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

Q park.
Marion has an Odd Fellows lodge, q new
Germ.
The discovery Of natural gas 10 reported at
Fargo.
Endymion mining stock jumped from 10 to
32h cents.
As9O,OO0 roller mill IL being built at st.
wAkonda Germans will soon build q Metho-
dist church.
One man in Douglas county last week set
out %, $50 trees.
Monarch stock has advanced Ave cents
within q week.
One man in Douglas county last week set
Is, $50 trees.
A commercial college will soon be establish.
ed at Yankton.
The wster-works to be erected at Bismarck
will cost $l0o,C0O.
The Letcher schools have been closed be-
cause Of sickness.
The Independent Mining company has been
organized at Central.
J.s. Mcfarland. register OF the land Office,
has moved to Huron.
j. L. Robinson's house, In Brown county,
burned. Loss IS 900.
The last storm greatly damaged fruit IN the
vicinity Of Vermillion.
DR.. Mizener, of Aurora county, has planted
19.0O0 ash trees on his farm.
Aberdeen was lighted Saturday night by
electricity for the 6rst time.
steps are being taken at Rapid City for the
organization of . board Of trade.
A new pestoface called March has been o.
tablished In Charles Mix county.
The Iron Hill last week shipped six silver
bricks weighing 1900 ounces each.
The Emmet Silver Mining company has been
orxsnized with q capital Of 81, 25o,0O0.
George H. Finkle, Of Grafton, had his leg
broken by being thrown from q buggy.
Col. Hale Of Deadwood has been appointed
warden Of the Sioux Falls pe~nitentiary.
An exposition association with a capital OF
&c. 600 has been organized Of Rapid City.
There will be a larger acre cage Of wheat sown
in Union county this year than ever before.
The town Of Hoskins in Mcintosh county
narrowly escaped destruction by prairie fire.
A cheese factory to use the milk Of 800 COWS
is being built at Winchester, Emmons county
The fab in Miller's lake, near Scotland, all
died during the past winter from suffoca-
ton.
The Farmers Mutual Protective associa
ton at P.ankinton has q membership Of nearly
5000.
w. B. Vin:on, Of Faulk county, lost his
barn, granary and some cattle by fire. Loss,
$3.50.
There Is a job In the award for digging the
ertesian well at Huron and the either are IN
dignant.
third interest In an opera house at Chamber
lain.
Henry Herrick, Of Rsdfeld, advertises that
he will prosecute any one who sells him
liquor.
Sitting Bull is running a farm this year. He
has ten acres of grain, five OF which 10 seeded
TO wheat.
Two years sgo there was but one public
school In Edmunds county, now there are
thirty-six.
An academy will be built at Plsnkinton on
land donated for that purpose by Coy. A. G.
Mellette.
The recent prairie fire in Sanborn county is
reported to have destroyed many thousands OF
dollars OF property.
An immense amount OF seeding has been
lone In Potter county, and the prospects for q
good crop are most encouraging.
A Pukwana hotel advertises as an induce
ment to the travelling public that 1t has added
a cyclone cellar with an easy slide into 1t In
case OF danger.
Hills by the approach OF the railroad, and IL
striving to maintain It's position as the me
tropolis in wealth aud population. Rapid City
Is crowding the old town.
Mrs. Tower, OF Philadelphia, wife of the
man after whom Tower City Is named, has
replaced the burned library OF several thous-
and volumes, and is giving the establishment,
Of a Baptist college the substantial encourage
ment.
A female Icelander recently jumped from a
fast moving train and, running about geo
yards, gathered her apron full Of flowers and
then returned to the train that had stopped
for her. She felt no Ill effects from her peril
Gus leap.
The huron council has settled the artk slan
well controversy by giving E. ". Swan a con-
tract for q well 1000 feet deep for s4,Coo. II
also repealed o street railway fran chise award
ed to Frank l.. Sheldon, OF Lincoln, Neb., Q
few weeks since.
Rapid City IL experiencing a wonderful
boom; her streets are crowded dav and nigh,
daily transfers of real estate atipo
thousands OF dollars are made. Theatres are
crowded nightly, q circus, with attendant
eide shows will bs on exhibition by the 18th
OF this month. She has q street canal, will
soon be operating street cars and electric light,
has completed city water works, is building a
mammoth hotel, and q score OF brick blocks
are contemplated.
The attorney for the defense In the murder
taial of william Oswald, at DEVILS Lake, &C.
cas!oned considerable excitement Monday by
maltrp q speech In which the theory vas held