Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1892-07-23
DAKOTA.

lUnu dlStrlct sCO,UUU acres OF goou agrlcut
tural land subject to Homestead entry.
The business of the Pierre postoffice has
fallen off TO such an extent that the post
masters salary has been reduced 500.
Wildwood was selected rs the place
for holding the next annual reunion OF the
soldiers and sailors of the Black Hills.
Governor 4. c. Mellctte is the only state
officer Of South Dakota who is not n can
didute for re collection or promotion this
yea
Brown county's commissioners are agi-
tating the question of buying the North
western bank building at Aberdeen for a
court house.
The income of the Yankton postofice
for the current year has reached the
amount necessary TO entitle the city to
free delivery.
According 30 the Dcadwood Times the
sale of a group of Bald mountain mines
to an English syndicate for $4,000 is an
assured thing.
Two hundred teams are now at work on
the lankton and Norfolk railroad, and
the contractors are pushing the grading
as fast as possible.
a citizen of Woousocket was lionized by
the News of hat place because he rave to
the thirsty on the Fourth ifty-two gallons
of circus lemonade.
Yankton's new directory has just been
Issued, and t shows the population OF
Iankton TO be 5,325, being quite a gain
during the last year
Pierre people don't want anything bad
around their part of the country. They
are going to change the name of Bad
river TO Good" river.
The distinguished foreign directors of
the Harvey Peak Tin company vouch-
Safcd no information regarding their iu-
t~entions during their visit to the Hills.
The Masons and the knights of
Pythias in Deadwood have their music
supplied by an automatic organ which
renders the airs for singing or p%romenad-
ing.
Old residents say hat the Missouri
river was higher AZ Yankton this spring
than it has been since the spring of 1881,
and higher than any June rise for many
years.
Hon. A. Sheridan Jones, who has for
some time past held the place of president
of the state university board of trustees,
has received his commission promoting
him to the state board OF regents.
\ Pierre dealer in secondhand goods
ndvertises n secondhand coffin for sale
which leads a correspondent TO remark
that the offer viii! not remain open very
tong, as the Indians have a custom of pro-
curing their collins before death.
The Cigarmakers' union, of Sioux Falls
has issued n pamphlet naming tho
various brands of union cigars made in
that city, and urging the public TO use
these in preference to eastern made
goods.
1t is declared from Aberdeen that ID
would seem to be n certainty that the 500
grade from Boynton to Bismarck, and
more than likely from Aberdeen TO ASH
ley, will be ironed this fall in time to move
hct crop.
Builders of Madison complain that the
freight on Portland cement from Yankton
to that place is considerably more than
from Chicago, although the haul is only
about one-third as long rs from the latter
place. This unjust discrimination prac-
!ically shuts out Yankton cement from
that locality.
The fireworks at Bowdle on the night of
the Fourth frightened a horse driven by
Mrs. Fred =. Bowmnr, with Rev. Helen
q. Putnam. the Unitarian minister of
jamestown, \. D., as n companion, over
turning the top buggy and seriously in
juring both ladies about the head, face
and body.
Paul Hamarn, of Sioux Falls, editor Of
the South Dakota Democrat, a German
weekly paper published In Sioux Falls, is
missing. He was in Chicago in atten d.
ancc upon the national democratic con.
~vention and has not turned up In Sioux
Falls since. His family has not heard o
word from him and are reported to be in
destitute circumstances. His newspaper
has failed to make it's appearance for two
weeks and leading Germans are of the
opinion that he has skipped" The figure
ais Indebtedness at $50.
Pierre Capital: This forenoon w. II.
Gleckler met with what came near being
4 very serious accident Mr.. Gleckle r
drove onto the ferry boat with n
Team of horses and stood at their
heads holding them. A drove of
horses were also driven on the boat
which scared Mr.. Checkers horses and
hey commenced to jump and kick,
'Gleck" was knocked down and badly
bruised and had to be taken home in a
carriage, although we are informed he
sustained no serious injuries.
Two footpads held up the proprietor of
ihe Williams creamery, &C. w Winthern,
asst night at the Vermillion river bridge,
about four miles north of Centerville. He
rad about $3.50 that he had drawn from
he bank to buy butter, and as he was
driving home about IL o'clock, Just as he
same 10 the bridge two men rose up and
fred in front of his horses. He drew his
revolver and fired two shots at them that
being all the loads he had. They returned
mis- fire, the bullet going through his hat
and coat One man attacked him from
behind, when be received n blow on the
head, partially stunning him. They then
tore open his vest and took his pocketbook
from his inside pocket without further
searching After he recover edrom the
fright and blow he returned to town for
help, but no trace of the robbers could be
found.
South Dakota pensions - Original:
Henry j. Chadwick, William II. Holmes.
Additional: Washington G. Carpenter,
Alex p. Crawford. increased: Andrew
r. McCord. Original widows, etc {:
rheries Bcrguin.
Captain Thomas, an expert metallur-
yist. accompanied the directors of the
Harvey Peak lin company in their recent
inspection of their Black Hills property.
He expresses it as his deliberate opinion
hat the mines are equal to those Of Corn
wall, and are practically inexhaustibl' :.
As n result of this report the work in the
mines and the mill will be vigorously
pushed.
X A. williams, of Aberdeen, who
was arrested a short time since for rum
ming his bicycle on the sidewalk, contrary
20 a city ordinance, has been called down
by the pharmaceutical board Of this state
for selling poisonous drugs without a
Pharmacists certificate.
Four Pierre citizens, although they had
\ pass from Secretary Noble we're cap