Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1886-04-17
NORTHWESTERN NEWS.

NORTHWESTERN NEWS.
DAKOTA.
Alexandra votes on incorporation on April
"A.
d. +. Roger has purchased the Alpsns Jour-
nal.
Canton has Q Scandinavian temperance so
siety.
A new Methodist church is being talked OF
Of Beresford.
The name Of the silver cornet band at Egan
is Dennis"
GOOD Templars' lodge is to be organized
at Bismarck.
R,chland, in Union county, Las q popula-
ton Of sixty.
AG. A. R. post was organized at Wessing-
on Saturday.
At Sioux Falls electric lights are furnished
at $40 q month.
A Connecticut colony will locate near Ellen
dale this spring.
Two more artesisn wells have been com
pleted at Hurley.
DR.. Slaughter OF Bismarck, has received g.,
1S6 back pension.
John Morgan WAS killed in the Old Abe mine
by a slide of rock.
Millbank is to have a three story hotel con-
taining fifty rooms.
James r. Brand, a Redaeld merchant, has
made an assignment.
A direct telephone line from Nebraska City
10 Lincoln is talked OF.
There are now TO- C0 head Of cattle on the
Mouse river In the bluffs.
Almost an epidemic OF scarlet fever Is raging
at Springfield and vicinity.
Besdle county farmers figure s5o,Ooo benefit
from the last snow storm.
The overflow OF the Missouri river at Mandan
caused q damage Of about $500.
The cowboys Of the Black Hills country are
organizing, and threaten strikes.
e. T. Losey, q Beadle county farmer, has
already SOW fifty acres OF 1886 wheat.
Rapid City 10 to have . Democratic paper.
Firat number will be issued about May Is.
Two of the saloons at Brtdgewster have sus
pended. The couldn't afford to pay the $500
license.
The Iron Hill Mining company has declared
another dividend Of five cents per share, pay
able April 10,
Sam Woo, q Chinaman who left Pierre for
China.two years ago, has returned, acconpan-
led by his two SONS.
The citizens of Flandreau are canvsssing
the advisability of issuing $1,000 city bonds as
q bonus for a Touring mill.
Sedgwick post G. A.. r will erect ct $4,000
hall at Salem. The building win be "A by so
feet In size and two stories high.
Spearish will issue bonds for the purpose Of
procuring q water supply. II is thought that
a good supply can be secured for $4,000.
Ingebright HILARY, a Scandinavian farmer,
hangtd himself In hts barn at Modena, Buffalo
family.
At Bismarck all men without visible means
OF support have been ordered to leave the
city. There are about z0J men who must 20
under the order.
Rapid City is er joying q lively season In the
building and real estate lines. Settlers are
focking to the town and surrounding country
by the thousands.
One hundred and twenty families from Full
ton county, Pennsylvania, have already To-
.u%al L. nvar nay,r srha nAat ~ yhavn
are people Of means.
The board of the Territorial Agricultural
society has under consideration q scheme to
indemnify for loss by hail. 1t Is thought that
st can be managed without expense to the In
sured.
The Yankton board OF trade has prepared
for general distribution q circular setting
forth the many advantages Of Yankton city
snd county. A population Of 800 is claimed
for Yankton city.
There 10 great enthusiasm In Potter and
Faux counties over the news that the North
western proposes TO continue it's line from
Red6eld to the Missouri river. The line is to
run q little north Of La Foon.
The pos.oflce department has ordered that
the name Of the postofiee at Flandrau be
changed to Flandresu. This practically ends
the controversy as TO the various Examinations
of the word. which has been q matter OF dis
pute since 1871.
The Scotland Citizen says that the early riser
Witnessed . striking sight Wednesday morn
ing. The Bluffs along the Missouri river on
the Nebraska side, thirty miles distant. were
distinctly seen In all their snow clad grandeur
and irregularitY.
The richest silver ore 10 large bodies ever
discovered IN the United States was struck In
the Iron Eli mine, near Deadwood, last week.
Much OF 1t assays &l5, 600 TO the ton. A five
foot breast has already been opened. Great
excitement prevails. The stock has gone up
$50 n one Jump and Is steadily advancing.
The petriHed ''stif " Of some supposed ante.
Ss;uy;.,. fen :!c scred IN the Rand Lands. Is
being exhibited In the south Dakota towns and
working Its way into Minnesota. It is not q
Cardiff giant affair but q genuine once female.
IL has long arms and short legs and was found
in q hnif sitting posture. The cowboys who
found It are the showmen, and win no doubt
make q good thing out OF Il.
A Hutchinson county Russisn farmer, who
had FIVE carloads Of sheep for sale, dissstis-