Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1893-07-08
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be instituted at Hot Springs next Mon
day evening by ID. 4. Cummings, depu-
ty inspector general for South Dakota.
The lodge will have q charter member
ship Of twenty-five.
Some Of the northern Hills papers are
of the opinion that passenger trains will
soon be running again between Dead.
wood and Lead over the ID. G. route.
The road is being repaired by force Of
section men, and it is believed that the
Burlington company will operate 1t.
George w. Williamson. a sheep man
who has his stock ranch about ten miles
east of Rapid City. is said to have clip
ped 300 pounds Of wool from flock Of
FIVE hundred sheep this season. The
increase of this season was fay .auls,
dred and eight lambs raised i,As6icur
hundred and fifty ewes.
Conant & Conant, who have been in
the drug business at Buffalo Gap, for
several years, have closed up their busi-
ness at that place, and will remove their
stock elsewhere. Their establishment
was one % the finest and most preten-
tious in Buffalo Gap, and it will be sadly
missed by the people of that town.
The attorneys for Orlando Fergus sor
have asked that receiver be appointed
for the Cstholicon company, and the
court has been having hard time of it
trying TO determine whether or not the
company is solvent. The motion was
argued before Judge Thomas, at Hot
springs, Thursday, and the decision Of
the court was withheld for the time be-
ing.
Danny Daily. the we'll known prize
fighter, and another pug Of less note,
William Curry by name, engaged in
fistic encounter at Hot Springs, on the
evening of the 3rd. Daily gave evidence
of being the superior from the COM
mencement of the contest. aud in the
fourth round knocked his antagonist out
with right handler on the jaw.
BY the decision of the supreme court
of South Dakota, Treasurer Bradley, Of
Fall River county, is made to honor the
two warrants Of $1,000 each, issued by
the board of commissioners to Fred
Evans, and the long and bitter fight be-
tween Evans and the county is practic-
ally terminated. The rulings of Judge
Gardner were thus sustained by the
higher court.
At the close Of the soldiers and sail
ors' reunion, held at Whitewood last
week, the officers of the Black Hills as
sociation were elected for the ensuing
year as follows: Hon. w. V. Lucas,
colonel; ]. f. Baker, adjutant; ID. l..
Reebe, sergeant major. lRd2s.uR uRsMett,
of Sturgis. was later elect$
the association, and ID. l..
tary. The next encarn
held at Sturgis.
Robt. Graham, Of Central City. q
Black Hills pioneer, and the foreman Of
the Caledonia and Deadwood- Terra
mills, died at his home in Central, on
Monday of this week. He was one OF
the most trusted employees Of the
Homestake company. having been with
it for fourteen years. He represented
Lawrence county in the state Legislature
in 1890, and was an advanced mason,
belonging to the higher circles of the
order.
The test of the mineral waters Of Hot
Springs, the result of which will de-
termine whether or not national sani-
tarium shall be established in that city
is now being made. Col. Clough arrived
there Friday morning with a detail oi
sick and disabled veterans from the
Leavenworth hospital, and the efficacy
of the waters is to be demonstrated
through them. Ifthe result of the tes,
is satisfactory to the representatives oi
the u. s. government, a sanitarium will
be erected at the Springs at an expense
Of $4,000, and it will be by far the
biggest plum that enterprising resort
has ever succeeded in plucking.
1t seems that the mineral waters oi
Hot Springs have effected a most re.
markable cure in the case of Mrs. Aller.
ton, wife of the Chicago millionaire oi
that name, and man heavily interested
in the Black Hills mining industry
Mrs. Allerton has long been a sufferer
from the most painful forms of rheuma.
tism and for years has tried every
known remedy, vainly hoping for relief
]. C. Spencer, of Newcastle, is a business
partner and personal friend Of Mr.. AL.
lerton, and sometime ago he sugguested
that Mrs. Allerton try the waters Of the
Hot Springs of the Hills. Three weeks
ago she arrived at the Springs and was
carried from the car to hotel. Last
week she departed for her Chicago
home completely cured. Neither Mr.
Allerton or his wife can find words to
express their appreciation Of the waters
which were such blessing to them, but
they will say many good words for them
in the future, and Hot Springs will be
the richer for them.
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