Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1894-04-14
DAKOTA.

A colony Of forty-eight Russian emil
grants from Odessa, Russia, have settled
in the vicinity OF Eureka.
Major w. w. Anderson, formerly In
dian agent at Crow Creek and Lower
Brule agencies, expects to purchase 300 or
400 head Of cattle this spring to enlarge
his herd in Jackson county.
The grand jury at Pierre returned
three indictments for murder OF white
men against White Face Horse, Sioux
Indian, for murders committed on the
Pine Ridge reservation in February, 1873
He plead not guilty to all three charges
and his case goes over to next term Ihe
prisoner was wounded at the time he did
-he killing and lost leg.
Considerable enthusiasm - being
shown in athletics among the students OF
the college at Brookings. An attempt
is being made TO organize the State luter'
collegiate Athletic association. and IL Is
expected that series OF games oi oofh
foot ball and base ball will soon be ar
ranged, In which the various college
organizations in the state will take part.
Governor Sheldon has reappointed DR.
ID. w. Robinson member of the state
board of health There was lively con-
test over the appointment, but the atio'
pathcs of the state finally united for Roo'
inson. thus defeating the homeopathics.
w H. Jordan OF Sioux Falls and Il. Nj.
Finnerud of Watertown were appointed
on the state board OF regents to succeed
Ward and Mcintyre, who have resigned
The threats of Wyoming cattlemen to
drive all flocks of sheep out OF that state
are having their effect, as during the n2Ss'
few weeks fully 10000 shcns nave oeen
driven from the WySSs"R ranges W tue
-wesv-rm South Dakota. Re-
ports from the big Laramie section Of
Wyoming say small bunches OF sheep
headed eastward NAV be seen along all
roads leading to South Dakota.
The supreme court has confirmed the
conviction OF Michael Dealv OF Rolla, n,
D., who was indicted in July, 1893, for
completely in fraudulent land entries In
the Turtle Mountain reservation. Dealy
was fined 8, 900 and thirteen months inn
prisonment in the South Dakota peniten-
tlarv. Four other men were indicted
with Dealv, and II is understood that still
other indictme nts are to follow
The most imposing monument to the
memory of the dead veterans OF the late
war that has ever been erected In the
state of South Dakota Is that now being
constructed in Rose Hill cemetery in
Yankton by the Women's Relief Corps OF
that city One hundred tons OF Sioux
Falls granite will be used in its con-
struction. + will be % feet in height aud
from its commanding position 1t will be
seen for miles around.
The South Dakota Irrigation associa.
tion is in correspondence with Major
Powell, Judge Evans, Colonel Hay and
others. with view to having them pres.
ent at a convention in the interests OF
artesian wells and irrigation projects in
this state. The gathering will likely be
held In Huron the latter part OF May or
June. These gentlemen while at the
Omaha convention expressed willing
ness 10 attend such gathering In South
Dakota If arranged for.
Colonel Young, the Coxey leader at
Woonsocket, has received large mail OF
late, con tanning poetry and prose litera-
ture for the cause, but no cash up to date
a patent medicine firm In Nebraska has
written offering to furnish, free of charge,
a lot Of fine satin horse blankets for the
cavalry, with their advertisements dis.
PLAYED thereon. This offer has been de-
clined, and Colonel Young now announces
that only men with at least 500 each will
now be taken. He has extended the date
of departure to April g., and his regiment
will go by rail and join the main army
near Washington. The colonel says this
will keep out tramps and persons without
money who are likely to be In distress be.
fore reaching home.
Father Long. who for several years has
been familiar figure on the streets OF
Dell Rapids has been taken 10 the poor
farm at Sioux Falls. Father Long was
well educated man. at one time promi
nent minister in Iowa and was we'll of
financially His wife died some years
ago, and his children, II is said, harassed
the old man until he decided to them Il val
liable property, the family home, upor
the understanding that he would be cared
for in his old age. As soon as the trans
fer was made, however, his unfilial chill
dren commenced a system of abuse and
neglect Of their father which practically
froze him ont Of the family, and broken
spirited and miserab BILE for the past ten
years he has eked out a bare existence,
sleeping in sheds and under sidewalks,
and now in his last days Is compelled to
go to the poor farm. His children are
still in Iowa in good circumstances and
enjoying the use OF the old homestead
Ever since the opening to settlement OF
the Sioux reservation four years ago the
settlers who located on the ceded lands
lying within the boundaries of Gregory
county have been clamoring to have their
lands surveyed. Gregory county joins on
Nebraska and for years there has been
dispute between the authorities of that
st tte and South Dakota as to the location
of the line marking the boundary between
the two states in that section. 1t Is now
learned officially that pending the settle.
ment Of this suit it will be impossible to
survey the lands in Gregory county.
Since tho opening Of the lands to settle.
ment the settlers have remained there
without knowing the boundaries
of their land or being able to
file homestead entries upon the
claims. They have simply been
squatters, and will remain squatters until
such time as the lands are surveyed, and
then some Of them no have been on the
land since the opening Of the Sioux reser.
walton may And that they are located upon
school sections or other land not subject
to settlement.
Seth Bullock OF Deadwood says tha the
dow of the Belle Fourche artesian we'll
was increased to $50, gallons per day
by the explosion OF thirty pounds of dy
Mantle in the sandstone strata.
The city council Of Hot Springs has
been asked to grant q franchise to J. NJ
Metcalf and associates of Omaha for an
electric street railway through the prin.
cipal streets OF the city, covering about
two miles.
Sneak thieves broke into the depot al
Alma at noon, while the agent was at din
ner. and secured about $15 in bills, but
left lot of silver In the cash drawer.
Judge Campbell has rendered his decis.
ION in the Huron waterworks case, decid
ing against the city in all points pre-
sented, and making the injunction pro
cured by the waterworks company perma
nent The cass will be carried to the
supreme court.
Alex Ross, the ex-cashier of the First