Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1885-12-05

4. ~. WOOu1Ofu mas reSlgneu no CIeTh VI Tue
Lincoln county District Court.
Charley Waters, q variety Snowman, was
egged out Of Lake Benton last week.
DIR. A. b. Sweet of Yellow Medicine county
was arrested and fined for selling liquor con-
trary to law.
In the suit Of Alexander Moore VS.. the
Northern Pacific Railway company the latter
has called for a ST. uck jury.
A lady teacher in the kellogg school at Wa
bssha was recently fined in 9 police court for
assault and battery upon one Of her pupils.
John Riley, a farmer living in Melrose
township, Stearns county, was found drowned
In the village mill pond at st. Cloud. He was
intoxicated.
Two gentlemen from st. Paul were in Farm
ington making contracts for milk and butter,
to be shipped to tina city. Several large con-
tracts were made.
A. A. Day has sold his farm in Empire, con
sisting OF 900 acres, together with all the
stock, implements, grain, ETC., to A. j.
Gillette, of West 1T. Paul, for $25, 900.
More liberal grading OF wheat Is to be
adopted at Redwood Falls, which will allow
some of the soft varieties, particularly "Blue
Stem,' to be received as No Northern.
Many of the farmers near Waseca are har-
rowing their plowed Gelds. Those who have
tried II say they can get on the ground much
earlier in the spring, and the crop is sure to be
better.
A grocery agent from Chicago took a great
many orders from farmers near Lake Crystal.
When the goods arrived they found they had
to pay about 10 per cent more than was agreed
upon.
Surveyor General McNIsnus has appointed
Stanchfeld OF Minneapolis to The office Of
deputy surveyor general. He also appointed
three ~sca,crs, al! OF whom are old men at the
business.
Mr.. Window tells the Wipona Herald that
he is not q candidate for any Office, but adds:
81 do not say that | All permanently out of
politics for 1 expect to take an interest in po-
lltical affairs. But at present / am not acandi
date for any office"
Quite a number OF occupants of railroad
lands In r ,nvllle county have been before the
Redwood Falls land Office the past week OF
account OF the claim made by Land Commits.
sioner Sparks that the WInona & st. Peter
company have more land than they are legally
entitled to-.
In the District Court at Worthington last
week, Judge Perkins sentenced Joseph Griffith
convicted of assault with intent 10 commit al
outrage, to three years. hard labor in the state
prison. John Cornin and John Murphy, con.
victed Of larceny from a dwelling, were each
sentenced for one year.
j. w. Bishop, OF ST. Paul, Il finished the
prizes this year for the contestants in the
annual prize defamation contests by the stu
dents OF the Minnesota academy at Owatonna.
The prizes consist OF three pieces for the lead
ing orators among the gentlemen aud two for
excellence OF composition by the ladies. The
contest took place Monday evening.
John Beatty, who disappeared mysteriously
from the g.. Nicholas no ell, Duluth, Is now
believed to have been murdered. He was 25
years old, hard working and temperate, and
VI JIG MY uC uicaPpcoiCu hC a CAV
$65, his wages as lighthouse hand. He was
last seen at a dance with two strangers. His
baggage is at the st. Nicholas. He came from
Oconto, Wis.
Tie farmers Of the town Of Aurdal, says the
Fergus Falls journal, have taken pattern by
their neighbors at Battle Lake and Fergus
Falls, and have gone into the cooperative
wheat buying business on a large scale. A
grain house has been erected on the shore OF
Wall Lake, where the Northern Pacific siding
was recently constructed, and is nearly ready
10 receive grain.
N. B. Wharton, special government agent
from s.. Cloud. has been at Park Rapids
gaining evidence concerning the double
filings made on government land in townships
al, 142, lab in this (Hubbard) county. There
are nine such cases. He visited the claims
noting the actual improvements made by each
parry, and also took the testimony Of the sew
eral claimants. His report will soon be sub
mitted TO the department and the ruling from
Washington will be awaited here with much
interest es a Il number OF the claimants are Ole
residents Of the county.
The following is a partial list Of the sub
jects that will be discussed at the meeting OF
the Minnesota Cheese, Butter and Dairy Stool
association to be held In Red Wing, Dec. Il
and l6. The full program will be published
In a short time. Why alc We Her: or tn,
object of dairy conventions, F. A. Holmes
Owatonna; The True Relations Of CreamerIe'
and Cheese Factories TO Dairy Farming, II
A. Holmes, Chst6eld; Tn Breeding anC
Feeding of Dairy Stock, o. c. Gregg, Mar
shall Our Dairy Market, E. P. Potter, Mime
apolis The Cow in Diversified Farming, +
Davis, Goodhue; Adulterated Dairy Pro
ducts aud the Law, w. c. Rice; How 10 Sc
cure National Legislation to Protect Dairy
Interests, W. d. Hoard, FIT. Atkinson, Wis.
The Past and Present of Dsirying in Mime
sofa, F.. c.. Howard, Minneapolis; Less Acres
and More Cows the True Thing in Driving
Hon. II. Smith, Wisconsin.
Luverne special to the st. EPauli Pioneer
Press. 23d: The land excitement IN Rocl
county has abated, and most of the shantiet
and shscks that were placed on the railroad
aud Close Bros lands have been removed
Last spring p. B. Dewey, a resident OF MounC
township, created no little excitement by hi
assertions that he had reliable information
that the Sioux City company's lands would b,