Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1886-03-20
NORTHWESTERN NEWS.
DAKOTA.

A fve-ton smelter Is being put up at the
Diana mine.
Sioux Falls has three new railroads In pros
pect for 1856.
Redfeld has voted another thousand dollars
for q school house.
An o~pera-house is to be built at Jamestown
during the present year.
Extensive prairie fires prevailed last week
upon the reservation near Pierre.
The I'D settlers Of Brown county have
formed a permanent association.
Machinery has arrived at Rapid City to test
the oil springs In the neighborhood.
A Chinese laundry run by q Dutchman has
been established ON the banks of Crow Lake.
Work has begun on the railroad grade all
along the line from Buffalo Gap to Rapid City.
Gov. Ziebsch has r, moved TO Yankton and
will take his post In the land office this week.
A large number OF theatrical companies
have gone to wreck In northern Dakota this
winter.
The artesian well at Glendale Is now six
hundred feet deep. The drill is working In
blue slate.
The farmers In the vicinity of Okobojo have
about completed the work of sowing their
spring wheat.
The Dakota Press association will hold the
next annual meeting at Aberdeen some time
In July next.
A small colony is TO start from Lorraine
county, D., March LIST, for st. Lawrence. IN
Hand county.
Tower City, after experimenting with prohi-
bition for five years, decided last week to IL
cense saloons.
The city of Madison voted to issue $25, 900
In bonds to rebuild the normal school which
burned two weeks ago.
The Rapid City Street Railway company has
purchased cars and iron, and work on the
road will be begun at once.
The pupils OF the Yankton public schools are
to be taught war history from the lips of those
who participated In the civil war.
Marshall Mcclure has sold the Jamestown
Daily Alert to Frank Tucker and w. X. KEEL
logg formerly Of the Fargo Argus.
Nathan Wood of New York has purchased
the water power at Buffalo Gap, and will i'm
prove and develop the stone q~uarries.
A circus company under the management Of
Col. j. II. Wood, Is being organized In the
Black Hills. 1t will start on It's circuit May S.
Farmers in Dawson county have formed an
organization with $40, 600 for the purpose Of
buying and selling farm products, machinery,
etc.
David Griffiths, OF Bath, was found lying
dead in the mud near Aberdeen. 1t Is sue.
posed he had q fit, fell down and was sufrl.
Gated.
There Is now cribbed at Elk Point over
sixty thousand bushels OF corn. Since Jan.
ID fifty earl Dads have been shipped out Of the
place.
Marshal Msgatta has gone to Washington 70
meet Col. Morton, and II is believed that the
confirmation OF the former will soon be an
nounced.
Mr.. Harlow, Of the Half Way house, near
Fort Meade, was arrested by United States
authorities for concealment OF government
property.
The farmers In the Jim river valley will meet
at Aberdeen May IL, for the purpose Of form
log an organization to lessen the cost Of hand
ling their grain.
Hundreds Of petitions TO the house OF repre-
sentatives for the passage OF the Harrison adj
mission bill are being circulated and signed all
over south Dakota.
The expected delegates to the north Dakota
prohibition alliance at Fargo on Tuesday failed
to materialize, as there were only enough to
quarrel over the name.
Meetings are being held all along the pro-
prosed line In the interest Of the railroad
from Woolsey to Bismarck, and the people
seem to have confidence In its success.
Rapid C!iy las voted $500 for the purpose
Of haviHg Rapid creek Strengthened at that
place. There will be many acres Of land re-
claimed and less damage from freshets.
Some Of the citizens in Wstertown and
farmers In Codington county have formed a
ONT stock company for the purpose Of hold
Ing county fairs. The limit Of the capital
stock is $4,000.
The Bro wn County Farmers Alliance viii
put In public scales at Columbia, the council
Of that C ty having refused to put them In.
The alliance is also talking Of building an ele-
vator at that place.
1t is stated that application will be made to
the governor on March Is for the pardon OK one
A. NJ. Flegc who was the district attorney at
Sioux Falls, and a lawyer with a fine practice.
Two years ago be was sent to the penitentiary
for four yea4o ior tA4c-azls..cLs.
Seyera. parties at Bismarck are resisting
payment Of notes given for the capital boz rs
on the ground Of failure Of consideration.
Suits are now pending against several OF the
makers of the notes and sci down on the cal
endar for this term. The decision is looked
forward 10 with much interest.
il /, related ::ss::. : .c.c N Charles Miv conn.
~, who lost his tree claim after several years
Of effori, having bat one growing tree upon II,
went and cut down the solitary tree, shaved
of q good-sized branch, and sent II to Commits.
sioner Sparks at Washington, G.. o. d., with
the following on the label: ''Stand this out
side your door; II the walking continues |
shall reach Washington about June. / will