Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1886-10-02
NORTHWESTERN ITEMS.
DAKOTA.

ANSS
The Hotel Harvey, Rapid City, is almost
completed.
The wheat crop Of Dakota is being rapidly
marketed.
Much grain is being shipped north by RAPID
City dealers.
The attendance ~ the various churches IL
Raoi3 City Is steadily increasing.
Deadwood is wrestling with a band OF
youthful Dscdits.
The Observation-Disclosures OF Kidder county
amounts to 81, 40.
The Northwestern is doing d business o.
10000 a month at Rapid City.
Fargo members OF the Y. VI. G. A. have de.
cided to erect a hall.
Loyalton citizens have voted $1,000 for an
a~rtesian well.
A female barber is doing a good business at
Hermosa.
DEVILS Lake Baptists will erect a new
church this fall.
Bismarck has the roller skating fever as
badly as ever.
The OAK crop In Hanson county is decidedly
short this year.
The shipments OF wheat from Red River
valley are very free.
The Yankton Press is the Oldest daily
paper In Dakota.
A gag Of juvenile thieves are successfully
| operating In Deadwood.
The yield Of fax in Lincoln county is Is to
20 bushels per acre.
The early closing movem ent has been inau-
gurated at Rapid City,
Rapid City has seven livery barns now, and
two in course Of erection.
The Hotel Harvey, Rapid City, viii probably
be opened about the LIST OF January.
Stark county has a bonded indebtedness of
$4,000, but no unpaid warrants.
Forty-Qac cars Of stock were loaded at
Brennan Monday for the east.
More hay has been cut In Turner county
this year than on any previous year.
The corner stone Of the new Dickinson
county court house was laid last weei.
Domestics in Rapid Cit are at a premium
Girls are in demand at s25 per month.
The Iron Hill Mining company is involved
in a lawsuit wherein $40, 600 is at stake.
The grading On the scribner branch of the
<'h''f ' ~ 'tH3 iS @pDtt tbiiiiittt3t.
The Rapid City Daily journal believes tina
that city is a good site for ore smelters.
Nebraska sends carloads OF crcamery butter
TO Rapid City where 4. is sold at a profit.
Fred II. Carruth has sold the Estelline Bell,
and is now on his way to the Black Hills.
AT delicquent sale, Black Hills Oil, 81, 10
shares sold for the assessment and expenses.
The contract for the piaut of the Electric
Light company at Rapid City was let Wednes-
day.
1t is expected that Immigration to the Black
Hills will be much larger next year than even
it has this.
Charles w. Vedder, formerly of the Hills. is
Democratic candidate for sheriff in Cuur
De Smet's new roller mill, the. only one
IN kingsbury county, will soon be in opera
ton.
The Deadwood ball club Is anxious 10 try
conclusions once more with the Fort Meade
team.
The corrected assessed valuation Of Rapid
City is 81 sol $40, and of Pennington county,
&, 3i,2s7.
The Canton News prints twenty two an
nouncements of candidates for county and
legislative offices.
Between 5000 and 5000 bushels Of wheat
are being marketed at st. Thomas, Pembina
county, every day.
A. C.. Jordan, Of the Fargo Republican, has !
been promoted to the governors sfc,ff with
the rank Of colonel.
'''' ocohnG., 81 New York, has lately
p''''Se - twenty-th three quarter sections of
.and in La Mourc county.
Both the Democratic and Republican dis
trict conventions will be held at Rapid City
In the early part Of next month.
st. Lawrence, Hand county, was incorpora-
ted last August and now has a population of
200. The town has a grove of natural trees.
The regular semi.monthly shipment from
the Homestake mine, consisting OF $4,000
in Gold bullion, went through Rapid City
Saturday.
Six years ago the Northern Pacific railroad
company sold 10 the school board of Mandan
three lots for - each. The three lots are
now worth S+00 apiece.
Large quantities of catawba and concord
grapes are marketed In Springfield by the
Mennonitcs, who grow fruit extensively at
their ranch near Bon Homme.
The Black Hills Salt company has been or
ganized at DeadwocG with a capital stock OF
Sl25,0O This company o~ns $40 acres of
land near the well known salt springs.
At Deadwood the trial Of an ho-Kills-
His-Enemy is attracting considerable atten-
ton, 1t is the first trial under the new In
dian criminal law. Afraid is
defending i'm.
The total rate Of taxation for city purposes
in Fargo Is II mills, on a total valuation Of
s3, GOO, 900, against ID mills on a valuation of
Sl,4N, 900 last year-a reduction in taxes this
yeav Of $4,000.
A sad accident occurred at the Excelsior
mill at Yankton on the afternoon OF the lith
inst, by which John Campbell was fatally in
jured. While engaged in putting a belt on
one Of the driving rods he was drawn into
the machinery and horribly mangied. He
lived but a few minutes after the accident.
Charles Carson, held at Chamberlain on a
charge OF stealing horses at Pierre, turns out