Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1893-08-12
DAKOTA.

lington, was AZ judged insane ana taken TO
the Gankton asylum.
John Kyllingstad, editor of the Mellette
Tribune, took charge Of the poStotiice in
that thriving town on Tuesday.
The water system at D,adwood is to be
improved by the expenditure of $4,000 for
a more extensive mountain reservoir.
The farm house OF Noah Wherry, tive
miles south of Vermillion, was burned,
making a loss of 1900, with no insur
ancc.
Frank Picklcr has been appointed POI
ice Judge at Chamberlain to fill the vac
cancy caused by the resignation of ;. w.
~Sedgwick.
JOIN Sutphen. a farmer northwest OF
Miller, lost II house with its contents,
stock, farm machinery, etc, by fire which
was set as smudge To drive away mos
q%uitoes.
Deadwood is overrun with cheap John
~peddlers of everything on earth that man
wants or can be persuaded TO purchase,
and the papers are crying aloud for dcliv.
erance.
Harry Pinkert0n, the ex-circus employc
who eloped with Bessie Moore, a l4-year-
old girl of Mitchell now languishes in
jail to await the grand jury which meets
in October.
The contract for building the Ward hall
of science of Iankton college, exclusive
of plumbing, heating and hardware, has
been awarded to Gottfried Burge, Of
lankton, for 500, 025.
During the progress of a children's en-.
! tartn, uu,on ~ tIa ,aCilnp.a 80 I n Wal
rath, in Mitchell, the parlor curtains
took fire from a lamp n about $50 dam
age was lone to hangings and carpets.
Milton Vealey entered Charles Winn's
gambling hall in Fargo and, keeping the
the crowd covered with a revolver, took
500 from the ash drawer and so in
stake on the tables, He then mace his
escape.
\ republican county convention has
been called to meet in Pukwana on Satur.
day, September 9, to select ten delegates
to both the state ard judicial convention
and to nominate u candidate for county
commissioner
In the postoffice at Britton, ex-Shcrif
.Atchison pounded a. Sherin, editor of the
Sentinel for insinuations made in an ar
ticlc. After the bystanders thought
Sherin had had enough they separated
the principals.
An attempt was made to remove OBJ
structions in the new artesian we'll hoe
at Mitchell by dynamite, but the .N1rge
exploded in the pipe before reaching the
bottom, and the we'll will probably have
to be abandoned.
The fine piano loaned TO the South Da-
kota commission in the state building at
Chicago has been presented by the manu-
facturer, Mr.. Bentz, to the soldiers home
at Hot Springs, to be shipped to the home
at the close of the fair.
Within the city limits Of Deadwood
several rich leads rave been discovered,
from which the ore yields ST. 10 Sl5 of
gold per ton. The discovery is OF recent
date, and bids fair to furnish employment
to "A large force of workmen.
Miss Myrtle Walker, of Ordway, Brown
county, has sold a painting for $3.50 TO a
Wisconsin man. Miss Walkers produc-
ton represented IA group Of horses, the
original sketches being taken from life
during the state fair last year.
The friends of John q. G.. Schiegel, of
declare that his recent near ap-
preach to death was not the result Of an
attempt at suicide, but that Schlegel, who
had a racking headache for two DAYS,
TOOK antipy rine, and that ~ was from an \
overdose of this that he came so near
dying.
A novel liquor prosecution is on in
Rapid City. Landlord Hill failed to pay
his bartender, and then sued pleaded in
defense illegal employment. The bar
tender, whose case was dismissed. made
information against Hill for violation Of
the prohibitory law and the latter was
held to the grand jury. Hill now retail.
ates by a similar charge against his late
bartender.
a Deadwood drunk weary Of the curb
stone for a pillow, pried his way into the
Jail and put up for the night in a vacant
cell, whereon in his imagination there
was a placard reading Furnished rooms,
with or without board" He found it
easier to get in than TO get out, for the
jailer locked the cell door and kept the
unhappy man on bread and water for two
days.
Mgr. Satolli, papal legate, in an inter
view in ST. Paul on the case of Bishop
Marty, OF the diocese of South Dakota,
denied the truth of the story printed by
the Minneapolis Journal. Archbishop
,;atolli declared that Bishop Martyrs
statement. made a few days ago, was
true, and that no charges had been filed
against that p~relate, am consequently
that there was no investigation to be
made.
n VI ,kFI.la Al. ..-Il 1-.-
Of Yankton, has had quite an experience in
the matrimonial line. He was married
six years ago to Mrs. q. Wheeler. After
year of married life Mrs. White went
East, and shortly thereafter Mr.. White
secured a divorce from her. In May last
White went to the worlds far with an in
iividual exhibit consisting of an inven-
ton of his own, and this exhibit attracted
vide attention in the liberal arts build
.ng. In June Mr.. White was taken very
Ill, and his divorced wife went from he
nome in Ohio to Chicago and nurseG her
'ormer husband back to health. They be.
came lovers again, and two weeks ago
were married the second time. They are
now at home in Yankton She is Whites
fourth wife and has been three times a
bride. White is past 20 years of age and
his wife has seen % winters.
Applications for space in the Mitchell
:orn belt exposition are received daily
from the counties OF the corn belt region.
Last year thiSteen- uuties~~er repre-
sented, but the present indications arc
that double that number will nave ex
hibits to compete for the first prize OF
$500.
The state auditor is in receipt of the
assessment rolls from all the counties in
the state except ten or twelve. From the
counties thus far received there has been
On increase Of som 50, OOO, 900 from the
squalized assessment of these counties
last year.
A man purpOrting to be from Michigan
Is now enroute for Dakota in a light Gov.
cred wagon, says the Market Review hav.
ing eighteen bird dogs in charge, which