Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1886-04-10
NEBRASKA.


Gage county has fourteen newspapers.
Dorchester has organized a board Of trade.
The Harrington Nonpareil has q libel suit or
It's hands.
North Bend is to be made a city Of the sec
cond class.
Cunning county lost $1,000 worth Of bridges
by the flood.
1t costs 81, 400 q year to support the poor Of
Dakota county.
The Hastings telephone exchange has over
800 subscribers.
Sheridan county expects to harvest loco, 0O(
bushels Of potatoes this year.
There are eleven and three-quarter miles OF
water mains laid In McCook.
Rushville, established In July, 1889, now
has a population Of upward OF 500.
Sidney has a population Of 1000, exclusive
Of the military post Of $50 regulars.
The Seventh Day Adventists living near Te-
kamah will build a church this year.
Grading has begun at Weeping Water on the
Lincoln extension Of the Missouri Pacific.
The North Platte roller mile. capacity fifty
barrels per day, will be completed by July l.
The body OF a babe sewcd up in a canvass
sack was found in the river near Neigh last
week.
A Democratic paper, the Buchanan Mail, is
to be started In the heart Of the Box Butte
country.
Georg, +. Walker, Of Weymore, H. SAID 10
have refused an offer Of $4,000 for his newly
invented typs. writer.
A Grafton kid rifed a letter and cashed the
money order 1t contained, and was sent to the
K~earney penitentiary for six months.
Henry Paulson who killed Henry Stel hens
at Valentine in January, was Saturday cen
fenced to the penitentiary for fifteen years.
The contract for the O'Netl roller mill has
been let. The cost of the plant will be about
sl2, 900, and will be completed by September l..
d. B. Thompson, a brakeman on the first
division OF the Union Pacific, was run over
and killed In the company's yards at Grand
Island Saturday morning.
VIM. Lowe, of Fsirbury, has in his posses
sion a copy Of the first paper printed IN
Ohio-the Belmont Journal, published at st.
Clsirsville, August Z, 1879.
w. A. Bridges, Of Crete, has offered to build
and operate a SIS, 900 roller mill at O'Neill f3r
. bonus of $1,000. The gentleman to whom
500.
A social volcano broke out Ia Blue Hill last
week, and the upper ten of the wi is shocked
by revelations of domestic irregularities" to
put it mildly, too coarse and vile for public
print.
Udel Wilson, of Edgar, was kicked by the
butt OF a gun last week and severely n iured
about the head, neck and face. The explosion
swept away the bridge OF his nose and the left
eye-lid.
The Thurston hose team Of Omaha has nc
cepted the 81 900 challenge OF the Fitzgerald
hose team OF Lincoln, the raco to be run In
either Omaha or Lincoln, and has deposited
800 forfeit.
Farmer Beller, OF Poncs, is experimenting
with box elder as q sugar producing tree.
Samples Of molasses and sugar made OF the
sap have the appearance and taste of the Yer.
mont article.
a. B. Humphrey, Of Nelson, toyei with the
business end Of a pony and lost the bridge OF
his nose and a section OF bis jaw. It was a
square hit and reduced Humphreys fighting
weight a few pounds.
The committee OF citiz ems OF Aurora, Ham,l-
ton county, who interviewed the Union Pacific
officials in Omaha r~ecentlv, report that the ex
tension from Stromsburg can be secured II
sufficient aid Is voted.
Robert Bonner claims the honor of being the
first settler on government land In the Ante
lope valley. lie squstted on his claim in the
winter OF 1884, and now boasts the finest
farm IN the vicinity Of Chadron.
The boiler In sharp's bath rooms, at Nc
Cook, exploded On Sunday morning scalding
and otherwise ipjuripg Judge j. W. Lucas.
The boiler, weighing 30n pounds, wac blown
into the Democrat Office, demolishing the
power press.
A rumor comes from Oakland, the scene OF
the burningof Steadman's murderer, that q
a number of COW boys are In the vicinity try
ing 70 learn who the parties are that were In
strumental In the refugees death for the pur-
pose OF wreaking vengeance upon them.
The Fremont Tribune has opened up on the
business methods o. the Dodge CT unity com
mis- s!oners. The 1dbune declares that the
business OF the cou" y has been conducted in
q recklessly extrav,Gant manner, aud that the
bridge fund has been squandered IN worthless
bridges.
The commissioners Of Dixon county have
brought the Wakefield bank TO time on the tax
question. The bank refused to furnish q
schedule of personal property for taxation, but
the commissioner secured a copy of the re-
port fled with the state auditor and assessed
the bank to the full limit and scooped 10 5000.
The B. & NJ. company has surveyed a route
for q branch line from Superior, in Nuckolls
county, by way Of Edgar, Geneva and WILDER,
to Nebraska City. This is intended to cut of
a good slice Of the territory which the Rock
Island will cover. Three hundred men and
teams are at work on the grade between Supe.
rior and q ,neva.
AT Atkinson, one day last week, while Gro.
W. LusK was driving out 10 the country, be
heard q rumblipg noise at a distance, and after
drtvtpp about q poflo f,vfbay ba n q ~ 20 n