Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1886-02-06
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death In last weeks 8torm-
A freight train last week, near Medora,
killed ton cows at one time.
A party OF Ave Iadis recently killed 800
deer on the Sioux reservation.
Grant county has sued Roberts county 10
force q settlement Of accounts.
w. j. Farmer, of White Lake, Is the pos.
SCISSOR Of an English coin dated 1707.
The artesisn vel at Fort Randall Is 600 feet
deep And flows? % gallons q minute.
lie McCook county commissioner have re-
duced liquor license from 800 to $500.
Pennington county will vote on the question
Of issuing $4,000 bonds to build q jail
In the Hopkins Campbell libel suit at Fargo
q verdict wal rendered for the defendant
Southern Dakota newspapers complain
greatly Of the mail service in that section.
Judge Francis has appointed J. w. Bennett
clerk Of district court OF Bottineau county.
A specimen OF TIN ore from the Eta mine.
weighing 1000 pounds,is to be shipped to New
York.
BY Q vote of four to one, the commissioners
Of Faulk county refuse TO grant license for the
year 1885.
The Castalla aouring mill, the only mill in
Charles Mix county, burned. Loss, $4,000;
no insurance.
Petitions are In circulation at Wahpeton aud
vicinity for the pardon Of McCumber, con-
victed OF bigsmy.
Sioux Falls will vote next month On a prop
osition to issue IS. 900 7 per cent bonds In aid
of the proposed railroad.
The superintendent OF Duell county states
there is but about half the number Of seachers
needed In that section.
Petitions for the organization OF civil town
ships In Lake county are being circulated by
members OF the Farmers alliance.
A mass meeting is to be held at Northw God
for the purpose OF aidivg those who suff sred
by hail storms, in procuring seed wheat.
Dalrymple, the bonanza Dakota farmer, will
put In $4,000 acres Of wheat next season. He
raised Dol 600 bushels Of wheat the past sea
SON.
Rev. A. G. Dill, late pastor of the Congre-
gational church at Desdwood, has accepted a
call from the Presbyterian church at reedcm,
NJ.
Hunters Just returned to Bismarck redict
heavy foods In the spring, with al immense
June rise In the Missouri river when the snow
melts.
Fire destroyed the barn OF G. w. Fenno
near DolGnd, together with seven head OF
horses, also valuable cattle and hogs. Loss,
$1,000.
The several alliances OF western Walsh
county hays joined hands, and will erect a
union elevator at Park River early IN The
spring.
II. 8. Schmidt, secretary Of the Minerva
Mining company, ia violently insane, and a
commission will sit at Deadwood to examine
his CAGE.
The territorial grand jury has found an In
| ictmen against the Indian, Little Moon, for
assault with intent 10 kill Agent McGillycud.
dy, some time since.
The Presbyterian college which has been To-
Gated at Jamestown has progressed far enough
To call for bids for the preliminary work. A
$2O ,OCO buiidirg is 10 be erected.
A buffalo bull that has been Gomesticated In
Barnes county, for two or three years, has
lately been shipped east 10 some geological
garden as a wild native OF the plains.
Yankton people have organized q citizens
league for the enforcement OF existing laws
snd ordinances in reference to the sole OF
liquors to minors, suppression OF gambling,
and the closing Of saloons on Sunday.
Judge Francis has ordered the Benson
county commissioners to at once place the jail
ut Benson In proper condition for the reten-
ton OF prisoners, the grand jury having PRO.
nounced 1t insecure and lily ventilated.
Henry Hoimsister, OF White Lake, th.S ed
out o gasoline tank with q candle. The job
was successful, though 1t took the roof OF the
house and plated 1t in = neighbours yard.
Henry landed headforemostin a snow bank
80 yards way.
Waite .hs hat Is being passed ga ong tia
shanties and sbscks to meet the expenses OF
the Senators and Con2ressIls nelect OF the
state Of Dakota, some ere not very enthusias.
tic over the report TIA! one OF the honored
gentlemen, Mr.. Clifford, rides about Washing.
ton In q FIVE carriage with four horses and
foJtEan, and driver In uniform.
The grand jury OF Brown county returned
indictments against nearly every saloon keep
or In the county. Several druggists are in
Guided. In Aberdeen thirteen ssloonists and
gamblers and oil the keepers OF houses OF III
fame wers Indicted. The grand jury by q vote
Of IS 20 3 voted TO ask the county commits
sioners 10 grant no more licenses in Brown
county.
As showing the thouehtfulness of Dakota
wives, the volga Tribune relates that a lady of
that vicinity, upon the return in the evening
from town OF the hired man un~accompsnied
by her 'lord and master" irqrired as to tho
~lattei's whereabouts. The blunt and truthful
h. m replied that his employer was "up-town
plsyIps fre,z.-out'" The sympathetic wife,
fearing for the health Of her spouse white en-
gagged in such = chilly vocation, ordered the
tesm turned round, and sent the man back
with her husbands buffalo overcoat