Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1892-05-21

"a NANOfpOp iohSAs - ~
soon the bonus is guaranteed.
1t is reported that over 10000 acres Of
Deuel. county and has exchanged hands
during the past four months.
The Redfcld Journal will probably alb.
sorb the Obs ervcr, and s. b Milton go as
city editor on the Aberdeen News.
A new republican paper has made Its
appearance ut Huron. 1t Is called the
South Dakota News and is published by
Harvey c. Afford.
There has been some trouble In the In
pupils rebelling against the authority Of
the superintendents.
j. w. Thayer having resigned the post
masGership at Howard, Congressman
Jolley has recommended the appointment
of James A Cox for the place. q.
l.. Q Jeffries, secretary of the Russian
relief commission, says that South Dakota
will undoubtedly give fifty cars Of flour
and grain to the famine sufferers.
1t is claimed that there are parties in
Yankton who are thinking seriously of
sinking IN artesian well for tho purpose
of obtaining power for n big manufactory.
At the request of Senator Pettigrew, w.
L. Oliver, of Canton, has been appointed
on the weather bureau as assistant OBJ
server. He will probably be sent to Pierre.
A monument will Ice put up over the last
resting place OF Rev. Joseph Ward, d. d.,
the first president of Yankton college. 1t
will be of the finest Quincy granite and
will weigh eight tons.
Tla.o. Io.b o,,o n about "a
years of age, was caught between q large
belt and fly wheel in one of the lumber
mills Mt Spearfsh and instantly crushed
to death last Monday.
Mrs. n. A. Kirk, of Elk Point, is having
"A log cabin made, eight by ten inches In
size, containing n piece of wood from
every state and territory It will be on
exhibition at the wo"ld's fair.
The present scarcity of hay was prob
ably never equnlled in the history of Deuel.
county. In some cases stock is actually
going hungry. At an auction sale at Gary
ten tons of wild hay sold for so
Deputy United States Marshal Griffin
has arrested Bellatti Bros, fruit dealers,
States revenue laws. Peter Erickson was
also arrested for the same offense.
The new Minnekahta hotel at Hot
Springs Is fast nearing completion. Four
stories are up and work Is being pushed
on the fifth. This mammoth structure
will have no less han $50 rooms when
completed.
Charles II. Bates expects to leave Yanls-
ton early next week for the country west
~ tIa Miaannri riyar IN cptar unnn tho
of the work of locating the
boundary line between North Dakota and
Dakota
At recent meeting of the directors of
the Lake Madison Chnutauqua assembly,
who are philanthropists Of high degree, 1t
was decided to open the grounds to the
public on Sundays and to charge a gen.
eral admission fee of rs cents.
Johnson and Toney Cumsky, the two
young sons of Thomas Cumsky, OF Belle
Fourche, while playing on the banks of
the Belle Fourche river accidentally fell
the stream and were drowned In sight
IF their companions who were too small to
render assistance.
1t is reliably reported at Deadwood that
l strike of Il large body of Gil gold ore has
oeen made ON the 600-foot level of the
Caledonia and the 460-foot level Of tho
mines, where prospecting has been
lone with n diamond drill, thus proving
he ore body Of great extent.
During the last term of the United
states court at Sioux Falls there were in
attendance 227 witnesses and Jurors, who
raveled to get there In the aggregate 81
1914 miles. They were In town 1926 days
have received between 5000 aud
%, 1000.
d. j.. Mclaughlin, editor Of the Dead
wood Pioneer, was summoned before
Judge Thomas on q bench warrant to ex-
,lain how he secured the contents of q
verdict he published in his paper.
III Q issue of the case involved was a very
important mining point and some crook
,dness on the part of the jurymen was
inspected. Mclaughlin swore that he
guessed the verdict from tho nature Of the
testimony, and was discharged.
The new crystal cave which has re-
,ently been discovered near Elk Creek
will be made n grand pleasure resort. Ar
are being made to light the
entire ave by electricity, and q large
force of men are ut work clearing and Gu
.arging the small openings.
John NJ. Egan, now president md gen.
sral manager of the Chicago, st. Paul
and Kansas City railway, has presented n
bell to the Baptist church Mt Egan,
The first house of worship erected In the
named after him while he was con.
structing the Southern Minnesota.
The partly decayod remains of q man,
have since been identified as those
of William Doyle, u blacksmith, who mys.
teriously disappeared from his home In
about three months ago, have
been found near that city. Several bullet
holes In his skull verified the sus picion
hat he had been murdered.
YermillioI will observe Decoration day
his year In fitting style. Arrangements
ire o being made for an elaborate pro
gram and q grand procession. The uni
battalion of three companies OF
nfautry two artillery sections and the
city souaves will figure promi-
,cntly. 1t promises to be u grand day.
John Johns, OF Minneapolis, was at
Pierre looking for Herman Huysscn who
December IL He was
raced to New York city by ticket and
check and then lost Germany
las been searched aud now the trail IL
truck ut Pierre. He Is u rich old gentle
nan with large property interests there
10 has a SON in Minneapolis.
Scarccrows are used ON the bottom land
u Yankton and other Missouri river coun.
les to keep the wild geese of the corn
Ields. The country IL full Of geese. They
re more plentiful than crows or black
ever were, and are . regular pest In
ORR fields.