Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1893-05-20

Petitions are being circulated at ELK
Point asking the city council 10 order the
hog yards moved further out OF town'
They are now located Immediately in 'front.'
Of several residences.
A map showing every chamber yet dis
covered in the mammoth wind cave at
Deadwood has been completed by Civli
Engineer George ). Hopkins and sent to
the worlds fair. The map j. about ten
feet square.
At depth of l,025 feet the contractors
at the government Indian school artesian
we'll struck flow Of water, enough so
that It is a constant overflow. The con-
tractor is confident he will have regular
gusher after another 100 feet.
Rev. a. J. Drake, the pioneer Congrega-
tional minister of South Dakota. died at
Iroqnois. He was past 70. He was one of
the founders of Congregationaiism in
Knox county, Illinois, and well known
throughout Minnesota and Iowa.
The Farmers alliance people are ar
ranging for big rally in Aberdeen, or on
the campmeeting grounds on the river.
during the second week il June. fgnatius
Donnelly, Mrs Lease, Senator Kyle, DR..
Fish, Paul Vandervoort and number OF
others, are to be the speakers.
A NJ de Putron Giiddon, pastor of the
Congregational church of Mitchell, has
received an invitation to address an as
sembly of labor and farmer agitators
which eonvenes in Aberdeen some time in
June Mr.. Glidden will speak from
ministerial standpoint on the question.
Rufus c. Booth prominent lumberman
at Athol, was killed suddenly Saturday !
night Mr. Booth was in his lumber yard I
selling lumb Der when a large pile loosened |
md fell upon him, throwing him TO the
,round and crushing his skull lie lived
,ut five minutes. He leaves "a wife and
everal children.
Piankinton citizens have drawn upa
etition praying the school board TO call
= =: ~ = - .s sss
eastern parties Offering TO purchase the
new bonds at q per cent.
About n year ago an engineer named
Throckmoten was killed at work in the
COLONIZATION plant of the Black Hills
Mining and Smelling company. His
widow sued the company for $4,000 dam
age. TIE company has paid her s!,el9
and the suit has been discontinued
Commissioner Lamareaux has awarded
the contract for surveying the boundary
line between South Dakota and Nebraska
to Joseph H. jenkins, of Winona, Mimi,
for Sli 200. The monuments which are to
be placed on the line will be one-half mile
apart, six feet in length and eight inches
square, and are to be Of Sioux Falls
jasper.
Herbert Burton, OF Rowena, has n flock
Of forty carrier pigeons. or this number
twenty are fitted for n long journey. Mr..
Burton intends during the summer TO
send the pigeons TO Chicago during the
worlds fair, In pairs, and to time the
trip home. Last fall several Of the
pigeons were taken to different parts OF
the country and turned loose, and with
the exception OF two they all returned to
Rowena The longest flight that was un-
dertaken was from Dubuque, Ia, and on
this trip two of the pigeons were lost.
In the woman's department OF the
worlds fair, there is a rug made by Mrs.
LaCroix, of Crow Creek agency, which is
sure to attract considerable attention
The rug is constructed entirely OF rabbits
ears and tails, there being about 300
pieces in 1t. The ears form the body of
the rug, being placed alternately In rows
of Jack, then cottontail ears, the colors
blending harmoniously, while the tails
form the fringe around the edge, there
being three rows of cottontails on the
with the Jacks on the ends. The
hard substan nee had been carefully re-
moved from the ears, leaving nothing but
the soft fur. Mrs. LaCroix put In three
months of reasonably steady work on the
rug. She has christened 1t white Ghosts
Smoking Rug" in honor of tn, venerable
bend chief the Crow Creek Indians.
John H. King, of Chamberlain. has been
to tender his resignation as |
chief OF the interest. warrant and expense
division OF the treasury department, and |
he will be succeeded by an Idaho democrat
June l. King has been acting assistant
register Of the treasury since December,
as the assistant has been filling the place
Of General Rosecranz. King will prob
q oily practice law In Washington
A commercial club composed OF the bus
mess men of Rapid City has been organ
lied, ana its object will be the upbuilding
of the city and the country tributary to
II.
The pastor Of the First Congregational
church at Yankton has commenced the
publication of an eight page monthly
paper entitled Life and Work" which
will be devoted exclusively to churcn mat
ters.