Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1892-03-26
( Falls is to have q creamery.

"ASNh % oH llc Whuhto hCuh
springfield by piling distractions OH the
track.
I. O'Brien, general merchant of Mont
rose, has failed. His stock will probably
invoice $500; liabilities considerably
larger.
Huron's Polytechnic college will be
opened September 4. 1t is expected TO
awe about lao students from Chicago for
The spring term.
Over at Innkton the proprietress of @
house Of ill.fame was arrested, found
guilty and fined 500, which she paid with
,ut q murmur.
Prai lie ii c did considerable damage
Ia Il Friday in the vicinity of Letcher
Several farmers lost hay, grain, sheds,
implements. etc.
The treasurer of Grant collected S22, 900
in taxes during the month of February
the heaviest mont ever known In the
history of the county.
L. w. Jordan, of the Milwaukee rail-
road, says the number Of immigran $ al
ready coming into South Dakota this
spring Is astonishing.
The Yankton democratic club, which
now has enrolled over 400 members, are
making preparations to attend tho state
convention en- masse on May rs.
Otto Seidschlaw was arrested at Willow
Lake last Thursday morning on the charge
If having stolen 100 bushels Of fax out of
Il vacant building in Berlin township
The Hot Springs Daily Herald appears
as II morning instead of IN afternoon pa
per, This is done on account OF the better
facilities for getting news, which is open
for n morning paper.
The contract for delivering COZ cows at
Crow Creek, go ut Lower Brule, 100 at
S~antee, 100 at Flandreau and Al at Ponca
agencies, has been awarded to Samuel G.
Shelton, of Springfield.
The Watertown Public Opinion, in com
menting upon the lecture of Dr.. Wayland
Hoyt. says: ''The size of the audience
was an insult to the speaker and a st gina
upon the intelligence of WATERFOWL"
Brookings sports n Chinaman who has
lately by his own will, been shorn of his
sue, is a member of the Baptist church,
smokes l5-cent cigars, and his latest fad
i, n good old-fasnioncd first class, case of
the grip.
The homestead filings in the Aberdeen
land district for February, 1892. exceeded
by thirty-ive the best February during
the last five years. A large number of
filings ave been made by Russians who
arc settling in the coteaus aroupd Eureka,
Bowdle and other points.
Several farmers in the vicinity Of Huron
put in all their spare time in trapping this
winter, and they were all quite success
ful. One nan captured four large offers,
and minks, badgers and muskrats were
caught in large numbers.
Mrs. Henry Thompson, residing near
Vermillion. fatally shot herself with a re-
~volver. Some weeks ago she took a dose
Of Paris green with suicidal intent, but re.
covered from its effects under the treat.
mcnt of a physician. :
A gentleman Of wealth, residing in Chi
cago, has made a proposition TO Yankton
college, to the effect that he will erect on
the college grounds a science hall and
chapel, TO cost $50, 100, II the college will
raise its present debt Of si5 900 and secure
an endowment of 100000, the proposition
to remain open until July ], 1898. The
college management has decided to take
hold of the matter with a determination
TO secure this science hall and chapel, or
know the reason why.
An old sailor residing In Yankton
seems to rave had n high old time during
the wind storm last week. During the
night the house rocked SO hard that he
Imagined himself on board his ship. His
| ...; 70 ,yaa ouyolanaI hy haa.,a- ,-.o. II
Hard aport your helm there" ship
ahoy," etc. On investigation she found
the erstwhile sailor mounted on a wash.
stand making a vain attempt TO stave of
n collision.
we convalesccnt male patients escaped
from the insane hospital mt Yapkton and,
lightly clad as they were, came into that
| city In that fearful gale last week. They
went straight to the Madison house and
asked for rooms. but their identity was
suspected, and Janitor Culton was sum
moned.
A prairie fire twelve mile, south Of Hu.
ron destroyed the farmhouse of William
Mills, also the house of William Eye, with
hou sehold g dds and clothing. Several
sheds. n large amount of gra n, hay and
farm machinery were destroyed and a
large section burned.
The Yankto Cement company are now
working about seventv-ive men and are
getting ready for an extensive business
,his season. Already orders arc coming
in very rapidly from all over the country,
and the outlook a. thai they will be unable
to supply the demand with their present
facilities.
Jack Grumstead, ALA, Sleepy Jack, and
A. Young, e fellow known az 'the wild
Irishman." who were incarcerated In the
county Jail at Minnesota for robbery of
the Elkhorn %company's warehouse mt Belle
eourche. Gu. their way out of their steel
sell, and stealing two horses and q saddle
left for parts unknown.
Iroqnois Herald: A number of our farm
ers north of town are v~accinating their
cattle rs n preventive against the destruct-
I've disease OF blackleg. IL IL said to be q
sure preventive and can be done at q mod
,rate cost Of 20 cent. per head. This Is q
new experiment and demands the atten-
ion OF every stock raiser In the state.
Extensions Of the Burlington and Mis-.
ouri railroad from E~nglewood 10 Ruby
Basin il no longer n secret. Work will
be commenced at once and pushed as rap
dly rs the heavy work will permit The
main object In building this branch IL 70
each the Ruby and Bald Mountain mines
md by loading ores into standard gauge
sara right at the dumps, q large business
can be obtained.