Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1886-05-08
NEBRASKA.

Forty thousand bushels OF corn are cribbed
at Dakota City.
The Union Pacifl track-layers are within
FIVE miles Of Loup City.
The Oakland creamery agrees to keep 200
cows busy this season.
to organize q brass band.
Nearly $75, 0Ov worth OF buildings are near
Ing completion at Fairmont.
A sewerage system costing s75,c0o viii be
completed at Lincoln this year.
A deer's horn was unearthed at the depth OF
sixty feet near Edgar recently.
Grading has begun on the Scribner branch
of the Elkhorn Valley railroad.
A prairie fire destroyed 3 1900 worth Of prop.
erty near Gothenburg last week.
Mrs. Eliza Westbrook, of Nebraska City,
died suddenly Of heart disease Thursday.
And now comes Knox county with vein OF
copper ore just thirty feet from the surface
w. H. Folgate committed suicide at How
ard on Saturday by hanging himself to a tree.
~ y CstlilolSd luob INC VI AIOie
county will this year plsnt 20,OOc, 900 forest
trees.
A number of the citizens Of Seward have
chartered a car and will take a trip through
the west.
At Blue Hill the liquor license has been
rs.seo - .,10v, anu the .4L0i meu threaten
to shut up shop.
The citizens Of Dead Horse Valley, Dawes
county, are petitioning for q change OF name
TO improve the atmosphere.
Gottleib Texter, q Washington county man,
was sent to the penitentiary for eighteen
months for perpetrating a Joke.
Loup City is already cheering the .spprosch
Of the Union Pacific bran CD which will reach
that town by the middle Of May.
The island which congress donated to Mo
brara for a park is already utilized as a pleas
ure resort for the town COW herd.
A large brick building has been donated 10
the city Of Humboldt to be used as a library
building. The donor is Mrs. Ungles.
The contract for the canning factory build
ings at Blair has been let. The company has
already engaged 400 acres OF vegetables.
The Methodists OF Orleans shut up the
saloons of the town by threatening TO move
their college II licenses were granted.
W.. d. Mathews, the postmaster and news
paper man Of O'Neill is still happy over the
success Of his wooden wedding anniversary.
The BID OF David O'Brien for excavatipg for
the foun iation Of the government building at
Nebraska City, has been accepted, and work
will begin this week.
The police are raiding the gambling dens at
Hastings in a very energetic fashion. Six
members Of the profession were taken up and
fined 800 each last Monday.
F. l.. Putney, the Oakdsle editor who was
arrested on the charge OF irfantic!de. has
been placed under bonds OF $1,000 TO await
the action OF the grand jury.
The sun OF prosperity Shines bright IN York.
A court house, water-works and canning fac
tory, all under contract, are the important
features OF the spring boom.
Three hundred head Of tst cattle were
shipped from Dakota City last week, realizing
WI E-NSONNs Al NfA w "A hACEt CFOf
shipped from north Nebraska.
A tony dancing party held In the skating
rink in Palmyra was troken up by q liberal
supply OF pepper sprinkled on the floor. Belle
and bean alike sneezed at the outrage.
Clara Bell attended wedding IN Nebraska
City Wednesday. The report that che was
writing up the fashions on the 'shiniDg shore'
(of the Missouri) AZ p asrs &c be well founded.
Attorneys Marshall and Munger. Of Ere
mont, and Bell, of Wahoo, have inished tax
ing testimony in the motion to disbar Lawyer
sihbetts, OF David City. Scores OF witnesses
testified that slbbetts deliberately swindled
scores Of clients. The final hearing was held
at Wshoo, April "a.
The Jolly Clique club, OF Grand Island
young ladies', recently struck against the limi-
ted attentions shown them By the young gents
Of the town. The mere mention OF their griev-
ances was sufficient to right them instantly,
and the girls sIe now basking in the warm and
ELUSIVE sunshine Of masculine gsllantry.
The bellies and beaux of Nebraska City were
out in spring regslis, Wednesday, to attend
the marriage of Miss Mary Lee McComss, only
daughter OF Hor. K. f. McComas, and Wa
Hartwell Lyfor1, q young lawyer Of Chicago.
The knot was tie , in the Presbyterian church
at high noon. Esv. DR.. Lortmsr, Of Chicago,
o6iciated.
II Is asserted positively by q native that
there Is plenty Of coal underground in John
son county, which can be dug up for a tribe.
$ yet no enterprising miner has been found
10 scoop In the fortune thss awaits the arrival
OF cheap coal In the msrkets Of the state. The
johnson county vein will doubtless 60 In
search Of that recently reported In Cedar
county.
Mr.. Duffy made q personal call on the edi-
tor Ct the Greenwood Hawkeye last week to
protest against the use Of his name in the
vulgar types Of the paper. DUFFY tried to
emphasize his feelings by using q pugiiistic
attitude. He sent q feeler for the editorial
upper story, bat missed the bald spot by
several hairs. Subsequent events are thus
chronicied in the Havkeye: 1.-THE feathers
then began TO hy and the last we saw Of DuffS
he was stuck In the mud al the foot oi the
stairs. Come again, Mr.. Duffy. and we
guarantee to entirely chew you mp"
r. II. Evans, Of Plum Hollow, Iowa, writes
that - N any as thirty boys have run sway
from their homes In that neighborhood In the
past SIX months, and some OF them are sup