Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1914-10-03
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Richard Blackstone has been appoint
ed superintendent of the Homestake
property to succeed the late Thos. J.
Grier.
President Wilson has appointed Mrs.
Annette Abbott Adams, of San Fran
cisco, assistant United States attorney
there. She is the first woman in the
United States to occupy such position.
DR.. John F. Dustin, a well known
physician Of Deadwood, died at St..
Joseph's hospital Sunday evening as a
result of injuries received when his au-
tomoble was wrecked near Whitewood
early that morning. The auto went over
a ten.foot embankment while going at a
high rate of speed, turning turtle and
falling upon him.
Over 10000 people attended the funer-
al of Thomas Johnson Grier, late super
intendent of the Homestake Mining
company, it being the largest funeral
eyer held in the Black Hills. All busi-
ness in Lead and Deadwood ceased, and
for the first time iu thirty years every
department of the Homestake shut down
completely. The funeral was in charge
of the Lead Masonic lodge.
Mrs. S. N. Moses died at Lead Sunday
night. Her death was caused by an
abcess in the head resulting from an
liberated tooth. Her maiden name was
Attra Beedle, and she was born at Avoca,
H., in 1870. In 1877 she came with her
father to the Black Hills, and in 1887
she was married to Samuel n. Moses.
She is survived by her husband, two
daughters and one son. Also a sister,
Mrs. r. w. Palmer of Hill City.
Attorney General Royal C. Johnson
has filed in the circuit court of Lawrence
county two suits against the esta te of
the late Kirk q. Phillips and the sure
ties on the bond which he furnished the
state treasurer, to cover his two terms
in that Office, from January l, 1895 to
December 1898, period of four years.
Two actions are brought, one for $25,
$3.50 interest covering his first term of
two years and another for $26, ,496.34
covering his second term, or total Of
SOL, ,S92.O4.
In the presence of bis two children, a
girl of five and boy of 8, David Vianne
of Lead killed his wife and then shot
himself to death between the hours of
and 8 o'clock Tuesday night, Mrs.
Vianne was shot in the throat, and then
through the head, the entire top of her
skull was blown away by the second
shot. Vianne then reloaded the shot,
gun and placed the muzzle of the gun in
his mouth and pulled the trigger with
his toe. The entire left side of his face
was blown away and part of his head.
Death in both cases was instantaneous.
The state immigration department has
been securing the best possible estimates
as to various crop acreages of the state
through reports from the counties, most
of which have sent in reports. These
figures while they cannot be guaranteed d
absolutely as accurate, are not far from
the real figures, and show that the corn
acreage of the state for 1914, is 1896 .592,
of which 464, 800 is new acreage. The
wheat acreage is 4,049,792, of which S5,.
74l acres are winter wheat, the rest
spring wheat. Oats take up 1874, 1857
acres; barley 97s,6O2 acres; rye l44,594
acres, and spelz 1919, 794 acres.
Rapid City.-On mission to secure a
contract from the English government
to supply 10000 horses for cavalry and
artillery purposes, F. R. Fl. Hewlett, OF
this city, is now on his way to England.
Mr.. Hewlett expects to supply the hor-
ses from western South Dakota, and finds
little difficulty in getting them. He has
close connections with prominent Eng
lish officials. and during the Boer wal
supplied horses from Nebraska to the
English, sending them to South Africa
He is being backed in his present enter.
prise by Clay Oliver, the well known
Chicago merchant, and st. Lonis firm