Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1886-06-19
NORTHWESTERN ITEMS.
DAKOTA.

vicinity OF White Lake.
Jerauld county has three lady candidates
for school superintendent.
About a, 500 has been raised for the fair a..
ISOLATION fund at Rapid City.
A public library is under consideration by
the leading citizens of Ashton.
Over 500 worth of blooded stock has
gone into Hrookings county this spring.
The third annual commencement OF the
Pierre university will occur June 1923.
The annual meeting of the South Dakota
Teachers association begins at Pierre June 30.
Two horses and a colt belonging to Paul
Hofer, near Bridgewater, were killed by light
ming.
Dickinson county has voted 10 bond the
county for $4,000 to build a court house and
jail.
The wife and baby of a Mr.. Dobson were
drowned while crossing a bridge near Dell
Rapids.
The Milwaukee railroad company lately paid
500 an acre for some land adjoining Ando-
yer.
w. NJ. Reynolds and +. F.. Bliss Of Mandan,
are under arrest at Bismarck on a charge OF
forgery.
The county auditors and registers Of deeds
will hold a territorial convention at Huron
June 90.
1t is reported from Ruby Basin that rich
strikes have been made at the Belcher and
Wide West.
There are eighty-fo Tour lodges of Odd Eel
lows in the territory and the number is rapid
ly increasing.
The assessed valuation Of property within
the corporate limits Of Flandran will approxi-
mate s250,OOO.
Mrs. Bob Langhorn deserted her husband
and two children and run off with a discharged
soldier at Fort Sisseton.
A dispatch to the Fargo Argus from Arthur
reports that a flowing well Of excellent water
was struck there Thursday.
Judge Francis sentenced Charles Woods 10
be hanged July % for killing a halfbreed in
terpretor named FURY at Fort Buford.
The alarmists Of Rapid City predict disaster
and ruin to the town, now that the railroad
people are surveying a route beyond the
city.
1t is estimated that 400, 600 bushels OF fax
will be raised In Hutchinson county this sea-
son. The wheat acreage is greater than ever
before.
The books show that 500, S24.66 of the 800
600 appropriated for the territorial militia has
been spent, and a large amount of armory rent
is due.
Wages In the mines in the Black Hills
range from 81 so to s. a day, and are regu-
lated by the amount and character of work
performed.
The head men of the Sioux nation have
testing against the sale of any portion IS their
reservation.
President Hin, Of the Manitoba, has given
$500 to the Grand Forks exposition directors,
and will send a large number of his fine stock
for exhibition.
A mysterious disease has broken out among
the people in the vicinity of Speartish. 1t re-
sembles small pox and is contagious. 1t prob
ably is small pox.
Prof. Haynes is just back in Fargo from the
National Park, and in an interview with the
Argus is enthusiastic over the prospects for
an extensive business there this season.
Otto johnson, Of Grand Forks, while walk,
ing with two ladies on Sunday evening, was
attacked by foot pads who tried to kill him.
BY the use of his powerful muscle Johnson
knocked them silly.
Another letter received at Huron Thursday
from Chairman Hill, Of the house committee
on territories, expresses the strongest belief
that his bill for the division of Dakota will be
passed at this session.
Some of Sanborn %county's enterprising citi
! zens have united and sent to the fish commits
/! which will be distributed in the lakes ant
streams within its borders.
Tuesday morning lightning struck the house
OF Joseph Peterman at Lisbon, stunning Mrs
Peterman and a child and killing a cat which
was lying under the stove. 1t tore up TIT
kitchen floor and demolished the stove.
The new towns on the Scotland extension o.
the Northwestern have been named. The frs
one sOulu u MIttLci ~ Sdiicu Eliau' liz scN
ond is Kirk, and the third, at the junction, /,
named Trip. The town between the june
ton and Armour is called belmont.
The proprietors of barber shops at Crane
Forks, having unanimously petitioned the cit,
council to pass an ordinance prohibiting The
opening of the shops on Sunday, that BODY
| has SO acted, and hereafter the bearded youths
will have to forego the pleasure of a shave o,
the Lords day.
A Fargo judge delivered an opinion In tn
case against the Fargo Trotting asso
citation to recover purses wox In trottin
races four years ago. The court holds that t
trot for money Is a violation of the laws {
the territory, and payments OF such debts ca
not be enforced.
Many Of the men who took claims on III
Crow Greek reservation under the Arthur pre-
~clamaticn, have put In large crops thereon an
intend to harvest them, while the Indians Il,
clare they will harvest those crops themselve,
Over a million forest trees have been set OF
this spring by the settlers.
Later information Is said TO show that III
Sioux chiefs are inclined TO favor the prov
lions of the Dawes bill and part with n 90
ton Of their lands, as they realize that III
war eras and days of big hunting grounds al
over. They will still be the wealthiest con