Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1892-03-19
THE DAkOTAS.

Inc Stnte cHcampfhent OF tue IL. "A. Z
will be held at Mitchell March Is, l
and Il.
Two Italians with their wives and child
rem and their dancing bears are tour in
the state.
Flandreau will in all probability erect
WOODEN mill and an electric light plan
this season.
the Black Hills, will make an effort t,
capture the republican state nominating
convention.
From the present outlook there will b,
considerable building done in Lennox thii
spring and summer.
Tho Hot Springs Star, under its new
management, is now n six-column quarto
J. A. Staley is publisher.
The Pierre Whist club has challenged
the Sioux Falls experts to a game for thu
championship OF the state.
The ~Plaindealer says that Whitewoo,
IS now being treated TO u dose of specia
detectives, spying on railroad employees.
The postmaster-general has appointed
NJ. ID. Hocum postmaster Mt Twin Brooks
Grant county, vice @. w. Hocum, re
signed.
From washington station 427 cars o
grain and cattle nave been shipped sine
August The local value of this frcigh
was nbout 5000, 900.
SPHINX county has organized a compan!
TO induce immigration. RedfeId take,
one-ffth of the stock. Everybody is hope
fui ms TO results.
Miss Bertha Wenzy, a school teacher In
Brule county, found u pocketbook contain
ing goo, promptly advertised II axd re
fused to accept any reward.
Faulkton Record: Good working girl,
are u very scarce commodity In this vicin
ity. They are all teaching school or get
ting ready to get married.
Sneak thieves have again begun depre
dations in Yanktou and vicinity, Clothes
on lines, hay, wheat, and in fact every.
thing movable, goes.
The installation of Rev. Ewart, the new
pastor Of the Presbyterian church at Mad
ison, took place there in the presence o:
an immense ,hrong of people.
he Elkhorn engineer corps, who have
been working In the vicinity of Bald noun.
tain all winter, awe disbanded, the mem.
bers leaving for their eastern homes.
The Watertown Public Opinion says
AS much water ran into Lake K~nmpesks
last week in two hou's' time as the the
watcrworks would pump out in n year.
No less than six men from eastern
states have been in Miller the past week
inquirlug for land. Some have already
bought and the others will follow su it
Bad river ranges are becoming notorious
for gripping cowboys. Last Friday o
young man by the name of Charles Court.
ney had his leg broken below his knee by
his horse falling with him.
The ordinance granting the Western
Union Telegraph company the right &c
erect poles and line on the streets and al
leys Of the city has had it's second reading
before the Madison council.
Michael GARNER, and inmate OF the SOL
diers' home at Hot Springs, attempted to
hang himself last week. He was found by
Captain Lucas and cut down just in time
to save his life.
Eight carloads of coal a day are taken
from mines in the Black Hills. They were
opened up in 1891. 1t is said the coal Of
the hills country is equal to the Hooking
valley aud L~hish Pennsylvania coal.
Fifty-two divorce DEGREES were issued AZ
Sioux Falls during the year, of which
forty were for desertion, eight for non.
support, and four for adultery, extreme
cruelty, and M occasional too much
mother-in-law.
+. W. Jackson, of Elkton, met with .
painful accident last Friday evening while
unloading straw. He had the load nearly
of and in stepping on the floor Of the
rack he fell through striking his left sid.
on the rear cross piece.
Orders have been received from the post
Office department to discontinue service OF
the ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS route to nil point,
beyond Freya on March IA. The route
will be from Hurley to F'eya, and return
Thursdays and Saturdays.
The commissioners OF Brookings cou My
let the contract for an e~ighty-foot steel
bridge across the Big Sioux near the vii
lagc of Bruce, the King Bridge company,
Of Cleveland, Ohio, being the contracting
for 81 ,575 consideration.
Old Red Cloud, who was some time ago
deposed from his position as chief of the
Indians to make room for American
Horse, q younger man IL now n most pitt
full spectacle. He weeps and walls con.
tinuonsly over his fall from power and Is
also rapidly growing blind.
Canton News: A young gentleman who
lives near Lennox, and is 10 years old,
rode on a railroad train for the first time
In his life last Saturday. He has lived in
this county most OF his life, and will prob
ably reL4ember Canton rs the city to
which he first took n trip on the cars.
Work on the reform school well at
has been abandoned at a
depth OF 75 feet. There is but q slight
How of water. The drillers struck a hard
resembling granite and before
The well could he SUM deeper the sta te
appropriation of about $500 was
ased up
AT u recent meeting of the business men
81 several Black Hills counties, a ~resolu-
zion was unanimously adopted ~favoring
an eIhibit ut the worlds fair, and q sug-
was also made to arrange an arti-
acial production OF rain to be one of the
features of the display.
Thirteen carloads of immigrants from
The eastern and central states arrived ut
over the Milwaukee last Friday
scattered to surrounding points.
Quite a number went to the reservation.
The inquiry for land this spring Is the
since 1884.
A. o. Ringsurd, Of Elk Point, and secre-
iary Of state, has formed q partnership
with Mr.. Conrad, agent for the National
Cracker company, to establish in New
York city a cure for the tobacco and liquor
habit. The cure is on the sumo plan as
keeley's, but a formula that Is original
With Mr.. Conard.
The season Of '92 opens full of promise
'or South Dakota. Never have the people
II the vicinity of Faulkton felt so hopeful
Is they do at the present.
The Watertown Public Opinion says
hat Kansa, will supply South Dakota
With hundreds Of immigrants this spring.
md n report is current that many north
western Wisconsin farmers are preparing
to move TO South Dakota In the spring.
Clark Pilot Review: The jubilee meet
ng in the NJ. K. church last Sabbath
was q triumphant closing of the
revival meetings. AZ far as
known seventy-one were converted md