Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1892-10-01
THE DAkCTAS.

iO,VOO cDurcn.
The Waukonda Monitor will move into
lew quarters.
W.. { Keudnlls carpenter shop was
burned at Webster. Loss, $500.
Deadwood is short on school room. Tenn.
,orary structures will b. built.
j. n Mallery, a prominent old settler OF
Miller, was killed in n runaway.
South Dakota has ~ninety-eight Grand
Army posts and 2,710 members.
Sioux Falls subscribed $30,0 l0 to boost
he projected railroad TO Ynnkton.
Flocks of Wyoming sheep are to be
iriven to be fattened in South Dakota.
A pelican measuring eight feet aud four
inches from tip to tip, was shot near Tyn-
Tall.
Hot Springs shows an assessed valua-
ion of 81, O34, 90, a pretty good record for
I3-year-old.
Minnesota and Belle Fourche, two
he county sent
Scotland academy opened its seventh
'ear with n larger enrolment Of students
man ever before.
A colony of twelve German families
rom Iowa rave bought farms and located
n Charles Mix county.
South Dakota gets S25, 900 as it's share of
he money appropriated by the last ON
gress for public surveys.
The party owning the meteor which fell
Aear BATH "a short time ago has been
offered $3.50 for the same
The contra ct for the Sioux Falls gov.
a.
'rnment building has been let to c. w.
Hubbard 81 Co, of that city.
The annual reception of the state uni
rersity Y. w and Y. NJ c. A. was held
N the east hall at Vermillion.
Ell OF Bros of Brown county, have
'hreshed about one-half of their wheat
crop, amounting 10 5000 bushels.
The nece sary funds for the erection of
a Masonic temple in Deadwood have
been raised. The building will cost So
100.
The Pierre band has been reorganized
md with prospects favorable OF making
IS good u band as can be found in the
Itate.
Meade county beats the state record.
There's not a man in the county Jail. nor
las there been since the last term of
court.
The new Touring mill at Wakonda is
nearly completed and will be in readiness
% make flour before the close of the pres
mt month.
Joe Mahoney and Nick Shire, two min
'rs in the Mark Twain mine, at Dead.
wood, were killed by the premature ex-
olosion of n blast.
II. A Pierce is fattening G0) sheep for
,hicago mutton market on the Vance
arm, n mile south of Wentworth. He will
Ihip them this fall.
Professor J. S Stay, superintendent of
he Ynnkton schools, has resigned and
Hiram L. Peet, of Rochester, n. y, has
been appointed to fill the acanc
An effort will be made in the coming
session of congress by the parties at the
read of the Forest City townsite to secure
he removal of Fort Sully to that place.
There are but three counties in the state
hat have failed to raise their quota of the
worlds fair fun and these delinouents
ire not the most unimportant counties.
The protest against the Fort Pierre final
proof, which was made by the south side
boomers, has been set aside and the proof
allowed. thus settling a long controversy
II favor of the city.
Ghost Walk, aims Kicked-to-De Death,
proved his right to the title by kicking his
wife Daisy into the happy hunting
grounds ca ost Walk was assisted in
making tracks to Jail.
The Yanktou Printing com.
posed of II. b. Wynn, G. F. Stevenson,
s sgs, a~ zi SJsa Sr 81 I. s 81 and Ii t,o /, I Rss
he secretary of state.
The Deadwood Terra Mining company
has declared dividend No. 45 of 5 cents
per share, n~ggregating $4,000, payable
september 20, making so, 0J0 paid this
year and 81, 40, 900 paid 10 date.
Aleck Reynick has purchased the South
Dakota Journal plant of Mrs. II II.
Dacres and expects to issue a paper soon.
II. L. Robe says, however, he will enioin
he establishment and prevent the publ.
cation
Two small steamboats, will compete for
he carrying trade OF Charles Mix county
his fall, the Capitola Butte. owned by the
Tease Valley Transportation
md the Castalia, owned by the Charles
Nix company.
Charles Walker, living near Spirit Lake,
lad "a disastrous fire. His barn was
burned, together with six head Of horses
md other property. Mr.. Walker was not
ithome at the time and it is not known
low the fire originated.
A Watertown correspondent of the Mir
ieapolis Journal says that a line drawn
rom Sioux Fails to DeSmet and thence 70
1r"ton will mark the frontier line of the
pest known as the Russian thistle. and
hat the line is moving ives forty miles a
rear.
The W. Il. c. of the Aberdeen district,
embracing the towns of Milbank, Aber-
Teen, Webster. Andover, Groton, Lang
ord, Britton, Ashton and Leola, united
n raising fuuds to purchase n large roll
ng chair for the use of the old soldiers at
he house at Hot Springs.
There Is Il prospect that the Sisseton
agency may be discontinued sInasmuch
IS it is thought that the Indians will be
'elf-supporting in a couple of years, a
'pecial agent has been sent out from
Washington to make "A report on the feas-
oi'A'y ~ cIosiuB inc agency.
The Iankton and Norfolk grading con.
tractors report a scarcity of men and
cams There are now s0J men at work
IN the grade. The road will be completed
by November 1, and the same ctor
will at once begin work on the Yank,on
and Sioux Falls line
{. King, of Scotland, examined the
tight for South Dakota's worlds fair
building while in Chicago, aud says il has
ihe best location Of any OF the state build.
ngs. 1t Is n corner location aud the first
building to the right at the main entrance
On Fifty-seventh street.
At u recent meeting the stockholders of
he Rapid City, Missouri River and st
Paul railroad accepted the proposition Of
George ". Hulst to turn over their stock
% Hulst and associates, the latter agree.
ng to build the rcad to the Missouri river.
The stockholders will be reimbursed with
bonds issued by the ,ew company.
Near Yaukton is the most remarkable