Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1893-09-02
DAKOTA.

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A telegraph line has been put In be.
tween Pierre and Fort Pierre and II has
been named the Missouri mercantile tele-
graph.
DR.. H.. G. Afford, of Huron, has been
chosen by the Brooklyn Ethics. society
rs IA member Of the worlds ongress Of
Evolutionists.
Over 900 new settlers have entered on
the newly coded reservation lands be.
tween Sturgis and Chamberlain since the
LIST of last January.
james Palson and John T.. Hudson have
been bound over 10 the grand jury at
Yankton on the charge Of robbery. Their
bail was fixed at 81, 200.
The dates for the Charles Mix county
fair hare been fixed for September 26, %
and 2S. Something like 81 200 has been
guaranteed for purses in horse racing.
Harry NJ. Wilcox, n noted character all
through the northwestern country, was
found dead in his bed at Il Hot Springs
hotel. He died from an overdose Of NOR
phine.
The first meeting Of the newly formed
Observation-Disclosures society called the
South Dakota State Holiness association,
will be held at Washington Springs Sep
TENDER IA to "a.
1t is estimated that the yield of wheat in
SouthDakota this year will reach g., 900, 600
bushels, 30, 900, 0O0 bushels in North Da-
kota, As, 000, 900 bushels In Minnesota, OF
n total of l30, 000, 900 bushels for the three
states.
Ed Mccullough, Of Carthage, 8. d.,
Eel TO his barn and found his team and
header wagon missing. He followed the
trail In the mud, and finally located the
team and the thief in the person of a boy
named Thompson.
A package containing "A diamond neck
lace a pair of bracelets and u diamond
ring was picked up on q street in Sioux
Falls the other day. 1t had apparently
had been LAYING there for some time as it
was covered with dirt.
Father Hogan, OF Elk Point, has an
u Iunced that a parochial school is TO be
e ,tablished there which will be conducted
by sisters from Denver. If it proves a
success u building to accommodate 500
pupils will be erected.
Il. w. Wheelock, of the Mitchell Daily
Republican, has been appointed by Gov
eruor Sheldon q member OF the Anti
Trust association which Is being orga-
nized under the direction of Governor
Nelson, of Minnesota, as the outgrowth
of the recent antitrust convention In Chi
rago.
Senator Kyle has introduced a bill pro
viding that when any city or town in the
United States, having 5000 or more in
Ina bitants, petitions the postmaster gem
aral to establish or build a suitable post
office, he shall inquire into the fact and
II found true shall cause such building TO
he erected under such restrictions as are
provided in the bill.
The steamer Last Chance under Cap
Iain King is engaged in carrying wheat
rom the warehouses TO Chamberlain.
10000 bushels of wheat was stored
n the river warehouses in Charles Mix
ounty last winter and has remained there
for "A rise in price which did not
and in order to make room for the ,
rop now being threshed it was neces- !
airy to move the old wheat. ,
The first boat load of coal from the
lercer county, North Dakota, mines was q
AIKEN out recently by the Plenty Coal '
lining company for transportation :
own the Missouri. Unfortunately, how :
YER, the barge on which the coal was 1!
aided met with an accident before 2.
Bismarck, and sank in the river. ,
he load consisted of 100 tons and there +,
but little prospect of saving either
'arge or cargo.
The Great Northern road has made a
ut in salaries all over the system and the
nen connected with the road at Sioux
al. hama hoa, xntlRoJ 80 %ha lancaaaa
Where employees have been drawing 500
4 month they are cut IS per cent; where
they draw more thar this amount they
are cut 30 per cent, and where the salary
is 8, 900 or more a year they are cut 30 per
cent, 1t is estimated to be a saving to
the company Of 1880, 900 a month.
The big irrigation ditch known as the
Duhamel ditch, situated neal the mouth
Of the Belle Fourche, is nearly completed.
The ditch Is something over four miles in
length, twenty-four feet wide and seven
feet deep. The excavating is now COM
pleted, and when some trestle work,
which will take about IL, 600 feet of lum-
Der to build, is erected, this big irrigation
ditch will be finished. Mr.. Duhamel will
turn the water on about the LIST of Octo-
Der.
The communion service of st. Mary's
church at Mitchell which was stolen re-
Gently was found near the roundhouse by
Katie Hauck, Il neice OF Mr.. Burger, and
been returned to Rev. Mr.. Babcock. The
Under was rewarded by a present Of a sill
yer cup and a gold coin. One of the pieces
was battered on the bottom but the set
was otherwise not damaged. The thieves
,vtlantl =, mana af.aiI 60 l;ornpa ~ thatu
~olunder after they had stolen it.
Hot Springs Is pretty we'll f.led up with
prominent attorneys and officials just
1ow taking dispositions In q case to be
.ried before the United States couv: at
Sioux Falls ut the November term. The
case is brought by Lake g. HALEY, Of
Rapid City, against the Burlington and
Missouri and Fitzgerald Bros, OF Lin.
.oln, for supplies furnished the con-
tractors in building the line of the Bur.
ington and Missouri road to Deadwood
some two years since, and involves some
thing like 800, O)O.
Some months ago Sidey, the Hot Springs
:urio man, discovered a hole in the ground
which gave promise OF being u great cave.
he Immediately made filing on the land
shu AhoAA w hoA yin VA
plorations and open it up. He and Mr..
Jensen drove out to it and they were
wonder-stricken at the result. Eleven
large chambers rave been opened up and
they are beautifully hung with stalacti-
les and covered with crystals of great
beauty. The cave gives promise of being
rs great a wonder as the famous Wind
cave. 1t is located between Hot and Cold
Brook canons, with a picturesque road
leading to 1t.
Gettysburg Is very much disturbed by
the ungodly doings Of one calling himself
Rev. Burrows, an alleged evangelist, In
connection with the NJ. K church, who
has been holding q series OF tent meetings
in that place. A young lady, a daughter
Of a respectable citizen. who on q former
visit of the evangelist had taken q lively
interest In religious matters, was not
showing the intere,t that the elder
thought she ought, so on q certain even
ing he repaired to her fathers home,
where he had an interview with her and
during the discussion of religious matters