Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1886-01-23
NORTHWESTERN NEWS.
DAKOTA

h total debt OF Jerauld county Is only
{, 1859.
Huron has secured the location of the terri
torial fair.
There are 1895 miles OF railroad in operation
In the territory.
Ice-boats are In use on the James river In
Dickey county.
The Millbank Methodist church has q new
1,0O0-pound bell.
Carthage has q lod e Of Good Templars, re-
Gently organized.
Work is to begin at once on the artesian
well at llendale.
Rev. Miss Ella Howard will preach regular
ly at Holsbird hereafter.
5000 hotel at Highmore.
Dec. 30, Theodore VIII rson, near Onida.
planted a quarter of an acre. onions.
John Taylor, the Deadwood murderer, goes
to the Sioux Falls penitentiary for life.
The old veteran, Andy Marsh, killed a black.
tail deer at Gleuavon that scaled $40 pounds.
luC duhVou DuiitibB ahu hoah
has over s40, 600 worth OF stock already taken.
Huron has eight saloons, each of which pay
a county license of 1895, and a city license Of
$500.
A company is putting up ten thousand tons
OF fee at Medora, cut In the little Missouri
river.
The soldiers Of Tower county have named q
G. A. r. post In honor OF the late John b. Ray
mond..
The Bank Of Iroquois has incorporated I'M
der the territorial laws, with a capital Of
$3.50
Large numbers OF Indians are going to Fort
Bennett to get their annual supplies from
Uncle Sam
Union county claims to be the banner corn
county of the territory. Its crop for 1885 was
1,279,050 bushels:
A company with a capital Of 100000 has
been formed to build and operate u street rail-
way In Rapid City.
Extensive lodges of valuable marble have
been found near Greenwood. Much Of It
is beautifully v~sriegated.
The dormitory costing sl2. 900 for the &C.
commodstton OF Normal school students at
Madison, is nearly completed.
The Yankton packing house slaughtered
1o,695 hogs In 1885, and expects to increase the
business one third-thc present year.
Wentworth's new tow mill has a capacity 10
produce ten or twelve tons q day, and it starts
with $500 tons O hax straw on hand.
Russian settlers in the northern portion Of
Burleign county have opened up several coal
mines, and are getting a fair quality OF coal.
The new buildings in Elk Point the past
year are footed up by the Courier as costing
s47 200, which II regards as a splendid show
ing.
A Bismarck, Dakota, telegram stated that
on the Sth Of January farmers were sowing
wheat on the upper Missouri, aud that there
was no snow.
De Tray, OF Lake township, Sully county,
has sued Buffalo township for $1,000 for
building three school houses, which the school
board rejected.
On the second day Of the convention ST
Fargo an minated discussion was had OIL the
division OF Dakota. The sentiment was
against division on q test vote.
The first child ever born In Newark, IN Mar
shall county. was q Christmas present to Mr..
and Mrs. F. T. Allen, and q writer says
Everyone vas pleased, and NewaIk's new
era dates from Christmas, 1885,"
The faculty Of the Dakota University have
just 81 cured the services of Prof. E. 8. Mash
Dir as professor OF German. The professor is a
graduate Of Kieff university, Germany, and q
scholar Of rare ability and ~attAinments.
Ben Holloway, an Indian in the Turtle
mountains, generally known as "Skunk," ia
so far civilized as to circulate q petition for
office, settirg forth that he Is a Democrat. II
10 not stated how he found out his politics.
Buffalo Gap talks Of incorporation, but, as
It would take two or three months to perfec,
and a marshal and night-watch provided for,
10 be paid by subscription among the business
men.
A meeting was held at Sioux Falls Tuesday
evening at which 49,, 900 Of the 100000 bonus
ssked by the Burlington, Cedar Rapids and
Northern Railway was subscribed. Commit
tees were appointed TO secure the. necessary
funds.
or the 36G population of Towner county, as
shown by the census, 800 are on the tax list,
with an assessed valuation OF S29O,CO As
the county Is but two years old, this indicates
that they are acquiring property rapidly and
have but few children.
A distressing accident occurred At Custer
ope day last week. A little girl was carrying
a baby when she trlpped on some object on the
floor and both fell into q boiler OF hot water.
The haby died from the effects o; Its Injuries.
tn girl will recover.
The wife OF Knud Thompson, living fifteen
miles northwest OF Sioux Falls, was adjudged
insane, aud was taken to Yankton Thursday.
Mrs. Thompson Is the mother OF thirteen child
rem, the Oldest only nineteen years, and her
mania IS jealousy Of her husband.
Judge Hamilton, of Lead, continues among
the missing, says the Dead wood Times. Ad-
ditional small irregularities are daily reported
and the tU:.;. 1t is believed, will foot upward
OF 81, 900. Messrs. Noonan and Wilson were,
II seems. properly on Hamilton's bond as sd-
ministrator, although the circumstance had
. escaped their memory. They will suffer to