Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1886-11-20

ceilent satisfaction. The singing DV
Mrs. Bessie Bur.on and others was
highly enjoyed, and the declarations
: and other exercises were rendered in u
very creditable manner.
Charles Partridge arrived from Hat
, creek yesterday, gathering office equip
ments, supplies, ect, of the old Chey-
} enne and Black Hills Telegraph line.
The wire between Deadwood and Gus.
ter was recently purchased by the
Black Hills Telegraph and Telephone
company, and will be operated as a tel
ephone line this wiuter.-Times.
The Engineering and Mining Journal
is respectfully informed thatthe worksof
the American Tin Mining company are
not located in Pennington county, but
in Lawrence county, the only county in
Dakota in which tin ore in bodies has
yet been found.-Pioneer.
The Pioneer evidently intended to
write the words, stream tin, instead Of
bodies" a correction We cheerfully
make, as everybody knows Custer coun-
ty is noted for her stupendous bodies"
Of tin ore.
The late snow storm was evidently
more severe i'm the east than it was in
the Hills, as evidenced by the heavy
snow on the line of the &. &. n. w.
Railroad east Of Chadron, which re-
suited in the delay Of the trains 1T least
two day. Mails due here on Wednes-
day, did not reach US until Friday. The
snow fall in the vicinity Of Custer would
not have affected the running time Of
the X. q S. w. narrow guage a second,
had 1t been in operation. ION with the
narrow gouge."
Capt. C.. A. Haserodt of this city has
just received notice Of his appointment
as Aid de Camp on the staff of the Com.
mander-in-Chief of the Grand Army of
the Republic, an honorable distinction
which has only been conferred upon
seven persons in the territory, and upon
no other person i'm the Black Hills. The
Captain IL the Senior Vice Commander
! of Gen. Steele Post No. "a Of Custer City,
and was one of the two comrades who
represented the post at the National
| Encampment in San Francisco last sum
mer.
81 The Rapid Journal reports that w. r.
T Coad of that place appeared before the
f board of commissioners, then acting AZ
=, ,,,,,, I>,rl ,,-l N,.~nl ,~n
test against counting in W. /. Walker
for prosecuting attorney. The grounds
upon which the protest is blsed is the
! fact Of Walkers not having been al.
e l,itted to the bar in this territory al
the time Of his election. If the repor,
Of the Journal be true that such a cas-
, is pending, it will only serve to illustrate
the depth of human desire for office, -.
the claim is unquestionably based npoi
too ETHEREAL grounds to result in augh'
{ but disappointment to the professor.
We are in receipt of the first copy o
. Streets Gap News, which should diSpe
: all doubt, if any existed, of Street
ability to furnish copy for a metrop
olitan weekly. The %inmitial number II
y hand is simply all his own, and unmis
u takably indicates the well settled inten
T ton of ignoring exchanges from outsid,
localities, and combining himself to tn,
one particular Street from which he In
drawn the information therein contain
ed. We opine. that in the quick hence
wien his faber becomes abbreviated b,
in%ordinate use, he will seek the solac,
- of the shears, and clip from his con
temporaries like other local scribes.
The Rapid City Republican hai
changed management. G.. r.. Bishop
; late editor mas retired. From appear
ances, there was an unpleasantness con
nected Herewith. The Republican
e. which has always been Il readable an,
r, first class paper under Mr.. Bishop, too
lr occasion at his retirement, to give hin
y n mean and uncalled for thrust. whicl
was neither gentlemanly nor right
From N of the late employees it j
learned that the paper has been run
= ming behind lately, the deficiency las
. month alone amounting to about 5000
After awhile, Rapid City publishers, a.
well us those of Deadwood, will fine
that it costs money to run a daily
Sturgis Record.
James Wilson, Of the Harvey Peal
Tin Company, accompanied by II
knubel, Capt. Gilbert, Y III. Hewes an,
Nj. Wills:e came in from their newl,
established camp, near Hill City, Oh
Wednesday, taking rooms at the Eienn:
Hotel, which had previously been sc
cured for their accommodation. I'll,
ia party remained until Friday, devotin,
is most Of the day time at the Tin Rec
is group Of mines, owned and now under
i, gong development by the Harvey Peak
lr Company. Little could be learned as {,
the result Of the numerous tests made
II upon the ores, but from the very favor
4 able appearance Of the massive bodies