Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1892-03-12
THE DAkOTAS.

OF the Harker puDllc SCHOOL
The construction Of q city hall Is being
agitated at Sioux Falls at present.
About sixty bushels of oats were stolen
from a granary belonging to Sam Boyntep
near Canton.
An opera house company has been
organized at WATERFOWL and they will
put up a theater this year.
The independents of Brule county nave
decided to form n stock company and
start a paper for Il county organ.
Aberdeen division Order of Railway
Conductors gave one Of the pleasantesi
balls of the season.
A freight train was ditched by n broken
rail near Rec Heights, but nobody was in
jured.
The effort to consolidate the granite in
terests of the state, according to a gentle
man interested in the deal, will fail.
Diphtheria is raging in the vicinity Of
Tiertou, Sphinx county. Four deaths have
occurred recently and a large number are
sick.
A record of the pioneers of B%rookings
county is being perfected. All who have
lived in the county prior to 1882 are
classed rs pioneers.
The Bookings county commissioner
recently passed a resolution that they
would buy everything possible in the line
of supplies in the county.
Sturgis has had several fires within the
past week, and the Record intimates that
they were of incendinry origin. Bur
glaries have also been numerous,
The public schools of Worthing are
crowded and a new building will be put
up this season. The town has assurances
of quite n boom in building.
= The drillcrs on the Plaukinton reform
school artesian we'll are working In stone
Of granite formation and are making but
little progress.
A colony of Russian Jews has arrived in
Clark county. They are buying farm
land and will put several thousand acres
under cultivation this spring.
Otto Seidschlaw was arrested at Willow
Lake last Thursday morning on the charge
of. having stolen 100 bushels of fax out of
a acant building Berlin township.
The suit of Contractor Cooley against
the Fremont, Elkhorn and Missouri Valley
railway, involving $3.50 0 was decided at
Dendwood in favor of the plaintiff.
Judge Hanley lectured to q large audi
ence at Mitchell on The Marriage Con-
tract in South Dakota" The judge under
took to explain away the impressions held
by many in regard to the laxity of the
present laws.
At q meeting of business men of the six
Black Hills counties u resolution was
adopted favoring an exhibit at the
worlds fair, and asking that if it be ar
ranged for the artificial production of rain
be n feature of the display.
1t is reported that the Homestake com.
pany has about concluded to take In all
the ground between Lead and Central
and from Gayville to Golden Gate and
erect a mammoth mill ut some point on
Deadwood gulch capable of treating 1000
tons or more of ore per day.
A fire at Hot Springs destroyed fourteen
business houses. The loss is estimated at
$4,000. In ,urance $l7, 600.
The Elkhorn spur to the Rapid City
chlorination plant is nearly graded. The
works will be very complete and ex
t~ensive. e.
o. S. Cook struck a good flow of water
in an artesian well near Aberdeen at q
depth of |, ll5 feet, making 1t the deepes
well in the state
Emma Peterson, a deaf and dumb
woman, has been at the Aberdeen hos!
pital for some time, and has become vio-
lently insane. She will probably be taken
to the asylum ut Yankton.
me VermIlIion Catnoncs are planning
to establish n school for orphans Of the
state. Two sisters of charity nave gone
there to open the school, and they have a
dozen children already in their charge
The plan is to buy the building and dormi-
tories of the old St Paul's church and use
them for the school.
John Dennic, of Cascade, has just
buried the seventh member of his family
that has died this year. Only the father
and one child are now living.
Mrs. George Parlin, wife of a ranchman
near Sturgis, gave birth to triplets-two
boys and a girl. All parties concerned
are reported TO be doing well.
William j. Fullerton has begun n suit
in the United States circuit court at Sioux
Falls for $4,000 against the Homestake
Mining company for injuries received
while in their employ.
Postmaster Bradley, OF the town of Hud-
son-nec-Eden, Lincoln county, has re-
ceived his new commission as postmaster
of the new town and all mail is hereafter
TO be directed to Hudson.
Fred Widner. of Mitchell, fell from the
roof of his house and seriously injured his
back. In the same hour his wife was ar
for selling liquor without a govern
ment license.
The South Dakota Russian relief COM
mission perfected its organization at HUI
ron. A plan for a thorough canvass of
the state will be perfected and the work of
collecting funds will begin at once.
Miss Anna Johnson, n prominent young
lady of Armour, became infatuated with q
Young half breed Indian, but being afraid
her friends might object to her marriage
with him, she eloped with him and they
we're quietly married ut n neighboring
town.
Charles Standepmeier ave it out at
Rapid City that he had been n bad man.
Mt Newcastle. A committee waited on
him and requested his departure. He did
not go. The Newcastle authorities were
and they telegraphed to arrest
and hold him. He then denied all guilt,
but Sheriff Slack took him to Newcastle.
A 6-year.old son of John Schlecht,
of Parker, was poisoned one day last
week. A family living near them
moved away and threw out In a pile
of rubbish a bottle Of fly poison. The stuff
was of a whitish color and the child think
ing 1t was milk drank it and died within q
hours.
The Hot Springs Star comes out this
week in an entirely new form, containing
eight pages instead of four. John A. Stan
ley, formerly editor of the Hermosa Pilot,
is the new proprietor of the Star and the
improved appearance of the paper Is, of
course, to be attributed TO him
At the close OF a marriage at Webster
the contracting parties took the additional
pledge of temperance. writing out the