Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1896-10-10
SOUTH DAKOTA.

It is claimed that the gold product OF
he Black Hills for he present year Will
y SO, 600, 000, witch a probability or
ceachinc $l2 .000, 600. The estimate Is
,asgd on the product Of the mines now
n operation for the past eight months.
which have averaged $4,000 tons per
month IT siliceCus ores from the BAD
Mountain section and $50 tons Of the
came character of ore from yellow
nrcck camp. and the properties viii
aggregate for the year in round num-
bcrs. $50. 900 tons, principally by the
Hcmestake and associate companies.
An ore chute estimated to b. worth
cot less than 81. 200, 900. has been struck
II the Fannie, Ruby Basin, near Dead
wood. The ere averages $50 To the ton,
md Is 100 feet wide, extending nearly
across the property. 1t will be handled
II the Deadwood and Delaware smelter,
al DeadWood. 10 which it belongs. This
smelter is now handling $1,000 tons Of
pre- a month. The mCnthly production
Is $40, 600.
After an all day argument on an al
tentative writ Of m~andamus, the SUI
creme court made the writ peremtory,
ordering the commissioners of Roberts
county to submit to the people at the
November election the question of II
" seat removal. The question has been
aotly fought from the start and means
political complications in that county
his fall.
\ large barn belonging TO Richard
owen, a prominent farmer living seven
miles south of Britton, was destroyed
by fire. together with over nifty tons or
nay. The stock was safely removed
from the building. A little son, only 4
)r 5 years Old was playing with
matches In the barn and set the build
ng on fire.
The annual conference Of Presby-
.erian and Congregational churches held
IN the Yankton reservation, near Green
-o~Ovor. TIE Dano-
as, Nebraska and Montana were well
represented. Services were held In Sioux
and English. There are about 800 In
iian voters in Sisseton.
BY the explosion of a threshing ma
'hine boiler nine miles west of Millbank
he engineer, Bird Shannon, and the
fireman, Hiram Franks, were instant
y killed and the water carrier, Frank
Manning, seriously injured.
The fifteenth annual meeting OF the
3aptist Ministerial union, the Baptist
Young Peoples union and the South Da-
Sota Baptist convention was held in the
Baptist church at Huron. A large at
tendance was present.
Henry Gregg and Lawrence Fowler,
the boys who stole the mail pouch at
Blunt We're arrested at Deadwood and
taken to Pierre and sentenced to six
months each in the Hughes county Jail.
The South Dakota conference Of the
Free Methodist church closed its four
teenth annual session at Beresford. The
attendance was large. Rev. Harpel OF
Mitchell was elected presiding elder.
Reports show hat a far larger amount
IF hay han usual has been put up in the
the ranges west OF Fort Pierre, and
whatever the winter may be, there Is
but little danger Of short feed.
Cattle shipments from the Black
Hills ranges have begun. over 1000
head were shipped In three days from
the towns OF Brennan and Belle
Eourche.
Ferdinand Keno. living west OF War
Ter, lost his barn, forty tons of hay and
sixteen stacks of grain by fire, sup
posed to have been started by children.
Hog cholera has carried off a large
number of porkers in the vicinity OF
Yankton. No way has been devised to
:heck the spread OF the scourge.
A great deal OF grain is now being
marketed at Centerville and elevator
men are kept busy most OF the time
weighing and unloading.
A cooperative creamery has been
started at Castalia. over 400 COWS have
been obtained and the number will
'oo be doubled.
A body of galena has been struck in
The Iron Hill mine at Deadwood, which
'uns so per cent lead and 40 ounce silver
20 the ton.
,-A-uostoffice has been established at
NJ. Goodwin as postmaster.
The Presbyterians of Aberdeen have
decided to erect a church ediice TO cost
1000.
+. +. Jarrett, living near Mellette,
ost 800 bushels Of wheat by fire.
The trlstate fair held at Sioux Falls,
proved a grand success.
Mayor c. II. Enos of Lead Is dead.