Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1894-03-31
DAKOTA.

found rock bottom in the Missouri river
ffty-one feet down.
A petition is being circulated through.
out Lincoln county asking that the nun
Der of county commissioners be increased
from three to five.
The Lake Madison Veterans associa
ton will meet in Sioux Falls on June 10,
o and II 1t is expected that about 4,C0C
people will be present
"A committee of Sioux Falls citizens
which was appointed to arrange plans for
a Fourth Of July celebration has secured
the services OF Mrs. Lease of Kansas as
one OF the orators Of the day.
A flock of sheep turned out to Craze
upon the prairie grass in Brown county,
instead of doing so sought the cultivated
fields to feed upon the Russian thlstles.
eating the prickly pest with great relish
The women crusaders of Huron are in
biiant over their victory in securing n
verdict against City Marshal Crippen,
who was arrested for failure to enforce
the prohtbitory law. Crippen gave bail
for his appearance ut the next term of the
circuit court.
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hunting ducks with her husband yester
lay received an accidental discharge oil
shot in her left hand which will probably
result in the loss Of that member. She
attempted to take a gun from the boat
muzzle first.
c. y. Mccoy of Aberdeen who has been
In Cripple Creek for several months, look
ing after the interests OF an eastern syn
dictate, is reported 10 have struck il rich.
He has opened up a two-foot vein of ore.
when is thought to be a continuation OF
the Londonderry.
Governor Sheldon is being petitioned 10
appoint II homeopathic physician as n
member Of the state board Of health in
place Of DIR. Robbins of Pierre when his
term shall expire. There are over forty
homeopathic physicians practicing in
South Dakota and they believe they
should have q representative on the state
board.
A special from Yankton says the Ice on
the Missouri and James rivers has not
moved out so quickly in twenty-five years
as II did this spring and that there is no
more water in these streams now than
there was last August. when there was
less water in the channel thar eyerknown
before. The volume of water in the Mis-
souri, is growing less each year.
Parties In from the Russian settlement
which last year located at Medicine
Greek, about twenty-five miles southwest
Of Pierre. report that there are now a
large number OF Russians in passage from
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that more are soon to start, an that be.
fore the end OF the summer there will he
fully 500 OF them in that locality.
Al the recent irrigation convention at
Huron the sentiment was emphatic that
irrigation is not absolutely necessary &c
secure crops, but experiments dnmOn.
strate that irrigation increases yield and
insure protection against loss by hot
winds. Several wells will be put down
and lake beds with water.
A. F, Mallick, a Northern Pacific engi.
ncer Of jamestown, has invented AN elec.
trical boiler alarm or head indicator. The
apparatus is secured TO the head and gives
Instant and timely warning Of tho condi.
ton of the boiler, which II not remedied
at once wouid produce an explosion. The
invention can ~be'applied to either station.
airy or local boilers with equal success.
A man giving the name OF A. c. Arnold
gave hims elf up to the sheriff at Vermil
lion and asked to be locked up. After be
Ing placed in Jail he said that he had on
March l stolen $500 from the depot ut Cas-.
per, Wyo., and wanted to be sent back
there to stand trial, as he knew that
sooner or later he would be captured.
When arrested he had but % cents in
money on his person, having used itall up
In travelling.
The board Of town trustees Of High
more at its last session reduced the sala
ries ofsclerk, treasurer and marshal. 1t
also passed an ordinance TO prevent the
sale Of spirituous, malt and vlnous
liquors, including beer, and fixed the fine
for its viol ton at $25. The intention is
that this fine shall be paid once a month
by violators OF the law, the money to go
to the credit of the general fund Of the
town.
The president and secretary Of the in
t~erstate grain palace have made a sta tie.
ment to the stockholders of the 1nanciai
condition of the corporation. In addition
to the building free from debt, the associ.
alton has s277.5 "a on hand, after all debts
are paid. The building, which has been
used for a number of large gatherings
this winter, makes the largest and most
convenient assembly room in the state,
and wall be the most ~commodious room
for political gatherings for years to
come. The palace will again be used
next fall for the purpose for which IL
was built, the exposition of the products
of North and South Dakota. Already
many imp ovements are contemplated.
Captain Lucas recent appointment to
West Point of Jason w. Baker OF Dead
wood. Charles f Kehoe of Rapid City al
t~ernate, are the same appointments that
he announced u year ago. 1t will he re
membered that Cadet Cas- er Conrad OF
South Dakota was one OF the aspirants
for military honors who violated his
parole while the cadets were ut theAworld's
fair last fall. and for the offense he was
court martialed and sentenced To suspen.
sion for a year. He would nave graduated
this year, and in accordance with the
custom his successor has already been
named, subject to the test of examination.
This suspension deprived Captain Lucas
Of his right to appoint for another year,
and now he has named the young mer
selected last year. without the formality
OF another examination.