Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1886-11-20
NORTHWESTERN ITEMS,
DAKOTA.

The Huron Huronite has been greatly cn
larged.
Matrimony is proving contagious at Rose
dale.
Webster will have q Masonic dedication on
Nov. IL.
Chamberlain schools have an attendance of
over $50.
The Elk Point Courier has commenced It's
sixteenth year.
There are 175 students of the Agricultural
college at Brooklngs.
The Blind Boone Concert company are billed
for Elk Point next week.
Several boys at bismarck are taking lessons
IN the art Of fife playing.
Black leg has made it's appearance among
the cattle in Sully county.
Woonsocket is made up largely Of young,
vigorous and talented people.
The postofice name Of Rome, Dawson coun-
ty, has been changed TO Ethan.
Wolves are numerous and bold in the yicin-
fly OF Rosedale, Hanson county.
Sioux Falls is To have a dancing school, 10
be presided over by a Boston artist.
Railroad surveyors are making things lively
at jamestown ana whereabouts.
A branch Of the First National bank Of
Columbia has been established at Cakes.
They have a disease at Fargo called Red
river fever, which sometimes proves fatal.
A man named Cleveland, cousin of the pres
ident, was elected coroner OF Trail county.
Outside of the Black Hills the the only TO
stamp mill in the world, is located In Alaska.
Grain dealers of Ethan complain of a
scarcity OF cars for the shipping Of their
grain.
Lead City Gremen are arranging for a grand
masquerade ball on the evening Of the 25th
inst.
Mai, p. l.. Tippct, Of Virginia, has been
appointed sub-agent at Lower Brule Indian
agency.
At Huron, on Monday, the funeral Of Rev.
VIM. II. Hoadley was held from the Methodist
church.
A triple Russian wedding occurred in the
Kaufman church, near Childstown, one day
last week.
The citizens of Armour met together Satur-
day evening to confer in regard to building a
school house.
Five hundred children attend the seven COY
eminent schools on the Standing Rock indian
reservation.
r. j. Wells, of Sioux Falls, has brought suit
against the Minnchaha Mail for libel, fixing
the damage at $4,000.
The business houses recently destroyed at
Spearfsh by fire are to be rebuilt, stone being
used in the construction.
S~altpctre ore has been discovered near Dead
wood. The sample on exhibition contains 80
per cent OF pure saltpetre.
Development work is being prosecuted on
the Missing Link group Of tin mines near
Custer with a very fattering outlook.
The total yield of the Iron Hill mine up to
date is 396, 1886 ounces. The October out
put amounted TO 9,2S3,5 - ounces.
The recent election in La Moure county re-
suited in a majority of SO for removing the
county seat from Grand Rapids TO La Moure.
Work on a new packing house for Mitchell
has been commenced and viii be completed
and in running order, it is hoped, by Christ
mas.
The chief of police of Bismarck has warned
the parents OF that city that all boys found on
the streets after 8 o'clock viii be liable to ar
rest.
The 1st day of October there was not one
house Ia the new town OF Monango, In Dickey
county, and the LIST day of November there
were fifty.
A young woman living at Armou died a
few days ago from the effects of taking the
wrong medicine, compounded by mistake by
a druggist.
The November term OF district court con
vened at Sioux Falls on Tuesday. Judge C..
s. Palmer presiding. Their, arc 100 cases on
the calendar.
Pierrc's university library 10 designated by
TIE interior department. at Washington as a
depository OF the United States government
publications.
James Wilson, a farmer living near Veron.
lea, died on Tuesday from a gunshot wound
received In the leg by the accidental dis
charge Of a gun on Monday.
The Sioux Falls Savings bank, with a cap
ital of $4,000, has just been organized. The
officers are: President, J. T. Gilbert; treas
urer and cashier, Mark Russell.
w III u vac DtihS hNo pFN - pDHy
Of a son of Fenton McMahon's at Sioux Falls
Monday night, the house took are from the
candles round the coffin and was burned
down.
John Wilson, a farmer living near VERONA,
died yesterday from the effects Of a gunshot
wound I'm the leg, accidentally received Mon
day evening. Wilson was 81 years Of age and
from Wisconsin.
Z. s. Kneeland OF Hillsboro has ;ast com
1,eted a greenhouse, which Is the largest in
stitution of The kind In the territory. 1t is
heated by steam and contains between two
and three thousand plants.
Steele Herald, s: j. Y. Bancroft In October
1885, while rplowing on his farm lost his
watch, and 1t could not be found. In 0cto-
Der, 1886, Mr.. jacobson was blowing again
and he turned up the watch from the soil un-
der which IL had laid for a year. The watch
was cleaned Of, wound up, and has been
keeping as good time as before it was lost
and buried.
A party Of eight or ten men and women,
who call themselves the Praying Band, have
gone to jamestown from Storm Lake, Iowa.
They have rented houses and will make that