Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1885-12-26

ABOUT *lO,o5l was expended Tor improve
ments at Long Prairie the past season.
buchanan 81 Coats, Of Sank Rapids, will
bank 100000 0 feet of logs this winter.
Albert Lea parties are preparing to ship
5000 bushels OF potatoes to Kansas City.
The dwelling Of Sam Enos, near Browns.
Vile, together with a lot Of grain, burned.
The Redwood Falls board of trade has COM
pleted Its organization and elected officers.
Prof. Merritt, OF the Luverne high school,
left for Ithaca. N. Y, Monday, where on
Christmas day he Will be married TO Miss
Chase, formerly teacher of the grammar school
in that city.
The extensive mills Of the Wsdens Lumber
company, at New York Mills, which burned q
few days ago were valued at SEQ, 200, no insur-
ance. Two watchmen at the mills were only
awakened by the falling Of the smokestack.
The Northern Pacific has issued a circula,
announcing that rates on seed wheat between
all stations on the company's lines In Miune-
sofa and Dakota would be one.balf tariff, ex.
cepting o a shipments 10 eastern terminals ard
va H'P" boihS ch nv SDIhPhl = iluNr
B. F. Sloan who has been IN jail at Mime
apol!s for about eight months charged with
obta ming goods under false pretenses, was
tried last week and acquitted. During Sloan's
imprlsor ment bis wife and child died and h,
was unabl@ TO be with them or attend the
funeral. He will s2e for damages.
novel oissolca a, @e. partnership notice
appeared IN ore of the Bookings County pa
pers last week. The dissolution was by mutual
consent, the reason assigned Is that one Of the
firm was too lazy to continue the business;
but he agreed to pay all bills presented against
the firm, allowing the Industrious partner TO
collect all bills due the firm.
Mrs. Catherine Flshburn OF Plpestone coun-
ty, is now suing the Milwaukee aud 81. Paul
for 10000 damages for being rejected from a
passenger train near Edger,on, Wis, in the
summer Of 1884 while on her way TO Chicago.
She bought a ticket at Edgerton, but In her
haste to get aboard the train, forgot to take 1t
from the agent, hence her election.
The Minnesota State Grange met at Moor
head on the 10th, with w. 8. Chowen OF H. n
nepin county presiding and Henry &. Adams
OF Minneapolis as secretary. Some twenty-fve
or thirty oranges were represented. The after
noon was devoted to listening to the address
OF the grand master and the reports from The
subordinate oranges. The evenings session
was given to one Of the public lectures. There
was much interest taken In the work by those
present,
Crockston special, Dec. 16: The trial o.
John Hutchinson for the murder OF L0cky
Mclean, at East Grand Forks, was concluded
at noon to-day. The jury, after being out
eight hours, returned a verdict Ct guilty of
murder In the first degree. The killing vas
done on the night of Sept. %, last. Hu'chin
son lived with his mother, who was q disre-
putable character. Mclean wentto the house
and sought entrance, but was resisted by
Hutchinson, who stabbed him. Mclean died
shortly sfterward.
Msnkato special: The defense IN the case
Of Chamberlain for attempting TO murder his
sister in-lsw, Ella l.. Chamberlain, was opened
Saturday morning and the defendant placed
upon the witness stand. He gave a rambling,
disconnected history OF his life, and through
out showed the shocking state OF depravit}
that existed Ia the family OF his brother, OF
which he himself was a member. The witness
testified that prior and since the death Of his
brother he had been intimate with the woman
he shot, and by his own statements ia IN
father Of several OF her children. His stste
nents regarding his actions on the evening Of
the shooting were conflicting, and bis claim of
self-defense Is too improt able to be OF much
value. +. w. Muf made an able argument
for his blind client, claiming both self defense
and insanity, but he was working against too
great odds to win. The jury was out only ten
minutes, when they returned a verdict (
guilty, and the blind criminal was led back to
the county jail to await sentence.
At the annual session of the Minnesota But
ter, Cheese and Dairy Stock Association, held
at Red Wing last week. H. G. Howard, assist
ant dairy commissioner, read a paper on 1.-THE
Past and Present Of Dairying In Minnesota. 4"
He said: In order to show the progress we have
made as a dair, state / submit the following
figures, taken from the census and assessors
reports:
Number Of cows In 1860. ............. Is $50
Number Of cows In 1s70. .147 296
Number OF COWS In 1880. .......... .26S, ~
Number OF cow In 1885. ............. 100000
We have no reports as to the amount Of bui-
ter made, but assuming that the cows would
average eighty pounds per year, We have the
following result;
Pounds of butter made In 1S71......ll ,7Sl,6s0
Pounds Of butter made In ISL. 81 1901, l66
Pounds OF butter made In 1882. ..... 32, OOI ,00
have found It impossible In the limited
time at my disposal to get full and reliable In
formation regarding the manufacture of
cheese. 1t is a business that is developing
very rapidly, and from the information that
havs received l place the value
or the cheese made In the state ats 50O, GOO
Value Of 20, coo, 600 lbs. Of butter at
Is cents. $780, 600
Value Of II, 500 COO OTIS. of milk sold
In st. Paul and Minneapolis ~ &c
per quart. 1851, 200
Value of milk used and sold in bal
ance of the state. $780, oO
Value of $50, 600 calves at $40 each. 8. 100000
Value produced IN 1885. $3.50. ga All ,2O
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