Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1892-01-30
THE DAkOTAS.

Arlington January l..
The aid of Deadwood police is invoked
to keep young kids sober.
Burglars sSole $3.50 worth of goods from
Jack thomas store ut Fargo.
Mrs, John hurry died at Sioux Falls Of
old age. She had lived 50 years.
Three carloads of machinery for the big
tin mill has arrived Mt Hill City.
The colored people of Fargo talk of or
ganizing u lodge in Freemasonry.
The Evans sandstone quarry at Hot
Springs has a monthly pay roll of $1,000.
The Great Northern's new depot at
Grand Forks is completed and occupied.
Notwithstanding the frigid weather the
plunge bath at Hot Springs is still pa
tronized
St. Lawrence has sold her artesian well
bonds and work will soon commence on
two wells.
Hand county warrants are at par, which
shows the county to be in a hourishing
condition.
Wheat receipts at Hope up to date are
said to amount TO 500, 900 bushels; at Lari.
more, $4,000 bushels.
The school census of Fargo shows 1910
children between the ages of d and 20
years-6S9 boys and GIL girls.
Lieutenant Byron, Il ~favorite in Dead
wood. has been appointed to command the
Indian troops OF the Third cavalry.
IL is impossible to supply the demand
for farms to rent in Bon Homme county,
according to the Springfield Times.
George Haight. a Sully county farmer,
made and sold 1850 pounds of cheese last
year besides raising a good crop of grain.
Brule county's indebtedness is SIS, 5l2 II.
The net indebtedness October | last was
SIC, l07. "a, q decrease of S595.17 in three
months.
A Grand Forks man named Mickle b.
Olson wants his name improved He has
petitioned the court to nave it changed to
Michael o. Braglund.
The Kings Daughters, of Yankton, have
decided to hold their annual charity ball
at the Hotel Pierce on the evening of
Wednesday, January 20.
A German named David Butler, of Mar
Junction, was robbed at Springfield by
two rufians of $50. They threatened
death and pointed a revolver at the vic
tim.
Castalia Republican: J. E. c. Wilson
lost tifty-ive head of hogs last week. They
were huddled under u large corn crib, the
timbers of which gave way and killed all
tho hogs beneath H.
Professor Jennings, superintendent of
Crystal Falls iron mine in northern Mich
lgan, has accepted the chair of metallurgy
and mining engineering in the school of
mines at Rapid City.
At a recent meeting of Sully post at
Pierre an important event took place in
the presentation to the post of the minute
record OF the post since it was organized,
handsomely bound in half Russia leather.
Frank Bogelwick was arrested at Minot
for committing a rape on the person of IN
ll-year-old girl name Liza Kowski. Dur.
ing the progress Of the trial the prisoner
escaped and has not yet been recaptured
A Rapid City young man was aiken to
Hot Springs and placed in the Kelley in
stitute while under the influence of
LIQUOR. After being ''shot once he became
sober enough to realize where he was and
Immediately left the place.
The Pierre Journal SAYS: "The reports
from all over the range and also east Of
the river assure us that stock is In fine con.
dltiou. We nave but little snow and no
severe storms and the grass Is not COW
cred. The predictions of the early fall
scared the stockmen, but the prophets were
clear off"
j. w. Smith, a raneher from Elk noun
tain, while riding to Custer City last Sat
urday night, met with an accident hat
left him far from home with a broken leg.
When four miles west of the town his
horse fell and his left leg was crushed be-
tween the animals heavy body and the
frozen ground The zone was fractured
at the ankle. Mr.. Smith remounted his
horse and rode into Custer without assist
ance, and q surgeon dressed the injured
limb.
A WATERFOWL man, who is a crank IN
early rising. got up the other morning,
opened up the drafts to the cook stove,
shook down the CRATE, put on the tea
Kettle, aroused his better half, and pro-
ceeded to don his habilaments suitable to
attend the morning repast The meal was
prepared in due season and disposed Of
but somehow the daylight did not brighten
up as much rs he thought 1t ought, and
on consulting the clock, il was found that
the hour was $3.50.
An unfortunate accident occurred on
Tuesday Mt the ranch of w. II Hender-
son, Custer county. The particulars are
as follcws: An S-year-old daughter of
Mr.. Henderson had got hold of a dynamite
cartridge. While she was holding the
dangerous thing II explo6 Il. tearing away
three fingers of her ls b. ID and destroy
Ing one eye. A physician was called from
the Springs and the sufferer made easy as
possible, but at the best she will carry the
marks TO her grave.
Conrad Millcr, the man who absconded
with $500 OF Larson g. Knudson's money,
was captured in Winnipeg and brought
back to Fargo. An officer was at the de-
pot 10 receive the prisoner Friday night
when he arrived and escort him to the POI
lice station. Miller was given over into
his charge and the couple proceeded
down the street They had gone about a
block when Miller suddenly drew q re-
volver from his overcoat pocket and, point
ing it at the officer, declared that he would
RO ho iutthcE. "A lug ShouSoj viz
weapon was discharged and the prisoner
escaped.
Rose Logan, the youngest daughter of
Sam Logan, Of Pierre, had q narrow es.
cape from drowning. The little girl was
skating on the river where some ice had
been cut and fell in. She fioated liz feet
under the ice and came to the surface at
an air hole that distance below where she
had fallen in. A man with q graphing
hook saw her come to the sur ace. He
fastened it into her clothing and by that
means kept her sfoat until more assis-
lance arrived, when she was taken out
and carried home unconscious. Doctors
we're summoned and soon had her re-
stored to usual health.
The assessors returns show &c, 1000 sheep
owned In Stark and Morton counties.
These sheep, 1t IL estimated should clip
2U0,L0J pounds of wool annually, and Ms n
result the people of these sections are
Offering free fuel and building sites for
wooden mills.
AttoruavGapero Dollnrd haa decided