Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1886-10-09
NORTHWESTERN ITEMS.
DAKOTA.

The iron for the Rapid City Jail is on the
ground.
county is denied.
A gang of horse thieves is operating In
Moody county.
Sioux Falls intends having an ice palace
and carnival next winter.
More than twenty new buildings were com
menced at Aberdeen last week.
Grafton will have a new brewery with a ca
pacity Of sixty barrels per week.
The city physician Of Rapid City denies that
typhoid fever is epidemic there.
The Pacific house at Mitchell was partially
destroyed by fire Monday night.
SO far this month the Iron Hill mine has
turned out lS,G22 ounces Of bullion.
The fairs in Dakota seem To be a wonderful
success everywhere this fall.
Five hundred shares OF Deadwood mining
stock viii buy a watermelon In Rapid City.
Fred II. Carruth has sold the Estellinc Bell,
and is now on his way to the Black Hills.
Business never was better in the Black Hills
for all classes Of people than ii is to-day.
An Episcopal mission for the Indians I. to
erected on the reservation near Dunseith.
The buildings on the Ncster farm near
Valley City burned. Loss, 1880.
DIR. Abraham Darksen, living near Parker,
was struck by lightning and instantly killed.
The council at Rapid City intend to light
the principal thoroughfares with the electric
light.
All the Indians on the Fort Totten rcserva.
ton are to go into encampment this week at
the fort.
%. p. Ward has established over two hun
dred Sunday schools in the territory in the
last few years.
Mine owners I'm the Black Hills are gener-
ally confident and no doubt much work will
be done next year.
james. Grandu, arrested charged with set
ting fire to the new Pacific hotel at Mitchell,
has been released for lack Of evidence.
Brown county's fair at Aberdeen has been
well attended. The exhibits surpass any for
mer attempts, and the speed races were good.
Iron on the Milwaukee extension, between
Glendale and ST. George In La Moure county,
is being laid at the rate OF two miles per day.
Theodore Roosevelt has returned to Medora
from a months hunt in the Bull River noun
tains. He killed three white goats which are
exceedingly rare.
Work is being prosecuted on the Mewono
toe tin mine near Hill City, owned by the
Harvey Peak Tin company, and the reports
which come from there are good.
The prisoners in the Mitchell jail raised u
complaint about the food supplied them.
They wrote an i~nsolent letter TO the cook for
which they were locked up in separate cells.
The Chicago, Milwaukee and st. Paul rail
road at Milbank, are putting in two large
steam fire pumps to supply water to the com
pany's engines and the city for fire purposes.
There is but one voting precinct within "A
radius of twenty-four miles in the cannon
ball country, causing some of the voters to
travel a distance Of thirty miles to vote.
The low stage Of water in the river at Sioux
Falls has brought the outlet Of several sewers
above water, and the result is that q horrible
stencil is endangering the health Of the city.
A significant fact connected with the build
ing season in Rapid City is that not over "a
half dozen accidents have happened to men at
work on the buildings, and none were really
serious.
An ~artesian well At LaMoure sunk for rail
road use, Is attracting attention on account
of its medicinal qualities. 1t is said that its
continual use will put an end to a desire for
alcoholic drinks.
The only correct prediction OF Dakota
weather ever telegraphed from Washington
wag that received last Friday. He's a poor
prognosticator who can't strike 1t right at
least once a year.
A writ of mandamus has been served on the
commissioner Of Deuel. county, ordering that
they show cause why the matter of revocation
Of the county seat shall not be presented to
the voters this fall.
George w. Harris, sheriff Of Hughes coun-
ty, arrived at Abercrombie yesterday from
Pierre and tool into custody William Arm
strong, a laborer who is charged with the Sc
duction OF Margaret Quinn, a domestic liv-
ing at Pierre.
A Young Mems Christian association was
organized at DEVILS Lake last night with fifty
members and sufficient guarantee from bust
ness men to justify the immediate erection
Of an association building. The movement
was initiated there by Rev. ii. +. Williams,
state secretary for Minnesota and d akota.
While driving about eight miles from Neche
this week, United States Consul Taylor, Of
Winnipeg, was thrown from a buggy and sus-
tanned very serious injuries, one thigh being
fractured In two places. He was also very
much shaken up. Mr.. Taylor vas brought in
here late at night, and under the treatment Of
DR.. Donovan is a little easier this morning.
Pleuro-pneumonia has broken out In "A herd
OF cattle belonging to w. j. Ethcrington,
twenty-five miles north Of Mandan. Ten
have died and forty more are affected. Two
weeks ago a carload Of cattle were brought
there from Chicago. The local board Of
health is preparing to quarantine.
Trail county takes pride in having some OF
the finest horses in the country. The Cooper
Bros. exhibited at Grand Forks against the
stallion that took the first prize at the Mime
sofa fair and sold for s., 900, and got away
with him easily. X. w. Daniels had the best
Norman stallion at Grand Forks.
The term OF district court at Miller closed
on the 2Sth, Chief Justice Trip presiding.
Interest was chiefly conferred in the trial OF
William Malkinson for the murder of Jack
Garvey last march. The verdict was man