Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1886-12-11
NORTHWESTERN ITEMS.
DAKOTA.

The Highmore grist mill is up and will be In
running order In about q week.
The Mitchell water-works were completed
and satisfactorily tested on Monday.
The Homestake mine does not employ 3, 100
men, as reported. The limit is ] 600.
At Highmore forty sufferers by prairie fires
have brought suit against the railroad.
A movement has been started to establish
a daily mail between Sturgis and Galena.
The middle OF December is the time set for
the beginning Of hog killing at Sioux Falls.
A lake In Forest county rose two feet
lately without any visible means OF support.
A couple OF large wild cats were killed In
the Jim river timber near Yankton the other
day.
The Dakota Fire and Marine Insurance
company Is to be removed from Chamberlain
to Mitchell.
Dickinson, the county seat OF Stark, with a
population of 200, is putting up a $4,000
court house.
The citizens Of Brownsville are having
I'm that locality.
The steam heating works OF the Morrison
hotel ut Yankton are fred with waste from
the FAX tow mill.
TIE improvements being made by the direct
ors of the Citizens bank at Sioux Falls are be
ing pushed rapidly.
Huron, having secured street cars and cleo
trio lights is now organizing an historical
and scientific association.
The Aberdeen Republican is responsible for
the assertion that Judge Church is the most
popular Judge In the territory.
A mutual dramatic company will be- fully
organized In a few weeks at Sioux Falls. 1t
is to managed on busin ess principles.
Aberdeen has instituted a good Samaritan
hospital for the care Of Brown c%ounty's poor.
1t is conducted on the non-sectarian plan.
Seventeen counties have failed TO send
In their reports to Treasurer Raymond. They
are required to submit their reports by No
!.
Chicago parties have invested 5000 0 in a
pork packing house at Mitchell, the building
being just completed in time for the fall
trade.
Prof. /. A. Stanton, late OF the Dakota uni
versity, was installed as pastor of the Congre-
g%ational church at Plankinton Tuesday, at a
salary Of 81 900 a year.
There is a general clanor In the territorial
press for the passage of q bill causing the
laws to be published In all papers of general
circulation In the territory.
Bad proof reading has caused the land Office
commissioner at Deadwood to order a discon-
uance Of patronage to papers with reputa-
lions of typographical carelessness.
Capt. Gould, of the steamer Gen. Terry, ar
rived at Yankton the other day. The vessel
was frozen In between lie Beau and Fort Sui
ly and the crew had to tramp it sixty miles.
The postofice at Bethel, Clay county, has
been discontinued and It's mail now goes to
Wskonda. The Grove Hill, Union county,
Office has also been abolished. Mail TO AL
cester.
The secretary Of the interior has reversep
the decision OF Commissioner Sparks in the
case of Frank Weiderman against John Ma
gee, ut Watertown, awarding the claim to
Magee.
A Kingsbury county man has had a con
~trivance so arranged that In the event OF a
storm at night all he need do is to pull u cord
and his bed will sink through a trap door into
a cyclone cellar.
Hundreds Of musk and other fur bear
by trappers In all parts of the territory, who
say their business was never more satisfac-
tory than it Is this seassn.
The sherifalty of Stark county is to be con.
tested. The canvassers threw out four Trask
ballots In Antelope precinct on the ground
that they were on tinted paper, and thus fly
ured Sebastian ahead.
Considerable Indignation Is felt throughout
Hyde county at the action Of the board OF
commissioners in granting license to sell
liquor at their session last week. At the last
election mo ~lIcense'' was carried by "a ma
jority.
The Grand Forks Herald advocates the pas
sage of a territorial law imposing a ~territor-
''drummers," with a view of fostering and
developing Dakota iobbing and wholesale
trade.
A large stone fell from the top of a well in
which Taylor Winters was working at Alpcna
last Friday and struck him on the head. He
fell eighteen feet to the bottom Of the "e1
and added several more wounds To his cat
and face.
1t Is rumored in Sioux Falls that ~ TAI /.
jury there In session are engaged in * IN
ming into the expenditures Of the city with
the end In view Of ascertalning whether in
fiscal matters the council had exceeded the
limits prescribed by the city charter.
The territorial secretary has received the re-
turns of the late election from oil but five
counties. December = is the Emit OF legal
endurance for waiting their arrival, after
which the secretary can send Tor them by mes
sage at the expense OF the county.
At Grand Forks, on the night OF the Esd
ult-, officers brought In John Ticrne,, vhom
they found wandering on the prairie, half
naked, a long distance from any habitation
and perfectly crazy. He was tearing his hair
and clothes, and with a butcher knife In hand
offered formidable resistance.
The mineral varieties around Rapid City
are becoming prolific. A nickel deposit has
just been discovered, the outcrop Of which is
over 5000 feet in length and shows a vein