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

scarcity of school teachers in the country dis
tricts.
Between Bangor and Mound City last week
the snow was SO badly drfted hat the roads
we're almost impossible.
The large elevator Of Brooks Bros, at Park
River, bur- ed, together with IS, 900 bushels OF
wheat. Loss about $500, insurance $2l,-
600.
/. &. Wade, Of Fargo, has just purchased six
ty-fve imported Holstein cattle, at a cost of
10000. He intends starting q large stock
farm.
The people OF Campbell and Emmons coun-
ties get their wi OF fuel from a vein Of coal
forty-ave miles MOI, est Of La Grace, in the
former county.
Rev. Father Lonergan, who died in Montreal
last week, was the first priest that came to the
Black Hills and estab lished the first Catholic
church in the Hills.
A large colony from Pennsylvania will To-
cate In Logan county next spring. The COL
desirable locations.
1t Is expected that the stage time between
Buffalo Gap AMI Deadwood, with the compile
ton Of the railroad to the former place, will be
reduced to twenty or twenty-four hours.
The superintendent OF the Burlington road
is credited with the statement that his com
pany talks strongly Of building to the Black
Hills, and If they decide 70, will commence on
the work In the spring.
The purchase Of $4,000 Of lots in Aberdeen
by f.. {. Stevens, the railroad builder and con
tractor, is believed TO mean that the Rock
Island will come from Watertown and need
land there. The figures paid are nattering to
the place.
A Northw estern coach upset near Rapid
City the other day and rolled down a steep
embankment a distance OF twenty feet. The
driver and team escaped injury. The coach
was heavily loaded with express, bat carried
no passengers.
United States Paymaster Sharp has been di.
rected TO move from Yaukton TO Leavenworth
before Dec. 10. Maj. Sharp has been stationed
at Yankton eight years, having succeeded W.
A. Elderkin. 1t is not yet known who will be
his successor.
At one town in Robert county last week a
rattle was held for an alleged valuable horse.
A crowd gathered TO see the drawing, and just
as the prize was drawn the inconsiderate AM
NAL laid down and died, aud the lucky winner
was at the expense Of the burial.
The Russians have som OF the choicest land
10 the territory on Spring river bottom, IN
Campbell county, and are spreading over
several counties. They have some peculiar
toners for coal men, but warm their houses by
burning ha, in mud furnaces. They have
gathered hundreds of loads Of diamond will
lows for covering their stables and for fuel.
They burn well when dry.
Ex-President Hayes farm, near Bismarck,
with machinery, working stock and buildings,
has been sold by w. X. Rogers, trustee, to
Joseph Guitner, of Columbus, D. The ma
chinery and stock were estimated at $1,000 and
improvements 5000. The original cost OF
the land In 1877 was S. 800 in Northern Pa
cifc bonds. The consideration of the sale to
Guitner is about $2l GOO. The farm consists
OF 500 acres, OF which $50 was under cultiva-
ton his year.
Dakota claims the best of all good things,
but has heretofore been without any known
Illustrations Of the faith cure. This has
gradually been diffused in the territory. In
Miner county a young lady, Miss Flora
Palmer, had for three years employed the re-
sources Of the medical profession without re-
lief to her rheumatism. A few months age
she discarded oil material agencies and adopt
ed the faith cure. AS a result she is now able
to walk, and is nearly well.
Ipswich Special Telegram, Nov. %: It ha'
just become known here that the United States
grand jury at Yankton has indicted one Of oul
townsmen in the person OF Alfred Jourbert
the district attorney Of this county. Mr.. Jour
bert came here about eighteen months age
from Mitchell, where he had been engaged II
the land business, and 1t is alleged that while
there he was engaged In the wholesale forgiDs
OF soldiers declaratories and ACCOMPLISHMENTS
and for which he is now indicted In four in
dlctments of three counts each. He Is u ma
Of good appearance and talks well, and by
| combination of circumstances was last yea
| elected to the office OF district attorney 70
this county. The news was quite a surpris'
to the people here who never suspected any
thing of this sort, although they knew that h
had been engaged in business at Mitchell
which would not bear the light of an investi
CATION. He seems TO have feen posted as t
the doings Of the grand jury, and has managed
to make good his escape. The last seen o
him he went to Aberdeen and took a room 70
the night at the Sherman house with a friend
| They afterwards went to the theatre, and wheI
about half out he left the hall and has no
been seen since.
It Is claimed for Dakota that 1t is the veal
thiest agricultural region In the world, ant
that In proportion to capital and labor invested
the earnings Of improved land are larger thar
in any other part Of the country. For illustra
ton Of development aud production the si,
counties west Of the Red river are taken, abou
forty miles east and west by $50 north ant
south, with q population Of 81, 99s. The Farg'
daily Argus compares these six counties n
shown by the census this year with the entir
territory as given by the census Of 1880 as fol
lows:
Dakota II. II. Vale,
In 1880. In 1855.
Number of farms. 17,435 13.5S