Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1886-09-11
NORTHWESTERN ITEMS.
DAKOTA.

school.
The electric light plant at Lead City will be
closed down.
Turner c%ounty's fair will occur September
Is, l6 and II.
Yankton can have a 500, 600 twiLe factory
for a bonus Of $4,000.
Yankton college opens the fall term to-day
with many students.
The cars for the street railway at Huron
have arrived on the ground.
Bishop Hare will return 10 Sioux Falls from
Europe about September %.
The Norfolk Spy building and contents were
destroyed by fire on the oath inst.
There are Abb teachers employed in the
public schools of the territory.
W.. W. Brady of Fargo, has been indicted
for murder and abortion.
The wheat yield in Hutchinson county aver.
aged twenty bushels To the acre.
The Iron Hill mine turned out -. sl0.91
ounces Of bullion during August.
A company has been organized to work tie
milestone q~uarries at Buffalo Gap.
About $50 carloads Of stock passed through
Bismarck last week on their way east.
Rapid City Is taking steps TO send a sample
Of its tin ores 10 eastern expeditions.
Chief Justice Trip has returned to Yank-
ton from his trip to the Yellowstone park.
4 fire on Prospect hill, at Deadwood, re-
Gently destroyed a large quantity of timber.
4 120-acre field of wheat In Ramsey county
averaged forty-one and a half bushels to the
acre.
One Rapid City dealer has disposed Of
twelve car loads Of wagons during the last
year.
The Estelline Belle has been sold to Frank
A. Parsons, member Of the late South Dakota
legislature.
TIE annual convention of the w. G. T. t..
of Dakota will be held at Aberdeen September
Is, IL and II. ,
The THERMOMETERS at Blunt registered at
the freezing point Tuesday and ice was form
ed as thick as window glass.
Hudson is the name Of the new town al the
northern terminus of the Chicago and North
Westerns Columbia extension,
Judge Clifford has large northern support
for delegate; Morton county is solid for him,
and the Black Hills will indorse him.
Rapid City, having secured water works
electric light and othe' modern conveniences,
is now moving for a street railway.
John Collar, an old gentleman living in
Huron, has had both legs broken three times
within the past nine months.
Rapid City requires the telephone company
to pay $500 a year for the right-of-way for lis
poles and lines through the city.
A new Dakota town is being laid out where
the Northern Pacific and the Chicago and
Northwestern meet south Of LaMoure.
The telegraph office at Rapid City was regu-
larly opened Cor business last Thursday. The
will be extended to Deadwood this fall.
The new city council Of Buffalo Gap has
passed an ordinance forbidding the utterancc
of any vile, vulgar or blasphemous words or
opprobrious epithets within the corporate
limits.
Jens Hanson, of Turner county, fell from a
load Of hay last week, when the horse ran
away, carrying the wagon over him, breaking
both arms and one leg. He died soon after
wards.
Joseph q. Chandler, assistant adiutant gen
eral Of Dakota National guard, sent in his
resignation to Adjt. Gen. John b. Dennis,
who Immediately appointed Il. w. Burns to
fiji the vacancy.
Watertown voted down a water-works pro-
position because the people did not like the
form IN ,rIipI ~ u.as ,yngan.al Tbar yp.op
to have water.
F.. J. Webb and G. A. Moody, county com
missioLers, and j, II, Linge, county treas
urer are in Jail at Traverse for issuing bogus
county warrants.
Stella Lowell, a eleven.year-old Huron girl,
was severely burned by . gasoline blaze re-
Gently. She attempted TO mix burning scat
tails and gasoline.
The telegraph line from Cheyenne to Dead,
wood was abandoned last Saturday. This was
the only means of rapid communication pos
sessed by the hills country for years.
The artesian well at Redfeld has reached a
depth of 80 feet, but although water lows
freely over the top OF the well, it will have t.
be sunk fifty feet deeper before the required
pressure can be obtained.
Citizens of Pierre unite IN a card denying
that an attempt was made to carry Hughes
county for James A. Ward for delegate or that
the mention of Wards naTne for governor OF
Dakota was hooted Town by the convention.
The managers Of the Rapid City school OF
mines were astounded last week to find that
Prof. Fletcher would not take charge Of the
school for less than $3.50 a month. That set
tied his prospects. The managers are now ne
gotiating for a cheaper professor.
There IL to be a baby show 2. the coming
fair at Nolga. The Bachelors club OF that
place offer two valuable prizes for the hand
soonest baby under one year Of age, and also
one prize for the homeliest baby. The judges
will be chosen from among the bachelors sub
scribing to the prizes.
A few days ago a 4year-old daughter OF G.
j.. Gilman, Of Fargo, boarded the Fargo ana
Southwestern passenger train. with a grip.
sack and a doll almost as large as herself, and
sat down as unconcerned ne any old traveller.
About 10 O'Clock Mr.. Gilman missed his
child and located her by telegraph. The lii.
tie girl travelled go miles and said she was
going TO see her grandma.
John Bumiller was arrested at sheldon, Ram.
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