Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1892-02-13
THE DAkOTAS.


The unsolicited taxes of Stanley county
exceed the county's indebtedness.
The Mennonite colony in Yankton
county paid S345 tax for last year.
The First Congregational church of
Centerville was dedicated on Sunday.
Redfield sportsmen are to hold a grand
wolf, fox and rabbit aunt on Friday.
The Sioux Falls wooden mill will be run
ming to its fullest capacity in q few days.
1t is charged that IA Sioux Falls man al
lowed two horses to starve to death In his
stable.
The contract for the excavation of he
government building at Sioux Falls has
been let.
Lead City boys were made drunk by Ii
quor given them by Chinese on the orien-
tai new year.
An effort is being made To secure the To-
cation of n Catholic hospital and convent
at Hot Springs.
Frank Richards, of Madison, was bound
over to the grand jury for attempting to
shoot a nan named Brockcr
Mrs. Baker, of Mt. Vernon, who was in
the Yankton insane asylum two years ago
and discharged, is again insaIe.
l.. ID. Sweetland, editor of the Hand
County Gazette, was arrested at Miller
last Friday for contempt OF court.
Eureka has been made a weather signal
station. The flags and pole will arrive
and be put in shape in n few days.
In the tug of war contest ut Lead City
the Italians proved themselves superior to
all others, and won the first prize.
The Brookings Register devotes n page
to an illustrated wri cup of the Agricul'
tural College of South Dakota.
Chamberlain has disposed of 5000
worth of bridge bonds and will soon cross
the Missouri on foot and horseback.
Indications arc that Madison's a~rtesian
we'll will have to be abandoned at u depth
Of l,075 feet on account of constant caving.
A Deadwood man carries rs n pocket
piece an English shilling, coined in the
year 1917, during the reign of"Good Queen
Bess."
The gypsum deposits in the Black Hills
promise to become n new and great source
of wealth to that country in the near flu
ture.
The Howard Advance has been leased
to a stock company and will now make its
appearance as u full-hedged independent
organ.
James Craig is in Jail at Tyndall, hav-
ing confessed 10 stealing a suit of clothes
and n watch from the premises OF Hugh
Harry
The Watertown Public Opinion comes
out in n leading editorial for Benjamin
Harrison, and says he is South Dakota
candidate.
Charles Lincoln, late cashier of the Hill
City bank, who has been under arrest al
Virginia City, is to be brought back TO pa'
kota for trial.
A cub mountain lion was captured in
the Black Hills last week and taken to
Rapid City, where il attracted considera.
BILE attention.
Emil Schleicher, of WATERFOWL, will &C
to Germany aud endeavor to get some OF
his old friends to cmigrate and locate in
Coddington county.
The Rt. Rev. DIR. Sheehan, of Cork, Ire
land, who was consecrated bishop OF
Waterford on Sunday, is u brother of Dear
Sheehan, of Sioux Falls.
In attempting TO make a coupling a
Woonsocket Friday Robert Woods, 1
brakeman, slipped and fell, and had both
legs cut off below the knee.
Charles Meyers was arrested ct Hecla
charged with stealing 400 bushels of wbea'
from w. A. Ward, of Aberdeen He was
held to the grand jury in 500 bonds.
1t Is reported that Dan Davis, formerly
Of Grant county, met with 4 terrible acct
lent about u month ago in Idaho, in which
his legs were crushed and blown of.
The new tow mill which is in course OF
construction at WATERFOWL is rapidly
nearing completion and will probably be
In operation within the next thirty days.
The comptroller of currency has made
an assessment and requisition for $5O,00O
upon the stockholders of the late National
bank, of which b. NJ. Milan is receiver.
Deadwood Is both happy and proud
these days. She anticipates the erection
of the $500 900 hotel and the 100000 public
building during the next season. She can
well feel satisfied.
A strong flow of water was secured at a
depth of Sl5 feet on L. l. Smiths farm near
Tyndall last week. The water comes
from between two layers Of rock and is
clear as crystal. Mr.. Smith says there is
no beter artesian well in Bon Homme
county.
A Rapid City boy began his financial
career by swallowing a 2-cent piece, and
the novel method Of banking created
almost as much excitement around the
place as the failure of the Oelrichs con-
Germ.
j. s. Stocks, of Aberdeen, walked into a
large pile of coal and sustained very pain
full and perhaps serious injuries. In addi-
ton to being badly shaken up two fingers
on one hand were nearly severed. One OF
them was also dislocated.
A representative of the Hand County
Press drove out into the country the other
day and stopped at a farmers, where he
saw n granary which contains over 1000
bushels of wheat, 1000 bushels of oats and
l,O0v bushels of millet. Numerous hay and
straw stacks were visible in the yards,
diSO lVu ucdu VI idb Chstic uioWsAuS oNOt
the adjoining fields.
In the target practice contest among
members of company NJ, of Yankton, for
the company badge, Sergeant Fred La
Plant was the victor, with n score of 70 out
of a possible so
Gayville had n small ripple Of excite
ment last Sunday. Halver Halverson, a
prominent Scandinavian farmer was found
dead in the attic of his house with q revol-
yer by his side, indicating a case of sui
eide. The Halverson house Is just
over the line in Clay county, and therefore
out of Gayville's jurisdiction. Mrs. Hal
VERSIONS irst husband poisoned himself q
few years ago
A few years ago -four was sold In the
Black Hills for >60 per l0O pounds, and az
late as 1877 the price was $50 per lou. Now
-four is shipped by the carload from Rapid
City to the Atlantic seaboard.
Andrew Lumsford, q blacksmith, was
terribly injured at Hot Springs, but will
live. A rock weighing fully a ton fell
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