Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1886-11-27
NORTHWESTERN ITEMS,
DAKOTA.

The new normal school building at Madison
is nearly ready for occupancy.
The base ball park 1T Sioux Falls Is being
converted into a skating rink.
The machine shops Of the Northern Pacific
at Fargo employ seventy-fve hands.
TIE Homestead Mining company is the
largest in the world, and employs 5000 men.
Outside of the Rack Hills the the only 100
stamp mill In the world, is located In Alaska.
r. d. Kelly, late Of the Rapid City Times,
has purchased "a one-half interest In the Pho
neer.
The Buffalo County Sentinel, Of Gaun Val
ley, will follow the county seat to Buffalo
Centre.
ID. w. Kutchin has assumed control Of the
Brookings Sentinel. His motto is "Free and
unshackled."
Eight or ten quarter sections adjacent to
Alexandria have been sold at good figures in
the past month.
James Stage, Of Webster, was drowned
lille attempting to ross Minnewashta lake
In a NAL boat.
The Yankton District Methodist Episcop
CDDltIt Htc VIII COUNtHt at 1dUlOH NOV, 10 iOI
| a three days session.
The Burlington and Missouri Railroad com
pany is about to survey an air line from
Omaha to Deadwood.
Jesse Love, living near Park River, was
bound over to the district court, charged with
selling mortgaged wheat.
The business houses recently destroyed at
Spearfish by fire are to be rebuilt, stone being
used In the construction.
The members OF Phil Kearney post Yank-
ton conteEp plate the construction Of a hall
for their own use next spring.
Judge Mcconnell opened a three weeks
term OF court at Grand Forks the 18th inst.
There are l6l cases on the calendar.
Charles Mix, Douglas and Aurora county
farmers have plowed more ground by nearly
one-half this fall than they plowed last year.
F.. Everett committed suicide at Towner, in
Tewner county, Friday, the 18th inst, by
shooting himself in the head with a shotgun.
Two houses were burned at Bloomington
last Sunday, both caused by the explosion of
lamps and neither insured. Loss about $500
each.
The management Of the Rapid City Republi-
p. McManus, who assumes the editorship
also.
TIL second annual meeting of the Dakota
Fine Stock Breeders association will meet at
Aberdeen, December Z, for a two days SEES
sion.
Sioux Falls Is now all agog about the fail
ure of the Burlington railroad to give the
city the freight tariff which It had prom
Used.
The Rapid City Republican wants the city
authorities to fire the filthy celestials out of
town, that II may celebrate a pure Thanks
giving.
On account of the drought in North Dakota
are worth 40 cents per pound, and are in great
demand.
Chief Useful Heart and Mrs. Useful Heart,
from Lower Brule agency, are witnesses in a
land case before the United States court at
Yankton.
The Mitchell Republican announces that 1t
will hereafter charge half price for advertising
church fairs, socials and other religious en-
~tertainments.
The folio wing Dakota postofices have been
ty; Bethel, Clay county; Groverill, Union
county; Shelby, Brown county.
The governor Of Dakota will contribute a
number of papers to the Youths Companion
for the coming year, on the opportunities of
young men in the territory.
Andes lake, a beautiful sheet of water a
mile and a half wide and ten miles long, Is
called the hunters paradise. 1t Is In pleas
ant driving distance from Armour.
The secretary of the Rapid City school of
mines trustees H.. written to Charles s. Con
slant, in New York city, rendering him the
position Of professor at the institution.
A Thanksgiving ball is in preparation 10y
the Wahpeton hose company for the purpose
OF raising money to add TO the tournament
fund which it is desired to raise to 81 900.
Rachel Cashier Young, grandmother OF j.
N. Brokaw, Of Mitchell, died recently at the
remarkable age of one hundred years and
four months, in New York state, Of paralysis.
Redfield, Sphinx county, cast 4s4 votes In It's
county seat fight. Ashton cast SOB. The
next largest vote was that OF Doland, 221.
Frankfort cast 221. Worthwhile, 2Os; Mellette,
225.
The proposition to postpone the date for
adding penalty and interest to the taxes of
1856 In Dakota Ia being taken I'D and dis
cussed by newspapers generally, and a mum.
Der are outspoken In favor Of 1t.
According to the Hermosa Pilot, the board
ing-house keeper at the Eta mine has rcceiv-
ed orders to prepare at once for the sccommo-
dalton OF forty men. If this Is true the re-
sumption of active work al this mill can not
he far off.
Rapid City Republican: An organized
move Is being made by leading citizens OF
this legislative district to aid their represent
atives In securing a handsome appropriation
for the school of mines during the coming SEES
sion Of the legislature.
b. l.. Soloman, a prisoner in the Messing
ton jail, was found weltering in his own
blood the other day by the sheriff. He had
got possession OF a knife in some way with
which he had cut and goughed his arm In a
manner.
No little difficulty is being experienced at