Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1914-06-06

Employees of the Lead postoffice paid
tribute to Postmaster George H. Grace
who retired June / in favor of Frank
e. Fisher, democrat, by a banquet at
the handsome new postofice building.
Both the old and new postmaster were
present and the employees took accession
to express their appreciation of Mr..
Grace's conduct of the office during the
past four years and regret at his leaving
public life.
The Little Missouri irrigation project
which proposes to irrigate 10000 acres
near Alzada, Mont, is now under way,
work to commence this month. 1t will
cost about 81 per acre per year for the
next ten years at the end of which the
cost of the entire project will be defray-
ed and the only expense will be for up.
keep, etc. 1t is expected that both the
Milwaukee and Northwestern railways
will run lines to the land.
Resolutions were adopted May 25,
1914, by the Hot Springs Commercial
club, urging the State Game Commission
to purchase the Philip buffalo herd and
place same in the 60, ,000-acre state game
preserve near Custer, inasmuch as pro.
visions have already been made for
stocking said preserve with all the other
big game, and for the reason that South
Dakota should retain this buffalo herd
which is the finest in the world and
numbers about 400 head.
To seek more primitive forms of the
horse an expedition will set out from
Peabody museum at Yale university
shortly for the Bad Lands of South Da-
kota in the Rosebud Indian reservation
and will later move to the big Bad Lands
further west. Previous expeditions
working in Texas brought to light many
approximately perfect skeletons of the
early horse, and according to the party's
announcement, the search will be main
ly for the three-toed hipparian, proto-
hippus and mesohippus.
What is believed to be the remains of
the balloon in which Prof S. A. Andree
ascended from Danes island near
Spitzbergen, July II, 1897, in an attempt
to reach the north pole, have been
found in forest in eastern Siberia, ac-
cording to a message received at the
Swedish foreign Office from Yakutz. In
yestieaton of the reported discovery
has been ordered by the Swedish gov
ernment. The arctic explorer was ac-
companied by two scientists and after
leaving Danes island no report was re-
ceived from the party.
On the farm of John Witek, north OF
Tabor, has been discovered freak we'll
which sucks air instead of emitting an
outward pressure. 1t is a tubular well
and was drilled last fall. From the first
the we'll had great deal of water in it,
but recently the water entirely disap.
peared, and now, when hand is placed
over the opening at the top of the pip.
ing a strong suction Of air is felt. The
freak well is 230 feet deep and when
first drilled contained $50 feet of water
What has become of the water is ques'
ton which is puzzling the average lay
man as we'll as many expert geologists
| What causes the suction also is a com
plete mystery.
Denver: Announcement is made to
day by local forestry officials that the
state of South Dakota is the first, falling
within the jurisdiction of the Denve
Office of the forest service, to take ad
vantage of the opportunities presented
for cooperative fire protection under th'
Weeks law. This announcement is mad
following the consummation of agree
ment between the state forester of So
OAK, and the secretary of agriculture
for the mutual protection of certain
forested watersheds on state lands ad
joining the Harney National Forest
Under the terms of the agreement tn,
government and state each agree tC
appropriate certain funds for carryin,
on the work for the period of one year
and to furnish federal and state men t.
take such action as is deemed necessar,
for the proper protection Of the area il
question. Supervision of the work will
it is said, be mutually shared by tn,
state forester and the federal fores
service.
You never have very hard time try
ing to convince man that he needs