Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1886-08-07
NORTHWESTERN ITEMS.
DAKOTA.

Deadwood.
A base ball association has been organized
at Lead City.
Jacob Jitben, aged forty years, died last
week at Iennox.
A new lumber yard venture will shortly be
made q: Canton.
Ripe tomatoes are being picked In the
Yankton gardens.
The Yankton Post is the name Of a new
German paper.
Milbauk citizens have formed a farmers re-
lief association.
Huron will endeavor to secure the nextmili-
tary eucampment.
Yankton's electric light plant will be in op-
Grafton by September.
The rmers Of Douglas county have formed
q law and order league.
numerous In the valleys.
The artesian we'll at Miller flows 1900 gal
Ions Of water per minute.
The ~artesian well at Miller forces water to a
height of seveHty-fye feet.
Charles d'Atalio, a stock man living on Mil
Ter creek, died of sunstroke.
A mining :urore prevails at Lusk, the new
town near Rawhide Buttes.
A farmer near Elk Point owns a calf which
has three eyes and two mouths.
Material for the manufacture of cement and
fire clay has been found near Rapid City.
Sim Nichols and Miss Daisy Fuller recently
eloped from Carbonate and were married.
m, ,otrfG.l baa2 gf "a haor upag fAt,p,3 sbfr-y
feet belov. the surface of the earth at Belle
Fouche recently.
Two prisoners in the Wappeton jail, confined
for burglary, escaped on Tuesday by digginga
hole in the wall.
The citizens OF Aberdeen have donated sos
900 to secure the Ordway, Bismarck and
Northwestern railroad.
The Republican county convention Of
Hughes county has instructed its delegates
Cor division and two states.
Frank 4. Carpenter Of Rapid City has lately
received a patent on an ore concentrator
which has been pending some time.
The extensive prairie fires which have oc-
cured in the Black Hills country recently
were started by a stroke Of lightning.
George A. Morton, the engineer that pulled
the first passenger train into Rapid City, July
5, was presented by the enthusiastic p~opulace
with "a fine gold watch and chain.
The city assessor gives the total assessment
against WATERFOWL as SOFA, 24S, against $3.50
sis last year, showing a total gain OF 81 per
cent, or a trile over a third increase.
The forage contract at Fort Meade calls for
800 900 pounds Of oats and 400,000 pounds
Of corn. For the former the contractor will
receive $l.20 per 100 pounds and for the latter
St.35.
DReports from Deadwood are to the effect
that that town can 40 longer Accommodate
the people who have gathered there. and that
Lead City is called on to Accommodate the
overflow.
Lightning entered the residence of Henry
Russell, Of CLARK, Sunday, and passed through
tie hat and scorched the hair OF a brother Of
Mr.. Russell. He was unconscious for ten
hours, but is now doing well.
The total valuation of Pennington county,
outside Of Rapid City, as shown by the CLERKS
return to the territorial auditor, is $500
Added to the city, the total assessed valuation
OF the county is about $4,000, 600.
The Queen Bee Gold Mining and Milling
company has been organized at Rapid City.
The mine is located near Hin City, and is
said TO show favorable indications of value.
Shares are marketed at 5 cents each.
III is said that in south Dakota the wheat
crop will amount to about one-third Of al
average crop; oats viii do a little better.
Flax will he light and the indications are that
potatoes will be almost a total failure.
A fire at Speartsh destroyed the residence
OF Albert Power. Loss, 1900. Prof. Cook,
who was living with Mr.. Power, lost the man
uscript of a history of Dakota be had just
completed and many other valuable papers,
A Prof. Fisher, a teacher OF dancing, has
been making an unsavory record in many OF
the Red riyei towns of late. lie collects il
advance and then travels to pastures new.
But the country is becoming too warm fol
him.
In sinking an arteslan well for the North
Dakota Roller mill at Hillsboro, a vein of nat
When lighted the lame shoots to a height OF
three feet. Mr.. Green, the proprietor, will
run his 1875 horsepower engine with it.
Mrs. Stewart, mother Of George Stewart, a
farmer of Sargent county, who lives ten miles
northwest Of Lisbon, attempted to kindle a
fire with kerosene. The oil ignited, the can
exploded and the woman and her six-year-old
granddaughter were so badly burned that
both died.
A terrific hail storm visited st. Thomas Sat
urday afternoon and lasted for -four hours.
Hundreds of acres Of good crops were de
stroyed, and not a window glass in the neigh
borhood was whole after the storm. Over
$500, 900 damage is estimated to have been
done. Warren, Mayville, and Grafton were
also visited, but the damage was very small.
The Rapid City aud Southwestern Narrow
Guage railroad is now an established fact.
Tie work of surveying, once begun again,
will not cease until the road Is ready for grad
ing. The country to be tapped by this line is
rich In mineral and one tLat can hardly be
developed without a line Of railroad, The rich
tin mines in the vicinity Of Hill City will be
the first ones coached, and the oil and coal
fields Of Wyoming will also be tapped.
A Grafton special describes "a hail storm of
unexamplcd fury which burst upon that local
iy Saturday afternoon, sweeping q track five
miles wide fir, mn ST Thomos across the Red