Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1886-08-28

! ore returned over $500 10 the ton.
The government steamer Tompkins is on
her way to Benton with Government sup
plies.
Bishop Hare writes To friends IN Sioux Falls
from Europe that he is greatly improved in
health.
The new Buxton Mine company Of Lead
City recently made q shipment Of II, 800 worth
of ore.
Mr.. Sutliff, postmaster at Tyndall, has re-
| rigned and his wife has been appointed his
stead.
The Republican convention OF the Twenty
second district will meet I'm jamestown Octo-
Der -.
Judge Francis will net allow any newspaper
men on the grand jury that be has anything to
do with.
Iron Hills whole output has been 2l0,67S
ounces. The ten new stamps will begin work
tomorrow.
The Dickty crop is not a failure after all.
The crop is almost up to the average all the
way through.
The Burlington depot at Sioux Falls viii be
built Of Sioux Falls quartzite, and will be 40x
115 feet In size.
Principals of the great tin importing houses
of New York are investigating the tin mines
In the Black Hills.
There are now about 1000 people settled on
tbs Smell p~rsiries north OF Wadena county,
and they are doing well.
Farmers near Blunt, who sowed some win
GO, u,lnot 1apt foIl Ard - tnatttraJ hafnra tha
drouth and is all right.
Miss Ella Close, aged eighteen years, became
disappointed in love, and attempted to com
NIT suicide at DEVILS Lake Thursday. A
stomach pump saved her.
New wheat, brought from st. Lawrence, is
lighter than last year, weighing ffty-two to
ilfty-six pounds a bushel.
1t Is estimated that fully 1000 prairie chick
ems were slaughtered within a radius of four
miles from Huron on the 18th inst.
A tempcstuous c%oETenuon is looked for in
the Seventeenth legislative district. 1t will
be the first since the district was organized.
Theodore Roosevelt denied at Bismarck
Thursday the statement that he had expressed
himself in favor Of Blaine and Logan in 1858.
The fifth annual fair of the st. Lawrence
County Agricultural and Industrial association
will be held AT Spearfish, commencing Septem-
Der 8.
c. A. Stream of New York, has been ap-
pointed clerk OF Grant county by Judge
Church, and the Democrats are highly indig-
nant.
A sharp from the east has been working the
change racket ut Lead City, and swindled the
Deadwood First National bank out Of fifty
dollars.
The new government wing of the Sioux
Falls penitentiary, containing ~ffty-six cells, is
to be put in order for a lot Of crooks from
Detroit.
The fifth annual fair Of the st. Lawrence
County Agricultural and Industrial associa-
ton will, be held at Spearfsh, commencing
September s.
The Rapid City Republican calls for stock
exchanges in the Black Hills country to regu-
late quotations and transactions and stop the
wild cat mining business.
Work on the artesian well at Plankinton
has been suspended and the citizens are dis
satisfied, although the supply OF water Is sew
~enty-fve gallons per minute.
A Huron girl was too fasti3ious to be mar
rled by a justice of the peace. She told the
would be groom that he would either have to
get a minister or take her home.
A stock company, with a capital Of s25,0C0
is being formed at Watertown. The project
IL To heat the city by steam by using a plant Of
boilers, and also TO light the city by electric
ity.
O1e man in Edmundson county, with one
machine, last week cut 40 acres of wheat in
sixty-fye consecutive hours. He stopped
only TO change horses, eating his meals while
at work.
Milo Jacks, OF Rochester, had a pocket book
containing $40 In money and some papers
stolen from his pocket recently. The thief
was very accommodating and returned the
papers to him through the mail.
The entire assessed property Of the territory
will reach about $3.50, 600, 600. 1t is expected
the rate levied for taxes for territorial pur-
poses will be about 216 mills, Last year the
property was valued at sl06, 000, 00, and the
rate s mills.
Henry Kihel, Of Deadwood, was shot
through the head and dangerously injured on
the 14th inst. by a twelve-year-old boy named
Isaac Forest, who was at the time engaged in
target shooting with a revolver, and a wild
shot inflicted the wound.
The ten United States land offices in Dakota
did the following business in July: The total
number of new filings was 3,426, an increase
Of 54S over May, and the total of final proofs
was 95S, an increase Of 1871. One hundred
and seven Of these final proofs were made on
timber claims. The area duly filed on during
June was 543, 923 acres, and that acquired by
final proof, l41, 792 acres. The tolai number
oi new filings during the first six months of
1856 was 10, los, and Of final proofs, 4,G27.
The area newly taken during the same period
,601, so, acres, and of land acquired by
final proofs, 574,013 acres.