Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1886-05-15

aurora is PROMISED an iron lOuDOry.
Nance c~oupty's debt is less than $4,000.
Chsdron bias laid out Q seven block add
ton.
Broken Bow has started a fund TO build O
5000 hotel.
Courtlsnd, Gage county, is negotiating for
q creamery.
Rushville citizens have voted enough money
to organize a brass band.
Lincoln has twenty-fv saloons, which pay
into the city treasury $62, 800.
Business at the North Platte land office is
ted 81, 900.
Knox county 8 copper mine is thirty feet be.
low the surface, with a polished vein of brass
above ground.
An old gentleman named White left his
home In Lincoln aud died from exposure. He
left property worth half q million.
Many farmers are experimenting with fax
culture, with q view, II 1t proves to be a profit
able crop, TO raise less wheat and more fax.
Hamme Miller, an Axtell farmer, slid off a
AOod ~ uhAoC o AOuu Va UCVI. a DuuSu
d shingles followed him and broke his neck.
Prue & Drscoll, OF Nebraska City, have
been awarded the contact for the erection Of
the Burlington and Missouri round house at
Hastings.
The P~lattsmouth Journal Is suffering from
another attack Of railroad cole and threatens
to demolish the Omaha branch of the Burling-
ton and Missouri.
The Fremont creamery is turning the pro-
duet OF 5000 COWS into butter. New and
improved machinery has been put In the fac
tory, and the institution now leads In the
state.
Eleven cars OF coal were wrecked IN the
yard at Plattsmouth, Monday evening, and
the contents scattered around promiscuously.
1t took niue hours Of solid work to clear the
main track.
Last fall Frank Douglass, of Bloomington,
raised money on fraudulent mortgages aud
sbsconced. He was arrested at Harvard,
ILL.,, and taken TO Bloomington on q rtquistion
from Gov. Dawes.
F. Dixon, q wealthy farmer Of Fremont
county, Iowa. sold a team for $3.50 at Nebraska
City on Friday and started for home. He was
last seen at Hamburg, and 1t is feared that he
has been murdered.
Sam O'Briep, q Dodge county farmer, was
visited by horse thieves last week, and lost q
team OF horses, buggy and harness. A reward
OF 800 is offered for the capture OF the prop.
erty and the thieves.
Fred Ashton, a Syracuse youth, fourteen
years Of age, carried a revolver in his hip-
pocket while blowing, recently, and the gun
exploded. For several weeks to coma Fed
will enjoy what comfort there Is In HE stand
ing.
There is a lively contest going on in Ere
mont on the license question. Saloon keepers
are compelled to comply with every require
ment OF the law before a license Is granted.
The prohibltionists are fighting every appli-
cant.
Billy KeltaIy, Of the Weeping Water Repub-
ncan, was accused by his rival, Race, CT the
Eagle, with perpetrating an indiscretion" In
Omaha. A libel suit for 3d. OJ followed, and
q verdict Of IS for the plaintiff secured, with
the privilege of paying the costs.
Papillion is pleased with the work OF Judge
Wskeley at the present term OF court. Ac-
cording TO tHe Times, business proceeded
with the utmost dispatch consistent with due
administration Of justice" Andershoot, the
horse thief, was sent up for two years.
The prospective inauguration Of prohibition
In Fullerton hiss stirred up the inner guessed
ness of all the buns and moderates In town.
Painting expeditions are OF nightly occurrence
and the town constable has both hands full Of
b~usiness.
Ella Butts, the Cass county girl accused OF
numbering her child and throwing the body In
q hogpen, was acquitted by q Portsmouth
jury. There Is some doubt on the point
whether Ella or the jury are burdened with
sufficient mental hindsight to discern between
right and wrong.
A Nebraska man who went to San Francisco
wrote back to his friends: ave had a splen.
did party. There were two gentlemen from
Nebraska, a pair OF colonies from Mil ou,i, a
couple OF fellows from New York, and o son
Of q gun from Boston"
No trace has been found Of E. c. Pierce, the
Blair mr. srtaker, who disappeared zen days
ago. His office safe was opened last week and
o note found stating that he intended TO CON-
NIT suicide and bidding his family farewell.
The uncertainty OF his fate has plunged his
wife and family into the deepes. distress.
&. A. Wtnsor, o. Hastings, threatens to cue
the Central City Courier for $l0, 600 damages
to bis character. The Courier published an
item stating that Winsor had been convicted
Of arson In Hastings and was sent to the peni-
Tertiary for fifteen years, while the ~unfortu-
nate man was at that time, and Is now, shovel
ing grub at a railroad camp on the Aurora cut
off. The latter is punishment enough.
B. +. Allen, of Marion, Cass county, testife d
TO the efficacy Of an alleged maidstone for a
dog bite, but It would not stick. This stone is
the property Of G.. z. Sauters OF Shelby, 1t is
two and a half inches long, two inches wide
and about three fourths OF an inch thick, OF a
dark green color, when laid in the sun II re.
fl cts al the colors OF the r Inflow. II was
brought from France twenty-niue years ago.
"There is a great deal Of speculation" says
the Paptllion T'n.s, "among the farmers on
this side of the Platte, over the fact that sur.
veyors have been setting out grading sticks,
and report that II Is a branch road from the
Missouri Pacific to the stone quarr!es at South
Bend. IL the company build a road that far,
and they alreasy own the most Of the right Of