Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1886-05-01
NORTHWESTERN NEWS.
DAKOTA.

A large elevator is to be built ct Ordwsy by
the Van Dusen company.
At least fifteen fine residences will be built
at Flandresu this year.
A new town to be called La Delta will be
started in Sphinx county.
Bismarck Il prepared to put 500, 900 into
water works this summer.
Two miles and q half of sidewalk will be
built ut Fisndreau this year.
1t is predicted that in two years Sioux Falls
will have a population OF 1900.
There is talk at Yankton Of converting the
skating rink into q canning factory.
Grandview will not be abandoned II the rail-
road does run an opposition town.
An exposition association with a capital OF
$40. 600 has been organized at Rapid City.
The law In regard TO noxious weeds will be
enforced In Brookiugs county this season.
A large class from the vermillion high
school has been promoted to the university.
There will not be as much fax sown In
Douglas county this year as there was las.
A Brown county farmer by the name Of Da-
vidson will seed 500 acres to wheat this year.
The body of T. B. Lane, who was drowned
IN January near Fort Pierre. has just been re-
c)vered.
A disease resembling epizootic hss made It's
appearance among the horses In the ~nGighbor-
hood OF Scotland.
There are thirteen hundred young men In
Bsadle county, over twenty-one years Of age
who are unmarried.
Several prominent citizens OF Bismarck have
been indicted by the grand jury for participant
ing in election frauds.
The Northwestern Railroad company has
purchased 500 acres OF land near Luddep,
Dickey county, for q town SITE
Groton college, in Brown county, has 1l3
pupils. The town OF Groton presented the
college with forty acres Of land.
j. Fl. McClelland, q prominent farmer living
near Montpelier, Stutsman county, accident
ally shot himself while hunting.
There is considerable complaint that PARTIES
are catching black bass In Lake Madison In
large quantities by the use of nets.
The fourth sem!-annual session of the Mid
land association Of the Congregational church
will be held In Redaeld, May Il, IS and 10.
The annual meeting Of the Dakota Press ss.
sociatlon will be held at Aberdeen, beginning
Monday, Tune 81, and continuing two days.
Otto Ouzln, of Winona, the %janitor Of the
Central Methodist, was killed by the scci-
dental discharge OF q shotgun last Thursday.
The L,wrer CO County hospital has ten pa
t!ents. This is the only county In Dakota to
maintain a charitable Institution Of this kind.
A Scottish syndicate has recently purchased
seventeen sections OF lard In the counties
west AID rorth CT Cass county, paying sS7,-
600 for It.
Capt. E. P. Doherty, one Of the captors Of
John Wilkes Booth, hes been licensed as an
agency trader OF the Cheyenne River Indian
agency In Dakota.
1t 10 reported that out of some forty doctors,
who have been practic!ng without diplomas,
examined at Huron, only five received cerlia-
Gates to practice.
A. s. Frink, recently appointed postmaster
at Flandrau, has failed TO give q satisfactory
bond, and now q petition is being signed in
favor Of w. f. Hyde.
Mai. Kinney, agent OF the Yankton indians,
is charged with prosecuting Russian settlers
by causing their arrest on trivial charges, sim
ply because they are republicans.
Near Mitchell ard DeSmet pra'rie fires did
much damage. At Emsley, near the former
place, the postofice was burned. at De smet
James Glover lost his barn, grain and fre
horses.
The senate commit &c on public lands agreed
TO report favorably Senstor Ingalls, bill to
create two additional land districts IN Dakota
and TO DC fine the boundary Of the Deadwood
district.
Senator Mcmillan has offered a resolution
directing the library committee to inquire into
the proprietY Of purchasing the painting Da-
kota, which Is from the brush Of a well known
st. Paul artist.
At Bismarck during the municipal year just
closed, the mayor received u salary Of So 90,
while the alderman scooped In the munta-
cent sum Of IS each for services rendered
during the same time.
A man named Lemieux opened a saloon In
Roscoe. He was rated upon by o committee
! Of prokibi.ionists and ordered to leave own
Immediately. Instead OF which he took ou: a
rusty looking pistol and said he would remain
a while.
The Citizens league at Elk Point has been
fully organized, with q membership Of fifty,
and a pledge fund Of nearly $1,000 hiss been
raised as q guarantee that the asec cla,i ~.
means business and proposes 70 see that tie
laws and city ordinances sre not violated.
During a street row about midnight, Sasur-
day night at Aberdeen, Mel Powers, proprietor
OF q house Of Ill fame, was severely cat In tie
throat by j. Southwlck, a citizen whom he at
tackled. The blow was q hard one, al d nearly
severed the jugular vein. No arrests yet.
Mayor Skillman has ordered all gambling lens
closed In the city, and saloons are closed at IL
p. M. also on Sundays.
The Indian witnesses before the I'm
States court at Yankton were paid of Wedne
day. The Press and Dakotaian says that they
declined to have anything to do with gold or
paper money, being irrevocably welded to
liver and nick ell. They also insisted upon