Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1893-07-29
DAKOTA.

tai living near Elk Point had his legs
frightfully mangled by u NOW Ing
machine.
A bonus of 81, 200 has been raised by the
business men of Mound City, and paid to
Mewing ~ Johnson to aid them in start
ing "A -four mill here.
The regular Deadwood term of the
United States court which was set for
September !, has been postponed to two
or three weeks later.
A soldier belonging to Company b,
Twelfth United States infantry, was
drowned at Fort Sully while attempting
to swim the Missouri.
Assessor Burgess has completed the as
sessment roll for Spearfish, from which 1t
appears that the total assessed valuat ion
is about $50, 900 in excess Of last year.
Austin Hanson, a young man 10 years
old, whose home is with his widowed
mother in Webster, was drowned while
bathing in the artesian well reservoir al
Redheld.
j. X. Failing, superintendent of schools
OF Hand county has rendered his resigna'
ton to the county commissioners The
reason assigned is the inadequate salary
Of the office.
The plans and specifications for thu
erection Of Ladies' hall, an annex to the
college at Redfeld, have been completed
and the new structure VIII ne reaov FOR
occupancy by fall.
Rev. w. ii. Kaufman, OF the Congrega.
.!cna! church ~ Milhank, has resigned
his position from the sacred desk and &C.
capted a position on the editorial staff OF
the Dakota Ruralist.
Two Arrows, "a Sioux Indian from the
Pine Ridge agency, has been held to the
next term of United States court to be
held at Deadwood in September, without
bail on the charge of rape.
Wednesday, September ID, has been
fixed a. the time for holding the Beadle
county republican convention TO name
delegates to the state convention to nomi,
nate candidates for supreme court
judges.
Several parties are now negotiating for
the erection OF a wooden mill at Pierre.
As cheap power could be secured by sink
ing an artesian we'll, there is no doubt
but such a mill would pay big interest on
the investment.
The clean up of the Homestake gold
mine for the first two weeks Of
July consisted OF five bricks
valued at S250,00O and they were shipped to
New York via the Burlington and Mis-.
souri, River railroad.
Miss Amelia Johnson, a school teacher
at Sturgis, while enroute to the normal
school at Fremont. died suddenly on the
49,, anaA L. - " - MI
Neb. Hemorrhage of the lungs was the
immediate cause Of death.
The Northern Pacific offers to extend
its road to Aberdeen II that city will al
once advance $50, 900. In return for this
the company will rebate 50 per cent Of the
freight on goods shipped TO and from
Aberdeen until IL is repaid.
William Evans. nephew of Prof. +. r
Carpenter, manager Of the Deadwood and
Delaware smeltcr at Deadwood, took o
dose from a bottle Of cyanide solution, a
deadly poison, mistaking 1t for distilled
water, and died almost instantly.
DIR. A. NJ. Fisher, who is confined in Jail
At Sioux Falls. received a box containing
900 cigars from Philadelphia the other
day. The doctor believes in enjoying
and is not worrying at all about
the outcome of the trial. He is confident
of being acquitted.
The News and the Sun, the two leading
newspapers in Aberdeen have consolida.
ted and Mcleod & Williams, of the News
and Torrey, of the Sun, are stockholders
In the new company. Mr.. Schlosser, OF
the sun, will contine his attention to the
management of the Dakota Printing com
pany.
The Sisseton and Wahpeton Indians are
becoming very angry at the way Uncle
Sam is fulfilling his contracts to pay
Them their money, due July |, 1892, anc
July /, 1893. There is now due them SIS.
300 from July |, 1892, and SIS, 400 from
July ] 1893, which, under the treaty of
1851, is to run fifty years.
a headless body OF u man was found in
The Sioux river at Sioux Falls by tive
small boys who were bathing. The body
was identified as that Of Frank Folmann
a German who arrived in this country last
August. 1t was a case of suicide the en-
ire upper part OF the head having been
blowing of with Il charge from a sho,
gun.
iio NCItLci has DttD arrested AZ
Glendale and held to the justice court
under 500 bonds on the charge of selling
glandered horses which were uuaran.
tined There were eleven Of them, and
they were disposed of in different parts OF
the state and South Dakota. 1t Is feared
;he disease will spread to an alarming
extent.
{. Nj Liebach, a civil engineer, while
working at the bluffs ten miles west of
Yankton, found the skeletons Of nearly a
hundred human beings, supposed to be
the remains of Indians. In some of the
mounds with the Indians were found
bracelets, c~rockery, silk handkerchiefs
and many other trinkets OF the white
mans manufacture, all indicating the
presence of whites.
Colonel j. d. Geddin, representing the
South Dakota Sheep Breeders and Wool
Grower association, departed for h
ago with samples of wool from sheer
raised In South Dakota. These samples
are said to be equal in quality and tex.
ture to any WOO grown in the United
States, and far superior to much that is
imported from foreign countries under
the head Of high grade wool.
The Clay county teachers institute has
been called to meet August 81 and con-
tinue two weeks.
At a joint meeting OF the commissioners
Of Lyon county, Iowa, and Lincoln county
bids were opened for the new g
bridge at Hudson. The structure Is , be
u ninety foot span iron bridge, resting on
tubular iron piers 81 inches In diameter.
"a feet long, height of bridge twenty feet
above low water. The bid of the Mil.
waukee Bridge and Iron works at %, 347
being the lowest AMI best, was accepted.
Ly o county and Lincoln county will pay
one-half OF the bill each.
James CARVE, state secretary of the
Y. NJ. c. A., among the Indians, while in
Sioux Falls preseD.,d Secretary Wight
with several valuable aid novel Indian
eelics. One of them was u mammoth pipe
made of Pipestone, the stem Of which is
about three feet long, Is covered with
woven grass, highly colored. The pipe
a made and smoked by one of the most
romincnt Sioux chiefs, Hushasha, who
lied last winter Mt the e of 81. Another
.elic was u war club, which Is O deadly
ooking affair, aud a pair Of buckskin Leg
sngs, beautifully decorated with colored
reads.
An electric plant costing $500 will be
mi In nj RedAsld