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

rate the mill. A gauge registering up
% $50 pounds to the square inch was at
aached to the well, and the needle
turned slowly around until it reached
he $50 mark, when, Of course, 1t had to
stop. How much more IT. would have
registered Is not known, and the en-
tct pressure cannot be ascertained un-
til a larger gauge is secured. Tho
mammoth artesian well Of the local
electric light company, having a flow
Of more than 1000 gallons per minute,
develops a pressure of less than 100
pounds per square inch, and still has
more than sufficient force 10 run a
creamery, in addition to the electric
light plant.
w. r. 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
an extent sufficient to show that it can
BE proftably worked. and numerous
tests show that the stone is equal to the
pest Bavarian product. A company has
oeen organized to develop and work the
stone, which includes a number OF well
known Omaha men, among the number
Aaron ]. Klopp, Charles klopp, Frank
Carpenter, NJ. II. Redfeld and +. w.
s'oh AANN1s - y ~ 1fF-
his deposit may be judged from the
fact that the best quality Of Bavarian
stone commands from 20 70 20 cents per
pound. All the photographic stone now
IN use comes from a single quarry and
the supply is 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 find further IL
i~ustration.
Ii is not safe 10 leave young babies in
exposed places In the Black Hills. This
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 befOr~
she was startled by a crash of broken
glass. Rushing to the window she found
one pane broke in and ugh upon a
splinter of glass in its death agony a
large hawk of the blue wing variety.
The child was unframed, though COW
cred with fragments of broken glass.
The hawk, one of the largest of its
species, would undoubtedly have killed
the child had ii not been for the pro-
:ecting window light.
The drilling company that is sinking
he government artesian well near the
north end of Lake Andes is making good
progress with the work. Congress APP
propriated S., 900 for the sinking of one
~ more wells in that vicinity, and the
1rillers are now far enough along with
the work on the first we'll to express
The opinion hat the appropriation will
be sufficient to sink another well. Fro.
present indications the lake will fill up
again in the spring when the snow
nelts, and the wells will then furnish
.lough 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 Fl. Ryan, secretary. And for the
Ragged Top Gold Mining company at
Deadwood, S. D., with a capital stock
of 81, $50, 900; incorporators, Donald A.
Mcpherson, r. n. Ogden and William
l.. Mclaughlin Of Deadwood, John Gray
Of Terraville and John Blatchford OF
Terry.
Thomas S. Gender, who shot and
killed r. j.. ~Illingsworth in a restau-
rant at Devils Lake, n. D., a short tim
ago, Is a free man. At his preliminary
examination the evidence was conclu-
sive that the act was done in self de-
Tense. Conder vas held, however, and
bail fixed at $4,000. Mr.. Gender re-
manned in Jail, although his friends vol
unteered to furnish the bail. The case
was taken before the grand jury, but no
indictment was found
Seventy-fve Fort Totten Indians, re-
It. . - NIAs. ftA - IL. %
Standing Rock, were caught in i big
storm at the Hawks Nest, near Car
ington. over forty of their ponies died
from hunger and a portion of their sup
plies a to be abandoned until Agent
Ralph Hall sent relief teams and
sleighs to their assistance. Until the
teams reached them the Indians
camped in the snow in their thin sum.
mer teepees.
BY the purchase of more land the
Carpenter irrigated farm, near Puk-
wanna, now contains a total of eight
quarter sections. which adjoin each 9TH
er. This farm is 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 Sah Aoaa Va - Iestk ~ 49,
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 that
there are !, ZOO, 600 ton In the deposit In
Two Bit gulch, lying in a vein five feet
thick.
Governor Sheldon has appointed OF
the board Of dental examiners at Pierre.
s. D., T. +. Straight OF DeSmet, for five
years from March 16, 1897, and w. o.
Robinson Of Parker, for the ~unexpired
term of w. II. Brown, removed from the
state, whose term expires March 16,
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
homestead proofs, 2,S32 .83 acres: TWEEN
.y-five final timber culture proofs, 3,S1i
acres. Cash receipts for the month.
t414 SO.
Hay which found few buyers at s;
a ton at Miller before winter set In
now sells for 81.
Charles c. Canaan, a prominent farmer
at Chamberlain, q. D., committed sui.
eide by both hanging and shooting him.
SELF. lie was q single man anu came
from Calliope, Ia, where he home
steaded.
There are 400 cases Of measles among
the Indians and half breeds on the res
ervation near Rolla, N. d.. The disease
mas spread thence into the town and Is
now affecting the white children In
large numbers.
DIR. Pyle, a pioneer settler and builder
Of Miller, s. d., died at the z of "a
gears.
The Indian bureau has let the con.
tract for sinking a six-inch artesiar
well at Lower Brule agency. $. d. Wa
ter from the well will be used for fire
protection and domestic purposes.
Jasper l.. Eppard of Groton, convict
ed In the circuit court at Aberdeen, 3.
D., of disposing of m~ortgaged property.
has been sentenced to ten months In the
p~enitentiary.
Wolves are quite numerous again In
Hand county. but they do not attack
stock as they can feed upon an occa-
sional frozen carcass on the prairies.