Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1886-01-30
NORTHWESTERN NEWS.
DAKOTA
Pierre 10 to have an ice rink.


Rapid City Is organizing q nre department
Redfeld has decided to invest $4,000 in IN
a~rtesian well.
The Iron Hill mine is earning about $25, COO
over expenses.
Ice-boats are in use on the james river In
Dickey county.
Mr.. Hobsen, of Fargo, has arranged to build
a hotel at Sanborn.
Wolves are very bold and numerous in the
vicinity OF Scranton.
The government 10 about to erect q chapel
at Pine Ridge agency.
Steele and Griggs counties have refused to
grant saloon licenses.
Subscriptions at Sioux Falls for the new
railroad now amount to $4,000.
The Dunseith coal mines are turning cut
about three tons OF coal per day.
A wholesale grocery house Is to be establish
ed Wstertown by parties from the east.
Unless ten new instruments are taken the
telephone exchange at Pierre will be closed.
National Bank Examiner Taylor reports the
First National at Sioux Falls In good cond.-
ton.
Petitions are In circulation In Sanborn coun.
ty praying for the removal Of COMMISSIONS
Sparks.
Daniel Scott will start a new daily paper at
Rapid City as soon as the material can be
shipped.
The Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen
| will give q reception and ball at Mitchell on
the evening Of Feb. Is.
COMMISSIONS Sparks ruling has had the
effect to make settlers look up their patents
and have them.recorded.
A druggist at Flandreau recently received a
shipment Of thirty-six barrels Of spruce gum.
Everybody chews gum there.
Fred Steig and John Fisher were arrested at
Ssmulle, near North Hampton, charged with
the murder OF Philip Lewis.
E.. j. Fancher, formerly OF Chicago, was ar
rested at Yankton charged with seduction IN
der a promise OF marriage.
The Bank of DEVILS Lake has suspended.
The cashier thinks the assets will cover la
esAeANo 49, 80 ~ ~orpNN
1t is reported that c. B.. Mallory, late school
treasurer at Detroit, stole $4OO OF the towns
funds and skipped to California.
The residence OF L.. G. Nelson, near Bridge
water, burned. Mrs. Rasmussen, who was in
jured at the time, nas since died.
Z. K. How ard has resigned as treasurer Of
Minnehaha county, and Charles L. Norton he's
been appointed to I'LL the vacancy.
A large colony of German farmers from
Clayton county, Iowa, have arranged to settle
In Minnehaha county in the spring.
Edmunds county refuses TO grant liquor
licenses and has ordered the saloons to close
as soon as their present licenses expire.
A charter has been granted for a street rail-
way at ID Aberdeen. One mile of road is to be
completed within a year from Jan. /, 1886.
The best deer hunting In the territory is
evidently In the Sioux reservation. A party
OF four or five Indians have recently killed
80.
The Huron Cong fegat.onslis's gave n recep-
ton LAST night to their new pastor, Rev. A. A.
Murphy, who came from Pennsylvania last
week.
The Ozone office ct Steele burned on Mon
day. The proprietor will issue the Ozone
from the Herald office until he can get a new
outfit.
The new clock for the courthouse at Fargo
said TO be the largest IN Dakota, is being
placed In position. The bell weighs 4,ooo
pounds.
Suit has been brought against w. II. Hollis
ter, agent of the Moline Pillow works, for per.
jury In swearing out Al attachment against
the firm OF summers s. Van Horn.
A bar about a mile south Of Yankton Is q
f~avorite place for wolves, packs OF a dozen or
so being frequently seen there and affording
lively sport for hunters and dogs.
The grand Jury at Desdwood has returned
indictments against Sheriff Garland, Col.
Tracy, John Mccarthy and others, charging
them with issuing false evidences Of indebted
ness.
The Farmers Mutual Assurance company of
Dakota, with headquarters at Plankinton, has
teen organized. Capital $4,000. 1t will be
an exclusive farmers organization, no bust
ness risks being taken.
Hundreds of tons Of hay that were cut,
stacked, and fenced by farmers living near the
post on the divide between Bear Butte and
Alkali creeks, In Lawrence county, have been
destroyed by range cattle.
The dedication Of the Presbyterian church at
Alexandria last Sunday wss an occasion Of
unusual interest and participated in by
eminent divines from abroad. The ed!6ce Is
quite artistic and handsome.
The board Of trustees Of the Presbyterian
college meet at Jamestown Feb. 10, at which
time Il presiden: vii DO elected, plans for
building adopted, and arrangements made for
the future work OF the college.
Reports come from Mower county, MINI,
aud Knox county, o., that large numbers are
preparing to migrate TO Young, in the extreme
north. and others from the counties In tie
states report great int crest in that region.
Hunter, in Cass cou nty, has q society of
bachelors, which hold tstated secret meetings.
The report has gotten out among the young
ladies that these meet ngs are hilarious revels
inspired by bibulous exercises, apd the mem
bers are threatened with boycotting by the
fair ones.