Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1886-02-13
Northwestern NEWS.
DAKOTA

Bismarck.
The Parker New Era has started q German
department.
There are $4,000 men In Dakota available for
military service.
Dakots's first newspaper was printed at
Sioux Falls In 1858.
,Redville parties are about to start o new
paper st Worthwhile.
The saloon keepers at Grafton are compelled
to close on Sunday.
Five tin locations near Custer City were re-
Gently sold for $4,000.
Several wholesale houses Will be started at
Yankton in thc spring.
Sioux Falls is bidding for the proposed Du-
luth and Denver railroad.
The Red6eld rifles will come out In gorgeous
uniforms costing $25 each.
Herman Neimi, q miner, was crushed to
death In the Highland mine.
The Park River alliance is taking steps to
form q hail insurance company.
The Sykes farm will send specimens o, pro-
ducts to the London, Eng, fair.
The Dakota university at Mitchell opens Its
second term with sixty students.
AL the saloonkeepers at Groton hive been
indicted for keeping gaming houses.
The commissioners of Faulk county have de-
cided not to grant liquor licenses this year. q
Pennington county is TO vote on a proposi-
ton to issue $4,000 bonds for q county
all.
K'mbalrs. artesian well is completed, a
depth Of ,072 feet having been reached. Water
good.
The Stutsmsn County Farmers alliance
will meet IN Jamestown Saturday TO elect
officers.
Half a million dollars worth of bullion was
shipped from the Black Hills 10 New York on
the 3rd.
The Kingsbury County Farm Mortgage COM
pany has been organized with a capital OF
5000 900.
johnson, the youth reported missing yester-
day, was found at a farm house five miles east
of Melville.
A farmer named Ole Ktttleson, of Aberdeen,
was frozen TO death on Tuesday night. He was
intoxicated.
The Crow Indian police have been ordered
to arrest all white men foraging for wood OF
the reser vation.
The G. A. r., the Methodist lyceum, and a
church conference enlivened Valley City dur
ing the past week.
There are $4,000 acres ready for crops in
Olga county, and the settlers offer great in
ducements for q railroad.
Jas. Hall Of Revillo, recently released from
the Yankton asylum, attempted to kill his
wife and children last week.
Dalrymple, the bonanza farmer, will put In
30. 900 acres OF wheat next season. He raised
201,0O bushels of wheat In 1885.
The legal fee for marrying a couple In Dako'
Ia Is but 81 so, which is said to be the lowest
In any territory, Montana charging $40.
The ane stock breeders OF Dakota have
formed an association which already numbers
forty members, with Theodore Davis, Of Nit
chell, president.
The jury In the case OF Eliza French against
the Northern Pacific company, at Fargo,
plaintiff for $426. 20. The amount sued for was
$1,000.
The Fargo Republican understands that
Manager Mcguire seized two trunks Of the
Grau Opera company and shipped them to
Butte, Mont, where he will hold them subject
to a claim Of $500 to $500.
The competition for the county printing IL
Douglas county was so spirited that two OF
the county papers pay 81 for the privilege OF
doing the work. They are thought to display
more pluck than sense.
a.. q. Gleason. Of Okoboio, is burning ha1
straw In q coal base burner. The heating
capacity of straw, though the reservoir re-
quires filling ~oftener. he finds to be equal tt
that OF the best hard coal.
In the Black Hills land Office the past yea
there we're l,737 new filings OF quarter sec
lions, besides mineral claims. This elbows
that the land suitable for farming or stock ir
that section is being rapidly taken up.
Register Rea at Bismarck has information
from q great number OF points In the states
that parties and colonies are forming TO locate
In that land district, aud 1t is believed the new
settlers there will number several thousand.
A young man at Scotland bathed his feet In
ben zine to relieve the effects OF freezing, end,
taking a smoke, threw the match near his feet.
The bepzine caught fire and enveloped his
feet IN flames. The frost csme out al at once,
but his feet were badly burned.
The NJ. E. church recently dedicated ct Nil,
bank cost IS, $50, including the furniture and
lots, and is all paid for, about 5000 being
raised at the dedication. It IS believed to be
the most costly church edifce IN the terrific ry,
and is a great credit to Milbank.
Hon. George II. Ellsbury ctates that the
Tower City library, which was destroyed by
fire some months ago, has been replaced,
and that II now consists OF about 1000 vol
umes, all standard works. They vera pre-
sented to the town by Mrs. Towner, Of Phila-
delphis.
As one instance as to how the red men are
catching on to the ways Of the white men, 1t lie
related that ole hauled a load Of wheat from
the Sioux reservation TO one Of the river
towns. and was so disguised with the COL
lapse In prices that he tool his load back with
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