Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1886-09-25
NORTHWESTERN ITEMS.
DAKOTA.


waterworks.
Civilization is making grouse scarce about
Rapid City.
Farmers near Lisbon are in excellent fnan-
cial condition.
The improvements made in Highmore this
year viii reach $4,000.
The Huron Packing company have filed ar
ticles Of incorporation.
The demand for building lot. In Brookings
is beyond any precedent in its history.
Lake Preston expects to welcome the MIL
vsukee extension on the LIST OF November.
Editor Jordan, Of the Fargo Republican,
has been made q colonel on the governors
staff.
The work of laying sidewalk is just now
being very generally prosecuted in Rapid
City.
A heavy frost is reported to have fallen In
the neighbrhood OF Highmore Thursday morn.
ing.
Ole Nicholson, near Gary, accidentally and
perhaps fatally shot his wife while hunting
prairie chickens.
The promised electric light 1. awaited with
lmpatience at Rapid Ci;y. 1t is expected
within sixty days.
The Chicago and Northwestern will prob
ably extend their Sioux Valley branch from
Brookings to Salem.
A young babe died in its mothers arms the
other day while riding in a v wagon from Wes-
singtou Springs to the farm home.
w. X. Kellogg has purchased the interest Of
his partner, Mr.. Tucker, In the jamestown
Alert, and will run IL alone hereafter.
Prof. l.. McLouth, Of the Michigan Agricul-
tural college, is the new president Of the Da-
kota Agricultural college at Brookings.
The fair at Speartish Is not having SO great
a success as was anticipated. Tho attendance,
though, is very good, and the financial success
is assured.
The Republicans OF Hughes county have de-
clared for Judge ID. c. ID. Mead for the terri
torial council, and the Democrats for {. Price,
OF Highmorc.
The secretary q the interior disallowed the
claim Of w. f.. Dodge, of Dakota, for $l6O for
for depreciation committed by Whitestone In
dians in 1870.
The city council OF Yankton refused to
grant exclusive rights to an electric light com
pany, and the town has relapsed into the
realms OF darkness.
3 There Is very little comment over the &C.
quittal of Casey at Chadron. In fact, it seems
to have been expected from the first that he
would escape scot free.
The Trail County Agricultural society have
let the contract for $1,000 for buildings for
the county fair to be held October ), 6, and Z.
Wheat is quoted at 81 cents.
John Hillack, who was shot in the head by
the shcrifT's posse, on Wednesday, at Ellen.
dale is rapidly recovering. A portion of the
brain has oozed through the wound.
The Black Hills Salt company has been or
sl,250,000. This company owns $40 acres of
land near the well known salt springs.
Prof. ii. j. Vosburg, of Hamilton, n. Y,
who has accepted the chair of ancient lam
guagcs in the Sioux Falls university, has ar
rived In that city.
Two years ago there were only two public
| schools in Burleigh county, outside of Bis
marck. Now there are thirty schools and
twenty-five good school houses.
The district court convened at Ipswich Mon
day, with Hon. l.. X. Church on the bench.
There are twelve criminal and thirty-threc
civil cases on the calendar.
Judge Church decided in the Beadle county
case that county commissioner have no au'
thority to employ additional counsel in the
prosecution of criminal cases.
Aurora county contains eighty school
houses, an increase of fifteen over last year
The current school debt Of the county has
been reduced from sl2, POO TO about $1,000.
Rev. Emma ale-book, who has had charge
Of the Episcopal mission at the White Earth
agency for seven years, has been a clergyman
twenty-six years and speaks English luently.
Indians Of the Berthold agency are on their
way TO Bismarck with seventy or more loads
of barley, Of their w raising, for the Bis
marck brewery Of the Milwaukee Brewing
company.
A syndicate of capitalists has offered to
take the Rapid City system Of watcrworks of
the hands OF the town for $3.50 600 cash. This
would give the city a profit Of S25,0O on the
investment.
Two OF the county commissioners Of Rob
erts county, Nessrs. Webb and Moody, and
Treasurer Linge have been arrested for issu-
Ing 50, 900 worth Of bogus county warrants
during the county seat war.
The Huron ~artesian well is Low 7G0 feet
deep, and on last Saturday a flow OF water
was struck which proves to be very satisfac'
tory. The water is said to be the best yet
found In southern Dakota.
Sargent County Item: The grading on the
Aberdeen and Fergus Falls railroad through
the southeast part Of this county is rapidly
nearing completion. Sprague's Lake people
are jubilant over the prospect OF having the
road in operation this fall.
Buttzvillc special TO the Fargo Argus: T.
Meckleson, OF Fargo, a carpenter employed ON
the Butty elevator, fell from the top Of the
building, down through the loft, striking the
floor sixty feet below on his stomach, break
ing his ribs and sustaining serious and prob
ably fatal injuries.
The farmers OF Eddy county have formed a
joint stock company to hire a man TO do their
grading and shipping OF wheat, paying him n
stipulated price. They have had some expert.
ence, and claim that they can get f. ON ) to II
cents more than from the elevator A large