Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1894-03-03
SOUTH DAKOTA.

Inc tnlFu duuuul AOTH beAt tApooi'iob
will be held at Mitchell September 20 tc
October 4, inclusive.
A Mexican and a negro held up the
Miles City stage at the fair grounds, two
miles below Spcarfsh, and secured the
mail sack.
A corporation has been formed at Went
worth with su bscribed capital sock oil
u, 600 for the purpose of run ming a grist
mill and creamery.
1t is stated that work is soon to be ne
sumed at Harney Peak. An order was
placed by that company recently for
carload of candles
The Central Dakota Veterans associa'
lion will hold their annual encampmeni
)n the shores of Lake Knmpeska, near
Watertown. beginning July and continu
ne for six days
Bergnon's large Touring mill at Brook
,ngs burned, entailing "A loss of 5000. 1t
was insured for 500 o. AS soon as the
insurance is adjusted preparations for re-
building the mill will be begun.
a big blast which was shot of in the
city quarry In Sioux Falls the other day
shook the houses within two blocks of the
quarry and has caused the residents of
the city to make n bIg kick on the reck-
less way blasts have been fired of there
lately.
The county commissioners of Douglas
county have accepted the bid of S. Swan
son Of Minneapolis TO drill four artesian
wells at the heads Of dry streams III that
county. The sinking Of such wells will,
II haliaVaA k.r N N "a tpp al y a n
Of the dry water courses
w A. Smith, the late trainer Of the
Madison Athletic club, has issued a chal-
lenge through the Police Gazette for n
kind OF family running match. Himself
and wife offer 10 run any other married
couple in the world ten miles or l46 hours
! Tor any sum from 500 upward.
! The l4-year-old son Of Henry King, liv.
! ing near Alexandria, who mysteriously
disappeared after accidentally shooting
his sister, was found on farm three
miles south Of Parkston. The boy was
examined before magistrate and dis.
charged. The sister will recover.
The prospective opening of the Yankton
Indian reservation to homestead settle
ment this spring is creating great inquiry
from prospective new settlers as TO the
quality OF the lands. The l6s,000 acres
will give 1869 settlers each l5J acres of
the richest corn land in South Dakota.
About fly mem bers of the Hand county
Independent central committee met at
Miller to map out work for the coming
campaign. The committee expressed
preference for holding the state conven'
ton In June. The funds OF the campaign
are to be raised by raising 1000 acres OF
wheat.
Mrs. Chaska, who was Cora Belle Eel
lows and who was married at Cheyenne
River agency three years ago to a Santee
Sioux Indian named Chaska, or Samuel
Campbell, has found life with her dusky
spouse unbearable, and is now living
apart from him in a small town in south
srn Nebraska.
United States Commissioner Anderson
bound over /. III. Barnes at Cody, Neb,
for selling liquor to Indians at the Rose
bud agency. Cody has been the depot oi
operations for gang of outlaws organ
ized to sell bad whisky to the red men and
Barnes is one of large number who have
been bound over to the United States
court.
Ladies of the Congregational church a
Sioux Falls gave Midway entertainment
recently that was voted a grand success
Among the attractions was congress oi
beauties made up of men dressed to repre-
sent women such as Susan Is Anthony,
Adelina Patti, Lydia A. Pinkham etc
The best was that of Queen Lii. Colonel
r. J. Woods, one of the best known gen.
tlemen Of the state, represented the char.
acter.
The delegates chosen TO represent the
South Dakota Press association at the an
nual meeting In July OF the National Ed.
\ ttoriai association at Asbury Park, n. j.,
are as follows; w. S. Warner of the Dead
wood Times, +. G. Torney Iof the Aber.
more Herald, Thomas Bishop of the Volga
! Tribune, {. II, Tinan Of the Kim bal
Graphic. There are l30 members in the
South Dakota association.
II. A Carpenter has been chosen the
Meade county vice president of the soci
ETY. of Black Hills Pioners, says the Stur.
gis Record They gave him the place be-
cause he preached after Preacher Smith
was killed near Crook City, oprobed for
the bullets in Wild Pill. helped hang Jacs
McCaul, was the first white child born in
the Black Hills, found the biggest nugget
In the gulch, saw Bare Butte when it was
an ant hill, built the first stamp mill west
Of the forks of the Cheyenne, sold flour al
$3.50 a sack, killed three robbers at one
shot, rode in the first train, walked from
New York to Sturgis was attorney in the
first case ever tried, lost Si0,0t0 by no
owning an interest In the Homestake
mine, and other things OF the kind
While the driver OF the stage between
Hot Springs and Cascade was passing q
point few miles from the former place
he noticed dense column of steam aris
ing from a rocky point near the road, and
at the same time was aware OF peculiar
sulphurous smell Approaching. he
found that a portion of ground about
eight feet in diameter had caved In and
the steam was issuing from the hole. the
depth OF which he was unable to deter
mine. 1t also appeared that the earth foi
many yards surrounding the hole was o
mere crust, and his theory Is that some
| cow OR horse must at first have broker
through. There are a number of immense
cavities of unknown depth in the neigh
| borhood, the cause of which no one car
pronounce with any certainty. but an In
dian tradition is that the whole country
was at one time "hesp big smoke" and il
mas be that they are Of volcanic origin.
A number of visitors and residents have
driven out to the scene of this curious oc.
currence.
The cases for riot against the white
caps OF Marion Junction have been,con'
tinued until the next term of court on the
application OF defendants on the groune
of illness in the family or one OF the dc
! fendarts. These cases have cost the
county already over ii .eeo
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Beggars swarm so In Malta that the
only way to avoid being pestered by
them is to put out your hand and anti.
cipate them with their own whining,
"Give me something" "Me plenty poor
man." me very large family"
Prof Falb of Berlin prophesies q
very probable collision between the
1 aarth and the cOmet of 1S66 nm Novau