Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1892-04-02
THE DAkOTAS.

49, f~sN $1,000
The Lead city townsite squabble has al
last been compromised and people of that
mining metropolis are happy.
A bus line war has been ~inaugurated al
Yanktou, and strangers ride to any hotel
In the city nowadays free of charge.
The German Lutherans In Concord
township, Lake county, are making prep
a~rations to build q $4,000 church near Gil
man.
The Hudson Methodist Is the name of n
nRw religious paper which made Its first
appearance at Hudson nee Eden this
week.
The Lake Preston Times states that
365 real estate transfers took place In
Kingsbury county during the month oil
February.
Patrick Men amara living at Carthage,
ended his life by taking a large dose OF
strychnine. Friends can find no reason
fo5 the act.
William Williams, who has recently OBJ
tanned a decree OF divorce at Rapid City,
has sued the Deadwood Times for 5000
for libel.
Chamberlain was chosen as the place
for holding the next e~ncampment of the
G. A. II. The date will be between May
% and June rs.
From all quarters Of the state comes
the report that farm lnnds are in good de.
mand. The big crop of 1891 has given the
state O good recommendation
A foot ball match was played by smoS.
ers vs.. non.smokers of the Rowena foot
ball club. After n we'll contested game
tho amokara On mo of yictorioua |
The Black Hills Educational associa.
ton will meet in Spearfish, April l and 2.
The session will be held In the assembly
room of the state normal school.
The senate committee on appropriations
has increased the allowance for the Sioux
Indians In South Dakota sl35,COO over the
amount allowed by the house.
The village of Hawley, twelve miles
from H%ighmore, was totally destroyed by
fire last Saturday. Hiram Prince, post
master, was badly hurt saving the mails.
A mass meeting held in Deadwood pro-
nounced in favor of resisting the payment,
Of bonds issued in 1877, amounting TO S375,'
00l. 1t il claimed the bonds were illegally
issued
Judge Smith. Of Huron, granted q decree
OF ulNOTCc lhsl SAtutudN W hal ~ |
Boham from her husband Willis II.
Boham, who is editor of the Deadwood
Pioneer.
The discovery Of dry s~ilicious ore is re.
ported from Burno gulch in Carbonate
camp, which assays SO per ton In gold.
The property is owned by A. Mabbs and
Julius Burno.
States Attorney Allen has begun quo
warranto proceedings against F. II. Dir
dstine for entering into, usurplng an un.
lawfully holding the office of county judge
of Turner county.
Aberdeen's city we'll Is still in a state of
innocuous desuetude. The casing is down
some $50 feet, but for some unexplained
and probably une1plainable reason the
wa er fails to flow.
A seven-round glove contest took place
at Armour between Patsy Magner, of
Yankton, and McNamee, or Fort nnn'l
dali. The referee decided it was a draw
and the purse was divided.
The Yankton college base ball club has
secured a lease of the public school ground
Just across the Rhine on Walnut street,
and will begin Immediately the erection Of
an eight-foot fence and n grand stand.
The South Dakota Inter-C Collegiate base
ball games occur there.
The Deadwood Terra ompany has an
nounced its thirty-ninth dividend of 81
cents per share, ag~gregating $l0, 1000, paya-
BILE Mt the New York office March II, max
ing a total of dividends paid to date
81 900, 900.
Fifteen prominent business mon OF
Madison have incorporated and will op.
crate q bi-chloride of gold institute for the
cure Of the liquor, opium and tobacco
habits. The institute will open with DIR.
Tracy, of Blair, Neb., as operating physi.
clan.
George Van Way, principal Of the city
school at White Lake, has been arrested
on a charge of cruel aud malicious treat
ment of several pupils under his charge.
I he case was brought before the court and
given to the jury, who after an all night
session failed to agree. Public sentiment
is very strong against Van Way and more
trouble Is likely to result.
Herman Huyssen, who owns considera.
BILE property in Pierre, left that city on
December IA and went from there to White
Lake, staying about three days at that
town and then he continued his way on
his journey to his former home In New
York city, but his daughter, nor no one
else has heard OF him siace; he has not
reached his destination and foul play Is
feared
at Deadwood, has just closed a contract
for $20O,00J worth of ore from Idaho.
Shipment will begin April l. 1t is under.
stood the quantity purchased is 10000 tons
and that delivery will be Mt the rate of two
carloads per day. The ore Ia silver
lead, carrying 90 per cent Of the baseI
metal, and the purchase Is q necessity
the smelter is under to have lead for rein.
ing it's mats.
Tn opening of the Sisseton reservation
which 10 now 80 near rs TO be practically
accomplished, Is having u revivifying eff
feet upon the business situation at Water.
town. Already the city Is filling mp with
new Corners who nave taken every habita.
BILE tenement, and still the rush continues.
A new town has been laid out on the
Omaha line eighteen miles east OF Mitch
ell, in the northeastern part Of Hanson
county. II Is to be called Farmers sta
ton and promises to BE quite q shipping
point. 1t Is the center of a thrifty Ger
man community.
In the family of Matt Hal. living on the
line etwee Yankton and Bon Homme
counties, there are eight well developed
cases of diphtheria. DIR. v. Sebiakin-R Ross,
Of Yankton, Is the attending physician.
Rev. Frederick c. Schartz, an ex.minis.
ter, living eight miles southwest OF Roscoe,
committed suicide last Tuesday. He made
an unsuccessful attempt to take the life Of
his daughter. Family troubles were the
cause of the tragedy.
A herd Of sixteen buffaloes was seen a
few miles south Of Blunt last Wednesday
They are the frat which nave been seen
on the east side of the Missouri river for
several years, and a hunting party has
been organized to capture them.
South Dakota Pensions: Originai-Lo-