Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1886-07-03

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in s., 800 bonds issued by that county.
Fred Stone of Pierre eloped with Miss Carrie
McGibbons OF that place Monday Night.
Alfred Heggermen, near Tappen, accident
ally shot himself while hunting, and may die.
D.. NJ. ClApsaddle, an attorney of Huron,
died suddenly of heart disease Saturday night.
Yankton's artesian well now spouts 1000
gallons of water q minute or $4,000 barrels a
day.
Deadwood- Terra mining stock jumped from
S1.15 to So last week without. any known
cause.
The Kidder county commissioners have dis
continued the payment of bounties on
gophers.
A Mr.. Skogstad, near Portland, had three
horses killed by lightning during the last
storm.
The hotels at Grand Forks have disposed of
their buses by sale, end signed an agreement
not to furnish transportation to or from the
~ststion.
Frank Fifer, 4 farmer near Yankton, was
thrown from his wagon Wednesday and in
stantly killed.
The hydrophobia at Gayville is now confined
to a few animals. Nearly every dog there has
been killed.
The second annual encampment Of the Da-
kota National guard will be held ut Aberdeen
July 20 and 25.
The Darlington News says the reports OF the
damage by hail in that vicinity are very much
exaggerated.
Horton, who killed Kennedy In Brule county
a couple OF weeks ago, has been bound over to
court without bail.
lightning during the storm Friday night, rid
ding the interior and scattering the mail.
An eastern syndicate has bought three tin
locations In Cross mining district for $l5, 000.
The mines are known as the Neal property.
The Northwestern Railroad company is said
to have given assurance that their line would
not be extended beyond Rapid City this year.
The Dakota Midland railway was sold to d..
w. Washburn and his associates, and will be
used as a branch line for the Minneapolis and
Pacific.
A petition is bcics circulated In Barnes
county asking the Northei Pacific to reduce
the rates Of freight for the transportation Of
grain.
A little son of Mr.. and Mrs. Peter Hansen
Of Madison was found dead in the gasoline
cellar Of Mr.. Woods drug store at Madison on
Monday.
A large force OF carpenters Is at work In the
railroad yards at Scotland framing the fIc
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Of that place.
J. w. Hays, who founded the New Rockford
Transcript three years ago, has sold out to
Captain W. G.. Dunn. Hays is going into
business at Chicago.
During the past year the farmers of Dakota
stock thieves. One Of the gang has been ar
rested and is awaiting trial.
Milton Weston, the Chicago millionaire in
jail at P%itt.burg for melting a riot, helped to
build the Dakota Southern from Yankton tc
Sioux City. He is the stepson of Rev. G. w.
Freeman, who recently preached in Yankton.
Work has been commenced on the railway
line north from Wayne, Neb., and thirty five
miles of the work has been let. The terminal
point of the line as surveyed is in Knox coun.
ty, l25 miles a tribe west of south from Yank.
ton.
A couple OF over-zealous north Dakota law.
yers got into a dispute in court lately. One
offered to bet $50 to $40 on a point of law and
was promptly taken. The judge was appointed
stakeholder, and when the money was put ~
ha DpaJ both ottprpo,.a fnr ,n+on,,t 80 o-.r,
and appropriated the stakes to pay the fines
There seems to be good authority for the
statement that as a result of the recent trip OF
directors of the Milwaukee road over their
Dakota lines, the connection of the road from
Ortonville to Jackson and from Andover to
Eagan will soon be made. The connection
from Sioux City to Defiance has been ordered.
This road will have nearly a direct line from
Fargo TO Sioux City.
Parties in Deuel. county have apple trees
that hang full OF fruit. Very few so far north
have attempted to grow apples, supposing that
II would be very difficult, If not impossible, to
succeed. The experiments seem to show that
in any parts Of the territory many varieties of
apples will do well, with some protection from
winds and winter. More attention is needed
TO this subject.
In the construction of the st. Paul, Mime.
apoiis and Manitoba railroad the company
failed to build eulverts in proper places. This
failure prevented the surface water from run
ming OF in It's proper channels, and, near
Fargo, caused an overflow by which crops on
the land OF Ellen f. Hannaher have been
damaged during the past two years. Recently
Mrs. Hannaher brought suit against the com
pany for 5000 damages, and Thursday the
jury awarded her a verdict OF %, 500.
The defense Of Pettigrew In the trial at
flandreau last week was that in his census re-
turn he stigmatized Attorney General Rice as
a bastard" not in a personal sence rejecting
upon any of his ancestors, but as applying to
MS ofhce, which he regarded as improperly
created by the legislature. But as he omitted
the explanation in his report, the jury nulcted
him xl3,ND Pettigrew Ia n lawyer apa n