Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1897-04-17
SATURDAY, APRIL II, 1897.
No snow here.
Today ends the lenten season.

No snow here.
Today ends the lenten season.
Yours truly, n. Y. Bankrupt Store.
Location Certificates for sale at this
Office.
Circuit court convenes at Rapid City
next Tuesday, Judge Gardiner presid-
ing.
Don't fail to see jolly Della Pringle
and her superb company on the 23rd
AMI oath. They are great.
The Missouri river was higher at
Owlha on the 18th inst, than at any
time during the past sixteen years.
The opinion appears to be generally
entertained at Lead that the Elkhorn
will extend its line Of road into that
place the coming summer.
Chris Jensen, the well known Hot
Springs stage and livery man, has de-
cided to build Il new livery stable in
Deadwood in the near future.
The cake sale" announced by the
ladies of tho Holy Cross Guild for this
evening at John M%cFadden's grocery
store, has been indefinitely postponed.
Remember the d~ates-Jolly Della
PrinGle at Garlock's opera house Friday
and Saturday nights, April 23.4, and q
charming matinee on Saturday after
noon.
Half fare TO Chicago. Any one wish
ing to go TO Chicago in the next week
or ten days can secure a ticket at half
price by addressing II. G. Wilson, Ore
Vile, S. ID.
Hank Beaman, one of the old timers
of Deadwood, who has for several years
been located at M~issoula, Montana, is
reported as being on his death bed at
that place.
The Black Fills Union Of Women's
clubs held its annual meeting at Lead
on the 10Th inst, and was largely at
tended. delegates being present from
nearly all of the towns Of the Hills.
Best calicos are now offered for sale
at the N. y. Bankrupt Store.
Judge Gaffey, of Pierre, will V
court in Deadwood on the Goth inst,
and will also be in Belle Fourche on
the 24th, where he will try Yokum,
charged with the murder Of Jim Barnes
about a year ago.
The next annual reunion of the sol
diers and sailors Of the Black Hills
will occur at Belle Fourche sometime in
June. A strong effort will be made to
make the occasion the most successful
ever held by this organization.
Quite a number of the delegates in at
tendance at the meeting of the Baptist
Young Peoples Union visited Sylvan
Lake on Wednesday, and were greatly
pleased with the charming scenery
which envirous that popular resort.
A late Winnipeg dispatch says the
Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Rail
road company has purchased the Leth
bridge and Great Falls narrow guage
line, of 200 miles in length, and will
change the same to q broad guase road.
A special Pullman palace car, attached
to the regular Il. 81 NJ. passenger train,
containing about thirty members OF the
Union Hill Mining company, passed
through this place OH Saturday, en- route
to Galena to inspect their property at
that place.
An Easter discourse will be delivered
at the Congregational church on next
Sabbath morning, and in the evening
the pastor will speak on the Christian
Endeavor movement throughout the
world. Everyone cordially invited to
attend the above services.
A. G. Barnes, better known az Ned
Barnes. a former catcher in the Custer
base ball club, and well known to many
of our readers, died at Sal. Lake City on
Sunday of hemorrhage of The lungs.
His remains were taken to his old home
in Lincoln, Nebraska, for burial.
Last Tuesdays Deadwood Times says:
Major M. Garland, who attempted to
kill himself two weeks ago Saturday
night by shooting himself in the left
breast, does not want to die now but is
as anxious to live as anybody. lie has
so far recovered as to be out upon the
streets.
The Deadwood Times says: ~. w.
Mcintyre Of Custer, who sustained the
amputation of his leg a few days ago, is
eonvalescing nicely. Chief of Police
Donovan was calling upon the old time
friends Of Mr.. Mcintyre yesterday in
behalf and by 8 o'clock had collected
$685."
They are still actually giving away
,ome goods at the \. y. Bankrupt Store.