Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1893-02-25
DAKOTA.

Hot Springs is to have an electric rail.
way sy TEN.
f. G. Gordon, of Gary; will soon start a
paper at that place.
Steps are being taken to secure tow
mill for Aberdeen.
A home dramatic company Is being or
ganized at Mitchell.
The people of the Black Hills have just
passed through the annual Indian scarce.
John ]. Wynn, the convict who escaped
from the South Dakota penitentiary, was
captured at sheldon, Ia
LIE. Whitcher, of Highmore, is a can
didate for the Office of United States at
torney for South Dakota.
The Bridgewater Brieflet has become
the Tribune, and Moyes & Mott have been
succeeded by Moyes & Stearns.
The poultry fauciers of Sanborn county
have decided TO have poultry show the
last of this month or earl" in March.
Life insurance companies, having salts
fed themselves that everything is all
right. are paying the Scougal claims Mt
Yankton
Eastern parties have agreed TO sub
scribe enough money to complete the
guarantee fluid for the completion of the
packing house at Sioux Falls.
The Indian murdcrers Of the four white
men at Pine Ridge agency have been ia
dicted for murder and their trial viii be
held in Deadwood in September
Mitchell is getting to he quite sporty
town. Several walking matches and such
like hnve taken place recently and IT is
now reaching out for prize fight.
The Catholic population of South Da
kots is 10000 The denomination has 50
clergy, 81 churches, 100 stations, 2 chapcls
G academies and ID parochial schools.
Rodney Keith, the l4-year-old son OF
Hon. Charles Keith, of Volga, president of
the state board of agriculture, was
kicked to death by horse which he was
| leading to water.
/ It is the general opinion that the Har-
ney Peak tin mills al Hill City, which
were so suddenly shut down, will be
opened upon larger scale within a short
time.
j. A. Trow, Of Madison denies the re-
I port that his motor line has been sold to
/ the Milwaukee railway, but says that he
/ is now negotiating with that company for
( the transfer.
South Dakota has realized sl,3s7,3sl
/ from the SAFE OF her school lands and has
! left 2,12l, Asa acres. These can not be sold
until they will briag $40 peg acre, which,
when disposed Of will max" a snug little
school fund
Assistan. Adiutant-Gencral Ackley, OF
the state G.. a. r.. has issued "a map show
ing the location of all posts in the state.
! All post towns are shown in their respec-
tive divisions. numbered from one to
seventeen inclusive.
The Rapid City journal says chat the
monument to the memory Of Hon. David
H. Clark has arrived, ana as soon as the
wcat ther permits viii ue pa; IL position
to mark the resting place Of him vino MAS
one of Rapid City's most respected citi'
zens.
Louis Gust "A cigarmakcr who has been
| in Yankton number of years, ran away
with won IN other than his lawful com
! panion last Monday, leaving wife, two
children and a few confding creditors to
gnash their teeth at their misplaced con
tdence in him.
Suil mas DctH dlhSt -blNlti
Alderman i. W. Breton, of Huron, in the
sum of s., 900 by j. B. Coomer, formerly
city marsha of that city, who rclaims
damages to that amount in consequence oi
charges presented against him by Breton
in open council, resulting in his discharge
from the position of chief Of police.
The Clay County alliance has closed a
deal by which they take possession Of the
vermlli0n Plain Talk, and will make OF
II their official organ. They have engaged
r. b. Van Dalsem, of Madison, =. d., as
editor and manager, and the paper wi.
he, ,.,an--an-- striatiy thisd- .partp hs sis
The deal has been on foot for some time,
bl.. was eliminated by the transfer of the
paper 10 the alliance
G.. A. Powers, of Sioux Falls, has i'll his
possession copy of the Cnster County
Gazette, published at Kingston, y. y.
! and dated January 4 1870 The paper
contains "A picture of George Washington
/ and an account of his funeral. Among
the advertisements is the following: "A
stout, healthy. actiyc, negro wcpch for
/ SAL. Address John SchoOnmaker, ir.,
Rochester. n Y" Tn paper, which is a
valuable relic of colonial days, has been
ia the Powers family sinc6 its issue.