Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1894-08-25
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tween Mcllptte ana NortnNllle III Splnk
county. This year something over 300
acres of irrigated land were cropped, di
v Il d II o l2O acres of oats, 40 Of wheat,
about % of barley, 30 of millet, 90 of corn
and II of rye. These fields are not contin
uous and compact. but are scattered, &C.
cording To the means at hand to apply wa
ter. Some fields of wheat are estimated
by experts to be good for IN average yield
Of 80 bushels. and the entire acreage to
this cereal will 20 - or 80. The ground
cultivated To oats received no artificial
supply of water this season, being simply
well flooded in most parts last fall. New
crtheless, the average will certainly not
fall below 10 bushels. and this in the very
heart Of IA vast extent of country in which
the oat crop appears to be u total failure.
The Deadwood- Lead City county seat
war has been decided and Dcadwood will
remain the seat of government of Law
renee county. The county commissioners
decided hat the County seat had been le-
gally located in Dcadwood in 1sS; and that
under the constitution Of the state before
an election can be called to vote upon its
removal ii would have 90 be pctitioned for
by "A majority of the legal voters of the
county; that the petition which Lead City
has presented praying for its remova was
insufficient; that it contained names not
legally belonging on that document, and
hat they would have to reject the PROPOSE
tion of Lead City and refuse TO consider
the petition. Thus ends for the time what
promises To be IA long and bitter fight be
tween the twO towns.
The great power canal and irrigating
ditch. which has been under co irse of con.
struction at Edgemont for more than n
year, has been practically completed. The
people of EdEemont arr Joyous over the
completion of the grea; work, a. it means
much towards their prosperity. The main
object of the canal is to furnish water
power for manufacturing purposes. a biz
wooden mill is already under course of
construction. Twelve thousand acres of
choice farming land will also be watered.
1t is the intention of the canal company To
establish "A sugar beet factory. Tn water
will also be used for railroad purposes,
there being three divisions of roads in the
city.
The supreme court has reanirmed the
decision of the lower court in the case Of
j. ID. Howard against the city of Huron.
The plaintiff sought to force the payment
of the Judgment against the city for =, 600,
but was resisted by the present municipal
administration. The suit grew out of a
contract for an artesian well, which the
city accepted, and Mr., Howard took judg-
ment against the city, the lower court
| "a Ngarlinn him ~ NM which Inaisinp huS
just been affirmed by the supreme court.
The work of making a Typographical
survey of a portion Of the James river val.
ley is progressing rapidly, and is being
prosecuted by ID. &. Harmon and w. II.
Griffin Of Washington. under direction OF
the United States geological survey. The
object of the work is to find whether or
not the area examined can be irrigated by
a~rtesian wells at reasonable expense.
A gang of six men who had been steal.
ing dry goods from stores in Pierre and
selling them at houses of prostitution
were captured with great difficulty by a
posse consisting of acting mayor, sheriff
and deputies. The robbers made u stub
born resistance, but were finally overpow-
cred.
Reddy Larson and Fred Hill, who broke
Jail some time ago and were recaptured,
were taken to Stanley county for their
preliminary hearing and bound over to the
circuit court. Owing to the insecureness
of Stanley county Jail they were con
signed to the Hughes county Jail until
their trial.
George Webster, the II year old son OF
o. w. Webster of the Soldiers home al
Hot Springs, was thrown from a buckinl
horse, and his foot being caught in the
stirrup he was dragged half n block. Boil
his arms were broken, his skull fractured
and his ribs broken. He died at once.
The governor has pardoned John Clarl
of Hughes county, sentenced for man
slaughter, to save citizenship. ant
to George Mills of Sanborn county, sen
fenced To 100 days in Jail for keeping
blind pig, pardon on petition signed by
Judge and jury.
a drunken cowboy named Mathisor
started from Fort Pierre TO cross the Mis-
souri, on the pontoon bridge, which wa
not completed, and rode off the end OF tn
bridge in twenty feet of water. His hors
SN W IL SitiluDdT. IIdlDlSOn was res
cued almost dead by the bridge watch
II
Twenty thousand sheep have been driver
into Fall River county from New Mexico
Most of them have been sold to ranchmeI
} living in remote portions of the county.
, Rev. Thomas Irvine, pastor of the Bap
fist church at Elk Point has accepted
call to Egan and Flandrcau and has rl
moved his family to the latter place.
At Ipswich the sheriff arrested Loui
Dohl, John Prosser and Dave Tongisnan
9 on the charge of blind piggery. They wer
, placed under $500 bonds.
, The Madison city council has formal
accepted the waterworks plant put in b
Fairbanks, Morse e. Co. The total cos
. was $780, 600.
. The married ladies and single ladies
~Iroquois played n game of base ball r,
. Gently in which the single ladies won.
7 G. III. Tyler. postmaster at Hutton, ha
been arrested and bound over on charge
of embeZzling postotiice funds.
y Several prairie fires were started in Sull
Q county recently by a fall of meteoric stone
coming from clear sky.
The state pharmacists will meet mex
year at the chautauqua grounds in Mad
q son in July.
The Iowa State band will furnish th
music for the Aberdeen grain palace.
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The largest collection in existence c
the smallest books in the world is sal
r to ne That owned by NJ. Georges Sale
{ mon, a Partisan amateur. Of whose 20
little volumes none Is larger than
inch wide by 9 high.
r. South American ants have bee
known to construct a tunnel thre
miles in length, a labor for them pre-
p~ortionate to that which would be re
v quired for men to tunnel under tn