Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1892-01-23

oSen hOlulnS revival meetings anu lOI
souls have been saved.
Two engines collided AT Holdrege and
were demolished. The engineer and fire.
man escaped by jumping.
A couple of 2OO-pound pugilists met in {
York livery stable and proceeded to make
more pounds on each other.
Edwin Ahcrns, a wealthy German aud
pioneer of Platte county, is dead. He set.
tied in the county in 1867.
The Sioux Falls federal building will be
faced with granite from local quarries
The building will cost $4,000.
The shipments of grain and produce
from Springfield during 1891 show a gain
of 63 per cent. above those of 1890
Nine banks in the Black Hills nave an
aggregate capital of $685. 900, a surplus of
$685. 500 and deposits of Il, 463, PAL.
Susan Smith, of Yankton, has been ar
rested for violating the internal revenue
laws by selling liquor without a liconse.
Bert Busby was accidentally shot by
Ernest Cutter at n dance in the vicinity
of Anselmo and is in a dangerous condi-
ton
L, \. Smith and his associates have
filed an application for authority to or
g~anize the First National bank of Bridge
water.
George Nash. of the Canton News, n re-
cent graduate of Yankton college, has ac-
cepted a profcssorsbip at 81. Augustine's
college, Canton
Deadwood put s494, 500 into buildings
last year, collected 1896, 35S in taxes and
expended sls5, 963 in maintaining the dig.
nifty of government.
Zimri Pond and wife celebrated their
sixty-third wedding anniversary at Huron
Mr.. Pond is 81 years old and his wife only
a few months younger.
j p. Forrest, who ran n shoe store mt
Sioux Falls, quietly folded his tent and
went away TO avoid fulfilling the require
mcnts of a long lease.
1t is confidently predicted hat the Har-
ney Peak company will be turning out tin
within six months in such quantities as TO
confound the croakers.
L. c. Johnson, one of the keen writer's of
the state, is collecting matter for a pam
phlet, descriptive of the resources of the
South Dakota corn belt.
The state board of pharmacy held its
first regular quarterly meeting of the year
~ " I W II 'NhiA'9NAhNf ohN h1b tB
plications were considered.
James Brown, of Olivet, was badly in.
jured by an accident to a Milwaukee
freight train near Sheldon, la. He was
Shipping stock to Chicago.
The census shows hat there are 20,675
Indians in South Dakota and that the gov.
eminent is issuing something like $3.50 ra'
tons more than there are Indians.
An epidemic of or p prevails at Water.
town TO such an extent that some of the
business houses are at n ~standSti!l. 1t
has proven fatal II many instances.
A 4-year-old child of II. Frederick's was
playing with a dog at Anselmo when u
young man named Ross shot at the animal
The child has since been afflicted with ST
Vitus dance.
1t is reported in Deadwood that the
Spearfish branch of the Burlington will be
extended to the Bear Gulch tin district.
That region is heavily timbered and rich
in minerals.
The First National bank of Chamber.
lain has thrown up its charter and is re.
organized under the state banking laws.
II will hereafter be known Us the Bank OF
Chamberlain.
The Nemaha county Granger compares
the Brownville of the present to Covington,
the saloonkeeper's delight and the drunk
ards paradise" and calls loudly for re
form of license methods.
Single editors should take warning. Ere
mont papers are advising their ladies &c
give a leap year party during the editorial
convention. Such attempts to work off the
surplus should be guarded against
A ten-pound dynamite cartridge was put
down in the Mithell artesian we'll to dis.
lodge the drill that has caused so much
delay. Through some failure in the ar
rangcments it was not exploded and was
drawn out. Another attempt will be made
soon.
Rapid City has been chosen as the meet.
ing place for delegates TO a Black Hills
convention, having for its object the Sc
curing of the services OF Melbourne, the
rainmaker, who undertakes to supply rain
sufficient for crops at 10 cents per acre, nc
rain no pay January 90 has been fixed rs
the date for the meeting, and it is prob
able that quite a number of delegates will
be in attendance
During the past year the Falls City
creamery has shipped out 220 0oJ pounds
of butter. 1t has paid to the farmers s27.- |
S92. II, and to employees Sl0,s79. For eggs
the firm paid Sli $40 70. Other localities
can do as well.
The WATERFOWL Public Opinion says
"Pierre correspondents are again filling
St. Pau papers with glowing descriptions
of the great rush to the reservation be-
vnpd tho MuAHy Pc nnla yat her
the great boom of last winter which con-
sisted OF two mules, three oxen, one family
from Pierre, two half breeds and eigh.
dogs
Will and Frank Gross, of Boone county,
cultivated SEQ acres last yea. They raised
corn, wheat, oats, fax and millet, and Sc
cured 1900 bushels. The total expenses
were l2l2, and the net amount received for
the crop was 81, 309.
Jack Warehime. of Wllsonville, while
out hunting last Monday met with q ter.
rible accident, which may cost him an
eye. The gun he was carrying was of the
Zulu pattern, n cheap breech-loading gun,
too dangerous TO be used. When shooting
ut a jack rabbit the piece which holds the
cartridge in place few up and the cart.
ridge few back, striking him in the closed
eye.
Severalo of the fifteen or twenty Dakotaas
who left Alexandra In November TO col
onize in northwestern Louisiana, have
already returned. and word bee been re-
ceived that nearly all, II NOT s'svy one,
will soon return TO South Dakota, satisfied
that. everything considered, Dakota Is
still their preferences
Austin Olson. Of Canton, In n man who
people thought couldn't be arrested for