Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1886-08-21
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Ward county decl' .r~s ,or Mai Edwards

"a 'e" tramp visited Huron last week
FARMERS are J 4s~ busy constructing fire.
A nre dep' .rtnent is TO DO organised ~
I~ontrose.
n Tue ,sd.,.
Nv ron 10 nov called the ''Brick ;ity'' Of
D. Atacrn Dakota.
JThe Dakota National guards win sEcamp at
August ID.
The second Western Union wire will reich
City this week.
Bon Homme county 10 becoming 4 g:-at
fruit growing district.
Steam Iaundries are starting up In nearly
every cit in the territory.
The Dakota Pharmaceutical association was
formed last week at Fargo.
The farmers of Brown county have nomina-
ted a fuli county ticket.
A destructive prairie Ere swept the country
north Of Holabird, Monday.
The Kidder county commissioners have paid
IS GOO for gophers killed.
Huron streets will be illuminated with cleo
tricity within a few weeks.
Much hay was fred by lightning and
bHrned Sunday night near Ysnkton.
Little Bull has been arrested for stealing
six head OF cattle near Dunscith.
The Brown county court house, being erect
ed at Columbia, is nearly completed.
The school mines of Rapid City win he
opened for pupils early in September.
Young trees in Benson county have been
Killed in large numbers by the drouth.
Judge Churcn has appointed w. A. Lynch
Of Huron clerk of the sully county court.
Canton capitalists have formed a new trust
and loan company with a capital Of 100, 900.
Oats in the Black Hills are fl.G0 per 100
pounds, corn $50. and hay $40 to ~ a ton.
Deadwood womer. TO the number OF tIfteen
have organized a Christian Temperance union
The remains OF Gus Chaser, drowned some
days ago near Rapid City, have been recov-
cred.
La Hand county the loss by the recent hail
storm las been $4,000. Some farmers are
ruined.
The engineer corps surveying the route for
tile new road have nearly reached Grand
Forks.
Hope township, Steele county, will vote on
a proposition to issue 81, 500 bonds for 4 school
house.
The Pierre Free Press has abandoned It,
daily issue, but promises TO resume 1t in the
spring.
The mail carrier between Highmore and
fI.-.-.... III. gC., -, ,,ilaa a Iav cha
year round.
The time for holding the North Dakots
Methodist conference has been changed from
Sept. l6 to Oct. IA.
Pierre Malbong, the butcher Of Dunseith,
lost his tent and all his furniture and money
by FIRE last week.
Miss Dougan and Mis-. Hankey took the
white veil of the Ursuline order at Grand
Forks on Sunday.
J.. w. Douglas will shortly begin the publ
cation Of The Volcano at Hecla. ten miles
south of Port Emma.
A cyclone passed a .ew miles north OF Aber-
deem on the 10Th, wrecking barns, gransries
and destroying farm property.
The total number Of acres OF land acquired
by final proof during the month OF Junei ia the
Huron land district i. l3l, 792.
The Kidder county board has recently psid
out 5000 for gophers killed, and there are
still a few of the animals left.
Mrs. Hans Peterson died from the effects OF
injuries received 10y being thrown out of a
buggy into "a cellar at Clear Lake.
The arsenical ore which knocked the Iron
hill higher than a kite has been shipped to
Omaha. Stock is down 20 Sl.35.
The Farmers shipping association ware
house at De Sfnet burned, together with a
quantity of grain, Aour and Irvine.
Work is at once to be begun on the Ladies
hall at the Yankton college, Tn site has been
picked out and the foundation laid.
The recently organized Dakota society for
the prevention Of cruelty TO animals, has a
large list of members already at Fargo.
On = delta formed 10y the Ok and Willow
creeks, near Bottincau, there is an area of 100
H.. II. Moore, of Lisbon marketed the first
wheat in Ransom county this season. 1t
graded No. ! hard, and sold Tor 81 cents.
The Rapid City Reput AN calls for stock
exchanges in the Black Hills country TO regu-
late quotations and transactions and stop the
wild cat mining business.
The trustees Of the school OF mines wiz Sc
cure Prof. r. T.. Fletcher, Of Boston, To pre-
side over the institution. The school at Rapid
City viii be open in October.
During = temporary absence Of the troops
at Fort Yates, the Indians, headed by Sitting
Bull, made a raid on the post trsders store,
and helped themselves to all the ediblcs IN the
place, leaving a thoroughly depleted larder.
In sinking the artesian well for the North
Dakota roller mill, at Hillsboro, a vein OF nat
ural gas was struck at q depth Of los feet.
When lighted the flames shot to the height Of
three feet. Mr.. Green. the proprietor, win
run his 125 horse power engine with it.
A Rapid City tobacconist imported a wooden
Indian cigar sign from the east, and since he
placed it upon the street Rapid City has been
deserted by the genuine red man, who has
taken offense at his prototype being displayed
as a sign for pale face cigars.
A heavy thunder storm occurred at Woon-
socket on Tuesday. Mr. Callaghan was
killed by a stroke Of lightning. West OF that
place the wind was strong enough TO move
houses and barns from their foundations. At
Aberdeen the storm did considerable damage.