Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1893-05-20
What our Neighbors are Doing.

Governor Horace Boies. of Iowa, and
Judge Crounch. his former law partner.
have been sojourning in the Hills dur
ing the past two weeks in quest of health
and pleasure. The distinguished gentle
men have been bathing in the life Civ
ing waters of the Hot Springs, and tax
ing trips from that point to the numer-
Gus places of interest in the Hills.
Spearfish has Hercules who wishes
to match himself against any of the
strong men of South Dakota. His name
is John Daley. and he offers to wager
$1,000 that he can throw a fifty pound
weight farther than any other man in
the state. He will also wager that
amount that he can lift more than any
of his fellow citizens.
The Hot Springs Star commenced the
publication of daily edition on Mon
day evening Of this week. f. J. Moore
is associated with j. A. Stanley, and the
gentlemen will make a team which il
will he hard 10 match in Black Hills
journalistic circles. The venture is a
worthy one and merits the encourage
meat of every live citizen of that live
town, Hot Springs. kek
mater tie ~ Vas disc1ssed S 81 az and 'f' teetffYpoEary
organization effected. DIR. Dickinson,
of Lead City, was chosen president, Dr.
Brown, Of Ft Meade, DIR. Waller, OF
Chadron, and DR.. Jennings, OF Hot
Springs, were elected vice presidents,
and DR.. Hargens, secretary. Another
meeting will be held at the Springs this
evening.
D. P. Flood, ex-tIeasurer of Meade
county, is charged with embezzlement
and forgery and last week was taken
into custody. The grand jury las re-
turned five indictments against him,
four for embezzlement and one for
forgery, and the accused man mas given
a $1,000 bond for his appearance in court
Flood was the defeated candidate for
treasurer of Meade county in the elec'
ton of last fall and the election of his
opponent, Sevey, was contested by him.
The contest case is now pending.
Miss Nellie Holgate, daughter of
prominent family Of Lead City, has
mysteriously disappeared from Seattle,
Wash, where she was visiting friends
It was first reported that the young lady
was drowned while boating on a lake
near Seattle, but that has since been
denied and many other conflicting
stories told in connection with The
affair. One of them is to the effect tha
she carried 5000 insurance on her iif'
and is seeking to obtain it by fraud, bu
her parents insist that she carried NJ
insurance and denounce this story as
malicious Justification. The case is
most mysterious one and is attracting
great deal attention and comment.
A cold blooded murder, than whieI
none more shocking is recorded In tn
crime annals of the northwest, was pei
petrated near Sundance last week by
twelve year old boy. The boys fathel
a rarcher, David Stainbrook by name
had punished his son for some act
iisobedlence several days prior to tn
murder, and it seems that from ths
time the boy was constantly plottin
. revenge. He loaded up shotgu
, Friday, intending TO arise during tn
night and use it. but did not awakeI
/ Sunday morning he awoke while tn
rest of the family were asleep, an
! quietly slipping out of bed he secure
1.-THE gun. Pacing the barrels across n
I mothers body until the muzzle wa
/ close to his fathers head, he pulled tn
, trigger. Stainbrook's head was almo
blown of his shoulders, and he die
. instantly. The boy a. first denied a
I knowledge of the awful affair, but att
! being taken into custody by the sheri
3 he confessed, relating the details Of b
crime as they are given above. 1T
boy is now in Jail at Newcastle, awai
ing the converting of the circuit court.
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