Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1892-10-08

Prairie fires have done considerable
damage between Walsey and ST. Law
renee.
A fire at Howard burned to death two
persons and destroyed slO0,O 600 worth Of
property.
The schools of Clay county have, with
but two exceptions, been supplied with
home teachers.
S,urgis is jubilant over the prospect OF
having its wGterworks system com oleted
before Rapid City's.
Lead City and Deadwood have organ.
lied n ty~ Geographical union with twenty
three chart.r members.
\ swarm of bees took possession of n
grocery store at Sioux Falls, which Goa
tanned a quantity of honey.
A considerable amount OF stolen jewelry
was recently found by some children at
play in an old hack at Deadwood.
The Yauktou Journal has been restored
to health as an independents paper, with
Alex EeyuicL as editor and proprietor.
DR.. w. i. Hcadden, dean of the school
of mines, will have charge OF the Black
Hills mineral exhibit ut the worlds fair.
The county seat fight in Butte county
betweca Belle FouI che and Miunc,eia
has b en- settled in favor of the lastnamed
town
II. c. Nicholl, n conductor on the Dakota
Central division of the Chicago and North
western, fell between the cars at Tracy
and was instantly killed.
The grand jury at Miller returned an
indictment against L ID Sweetland, editor
of the Miller Gazette, for practicing med
icine without a license.
\ squash on exhibition at Alexandria
measured three feet four inches in length,
three fee three inches in diameter and
weighed sixty.five pounds
Rev. +. D. Nevhouse, for the past two
years pastor Of the Methodist church at
Huron, has accepted the passionate of n
Methodist church at Harvey, Ill.
The w. II. c. OF the Aberdeen district
united in raising funds to purchase a
large rolling chair for the use of the old
soldiers at the home in Hot Springs
a carload Of black bass reached Rapid
City for dist ibution to the different appli.
can,s throughout the Black Hills. The
fish are from three inches to one foot in
length.
siding eleven miles west of Scotland, died
from the effects Of a ride on a merry-go-
round at the District fair. After iidipg
on the merry-go-ronnd he became dizzy,
and never recovered.
The Northwestern ticket office at Parker
was robbed while the agent md operator
were out. Operator Moran returned
through the freight office aud caught tho
thief In the act, and compelled him to dis.
gorge. The thief pulled "A revolver on the
operator, but the latter was too quick fo,
him, and while he had him covered with
his gun compelled him to give up his
booty. The robber entered through the
freight office.
The thirteenth anniversary of tho Dead.
wood fire occurred last Monday. AZ
about 2 o'clock on the morning of Friday
September 90, 1872, fire broke out in a
bakery on Sherman street, just above the
corner of Lee street, and within four hour.
the entire city, except a houses on Forest
hill and City creek on the west and north,
and upper sherman street on the south
and east, were destroyed Loss, upwards
of $1,000. 0O).
Springfield Times: Scotland is threat.
encd with al epidemic of diphtheria a
child in the family of Fred each died last
Friday and through carelessness of the
phys clan and family, nearly all the chill.
drcn in town we're more or less exposed
to the disease, which was not known 20 be
diphtheria until tho second ono In the
same family was taken sick, and this time
the disease was pronounced malignant
diphtheria. The city schools met Mon,
day and Immediately adjourned sine die.
General Averill, inspector of the ma
tional and state soldiers homes, is much
impressed with Hot Springs rs a point foI
the establishment of n rational hospital
for the army and navy, and with the idea
in view of testing the water there for
acute rheumatism, he will recommend
that two carload of veterans, who are sut.
fering with that d~isease, be sent there
this fall-one load from Milwaukee,, the
other from L~eavenworth, and there is no
doubt but what his recommendation will
be favorably acted on.
The in memory of Past Grand
Master George II. Hand. which is erected
by the Masonic fraternity of South Da-
kota at Yankton, is now being placed In
po 'itiou. 1t Is n spirc of Monticello, Wis.
granite fifteen feet in height, eighing
nearly eight tons, AMI valued at 500.
+. j. Hayes. official photographer OF
the Northern Pacific railway, has been
engaged by Secretary Gibbs, Of the worlds
fair commi sion, TO make n tour of the
state, taking photographs Of the cities,
towns, farms, artesian wells, etc, to be
, u ed in connection with South Dakota's
exhibit
While George Stewart, son of Albert
Stewart, of Yankton, was driving a horse
attached to a light wagon on the road to
TO the cement works at that place the ami.
NAL became unmanageable aud dashed
down an embankment fifty or sixty feet
The horse was killed, the wagon demol-
ishcd and young Stewart had his wrisi
broken and receive ed internal injuries.
An ice cave has been discovered in the
vicinity of Galena ia the Black Hills
which surpnsses in beauty every othe,
cave yet found. The air inside of the
cave is fearful cold and several lakes OF
ice have been found. he explorer in
tends 10 secure the ice and supply the
Black Hills Herewith.
The total valuation of South Dakota as
returned by the state board of ~equaliza.
ton is slls, 2.3,st7. The total assessment
Of ra lroads for 1850, is IS, sl6, sos, and the
total assessment OF telegraph, telephone
and express companies is 1888, s. This,
added 10 the assessments Of real and per
sonai property, makes the gT:rd total
assessment for this year $I27,47 22S. The
va luation of real and personal property
is til8,2 S.3Jz, as compared with ais, lla,.
DOG In 1891, and siso, s79.o95 in 1890. The
high assessment In 1890 vas brought
about by the state board Of equalization
making a raise of the assessment as re-
turnsd BY the county boards Of eqaalisa-
don