Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1886-07-24
NORTHWESTERN ITEMS.
DAKOTA.
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Vernon.
-Four bufTalos were on exhibition at Rapid
City july 8.
The Yankton creamery has been condemned
as a nuisance.
Work is soon to be begun at Mitchell on the
new water works.
Deadwood boasts Of waterworks, sewerage
and electric light.
Coal is said to have been discovered six
miles east Of Ellisville.
Black Killers claim that there is no danger
from sunstrokc there.
Rapid Point will soon be the trans-shipping
point for Black Hills freight.
Coal has been discovered in Faux and Sully
counties in paying quantities.
Mitchell will at once laying water
mains on her principal streets.
A baby show il TO be held at Chamberlain
to raise funds for a church organ.
Sioux Falls calls il dun when she can not
scare up as good as three runaways.
Worms are destroying a large number Of
small fruit trees through the southern part Of
the territory.
Every county in the northern part of the
territory makes an uniavorable crop report
except Cass.
The Huron National bank has increased its
capital from $4,000 to $4,000 and added new
stockholders.
Hon. Waldo NJ. Potter, OF the La Moure
paper man in Dakota.
Bon Homme county has not been visited by
either a hailstorm or heavy windstorm in the
past twenty-five years.
The Huron city marshal Is 3 slasger. lie
has signed articles Of agreement to fight an
other local celebrity.
A good-looking Mitchell bachelor has pc.
titioned the governor for aid, claiming to be
in danger from designing females.
The Yankton people were worked unmerci-
fully by the confidence men travelling with
Coles circus the day it showed in that city.
+. l.. Cook, recently Of Rochester, now
principal of the normal school at Spearfish,
has been commissioned to write the geography
Of Dakota.
The crop prospects remain very good in the
vicinity Of LennoX and the yield will probably
be fully up to the average, although rain is
greatly needed.
The Dakota railroad commissioners have
just completed arrangements for n sweeping
reduction in freight rates which will save Da-
kota nearly 81 900 900 per year.
w. II. Webster OF Plankinton says he has
harvested five crops in Dakota and his wheat
has all averaged twenty bushels and over and
he thinks this year will prove an exception.
Several Mitchell bachelors have opened a
matrimonial bureau, and will open cores
poudence with marriageable young ladies in
the east who have a desire TO settle Iii Dakota.
Parker, in Turner county, proposes to issue
s.. 500 bonds to bore for an artesian well.
The great success at Aberdeen, Yankton and
Kimball has stimulated all the towns south to
bore.
Dir. Collins proposes to run as an indie
pendent candidate for the territorial legisla-
ture in the Grand Forks district. He was de-
feated in a race for the same Office two years
ago.
The constitutional convention mrt and adj
journed at Sioux Falls on Tuesday. Gen.
Campbelrs proposition to strike out the re-
~strlction claute was voted down by II ma
jority.
A fourteen year-old boy named jameson
was dragged to death by a COW near Roscoe
last week. He had the rope tied about his
wrist, when the animal became frightened and
ran, dragging him until he was SO mangled
that he died.
The Gary Inter State thinks Judge Church
is too rapid in administering justice to be
popular. it says he handles his cases like a
police justice Monday morning disposing Of
Sunday DRINKS. Possibly the editor has a
personal grievance.
Grant county, in the vicinity Of Milbank,
suffered from n severe hailstorm last week.
The large thrcc-story hotel in curse OF cree.
ton was blown down, crushing a saloon
building, the total loss amounting to more
than 500, 600.
The Grand Rapids Journal says the work OF
grading is being rapidly pushed By the Nil
waukee from Glendale toward ST. George in
the west part of La Moure, and thinks it will
not be long before the Northern Pacific starts
down in that direction.
One day the past week, James Hadley, an
estimable citizen Of Union county, started
nome from Mt. Vernon with his wife, when
the team ran away throwing him out on his
heed, killing him instantly, his wife received
such Injuries that 1t is feared she will not sur
yiye.
President Schlosser, Of the Turner County
| Agricultural society, has a fine grove OF ca
talpa trees six feet or more high, grown from
seed planted three years ago. Out of l,s0C
he lost very few. He is so pleased with them
that he has set out z. 900 more from cuttings.
Those who remember the ravagcs Of grass
hoppers ten and fifteen years ago are a little
nervous over recent reports Of visitations
from them in portions OF Montana and North.
western Dakota. 1t is not believed, however,
that there is any serious danger from them
this year.
The Winona Times thinks the rain in n re.
cent violent storm In Emmons nearly com.
pensats for the loss by hail and lightning, al
though from Winona south to the county inc
the crops are all destroyed. The entire
Missouri river region has suffered greatly
fro.l heat and drouth.
The G.. A. X. e%ncampment at the lakewood