Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1886-10-30
NORTHWESTERN ITEMS,
DAKOTA.

The Black Hills are generally quite pros
porous.
Custer was the original settlement in the
Black Hills.
The tIacklsyers on the Milwaukee have
reached Faulkton.
A pottery mandatory is soon TO be estab-
lished in Rapid City.
Baldwell IL Wallport, liquor dealers at Ca
your, have suspended.
The Walker saw-mill at Grand Forks will
close down this week.
A fifteen thousand bushel elevator has been
put up at 81. Thomas.
Clay c~ounty's corn crop is turning out much
better than was anticipated.
j. w. b. Hunters barn at Ojata burned.
Loss, 5000; insurance, $500.
John f.. Meade, a plonscr Of Elkton, died
yesterday Of an overdose Of morphine.
Rapid City is looking forward to the estab-
lishment Of an ice rink for this winter.
The mayor Of Pierre claims the fire depart.
ment is Inefficient and wants an inyestiga-
tlon.
Huskiug bees are all the rage az present,
and red ears were ueyer more numerous than
this year.
Huron has built $50 new residences during
the past year, and expects TO double that mum
Der next season.
The first shipment of bullion from the Iron
I'm smeltcr was made last week and consisted
Of 1880 pounds.
Seth Skill, the engineer, was buried g
Deadwood Tuesday, according TO a request of
his English relatives.
Dcadwood will sink SIS, 900 in macadamiz-
ing Main street. Rapid City viii put in $780,
600 in a similar improvement.
Twenty-one thousand shares Of Hester \.
stock sold at Deadwood at ID cents a share,
the largest sale made for months.
A druggists association for South Dakota
viii be organized at Mitchell on the 10Th inst,
a call having been issued for that purpose.
According to missionary Mack" Of Sioux
City, Custer is a good business ~town-prices
are good and times corrcspondingly the
same.
A railroad is being surveyed from Rapid
City to Custer, called the Rapid City and
Southwestern. 1t is intended 10 be a narrow
guage.
The Deadwood stock market has revived TO
some extent since fall weather set In, and
some half dozen stocks are again quoted as
active.
Six years ago the southern part of Dakota
was e~ltlrely blockadcd y snow, for a period
OF nYs days, from the 14th to the 10Th Of
October.
Minrehaha county will vote upon the divi-
vision question at the November election, as
the county board has ordered it placed upon
the ticket.
Henry Weimer was badly injured at Tower
City by a runasa y horse falling on bin. re
ia paralyzed in the legs, ard is IN a critical
condition.
The Ohio Coal company will furnish 800
tons Of hard coal to the Indian department If
Fort Bennett. Tn contract was awarded @t
Pierre lately.
Eastern money has during the past year,
bought up quite a number of tin mines round
Custer, and next season machinery is eypccte'
to work the ore.
A postolicc has been established In the
neioahorhood Of Red Lake, Bruie county.
This Office was one of the principal ones in
carly history, but was discontinued in 1888.
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,i.r &c ,rotsr ynl Give scrions trouble mi,
it.. Tao wotor il tba Rca ana Cheycunc
rivers was never so low before as at present.
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..,3, nuring tho .oe.
h a-ha.a,od Sasa az, o. aud have on
,.,os,, s,tioct ., chacR ~ demand Slg6
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Ieola the county seat of Mcpherson coua
J ~ Is located IN tie midst OF a fertile agri
cuitrrol district. The nearest railroad /.
,wentxtwo miles away. but a survey has beer
made ana the GRADE nearly completed into the
town.
superintendent Scribner states that he visi
ted schools In two Of the country districts OF
Pennington comfy yesterday and found thai
In each the attendance is double that Of las'
wear. lie believes that the same is true Is
nearly every country district in the county.
The jeweliy firm Of NJ. l.. Grimes d Co., OF