Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1892-06-04
DAKOTA.

steaders.
j. w. Darlington, of Rcdfeld, took first
prize at the oratorical contest held at
Brookins.
Congressman Pickler has presented n
handsome flag to the Sons of Veterans ut
Flandreau
A female phrenologist Is examining the
knobs of the young dudes IN the vicinity
OF Mellette.
Six gold bricks, worth 5000, 900, were the
output of five mines In the Black Hills the
past two weeks.
Bookings is to have q sunitarium for
the treatment of alcohol, tobacco and
morphine habits.
Hay Is II scarce article iu Deuel. county,
this state. At Gary recently ten tons Of
wild hay sold for 500.
One hundred and forty firms are en-
gagged In horse raising in the Black Hills
and they own $500 head.
The butter and cheese factory Mt Do
land, Sphinx county, has been completed
and active operations have begun.
The Free Masons OF Sou h Dakota will
hold their annual meeting at Sioux Falls
this year during the month of June.
Ward Williams. Of Waterfowl, has been
appointed special agent of the land ofice
on Senator Pettigrew's recommendation.
The family of William Porteous, at Ro-
mana, had u narrow escape from being
asphyxiated by escaping gas from a stove.
The owners of some fine blooded dogs In
Mitchell have formed an association
known as the Mitchell Kennel associa-
ton
The Memo -four mills are shipping all
their surplus -four direct to England. Last
week they shipped three carloads to Liver
pool.
The new Touring mill which Is being
erected at Plankinton will be n four
story structure and one of the best in the
state.
Captain Shields, the temperance lee
turer, owing to lack of financial appre-
citation of his work at Watertown, quit
that field.
Hunce Murphey has purchased the Elk
Point opera house and II is rumored that
he will convert 1t into an agricultural ma
chinery warehouse. !
The record of the Madison postofice
shows that during the past year, ending
May IL, $50, 665.2 % has changed hands in
the money department.
The Chicago and Northwestern Railroad
company is making preparations to gravel
and ballast n large section of its line in
South Dakota this summer.
The city council of Madison unani-
mously granted the park which the citi-
zens had petitioned for as o help for Sc
a1rinn iUht-nf.ya for On maui rai1roaH
Pc Pc, n Yanltton agency Indian in
dicted for whipping his step-child to
death, was sentenced at Pierre to two
years In the penitcntiary and n fino of
800.
Letcher reports thirteen inches of rain
fall in the last fifty days, but the roads
are still good for ten miles an hour and
the wheat and oats are looking very well
indeed.
]. b. Jenkins, of White Lake, has on ex-
hibitiou n pelican captured by
John Beaver, a farmer living near Crow
Lake. The bird takes quite kindly to
domestic life.
There are at present sixty pupils Mt the
Indian boys boarding school at Cheyenne
river, and In July the number will be in
Stih " lUO, Wncu tue lO va W TS-
moved to Forest City.
John Mcdonald, of the claim depart
ment of the Milwaukee, got his ankle
broken while stepping off the train at Elk
Point this week. He was taken to Sioux
City on n special engine
Deadwood Pioneer: Morning services
were dispensed with at the Baptist church
on Sunday be cause one of the men in the
audience had heart failure just as the text
was being announced, and the t~preacher
surned doctor.
Notwithstanding the reported disband-
Ing of the Madison fire department some
time ago, a meeting was held mt the city
ball in that place for the purpose of devils
ing means to send q running team to the
Watertown tournament
The recent heavy rains have raised the
creeks cmptying into Lake Madison from
the city and the creeks are swarming with
fish from the lake. The town boys are en-
joying excellent sport aud catching large
strings of fish, mostly suckers and buffalo.
The Blunt Advocate says a passenger
on tho freight train In some manner had
one leg broken while getting on the train
at Rousseau. The injured man was a res
ident of St. Lawrence and was taken to
Miller, where he will be under the care of
a railway physician.
Huron Huronite: en- Saturday Roy
Raymond drew from the Jim river a pick
erel that weighed IL little over eight
pounds, and Il short time afterward John
Nelson caught n buffalo that weighed a
trihe over fifteen pounds Both fish were
caught while fishing for minnows just be-
low the dam
The committee Of arrangements having
In charge the peoples state convention
and industrial encampment To be held at
Redteld, ) d, June II, 1892, awe about
completed arrangements. The railroads
have granted q one fare for the round trip
from all points iu South Dakota. One day
will be given TO an address by General
Weaver, one day to Mrs. Mary Lease, one
day to Hon. Jerry Simpson and on. day
to Hon. James II. Kyle.
John Treber, the Rapid City alderman
who was arrested in Berlin last month for
having deserted the German army q num-
Der Of years ago and who has been re-
leased through the Intervention of the
United States government, sailed from
Southampton and viii arrive home next
week.
Two families direct from Holland mr.
rived ut White Lake Last week and will
reside ut Platte. Charles Mix county.
Queen Wilhelmina's subjects seem to be
gradually slipping from beneath her
majesty's thumb and seeking homes
where they can enjoy personal liberties.
Senator Pcttigrew has introduced n bill
TO have two fish hatcheries in this state,
one In the Hills and one east OF the river.
II this bill becomes n law WATERFOWL PEG.
| pie will make q strike to have II located
mt Lake Kampeska. The senator has
some landed interests in that section and
they think would not be adverse to hav-
ing IL located there.
Little Skunk, the brother Of Black Tom
nhawk. received q sentence OF five days In
the Fort Pierre jail for assault on Fred
Pettiyrew's surveying party His 6r ther,
TO best express sympathy and coincidence,
gave him the use Of a Prince Albert coat