Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1893-02-18
DAKOTA.

opened.
The Odd Fellows of Salem will erect o
ball in the spring.
All the unsold lands in Lincoln county
will be sold April g.
South Dakota editors will visit the
worlds fair in body.
A cheese factory will be established al
De Voc, Faulk county.
Deadwood had a water famine, the re
suit OF freezing weather.
| There will be meeting of the sheriffs
! of the state at Mitchell March %.
! Flandreau will have an electric light
| plant put in during the coming summer.
Gary wants the Legislature TO allow the
! town to issue bonds for a park and fair
grounds.
A $4,000 high school building and
$1,000 ward building will be erected al
Mitchell
The publishers of the Flandreau En-
terprise issued a boom edition containing
a write-up of the town.
There at present nineteen saloons H.
Sioux Falls and they together pay
monthly fine of 81 ,4?5.
The secretary of the Y. =. :. c. +. in
bers of that society in the state.
An old man known as SANDY was
found frozen to death on the Ferguson
farm four miles northwest of Armour.
The Hecla Standard is the name of a
new paper just started at Hecla +. W.
Keeler is its publisher and proprietor.
Albert Shaw, machinist in Chicago
and Northwestern shops at Huron, lost
one fhis fingers while repairing an en-
! zine.
Sioux Falls will hold a special election
on February 81 to vote on the proposition
to issue 80, 900 bonds for the erection Of
! a high school building.
Editor Mcbride. of the Mitchell Mail,
received word OF the death Of his little
daughter, Florence, at the home Of her
mother in New York city.
The mills and mines of Harvey Peak
Tin company at Deadwood have been
shut down and the employees discharged.
The reason for the shut down cannot be
learned.
A fuel famine has been raging at Rey-
nOlds and Thompson, y. d., and the citi-
zens of these burgs have been compelled
20 burn up the stocks of lumber and rail-
road ties in sight,
w B. Carrier, of Yankton, who has
been a member of Company +, Third
United States infantry at Fort Smelling
something over year, has been dis
charged from the service on the ground
that he was minor when he enlisted
J. p Ward, one of the old settlers of
Turner county, has just sold his farm of
3,0 acres there for s35 an acre. and will
reinvest part of the proceeds in cheap
land on the reservation. Ten years ago
Turner county land sold .or from s. to IS
an acre.
Washington Springs has a new postmas-
ter. Aunt Sarah Barrett" who has
reigned over the postofiice department
ever since there was one in this part of
Uncle Sans dominion, has resigned and
George Bartcman has been appointed 10
the vacancy.
The fine new residence OF Alderman
Trebor at Deadwood. valued at $4,000,
was totally destroyed by fire. When the
alarm was turned in the tiremen were at
tending a swell reception, but that did
not deter them ill the least and they
worked bravely in full dress.
The Tow Manufacturing company of
Huron find that the tow mill which was
erected last year cannot supply the de-
mand by half. They have therefore de.
cided to enlarge it to double its present :
capacity and will then employ between
forty and fifty hands.
The frozen body of Robert Reighow wa.
was found near Sturgis last Thursday
Upon examination it was found that hi.
skull had been crushed with some heavy
instrument, giving conclusive evidence
that he was murdered His friends az
Fort Meade are endeavoring to clear ur
the mystery and bring the murderer to
justice.
During a railroad smashup near Brook
ings last summer hyena escaped from
Ringling Bros circus which was not re-
captured. Recently some strange animal
mas been killing and eating sheep and
cattle in the north part of McCook
county and farmers who have seen the
brute identify it as the lost hyena. A
hunting party has been organized to hunt
the hyena to its death
A curious Indian relic has been received
by Judge F. w Pettigrew, of Sioux Falls,
In a big drum-like arrangement used for
making . noise on joyful occasions. 1t is
about two feet in diameter ana has his
tory, as shown on the drums head, as fol-
lows Tom tom, or sacred drum of the
Sioux ghost dancers under Spotted Elk
big Foot captured in the hostile camp
! % tal L.
enne river, South Dakota, by Captain
James ii. Hurst, Twelfth United States
infantry, December q, ls9o three days
prior to the attack of these Indians on
portion of the Seventh United States cav
airy. at Wounded Knee creek, South Da-
kota, where Spotted Elk with l54 of his
people and forty-eigbt soldiers were
killed"
A strange fatality seems to follow the
Hoover family, formerly pesideDts of
Sioux Falls, but later OF Madison, says
the Argus-Leader. About a year ago Mrs.
Hoover died suddenly at Madison. Mr..
Hoover, her husband attended the funeral
at Madison, and afterward remained to
visit his son. One evening he took some
thing from the drug store to remedy some
small ailmcn and died few hours later
from an overdose Of aconite taken by mis-
take. Monday morning the only remain.
ing member of the family, Frank Hoover
died suddenly after a short sickness.
A prize fight took place at Henry last
Saturday evening between William Kelly.
local pugilist, and Burton Palmer, OF
Saginaw. Mich. The fight occurred In
Squire Helyard's blacksmith shop and
was witnessed by about thirty spectators.
It was the result of an old grudge. and
ended in regular slugging match in
which the blood flowed freely. Six rounds
were fought occupying three minutes
each The referee called ii draw. Both
men were badly punished and neither side
was satisfied with the finish. Another
fight is being arranged for to come of
soon
Thsy CRY In Trayety
Friend-Did You ever shed real tears
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