Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1886-05-22

A hog and cattle yard 10 to be established ut
Pspillion.
Nebraska City is still crying out for q bridge
over the Missouri.
The contract has been let for the canning
factory buildings at Tekamsh.
Bloomington our that It Ia TO have tn
old fashioned 4th Of July cele brstion.
Thirty-Hve wolf scslps have been paid fer ny
the treasurer of Jackson county since April l.
Wayne charges an occupation tax OF 800
for saloon keepers in addition to q license OF
$500.
j. E. Hill, of Gage county, is q candidate
for secretary of state on the Republican
ticket.
Coleridge is affected with a surplus Of rats,
and citizens are organizing to exterm!nate
them.
Otoe county has completed q commodious
inhrmary on the poor farm at Q cost Of
a, 800.
with an insufficient number Of teachers and
schools.
Miss Annie Moore, OF Holdridge, committed
suicide on Thursday On account OF domestic
troubles.
General Thayer, commander Of the depart
ment G.. A. r., was given rousing reception on
his recent VISIT to Grand Island.
Ed Russell, formerly editor Of the Daven-
port Gazette has invented q family scale and
has made $4,000 out Of it already.
The graders on the Missouri Pacific in the
cut near Papiliion struck on Saturday for
higher wages. The men were discharged.
The st. Paul and Omaha road proposes to
branch out from Wayne In the direction OF
Niobrars. Engineers are already In the field
surveying the route.
Some rascally sneak thief robbed o hard
ings OF years OF toll, which she boarded for
the sole purpose OF educating her only child.
The Perry city council. as a board Of equali-
cation, at a recent meeting raised the assess
ment Of one OF the property owners OF the
town from $525 to $780, 0O, and ano'her from
$5l5 to 81, 900.
Peter Beck and wife, living near Chaute,
and now in their eighty-sixth and eighty
fourth years, respectively, cele brated the
sixty-second anniversary Of their married life
on last Saturday.
The pushing people Of O'Neill having hav
ing planted a -four mill on u solid foundation,
have turned their attention to a canning fac
tory and starch mill. Success Is sure to
crown their united efforts.
At Wahoo Saturday a quarrel arose between
r.. Lee AMI Peter Fuller, a half witted fellow,
about the location Of a line fence. During the
dispute Fuller Drew q revolver and fired five
shots at Lee without result. Ia default Of
81 Zoo bail Fuller was sent to jail.
The land department OF the Burlington and
Missouri In Nebraska sold net 80, 993 acres OF
land in 1885, for 1901 $40, an average price Of
IS IL per acre. In Iowa the department has
$373, 7S9 In contracts, SIS, 94i In interest, and
16. Az acres ursold, valued at 8 ,06l.
The depot buildir z al Fort Roblnson will be
located about three miles east OF the post and
neas the reservation line. The own Is 10 be
named Crawford, In honor OF the late Lieu
tenant Crawford, killed IN Mexico, and who
tor several years was stationed at Fort Rob-
inson.
Tecumseh Is all torn UP over a recent Visit
from Joseph Cook. He is said TO have abused
the citizens IN q very ungentls manly manner,
and The Journal asserts that should che ever
visit our town again he would either conduc.
himself AZ becomes a gentleman, pay q fne, or
so to jail"
Benjamin Harmon, a farmer aged sixty five
years, Of O'Neill, accuses his wife, aged TWEEN
ty- eight, OF giving him poison In his food, and
that she Is In love with one Smith, q married
Mrs. Harmon we're arrested on Wednesday.
Harmon was given antidotes and recovered.
Prof. Hurshbarger OF the franklin academy,
while putting his class through the manual OF
arms, stood In front Of the line, and ordered
the class to aim and fire at q button on his
breast. The guns were loaded with powder
only, but a wad penetrated his clothing and
entered his body, causing hemorrhage Of the
lungs. The wound is considered dangerous.
Early Monday morning the barns of the
Stanton Breeding company, fourteen miles
south Of Stanton were destroyed by fire. Thirty
eight head OF breeding mares, valued at about
IS 90, and one stallion valued at $1,000 per-
ished In the flames, besides the farm nipple.
ments and harness. The loss will be between
SI5,0 C0 and 500, 0C0. The rar ca was principally
owned by Marshall Field, OF Chicago. Insur-
srce about t5,0Co.
The last wrinkle a e~windling methods Is re-
p Tted from D0dg- county. One sharper agrees
TO buy a farmers l. ad-pays him s25 to bind
the bargain. Anotter comes alony and OFT
him $500 more and gets the promise Of 1t, X
the farmer can buy off No. /, who soon comes
around and insists en- the fulfllment OF the
contract but viii give up for $50. This
tie farmer sgrees 10, pays back
the SIS and the second purchaser never re-
turns.
A surveying corps filing five wagons sailed
out of Chadron last week, bound for Central
Wyoming &, to put the flushing touches on the
route OF the Chicago and Northwestern. mas
much rs the work Is already surveyed between
Fetterman ard Sweetwater, this seasons work
OF the surveying ard engineer corps will settle
the much mooted question OF where the North
western Ia going to beyond Wyoming. That
the stakes will be set through the mountain G
10 O<diu. Utah, before the lat OF next January