Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1894-02-24
DAKOTA.

in Parker.
A call has been made for an artesian
irrigation convention at Huron on March
7and (.
The Black Hills Educational associ-
81 ana ~.
Russell Darling, IA prominent man of
Carthage, committed suicides by shooting
himself through the head
The Chamberlain Register has passed
into the hands Of the sheriff on mortgages
aggregating over 81 ,00l.
The school board of Sioux Falls has or
dered plans drawn for IA sixteen room
school building to cost $50, 600
The Iankton city council has ordered
the purchase of a four wheeled hose
wagon and 80 yards of new hose.
Business men of Wheeler and farmers
OF the surrounding country have decided
- es tablish u creamery at that place.
The farmers of Lake and adjoining
counties are organizing stock companies
and going into the creamery business.
f A. Burdick of Aberdeen has been
granted the franchise of putting in an
electric light plant at Springfield, Bon
Homme county.
William Lawrence, alias william Fen
nemore, has been put under $500 bonds ut
Yanktou to appear before the grand jury
for highway robbery.
All efforts to remove the heavy crops of
Charles Mix county by boats on the Mis-
souri, have proved futile and the ware
houses along the river are being offered
for sale.
The Lake County Game Protective asso-
citation recently caused a farmer who was
in the act OF shipping two barrels of prai-
rie chickens to be brought into court and
q fine OF Ss7 was imposed
Sioux belonging at Crow Creek and
Lower Brule agencies were made happy
last Saturday by payment 20 them of
$50, 600 by the government for lands ceded
TO whites three years ago.
A guarantee fund OF $1,000 has been
raised by the citizens OF Hot Springs TO
secure the continuance OF the Chautauqua
assembly there, and a more than usually
interesting program has been arranged
Efforts will be made to induce Surveyor
General Hughes to have the land in Greg
ory and Todd counties surveyed during
the coming season. This land embraces
large portions OF both counties, and was
ceded to the government by the Sioux ma
tion three years ago.
The report has gained circulation of
rich gold discoveries in the bad lands
along White river In this state. These
reports are discredited by those familiar
with the matter. For the past ten or
twelve years this story has been revived
annually, but never before at this season
OF the year
The charges of the board of county COM
missioners that the Gettysburg State
bank was insolvent have proved to have
no foundation, according to the report of
Public Examiner Myers, who, after an
examination into the banks condition,
says its paper is we'll secured and that it
is among the safest banks in the state
The permanent school fund established
In North Dakota two years ago has
already reached gigantic proportions It
is over l.750.00. The annual interest de-
rived from this fund is s2b, ,2l7, and this is
only one fifth of the whole purchase price
of schoolands sold. Income from this is
s9l, 900, making q total school income of
increased from year to year as school
lands are sold
! Spearfish Bulletin: IL has. been q long
time since the people OF Spearfish could
stand on the streets and see deer rum
ming over the hills east OF town. but such
a sight was seen yesterday by O. Hof-
master. The deer was on the high ridge
north of Lookout mountain, and was
bounding along gracefully in plain view.
A numbe of cattle were in the pasture
eua ~ seemed >.@. -s,eieet OF -eoasiaar-
able curiosity to them. There are proba-
bly, a mum ber of deer in the lrakes on the
east side of the ridge.
Messrs Harris and Adams, editors Of
the Webster Reporter and Farmer, have
been indicted for criminal libel, and the
case will be tried at the present term of
circuit court for Day county. The trouble
grows out of an article recently published
in the Reporter and Farmer, charging
Sheriff Swenson with being boodler,
usurper and all around thief. The sher-
iIf Immediately brought q civil suit for
$40, ,001 tor defamation of character, and
when the grand jury convened had the
newspaper boys indicted for criminal
libel.
= Reports received from ranchmen In va.
rIous parts of the state indicate that the
stablishing OF volunteer signal stations
in remote districts by the United States
weather bureau has proven of great bene-
fit TO them this winter By warnings Of
approaching storms sent out in advance,
stockmen have been able to get their
herds under shelter before the storms
came upon them, thus preventing serious
loss. Stock generally is wintering well
and losses are practically nothing. Herds
will be in better condition in tho spring
than for several years