Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1893-12-23
DAKOTA.


j. F. Hughes has received the appoint
ment Of receiver OF public moneys al
Pierre.
Fred Widman is erecting "a cold storage
house in Mitchell which will be one OF the
largest in the state.
The town of Davis, on the Sioux Fails
and Iapkton, has u postoffice with John
l.. Dust as postmaster.
Judge Gardiner discharged the grand
jury of Fall River county on the ground
that it was illegally drawn.
The Western South Dakota Stock Grow
ers' association which started out with
eleven bers has now a membership
OF l0s.
Douglas county will put down four arte-
sian wells at the heads OF the dry creeks
which cross Douglas county from north to
south
o. G. Woodruff, = prominent citizen or
Alpena ana member Of the republican
state central committee, dropped dead OF
heart failure.
A ten round glove contest which was to
have taken place In Yankton between
Patsy Magper and Jimmie Connors was
stopped by Tho mayor
The South Dakota Mining company Of
Spearfsh has engaged TO survey four
mile water ditch to carry the waters Of
Speartish creek to their mill site on Anna
creek
Peter Johnson, a we'll TO do farmer liv-
ing about four miles west of Flandreau,
committed suicide by taking dose Of
strychnine. Financial trouble WAS the
tause.
Helen George of Huron, Is years OF age,
won prize offered by Harper's Young
People for the best story written by .
scholar OF any high school In the United
States.
The board of county commissioners OF
Yankton county has authorized the con-
struction of an iron bridge across the
James river three miles from Yankton, to
cost $1,000.
The Yank ton Brewers association has
been organized in Yankton with paid up
capital of 8 00o. 900 New York capitalists
are interested and IL Is expected TO start
up March /.
Large gray wolves are unusually nu-
merous on the range between Chamber
lain and the Black Hills, and unless
prompt action is taken the loss to stock
men will be very great.
The construction OF the new buildings
at the new location of the Lower Brule
agency has been delayed by the rejection
OF the bids already approved by the COM
missioner OF Indian affairs.
The Deadwood Central Is again In oper-
alton between Lead and Deadwood and
will make eleven round trips each day. 1t
is also stated that stage line will be OPP
Grated between Lead and Bald mountain
to connect with trains.
The meeting of the Corn Belt associa-
tion of South Dakota at Mitchell on De.
Gem Der 20 is expected 10 be the most i'm.
portant meeting yet held by the associa'
tion. One of the special features will be
discussion on the Torrens land tr ansfer
system.
A pack OF seven gray wolves paid .
visit to the Wind Cave stock ranch of G.
II. Valentine, near Buffalo Gap, few
days since. They ran colt, which had
been separated from the mare, up to the
corral and would have killed it almost in
front Of the house if it had not been for
the cook rushing out with gun.
A communication received by President
Mauck OF the Vermillon university from
the secretary OF the Smithsonian institu-
tion at Washington, tells him that a large
number OF documents from the govern
ment museum and Smith sonian institu-
tion and also collection OF 1875 fishes had
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L. GcbuIto o,J Thnp,.o nlIo n-o T.
Jail in Sioux Falls charged with obstruct-
ing the United States mail. They, with q
man named Curry, who is under arrest at
Miller, got drunk and attempted to rob
the depot at Faulktou, but the agent
stood them off with hammer. They
then stopped the passenger train and un-
dertook to hold up the passengers, but
failed
An organization known as the Mer!
chants Indemnity association has been
entered into by a number OF business me n
In Huron. The association is the out
growth of the late raise In the rates by
Insurance companies doing business in
South Dakota, and will be managed en-.
tirely by merchants, and will offer in
demnity for loss by fire on mercantile
stock only, and Is purely a mutual protec-
ton for this class.
That the Indisns in the Flandreau In.
dustrial school are beco ming civilized Is
apparent from the fact that lately several
OF the young bucks have been breaking
into the room in the scho u building
where the medicines are kept and steal,
ing alcohol therefrom. Several drops OF
croton oil were put in bottle of alcohol
and the bottle left In the room. The
young bucks stole this aud drank the con-
tents. The result was not as pleasant to
them as they had expected, ard the guilty
parties were easily apprehended.
Thomas p. Mavin, a farmer living near
Slower, in Dawson county, has invented q
neat thing In the way OF a riding attach
ment for a harrow The device consists
OF one large wheel attached by swivel at
the rear of the harrow, the draft being
directly from tue front side and close to
the horses, and so attached as not to in
terfere with the true working of the har-
row. 1t has spring seat neatly arranged
directly over the axle of the wheel II
has been thoroughly tested on number
Of different makes Of harrows and has
proven to be an unqualified success. Mr..
Mavin has already received propositions
from numbers of machine companies.
1t is claimed by residents of LIE Beau,
Wnlworth county, that there are now two
pumas in the timber on the Missouri
river near that place. 1t Is claimed that
a number OF these animals have been
,rking their way from the Black Hills
during the past year.
Roy Codding, the York yonng man who
went to Africa as q missionary, Is re-
ported to have been stricken with the
black fever His friends are anxiously
awaiting news OF his condition.
The Brunswick hotel at Kearn ey has
been closed until business improves.
Charles Heszel has been committed. to
the asylum at Lincoln by the Adams
county insanity commission. Recently he
was put of u Burlington and Missouri
train at Kenesaw and Immediately broke
into the station. The agent was aroused
and went down stairs to meet the sup
posed burglar. The insane man stood the
agent of with poker and built mp FIRE
till daylight, when he was arrested.
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