Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1886-08-14


Some WATERFOWL capitalists will build il
motor line from the city 10 Lake Kampeska.
Gophers are doing great injury to the corn
crop along the Northern Pacific.
Huron will give $4,000 10 the first railroad
reaching that city from the north.
Over fifty farmers In Kingsbury county lost
their crops by last weeks hail storm.
A building owned by the Knights of Pythlas
at Hebron was burned on the 2sth inst.
The farmers living near Oakland will buy
an elevator and put in a lumber yard there.
Another whetstone minicg company is
about TO come into existence at Buffalo Gap.
The first and second regiments Of the Dakota
National Guards win camp at Canton August
"a.
A duel was fought by a couple Of fatuous
youths Mt Huron Tuesday. No blood was
spilled.
A large number Of prairie chickens are be
ing slaughtered illegally ir the vicinity of Ed
gerton.
The residence OF II. O. Anderson at Sturgis
was fred by lightning Saturday and partly
consumed.
Vermillion lie agitating q proposition to
sink an ~srteslan well on the university
grounds.
The people OF Plankinton, Aurora county,
burned Land Commissioner Sparks in efligy
last week.
Huron has a larger school population in
proportion to it's size than any other city in
the territory.
The Brayton house at Rec Heights was de-
stroyed by fire on Monday morning. The loss
is about $1,000.
James Hill, a brakeman on the Dakota
Central was killed near De Smet by falling
under the train.
Huron has a larger school population in
proportion TO its size than any other city in
the territory.
The Fairmont district fair has invested in a
balloon for the edihcation of the small boy
and his parents.
The cool ~eyenins after the very warm days
have caused much sickness amongst the chill
dren at Sioux Falls.
Crops will be fair, but a little late in most
parts Of the Hills, as rains have been general
during tie past ten days.
Agent NcChesney, OF the Cheyenne Indian
agency, returned from Washington Tuesday
and says he viii be confirmed.
Hiehmore and Hyde counties are strictly
high license counties. A liquor license costs
$3.50 a year In either county.
There are rumors Of dissatisfaction among
the Indians Of Pine Ridge agency, which
Threatens In result In an pnthrpok
Judge ]. +. West, Of the Dakota railroad
commission, estimates this years wheat crop
at $4,000, 600 to 100000 bushels.
Canton now wants the military companies
Of the southeastern portion Of the territory to
meet IN that city In annual e%ncampmcnt.
Hon. v. V. Barnes, of DeSmet, who repre-
scented Kingsbury county in the last legisla-
ture, is about TO take a law course at Yale.
Yankton county has In acres Of ~cultiyat-
ed timber and 1854 acres Of natural timber
and also 1882 acres devoted to timber cul-
ture.
j. n. Hemingway, freight agent of the Mil
waukee road at Fargo, has been arrested on a
charge OF embezzlement to the amount of
81, 900.
II. X. Moore OF Lisbon, Tuesday marketed
the first wheat threshed in Ransom county.
1t grades No. / hard and the price was 81
cents.
A prairie fire destroyed about 600 tons Of
hay In the Holland settlement, besides about
fifty acres of grain for Peter Dor in Campbell
county.
Tn;,t;nn Communication, o- n,,1., ,.,i
mates that the populat' n of Dakota will be
increased 10000 the esent summer by immi-
grafton.
The Chicago and .nrthwestern railroad has
arranged for wha. it calls three harvest excur-
sions to points in Dakota from Chicago and
Milwaukee.
Thee companies are endeavoring to obtain
the franchise from the Rapid City council for
lighting the streets OF that city either by gas
or electricity.
A party known as Dutch John, who stole
several horses in the Black Hills country, has
county, at Pierre.
The people OF Miller have decided to con-
struct a public park. 1t will be adorned with
all the usual improvements and will cove:
twenty acres Of gr und
In the district court at Fargo the case of
Bowen and Kingsbury Of Yankton VS.. A. ".
Edwards was tried by a jury and a verdict rem
dered for the defendant.
John McCune laid dow to sleep by the side
of the Northern Pacific track, two miles above
Casselton, and was struck by a passing train,
broke his arm and bruised his head.
Alphonse Chezelmas, a farmer living eight
west of Ashton, was found near his
house Wednesday morning. His clothes were
burned of and a gun was lying near
him. 1t Is supposed he committed suicide.
A plumber Of Fargo attorneys the past
week refused 10 argue 2 case before Judge
at Valley City, as he would not give
them their own gait. The judge is too strict
for them.