Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1886-07-31

ten.
Rich ore closely resembling :ie soft carbon.
ate OF lead has hecn found in the Pelican
mine.
Sim Nicholas OF Carbonate eloped with a
hfteen year old daughter of Mr.. Fuller OF that
place.
The pool Of 13l, 900 shares In Iron Hill has
dissolved without efrecting the price Of the
stock.
A severe hail and rain storm swept over the
country near Sweet Briar doing considerable
damage.
Timothy and clover which has heretofore
been q scarce article in Dakota, IL quite plen-
tiful this year.
The South Dakota Live Stock association
has received a nne Percheron stallion, weigh
ing | 500 pounds.
A relief association has been formed at Nil.
bank to help farmers who lost their crops Ia
the recent storm.
A great many valuable cattle have died
near Woonsocket, probably from eating
poisonous weeds.
The Republican legislative convention for
the Seventeenth district is called to meet at
Falley City Oct. 8.
The ferry boat plying between Yankton and
the Nebraska side was burned. She was
valued at $4,000.
The Homestake Mining company at Dead
wood has contracted FOR the delivery Of 70o,.
600 pounds of freight.
The citizens Of Aberdeen have donated S25,-
600 to secure the Ordway, Bismarck and
| Northwestern railroad.
The annual enumeration Of school children
In Fargo has just been completed, and shows
q total number Of ] POI.
Oswald, the Devils Lake murderer has
been sentenced by Judge Mcconnell to twelve
years in the penitentiary.
A new Democratic paper is to be started at
Deadwood by A.. w. Herrick, the man who es-
tablisbed the Pioneer ia 1876.
Chas. Woods, the Bismarck murderer, 10
under sentence to hang on the 23d inst. The
governor may grant a respite.
A Indian squaw exhibited at Dunseith a
handful of very rich mineral sand, but re-
fused to tell where she found it.
Mrs. Wording has presented the Dakota
university museum with a miniature cannon
made from the rock Of Gibraltar.
A band of Indians last week passed through
Bismarck, having with it a ten-year-old boy
with three arms and three legs.
The wooden mill of Yankton is to be run by
water power, furnished by the artesian well,
instead OF by steam as in the past.
Chambers is getting a foothold among the
horses in the Black Hills. Seventeen animals
were she last week near Sundancc.
The N~rtesian well at Miller has reached a
depth OF 1,070 feet, and Is still sinking. Water
is flowing freely, but not abundantly.
The quarrymen at Cameron's quarry, Siorx
Falls-all Norwegians-haye struck for higher
wages. They are getting 81. so a day.
The attendance is so large at the Yankton
Catholic school that work will be commenced
at once on an enlargement Of the building.
There was a panic in stocks at Deadwood
last week, Iron Hill leading the list with a de.
cline Of 81. No reason is assigned for the
break.
The case Of Barnes County VS.. A. M. Pease,
In which that county demands $50, 600 from it,
former treasurer, is now in progress at Valley
City.
The measure Of Yankton's happiness would
be complete with a bridge over the Missouri
river and direct railroad connection with
Omaha.
The handsome d~aughtar OF j. II. Fuller, OF
Deadwood, recently eloped with a barber.
The father waited until after the knot was
tied and then-forgaye them.
The contract for the laying Of the water
mains at Mitchell has been let to s. X. FELTON,
Of the United States Wind and Pump com.
pany, at u cents per running foot.
The Winona Times thinks the rain In a re-
cent violent storm in Emmons nearly com
pensats for the loss by hail and lightning, al
though from Winona south to the county inc
the crops are all destroyed. The entire
Missouri river region has suffered greatly
fro-a heat and drouth.
Fargo Argus Lisbon special: Mrs. Stewart,
mother Of George Stewart, a farmer of Sar-
gent county, who lives seventeen miles north.
west Of Lisbon, attempted to kindle n fire
last evening with kerosene. The oil ignited,
the can exploded and the woman and her six.
year-old granddaughter were so badly burned
that both died.
An organized band OF horse thieves, OF
something Of a similar character. is operating
In and about Rapid City. A large numter of
horses have disappeared from that vicinity in
the last two weeks, but a Ideal reward al.
ways produces information which leads to
their recovery. This is a new departure in
the old line of business.
The colony Of Nenonites who sold about
5000 acres OF land to Tiedcman, Taylor coun-
ty, near Alden, IN 1884, and went to Pennsyl-
vania, returned to Dakota last week. There
are twenty-five families in the party and about
100 able-bcdied men. They have come back
to stay and will purchase a large tract Of land
In this part Of Dakota and mak 1t their future
home.