Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1886-05-22
Northwestern NEWS.
DAKOTA.

thousand.
Rapid City's water works system IL about
completed.
The population Of Wells county has doubled
this spring.
Iron Hill stock declined 81, and Is O
uoted 1T 81.
lady Yields the editorial pencil Of the APP
pomattox Herald.
The first steam whistle woke the echoes in
Rapid City last week.
Brown county is six years old and reports
z, 945 school children.
A large colony OF Russians has located In
the DEVILS lake region.
Joseph Ardeon has planted $1,000 trees on
his claim near Msndsn.
Iron Hill paid double header dividend az.
gregating $685. 600 Monday.
The railroad track will be completed into
Rapid City before June 20.
Deadwood ia arranging TO have a magnif-
cent Fourth Of July celebration.
The Beardsley people will celebrate seeding
time In an imposing manner Friday.
w. X. Goodfellow, engrossing clerk OF the
First legislative assembly, died at Neche.
Blue Blanket Is the name Of a recently-es-
tablished postofdce In Walworth county.
Five Sioux Indian boys have been received
In the Indian school at the santee agency.
Col. Charles Peck, of Columbia, !s being
urs ed as a candidate for delegate to congress.
A paper is to be started at Battle River, a
new town between Buffalo Gap and Rapid
City.
Some Kentucky hcrsemen have located In
Faux county to open breeding farms OF fine
horses.
The proprietor of q hotel at PukwAna ad-
vertIses that he has added a cyclone cellar to
the hotel.
A city in Pembina county with only forty
voters supports a mayor, city council, end
Ok e. mino: officers.
The court houfe at Mitchell has been in
sured against cyclones and q cave has been
built for the officials.
The Bangor city council is considering q
bill prohibiting the riding of bicycles inside
the corporation limits.
Articles OF incorporation of mining com.
panies have been filed at the rate or ten a day
at Bismarck for the past month.
w. II. Kernsn, the fiery and fierce editor OF
the Okolona States In Mississippi. has gone
into the newspaper business at Pierre.
Work on the extension OF the railroad from
Ipswich to Roscoe began on Monday. The
cars are to be running In ninety days.
The Eldorado Mining company has been or
ganized at Deadwood with 81, 500, 900 capital.
The property is located near the Red Cloud.
A petrthed human skeleton was found re-
Gently In limestone near Gordon City. The
skull Is said to resemble that OF an Indian.
The large body Of Russians who some time
ago settled In Yankton county, have pulled
up stakes and emigrated to Edmunds county.
New settlers are pouring into the Hills at a
very lively rate, so much so that there is dan
ger OF the old settlers becoming covered up or
lost In the crowd.
James McCreedy, near Groton, is not ex-
pected to live, owing to q gun-ehot wound Ia
the abdomen. The shot was accidentally fired
by a friend while hunting.
The Homestake union has paid to its share
holders s3,3l7,0O0 In ninetY-three monthly
dividends. 1t stands at the head OF the pro-
ductive mines Of America.
Fifty new buildings are In course OF con-
struction at Aberdeen. A party OF Michigan
capitalists have purchased land there with Il
view of building an iron foundry.
Gov. Pierce and other member Of the terri
torial government are on q trip through south
Dakota, where they will visit the principal In.
situations, educational and agricultural.
Fargo Argus: Farmer report that wheat
never looked better OF this time Of the year It
Is stool;pg well, and the outlook for q large
yield could not be better, though the acreage
has been somewhat reduced.
DR.. +. w. Kordenst, q prominent ply sicisn
OF Watertown, was bitten on the hand by a
rabid dog about two weeks ago, and fearing
an attack Of ~hydrophotia has started for Paris
for treatment by NJ. Louis Pasteur.
A wine cave near Hot Springs, in Fall River
county, has teen explored for 200 feet, AID
the end is not yet. A current Of air is contin-
ually passing through 1t with sufficient forcs
to blow ones hat Offence Its name. Con-
gress ought to meet there.
Mark Thoms, says the Rapid CITY Republi-
can, brought some very rich ore from the
Equinox tin mine, which Is located a mile east
OF the Eta. /. is one OF the Harvey group OF
Greyhound guich. The crystals are large aud
numerous. The lead is seven feet In width.
The latest specimens from the tin districts
received In Rapid CITY are from the Equincx,
owned by Francis Brothers, Mark Thomas and
Charles Jones. The vein i~s..scvep and q half
feet thic < and between granite and slate walls.
The development consists OF a forty foot
shaft. The owners have several offers for the
claim.
Deadwood Is the scene OF great activity in
miuing stocks. New companies are organised
each week, stock Is taken at home. the mines
are developed and the gold and silver and tin
pour into the laps OF the stockholders. Min
log companies are being organized 1T the rate
OF four q day, and q mining stock exchange 10
now talked OF.
Ina recent case In Hutchinson county,
Judge Palmer gave q decision virtually set
thing the question that in Dakota parties can
not recover damages from counties for ne