Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1886-06-26

John Keenan,, Of Grand Forks, was robbed
OF 800 while drunk, one night recently.
Flandrau win have the only celebration
which viii be held In Moody county this year.
Over 100000 feet of lumber were used In
improvements In Beresford during the past
year.
The population of Yankton is doubling up
rapidly. There is a great demand for marriage
licenses.
Z. G. Sears, OF Canton, has on exhibition a
strawberry measuring four inches in circum.
ference.
A meeting Of the Fine Stock Breeders asso-
citation Of Dakota Is called 10 meet In Madison
June 90.
The Black Hills Democrat is the name Of
the Democratic oracle which has just APP
peared In Rapid City.
The new town near the old site OF Fort Fet-
terman has been named Douglas, In honor of
the Little Giant"
There is a movement on foot at Rapid City
for the erection Of complete sampling works
for testing ores.
Immigrants are pouring into Mcintosh
| WHY. ihc p'Poiohoh VII navy uoublS'
since July l., 1885.
Omaha capitalists have purchased a large
| number OF lots at Sioux Falls and will hold
them for speculation.
A De Smet sheep grower recently sheared a
flock Of forty Cotswold sheep, the feeces
weighing twelve pounds each.
n Peter Wheelock, who came from Vermont
to Lincoln county sixteen years ago, recently
died at the age of eighty-four.
Bismarck citizens talk Of a vigilance com
mittee for the purpose OF exercising upon the
| originators of several recent incendiary fires.
Andrew and Ezra McCord, of Chicago, have
bought a one-quarter interest in the Dakota
Maid mine, In Strawberry gulch, for $50, 900.
The new Episcopal church at Pierre was
canted out OF plumb by the gale Of Sunday
night. 1t will cost 800 to repair the damage.
A new kind of a pest, closely resembling the
potato bug, but which feeds upon the foliage
Of certain trees, has appeared in Brule county.
Rich lead carbonates have been discovered
on the ranch of Henry Shanks, northwest Of
Custer, and a stampede to that section has set
in.
At the ST. Elmo mine, near Hill City, a rich
vein of tin has been found running across a
gold vein. This is considered a geological Gu
~riosity.
Hangman's Hill Is the favorite lookout Of
and contains remnants of early chokes and
masker-raids.
The wind Of last Friday night blew down the
frame of a new barn Of Mr.. Charles Cooley,
three miles southeast Of Tower City, causing
a loss Of about $500.
Centerville is having quite a boom this sum
mer, Work has commenced on the Sls 900
roller mill, and sixteen other good buildings
are rapidly going up.
f. II. Reyes, nearly sixty years old, was ar
rested Mt Mitchell on a charge Of feloniously
assaulting a nine-year-old girl. A sister of
the little one caught Reyes in the act.
A. : special election held at Iowa Fallson
Monday to ,ote 1900 to aid the Burlington
Cedar Rapids & Northern railroad company in
constructing a 10000 round-housc In that
position and but z against. Iowa Falls will
now DC made a division station.
John Keenan, was robbed at the Montreal
house, Grand Forks, Sunday night. He had
been intoxicated for several days and spent
about $500. The robber took what he bed
left, which was only a small sum-, according
to Keenan's story. The supposed robber
slept with him Sunday night, but Is nowhere
to be found low.
George Bradley, of Miller, had a herd of
goats. The citizens of the town petitioned
the council to declare them a nuisance and to
order the nuisance abated, but the council
took no action. Last Saturday night the
citizens took the matter into their own hands,
and capturing the goats took them to the rail
road bridge just west of town and hanged the
whole outfit.
The artesian well at Yankton was com
pleted on Saturday. 1t is Cos feet deep and is
cased down to the water bearing rock with
heavy salt water six inch pipe. The flow is
estimated at ! 200 gallons n minute, with a
pressure Of not less than POO pounds to the
square inch, which will push the water to a
height OF 4OC feet. The well will supply the
city with sIl the water 1t needs by direct con.
nection with the mains II the mains can be
made 10 stand the tremendous pressure.
The Pioneer Press, Grand Forks special, Of
Monday, says: 1t is learned here that a few
days ago a l~ynching occurred near st. An
drews, five miles north Of here on the Red
river. Ole Becknolt, working for a farmer on
the Minnesota side, supplanted the latter in
his wife's affections. After trying In vain to
induce Becknolt to leave peacefully the farmer
invited In his neighbors, tapped a keg Of
alcohol and after they were sufficiently drunk
related his wrongs and suggested a lynching
as a remedy. Becknolt was caught and strung
up to a limb the alleged intention being only
to brighten him. When let down life was ex-
tinct.