Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1886-09-04
NORTHWESTERN ITEMS.
DAKOTA.

A temperance revival is being held at Yank
ton.
A -four mill be erected at once at River
side.
Deadwood is putting in electric are alarm
boxes.
1t has rained every night for two weeks a
De Smet.
Forest City is clamoring for a system Of
water. works.
The Northwestern lie about 70 build a larg,
depot az Rcdfcld.
There are 4, 1853 teachers employed In the
common schools.
Some Sisters OF Charity will soon establish
a school at Aberdee en-.
There will be a grand bicycle contest at the
territorial fair at Huron.
A fourteen foot vein Of coal has been dis.
covered in Faux county.
The cars for the street railway at Huron
have arrived on the ground.
The Western Union wires are to be extended
from Rapid to Deadwood.
Winifred has added another saloon 10 its
list. 1t Is called the New Deal.
Three grain warehouses are IN course OF
erection in the new town Of Trip.
A newspaper Of the Democratic persuasion
is TO be started in Fairbank soon.
The Rapid City Oil and Mining company,
capital 100000, has been incorporated.
A $4,000 church is being erected 10y the 1t.
Paul German Lutheran society at TT. Dodge.
1t Is believed the American Tin company are
about to begin work in the Niger Hill dis.
trict.
The Forman Item showed considerable en-
terprise last week in publishing an extra
giving a full account Of the storm at Newark.
The $4,000 worth OF bonds recently voted
at Mitchell have been sold to William O. Cole
& Co., Of Chicago, who bid a trihc over 4 per
cent.
A number Of Hughes county farmers tried
the experiment OF raising winter wheat the
past season, and report the experiment sue
ccssful.
AT Roswell station, near Howard, a three
year-old son OF the agent, j. f.. Jordan, was
accidently run over and killed by some men
while switching ears.
The annual convention OF thelW. G. I. t.,
Of Dakota, will be held at Aberdeen Septem.
Der -, IL and II, instead of /, . and 3, as
heretofore announced.
While Mrs. William Marshall, Of Michigan
City, was out driving, her horse ran away,
throwing her out Of the carriage, breaking one
rib and fracturiGg her collar bone.
One man started the plan Of numbering The
streets in Sioux Falls, and the city council
gave It's Endorsement to another. Both men
are at work and war Is threatened.
Aberdeen has captured the pillow factory it
after. The business mon have subscribed
the required 1000 In capital stock, and the
works will be in operation by Nov. l..
Aberdeen has captured the pillow factory it
was after. The business men have subscribed
the required $4,000 in capital stock, and the
works VIII be in operation by November /.
Another suit growing out of the taxation OF
Northern Pacific lands has been begun at
jamestown 10y several capitalists to recover an
aggregate of 5000 paid in taxes under pro-
test.
TIL Dell Rapids Granite company has been
awarded the contract for paving 81. Joseph,
Mo. They will shipping at once,
the job requiring from 200 to 400 car loads of
stone.
a stock company with a capital stock of
S25, 900 is being formed at Watertown. The
project is to heat the city by steam 10y using
a plant Of boilers, and also to light the city
by electricity.
a Chinaman sixty-tiye years of age, died at
Deadwood recently, who weighed only forty
pounds, and being of the usual stature, it is
thought that his death was caused by the ex-
cessive use of opium.
ID. {. Linslcy, general manager Of the Can
ada Atlantic road, was in Fargo Saturday, and
related how the Narthern Pacific Red river
crossing was at first located at the mouth Of
the Wild Rice river, MINI, but was changed
by him.
While stacking last Saturday, near Estelline.
Ed Carnahan placed a pocketbook containing
between $50 and so under the edge Of the
stack for safe keeping. He forgot II, and
Sunday the stack was struck by lightning and
burned.
The latest train orders are that If q prairie
fire Is seen anywhere near the track, the CON
ductor is required TO stop the train and all
hands turn out to e~Xtinguish the flames.
These orders were given to both freight and
passenger conductors.
Tn Yankton chapter OF the Grand lodge A.
f. and A. NJ, Of Dakota, has presented Grand
Master William Blatt with an elegantly carved
gold past grand high priests jewel, as a testi-
monial Of its regard for the manner in which
has discharged the duties of his office.
There is war in the Rapid City council.
The mayor vetoed a bill appropriating 800
for the services of the city marshal, and the
council refused to uphold his veto. The
mayor and council, at present, DO not speak
as they pass by.
The proprietors of the proposed street rail
way at Huron have named three routes which
ii is possible for them to take through the
city, and agree to take the one which will pay
them the most by the men whose business will
be affected.
A. Towuer, a farmer living near Highmore
was struck by lightning while riding on a load
OF sheaf oats. One of the horses was also
killed and the straw set on fire. Towner 5
body was saved from cremation by the exer.
tons Of his wife and a neighbor.