Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1886-12-18
NORTHWESTERN ITEMS.
DAKOTA.

II IANCs " Vf1h ~ 49, "
S4th.
Brookings county has an epidemic of ty
phoid fever.
A coed deal of sickness is reported in Lin
colr county.
Aberdeen's telephone exchange has fort.
subscribers.
Canton claims to be the best lighted city II
the territory.
The Yankton wooden mills have shut dowr
for the winter.
Monday the 9th was called q perfect white,
day at Sioux Falls.
Four widowers were married up in Fault
county last week.
A double wedding at Bi;ou Hills was tn,
event of last week.
Travel ever the railroad from Pierre to the
Black Hills is brisk.
The Homestake mine employs In the neigh
borhood Of 900 men.
Bcadle county normal institute was opened
Huron on Monday.
A pipe organ has been put up in the Huron
Congregational church.
Wild cats are getting unpleasantly numer-
Gus In the James river valley.
Horse thieves need thinning out in the Lit
tie Missouri river region.
Higbmorc had but one car load of hard coal
10 get through the storm with.
Four children are sick In the family of Mrs,
Dahl, a widow lady Of Canton.
The ~oratorio of Esther will be given at Eli
Point two evenings of next week.
The st. Lawrence Tribune has changed its
name to the Saturday Tribune.
The legislature OF the territory Of Dakota
will co nvene on the 18th of January.
Huron is taking steps TO obliterate from the
face Of the earth its houses of i'll repute.
Pierre stands an excellent prospect for
joining the coal famine town sufferers.
The thermometer was 40 degrees below re-
no at Aberdeen on the morning Of the 4th.
Two large wolves were shot about a mile
south of Mitchell the first part OF the
week.
1t cost the city Of Miller t1,220 to make
several needed improvements during the past
year.
1t is estimated thut over $50 pairs OF boots
siay.
A reception Is being arranged for the state
lcgi- lature at Huron on the night of Decem-
Der a.
The citizens of Brownsville are having great
sport IN shooting deer, which are thick In that
locality.
w. j. Kueeshaw will contest the election of
county.
Mammoth snow balls cover the prairie In
Brown county, which were rolled by the wind
during the late storm while the snow was
damp.
1t was up Ia Clark county that a minister,
who had a claim, gave out his text as being In
st. Paul's Epistle to the Galatians, section
s, lis. 81.
The proprietors of the Huron Alcsid have
sold that paper to Davis and Ketchum, of the
Daily Huronite.
A new postaf6ce building at Scotland Is
about completed. 1t is also to be occupied
by tie Citiz,n office.
There are tve applicants for the Vermillion
postofice. The present incumbent's time lie
out January /, 1887.
The Manitoba hauled 9,9s7, 500 bushels OF
wheat III liSf4 CATE OUT ~ bhhoto 81 ~ i"7
three months.
The gamblers are having n hard road to
travel in tie section subject to Judge
Church's judicial sway.
There are hopes that a government land OF
fee will be established at jamestown before
the winter grows WARN.
The Y. NJ. q. A. Of Huron gave n dinner
Thanksgiving day to all their members who
had no homes OF their own.
All of the passenger trains on the southern
Minnesota division Of the Milwaukee road are
drawn by two engines.
A ton Of fax has been discovered by Da
kota farmers to be more valuable for heating
purposes than a ton of soft coal.
Fargo's electric light has been growing
DINNER and DINNER until finally it has gone
out and been sold to the highest bidder.
Mitchell Republican; The genial black
guard who gets up the Dakota notes in thu
st. Paul Globe is rapidly becoming a nui
sance.
The coal famine in central Dakota is abat
ing. The Winona a. st. Peter railroad hal
carried go loads during the last day OF
tive.
A large force of men are kept constantly a
work putting Town the rails on the various
streets of Huron where 1t is proposed to rur
street cars.
There are three papers in the %territor.
called blizzard" One at Copp, in Potte
county, another at Casselton and the third a
Elk Point.
A largely attended meeting was held a
Huron on Monday night to make arrange
ments for the approaching meeting Of thu
state legislature.
The scarcity Of good pure water at a mum
Der Of Dakota towns is causing a great dea
of sickness and distress, and it is feare
that cslamitous results will follow.
Deadwood papers tell of an old gentlema
in that village, who has a suit of clothes /
which he has been married three times, and
new desireus Of repeating the performance.
Two young men of Minot went out hun
ing, and mistaking an OK for a deer, shot i
They were arrested and taken to Burlington
and it cost them $50 each to settle the ma
ter.
A strong attempt is being made to find
&c., boy. h- which the pounfy seat of l.