Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1886-01-09
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In the eleven months just passed North Bend
shipped $50 car loads of stock, and 81 carloads
were received.
Horse thieves are operating In Saline coun-
George Robinson reports the loss of Il 10
GEAR old sorrel chestnut horse worth several
-undred dollars.
An Ind!anola hunter named Spencer drew a
bead on a deer and blazed away. The gun
burst and tore his ar N into reds. His re-
covery Is doubtful.
John Michael OF Otoe county was divorced
from his wife about a month ago, and now
they have ''let bygones be bygones" and will
be remarked In q short time.
8 Lou Vaughan, OF Blair, who was crippled
for life at a target practice last fall, has sued
Julius Altschuler, the innocent cause of his
misfortune, for slo 900 damages.
VIM. PLACER, a fourteen year-old boy of
Plattsmouth, stole 1920 from Mrs. Andrew
Kearn and distributed the money among his
playmstes. He was arrested and sent TO the
reform school.
A subscriber OF the Weeping Water Repub.
lican threatens to ''stop my piper'' unless the
editor supports James Il. Weaver OF Iowa for
President, and Senator Van Wyck for Vice
President 1883.
The skeletons OF a man and horse were
found In the sand hills country northwest Of
Gothenburg, last week. The skull Of the first
named was broken In, which indicated foul
play at the time OF death.
Omaha Herald, 80: Marshal Borrower sold
400 acres OF land in Dakota county yesterday,
TO satisfy a judgment in the case Of George
Leslie Va. Jessie Warner. The properly was
bought by DR.. Wilkinson and NJ. VI. Warner
for $1,000.
The Kansas City, Superior " Northwestern
railroad managers are skirmishin for bonds
in Nuckolls county TO aid in building the road.
The Kansas jayhawkers will not build Il foot
Of road without mortgages on the counties
along the line.
The Union Pacific uniformed emplove are
receiving their new suits. The pattern IS very
neat and the cloth good and durable. The
conductors are clad Ia cutaway frock coats
and on their collar are in gilt letters the in
sigma 81. +. r."
Plummer, levitt, Snyder and other western
Nebraska men have sued the Rankin Cattle
company for 1925, coo damages, and the case
is being tried 10 the United States court at
Omaha. The defendants are charged with
bringing lever into the state, which killed
hundreds of the plaintiffs cattle.
Senator Henderson, of Nebraska, and Rep
resentative Springer, of Illinois, recently
called on the secretary Of war to lay before
him a scheme for DISCRIMINATING the Apache
Indians. The scheme is to enlist n body Of
frontiersmen, to folio " the Indians into The
mountains until they are destroyed.
A car Of Furnishing goods for Flynn's new
hotel at Buffalo Gap, was entirely destroyed
by fire at Florence. The origin Of the ire can
not be accounted for, as the car had been
sealed for several hours before the train
started. The car was worth $500, and the
goods comprising the load cost over 50, coo.
The second attempt of the heirs to probate
the Scanlan will, involving the title to the
towns!te OF Wymore, has been defeated In the
District Court. The townsite S valued at
$500, C00, and the reopeniug nj t e Will case
would have paralyzed property wners. The
will was originally p~robated In 1873 and the
land sold In conformity Herewith. When the
land became valuable the heirs sought to an
nul the action Of the Probate Court, but
failed.
Mrs. j. v. Hostlewalt OF Beatrice died on
the 2Sth from the effects cf about eight ounces
Of morphine admins Yered by herself on Sun
day evening. The cause for such on act
seems TO be unknown. Word was sent to her
husband In Denver, but he answered that he
was too busy to come at present. Mrs. Hostile
wait was "a years old, aid was reported to
have been a morphine eater. Her actions at
times OF late have been peculiar for a sane
person.
In Omaha, Monday morning, the entire city
was startled by a terrific explosion, resulting
from a consolidated tank line car which had
been filed with naphths at Fairbsnk', lard re.
fnery, where II was to be loaded with lsrd.
William Fleming inspected the car with a
lantern and when over the opening the explo-
sion occurred, the naphtha which had been
left In the car having ignited from the lantern.
Fleming was thrown a considerable distance
and was badly burned and bruised and pro
baby fatally injured. No other serious dam
age was done. There were nine other naphtha
cars H..
The issue OF the Railway Age contains a
valuable article on railroad construction dur
ing the year Just closed. The total Of new
line for the year, excluding dOuble-tracking,
sIdings and renewals, is BIB miles. This is
200 miles less than the figures for 1884, and is
the smallest since 1878. The work Of the year
has been almost exclusively on branches and
extensions, the principal being that Of the
Fremont, Elkhorn IL Missouri Valley line CT
the Northwestern, which has been built from
Valentine, Neb., north and west to Buffalo
Gap, ID. T., a distance OF l9l miles, and next
spring will reach the Black Hills.
United States District Attorney Lambertson
has received instructions from the attorney
general, upon the recommendation Of the sec
rotary OF the interior, to m civil and
criminal proceedings against some eight or ten
persons for Illegal fencing Of public lands.
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