Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1886-03-27
NORTHWESTERN NEWS.
DAKOTA.

There 10 great activity IN real estate In Deed
wood.
Rapid City voted recently to invest $500
In Q jail.
Desmet cast 1876 votes at the recent tow
election.
The young ladies Of Dolsnd have organized
q polo club.
The Iron Hill mine 1, turning out $1,000 o.
bullion per day.
Ignatius Donnelly will be the st. Patrick
day orator at Fargo.
Roscoe business men have determined tt
abolish the credit system.
Sully and Hyde counties have already TIL:
year been visited with heavy prairie fires.
Buffalo Gap has qusrrIes OF fine building
stone that will prove OF great value to the
town.
A joint stock company has been organized
for the purpose Of building an opera house al
Sioux FSlls,
Rapid City's street car line will materialize
this spring. Pierre has the only line In the
the territory.
A farmers joint stock elevator company has
been organized at Milbank, aud will cree. q
IL, 600 bushel elevator.
The Buffalo Gap Telegraph company will at
once erect aud operate o line from the Gap to
Hot Springs end Custer.
A farmer In the town of Rsndsville is SAID
to have committed an outrage upon his hired
girl and then skipped the country.
A man and his wife and eleven children re
Gently settled In the vicinity OF Redfeld. They
have come west TO grow up with the country.
Lohr aud Jennie Biglin were sentenced to
nineteen end one-half years In the penitentlary
for killing George Middleton at Battle Creek.
new line Of steamers will be put on the
Missouri river at Bismarck this epring. II is
expected that the river will break up about
April /.
Hutchinson county claims q population OF
5000. 1t also claims to have produced more
fax last } ear than any other county in south
ern Dakota.
A number OF the bachelors at Darlington
publish a card in On eastern paper soliciting
correspondence from young ladies, with a view
to matrimony.
Sarles & Durstine. OF jamestown, have sold
their extensive lumber interests TO the Gull
River Lumber company, one of the heaviest
in the territory.
A herd Of seven or eight buffaloes has lately
appeared In the hills some forty miles west Of
La Moure. A buffalo COW was killed from
there the past week.
The Yankton Press says: "Omaha is the
coming city OF the west. It's advance during
the past few years has been without parallel
In recent history"
There Is much rejoicing In the west part OF
Rdmunds eounty over the announcement that
the Milwaukee railroad is to extend its line
thirty miles west OF Ipswich this season.
Several chiefs OF the Rosebud agency have
written to their brethren at various agencies
urging them to refuse to negotiate for the sale
Of the Sioux reservation and TO demand d sur
vey.
During the past twelve years $50 chatt !
mortgages have been fled IN the Office OF the
register of deeds OF Ysnkton county. 1t is
estimated the mortgages represented loans sg-
gregat!ng ss50,0OC.
The Ysnkton council passed q re resolution au-
thorlzlng the Citizens league to employ, at
their own expense, one policeman, whose duty
1t will be to see that the ordinances relating TO
saloons and disorderly houses are enforced.
The theory that the Indians are decreasing
In numbers Is not sustained by information
from Sitting Bulls people. During the month
Of February among those enrolled at Standing
Rock there were seventeen deaths and twenty
one births.
A row occurred in the Capital saloon at
Miller In witch the barkeeper, Jack Garvey,
was shot and killed. William Malkinson,
formerly Of De Witt, Ia, is the murderer. He
was drunk when the deed was done. He has
been arrested and lodged In jail.
The Black Hills region prides itself special.
ly upon its fine climate. An observer near
Rapid City reports in the past three months
but five or six stormy days, and sixty days of
bright sunshine al! day. Not over eighteen
inches Of snow has fallen in all.
AT Rapid City, one evening last week, while
the man in charge Of a hazard game left the
room for a few minutes, some parties tamper-
ed with the dice, loading them with quick
silver. AZ q result the bank was soon cleaned
out OF 500, when business was suspended.
AT Rapid City one evening last week while
the man In charge OF a hazard game left the
room for q few minutes, some parties temper
cd with the dice, loading them with quIcksil.
YER. AS q result the bank was soon cleaned
out Of 5000, when business was suspended.
James O'Neil, says the Pierre Free Press,
has just invented q new hay stove that
promises to do away With the burning OF coal
or wood. The stove is upon the base burner
plan, and a test made last Saturday went 10
show that 100 pounds OF hay would last six
hnnrs.
w. ID. Allen, Of Fargo, had taken from his
right leg a piece Of glass that had been i'm
bedded in the flesh foT nine years. 1t was a
fragment OF q window pane Of one Of the cars
In an OIL train that was demolished during the
P~.ttsburg riots OF 1917.
A book entitled Gan English Dakota School
Dictionary has just been issued from the
Office of The Yankton Press. tits q dictionary