Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1886-11-13

WY INV 1917 b1i thttt Oh ShAhAh"g
At Sioux Falls IL costs 10 cents a day for
maintaining prisoners; at Bismarck u cents.
Rev. w. +. Cook has left jamestown for
Bismarck, where he has been stationed for the
coming year.
Plumstesd d. SIater's livery barn at Nit
chell burned Sunday morning. Twenty-one
horses persisted.
Over 5000 pounds Of wool have been ship
ed out from the vicinity Of Deadwood this
year.
Seven hundred and fifty acres of land are
being turned over in Cass county on the Dali
rymple farm every day.
Seventeen hundred pounds Of ducks and
geese have been shipped east from Lakota,
Nelson county, this season.
The Black Hills Pioneer association, con
sisting Of over sixty ~pioIeers OF the vintage
of 20, has been organized.
The Homestake has declared its September
dividend Of $50, 600, or 40 cents per share.
The total dividends this year amount to about
SJ00,0 DOC.
Douglas p. LOOMS OF Huron, met with a
gunshot accident on Sunday, while hunting,
from which he died before medical aid could
be summoned.
Rev. II. 81. Mendenhall, of Grand Forks, is
arranging for N course Of lectures this winter.
Among the speakers will be Bill Nye and Ig-
natius Donnelly.
The Glendale roller Mill has commenced
grinding. 1t has ten sets of the latest i'm
proved rollers, with a grinding capacity Of
about 1876 barrels per day.
The Fargo Argus has moved its composing
and press rooms into the new Palace block, as
1t is called, and will have the other depart
ments there the coming week.
Dredging operations on the Red River at
Grand Forks are being pushed with much
vigor. 1t is expected that the seasons work
will be completed by November 10,
Regular train service has been established
on the Duluth aud Manitoba to within fifteen
miles OF Red Lake Falls, and iron is being
laid at the rate Of nearly two miles per day.
The Watertown Insurance company has
been incorporated with a capital stock Of
100000, all taken in that city, and will be
ready for business November !.
George Baldwin, who was under arrest at
Sioux Falls for embezzlement, has been re-
leased, his relatives making good the amount
Of his shortages, which reached nearly four
thousand dollars.
A special train bearing the Dakota railroad
commissioners, making a tour Of inspection
of the Milwaukee system in Dakota, arrived
at Mitchell Thursday night and went to
Chamberlain, returning Friday morning.
At Mitchell the jury disagreed in the dam
age suit for $50, 900 Of Mrs. McClatchie vs.. the
Chicago, Milwaukee and st. Pau railway, for
the killing Of her husband, D.. McClatchie.
The jury was discharged and the case will be
given a new trial next term.
Henry Koch, proprietor of the large double
store In Opera House block and dealer in gen
eral merchandise, Mitchell, made an assign
ment Saturday to A. NJ. Howdle, vice presi-
dent Of the First National bank. His liabili-
ties are about S25, 600; assets, 81. 900.
The body of an unknown man was found
Sunday In a marsh four miles west of Bristol
with his pocket riled, his throat cut from ear
to car and a bullet hole IN his head. He is
thought TO belong to a crew of railroad labor
ers recently at work at this place. The motive
of tie murder was probably robbery.
Real estate in Lead City is becoming active
and advancing; houses 10 rent are not To be
found, New and rich mireral camps are be-
ing opened there, aud ON the whole il is be-
lieyed that Lead has a pern!anency that no
other town In the Hills can boast.
s. Brown, who came to Mitchell recently
from Michigan and engaged in the farm ma
chine business, has decamped, owing every
body in sums from $40 to 81, 200. His credi.
tors are turning up on every hand, but his
whereabouts are unknown at this time.
c.. &. Gaines.a Mitchell hardware merchant,
was brought home Thursday afternoon from
Parkston with a broken leg. lie was stopping
at the hotel and got up In the night to go
out. As he passed through the yard he fell
into a new vault, breaking his left ley badly.
An interesting trial has been heard by Judge
Mcconnell at Fargo, the past day or two,
brought by Attorney J. f. Robinson against
the school board for 800 damages for cxclud-
ing his children from the public school last
winter, because he refused to have them vac
cinated.
While using a steam thrasher on the farm
OF a. u. Barnes, near Mitchell. Monday u
spark from the engine ignited the straw.
Three hundred bushels Of wheat, the separa-
tor and straw from ten large stacks were de-
stroyed. The separator was owned by Mr..
Huestis, and none of the property destroyed
was insured.
Judge Mccain, OF Sully county, who was
accused of absconding with valuable property
belonging to other people, emphstically de-
MES the reports in a New York newspaper.
He gives his address in New York city, and
claims to be only on a visit 10 his sister. He
says the reports were started by disgruntled
| politicians, who owe him no good viii.