Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1886-05-08
Northwestern NEWS.
DAKOTA.

biemArck'e WAFER works Will cost $lUO,lVI
Saloon licenses at Bismarck cost $500 row
DeaowUca cnoo.e lave NJ enrolment o
222.
Deadwood 10 ovsrTur With tramps and dead
beats.
A rich strike of silver ore has been made q
Hayward.
A law and order movement has been starte,
at Bismarck.
There are thirtY-six public schools In Ed
munds county.
1t is now certain tina. YAnkton Will hav
electric lights.
Flandreau is excited over the prospect o
another railroad.
With the exception Of school house bonds
Faux county has no debt.
The output Of the Iron Hill mine so far Thu
month aggregates II, ALB ounces.
Rev. i. N. Psrdee has purchased . third In
terest In the opera house at Chamberlain.
There will be Q larger acreage Of whea
SOW in Union county this year than ever be-
fore.
The Farmers Mutual Protective association
at Plankinton has Q membership OF nearl.
5000.
Several prominent citizens of Roscoe are un
der arrest on Q charge OF mobbing . saloon
keeper.
The body of T. B. Lane, who was drowned
in January near Fort Pierre, has just been re-
covered.
Robert Hanson, Of Bismarck, he's been sen
fenced to three years in the penitentiary 70
horse stealing.
The treasure shipments from Deadwood las
week aggregated sl75,000, mostly from tn
Homestake mines.
The Dakota press win hold their annus
meeting at Aberdeen, beginning June 81 on,
lasting two days.
A heavy o storm set in Thursday nigh
at Webster City and covered the ground to
depth Of six rshes.
II. e.. Miller, Of Salem, has commenced sui
against Joshua o. swindler for $4,000 dam
ages for defamation Of character.
The second annual territorial fair will b
held under the auspices Of the Dakota boar
Of agriculture at Huron, Sept. 6 TO 10.
At Salem Henry G. Miller has sued Joshu
o. Swtndler for defamation of character, claim
ing damages to the amount Of $4,000.
Pierre's water works are the pride of III
town. There are FIVE miles Of mains, forty-si
hydrants and q million gallon reservoir.
The Buckeye Mining company, whose PROV
erty lies In the Bear Butte district. has bee,
incorporated, with o capital Of 81, 5Co, 600.
Charles Bettinger, who was prohibited from
running q saloon at Howard, Is preparing u
open a wholesale liquor establishment at tia
place.
1t is claimed that there will be a larger eg
gregate OF Improvements In southeastern Da
kota In 1886 than the past four years has fur
nished.
John ID. Hutchinson, Of Montrose, Will
lighting a prairie fire one day last week, in
hailed some OF the flame and is now In a critica
| condition.
There is considerable excitement over pros
pective gas wells at Fargo. Boring will begi
soon and the people are confident that 1t vii
be succ sssful.
One man is being urged for governor Of Da
kota on the ground that he Is q member of a
orthodox church, and that be neither DRINK
or uses tobacco.
Owen Bartlett, an old resident of Yankton
who for q long time has been a great suffere
from a cancer In his mouth, Ia not expected 4
live many days.
The extension Of the Northern Pacific rail-
road from Millinor 70 LsMoure is said TO Ge
pend upon the prospect Of the wheat crop 4
that vicinity this year.
The normal school building to be erected a
Madison In place of the one burned will b
double the old size and Q much finer structure
Milwaukee pressed brick and Dell Rapid
granite will be used.
The residence of Rev. W. H. Bearley, nea
Pukwana, was destroyed by fire one day las
week. Included In the personal property ws
Q library of over 1,cO0 volumes. Loss $1,000
with no insurance.
Some OF the leading cltiz ems OF Blsmarcl
have been indicted by the grand jury 70
bribery and inducing illegal voting at the re
cent municipal election. A number Of th
Illegal voters are under arrest.
The sale Of liquor having been prohibited o
Howard, the CLAW and order" portion Of Ii
town are trying &c GUST the billiard rooms.
fine Of $l00 has been imposed upon esca keep
er and the use Of blinds and screens forbid
den.
1t 10 related that . justice In Hutchinson
county. when . sheriff came to serve . process
on him, declared the cour N session and dne,
the sheriff 500 for contempt in persisting ii
ser wing the warrant, and ordered him commit
ted until the fac WA paid.
Delegate Clifford writes his home orga
hopefully IN regard to the pas sage in the hous
kind OF Q measure that could succeed. II
promises TO have struck GU. the clause rtquir
ing . majority vote In both north and sout
Dakota for division, which his paper designate
. "hydrs-hesded feature" and a"damnabl
scheme to defeat division" Tie delegate 4
conceded to be honest in his impres sions, bu
WILL know more about wAsh.n ton methods d
time.
In the recent census Of FlandYeau appeare.
the entry, "Gtorg. Rice, bastard" Mr.. r c
did not take favorable to this mode Of cersu
taking, and accordingly has brought sui
against the census compiler, +. w. Petit