Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1886-10-23
NORTHWESTERN ITEMS.
DAKOTA.

A wholesale tobacco house has located at
Aberdeen.
Estehine is without q city marshal or a po-
lice force.
The territorial insane ssylums are badly
overcrowded.
The surveyed sreao Of Dakota Is about A..
600, 600 acres.
There are twelve organized schools In Suits
man county.
Sneak thieves are becoming bold in and
around Rapid City.
The roller skating fever has again taken
possession OF Huron.
Stutsrnan county has twelve OF the best
schools in the territory.
Work win commence on the Scotland grain
warehouses next Monday.
NJ. F. Battelle has been appointed register
OF the Fargo land Office.
There are thirteen candidates forthe Office
OF assessor in Barnes county.
A band Of Gypsies have made their appear
ance in the vic;lity Of Rcddcld.
A prairie fire which started near Bramhall
burned over an area of twe.ty miles long and
six miles wide
A field Of wheat raised in Union county this
year averaged thirty-two and onc-half bush
els to the acre.
The street sprinkler at Yankton has been
deprived Of its water supply, owing to q scare.
ity Of that fluid.
More real estate has changed bands the
present season at Sioux Falls than In any one
previous season.
Fire at White Lake destroyed Collins black
smith shop and Baxter's wagon shop. Loss,
sl,3 q; no insurance.
Seth Skill, the engineer, was buried a
Deadwood Tuesday, according to a request Of
his English relatives.
A gas well has been found near Fargo. The
first vein Of gas that was struck made a fame
four or five feet high.
The president has appointed Michael f,
Battelle, of Minnesota, to be register Of the
land Office at Fargo.
Several very extensive land deals, as well a
more Of a smaller nature are being talked up
In Rapid City at present.
Mr.. j.. +. Shield, formerly cashier for the
Milwaukee AT Sioux City, was installed as
station agent at Scotland Monday.
Zoellner Brothers, who were burned out at
Spearfish Sunday, ordered an entire new
stock of goods by telegraph Tuesday.
f. ". Thaxter, of the Diana Monitor, has
sold out to Folsom & Bowman, Of Dell Rap
ids. Mr.. Thaxter intends to 90 to Kansas.
The date for opening the temperance read
ing room at Rapid City has not yet been de-
cided on, but it will be in the near future.
Nothing has as yet been discovered concern
ing the whereabouts of the six jail birds that
recently escaped from the Jail at Deadwood.
The best yield OF wheat in Pembina county
is on the farm Of John often, near Walhalla.
The average WIS thirty.fve bushels to the
acre.
|. c. Wade's large barn near jamestown, to-
gether with four head Of horses and q guam
tity OF produce burned. Loss, $4,000; insur-
ance, e., 5000.
A sneak thief entered the room Of Spran-
dos restaurant, Rapid City, Tuesday night
and stole a fat goose, some beef and "A guam
tity Of sugar.
Capt, Yorkcy, of the Grafton Guards, re-
ports that the guards will he mustered in in
dppu IL WIN AlNlt VII Il NeeH'f III tft
national guards.
The Russians that emigrated from Bon
Homme and Hutchinson counties to Campbell
county last spring are reported to be in desti-
tutc circumstances.
The farmers Of the Red river valley have had
a year Of unprecedented prosperity, their
crops being in quantity and Eaagni-
fcent In quality.
Armour received it's first lot OF freight Mon
day over the railroad, which made a full train
of seventeen carloads, composed Of lumber,
coal and merchandise.
The whole number Of old soldiers in Dakota
receiving a pension from the government are
1885. The amount paid monthly is So,
1914. SO; for twelve months, s326, 1885, s.
Furious prairie fires have been raging in
Richland county, and have done great lam.
age. Houses, barns, machinery and humid
reds of tons of hay have been destroyed.
Maj John X. Hotalling, Of Huron, died at
his residence on Tuesday night. He was a
soldier I'm the Mexican war and was captain
of Gen. Logan's body guard during the war.
Prairie fires near Williamsport have swep
over a territory twenty miles in width and
many miles In length. George Walkers hay
camp and the school-house at Williamsport
were destroyed.
John Brennan, James HALEY and Others
have organized a party to take a hunt for
deer and other big game in the Limestone
range. 1t Is the intention to leave about the
middle OF the month.
A bridge on the Iowa Il Dakota division OF
the Milwaukee Il st. Paul road between
Parker and Lennox was destroyed by fire,
necessitating the running Of all trains via the
Scotland Yankton line.
In the annual report Of the land Office at
Washington il is mentioned that Tie eastern
half OF Dakota has been surveyed, except the
portion along the international boundary line
Of the Turtle mountain region.
At Mandan this week some thirty Indians
came In from the Cannon Ball region, their
ox-teams loaded with wheat which they bad
raised. They did better at whcat-raising this
year than many Of their white peighbors.
Governor G. A. Pierce has submitted To the
secretary Of the interior his annual report Of
the development Of Dakota during the past
year. The bonded debt is stated at s5s6, 2C0.
The assessment Is $3.50, o00, 900. The ia levy
has been decreased and now is hut "a 40