text: SPSSfJl'-. ESP M -’fr.V.i. fW; «.> s 1-W" MUR* £ '*" Vjjfr, iLtif!'■<."■ T W >?"i 3*,*'• ;,£ I^HBUmhB CUSTER CHRONICLE Official Paper of Custer County. BATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1884. Chicago and North-Western R. R. Time of departure of Passenger Trains from Pierre, in effect 1882: Leave for Chicago and the East 7:30 a.m. L. S. BULLARD, Gen’l Agent. Pierre, Dakota. Societies, i. o. a. r. Pidelity Lodge of I. O. O. F. meets at the Court House at 7:30 p.m. Saturday evenings. J. C. Cana, W. C. T. C. K. Boyden, W. S. Catholic Church. Father Vigeant, visiting Pastor.—Morning on Sunday, July 6th, in Court House at 10:30 a.m. Methodist Church. Rev. H. A. James, Pastor.—Services in the M X Church every Sunday at 11 o’clock a.m, and 7:30 o’clock p.m. All are cordially invited. Sabbath School at 10 o'clock a.m. The "Bose" cigar at Stone’s. John Harris, foreman for Holden, was a visitor In Custer this week, Sam Moses and Charley Moore were up from the T ranch this week. Ed Lynch of Rapid was over and stopped a day or two with his Custer friends this week. Excavation for the new school house is progressing rapidly and the stone for the foundation being laid on the ground. Chas. Reder’s new barn, situated on the back end of the lot adjoining S. R. Shankland’s home lots is about finished and is one of the best in the city. The argument will be made before Judge Church at Deadwood today in the injunction case of the Shiedley Cattle company against Custer county. Vol. 1 No. 2 of the Jingo, a new illustrated paper published in New York and Boston and out in the interest of the republican party is on our table. McMullen tired his brick kiln this week so that the brick for the new school house will be ready for the walls before the masons are ready for the brick. Judge W. W. Bradley, J. S. Crooks, and Gus. M. Wood, of Spearfish, arrived by private conveyance Wednesday night and left on Thursday morning for Hot Springs. N. Atchison blurted his eight horse team for Sidney on Monday last for the purpose of freighting between that point and Custer. He carried out four passengers for Sidney. Capt. Haserodt’s new barn, now about finished, is the handsomest barn in the county. The Capt. is great on becoming improvements as the barn nicely sets off his beautiful homestead. Hon. O. Y. Hayslitt, Waterloo, Iowa, a member of the state legislature, keeps St. Jacobs Oil, the great pain-cure, on the family shelf, and says he considers it the greatest remedy ever used for bodily ailments. Isaac Clark was thrown from his horse yesterday morning and received a painful wound in his left leg below the knee in the breaking of the small bone. Dr. Flick succeeded in mending it up so that he will be around again in a few days. Divine Worship in the Congregational church Sunday at 11 o’clock a.m. by the pastor. In the evening, Rev. J. H. Phillips, of London, England, will officiate. The pastor earnestly requests a large attendance upon those services. Arthur Cusino Dill. Mr. J. B. Dickover went to Rock Springs on Sunday to meet his brother-in-law, N. D. Pool and Mr. Pool's mother. They arrived here Tuesday night. It is the intention of Mr. Pool to make his permanent residence here and enter into some kind of business. Thomas McLean, who, while the Penobscot was in operation, was one of their trusted employees but this summer has been prospecting for peace, has with his family moved into the house formerly occupied by Frank Bartel. With their residence among two more pupils are added to the school roll. Chamberlain Register: The C. M. & St. P. have again declined to open a wagon road direct to the Black Hills from Valentine. Whether the fact that Kimball, their engineer, is selecting a route through and beyond the Hills, and that the ties piled up along the line means an extension through the reservation or not we are entirely unable to say. On last Monday night the Democratic Central Committee met at the courthouse. Only four members, K. H. Flynn, Thos. I. Wheeler, John X. Code, and Joe Kubler being present. E. H. Flynn was made permanent chairman and Joe Kubler permanent secretary. There not being sufficient time to call a county convention to elect delegates to the Sioux Falls Falla Convention, the committee appointed S. M. Booth and D. W. Flick as such delegates. The call of the convention and primaries for the election of delegates to the district convention. Jack Bird, like the old man says of Cleveland, seems to be an object of destiny, but Jack's is of a different turn from Cleveland. No sooner does he fairly recover from the severe accident received last winter by the splitting in two of his foot than he is again prostrated by one that seems more serious and is likely to lay him up for a time. While bedding down the cattle at the Cross Ranch on Monday night, together with a number of the other boys, Jack stradled his horse and attempted to run in some of the cattle but had not ridden far when his horse stepped with both front feet into a hole, this threw Jack forward and the horse on top of him. At first, he thought his back was broken but raised up and satisfied himself that it was not. No sooner had he raised than he sank back on the ground exhausted. By his long absence, the other boys thought strange and went out to look for him, finding him in the above condition. A messenger was immediately sent for Dr. Flick, who in company with F. O. Burton left Tuesday morning for the Moss A. On Wednesday, they brought Bird to town and he is now lying at the Vienna Hotel receiving the best of care that female attention and a doctor's ingenuity can apply. On examination, it was found that his hips were considerably bruised, though no bones broken, and a deep and painful wound at the apex of the hip bone. On Monday night as Howard Durst was coming to town on J. L. Durst's line sorrel mare and when in the lane between Capt. Hiserod's fence and N. S. Tubbs barbed wire fence, the mare became frightened at other horsemen in the road and vigorously shied into the barbed wire fence. Before Howard could scarcely realize the dangerous position, he was in the mare had torn the fence down, together with a pitch pine post a foot in diameter, had fallen through to the inside of the field, regained her feet and plunged again to the outside extricating herself from the wire. With the plunging and falling, when it was over with, Howard found himself in the saddle right side up but slightly, and perhaps seriously, injured. The night was dark and the horsemen in the road were not seen until the mare shied, nor could the wire fence be seen. The mare, one which Mr. Durst prizes as almost invaluable, received a severe cut about ten inches long and five or six inches on the right breast and shoulder, and numerous deep cuts and scratches on the body and limbs. Howard’s bruises are principally in the right foot which is probably crushed by the weight of the heavy beast falling on it, and numerous scratches from the knee to the foot received from the barbs. Howard thinks it miraculous that the injuries are not more serious and believes that the law should be complied with by putting a pole above the wire on barbed fences. A. L. Sprague received a letter from his son in the Wood River country giving a full account of the death there, by accident, of Charles Mort who left here last summer with Teters. He was at work in Capt. Doniphans mine near Bellevue. Charley was working in the bottom of the shaft, the dirt being hoisted in a tub with rope and windlass. When the bucket was started down the windlass slipped on the handle and the man at the handle lost control of the drum. He followed to “look out below” and at the same time grabbed the drum in an attempt to stop the danger but the drum slipped from off its support and went to the hospital, Charley succeeded in dodging the bucket but the drum struck him on the side of the head, crushing the skull and causing death after two hours of intense suffering. He was well known here and it will be a surprise to his friends to learn of his sudden death. Rev. F. W. Johnson, for more than a year pastor of the Methodist society in this city, left on Monday last via the Atchison line destined for Arizona. Just yet he does not know at what point he will be stationed but will first go to and from there he assigned a position in one of the prominent interior towns. While Mr. Johnson has been among us he has shown himself to be a man worthy of his teachings and the congregation here will miss him in their society. The pulpit made vacant by Mr. Johnson's removal to another post is filled by Rev. James, who last Sunday made his first appearance before a Custer audience. On next Tuesday night a charity ball will be given at the courthouse. It is the duty of all citizens, business men and others, to subscribe to this cause whether or not they accept the pleasures of the hall. The hall and music have been offered gratuitously. Tickets one dollar, a sum that few can refuse to give. With winter staring us fiercely in the face, let a liberal donation be offered to a woman with a large family of small children, that they may receive some of the comforts of a cheerful fireside and a sufficient quantity of provisions. The wife of Mr. Haight, of the McMaken mine, accompanied by her maid and housekeeper, Miss Nightingale, arrived on Tuesday night’s Rapid couch from her home in Iowa. She comes to take care of her husband who has been very sick at Mrs. Sprague’s for two or three weeks, but has now recovered sufficiently to leave her bed and walk out for a few minutes at a time. Cloning on Sundays On and after October 6th, 1884, the following places of business will be done on Sundays, and positively no goods will be sold on that day. Booth & Webster, S. K. Shankland, H. A. Albien, Smith & Fitch, J. Cochran & T. Van Devort, Kimble Carr, Thomas I. Wheeler, Fred Heideprim, Jan. Clark, O. Silver, by Monheim. This is the right move with our storekeepers, and we hope that it will be rigidly enforced. It will be hard at first for those farmers that use Sunday as their trading day and the miners living out of town to become accustomed to it, but when it is a thoroughly established rule and all become acquainted with it they will find it far for the best. It will give the clerks and dealers an opportunity to swing their limbs over the saddle and Recuperate among the mines and ranches and return lecuperated for Mondays work. Buffalo Gap Items. John Code came up from among the Buffalo Gap farms on Monday and furnished us with the report of what threshing had been done when he left, his blithe figure being very instrumental in helping get the grain into the granaries. Boland and Keno are doing the threshing. Bonds production was 1,735 bushels of grain; 1,343 of oats and 88 of wheat. Reno's threshed out 3,107 bushels of grain of the various kinds while Bolands went 3,330 of all kinds. All this grain, 7,402 bushels, was raised on an even 200 acres of ground making the average bushels per acre of 37. Considering that a quarter of it is wheat the average is large. Brooks and Brunschmidt expect to have 2,300 bushels of grain. Six and a half days was the actual time occupied in threshing the 7,402 bushels making about 1,200 bushels a day average. The amount of grain raised in this region this year was 3,000 bushels more than last year and next year double the amount of ground will be put under the plow. All the farms are enclosed with a No. 1 wire fence. Corn is a good crop. On French Creek crops yielded well and the farmers are preparing to thresh. Daniels says a pine pole fence doesn't pay and has put a wire fence around his entire domain. The hay crop in these regions was a fine one and everybody supplied themselves bountifully. Crary's sheep are doing finely. Republican County Convention. In accordance with the motion adopted at the Republican county convention held at Custer City, Sept. 3rd, 1884, notice is hereby given that on Wednesday, Oct. 8th, 1884, a Republican county convention for the County of Custer will be held at the courthouse in Custer City, convening at 1 o’clock p.m. of said day, for the purpose of placing in nomination a full county ticket. The different precincts will hold their primaries to elect delegates to the county convention on Saturday, Oct. 4th, 1884, at such hour and place as the members of the central committee of the precinct may designate, except Custer precinct, which will hold its primary on Saturday, October 4th, 1884, at 7 o’clock p.m., at the courthouse in Custer City. Each precinct will be entitled to the following representation in the county convention: Custer City 8 Battle River 3 Buffalo Cup 2 Hayward 1 Kidville 1 Junction 1 Four Mile 1 By order of the Central Committee. A. L. Sprague, Chairman. A. D. Clare, Secretary. Notice. Custer City, Custer Co., D. T. 1 Sept. 15, 1884. A special meeting of the Board of County Commissioners, Custer County, D. T., will be held on September 22nd, 1884, for the purpose of appointing judges for the elections to be held November 4th next, and for the transaction of such other business as may properly be brought before it. E. H. Flynn County Clerk. By F. J. Rutledge, Deputy. A special meeting of the board of county commissioners Custer county, with the Probate Judge and County Clerk, will be held on Monday, Septem ber 22nd, 1884, for the appointment of a County Commissioner vice C. Cole, re signed. m E. 11. Flynn, County Clerk. By F. J. Rutkowski, Deputy. Clothing, furnishing goods, boots and shoes, hats, gloves, holies and children hosiery at bed-rock prices at Smith & Fitch's. Go to Cochran’s for hardware, stoves, tinware, plows, Scythes, racks, etc. Cheapest house in the Hills. Bellms Out.. J. Cochran will sell out his entire stock of Hardware, Stoves, Tinware, Iron, Steel, Farm Implements, Miners’ Supplies, etc. Parties knowing themselves indebted to J. C. will please call and settle. There is no denying the fact that you can get better bargains and more goods for the money than unv other place in ti*§ ot«v at Smith A Fitch V N of ice. From Pierre. On the twelfth ballot O. S. Gifford of Canton was nominated for delegate to congress by the republicans at Pierre. Thus Raymond and McMasters are laid by us prospective candidates for the Dakota senatorship when Mr. Gifford succeeds in having us admitted as a state. Rev. Arthur C. Dill returned lust evening from Denver and Cheyenne, bringing with him Rev. J. H. Phillips, of London, England. Mr. Phillips is an Englishman of culture and intelligence, an artist as well as clergyman. The Congregational brethren are rejoiced at his coming and hope that he maybe led to make the Hills his permanent home. SWM reMEBI FOR PAI3XT. 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Office at residence on Crook street. Clerk City, - - - Dickey A. T. Van Devort Successor to ST. AR, BULLOCK & Co And JOSEPH R. BLISS, Dealers in Hardware and Machinery, Building Material, Mining Supplies & Sporting Goods. Custer City, - - - Dickey Jah. C. Sanders F. O. Burtum VIENNA HOTEL SANDERS & BURTON, Props. COSTER AVE, • CUSTER CITY, DAK. We propose to conduct the House on business principles and give the best accommodations at the most reasonable terms, and as VISITORS HOUSE, The Largest, Furnished the Finest, Has The Best Supplied Table ITS MILES BLACK HILLS So the Pleasant Guest, The Regular Boarders and Families will find Vienna Hold will meet their wants and furnish every luxury to be found - tail in any First-class House in the West. H. A. ALBIN, Wholesale and Retail Dealer in Staple and Fancy Groceries, Dry Goods, Boots & Shoes, Hats and Caps. IN OUR GROCERY DEPARTMENT is everything found in a first-class grocery, such as California canned goods, Coffee, Tea, Tobaccos, etc. OUR BOOT AND SHOE DEPARTMENT contains all the new styles of Lace, Button and Low Shoes For Ladies, Men and Children. COMPLETE OUTFITS FOR MINERS. Thankful for past favors, I would respectfully solicit a continuance of the same, assuring the public that my prices will always be as low as any dealer in the West. Yours truly, ZL A. ALBIN. Caster Avenue, Caster City. 