Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1886-03-20
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Alarm Of 100 acres, two miles from Millard
was sold last week for $1,000.
John Smith dropped two fingers In a corn
| shelter at Schuyler q few days ago.
A wild goose weighing twenty-five pounds
was killed near Columbus last week.
A capitalist from Ohio is negotiating for
q site TO build q hotel In Grand Island.
Doane college, Crete, In closed temporarily,
owing to the prevalence Of scarletfever.
Wakefield boasts that In the matter OF chess
players 1t can down any town in the state.
The Curtis Record, the advocate of q new
town in western Nebraska, was cbristened last
Saturday.
The census just completed In Fremont
shows ,2S6 children OF school age, o gain Of
Y IL a year.
The new Methodist church to be quilt at
Homer this year will be 4OxS0 feet in size, and
will cost $1,000.
The schools Of Nebraska City report an at.
tendance OF s66. There are $500 In the
school treasury,
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Democratic nomination for congressman IN
the Third district.
j. 7. Hay, q prominent manufacturer from
Indiana, is negotiating to start q WOODEN fac
tory at Long Pine.
Seward has q market day each month, set
aside especially for the purpose OF exhibiting
and selling cattle and stock.
p. +. Cunningham has been awarded the con-
tract Tor laying track on the Elkhorn between
Chadron and Fort Fetterman.
AIecent census shows Plum Creek has a
population Of 1928. 1t is proposed TO incor-
porate as q city Of the second class.
A Fillmore county man claims the premium,
He reports a turkey under snow for fifty days
with no food, but living when found.
Having put up the cash for q coming fac
tory, the enterprising citizens OF Blair have
decided to follow 1t with a pork packery.
Homer is to have a $50, 900 Lutheran college,
a Catholic church, a Methodist church, a
Danish church, and 1t expects q railroad.
Columbus was lighted by electricity for the
first time Friday evening. The streets were
flied with an excited and admiring crowd.
The Plattsmouth aiming factory has already
a stock Of $50, 0O0 cans reaIy TO be filed when
the season opens. The factory Is to be en-
larged.
The commissioners Of Cass county have re-
iected the offer OF Plattsmouth citizens 10
build a court house free Of charge for the use
Of the county.
A II lstings school marin got left by The
train ten miles away from home last Saturday
night at 9 O'Clock, and she walked 1t In just
two hours and twenty minutes.
The Plattsmouth Morning Mail died hard
up. Over It's grave In the journalistic bone
yard this epitaph should be placed In letters q
yard wiue: "No credit given herelo
The hotel project recently sgitated at Wy
more has crystalized into a joint stock com
pany, to be known as the Touzalin Hotel
company, with a capital stock Of $35,O 600.
Holt %county's finances are said TO be In On
alarming condition. The estimate OF expenses
for the ensuing year is $44 coo, while the levy
will only net $22, 900, leaving q snug deficiency
to add TO the resent burden.
A syndicate OF Nebraska capitalists has just
completed the purche Sc OF a large amount Of
property In and adjoining Sterling, Col. They
expect to take a hand In the improvement and
development of that lively Town this season.
A search of the boys in the school in Ponca
resulted In finding q number OF revoivers,
bras knuckles, slung-shOts and other deadly
| weapons. The youthful terrors were disarmed
and turned over to the tender palms Of their
parents.
school near Blair, punished one OF his scholars
by beating him on the hand with a stick. The
boys father gave Rodgers q good thrashing,
and on cor LIANT OF Rodgers the old man was
arrested sn fined $l3 and costs.
Butler co .uty is all excitement over the re-
ported gold find in the blu ifs four miles north
Of David CITY. Messrs. Appledick and Rise
dorf, the men who own the land, have been
working the bluffs for over three months, and
It is said that some OF the ''ore'' has been sent
to On ma for assay.
Out In Fairview precinct, Dawson county,
the lyceum debated the question, "That pu-
| gil sm is one Of the lost arts" A practical
demonstration was given by the debaters,
ending in a general knock down and drag out
Nine OF the participants were arrested and
! fined Is and costs, but they had the s~atisfac-
ton of proving the negative side OF the ques.
ton.
The Grand Island land { flee took in SIG, 452
during February, and handled papers repre-
sen,ing 81, 900 acres Ct land. Total number OF
| original homestead entries from creation Of
district up to March /, 1856, IL. 595; total num-
Der Of homestead proofs TO same date, 6.s3S;
total number of pre- -em ption filings, 5000; To-
tai number timber culture entries, 8 1854; total
number timber claim proofs, 235.
The business men Of Hastings held an in
dignation and anti-discrim,nation meeting
Wednesday night. The object Of their wrath
was the alleged discriminating rates OF the b.
IL M. against the city's business interests.
The company and It's s~ervitors were pummeled
quite vigorously and viciously, and q commit
tee was appointed to secure concert OF action
In diyerting the business OF the city TO the st.
Joe road. 1t is q boy colt pure and simple.