Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1892-06-04


Last week we announced as an item
of local news that w. ID. Vestal and Rev.
J. V. Willis would represent Custer at
the independent state convention. This
week the latter, in one of his thumb
paper squibs, implies an objection to
the use Of his name in connection with
that of Mr.. Vestal. We take this OBJ
portunity to apologize to Mr.. Vestal,
and assure him that we did not mean TO
reflect on him at all. The independent
county convention used the two
together. hence the necessity of our as
~sociating them as we did. Next time
we will give the parson a corner by
himself, inclose it with reversed rules,
and thus preclude the possibility Of
hurting anyones feelings.
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The young son of Commissioner w.
q. Cubberly, who lives near Four Mile,
was accidently shot by the eight year
old son of 0. l.. Metcalf, Thursday after
noon The two families are neighbors
and the boys were playing with an old
shotgun which was supposed to be not
loaded and out of repairs However it
was loaded with a heavy charge of bird
shot, and while in young Metcalf's
hands it vas discharged, the contents
SCATTERING an arm and tearing open the
side of his playmate. The injured boy
has been in the care Of a physician since
the accident. but at this time it is inn
possible to say whether the wound will
prove fatal, and If not whether or not
it will be necessary to amputate the
arm.
The Burlington will build a line to
the Spokane silver district connecting
with their main line at Hill City. So
said a prominent railroad man who ar
rived in the city yesterday. He said
that AZ engineer and a corps o~fsurveyors
were busy running preliminary lines
already. The company has had expert
biologists at the Spokane for some
studying the formation Of the ground
and the reports of these experts, which
we understand was of a fattering ma
ture, induced the company TO push into
that section. 1t is probable that the
company will advertise the place
throughout the east and the result may
be a second Crede. Spokane is bound
to be heard from ere long.-Times.
Buel II. Wood, one of Clusters sue
cessful attorneys has made himself
famous by an exhibition of his descrip-
tive powers, made one day two weeks
ago, during the trial of Milton Lqtta,
who Bob was defending. Several news
papers have published an extract from
his closing plea, and the following is
the Lincoln Journals version of it: n.
X. Griggs passed through the city last
evening on his way home to Beatrice.
In brushing around among the Black
Hills courts Mr.. Griggs loses none Of bis
p~oetical genius and at the same time
gather divers valuable bits of informa-
ton. He relates the following bit OF
oratory gotten off n day last week by
Bob Wood, a Custer City attorney, i IN
his defense of a mar charged with hav-
ing committed highway robbery by
forcibly possessing himself of another
mans cross-cut saw.
Gentlemen af the Jury: Let us now
approach the scene of a typical highway
robbery such as We Black Killers are
accustomed to, and invariably keep on
tap for the benefit of the tenderfoot,
and compare the reality with the case
under discussion, so as to determine
whether this is the genuine article or
only the bastard production of the
versatile brain of my verdant opponent.
Behold the cat on the fence-tbe pale
faced moon-the low-browed rutian
masked to conceal his fr~eckles--the
awful knife protruding from his boot
top-the bull dog revolver ready cooked
in his hand-the fires of murder blazing
in his heart-while hell is in the air
popping at the unsuspecting one who is
about to fall a victim to the %murderous
villain so stealthily tiptoing upon HIM.
This, gentlemen, is a regulation picture
Of a true-to-life robbery in this great
mineral belt. And as there was not
wen a cat enacted in the scene at bar,
| ask you to denounce il az a base
counterfeit, by promptly acquitting the
Justly annoyed and greatly injured
prisoner"
The defendant was acquitted. the jury
not leaving the box.