Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1886-01-16
NORTHWESTERN NEWS.
DAKOTA

improvements itchell last year cost
5000 COZ
A socialists lodge Is to be organized at Val
ley City.
A $4,000 school house will be erected at
Flandreau.
Building improvements ct olson aggre-
gate $3.50
Menoken farmers were sowing wheat as late
az last Tuesday.
The Grafton school building has been in
sured for $500.
La Moure's improvements for the year ag-
greEate SEC, 600.
During last year Flandreau shipped $4,000
bushels Of grain.
The iron Hill mine 3 negotiating for ten
additional stamps.
A new addition to Rapid City has been sur
veyed and plated.
Scarlet fever is reported to be in the neigh
borhood Of Tyndall.
The Iron mine has struck q very RIGA grade
of ore IN the 200 level.
The Aberdeen council has arranged for cleo
trio lights for her streets.
Mitchell's improvements last year reached
the round sum Of 100000.
Robert Davidson, 6 well-known builder and
pioneer, died : jamestown.
Eastern capitalists are negotiating for a site
for a wagon factory at Fargo.
Governor Pierce has been granted leave Of
absence to visit Washington.
The Great Souther, railroad has secured
right OF way in Union county.
Forty school houses ave been built In San
born county within t. asr year.
The transportation companies are building
large warehouses at Buffalo Gap.
j. Z. Dow, near Grand Forks, cost $1,000
worth Of blooded hogs by cholera.
Quite a number Of persons in the Black Hills
are attempting to pass forged paper.
Several Dakota towns ARE agitating the cues
ton Of organizing building associations.
The product Of the Caledonia mill for the
irst half OF December aggregated $4,000.
The School Of Mines now being erected at
Rapid City will be completed in about three
weeks.
Never Ia the history Of Sioux Falls hoe there
been such a demand for business houses as at
Henry Johnson was fatally wounded at the
EtnG mine, Rapid City, in a shooting aifray
week.
The NJ. Z church at Milbank wlll be c
Gated Jan. II, Rev. II. 1. ives, OF New York,
officiating.
Thomas Campbell, a Hutchinson county
farmer, was kicked to death by e. II. Singer,
who escaped.
Since August IS, 900 bushels of fax and 3d.
600 bushels Of wheat have been marketed vt
Alexandria.
Rev. Hob OF Sioux Falls has received a call
from the church at Mcpherson, Kan, at Il sal
airy OF 81, 400.
The First National bank at Hlllsboro has
s6,279 undivided profits, and has only been
open two months.
The Northwestern Elevator company has In
rs agent at Grafton to guarantee
weights and grades.
A ive-year-oli daughter OF Frank Allen a.
Custer City fell into a tub of boiling water and
was scalded to death.
A new natlc nal bank he's been established
at Watertown, Col. Mark w. Sheafe, Of that
place, being president.
The Russian settlers In the northwest towns
Of Burleigh county have opened several coal
mines OF good quality.
A little girl baby Of Frank Adams, Of Custer
City, fell into a tub Of boiling water Tuesday,
and was fatally scalded.
The woods ia the vicinity Of Yankton arc
full OF quail, and It is thought next years crop
will be the largest known.
Five hundred dollars reward IS offered for
the return Of the records stolen from the
Barnes county treasurer's office.
W. T. Hcichert, Of Lakota, has failed, With
at $4,000, mostly to due st. Paul,
Minneapolis and Milwaukee parties.
During the year 1885 the Yankton packing
house slaughtered l0,69S hogs. During 1856
they will increase the number to 5000.
Rev. John Cross died near Washington
Springs the other day, aged eighty-pine years.
nad been II minister OF the gospel for fifty
years.
Ek ven thousand dollars worth OK North
railroad bonds, issued by the Yankton
city council, were destroyed because not
William G. Edwards, living near Csuscy
postofice. committed suicide. He bade hts
child goodbye. He wGs supposed TO be
insane.
Az the residence OF Rev. Mr.. Close, Of Bis
marcg, the hired girl was severely, perhaps
fatally burned by the overturn:ng OF a kero-
sene lamp.
The ~artesian wells at the Yankton asylum
were deepened to q depth Of $50 feet, and now
flow al the rate OF 1850 gallons per hour under
a strong pressure.
G. G. Saaner, Of Mitchell, claims $4,000
damages from Sheriff Alberton, which he al
leges he sustained by the closing OF his store
by the officer on writ OF attachment.
C. B. Mallory, treasurer Of q school town.
ship In Brown county, went to California a
few weeks since, and now II Is discovered that
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