Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1886-04-10
NORTHWESTERN NEWS.
DAKOTA.

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Four Episcopal churches are going In Nine
county.
Palmer is the name Of Q new postofice IN
Dewel county.
A direct telephone line from Nebraska City
to Lincoln is talked OF.
The manufacture Of gypsum bricks he's beer
commenced at Rapid City.
Elk Point has the largest Wholesale butte,
and egg house in the territory.
John Hammond, ef Elk Point, has beer
granted $l,t00 arrears Of pension.
The treasure coach from Deadwood las
week took out $3.50, 900 In bullion.
The ~artesian well at Glendale struck a fifty
DOT dow OF water at the depth Of 100 feet.
Miss Nellie Pierce, daughter of Gov. Pierce
is the star In the Bismarck Dramatic club.
The ladies OF De Smet have presented tn
militia company Of that pisc, with a fine ban
ner.
There are only thirty-one families Of In
dams living on the Turtle Mountain reservs
ton.
Tw~enty.three patients have been move(
from the asylum at Yankton TO that at James
town.
Material Is being placed on the ground fol
he building of q Methodist church at Wa
konds.
ton stands second in point of numbers in the
territory.
Parties are arranging to start q cheese fac
tory at Volga to use the product Of two hun
DIRE cows.
There are only 1856 sections Of vacant gov
ernment land In Walworth county, comprising
1l9, 04) acre..
The oatmeal. mill at Parker 10 running night
OF oats Q week.
IL Is asserted that the Northwestern road
will bring 10000 immigrants into Southern
Dakota this season.
Tee Dakota Agricultural and Live Stock
association organized at Mitchell and resolved
to offer $l0,0OO in premiums.
The BARRIERS at Milbank, claiming that the
business Decent pay, have advanced the price
OF a shave from ID 10 Is cents.
Little Moon, of PIN Ridge agency, has been
sentenced to the penitentiary for thirty months
for assault upon one Of his brethren.
Miller received s2l2.s0 premium CD SIC, OOO
water bonds just sold. the highest price ever
paid In the territory for municipal bonds.
MIbank has q young lady's broom brigade
which lately gave a parade in the streets In
uniform with q band and excited q good deal
Of enthusiasm.
The new post of the G.. A. r. at Bridgewater
was christened Samuel r.. Curtiss, after an
Iowa general and Congressman. 1t has some
twenty five member already.
City. 1t Is said to be the most valuable tin
deposit vet discovered, and is owned by j. w.
McCann and William Meyers.
Two twelve inch veins OF coal have been
discovered in a canyon twelve miles from Buff
falo Gap. 1t is expected that thicker veins
will be found when q shaft Is sunk.
at Huron one day recently a hungry fellow
at one meal ate twenty-eight egg with ham,
turkey, bread, etc, in proportionate quantity
and the necessary trimmings of u fest class
meal.
Uncle John Oliver, of Fargo, who is 20 years
old, has been as happy as a young husband
the past week over q thirteen-pound girl. His
wife is past so. They think the climate is
wonderful.
A Cunning county weather prophet is with
out honor in his own country. His predi ,t,on
that spring was thirty days away secured him
the boots OF the multitude, and he hunted his
hole In 8 hurry.
The first patents ever received Of the Dead
wood land office bearing the signature of
Grover Cleveland arrived last Thursday ~.
They were three In numbey and were the frat
patents received at that flee for something
over a year.
Ackley, Iowa, for Mitchell and Grand View,
Dakota, February IL, and whose friends be.
ieved him TO have met with en- accident or
been murdered, bas been heard from IN the
cast, III a deranged condition.
A ledge OF carbonate OF silver has been dis
covered In Dismal canyon, four miles from
Buffalo Gap. An assay Of the rock taken from
the face of the ledge show that $50 Of silver
to the ton. Samples have been sent to Omaha
and Deadwood to be assayed.
John w. Hammond, living a few miles west
OF Elk Point, who recently had his pension In.
creased 10 $3.50, has by tho death Of a rela-
tive, fallen heir to s47. eco in cash, and four
nice farms, lying near Garnaville, Iowa. This
appears to be Mr.. HAmmond's lucky year.
The rulings Of justice arc sometimes tenn
pered very sparingly with mercy. A certain
good citizen OF sanborn county whose we'd
ding day had been appointed CHANGED to be
drawn on the grand jury, and was obliged to
spend the day set apart for his wedding In the
service Of his country.
The Congregational society at Huron have
decided to receive no more aid frcm the home
missionary society, and has thus become self
supporting. The church has not yet been CT
ganized two years, but has been remarkably
prosperous from the frst. A church Luildipg
WAS erected last summer at a cost OF Sc, eco
and dedicated without debt. The membership
OF the church is about seventy, and 1t Is one OF
four disappearing churches In Dakota.