Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1894-05-05
DAKOTA.

Dakotas large deposits of phosphate ex'
ist, which up to this time have been ne
elected. Thornby finds that the southern
| phosphate sells for 81 per ton at the
mines and that nearly 1000, 600 tons were
shipped last year from Floyida and Caro-.
lima. Thornby has watched the mining
and he now proposes to have the Dakota
prodnct examined by the South Dakota
School of Mines, of which he is trustee,
Ind lie hopes in year TO develop II great
industry. lie says, furthermore, that all
the material for treating tho phosphate is
Indigenous to South Dakota, so that the
| finished fertilizer can be put on the mar
kct in Minneapolis, Omaha and Chicago.
creamery and a creamery supply
house. a pork packing house and large
cooperage works are among Yankton's
business acquisitions during the past
month The largest brewery in the north
west has begun operations. The plant
has II capacity of 5000 barrels per year
Work has been resumed on the great
irrigation ditch at Edgemont. 1t will be
completed in time to use the water on this
years crop. There are about 3,001 acres
OF land yet unsettled that is accessible ta
the ditch. Two large reservoirs are TO be
built for storing the water when not in use
on the land.
1t is stated upon authority of r member
OF the state board OF control, that there
will be no tircmen's tournament held this
year, and that the practice of holding an.
nGal tournaments are too expensive, and
viii probably be abandoned As an in.
stance OF the expense entailed, il may be
stated that while the Nankton fire depart
mont has carried OF more prizes than any
| other company, and now possesses the
| prize hose cart, it has cost the depart
ment more than $500 to equip and attend
the tournaments of the past four years.
The constitution of the Intercollegiate
| Athletic association Of South Dakota has
| just been completed A meeting will be
| held at Sioux Falls on the 18th and 10th
of May. The sports will consist Of foot
races, hurdle races, high and broad jump
! ing. vauliing. bicycle races, base ball and
tennis. The Yankton college boys have
! begun 10 practice. The various tennis
cl1bs will pick their best players to com.
| pete at Sioux Falls.
While Joseph Dusick, an Aurora county
farmer. was hunting along a creek on the
Meter ranch in that county he shot and
! killed n bird which the hunters arc un.
able to find a name for. II is very fine
| specimen Of water fowl, and when meas
urcd Was found to be five and half feet
high, with "A spread of wings Of six feet
The plumage, which Is OF four d fferent
colors, Is very beautiful
Company c, state militia At Yankton, is
preparing 10 disband. A petition is he.
circulated. which will be sent to the gov
ernment asking for an order disbanding
the company, which contains only thirty
two active members at the present time.
1t is the intention OF the company to re-
organize with new officers and renewed
activity.
| j, r. Zicbach, who has been appointed
assistant agent at the Alaska seal fisher.
les by Secretary Carlisle, is son of the
celebrated "squatter governor" of South
Dakota and editor Of the Citizen of Scot
land, 3 ID. His predecessor, A. w. Law.
renee, was also a Scotland man. The sal
airy is $3.50.
Eight carloads Of fat sheep were ship
ped 10 market from Pierre the other day
\ number of sheep raisers in this vicinity
have been experimenting in fatting sheep
for the spring market and they have
found ii a very successful experiment, as
they fatten with very little extra grain
besides the nutritious grasses which they
can get in that sect on.
A surveying party has begun running
the preliminary lines for a railroad down
the Sioux valley. They have started
1 81, -
Rowena, and are headed towards Canton.
Rumor has it that they are working for
the popuIst railroad, which is TO run
from the Gulf Of Mexico to Hudson's bay.
In the United States court Truman Will
sou, man Of 60 years, was sentenced to
six months in the penitentiary and to pay
tine of 500 for buying from Indians cat
tie which had been issued to them by the
government
The Ministerial association and Ep-
worth league institute OF the Huron dis
trict will be held in Huron, beginning
May IS and continuing until the evening
of the Eth.
Armour now boasts of two of the finest
artesian wells i'll South Dakota, a second
one having been struck with flow of
20 gallons per minute, with 55 degree
pressure
General n c. Nash, department com.
mandcr of the G.. A. Il Of South Dakota.
has issued II general order calling on all
the posts to observe Memorial day, May
80
| The annual campmeeting OF the South
| Dakota Holiness association, will be held
| in Barber's grove, two and half miles
northeast Of Vermillion, May 81 to June
| 10, inclusive
A. Ii. Putnam of Kimball who was re-
Gently granted u pension. has received
nearly 81 900 in back pay. He was in poor
| circumstances.
Governor Sheldon attended an enter
tainment given by the local masonic order
at Webster and was made a Master Ma
son
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