Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1893-06-17
DAKOTA.

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the horses in Sioux Falls. Quiz. a num-
Der of cases hav proved fatal.
The 4-year-old son Of w. j. Stearns, OF
Valley Springs, was killed ny being run
over by u wagon loaded with sand.
A can OF gasoline attached to the engine
in the Elk Point Leader office exploded
and came near destroying the plant.
A. Il. Bills, o wealthy farmer living
near st. Lawrence, has started a bank
:here known as the Poor Mans bank.
Bishop Marty, OF the Roman Catholic
diocese of the state, has gone east to
raise sl0O,0 900 to build u college at Sioux
Falls.
j. j. Delaney was awarded the con-
tract for delivering beef to the Cheyenne
agency for the coming year, at s3.41 per
hundred.
DR.. w. ]. Graham, of Atlanta, Ga, has
been selected as president for Dakota un'
versity by the board of directors at a
recent meeting.
Preparations are being quietly made at
Forman by the local prohibitionists to
have all the blind pigs in various points
Of the county pulled.
At q mass meeting of the citizens OF
S~isseton ID was voted to bond the town
for 50, 900 TO secure the Catholic college
and industrial school.
The belmont State bank, of belmont,
has failed and o. T.. Swartz, receiver, Is
in charge. The Liabilities are estimated
at 81, 800, with assets at $500.
Colonel James c. Drake, formerly a res
ident of Millbank, who moved to Tacoma
cd ~ "a ,c na has hoap annaintan IFnltaH
States marshal for the state of Washing
ton.
Yankton county commissioners have
voted to submit a proposition to build a
new court house, to cost seventy-hve TO
one hundred thousand dollars, To a vote of
the people at the election next November.
Department Commander s.. j. Roberts
has issued general orders designating
DEVILS Lake as the place and June % and
20 as the date for holding the annual en-
campment Of the G.. A. r.. Of North Da.
kota. ,
An attractive speed program has been
arranged for the South Dakota state fair
to be held at Aberdeen September II to
Is, and premiums as~Gregating 10000 will
be offered for agricultural and stock ey.
hibits.
William Moore, Il millionaire WOODEN
manufacturer of Cohoes, y. ", has APP
piled at Sioux Falls for q divorce from his
wife, Maria. Moore alleges desertion
but his wife says it is not 50 and she can
prove it.
Old miners are convinced that valuable
metals are to be found in the Bad Lands,
but lack of water has prevented mining
operations. The heavy snowfall during
the winter furnished ample water to work
the gold out this season.
Another sheep ranch will be established
near Huron. c.. G. Dickson, of Atlanta,
Ga, has purchased 500 acres of land six
miles northeast and will at once put sew.
eral thousand head of sheep upon it; also
a number of high bred horses. Ten thous-
and dollars was the price paid for the
land.
Complaint has been entered against
Mayor Foote and other prominent citizens
of Kimball for the part they took in the
Needham-K orzar prize fight at that place
recently, and they will ave to explain
their action before the grand jury. Mayor
Foote was an interested spectator and his
father acted as doorkeeyer.
Henry c. HamiltopT the postmaster re-
Gently appointed a|Britton, has made ar
engagements to remove the postoffice from
its present locEion to the McDonough
building at tie end of Main street. This
location Is Unsatisfactory TO some Of the
businesJmen and a protest has been sent
to theHostofflce department.
Ir{ian Agent Brown, of Pine Ridge, has
opfned the bids received for furnishing
tle wire for building the ninety-mile barb
Wire fence around the northwestern Dor
der Of the Pine Ridge reservation, but
will not make any award until the Indian
bureau at Washington can be heard from
relative to furnishing the iron posts.
j. II. Brown, president OF the Salem
bank, which failed some four weeks ago,
has been arrested on the complaint of a
Mr.. Thompson and bound over to appear
before the grand jury in the sum Of $500.
Much dishonesty has been unearthed and
many more complaints will follow against
j. ii. Brown and Pick Brown, the cashier.
There is every prospect for a most sue
cessful racing meeting at Sioux Falls in
September. The entries nave closed and
there are more than three hundred well
known horses entered. c. w. Williams,
of independence, has entered twenty-five
In eleven different classes and campaigns,
ers will be present from all parts Of the
country.
c.. j. Price, superintendent Of the Dead
wood Terra mine, where the fire has been
burning for several weeks past, says they
have the fire confined to the stope where
it originated, but it is still burning. All
the approaches TO the stope rave been
walled up with solid masonry, which pre-
vents its spreading to any other part of
the mine.
Miss Nellie Holgate, who disappeared
from Lead several weeks ago, and who
was reported to have been drowned, has
turned up again. She says hat she was
abducted and taken to Poctotello, Idaho,
where she was set at liberty. Miss Hol.
gate had s., 900 insurance on her life and
at the time Of the disappearance it was
alleged that there was II scheme to de-
fraud the Insurance company.
l. n. Aud, of the new town Of Oacoma,
in the ceded Sioux lands opposite Cham
berlain, reports that close to. the Mis-
souri, river, near where it receives the
water of White river and Bull creek is o
spring covering about an acre. Its waters
are clear as crystal, preserving a tenn.
perature of 50 degrees at all seasons of
the year. 1t Is said by white men to be
300 feet in depth. The Indians call it the
Bottomless lake and attribute great pow.
ers to it's waters. Near the spring are the
ruins Of the old dance house, one of the
relics of Sioux superstition.
The state hor ticultural society will
hold a meeting at Tyndall June 81 and rs.
In Boston, Washington, Philadelphia
and San Francisco the Irish outnumber
the Germans. In New York, Chicago,
Brooklyn, st. Louis, Baltimore, Cincin-
natl, Cleveland, Buffalo, New Orleans,
Pittsburg, Detroit and Milwaukee the
Germans outnumber the Irish. There
are $500 natives of Ireland to IS, 200
Germans in Milwaukee. In Boston
there are 10000 Germans and II, 900
Irish,
aLook here" said the applicants