Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1894-04-28
DAKOTA.

result of the patient labor Of the squaw
A notable exception to this very genera
rule came to Washington few days age
In the shape Of a package Of canes made
by Black Elk, one OF the subchiefs at the
Lower Brule agency, near Chamberlain,
s ID. The canes are quite artistic and
worthy of place IN Will Wolfords col.
lection. The ferules are Of buffalo horn
nicely cut and polished, and not unlike o
piece OF enameled iron. The heads are
neatly carved out of pipestono from the
famous quarries In the Pipestone conn
try. In raised letters they have the
initials of the persons for whom the canes
were made. The wood of the cane proper
is willow, cut in the Missouri river bot
toms about the reservation, and Is carved
to represent rattlesnake climbing up
conventional straight cane. The canes
were sent by Sylvan Winter of Chamber
lain, one each to Senator Kyle and one to
his secretary, Duncan McFarlane, to Sen
ator Jones OF Arkansas, to Congressman
McRae and to Josephus Daniels, who
now holds down Captain Hesslers place
as chief clerk OF the interior department
The state board of charities and correc
dry building recently completed at the
hospital at Yankton into a dormitory or
cottage for the accommodation of patients.
1t is necessary to do this because OF the
overcrowded condition of the hospital
proper, which now contains $50 patients
huddled together in a space only large
enough for 800 The laundry building is
two stories high with large basement
and 40x60 feet In size. The two uppaI
stories will be furnished to accommodate
fifty patients and the basement will be
utilized for a laundry.
5. w. Bowman, deputy state land com
missioner, who has just finished making
a trip over the state, assisting in the sale
OF school lands, reports that the prices
obtained are largely satisfactory as they
will average Sl5 an acre. The lands solo
were all in the older counties In the south
western part of the state, but they were
not the choicest lands as these had been
So Id in previous years and the lands that
were sold this year were what remained
Ore section OF land in McCook county
near Bridgewater, sold for ga an acre.
Work has been resumed on the big irrf
cation ditch at Edgemont. Ii will be
completed in time to use the water on this
years crop There are about 5000 acres
of land yet unsettled that is accessible &c
the ditch. Two large reservoirs are to bs
built for storing the water when not ir
use on the land. The ditch Is large nougt
so that there will be forty-horse power
reserve Of water to be used for manufac
turing purposes In Edgemont.
A new disease has struck the horses OF
Sioux Falls, says the Press, and it /,
proving fatal in a great many cases. IL
Is the same disease that killed c. G Goats
favorite colt Billy Mckinley. 1t Is sale
10 be caused by overlooking and no work,
30 people who own good horses want to ba
sure and take care of the animals just
right II Is blood disease and conn
menccs by the legs of the horse swelling
which keeps getting worse until the AMI
NAL finally bloats up and dies.
John Brown, who was recently elected
mayor OF Spring gfield, Bon Homme county,
is a man who weighs in the neighborhoot
OF 335 pounds, and on account OF his grea'
size the little town claims the honor D
having the largest mayo OF any city or
town in the state. The authorities of the
town have recently made arrangement
for putting in an electric light plant to b.
run by artesian we'll power.
United States Marshal Otto Peemillei
recently had large number of subp9nae
which he wanted to have served on SOM
Yankton persons. There was no deputy
marshal there, so he deputized his wife
and she served the papers. This is the
first time in the history of the state that
woman has acted in the capacity OF de-
putty United States marshal
Captain Lavendar has just completed
the purchase Of Ease 2 year old heifers
required to fiji his government contract,
He purchased 1,2o0 of them in the neigh
borhood of Scotland, about 100 near Iank'
ton and the others in that vicinity. He
did not have to go out Of the state to gets
solitary hoof. These cattle will be de,
livered at Standing Rock agency on the
Goth of May.
The boycott declared last winter by
the Miners union and Knights of Labor
on the merchants OF Deadwood, and all
Deadwood institutions, for the stand
taken by the Deadwood people in the late
labor troubles at the Annie Creek mines
has been declared off.
c. L. Tubbs Of the Black Hills. Mineral
Paint company, whose mines are located
about sixteen miles from Edgemont re
ports that his company will immedatel,
put in canning factory at that place
The mines produce seven colOrs of paint
United States Judge Edgerton of Siou,
Fails sentenced Barlow G.. Williams t.
one year in the penitentiarv and to pay
| 8 900 fine for selling liquor to Indians
Alex Street. an employe in the Home,
stake mill who was caught with so II
crude gold in his possession, has beer
bound over to the grand jury.
Supreme Court Judge Fuller has re
moved his family from Faulkto to Pierr.
and will take up his residence in tina,
city.
| Articles OF incorporation of the Chi
| cago Yankton and Sout hwestern railroad
| have been filed with the secretary OF
| state.
1t is stated on good authority that the
| saloon license will be increased from S3s
| month to 800 or s75 a month
Two new artssian wells are to be sunk
In st. Lawrence township, just east OF
| Miller.
Anna Jenkins, q school girl of Lead,
died from the effects Of jumping the rope.
Mitchell Is to have new hotel and a
900 high school building this season.
A terrific hailstorm did considerable
damage at Brookings.
Peddlsr-Please, mum, would you
like to buy parrot?
Mrs. Br.ckrow--Now, what on earth
do you suppose want with a parrot?
Well, mum, 1t just occurred to me
that you might save good deal OF
time If you had one. It's pity to see
intellectual woman like you obliged
| to waste time maxim calls on such q
lot Of ignoramuses as there Is in this
| neighborhood when you might just as
well be talkin' to parrot.
I'll take one.
Professor-Some OF the grandest in
ventions of the age have been the re
suit of accidental discovery.
| Young Lady, can readily believe
II. Why, l made an important discov
cry myself and 1t was tho purest acci
dent, too.
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