Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1893-12-09
DAKOTA.

present overcrowded condition.
The Mitchell Bicycle club claim to have
more members and to have ridden more
niles than any other club in the state
The county commissioners of Pcnning-
on county have offered a bounty OF Sl.o0
or each gray wolf killed in that county
Complete returns show that the proposi-
Jon to bond the state university at Ver-
million for $4,000 carried by about 40)
plurality
The business men of DeSmet have or
yanized the DeSmet Commercial club,
which will further the interests of the
town and vicinity.
W. ii. Bonham, who has been editor and
manager of the Deadwood Pioneer for the
past eight years, has retired and Is sue
reeded by a. w. Merrick. the founder of
the paper
The Deadwood Central railroad, run
ming between Deadwood and Lead City,
has resumed operations, with Little
Betsy" the first engine that ever pulled
INTO Deadwood, on the passenger run
Judge Campbell of Watertown. in sus-
.aining n demurrer to the indictment in
he case of w. b. Church for adultery,
leld the statute defining and prescribing
he punishment for adultery void for
ambiguity. This leaves the state without
law on the subject.
1t Is officially announced that there will
d. no Chautauqua held Mt Hot Springs
lext year unless u sufficient guarantee Is
give, either in cash or good will of the
people, to insure its success before ar
'angements are made for another ~ assem-
oly.
The United States geological surveyors
1avc completed their work in the south
.rn hills and have returned TO Washing
on Their supplies and instruments
aave been stored in Rapid City for the
winter. Next seasons work will be de-
roted to the section OF country west OF
Deadwood.
The Deadwood city council has ordered
the payment of s693 from the general fund
to the four companies of the city This
was the amount # insurance money sent
Dy the state treasurer for the fire depart
ment, but the cash was used for other
purposes and the boys had to take script
A peculiar case OF boyish rashness hap
pened in Barnes county which nav result
In criminal proceedings being started
against the perpetrator of the foolhardy
Iced. 1t seems that three boys out hunt
ng met another boy. One of the three
| pointed ,gun at the fourth lad Upon
being dared as afraid to pull tho trigger,
he did So and the ball struck his victim In
the vicinity of the heart.
The high school of Huron, S. d., has
been presented by Mrs. William b. Ster-
ling with her entire herbarium. including
full representation OF the fora OF the
state Of Illinois, together with its grasses
also an exchange list OF plants from many
of the New England states, altogether
comprising nearly a complete list of the
| fora of the United States east of the Mis-
sissippi river.
The new stone hall of the Lead miners
| nnlon erected at a cost of nearly SOD 900,
viii be formally opened with grand ball
The building. which Is four stories high.
,f modern architecture, is the most COM
2iete in the state, and the opera house
ocated on the second floor, with seating
capacity of ! 800, is unsurpassed in the
western country. The stage Is large
.nough for any troupe that travels in the
west and the scenery is something grand
Major Cadman the special agent who
has been investigating tho condition of
he treaty negotiated with the Yankton
indians last winter, stated that he has
!ound everything satisfactory and the
indians practically unanimous in wanting
:he treaty ratified by congress ut once.
Tie gave ii as his opinion that the reser-
cation will be opened in the spring
There is at the marble works in Sioux
Falls large marble slab bearing the in
,cription stephen Return Riggs, born
March %. 1872; died August ai. 1883. Mis-
ionary to the Dakota Indians" This
Hone was purchased by Rev. Alfred
1iggs, son OF the deceased, who Is now
missionary at Santee agency. Rev.
stephen Riggs was "a Congregational mis-
iionary and the first who worked among
he Dakota Indians, he having begun
hat work in 1880
The first selection of lands for the pene-
1t Of the State School of Mines have Just
oeeu put on record in the United States
and Office in this city. The selections
we're made by Major Thomas Ruth ard
lis deputies, who personally examined
Zach tract before approval. The list en-
traces $1,000 acres, leaving 5000 acres
yetto be selected for this school The
greater portion of the land chosen Is in
the north part OF hand county
Inspector General G. r. Jefferson has
given out the scores of the military COM
panies Of the state. Company F of A ber-
iecn won the prize banner In the First
battalion. Company Il of Sioux Falls in
in the Second and Company NJ of Rapid
,ity in the Third battalion. The regi-
mental banner goes To the Second bat
talon largely because Of the excellent
work of Company b of Sioux Falls
Captain Mosier of Rapid City makes the
highest individual score In the state
Company b of Sioux Fails makes the
highest individual score in the state
,ut Rapid City Is close second Gen.
.rai Jeffers reports that most OF the CON-
,anies visited are in good condition and
hat the summers rifle practice has kept
up the interest in the organization.
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There was happy reunion at the home
If County Surveyor Patterson of Sarpy
county when, for the first time in twenty
five years, three brothers met. One is
-'ounty Surveyor Patterson of Butler
county and another is Matt Patterson OF
Mlculxan Baf, Iui. Inc HatterSonS are u
ace of civil engineers, aud wild and
xierd stories they can tell of their adven-
nres in following the compass in the
Wild west and in foreign lands.
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Wayne county is being overrun with
hieving tramps. The other day one was
,aught stealing clothes from line at
Winside and Is now in Jail serving a
thirty day sentence. Later a party of
hem broke into farm house south of
Winside during the owners absence and
carried of a watch, a small quantity OF
money. pair of shoes and an overcoat.
The same day another farm house was
.ntered, but the thieves only secured q
| pound Of plug tobacco. Little depreda-
tinns are committed almost nightly.
| The school board of Hastings ordered
the schools OF the city closed as precau-
ton against a diphtheria epidemic.
Delaware hns 5000 farms valued at
| s37, ,O00,000. The state produced in
| 1889 100000 bushels of corn and
| 100000 OF wheat. 1t exports every
gear 100000 quarts of awberries
and az 600 900 baslxets of peaehes