Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1886-11-06
NORTHWESTERN ITEMS
DAKOTA.

larged.
The machinery OF the electric light at Rapid
City is driven by water power.
A large number OF wholesale houses have
lately been opened at Sioux Falls.
Henry Weimer, living near Tower City,
was crushed to death by a horse falling upon
him,
Judge Church, who has recently left the
bench, VIII make DeadwOod his home for the
future.
The Western Union telegraph line will be
in operation to Deadwood by the middle of
November.
About 100000 feet of lumber have been
manufactured at Grand Forks during the last
season.
The Western Union telegraph line to Dead.
wood viii be open for business on or before
November 10.
The schools In the country districts OF Pen
nington county have an attendance nearly
doable that of last year.
The Aberdeen piow factory Is now fully or
gained, and will at once erect the necessary
buildings aud machinery.
Freight and passenger traffic opened Mon.
day over the Faulkton branch Of the Chicago
and Northwestern railway.
The building Of the new depot, three grain
warehouses and a section house at Armour
makes things look business like around there.
The building Of the new depot, three grain
warehouses, and a secion-house at Armour
makes things look business like around there.
According to Missionary Mack OF Sioux
City, Custer is a good business ~town-prices
are good and times corrcspondingly the
same.
Twelve carloads of brick manufactured at
Rapid City were shipped over the Fremont,
Elkhorn and Missouri Valley road into Ne
braska.
sturgis Citizens, realizing the necessity of
an adequate water supply, have organized a
company for the purpose of sinking All arte-
sian web.
The new track from Ellsworth TO Sioux
Falls has been made for business, all heavy
grades and short curves being avoided and
heavy steel rails used.
Lieut.. Gov. Smith, of Illinois, has been in
Dakota recently, organizing the military rank
of the order Of Odd Fellows. Five Of these
have been put in operation.
Volume /, No. /, OF the Normal Topic. has
tnade its appearance. 1t is published by the
students at the Normal school at Madison
and presents a very neat appearance.
A postoffice has been established In the
neighborhood of Red Lake, Brule county.
This Office was one Of the principal ones in
early history, but was discontinued In 1888.
The board of county commissioner at Aber-
deen has decided to appeal the case wherein
the Offices Of treasurer and register of deeds
were made salaried offices by legislative enact
ment
The Northern Pacific Railroad company
have agreed to furnish all the farmers aleu-
tbe line of their road whose crops were a
season.
The alleged existence of platinum deposits
in the Black Hills is exciting much interest
among old prospectors, as well it might. The
metal being worth something over 500 per
pound.
a considerable quantity Of ore In sacks and
sofne base bullion is piled up on the ground
near the warehouses in Rapid City. About
cars a day are Icing shipped now to the
Omaha smelter.
Plankinton has closed a contract with Chi
,ago parties, by which they agree to put dow ,
a 5H-iEth ~artesian well for s.. 10 a foo, ~
be no less than 40 nor more .La,, , sno
feet deep. No well no pay.
Prof. b. +, Hoo1., Of Aberdeen. took the 20.
OIL Ills effe 60 Boone, Iowa, for inter.
der death is a SAD blow TO him, and it
:. reared be may not be able to long conduct
the schools under his charge.
Typhoid fever has become so prevalen,
about Gettysburg, in Porter county, that the
court house was used as a hospital, with a
dozen or more patients there at once. The
epidemic was attributed by many TO the water
used.
Leola, the county seat Of Mcpherson coun-
ty, is located in the midst Of a fertile agri-
cultural district. The nearest railroad is
twenty-five miles away, but a survey has been
made and the grade nearly completed into the
town.
Colonel Richard l.. Dodge, of the Eleventh
lnldHtIy, WHO nus DecD III command at Fort
Sully for four years, has gone TO Washington,
where he will be retired from active army ser
vice. He has served his country honoraLly
and faithfully for forty years.
Tn remains of Geo. w. Chandler ard wife.
who lost their lives in the food of 's3, were,
on Thursday, exhumed at Desdwood, and will
be sent to Wisconsin for final interment.
The bodies were In a state of much better
preservation than was thought possible.
Superintendent Scribner states that he visl.
ted schools in two Of the country districts Of
Pennington county yesterday and found that
in each the attendance is double that OF last
year. He believes that the same Is true In
nearly every country district In the county.
General A. Z. y. Dawson has resigned his
position as clerk of the district court OF Law
renee comfy, on account OF i'll health, and
will go the Hot Springs, Arkansas. The gen
eral has many friends In the Hills who wi
sincerely hope he may be- benefited by the
change.
Some time since IL was reported that Hen
der Bass had committed suicide at Gettvs-
burg by banging himself in the tower Of the
.artesian well. Suspicious Of foul play have
since become 90 strong that the matter is be-