Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1886-01-09
NORTHWESTERN NEWS.
DAKOTA

MIS-. vi r hnuernule mas palEVcu u pOTlIhll
OF Gen. Grant, which she has presented to the
G.. A. II. Post of Yankton.
The neighbors OF o. j. Norem, OF Letcher,
turned out and helped him rebuild his big
barn, blown down some time ago.
Rev. Father Claude, who for the last two
years has had charge Of the mission near Fort
Yates, has been transferred to the DEVILS Lake
mission.
Miss Ruby Rolph was awarded the hand
some gold pen offered for the best penman-
ship at the close Of the term In the Mitchell
university.
Clifton, n Sully county, has lately been
favored wi h beautiful mirages, the buildings
at Fort Sully, twenty miles away, being dis
tinctly visible.
John Waterman, a former resident CT Mitch
ell, is now part wner ia a New Mexico silver
mine that is psunlng out ore worth from $500
to 81, GOO per ton.
Ole Oleson, j., is the only native-Sorn Da-
kotaian OF constitutional age belonging 10 the
first State Legislature. He was born in Clay
county and resides near Meckling.
Wolves, coyotes, and foxes are numerous in
ty Of Maitland organized aLupt for Tuesday,
Wednesday, and Thursday of this week, to ex-
terminate as many o. the hrutes as possible.
Joe LsBrush, who Is confued in jail at
Chamberlain, made preparations for suicide
by tearing up his bed clothes and making a
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the sheriff and a ''stay Of execution" ordered.
Yankton has secured another railroad, which
will give her three more trains each way daily,
aud her business men are about to o~rgar.ize Il
board OF trade. 1t Is proposed also to erect q
chamber OF which is 10 cost 5000
TO $4,000.
II is stated that out Of thirty-fvc pre-. emp
ton cases In the Aberdeen land district, re-
ferred by COMMISSIONS Sparks TO a board for
examination, one has been recommended for
special investigation.
Larimore boasts Of clean, graded and well
drained streets, good sidewalks, an $ll,000
school house and one Of the best graded
schools IN Dakota. Her municipal debt IS only
$4,000, and that is for a fire engine and appa-
ratus and water supply.
The Ipswich Tribune says that since harvest
22S 600 bushels OF wheat and $500 of fax
have been shipped from that point, and not
over two-thirds Of the crop has. 10 view Of
showing for a beginning.
The grand jury In the United States court
Wednesday brough In indictments against
eight prominent CT ems Of Sargent county,
mostly OF Minor, in connection with the al
legged fraudule voting to secur the county
seat at Minor November, 1884.
Gov. Pierce as adopted a rule that In all
applications or pardon the party must set
forth by affidavit that no money has been
used or promised to attorneys or other persons
to promote the effort, and II any is used its
exact amount and use must be stated.
The armer In Towner county have to haul
from thirty TO forty miles to market, but the
roads are SO solid and the country so level
that the largest loads can be hauled. The
Cando Tribune saws there Is not altogether a
lIODtIl III lDC 1ChI WHICH II iOdh5 VI " III
fine condition.
Father Wilhelm, at White Lake, is In com
munication with the commissioners OF emlgra-
ton at New York and Baltimore with a view TO
drawing settlers to locality, and goes east
to give the matter persc II lattention, as well
as to collect money to P y of the debt on his
handsome new church.
1t has been supposed generally that Decem-
Der of 1885 was without precedent of mildness,
but examination Of the record at Fargo shows
and zero was touched but three days in thai
month. There was an abundance Of cold
weather later in the season.
Lowell Mason Campbell, who lately died o
acute disease at Miller, In Hand county, had
been q train dispatcher on the Chicago and AL.
ton road in Illinois, and was popular IN rail
road circles. He came to Dakota for his
health, and was improving until he received
an injury which brought on fatal sickness.
The indictment by the United States grand
jury at Fargo OF the members OF the election
board in Sargent which conducted the voting
which gave Milno the county seat, is stirring
up a good deal OF excitement I'm that county.
II IA alleged that the evidences Of fraud are
very direct aud strong. The trial will be OF
much local interest.
The ~artesian well at Columbia, $50 feet or
more deep, has .ately thrown out what appears
to be partially carbOnized wood or bark. 1t
comes In pieces OF varying size, some as large
as a mans hand. II Is thought this indicates
that thers servoir from which the well is sup
piled has irect connection with the upper
Missouri, ia lake OF considerable elevation
In the Vel owstone re zion.
Scotland parties, says the Yankton Press.
confirm the report that representatives of the
Milwaukee Railroad company are purchasing
large tracts Of land in the southeast corner OF
Hutchinson county, some fifteen miles north.
west Of Scotland. This is given as evidence
that the Milwaukee is TO extend from Scotland
In the spring, and that the point where these
purchases are being made, which is due south
from Mitchell, will be plated as a railroad
town site, and the junction Of q line running
north to Mitchell and h line running north
west through Douglas county.
c. II. Singer, q resident OF Scotland, d. T.,
and Thomas Campbell, a farmer, residing a
few miles out Of town, engaged In a fight, one