Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1894-12-08
DAKOTA.

Of the state. The case Is that of L. ;. Ellis
worth, a Hot Springs merchant, whose
assessed valuation of personal property
gas raised $1,000 by the board of county
commissioners sitting IA n board of equal
.ation. Mr.. Ellsworth resisted payment OF
he tax upon the $1,000 added by the board
md not upon the amount for which hi,
property was returned by the assessor
The case attracted much attention, as
other merchants in Hot Springs and also
n other cities in the state suffered SINH
.arly, Judge Gardner rendered Judgment
'or the plaintiff, holding that the action OF
.he county commissioners was "manifestly
erroneous and void in law, and the same is
reversed. annulled and altogether held foi
laught.'
L. A. French of Chamberlain has just
finished his contract with the government
At the Brule agency, seven miles above
Fort Thompson, Crow Creek agency, on
he opposite side of the river. Mr.. French's
contract was for SOB 500. The buildings
lumber twenty-eight and cost the govern
ncnt 10000 and are a far better grade
han was ever constructed at the agency
before. They consist of agents residence,
office, issue house, two warehouses, barns
blacksmith and carpenter shop, traders
store residences. An Episcopal church
costing $1,000 was built under the manage
mcnt of Bishop Hare, Of which Luke
Walker, the Indian preacher, is rector.
Work has been abandoned on the eight
inch artesian well being pat down by the
Huron Waterworks ompan because the
l,1I,a, lat .,,,.l. ..I.. H.. l.,Is,,.. -
De granite at a depth of over 500 feet. A
\ splendid flow of water had been found
before the granite was touched, bat the
pressure was of little value. This, how
.vas. h~- continued to inoraaaa and IL now
l26 pounds to the square inch, with indica-
ions that it will continue to grow
tronger
Marshal Gaines OF Little Rock, Ark, re-
ceived a letter from Marshal Otto Peemill-
'r Of Deadwood the other day. asking
pointers ON how TO hang a man. He wants
10 know ii there is any rules as to the
thickness or quality of rope to be used. He
sonclude, by saying that If Marshal
Saines will reply he will reciprocate at
some future time. He is to hang an In
Ian on December y.
The Burlington road has comp leted a
spur to the Crown Rim group of mines,
situate near Elk mountain in the Black
Hills country. There is now over 100
5ons on the dump that will average sl1 to
ils per ton. As soon as the railroad COM
panv furnishes cars regular shipments will
be made 10 the cyanide mill in Deadwood.
Rev. w. ii, Jordan, presiding elder of
the Sioux Falls district of Methodist
churches, who was sent to New York by
the South Dakota conference as a delegate
TO the general missionary committee of
The church, writes home that South Da-
kota's application for 81, 600 has been
granted in full.
James Shipley and Thomas Lyle, prom
ineut farmers and stock raisers OF Sully
county, We're brought to Pierre for eXami-
nation on a charge of fencing and using
public domain. They waived examination
and were bound over 10 appear before the
Cnited States grand jury.
Beginning December II and continuing
three days will he held the sixth annual
meeting of the South Dakota Horticul-
tural society at Nermillion. In connection
II III nittNliiS tHNit III bt a ldIEt ulS-
play Of dried, canned and preserved South
Dakota grown fruits.
New territory is being opened up daily
in Wind cave, Hot Springs, and already
over ninety miles have been explored. re
vealing curious and beautiful specimens
never before found in any cave in the
world.
The Northwestern road has agreed to
ship into ten different counties of South
Dakota, free of freight, $50 cars of soft
coal, which is to be paid for by the coun-
lies ios IL Lsssas Of IL nasAs $780,
victed at Waterloo of the murder Of Jerry
Kelly on December last WAS sentenced to
the penitentiary for life at hard labor.
The Fort Sully reservation will be
turned over TO the interior department. 1t
embraces %, s94 acres and will in due time
be opened for settlement.
The Evans hotel and bath house ada
,ent thereto, Hot Springs, have been leased
s)r five years to Dinner Bros. of Topeka.
Five million dollars worth of cattle nave
been shipped to eastern markets from the
Black Hills this fall.
Flandreau's city waterworks nave been
started up and the machinery is working
satisfactorily. ,
Ex-Governor and Mrs. Mellette will
spend the greater part Of the winter in
Indiana.
Chris Sole, a resident of Sioux Falls for
twenty-three years, dropped dead of apo
plexy.
The Gem theater, a notorious resort o
Deadwood, built in 1879, was destroyed by
fire.
The Kendall Banking company at How
ard has closed its doors.
According to a report brought back