Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1893-01-28
DAKOTA.


Alpena is discussing the advisability OF
building -four and feed mill.
The South Dakota worlds fair exhibit
is being stored at Sioux Falls.
Elmer Dresser, a young man OF Aber'
deem, has been adjudged insane.
Kimball will worry along without
mayor until the spring election.
The number of divorces granted in
South Dakota is estimated at 375.
The Hurley Herald has made its ap'
pearance in the journalistic world.
Things are becoming sultry in Lyman
county over organization matters.
Judge Gardiner has been reappointed
Judge of the Seventh judicial district.
A local branch of the Grain and Stock
Belt association was organized in Huron,
Hundre ds of tons of hay have been mar
keted at Pukwana during the past few
months.
A branch of the National Children's
Home will probably be established at
Sioux Falls.
The artesian well at Pierre is now down
800 feet. 1t will probably take all winter
to finish it.
Nellie Courtie, employed as a domestic
by L. G. Burns, of Mitchell, has mysteri-
ously disappeared.
A daily weather map is now issued from
the weather bureau Office at Pierre in
stead of bulletin.
The members of the seminary at Wes-
sington Springs will send a school exhibit
to the worlds fair.
c. Z. Mckinney, of the railway commits
sion, says the grain blockade in the state
has begun TO ease up.
Captuin o. w. Thompson has been APP
pointed commandant of the university
battalion at vermillion.
The people of Mitchell and the corn
belt are already making preparations for
another fall exposition.
The Whitewood Touring mills with a
capacity of fifty barrels per day were COM
pletely destroyed by fire.
The school board at Arlington has de-
cided to build large addition to the
school house in the spring
"Scrapiron Bill" the famous Odd Fell
low and temperance lecturer, was seri-
ously injured in railroad wreck.
Captain Jacobsen, an evangelist, well
known in Minnesota, Iowa and the Da-
kotas, died at Sioux Falls, aged 76 years.
G f. Edwards, postmaster at Garden
City, has resigned and recommended as
his successor Mrs. Temperance w.
Newell.
Frank Conklin, of Clark, has resigned
his position as postmaster of that place
and recommended {. ii. Locraft as his
successor.
A prisoner by the name of McLeary
broke Jail at st. Lawrence last Wednes-
lay and was captured at washington on
the next day.
Thieves entered the dry goods store of
Satrang & Hanson in Canton and carried
off an assortment of pants, shirts, jew
slry and old coins.
John Samuels. farmer 65 years old,
living near Plankinton, was thrown from
the rear platform of a moving train and
was seriously injured,
The Yankton w. c. r. u. will celebrate
the fifteenth anniversary of its organiza-
ton with appropriate exercises on Mon
day evening, January 80.
The sprightly young people of Miller
and vicinity have organized dancing
club with about forty members. They
will give fortnightly dances.
p. q. II. Hage, who was overcome by
coal gas at Sioux Falls has recovered
enough to walk about the house, but has
lost all memory of past events
1t is reported from Bismarck that two
prisoners handcuffed Jailer Smith, gath.
cred in his watch and clothes, locked him
in a cell and then said farewell.
The Miller Press announces that the
forty buildings that have been idle in
Miller, as a result of the kick of the
boom, are now all occupied again.
The school fund commissioner at Pierre
charges that the school census returns
have been juggled in order to secure .
larger proportion of the school fund.
The state board of charities and corree-
tions, while in session at Yankt0n ap.
pointed DIR. w. A. Good, of Vermillion, as.
,istant physician at the insane hospital.
Arthur Swenson, boy of Is years, liv.
ing Just outside of WOonsocket, had the
top of his head blown off by the accidental
discharge of gun, which he was hand
ling.
The first homestead entry filed In the
United States was made by ID. Freeman,
in Gage county, Nebraska, says the Sioux
Falls Press This information was gained
from solid silver plate about 4x6 inches
In size, on exhibition at w ii. Booths s
jewelry store in Sioux Falls. On the plate
we're inscribed the words: First home.
stead taken in the United States. The
claim was filed by d. Freeman. January /,
1868, five minutes after 12 o'clock, a. m"
The plate is to be attached to the frame of q
large oil painting of the homestead, which
will be exhibited at the worlds fair, Chi
cago, as an exhibition of the liberalrty of
this government to its citizens. The land
which was taken thirty years ago on the
LIST inst. and which has provided a pleas.
ant home and comfortable living to its
occupants, is now one of the most valu-
able farms in the state of Nebraska, and
the picture representing 1t will prove one
of the chief attractions at the worlds fair
to large number of patriotic AMERICANS,
who will regard il as symbolical of Amer.
ica's generosity to her inhabitants.
The store building and stock of general
merchandise of John l.. Buckingham at
Hermosa were entirely destroyed by fire,
entailing loss of sl2, 900 with an insur.
ancc of - 600.
T. C. Davenport ran away with his
wife's sister, who was employed by him in
Philadelphia as stenOgrapher. He took
her and his S-year.old child to Yankton
where he has sued for divorce.
The farmers in Charles Mix county are
uneasy over disease among their hogs
The disease makes short work of drove
of hogs, the animals usually dying
twenty -four hours after being taken sick
In all probability the next encampment
of the South Dakota National guard will
have company of cyclists in attendance
rs Paul Caldwell, Of the Sioux Fall,
Cycle club, is taking the preliminary
steps to organize his club for that pur
pose. The club Will be instructed in thu
cycle tactics arranged by Brigadier-Gen
eral Albert Ordway, of the District o,
Columbia National Guard and win be at
tsched to Company b, OF Sioux Falls.
The city council of Huron sustained the
charges preferred by Alderman Brettor
against Chief of Police Coomer, and that
officer was relieved from duty. G. r.
Crippen was named as Coomer's success
sor.
Hotelkceper Dineen, Of Huron, s. d..
has vritten In n npiesf In New York sav