va "a q biN
are beginning to wonder whether they will
ever get their money back.
George Wilder, one of the solid and sub
~stantial farmers Of Hopper county, will
rent his farm and he and his wife will
take life easier. The editor of the Plank-
inton Standard remembers when George
came there ten years ago this spring and
paid his last rs cents for his dinner ut the |
Mansion house before leaving for his
homestead. Today he has n half section
of land all paid for, good improvements,
large amount of stock and money in the
bank.
A large mortgage covering sixty-four
extra large sheets of clo~sely-written
parchment was fled with Register Of
Deeds Lamb at Rapid City on Friday for
record. The mortgage is executed by the
Harvey Peak Tin Mining company Dim
ited,) of London, and is made to secure
the payment of ei,000,0O0. The money Sc
cured by this mortgage is to be used in
developing the ~company's property in
Pennington and Custer counties. The
document Is signed by Lord Therlow and
several other titled gentlemen in the old
country.
1t is proposed to hold q poultry show In
Woonsocket on Friday and Saturday Of
each week, and thus raise the standard of
poultry raising In that vicinity.
Barnes, the fellow who was mistaken for
Tascott. and held at Aberdeen, has gotten
into trouble Mt Milbank. He struck n man
on the head with a bay rum bottle, whom
he had just finished shaving, i~njuring him
severely.
The Mellette Tribune declares it Is q
very common occurrence to see frogs
swimming around in their artesian well
ditch, and that South Dakota Is not the
coolest country in the world, by any
means.
A Gettysburg woman went to q neigh
boris house for milk and was me by q
stream of hot water ut the door. The
woman of the house had been waiting for
a troublesome dog and was "a little too
hasty in her application of n remedy. The
victim was not seriously scalded, and an
explanation has smoothed things over.
Nicholas Larson, a l~6-year-old boy liv-