Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1888-03-24
DAKOTA.

The veins Of coal recently discovered al
Deadwood are panning out well.
f. +. Baldwin has been appointed postmas-
ter at South Shore and NJ. Young at Harold.
The farmers in the vicinity Of Gladstone
contemplate starting a cheese factory at that
place.
A new daily mail route has been established
between Parkston and Millstown on the Jim
river.
The Milwaukee and st. Paul and Northern
Pacific have agreed to erect a union depot at
Fargo.
A new bridge in process Of erection over
the Teton river at Minot was demolished by a
strong wind. ,
The Methodist people expect soon 10 com
mence active operations on their new college
at Hot Springs.
The passage Of the bill by the house ~ open
the Sioux reservation caused much rejoicing
at Chamberlain.
A newspaper correspondent Is contributing
an article on Yankton's artesian wells to a
Glasgow, Scotland, paper.
The soliciting committee has raised nearly
s.. 900 toward building the new $4,000 Pres
b|yterian church at Aberdeen.
Rev. Martin Marty, Catholic bishop Of south
Dakota, fell on the ice at YankJon Friday and
broke his right arm in two places.
The supreme court at its late session at
Bismarck decided that a school teachers
wages cannot be attached for debt.
The Wyoming Oil and Mining corporation
has recently been organized under the state
laws, with headquarters AT Rushyille.
One Rapid City man threatened 10 blow
another mans head OIL and the blower has
been held to the grand jury in bonds.
The general merchandise firm of Richards
~ Thompson OF Dickcrson have made an a.
signment for the benefit Of Their creditors.
A number Of school children at jamestown
have been temporarily suspended for failure
TO yaccinate as required by the school board.
The Aberdeen city council concluded to re-
fund the saloons $50, the amount due them
on licenses which would not expire until
April |.
The publisher of the Gary Interstate has
commenced suit against some Of his dclin-
quent subscribers to compel them to pay their
subscriptions
Peter Mcmahon, "A switchman In the Nil
waukee yards AT Aberdeen, was caught be
meath the wheels of a locomotive Thursday
and injured so that it is thought he cannot
live.
A family named Matthews, living near Daw-
son, came near meeting their death by poison
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with poison for coyotes accidentally got mixed
in with other food.
Crows have w~intered in Mercer county. Old
timers say that they never saw a row that
had the courage TO winter in Dakota until the
present season.
The committee soliciting subscriptions for
the Deadwood reduction works raised s.22. coo
in two hours Monday. Sixty thousand do!-
lars is needed, ana il is thought 1t viii Toe ac-
counted for in a few days.
:. T. Hammond, of Ashton, a member OF
the committee Of the Dakota G.. A. X. IL
choose a location for the Dakota soldiers
home, says he will report favorably for Hot
Springs. OAK. The owners Of the town size
offer to donate the springs and land for .he
home.
The United States grand jury at Bismarcl
has indicted William Sauderson, agent Of The
Northern Pacific at Valley City, for violation
Of the inter state III law. He dis
eliminated in furnishing cars to grain shipper,
last fall.
Major Barrett. editor Of the Aberdeen Re.
publican and c. n. Harris, public examiner.
had IA scrap in which the major came out sec
ond best. The fight grew out Of the opposi.
tion Of Mr.. Harris to Barrctt's appointment
as public examiner.
A farm hand appealed to Judge Hawkins, al
Sioux Falls, Monday, TO collect Sl3 back pay
due that lie had been working for at the mag
niticent salary Of So a month. The fellow
had never received "a cent, and was discharged
because be wanted some.
The Western Loan and Trust company, OF
Pierre, has recently received a medal and IL
ploma from the Massachusetts, Charitable
Mechanic association for their exhibition OF
Dakota products at the exposition OF last year.
The medal OF solid silver is enclosed in a vel
vet-!ined morocco case.
Patrick Rooney, a prosperous farmer, ap-
peared in Deadwood Monday afternoon with
out hat, coat or vest and with his shirt open
nearly to the waist. He could give no infor-
nation as TO the cause Of his appearance and
called for a priest. Subsequent developments
showed that he was bereft of reason. He had
trouble with his neighbors some time ago and
the matter weighed SO heavily on his mind as
t. cause temporary insanity.
IN the probate court at Fargo, Thursday, ia
the inal accounting of the estate of Clayton
Miller, argument was had on a very interest
ing question. The deceased was a resident Of
Kentucky, but left 4 800 acres Of land in Da-
kota, the most OF 1t being around Fargo. and
it is worth about 500, goo. He left a viii, but
the widow electe to take her share under the
Law instead of the will. The other heirs ac-
guessed t. this. but now claim that this gives
her only the third of the Kentucky estate and
she has no interest in the Dakota land, a. il
Was especially devised. TIL case has been
argued at length.
Mrs. Lucy a Smith, a former Huron lady,
has Just been married at Glcnwood Springs,
Colorado, to Il wealthy miner. Some time