Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1893-02-04
THE DAKOTAS.
The Estelline Bell has changed /

Sioux Falls will erect high schoo
building TO cost $4,000.
Jack rabbits are reported numerous il
the vicinity OF Aberdeen.
The Bridgewater Times will hereafter
appear as a semiweekly.
Ex-Governor Mellette has resumed hi
law practice at Watertown
The Yankton Electric Light compau,
has decided to enlarge its plant.
new bank has been established a
| ryndall called the Security bank.
company is being organized at Ho
Springs to establish trunk factory.
The boys OF Doland have organized {
band to be known as the kid band"
The Yankton fire department has de
cided to hold a fair April 5, 6, I, and s.
TIE sum total Of improvements made in
Spencer this year will amount to $4,000
Company l, United States infantry, has
been removed from Fort Sully to Fort
Smelling.
Elk Point is after an electric light
plant, another grain elevator, a new hotel
and waterworks.
Senator Pettigrew has been given au-
thority to report his bill for the repeal of
the timber culture law
Sneak thieves of late have been making
the northern part of Charles Mix county
their regular rendezvous.
Morse OF Michigan won the six day
go-as-you please race at Aberdeen. Smith
Of Madison was close second.
Colonel Jonathan Kimball, a very
Of AI
blood poisoning, aged 66 years.
The probabilities are that the deposit
ors of the defunct bank at Yankton will
receive 25 per cent of the assets.
The county treasurer of Sully county
has paid out 81 40 wolf bounty for wolves
killed during the past three months.
The coal sheds of the Milwauk Rail
way company at Mitchell took fire from "A
lamp explosion and were totally con
sumed
Another railroad and a system of water
works are among the anticipated inn
provements in Dell Rapids the coming
summer.
The engine in the new grist mill at
spencer has arrived and is placed in posi-
ton. The mill will cost when completed
about $4,000.
A survey of the Midland Pacific rail-
road is being made through the north
west corner of Hanson county, about ten
miles from Mitchell.
Sturgis will furnish several musical com
petitors for the South Dakota and Black
Hills gold medals offered by the women's
worlds fair committee of the state
An enthusiastic meeting of the subscrib-
ers of the corn belt exposition was held at
Mitchell, at which it was unanimously de-
cided to repeat the exposition this year.
Several parties running steam thresh-
ing outfits were taken before Judge An
drews at Henry and fined S35 and $50 for
not taking out license and giving bonds.
Fire at Sioux Falls destroyed the Bee
Hive building, owned by NJ. +. Prouty. of
Chicago, and the adjoining building. oc-
cupicd by Mr.. Biegan as confectionery
store. The loss will foot up about Sll0.-
OO0
y petition has been circulated n. Gary
and freely signed by voters asking the
legislature to pass an act author ziug the
town to bond itself for the purpose of
purchasing the city fair grounds and
driving park
The Black Hills papers have at last
come to the conclusion that the petrificd
women, purported to have been found
near Castle Creek, is manufactured
fake. maGe uy cine vi the ingenious citi-
zens OF Chadron, Neb
The building and grounds known as the
Indian school adjoining Rapid City on the
north are advertised for sale, and it has
been suggested shat the city buy the
property and convert it into home for
disabled cigarmakers.
A carpenter named O. 5 Richardson,
while at work on the addition being built
to the tow mill at Dell Rapids, fell from Il
scaffold to the ground. a distance of ff-
teen feet, breaking his arm and cutting
his face and head badly.
Landlord Turner of the North western
hotel at Parker, was playing with re-
volver Sunday, and is now minus little
finger and plus hole in the middle of his
hand. A bystandsr also got shot in the
calf of his leg by the same bullet
A handsome crystal, a specimen from
u
export, is on exhibition at Casey's saloon,
Deadwood. 1t is nearly two feet in length
and particularly unique from the odd fig
ures an imaginative mind can trace in it's
formation, one being fair representation
of man STOPPING TO kiss a child. The
specimen was taken from the cave at "A
distance of about a mile from the open
ing.
{. III. Allen, a travelling man of st.
Paul, after having formed the acquaint-
ance of all the girls along the river front
in Yankton, hired livery outfit and with
notorious prostitute started in for a
time. Not returning al dark, the livery
man started out to find his rig, but it
could not be found. Next morning he re-
ceived a telegram stating that the run
away pair had been apprehended at Gay
vile. Allen, however, refused to be
put under arrest without warrant. and
he took the first train for the east
A young man named Charles Grout, who
came al the way from Chicago TO engage
in the bakery business in Mitchell, and
who was recently married to young lady
who also came from Chicago, turned out
to be bigamist, having deserted wife in
Chicago. The whereabouts of the newly
married couple are not known, as they
left town very suddenly.
The notorious Stevens embezzlement
case from Sanborn county will be tried
IN Mitchell at q special term of court
held by Judge Haney. The case involves
sevcra. indictments against Stevens for
misappropriating funds while treasurer
of Sanborn county.
During the past few months the regis
ter of deeds of Sanborn county has re-
ceived an average Of thirty-eight real es-
.ate transfers. An average of twenty
mortgages have been recorded and the
same number released, many of the new
,nes being for less amount than those
taken up.
An effort Is being made to get the state
legislature to make an appropriation for a
new chemical laboratory and new phys
.cal and mechanical laboratory. At the
university the present quarters of these
departments are SO crowded as to seri-
susly affect the success OF the work. DR..
McLouth, Trustees Collins and Sheldon
and Regent Mcintyre have just left on an
xtcnded trip to the east for the purpose
Of visiting the leading colleges and uni
versities to study their various methods Of
carrying on the work and familiarize
themselves with all the best methods OF