Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1892-06-11
DAKOTA.
Rapid City 10 talking smelter.

btAlhhIu llONfINltlAt Il pros psIbuS
farmer, while on his way home from Wa
tertown, fell from the wagon and broke
his neck.
Beadlc county is loaning its share of
the school fund at 6 per cent. They have
loaned $1,000 and have 81 C0 more in the
treasury.
The Salem Special says it ia getting
hard for one man to keep tab on the many
improvements going on in Salem and do
anything else.
The Rapid River Milling company has
been awarded the government contract Of
furnishing the PING River agency with
] 100000 pounds of lour.
\ strike of lead ore CARRYING thirty
ounces Of silver has been made on the
.0O-foot level of the Iron Hill About 100
tons have been taken out.
Grotop propose to get its opera house up
and enclosed beforcahc 4th of July. An
assessment of 80 percent. has been or
dered on all subscribed stock.
John Wallstnd, n prominent miner of
Lead City, while passing through Il tunnel
in a mine at Pennington, was instantly
killed from the effects of n blast
The Bald Mountain blanket veins con-
tinue to pay handsomely. Golden Re-
ward, Mark Twain and Buxton are each
turning out about 81 200 per day.
Comm dore Rudd, of Lodi, hiss disposed
of his extensive ranch containing $50 acres
TO George Wright, n banker from Chicago
for Il consideration of $l4, 600.
Fred Freeman, formerly postmaster of
Gam Valley, pleaded guilty to stealing
5000 rom a registered letter and was sem
fenced TO one year in the peniteptiary.
Fred Freeman, formerly postmaster of
Gunn Valley, pleaded guilty to stealing
500 from n registered letter, and was SEN
fenced to one year III the pcnitentiary.
The state board of agriculture has of
fered n premium of $50 TO the editors of
South Dakota for the best editorial argu-
ment in favor of the state and county
fairs.
Every county does not nave two sher-
ifs but Sully county lays claim TO that
distinction. Each sheriff holds a c%ertifi-
cate of election and claims to be the duly
authorized officer.
The shipment of ore from Bald Noun
tain to Rapid City has been increased to
sixty tons per day, which is nearly as
much as the works can handle with their
present capacity.
II. b. Williamson, superintendent of
grounds, has planted 1909 trees on the
Madison Chautauqua grounds this year
and they are growing finely. Mr.. Will
liamsor will nov enter up9a the work of
grading STREETS.
a special election was held in Dead
wood to consider the advisability of APP
propriating $4,000 for the construction of
a complete system of sewerage. Anal
most solid vote was cast in favor of the
proposition.
As the G.. A Il. procession was on the
way to the cemetery in Yanktou "a son of
John Lanniug, about Il o, !! years OLD.
attempted to climb upon a moving wagon
and fell between the wheel and the box,
sustaining n fracture Of his left leg
On' OF Charles Bolsen's small boys got
entnngled in n rope at Mt. Vernon, to
which a young calf was attached. The
calf being Of a playful disposition was In
Tor n picnic, even though it did break the
boys legs in.two places between the hip
and the knee. .. ell.
~ A'thAN OpN q AulcS Ht young son OF
Antoine Simmons of the First ward was
badly burned about the hands and face
rrHceNtly while playing with a bottle which
had evidcptIy contained nitric acid. The
bottle had been thrown away by some
!~houghtless person.
Mile jeff McDermott was Walking
along in ihe deep Gait on section H'of the
DAKOTA Wyoming aud Missouri River
railroad grade In the Hills a large boulder
Tell down in front of him and bounding up
struck him on the right arm, breaking it
between the elbow and the wrist.
Two enormous steam pumps arrived
Wednesday, for the Harvey Peak com
pany. They are Of the Knowles pattern;
double cylinder, direct acting; the dis
charge pipe of the smaller one has q
diameter of six inches, the larger seven
inches, The two pumps complete. weigh
A.so,OS pounds, -, -
| One OF the riGllest finds ever made in the
I Black Hills has, been uncovered at the
Corn mines al Galena. 1T is -silvar ore,
from which assays running as high as
BIZ coo per ton have been received A To-
cal expert states there are sighted in the
HllHc rum sixty y " IOnS VI L lHit Will
aHnragc' $4,000 per ton.
It is lcarned-frpm the secretary OF tho,
state Russian relief commission that
South Dakota's contsrutious TO the Rus.
sian sufferers will aggregate about fifty
carloads, mostly flour. The state has not
:yesbecr wholit Fam asscd bat whcrcthe
lwok has been done the solicitors met
with most gratifying results. =,
The Elkhorn section men have been
ordered to bury eco head of lead cattle
found lying near Brennan station. What
disposition will be made of the other car
easses,iu that vicinity is not known, but
1t is presumed that the board Of county
commissioners viii have to foot the bill
and take steps to collect the expense of
OF the owners of the brands. - y
Since September =, 1901, aMenno Has
SSpped Alb cars pf wheat, making s)s.192
bushsls, valued anS. s 65,S94I1- -This is'a
most creditaIle showing for a tow OF its
size. 90.
Every arrangement for the fourth an
nual meeting of the Missouri Valley Vet.
Grams association to be held in Scotland
june q, 22 and 80, has been about com
rHoted. THE counties in the district are
Yankton, Bon Hommc, Hutchinson, HIM
son, Dawson, Aurora, Brule, Douglas.ahd
4 Charles Mix, and each Of the t~wentyiodd
posts of the district will send large deic-
cations. ~ as&& asA q gsa
Owing to the heavy rains the cattle
frouDdI up spn,, the .yeseryatioD has been
postponedthiee weeks Cattle are look
ing well. although poorer than usual at
This time of the year ON account of the
cold, stormy weather.
Rapid City Journal. On n late trip. to
E,towp tyem. his Castle creek ranch J. +.
Reynolds told several parties in this city
a story of the finding of two skeletons, enc
of n man, the other OF n bear. lying to-
gether near the head of Little Rapid creek.
iut,e Limestone range. Thc fad was
made by. a party Of hunters about a month
ago - hese are ~no'doubtn1l that remain
10 tell the tale Of n terrible forest tragedy
of many years ago
The citv conncil NJ Sioux Falls has or