Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1896-12-26

pounds per uare inch, and stu mas
more han sufficient force 10 run a
In addition TO the electric
light plant.
w. X. Bond, a resident Of Custer city,
has discovered a large and valuable de-
oosIt OF photographic stone near Bingle
station. He has developed a quarry to
IN extent sufficient to show that 1t can
pc prohtably worked, and numerous
| :ests show that the stone Is equal TO the
)est Bavarian product. A company has
seen organized to develop and work tho
stone, which includes a number or wen
known Omaha men, among the number
Aaron j. Klopp, Charles Klopp, FRANK
Carpenter, NJ. II. Redield and II. w.
Bartlett. The importance and value or
his deposit may be judged from the
fact that the best quality OF BaVarian
stone commands from 20 to 70 cents per
pound. All the photographic stone now
In use comes from a single quarry ana
the supply f. limited. If the expecta-
lions OF the Custer county parties are
realized a new supply will be opened
and the wealth and variety of Black
Hills mineral resources find further H.
lustratlon.
1t Is not safe TO leave young babies In
exposed places In the Black Hills. mi
fact was demonstrated recently at the
Ella mine shortly after Mrs. Ben Bow
man, a miners wife, had placed a high
chair containing her young infant near
a window. She had hardly turned her
back and resumed her ironing hefur-
she was startled by a crash OF . *
glass. Rushing to the window she found
me pane broken in and caught upon a
splinter OF glass in it's death agony a
large hawk Of the blue wing variety.
The child was unframed, though COW
ared with fragments of broker glass.
The hawk, one OF the largest of Its
species, would undoubtedly have killed
the child had it not been for the pro-
:ecting window light.
The drilling company that Is sinking
he government artesian well near the
lorth end Of Lake Andes is making good
progress with the work. Congress APP
propriated 81. 900 for the sinking OF one
- more wells In hat vicinity, and the
irillers are now far enough along with
the work on the first we'll to express
The opinion that the appropriation will
be sufficient To sink another well. Fro.
present Indications the lake will I'll NJ
Nbhlll w ~ -
pclts, and the wells will then furnish
Nough water to keep It full.
Articles OF Incorporation have been
filed for the Fremont Creamery com
pany In Fremont township, Moody
county, $. d., with a capital stock OF
5000; James A. Rowell, chairman
John II. Ryan, secretary. And for the
Ragged Top Gold Mining company al
IAa.laL1 - ~ Nuith "A nnnitn1 stack
Of 81. $50, 900: incOrporators, Donald A.
Mcpherson, II. n. ogden and William
l.. Mclaughlin Of Deadwood. John Gray
IF Terraville and John Blatchford OF
Terry.
Thomas S. Gender, who shot and
killed X. j. Illingsworth In a restau-
rant at Devils Lake, n. d., a short time
ago, is a free man. At his preliminary
examination the evidence was conclu-
| slve that the act was done i'm self de-
Tense. Gender ~as held, however, ana
bail fixed at $4,000. Mr.. Gender re-
NAMED I'm jail, although his friends vol
unteered to furnish the bail. The case
was taken before the grand jury, but no
indictment was found.
Seventy-hve Fort Tottcn Indians, re-
turning from "A visit to their friends AT
Standing Rock. were caught in Il bis
storm at the Hawks Nest, near Car
ington. over forty Of their ponies died
from hunger and a portion of their sup
plies had to be abandoned until Agent
Ralph Hall sent relief teams and
Sleighs to their assistance. Until the
teams reached them the Indians
camped i'm the snow I'm their thin sum-
mer teepees.
BY the purchase OF more lane the
Carpenter irrigated farm. near Puk-
wana, now contains a total OF eight
quarter sections, which adjoin each oth'
er. This farm il owned by a wealthy
resident Of Chicago. who proposes next
season to show exactly what can be
done in the way of extnsive irrigation
in South Dakota.
A carload Of mineral paint from the
Black Hills will be ground up and dis'
trlbuted over the country In small
quantities for the purpose of giving
"a practical test. 1t Is estimated thaI
there are 1000, 900 tons in the deposit In
Two Bit gulch, lying I'm a vein five feet
thick.
Governor Sheldon har appointed on
the board of dental examiners at Pierre.
s. d., Il. +. Straight OF DeSmet, for five
years from March Is, 1897. and w. O..
Of Parker, for the unexpired
term Of w. II. Brown, remoyed from the
state, whose term expires March 10,
1897.
The business at the United States
and office at Aberdeen for the month oi
November consisted of fourteen home.
stead entries, 2,240 acres: nineteen final
.oo..anl p,,Nco y go 90 anrAg' wan
.y-fvc final timber culture proofs. 3,SU
acres. Cash receipts Tor the month
t414. 81.
Hay which found few buyers at 81
a ton az Miller before winter set in
now sells Cor 81.
Charles c. Canan, a prominent farmei
at Chamberlain, =. D., committed sui
eide by both hanging and shooting him
self. He was a single man and came
from Calliope, Ia, where he home
steadcd.
There are 400 cases of measles among
the Indians and half breeds on the res
rrvation near Rolla. n. ID. The disease
has spread thence into the town and i,
now affecting the white children ir
large numbers.
DIR. Pyle, a pioneer settler anu bullu"I
Of Miller, $. D., died at the age of %
years.
The Indian bureau has let the con.
tract for sinking a six-inch artesiar
well at Lower Brule agency, :. ID. Wa
ter from the well will be used for fire
protection and domestic purposes.
Jasper J.. Eppard Of Groton, convict
ed i'm the circuit court at Aberdeen. ;.
D., of disposing Of m~ortgaged property.
has been sentenced to ten months In the
penitentlary.
Wolves are quite numerous again In
Hand county, but they do not attack
stock as they can feed upo an occa-
sional frozen carcass on the prairies.
Fred S~turtevant, ar old resident at
Tyndall. s. d., was accidentally pois'
oned by taking horse medicine.
Ensign Bergman OF Sioux Falls has
decided to open a campaign against sin
In WATERFOWL. WATERFOWL has not yet
enjoyed the luxury of a Salvation army,
but the Sioux Falls Leader says they
will soon know all about 1t.
In certain parts of China the young
women year their hair In a long, single