Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1886-03-06
NORTHWESTERN NEWS.
DAKOTA.
HIghmore expects q new hotel

Howard 10 10 have q new $o,oVo Satnoiic
church.
Very fine limestone has been found near
Redfe,d.
Esteline votes upon the question Of incorpo-
ration Feb. q.
La Moure viii have one, possibly two, rail
roads this year.
The richest of ere has been developed from
the Coats tin mine.
The insane hos ital at jamestown Is to be
lighted by electricity.
AlArge colony from Fulton county, Pa, lie
TO settle in Logan county.
A local branch of the Irish National League
has just been organized OF Fargo.
nThe output OF the Desmet mine for 1855 was
$751;, 697, and the net profit sis5,t93.
Abou, 100000 pounds OF freight were
carried INTO the Black Hills last year.
The LsGrace Militia company will take steps
10 become an independent organic alton.
Aberdeen proposes to give 6 bonus OF $50,
600 TO aid a railroad from that point TO Pierre.
Oscar HUFF, the saw nil man o; Buffalo
Gap, was held up last week and relieved Of
sl4o.
Aberdeen VIII be called upon to give $4,000
TO AID the La Noure, Aberdeen and Pierre rail-
road.
La Moure is bidding for the Congregational
college, which ia TO be located in North Da-
kota.
The conversions ct the revival meetings at
Canton are reported 10 have reached over one
hundred.
All the piling for the railroad bridges be.
tween Buffalo Gap and Battle Creek has been
delivered.
The foundry and machine shops a. Yankton
are 10 be started up again after being idle
about three years.
The two banks at Parker received and for
warded for grain dealers over $500, 600 between
Nov. ! and Feb. ].
Carson. IN Sully county, Is now deserted
village ~ the last building having been removed
from the town site.
The report that a Redneld man had a title to
forty acres OF land In the heart OF Sioux City
proves to be a cansrd.
All the buildings have been removed from
the townsite Of Carson, Sally county, the last
one being taken away last week.
The American Home Missionary society has
given $3.50 toward paying the FIRST years ex.
penses Of the Plankinton academy.
The names of two dead men we're drawn on
the panel for the grand and petit ju-ies OF the
next Beadle county term Of court.
A syndicate is negotiating for the purchase
Of a large tract Of Dakota land owned by the
Northern Pacific railroad company.
OF Ave brothers who were weighed at Fps
wich recently three weighed Isl pounds each,
and the remaining two 1t3 pounds each.
A Mrs. Bachus was before a Dell Rapids
court last week, charged with assault and bat.
terry in pushing q little 4-year-old girl down
stairs.
The school board Of Letcher has decided rot
to pay teachers over SIS . month after the
present term until taxes are materially
lowered.
Edmunds county commissioners have re-
fused TO grant license for the sale OF liquor,
and arc prose cutting the saloon men who VIC.
late the law.
Custer people are j~ubilant over the fact tia.
the postmaster general has advertised for bids
on a mail service from Custer to Buffalo Gap,
six times each way per week.
The grounds OF the southe astern Dakota In
dustrial association, at Yankton, and all the
improvements thereon, are advertised to be
sold at sherif's sale on March 90.
Sioux Falls has been visited in the interest
Of the Duluth, st. Cloud & Denver railroad,
and q public meeting was held at which the
proposition was favorably considered.
Samuel Kancher, a. Yankton, has invented
a wheat huller that cleans the grain OF is out.
side covering, leaving the interior intact. This
IS the reverse of the roller mill process.
Enthusiastic meetings have been held at
Woolsey and other points in the interest of
the proposed railroad from Wcolsey to Bis
marck. Right Of way win be donated 70 the
road.
Large numbers OF eni9rsnts will go into the
Black Hills country this spring. The rush has
already commenced, and stages and other con-
yeyances between Buffalo Gap and Rapid City
are taxed TO the almost.
Recently John Brennan, who lives sixty
miles north OF Bismarck, was attacked by an
Indian, to whom his wife had given a meal.
He saved himself by seizipg the Indians
tomahawk and killing him.
A Yankton man figures II that under the
present reduction caused by the coming OF the
Northwestern road, the people Of Ysnkton
save $4,000 PEI year upon c,al alone, which
Will LAY the interes. on the bonds for four
years.
1t IL generally hoped by the settlers along
the line of the Northern Pacific railroad that
its millions Of Dakota lands will not pass into
the hands Of the great syndicate reported as
negotiating for them, as IL Is presumed that In
that event they will not be sold to small farm
ers. There are enough bonanzs farms along
that road already.
W. ". kcIlvaine, special agent OF the lard
de psrtment OF the Fargo district, received no
tee Tuesday that final action had been sus.
pended on 1883 cash entries In that district,
es7 being pre-emptions, ESQ committed horne
steaas and % military bounty land warrant en-