Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1886-12-04
NORTHWESTERN ITEMS.
DAKOTA.

Sportsmen arc finding plenty of deer In the
Hills.
Armour has quite a reputation as a market
for hogs.
81. Lawrence will have = new Is 900 hotel In
the spring time.
The Sioux Falls DALI -.eader has been
merged into the weekly.
Deadwood was four days without q train or
mail during the storm.
Wild geese are reported TO be scarce Ia the
territory this season.
A Masonic dedication occurred at Webster
on the 18th inst.
The elevators at Fargo received IA $50 bush
els OF wheat last week.
Baking powder canvassers have taken pos
session of Sioux Falls.
The north Dakota Baptist association is in
session this week at Fargo.
New rubber suits and hats have been order
ed for the Mitchell firemen.
An average Of 800 letters per day pass
through the Rapid City rostofiice.
There were four deaths from typhoid fever
at Sioux Falls y" rnday last.
Blackleg has made it's appearance among
the cattle Of Sully county.
The First National Bank Of Columbia, has
established a branch at Cakes.
The population of Custer county has more
than doubled within a year.
A large depot and two warehouses are In
course Of construction at Edgeley.
The Northwestern depot at Cakes Is claim
ed to be the largest In the territory.
The workingmen Of Millbank are trying to
organize All assembly Of Knights Of Labor.
The temperance issue is becoming quite an
item in territorial newspapers generally.
The Zig Sioux river at Sioux Falls showed a
thin coating OF ice Monday morning.
Diphtheria prevails TO such an extent in
Carol county that the schools are closed.
p. G. Cooley, of Minnewaukon, has as
signed. Liabilities, $1,000; assets the same.
A herd If i've large bufTalos have been seen
up in La Moure county several times this fall.
Partie are making arrangements TO estab-
lish ar surance brokerage Office at Sioux
Falls.
Indignant citizens of Huron held a meet
ing to protest against street ear work on
Sundays.
The latest Sioux Falls enterprise is the new
Savings Bank, to be opened to business in
about ten days.
Rev. T. II. Hartman, Of jamestown, is lee
turing in the territory on the subject OF Alec
hol Of the Brain.
Mr.. Il. L, Tabor holds the honor Of shipping
the first carload of live stock from Clark coun.
ty to market.
The agent of the Sioux Falls brewing COM
pany has abscond.d with $500 of the com
pany's money.
The elevator AT Sheldon burst eten the
other day, scattering 1900 bushels of wheat
over the ground.
The cold frosty weather has brought about
a marked improvement In the typhoid cases
at Sioux Falls.
The best Illinois coal can be purchased az
Centreville for $3.50 a ton and hard coal, any
size, for 5000 per ton.
A stranger from sheldon, Iowa, became
suddenly insane while stopping at a Sioux
Falls hotel the other day.
Harold merchants welcome the lndian as a
customer. He pays spot cash, aud speads his
asst cent before leaving.
Heaton Il Mills have leased the Apnomattox
Herald. Mr.. Fairbanks, the proprietor has
one east 70 the win te
s. b. Milton, of Redfeld, viii spend the
winter in Washington in the capacity OF pri-
vate secretary to Delegate Clifford.
The young people Of Clifton have organ.
lied a series of candy pulls and hope to pull
through the winter some way.
Centerville is greatly annoyed by it's rowdy
element making Themselves too noisy and
loud on every possible occasion.
The name OF Bacon's Siding, on the Redfeld
extension OF the Chicago and Northwestern
road, has been changed to Miranda.
A camp Of Modern Woodincn OF America
was organized in Sioux Falls on Monday. The
camp adopted the title Of Big Sioux.
The barn and contents of Albert d. Cordner,
near Sterling were destroyed by fire Thursday
asst. Loss, $1,000; Insurance, 1850.
Alexander Mckenzie, who has been sheriff
of Burleigh county for the past twelve wears,
retires at the end OF the present year.
The Dunseith Times printed $4,000 tickets
and 81 800 posters for Rolette county polite
ans, and wants election to come more often.
Mrs. 0Connell and son, Of tBrookings, were
seriously Injured In a runaway accident the
other day. 1t is feared the lady cannot re-
cover.
Fred W. R0thert, a quite popular young
man of Sioux Falls, died Sunday evening, Of
Uphold fever and Inflammation Of the
Mr.. Zelenka, living a short distance from
Springfield, had a leg broken last Tuesday nv
the wheel Of a loaded wood wagon passing
over II.
The second annual meeting OF The Dakota
Fine Stock Breeders association will be held
at Aberdeen December Z, for "A two days SEES.
sion.
The management of the Rapid City ,Sepubli-
can on Wednesday passed into the hands Of J.
McManus, who assumes the cditorship
also.
Messrs. Comis and Ruse OF Emery. Han.
son county, quarreled recently, the latter
ng the former with a jack -knife, max
Dg wounds liable to prove fatal
The Manitoba road has begun the building
VI =. siX-stail round-house and coal sheds AT
DEVILS Lake, and viii build marhine shops In
he spring similar 10 those at Barnesville.
The city council of YapEtnn yroro caltoa