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

There are four graded and 100 ungraded
schools In Brown county, with ASIA pupils en-
oiled.
Deputy Sheriff Dick, OF Bathgate, served a
writ Of Injunction on the judges Of election at
Thomas.
Hanson county and the country tributary
70 Alexandria raised one.fourth OF all the dax
raised In Dakota.
Charles 8. Smith was appointed city clerk
and treasurer at Devils Lake vice Robert
Ferguson resigned.
Hillsboro has $4,000 bushels Of wheat in its
elevators, and It's business men are ''long'' on
$500 bushels May.
Clark, one Of the smaller and newer coun-
ties of the central region, already has fifty
school houses erected.
organized for the purpose Of getting out
granite paving blocks.
Buffalo Gap is still booming. Sixty houses
are In the course of erection and lots sell for
from sll0 TO $1,755 each.
s.m kncc;- driver OF tho spesrlsn ana 2o4.
6ulch express, was probably fatally injured
falling from his wagon.
Prof. Baird, Of the Smithsonian institute,
has written asking for a few of the fish which
short time ago came out Of the ~artesian wei
. Aberdeen.
Henry Kellar, president OF the First Ma
Honal bank of Sank Center, Mimi, with q
syndicate Of capitalists, will establish a bank
Park River.
Tom Fox aud Terry McGoldrick, while re-
pairing a gas pipe In Sioux Falle, were
asphyxiated by escaping gas and were with
difficulty restored.
A petition has been forwarded to Pcmbina
and 'sewhere asking Congress to throw upon
the market the immense pine area in the Red
Lake reservation.
Mayor Mcclure of Pierre expects to leave
for Washington this week to join the lobby
there at work for the Dawes bill opening the
Sioux reservation.
3. A. Forsha's barn on Whitewood, below
Crook, burned, together with q large amount
of grain. Loss, 5000; Insured for $500 in
the Pennsylvania company.
About 900 families from Wales are coming
to Dakota In the spring. They are all pros
porous and thrifty, and vii bring from f2O0
30 81, 900 apiece with them.
Some school townships In Edmunds county,
In which not a cent OF special tax has been
collected. will nave no school this winter on
acco1nt of the wan Of funds.
At the university at vermillion students are
furnished board at 81 a week, which, with free
or small tuition, makes II very easy TO obtain
q collegiate education In Dakota.
An eighteen inch vein Of coal has been dis
covered THIRTY five miles north of LaGrsce,
Campbell county. 1t Is said TO be OF the same
quality as that min d near Bismarck.
The Farmers warehouse at DeSmet has
been leased TO Watertown millers, but with
the understanding that the latter are to han
die farmers grain at one cent per bushel.
Seventy volumes have been secured as a
starler for the Minnehaha county teachers
library, consisting Of works on p~edagogics,
science, history and English literature. besides
several Of the poets.
A ship containing a lot Of blooded stock for
farmers In Hughes county sailed from Eng
land In November, put back In q storm, but
reached Baltimore last week and the cargo
will soon arrive In Dakota.
Bismarck Capital: A movement Is on foot
20 build a railroad from Bismarck northwest.
It is understood that unless the Milwaukee
and st. Paul or The Northwern pushes Into the
country within the next year an independent
company Will be organized 10 build southeast
and pool with the Rack Island which Is headed
for this point.
An Eldred correspondent Of the Fargo Argue
writes: wheat nearly all marketed; not
more than one-fourth In farmers hands.
When the seed Is taken ont Of what remains
there will be very left In this part. as there
will be more sowed next season than last, and
blowing is all lone round. The farmers are
feeling In good spirits"
The ruling of COMMISSIONS Sparks In re-
gard to mortgagipg property OF which final
proof has been made but no patent received
has caused SONS OF the loan and investment
companies To instruct their agents at Brook
ings not to make any m re loans on land e1-
cept where the patent has been received. In
this country not half OF those who have made
fnal proof have received their patents, and In
most cases n loan has been made on the land
Sioux Falls SPECIAL, IS: Alvin J. Bolster, an
ttorney of ID Ii Rapids this county. vas found
dead IN the Planters hotel In Sioux City on
Saturday nipht. Mr.. B lister has lived there
for several veara, ami was for a year or two at
DEVILS Lake, where he at one time received
awound In bis head fron. q revolver in the
hands Of a land contestant. His death no
doubt ia the result ~ a continued state Of In
toxication, which he has INDUCED in for q long
time past.
Fargo special: The man recently found
murdered I'm q car Of whsat At Dlluth was
Andrew Kopf, q resident OF Algiers, who, the
week before Thanksgiving, old his claim
north OF Tower City aid came to Fargo with .
neiehbor. This wac the last known OF him.
To-day Fritz Ma'hwig, = farmer who has been
living for some time north and west Of Tower
City, was in Fargo, and chancirg 10 20 to the
police station to see an officer who Is q friend,
he recognized a portrait OF the dead man, and
said that he recently purchased Kopf's claim,