Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1893-12-02
DAKOTA.

Sully county on'y the Judges ana clerks
voted. Nobody seemed TO care "a conti-
mental about the election.
Yankton college can now pride itself in
one more beautiful structure, Ward Hall
OF Science, the magnificent gift of DIR.
Pearson of Chicago.
Sioux Falls will have clearing house.
Yankton is right up to date. A chrys-
anthemum show was held there last
week
A solicitor for the Deadwood Times
threatened unappreciative people in Dead
wood with a revolver.
Hon. J. w. shannon, says the Sioux
Falls Press, has been investigating the
beet sugar plants in Nebraska with a
view TO beet sugar developments In South
Dakota.
Governor Sheldon visited tho state pent-
tertiary at Sioux Falls and expressed
himself well pleased with the manage
ment. He is said to have stated that he
will soon pardon several conyicts whose
terms were about TO expire to save their
citizenship.
The North Dakota supreme court has
decided that the government has no right
to remove the Trustees of the agricultural
college.
Wolves have made their appearance In
the vicinity OF jamestown and already
losses are reported. A farmer in the city
reported that two wolves entered his
sheep corral recently, drove the sheep TO
the extreme limits of the pasture and
there killed two.
The body of John Fowler, who disap-
peared from his home near Deadwood
September %, while temporarily insane.
was found hanging from tree mile and
q half east of Whitewood The mans
coat, hat and gun were near by. The
body was badly decomposed. Fowler had
evidently climbed up the tree and after
fastening the rope to limb, lowered
himself
l.. II. Dewey, representing the agricul-
tural department, is travelling over South
Dakota studying the Russian thistle for
the purpose OF devising further plans for
its determination.
South Dakota editors are roasting their
state fair board because Of the few awards
at the worlds fair. The board secured
awards for the state on all OF its leading
products. They were limited in number
because made by the state instead of in
Giyidulis. The board paid az high rs q
per bushel, including expense of gather
ing, for corn placed by them on exhibit
ton. The awards were for collective eX-
hibits.
c. C. Englehart, the patentee Of bro
mine process of gold extraction, proposes
4 ~. ,,,t tln al.
ter makes "A strong bid for the new works.
The Sylvan Lake company is building
new dam to more effectually conine the
waters which are expected to find their
way into the lake from the heavy snow.
fall which is expected this winter in the
Hills. 1t is hoped the present dam viii
be watertight, aud the lake will become
one OF the pleasantest summer resorts in
the land.
Benjamin Franklin, an old man and
veteran of the Mexican war, died IN
Pierre the other day and was buried by
the county as pauper. His life was con
siderable OF a mystery. He refused tc
tell anything about his family before his
death further than that he had son liy.
ing, but he claimed the boy did not use
him right and he did not want him to
know he was sick Although II soldier in
the Mexican war he refused TO apply for
pension. 1t Is thought the old man died
from glanders caught from a horse.
The South Dakota world fair board
has given to the state university at Yer
million the building erected by this state
at the Columbian exposition. The only
iGia . 70 - oy,gt ,e }l,oy .
university shall complete the contrac,
with the exposition-lcave the grounds
and the structure occupied IN a satisfac.
tory condition. w. L. Dow. architect ant
superintendent of the building. says thi.
is n magnificent gift aud will be of grea'
benefit to the university In rebuilding
the portion recently burned down. Wher
the state building at Chicago was erected
it was put together with an idea OF having
as much of the material as possible avail
able for future use. Nearly all Of il car
be used again and will be as good as new
Under the terms OF section Is Of the act
Of congress admitting the state of Nortt
Dakota the general government was TO
build SO called United States peniten
tiary at Grafton, and $50, 900 was appro-
priatrd for the purpose. Under the terms
of the section the interior department has
purchased sight adjoining the town OF
Grafton, and has taken the preliminary
steps toward the erection Of the peniten.
tiary. There is a strong feeling h ,weyer
that another sort OF an institution would
be Of far greater benefit to the state.
especially as the prison at Bismarck !.
ample for all the needs of the state for a.
least ten years to come. Senator Roach
has been working on the secretary of the
interior oil summer to get him to author
ize change to a school for the feeble
minded
krapf Banning, proprietors of the
City Chop house at Aberdeen, have been
bound over In the sum of S40J each for
grand larceny.
There are 1891 miles ofrailway in South
Dakota.
]. Il. Shield, one of the leading mer-
chants Of Armour died Of illness result
ing from a severe hemorrhage.
State Auditor Bierman has lately been
receiving notices to the effect that people
are settling upon the swamp lands now