Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1892-01-16
THE DAkOTAS.

VIII form u trades union.
The Canton News begins the new year
with volume twenty-nIne.
The Sturgls Advertiser commenced vol
ume six with the new year.
A postofice has been established NJ
Boynton, Dickey county.
Boomers are already arranging to be-
siege the Sisseton reservation.
A mail car was showed in near Gettys'
burg several days last week.
The Hot Springs Hatchet has passed
into the hands of a stock company
Frank Stangler, of Wheatland. who was
lost for several days, has been found.
The amount of lumber produced by
Black Hills saw mills in 1891 was II, 000,00C
feet.
The Monitor Is a new republican paper
Just started at Artesian by Bentz & Hop
kins.
Drilling for the artesian well at the
Plankington reform school has com,
menced.
The artesian well Mt Groton, which has
been clogged up since last fall, is again
~spouting forth water.
A Boise City girl, IS years old and six
feet two inches in height, is said to be the
tallest woman in Idaho.
Dan Scott will be city editor of w. w
Goddard's new democratic paper to be
started at Sioux Falls.
Eli Johnson has sold the Highmore
Herald to L. L. Whitcher, who will change
its politics to democratic.
The Spearfish Bulletin hears that Hank
| Inyatt md n;n Lar,n, ,uaca ,,nt ola;p
by the regulators, but are both alive and
well.
Rev. j. p. Stiles, the new pastor of the
Huron Baptist church, has arrived from
Shelbyville, Ill, and entered pom his
duties. d,
The present governor of North Dakota,
A. II. Burke, was nee n newsboy. 1t was
by selling extras" that he began his rise
In life.
%sleighing in the vicinity of Sioux Falls is
better this winter than during any winter
for five years.
Horses are wintering well on the ranches
on the Sioux reservation. The ranchers
say they have not been compelled to feed
any hay as yet.
Louis G. st ~ilzenburR, 10 years old, n
dishwasher in the Park hotel at Rapid
City, suicided by shooting. No cause is
known.
Mrs. d. McDermaid, of Mitchell, re
ceived a sack containing twenty-five cats
for n Christmas present. 1t was from an
admiring Aberdeen friend.
A. c. Bower, a gay young man of Rapid
{ ~, is in limbo for m~ortgaging an imagin
airy herd of cattle to the Dakota bank, re.
ceiving 500 on them.
The saw mill of Upton ~ Harding. five
miles west of Custer, was destroyed by
fire. Loss, $1,000; no insurance. This
mill was one of the best in the Hills.
Robert Hoe, Jr, of printing press
fame, has a penchant for ola and curious
engravings. He has already collected
$500, 600 worth, but he can afford it.
The obstruction in the old city artesian
well at Aberdeen has been located at a
depth of 1888 feet. The contractors have
hopes of getting a good flow without
difficulty.
Sherman w. Bowman experienced re-
ligion at Whitewood recently. He became
deeply absorbed in church work-so much
SO hat his mind has been turned, and he
will probably have to be sent to an insane
asylum.
Hans {. Salberg, living near Dell
Rapids, turned his family out of their
home and did many other queer things
which finally attracted the attention OF
his neighbors. An investigation proved
hat he was insane.
Logan Smith committed rape on a young
girl who worked in a Rapid City hotel.
The girl is only half-witted and partially
paralyzed, and Smith accomplished his de.
signs by enticing her away from the hotel
to a secluded part of the town.
The north bound passenger train was
wrecked Friday night between Minnewau
kan and New Rockford, and three cars
were piled up and the track demolished
somewhat. One of the engineers was
slightly scalded and bruised.
A special meeting Of the Pembina Pres.
bytery was held ut Larimore Friday. r.
]. Crum, accused of Illegal connections
with female members of his congregation,
was to be tried. Crum did not put in his
appearance and the meeting adjourned to
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An Indian woman belonging to Two Ket'
ties band was burned to death u few miles
west of Pierre. She was engaged In dry
ing roots over n fire when her clothes be-
came ignited and she was burned to a crisp
before Any assistance arrived.
A circumstance occurred in Madison
Tuesday morning that probably has not O
parallel in the United States. At $50
o'clock William McGrath was arraigned
before Police Justice j. ii. Williamson
charged with intoxication; and at 10 80
Judge Vim. McGrath opened the county
court as it's presiding officer, and ]. II
Williamson appeared before him as 9
practicing attorney-the popularity of the
circustance being from dock to bench" il
the case of Mr.. McGrath, while Mr.. Will
hanson descended from ''bench to bar
all within two hours, the drama in two
acts being played in the courts of Police
Justice Williamson and County Judge Nc
Grath respectively.
Cornelius Sorenson, proprietor of one of
the leading hotels at Aberdeen. was sen
fenced to sixty days in Jail and to pay q
fine of $50 for selling liquor contrary tc
law.
The public installation OF Woonsocket
lodge, A. +. and A.. NJ, and also OF the
lodge of +. A. NJ, toof place at Woon'
socket on last Sunday evening and wa.
Witnessed by q large crowd of people.
City Engineer Palmer helped Yankton's
newsboys on New Years by writing and
printing u carriers address, of which ht
gave them all the copies they could sell,
He used to be q n~ewsboy himself
The Huronite reports that ut least 10'
former citizens wha had gone of In search
of better pastures will return in the sprinl
to recement themselves to the soil o.
Beadle county.
Alpcna Journal: Robert J. Tracy, o
Dale, found two of his best cows lead las
Monday morning on going out to chore
and three others violently sick. On open
ing one of the dead cows her stomach wal
found to be loaded with mustard seed
which she had obtained from a neighbour
strawpile where the threshiug machin,
had stood. The inner coating Of the stom
al, ,yoa m 10 orhotlad ard uudar that 4