Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1892-01-02
THE DAkOrAS.
ew -four mill.

| cent rains.
Beloit, Lincoln county, is to be lighted
| by electricity
Watertown wants the next republican
! state convention.
Bishop Martyrs new residence at Sioux
| Falls cost $4,000
A substantial Masonic temple has beer
erected at Flandreau.
The Gam Valley Chief is three years
| old and prosperous
Sphinx county has $4,000 in the treasury
and no Indebtedness.
The Keystone mine is developing ore Of
| extraordinary richness.
The Dendwood Terra company paid $50,
, 600 in dividends this year
The teachers hold their state meeting al
Grand Forks on the Goth.
The town of Tyndall is paying out sl0,.
600 day for grain and hogs.
Aberdeen merchants will close their
stores ut p. IN after January4
B. l.. Pay has been appointed deputy
sheriff of BrooiSings county.
An art sian well is being put down at
the lankinton reform school
In some places in the state they are still
! thrashing wheat from the shock
II. Il. Robie, of Yankton, had his hand
mashed in job printing press.
A Congregational preacher i a member
of the Sioux Falls divorce colony,
DIR. L. ]. Sexton has been appointed pen
sion examining surgeon al Sturgis.
Watertown proposes to contribute a car.
load of flour to the starving Russians.
Bids for the excavation for Sioux Falls
public building have been advertised for.
DIR. II. d. Churchill, an old soldier and
one of the pioneers of Highmorc is dead
A jury at Vermillion declared Goodwin
Gunderson not guilty of rape as charged.
Machinery for the Rapid City chlorini
cation works is on the way from Chicago.
bichloride factory is about to begin
operations on refractory buns at Hot
Springs.
The freight and passenger depots nt
Rapid City will be removed to the center
of the city
murderer in Jail at Fargo was ban
quetted by the ladies with bouquets and
confectionery.
One Sioux Falls butcher has laid in n
Christmas beeves.
The Pierre Free Press suggests Judge
Clifford as the republican candidate tor
next governor of South Dakota.
The students of the state normal school
at Madison are issuing creditable little
paper called the Normal Topic.
Thomas J. Connors, alderman of Lead
City and superintendent of several mines
in that vicinity. died very suddenly.
The Homestake mine has produced slS.-
100000 on an investment of $4,000, and di-
vided Si,1S0,T50 among the fortunate stock
holders.
John Tilford, who was associated in the
Homestake train wrecking and attempted
robbery, has been released from the peni-
Tertiary
The Fitzpatrick gang of Burlington
graders has completed the spur TO the
Harney Peak tin mill and moved into
Wyoming.
Many families from Iowa and Illinois
have come to SDuth Dakota within the last
few weeks and have purchased farms in
Kingsbury county.
Charles NJ. Bowman, of Dell Rapids, has
been bound over to the grand jury on the
charge of aiding in abortion, which caused
the death of Mrs. Bratten.
1t is now claimed that DR. Nelson, who
was burned to death at Oakes, committed
! suicide by pouring kerosene over himself
and setting fire to it.
1t has been declared by physiological
experts that small men grow larger when
tlay np ~ Dakota This ;s Ia,
face of the fact many of them lose their
better halves there.
William Ensley of Maiden Lake, has
already caught eleven wolves in his traps
this fall Mr.. Ensley is distinctly desirous
of having the wolf come to his door, for be
gets n bounty on scalps.
Miss Lule Mckee, n prominent Young
lady of Oelrichs, died suddenly on the
18th. She was to have been married DUR
ing the holidays. Death intervened and
her bridal dress became her burial robe.
Considerable excitement prevails at
Hiilsboro over the recent decision regard
ing the county seat, and every effort con-
sistcnt with law and order will be made to
retain the seat of government at that
point
1t has been developed that the artesian
we'll struck just south of Chaml erlain is
one of the best in the state While the ex-
act flow has not yet been determined, it is
estimated to be between 500 and 600 gal.
Ions per minute.
writ of habeas corpus has been
asked for the body of Mrs. Alice Davis,
wife of Payne NJ. Davis, OF OeIrich The
husband claims his girl wife has been
spirited away by her parents against her
will and he wants possession.
q. II. Thompson and DR.. o. Kleenman,
of Custer, have been held to the grand
jury in bonds of $500 and sl0y0 each for
causing the death of an unborn babe, the
former by his inhuman treatment to his
wife while in critical condition, the lat
ter for unnecessarily mutilating the child
upon delivery.
here was game cock fight Thursday
in Hankton. Two birds were pitted
against each other and one was slain
Then n fresh one was thrown down
against the first victor, and the survivor
of the first battle was slain Then two
others were put down and the fight was de-
clared n draw, SO that n strange rooster,
hcISlOiOIc unhuOWH among sports, was
called for. He came, and in few mo.
ments had killed both the birds which
we're in the drawn battle.
Sunday night last as n number of em
ployes Of the Homestake saw mill were
returning from Elk Creek station to the
mill, when near Mowatts station the
team ran away and all of the parties
were more or less injured. VIM. Richards,
blacksmith at the mill, was thought to be
fatally so.
The dead body of all infant was found
on cake of ice in the Des Moiues river Mt
Des Moines Marks on its throat gave
evidence that il has been strangled, and it
Is supposed that the murderer intended to
sink the remains in the river, but the ice
prevented.
Says a Conkling correspondent: Just
think of IL Buy land ut s. per acre and
pull in $50 worth of wheat TO the acre the
FIRST crack out of the box. II q man is not
very careful In n country like this he will
be bloated bondholder" before he
knows it
OF Sunday schools In lava tho uutp har Ia