Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1886-02-27
NORTHWESTERN NEWS.
DAKOTA

Sioux Falls has seventeen saloons.
Centerville has organized q Are company.
La Grace Is To. organize . military company
The Iron Hill mine has declared its first divi
dend.
South DAkota has thirty-three Presidential
postofices.
Joseph wanrin, of Merton, committed sui.
eide BY hanging.
The North Dakota Prohibition alliance meets
At Fargo March l.
i Mount Vernon IL to have Grand Army O.
the Republic post.
1t IL said two more railroads will enter La
Moure this season.
Hiilsboro now has elevator capacity for 100,
900 bushels Of wheat.
Pierre has raised $500 for expenses OF the
fremen's tournament.
Young grssshoppers have made their ap-
pearance at Chamberlain.
Buffalo Gap lie growing rapidly. A cemetery
has been opened up near town.
Deadwood has organized a board OF trade
with g. r. Scrongal at its head.
he Caledonia mine declared q dividend oil
en- cents per share, payable Feb..23.
There are eight counties In the territory tina,
have lady superiutendents Of schools.
Fifty-six new postofices have been estab-
lished In Dakota during a single week.
Test suits sgsinst hail insurance companies
havs haap hrouu chit In lrapJ Torba oo,ptv
The First National bank OF Sioux Falls has
purchased an interest In the gss-works at that
place.
Farmers In the vicinity of Milbank sre har-
rowing their fields preparatory to sowing
wheat.
Edward M. Hslstead shot himself fatally at
Warner, whether by accident or design is not
known.
The Odd Fellows OF Huron ere preparing
the plans for a three. story brick block 40xS0
feet In size.
The McCook county commissioner have
granted township organizations to eight Of the
civil townships.
A citizen OF Arlington, Kingsbury county,
has shipped twenty-five thousand muskrat-
skins this winter.
The tournament of the North Dakota Fire
June 8, 9, and 10.
Some one has looked over the figures and re-
psrts that there are twenty states that grow
less corn than Dakota.
Real estate at Deadwood has taken q boom.
Property is now sold at double the price asked
for IL a few months ego.
All but one Of the large land owners at Car
rington have paid their taxes Notwithstanding
the Trail county decision.
A large colony of Philadelphia people will
settle In Charles Mix county as soon as the
Sioux reservation 10 opened.
1t Is estimated that It will require 1900, Oc0
brick to complete the buildings which are al
ready projected at Rapid City.
Aberdeen IL making preparations to give a
grand banquet to Gen. Harris, the new land
officer, when he arrives from his Mississippi
home.
Among the many new structures being COM
menced at Rapid City is q four-story hotel,
1O0xl40 feet, which Is to be the largest and
finest In Dakota.
Pierre congratulates herself upon having the
most complete w~ater-works system and the
best and most thoroughly equipped volunteer
fire department In the territory.
Christ. Miller, living four miles south OF
Plan kington, sowed six acres Of wheat Mon
day Of last week, while a number OF farmers
were running pulverizers and drags.
A petition has been drafted by the secretary
OF the board Of trade at Yankton, asking for
the establishment Of mail service over the
Yankton extension OF the Northwestern road.
The charge for making hnal proofs 10 now
si6 so. The lsst increase OF $l.50 is made by
the officials of tho land Office for examining
the proofs, which are so much more volumin-
Gus under the Sparks regime than they were
formerly.
The artesian well at Fort Randall spouts
400 gallons of water per minute, with a force
which lifts a solid column of water six feet
above the mouth Of the pipe. This Is the most
powerful well In Dakota, and II is only $40 feet
deep.
jamestown man who holds $4,000 OF
Northern Pacific tax titles, proposes to force
the county to take them back on the ground
that the latter has no legal right to assess the
property, therefors no authority 10 sell 1t for
tax @.
While Elder Hartsough was preaching at
Centerville, the other hight, his, congregation
was called away by the burning OF a black
smith shop near by. This was the first fire IN
the history of the town, and naturally proved a
greater attraction than the elders sermon.
There Is great enthusiasm In the Missouri
river towns over the passage Of the Dawes bill
In the Senate and the apparent assurance that
1t will soon 60 through the House. The
Chamberlain Democrat predicts an
rush for the new lands 40 soon as the bars are
down.
The recent county prohibition convestion
at Ipswich was probably one Of the greatest
gatherings ever held there, and a thorough
organization was III ,ctsd. The county board
has refused to grant license, and settlers who
want to locate In q settled prohibition county
will find Edmunds OF that stamp.
Ayoung lady IN one of the southern coua-