Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1894-01-20
DAKOTA.


cost q, 800.
Stockmen report that wolves have killed
mum Der OF cattle near the forks OF the
White river.
The farmers of Hanson county have a
armers' mutual insurance company with
100 mem bers.
The next regular quarterly meeting OF
he state board of pharmacy will be held
It Huron Aprl 4.
Sioux Falls public building has been
completed with the exception of the inside
md outside finishing.
Harriet +. Powers has secured di
iorce from her husband, William M.
covers, mayor Of Yankton.
Surveyors are at work plating into
own lots school section that Is located
within the city limits Of Chamberlain.
About 100 OF the retail agricultu raj i'm
olement dealers of the state met at Sious
Falls and organized a state association.
Robert Buchanan, editor OF the Sioux
Falls Forum, populist, will begin the
ssue Of morning daily about March l.
Watertown will enter the competition
for the location of the next state fair,
'uEd having been subscribed for that pur
pose.
John Hudson. alias Jack the Rip
per" who escaped from Jail at Yankton
few months ago, has been arrested at
| Onawa, Ia
Henry Schroeder, the self confessed
murdercy of Settler Matson, has been sen.
fenced 10 life Imprisonment in the Sioux
Falls penitentiary.
lor nf
Fort Pierre. who was bound over to the
grand jury in 81, 0O) bonds at Rapid City,
has skipped out leaving his bond 'mcn in
the lurch He was implicated with Other
parties in shipping a train load of stoler
cattle from Rapid City last August
Lead City is boasting Of having the lar
gest school attendance of any town in the
Black Hills and that it also stands THIRD
in the state. They have 466 pupils en-
rolled. This statement Rapid City dis
putes, as there is daily enrolment IL
the Rapid City schools of over 90.
An Elk Point dispatch says the cold
weather has driven thousands of prairie
chickens and quail to the timber border.
! ing the Missouri river. II is estimated
that Il, 600 prairie chickens and 5000 quail
were trapped in Union county during the
month Of December. They sold at 81 and
"a. 25 per dozen.
Jack rabbits are becoming very numer
Gus In South Dakota, and II they continue
to increase during the next five years as
they have in the past II will be necessary
tD offer bounty for their determination.
| Over | ,00) have been shipped from Blunt
and vicinity. Most of them are sent to
! Chicago, and they net the shippers about
! [ cents.
y. L. Dawson, treasurer of the Corn
Belt exposition, has just issued the second
annual report of the enterprise. The
aumber Of cash subscriptions and receipts
from entertainments amounted to sI2,6l2.
| Til amount which is left in the treasury
: 81 .03l in cash and 81, as in building and
real estate This is one OF the very few
undertakings of this kind that has ever
p lid expenses
The next trip of the South Dakota Edi-
torial association will be to old Mexico.
The arrangements are in charge OF Col
onel Ainsworth OF the Plankinton reform
school, and he announces that oil details
will be completed so that the editors can
Sioux CITY ana Dsnver is Returning I through
| Texas and Kansas.
Hon. Frank P. Phillips, register of the
| United States land Office at Watertown
and formally railroad commissioner, is an
enthusiastic promoter of the Gulf and
Interstate railway. He has been over the
entire route and says there is not a single
mile OF the whole line which will not be
self sustaining, embracing the great cot
ton. corn and wheat fields of the union as
well US the great pine and hardwood belts
and the Iron and coal districts.
The combine organization in Jerauld
and other counties for the purpose OF
keeping sup the price per bushel foI
threshing grain, is to be met by the farm.
ers. Articles of agreement are said to
be prepared and many names of farmers
are being attached, whereby they are to
purchase machines and do their OWE
ihreshing next season. Up to date ter
counties are reported to have entered
into the scheme.
The state board OF agriculture has pre-.
,ented bills TO the state auditor for mile
Sge and expenses for the past five years,
81 100 to 81 300 per year, aggregating about
20, 900, and bill for 5000 for 1893, the
allowance under the law creating the
board. Their whole claim, about 81, 100
has been rejected by the auditor on the
grounds that there was no appropriation
for the purpose, and that the claim was
aot filed until after January !. 1t is prob.
sble suit will be commenced by the
board.
DIR. Eastman, formerly physician ai
Pine Ridge agency, full blooded Sioux
who married Elane Goodale, the poetess
and subsequently resigned from his placs
on account of trouble at Pine Ridge. has
asked to be reappointed At the Indian
office, where the application was filed by
Senator Kyle, IL was learned that in case
DR.. Eastman does get back into the
service, which is doubtful, he will have te
never be sent back to Pine Ridge again
under any circumstances.
Duluth parties have bonded the White
Spur and several other mica properties in
the Hills. The prices mentioned in the
bonds aggregate about $4,000
The farming land in Minnehaha countS
Is gradually being broken up and planted
with grain. and 1t will be but a short tim,
before wild hay land will be scarce arti
Gle.
Judge Jones of tho Sioux Falls circui,
has decided that the owner Of building
who has been convicted of illegal sale o.
liquor aud has had his building closed by
injunction. can have the injunction dis
solved by filing the necessary bond guar
hnteeing abatement of the nuisance.
The Huron Coursing club Is arranging
for a meeting of coursers In the spring
Meetings are also being arranged for q,
Oakes, Mitchell, Redfield and Sioux Falls
The Columbus kennels In Huron have
number Of fine greyhounds Mr.. vii.
liams OF Lexington. KY, who attended
the international coursing meet there lasi
October. and carried off number OF good
prizes, has just presented the Columbu,
kennels with grey hound from his best
strains and writes that he will enter
number of his dogs for prizes at the
spring meetings. The Huron club will
ofer prizes for . thirty two dog race, ani
possibly for q greater number, besides
the prizes ranging from $50 down.
Hon. G. 8 Fsssett, state engineer OF ir
rigation. reports that farmers in all part,
3f the state where water from the arte star
wallu ho had r~o,. cfun a xho.