Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1893-05-13

gar store in Aberdeen, was attempting tic
open ginger ale bottle it exploded, cut
ing his left eye out.
Ben Wardma an, the citizens candidate,
vas elected mayor Of Deadwood by ma
'ority OF 500, defeating Sol Star, who has
held the position for eight years.
JOtis Alton, young son of Thomas
Alton, of Brookings, was shot and killed
oy companion named Wicks in
quarrel. Wicks has been arrested
John Weeks, postmaster at Danforth,
who was tried at Miller Oh the charge OF
:ape was released on 81 800 bonds, owing
20 the jury disagreeing. His trial VIII
.ome up again at the fall term of court.
The United States land Office at Cham
oerlain received l5i original homestead
entries during the month Of April, dispos
ng of "a, $40 acres OF Uncle Sans public
and Most Of these lands were taken in
ihe county of Lyman on the great Sioux
reservation.
A. {. McAllister, who filed a pre-emp
.ion on the famous Dayton quarter, lying
Inside the corporate limits OF Aberdeen
las been notified by his attorney al
Washington that his rights had been rec;
,gnized and rehearing OF the case or
iered
In view of the fact of the existence OF
contagious diseases among the cattle OF
certain portions of Texas, Governor Shell
Ion has issued a proclamation prohibit
ng the importation of Texas cattle into
;he state except under most strict inspec'
ion and then only from those counties
which are distant from the counties di-
;ectly infected.
Perry s. Heath, the we'll known Wash.
ngton correspondent, has made applica-
lion for a receiver for the Western Land
company. Six years ago this company
! purchased 500 acres of land on the route
VI the prospective extension of the Great
Northern from Huron and laid out the
lown site Of Wheeler. Heath claims that
he president, Charles Joselyn, and the
secretary, W. Il Bradbury, sold a por.
ton of the land for $4,000 and pocketed
The money, and that the town site being
! sold for taxes, they bought it in for their
bwn benefit. They refused to call an elec'
lion of officers, but were recently ousted.
A large sum is involved.
| The little town OF East Sioux Falls, q
suburb OF Sioux Falls, has bsen getting
stirred up over the enforcement of the
orohibitory law. Eight women signed a
statement allie ging that the law was being
,iolated and pray ing the court for an in
junction. Three women came to Sioux
Falls and cured injunctions from Judge
Aikens Two deputies were dispatched
tt once to serve the writs. When they ar
:ived they found the places closed as
.ight as a drum, and entering, discovered
lothing but empty bottle and strong
smell Of stale beer. 1t was then learned
hat the women who remained had re.
oented of their action, and had posted the
saloon men that an injunction would soon
De issued.
Investigation of the death Of the two
sioblom children, who died Monday las,
from eating carrots poisoned with strych
1ine, near Spokane, Custer county, has
revealed facts which point strongly t'
foul play. The ranch on which the
sioblom family live is in litigation and i
Is said that a party interested recent,
cisited the place and tried TO induce
sjoblom to surrender possession by
threats and appeals to superstition, say
ting, among other things: This house Il
cursed. You have family and woult
aot wish anything to happen to them
Leave and let me have my old home
sjoblom refused This was on Friday
and on the following Monday the chill
dren found and ate the carrots in the eel
lar, which had been cut and filed will
strychnine
south Da akota has furnished some OF The
most interesting fossils known to science
the latest and probably the most remark
able being the skeleton of u rhinoceros o
he middle miocene age. The specimen
vas found in the Dad Lands" that won
lerful repository OF relies OF bygone ages
and was forwarded to the American Mu
scum Of Natural History ii
New YORK, embedded in three
sugc blocks OF sandstone
Careful workmen excavated the bone
and the specimen was found complete IL
avery particular. In this respect 1t ha'
The distinction of being the finest in tn
world, its nearest rival beings specimen
II the Jardin des Plantes, Paris, whicl
acks only the skull. The length Of th
ossil is eight feet and its height littl
ess than Ave. Whole cemeteries OF tn
bones of the rhinoceros of later ages ex
ST in other formation in thc''Bad Lands,
md the museum will soon possess speci
mems illustrating the whole history o
he animal in North America. The "Ba,
Lands of South Dakota is the most fruit
lul field for fossil research known to thu
world.
DR.. d. w. Robinson, president of the
South Dakota State Board Of Health, viii
attend conference OF the state boards OF
health Of Minnesota, South Dakota, North
Dakota and Manitoba which has been
sallcd to meet at Winnipeg at some date
in the near future. The object of the con
ference is to agree upon some plan t.
more effectually resist the probable in
sasion OF cholera in the northwest should
that disease make its way to the United
States during the coming summer. Small
,ox has also made its appearance in Man
.toba. DIR. Robinson says that the Soutl
Dakota board will advise vaccination.
The Keystone Cattle company, an Eng
ish company which has been operating |
arge catt range near DeadwOOd for sew
.ral years, have sold their stock, number
ng between 10000 and 1900 head, t.
Humphrey g. Stenges. The consideration
was about 300, 200. The purchasers viii
| ise much OF this stock In filling govern
| nent beef contracts.
All the saloons In Watertown have been
.losed, and the drug stores. blind-piggers
md boot-leggers have resumed business
.gain. The county commissioners failed
20 see any rake-off for the county In the
monthly fine system and ordered the
| states attorney to have all the saloons
closed, which was promptly done.
John Musselman, of Rapid City, man.
Ager of the Black Hills telephone lines
mas made proposition to the citizens o.
iIermosa to extend the telephone line
from Keystone to their place for gnar-
anty of $500 worth Of business for two
years. The town. .however,is to put mp thu
,ash as . guaranty. and on that amount
being paid In, the line will at once be con
structed. Hermosa IL the only town o.
any size in the Hills that has no telephone
connection.
Some successful attempts to purif,
,swage with electricity hsye been made
IN France and Englsnd-