Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1893-07-22
DAKOTA.

J"o'iaht o'er ne Spiehuiu crop prospects.
tits estimated that the wool clip in the
vicinity OF Pierre this year will be nearly
400, 600 pounds.
DR.. Frederick Treon has been APP
pointed agent at the Crow Creek Indian
agency at Chamberlain.
Hoke Smith stopped at Devils Lake to
Inspect the Indian agency and to address
the Chautauqua assembly.
r. A. Moody is organizing a drum corps
at Canton. composed OF sons of veterans
of from 10 to IA years of age.
Sanford Edmunds, n prominent farmer
OF Mitchell, s. ID, was killed in Iowa,
while returning home from the worlds
fair.
The Second Regiment band Of South
Dakota National Guards, of Bookings,
furnished music at the dedication of the
South Dakota building at the worlds fair.
A party of geological students from
Princeton college have their headquar-
tiers at Hermosa and will spend the SUM
mer months collecting bad lands speci-
mems.
The Dakota and Wyoming Railroad
company laid its track through the city
of Rapid during the dark hours of IA re-
cent night. 1t did SO In order to put u
stop to litigation over its right-of-way.
Robert Davis, formerly a shift boss in
the Highland mine, at Lead, and of late "A
contractor, was killed in the mine by u
rock weighing sixty pounds falling from
above, cutting his head wide open.
The Spearhsh Bulletin tells of "a great
blast recently fired on the Speartish ex.
tension. 1t was made up of l9J kegs OF
black and two cases of giant powder, and
Is said TO have moved 800 tons of rock,
Six COWS have died at WATERFOWL from
hydrophobia and others are afflicted.
They are supposed TO have contracted IL
from a bird dog killed in June. The city
council has ordered all unmuzzled dogs
shot.
The annual carbine com petition OF the
departments of Dakota and Columbia will
be held at Fort Keogh, Mont, August IA,
1893, where competitors will be selected
for the army team which will meet IN
Chicago in September.
Comptroller Eckels has directed Bank
Examiner Diamond to take charge of the
suspended First National bank Of Hot
Springs, also Examiner Flynn, OF Spokane,
to take charge OF the suspended bank at
Livingston.
Seth Bullock, of Deadwood, will write a
book entitled Twenty Years in the Ter.
ritories." Its subject matter will touch
on the doings of v%igilants In Montana,
the horse thieves of Nebraska and the
stage robbers of the Black Hills.
The poultry f~anciers of Clay county
have induced the Clay County Fair assoc
citation to call +. H.. S~hellabargcr, the
great poultry and pet stock man, TO score
the poultry at the 1893 fair. The cost OF
his services has been nearly or quite all
raised by private subscription.
The Black Hills Telephone company
will in n short time reconstruct the line
between Rapid City and Hot Springs and
thus put the line in such condition thai il
will be possible for Deadwood to talk
with the springs. a thing which has been
utterly impossible heretofore.
Judge Gardner, of the Seventh circuit
court, has granted Captain Hazerodt, of
Custer, an absolute divorce from his wife,
his charge of cruelty having been sus-
tanned. Mrs. Hazerodt is given the Gus
tody of the one child and a provision Of
81, 500 in real estate for its maintenance.
An excursion is being planned for the
members of Company c, 5. ID. y. g.,
which, if carried out, will give them an
opportunity to visit the worlds fair in
September. The proposition is to charter
a car for two weeks and occupy it during
their absence, having their own commits
sary and cook. and thus reducing the ex-
pense to the minimum.
At Pierre circumstances have come to
light showing that the commissioners
having In charge the lending of school
funds nave been very lax. The commis'
sioners have lent more than 800 to one
man in many cases, and have made loans
in excess of the assessed valuation of the
land, in direct violation of the law.
Reports received at Fort Pierre from
three roundup outfits agree that the crop
of calves this season Is the largest ever
raised on the coded Sioux land ranges.
Some of the cowboys declare that in some
punches they find more calves than COWS.
The roundup this year is managed by the
stock association, and SO far has given the
best satisfaction. 1t will be the most
complete in the history Of the Sioux
ranges
County Commissioners Bradley, Peters,
Hawkins and Reichman and several citi-
zens of Plymouth county, Iowa, were in
Elk Point last week in consultation with
the commits sioners Of Union county with
regard to the bridges across the big Sioux.
The result was that two bridges are TO be
built this fall, one at or near JOIN Tracy's
farm, east of Elk Point; the other at the
Richland mills. Plymouth county pays
81, 400 toward the cost of the upper bridge
and s4O toward the lower. Both are to
be substantial structures of the combina-
nation pattern and will cost about 5000.
Wild Bills grave in Mt. Moriah Gene
terry, near Deadwood, has recently been
inclosed by "a handsome stone wall of ma
tive sandstone, capped with marble, the
Gaping being surmounted by "A handsome
iron fence. The money to do the work
was realized from IA lecture given in
Deadwood some time ago by Captain Jack
Crawford, the poet scout, who was a firm
friend of the dead scout. The iron fence,
which will be difficult to scale, was
placed on the wall to prevent the grave
and monument being desecra.ed by visit
ing vandals. During the past few years
relic hunters have destroyed several
handsome monumen that were placed
over Wild Bill's grave, but the fence will
prevent this in the future.
The Black Hills country produces gold
and little silver. The people there inter-
estei in developed gold properties believe
there will be a greater activity in gold
mining and preparations have already be-
gun for great developments. Mining men
believe they will make quicker sales and
get better prices for their properties.
Brooklyn has 10000 trees, watched
over by the Tree Planting and Foun.