Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1892-09-17
THE DAKOTAS.
wakonda will organize a brass band.

The Ynnkton pontoon bridge was opened
TO the public.
The dates for the Clay county fair hav,
been announced for Septembcr q to 80.
The wife OF Ted Dineen, living at YanlS
ton, gave birth to -four fve-pound babies.
Yaukton has n new institution for tn,
care of the drink habit called the Morton
cure.
The Gcrmania hall at Sioux Falls hai
been renovated IL will be run as ar
nmuScment place.
What Is known as the bottom" disease
has resulted in the death of many horses
GEAR Vcrmillion.
Howard wants TO organize a gun club Sc
1t can challenge the Cnnova Gun club to O
live pigeon shoot.
y lady in Clay county has made $50 en-
tries in the different departments of South
Dakota's state fair
Arrangements are being made to start
M Independent paper at Sturgi TO be run
during the campaign.
The Pipestone County Agricultural as.
ISOLATION will hold its fourth annual fair
September 10, 20 and 81.
The apple crop in the vicinity of Yank.
ton is snid TO be lager thar ever before
and OF excellent quality.
Sanborn county's npportionment of tho
worlds faic fund was 500. OF this sum,
$40 has been subscribed.
Brule county farmers report good yields
The average for the county will be about
fifteen bushels to the acre.
A hn nnnlla ~ N rnoan - tha Con-, p,arntal
house, ut Sioux Falls, saved John L. Fry
from being ~asphyxiated by gas.
A colony OF twelve families of Germans
from Delaware county, Iowa. ave located
In Forbes township, Charles Mix county.
j. ID. Little, known as the king of cnt.
tie r~ustlers, was sentenced at Deadweod
to two years in the Sioux Falls peniten.
tiary.
The city council of Deadwood has let
the coatract for an electric light plant Of
1000 incandesccnt lights and 100 arc
lights.
The Journal and Observer, of Redfeld,
will be consolidated and run by a stock
company, with O.. S. Hasford as editor.
The transfers lave already been made.
A Rapid City dispatch says that the
Rapid City. Missouri River aud St Paul
railroad project has been revived, and
that active work is likely to begin this
fall.
A new scheme has been devised al
innkton for the disposal of unclaimed
dogs which are run into the pound. They
will be sold 20 Indians in Job lots for soup
meats
y few days ago the 1-year old babe Of
Councilman Marty, of Hot Springs, fell
into n washtub OF water outside the house
and was drowned before it's mother dis.
covered it,.
a young man AIMED Gable, while at
work with a threshing crew at Huron, had
his right arm broken in two places by
being struck by a heavy belt that slipped
from the machine.
Mrs. j. Brnsky and a man named Pisky
have been arrested on a charge of Mt
tempted murder, the wouid-be victim be.
ing the woman's husband. All the parties
live near Webster.
The Dakota Farmer, published al
Huron. figures that one ton of clover hay
and one ton of straw well mixed rave al.
most exactly the same feeding value as
two tons of timothy.
John ii. Weeks, postmaster at Danforth
Hand county, was ARE ted last weeh
charged with rape on the person of Mary
Danforth, the fe~eble-minded ana crippled
daughter of c. L Danforth,
The Commercial club, of Aberdeen, held
an important meeting and heartily in.
dorsed the plan of the Sioux Falls and
Western railway TO build a line from hat
city to Yankton, and voted to extend the
necessary capital to construct the same.
he report or ruUIrc examiner DIau.
chard. of Mitchell, shows that the agri.
cultural college is maintained at less en-.
pense than my other state institution,
and that the number OF pupils enrolled
exceeds that of any other state school.
General Dryenforth and n party of gov
eminent rainmakers are expected in
Pierre to make some experiments in rain
making. They ave selected n high point
about two mi'es from the city on what is
known rs Snake Butte, to make the ex.
periments.
Carries Grow, aged G7, was killed near
Ferdon, s.. d, a few days ago by q bull
belonging to his son-in-law, II. b. Fernald
Mr.. Grow went from the house to water
the stock in the pasture about eighty rcd,
away. He was found with both arms,
both legs and his neck broken.
S. A. Ramsey, of Woonsocket, has re.
ceived an invitation from the secretary of
the national democratic committee TO
Rpealt in the coming campaign and has
been a-ked to name the states in which he
would prefer TO work. He has concluded
to make n few speeches at prominent
points in Indiana and Pennsylvania later
in the season IL he can spare tho time
from bis law business.
Sculptor Rio:dan, of Deadwood, is at.
tracing marked attention from the thous.
nnds of visitors to the Black Hills. lie Is
now engaged on the figure OF John L Sui.
livan, life.size, in fighting attitude, from
white sandstone. A great many pieces OF
Mr.. Rordan's work will be exhibited In
the South Dakota building at the worlds
fair. He, it will be remembered, chilseed
the statue Minnehaha, representing o
full-sized Sioux maiden. which will be
exhibited with the ladies' exhibits at the
Chicago fair.
Tie Stock Gave Out.
Wife How did you get along while
| was away?