Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1886-09-18
NORTHWESTERN ITEMS.
DAKOTA.

begfL September q.
Bishop Hare will return to Sioux Falls from
Europe September 81.
dents at the Yankton college.
Jack Ackley has resigned the chief clerkshir
OF the Aberdeen land Office.
The corn crops Of the territory are consid.
cred out Of danger from frost.
The street cars at Huron were put In motion
for the first time September 2.
Both the incandescent and arc system
OF electric lightning are to be used in
Yankton.
Archie Bangs, Of Grand Forks, was acct
dentally shot while out hunting at Crary, near
Devils Lake.
Experimental tests Of the FIRE clay found at
Rapid City have demonstrated 1t to be a first.
class article.
The Brule county commissioner have ac-
cepted the new ~poor-housc from the contract
or, f. A. French.
The dwelling house Of Isaac Ross, OF Bis
marck, was destroyed by fire Wednesday morn
ing. Loss 1900.
A Yankton man was recently fined $40 for
using profane and vulgar language in the
presence of a lady.
SUITS have been commenced against La
Moure county for taxes on Northern Pacific
lands paid under protest.
Mitchell Is oyerrun with tin horn gamblers,
who are attending the fair, hoping to rope in
a large number Of suckers.
Joseph Bumiller, arrested for the murder Of
Alphonso Chezelman, was acquitted on trial,
there beiLg no evidence against him.
Judge Clifford has large northern support
for delegate; Morton county is solid for him,
and the Black Hills will indorse him.
The Huron fair is voted one Of the finest
exhibits OF stock ever seen west Of the Missis-
sippi. Nearly five hundred head are shown.
A. A. Anderson, a brakeman on the Brook.
ings and Redfeld Air Line, lost a hand Sep
TENDER 1 while making a coupling at Redield.
Judge Church, of the Black Hills district,
has ordered a jury for the September term of
court. There are a number of cases to be dis
posed OF.
The Canton city caucu was held Monday
afternoon and Clifford delegates were elected
to the county convention, which convenes On
the 18th.
An Indian family living near Pierre recent
ly sold their farm for $500, and spent the
entire amount the first day for gaudy
trinkets.
Congressman Hin, Of Ohio, delivered G
speech at the Huron fair yesterday. The -
tendance at the far for the day was soou,
10, 900.
\ ton Of coal taken from the newly discoy-
cred coal mine in Faulk county, a point eighty
two miles from Huron, will be exhibited at
the Huron fair.
Congressman Hin OF Ohio, chairman OF the
house committee on territories, arrived at
Mitchell on Tuesday morning. lie was very
cordially received.
During the severe thunder storm the depot
buildings Of the Manitoba road at Lakota
were struck by lightning, and taking fire were
partially consumed.
A scafTolding broke in Yanktop on the lst
instant and two masons were precipitated to the
ground, fifteen feet below. Charles Grimwood
had his arm broken and also received severe
internal injuries.
y w. Spring, of LeMars, agent for Nc
CorynicS's Harvesting Machine Co, has
sworn oat a warrant for the arrest Of Guy c.
Weed, the company's collector at Sioux Falls,
on a charge of embezzlement Of sli, 900.
One Of the novelties Of the forthcoming az
ricultural fair to be held at DEVILS Lake will
be 4 contes. between eight married men and
eight single men to see which team can pull
the other over a line by the aid Of a robe.
Over one hundred students have applied for
board at the dormitory Of the Vermillion uni.
v@rsity during the coming year, and desirable
places in private families are being rapidly
engaged. The attendance viii exceed that OF
last year.
Fifteen Of the foremost ladies in the local
w. c. T. L. visited all the saloons of Cham,
berlain and requested the saloonkeepers to
remove from their windows portraits OF
women dealing out liquor. All but one com
piled.
L. j. Webb and G.. A. Moody, commission
ers of Roberts county, arrested charged with
forging county warrants TO the amount OF
50 1000, waived examination at Traverse aud
gave bonds to appear at the next term of the
district court.
The book ard stationary store OF G.. A.
Hendricks, at Fargo, was early Sunday morn
ing entered by Burglars through the back
door and about $500 worth of gold
pens, cutlery and other goods taken. The gas
was burning and there were no curtains TO
the windows. Several recent robberies indi-
cate the work Of professionals To whom there
seems TO be no clue.
An ANNA township, Jerauld county father
has been accused by his two daughters, one
fourteen and the other sevtnteen years Of
age, of incest. The oldest daughter is about
to become a mother, and she declares that
her father Is the father of her unborn babe.
A party Of Manitoba surveyors arrived at
Hope on the 9TH, running a line from the end
OF the Manitoba track northwest to Gallatin
on the Cheyenne river. II is thought here
that the road will extend from Hope TO Coop
erstown, thence west, tapping the Coopers-
town and Minnewaukon branch Of the North
ern Pacific.
Gary is evidently gaining strength instead
OF losing, by the county seat war. The coun-
ty commissioners meet Thursday to deliberate
ON the Question. More new buildinps have