Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1894-04-21
DAKOTA.
Miss Lizzie flaming has been appointt
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AnOtNef scAooi bUituihS Witt be ertS'''
in Yankton to accommodate the rapidly
increasing number OF pupils.
The next annual meeting OF the Sout!
Dakota Pharmaceutical association wi,
be held at Huron in August.
There Is a prospect that telephone wire
will be put up between Sioux Falls All
Dell Rapids and Sioux Falls and Salem
f. j. Coleman won the oratorical con.
test held In Sioux Falls TO represent tnI
university in the state oratoricai contest
which will be held May Is.
Mrs. Ole Mortyet, wife of prominent
farmer living one mile north of Wester
Vile took dose of Paris Green to enc
her domestic troubles She succeeded
A convention will be held at Huror
about the 1st OF June to further project
look ing to An early development of "a prac.
tical system Of irrigation by artesiaL
water.
DR., F. f. Spaulding of Watertown has
been appointed receiver for the Water.
town and Lake Kampeska railroad. 1t is
IA suburban route aud runs ont TO Lake
kampeska.
Mrs Sterner, a German woman living
four miles from White committed suicide
by saturating her clothes with kerosene
and setting them on fire. She lived about
two hours
J. A. Ward, chairman of the democratic
state central committee, announces that
there will be a meeting Of the committee
In Sioux Falls April 25 to appoint tho
time aud ..,~-~~ ,,.ouaDIe that the conven-
a. l., l. I - y-,
J. L. North collector OF internal reve,
nue., has issued permit for a 500 barrel
brewery at Yankton Mr. North says the
government has nothing TO do with the
state liquor laws and that all he has to
look out for Is 10 see that the brewery
conforms with the United States laws.
Meade county officials have accepted
plans and specifications for the construe-
tlon of "A new court house at Sturgls. the
county seat The new building will be
S0xll0 feet, two stories and a basement,
the main building to be Of brick and the
whole to cost in the neighborhood Of
S20,00o.
A settler In the ceded Sioux lands
writes that stockmen on the ceded lands
will commence TO round up cattle about
May l. Notwithstanding there has been
more snow in South Dakota than any sea.
son since lssS, horses, cattle and sheep
on the reservation are In better condition
this spring than any year since the peo'
pc began to settle there
During a trial in the police justice cour,
in Pierre opposing counsel, two prominent
attorneys of the town, endeavored TO set
tie the case II la Corbett style. They were
separated In the court room but renewed
host,lities again on the street, but before
any blood was shed were again separated
The party on trial was accused of shoot.
ing the window lights out of Il house Of
prostitution and was found guilty.
\ cave, rivaliug Ia magnitude tie
famous Wind cave, has been discovered
about six miles northwest from Hot
Springs, Two capitalists have interested
themselves in the enterprise of develop
ing IL, and will send teams and tallyho
coaches In the near future to haul summer
guests to IT, The rushing wind is greater
in it than az Wind cave, and shows fully
as large AN underground area
Sons seventy-fve members of the
Western South Dakota Stock Growers
association met here today to arrange
annual round ups. The dates for the
round ups TO begin were fixed as follows
Lower Belle Fourche, May ~ South Side,
May 10; Upper Belle Fourche, May 20 +;
Upper Moreau, June 10; Lower Moreau,
May 5: Grand River, May 25; Box Elder,
May Is; Elk Creek, May 10; Midd,
T,,I,, 4 Do r.,
II. Inquiries among stockmen from az
sections develop the fact that the losses
from storms ibis winter have been greatly
exaggerated. In the region east of tho
Black Hills the losses were very light,
those In Wyoming being much heavier.
NJ. c. Fosness, government postal in.
spector, who has Leen SO successful In
discovering offenders against the postal
laws and bringing them 10 justice, re
Gently discovered a clever scheme where.
by prisoner in the peuitentiary at Sioux
Falls for four years would have been re.
leased at the end Of the second year if the
scheme had not been discovered by acct.
dent William Morton, Frask Williams
and James Moore were sent to the peui.
Tertiary for robb!ny the Orient postoiiice
Morton for four years and the others for
two years each. When entering the peni
tertiary Morton and Williams changed
names, which would naturally make Will
Jams terms four years ana Morton's two.
Mr. Fosness went up TO see Morton re.
garding the robbery. He called for Nor.
ton and the guard returned with Williams
A little inquiry revealed the plot and /,
was Immediately uncorked, much to the
chagrin OF the prisoners concerned The
plan was to get Morton out at the end OF
two years ami then Williams would claim
his own name, establish his identity and
secure his own liberty.
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