Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1888-02-11
DAKOTA.

Redneld.
Deadwood plans to 10 q good deal OF build
ing this year.
There is talk Of organizing an Unitarian
church at Huron.
Sioux Falls has too many school children
for It's school room.
Pettigrew & Late pay over 5000 In city
taxes at Sioux Falls.
More cattle and hogs and less wheat is the
watchword in Dakota.
Scotland is glad that it Is on the main line
Of the Milwaukee road.
There is q fatal epidemic among the dogs at
Winfrcd, Lake county.
The Masonic lodge at Egan has received a
nice set Of triple plated jewels.
A bird's-eye view of Sioux Falls is the latest
scheme for advertising that city.
Flandrau claims the best natural toboggan
slides OF any town in the country.
The Odd Fellows at Egan are preparing for
grand dance on the 22d Of February.
The sale of a glandered horse Is what some
Deadwood parties are having about.
disappearing on skates Is the way Dead
wood young people amusc themselveG.
III. Llewellen, Of Mathews, reports TIE loss
Of over 100 head OF stock IN his locality.
Tyndall haula its beer from Scotland In
wagons while the railroad is blockaded.
IT is said that the stock losses In Bon
Homme county will not exceed 800 head.
Dakota has 200 banking institutions, and
its present population is not far from 100000.
There was no one frozen TO death in Sully
county during the storm, but many report a
close call.
The Flandrau Library assertion has turned
its library Of over 100 volumes over TO the
school board.
The Rapid City Journal speaks of witness
ing a beautiful prairie fire until a late hour
last Sunday night.
Hon. Jesse Harper, the great labor ~agitator,
will speak in Sioux Falls on the 18TH. He
goes from there to Huron.
The proceeds Of the q. a. Il. entertainment
at Rapid City last Saturday night amounted
to more than $40, indicating that the aud
ence numbered more than 800.
a good Touring mill is the great and press
Ing want at Elkton, and the Record man Is
working the matter UP In true western style.
According to n recent compilation Dakota
has 325 newspapers-25 dailies, 3l4 weeklies,
ID quarterlles, monthlies and semi monthlies.
A plan is under way for the reorganization
of the city of Rapid City under the general
laws Of the territory Of Dakota regulating
cities.
Sorghum is said to be a practical crop in
Dakota. Some claim to have realized as high
as 800 per acre. OF course there is consider
able labor involved.
Many persons who were out in the storm
and escaped freezing are now suffering from
pneumonia and kindred troubles as IA result
of the cold air on their lungs.
Edward T. Smith, convicted Of shooting
jeremiah Clancy at Sturgis, was sentenced by
Judge Thomas to eight years at hard Labor in
the penitentiary at Sioux Falls.
Sully county people are talking up an old
settlers meeting for the 22nd, at which they
contemplate an organization which shall in
he future have annual reunions.
The ladies' guildbf Grace church at Huron
have given various Entertainment for the
purpose Of adding to the fund for a new
Nii'l'h' hhtA laSl DtiiS q u IL lht
They have somewhere near 81 900.
Lead City and Deadwood are being can
vasscd To raise money to add To the fund the
Omaha Bee is raising for the benefit Of three
Nebraska school mistressce, who are the
herolncs OF the late blizzard.
The painters Of Sioux Falls recently organ
Ted a union and have served notice on EN-
ployers that hereafter they shall demand 27j1
cents per hour for work. They have been
working for 2214 cents per hour.
The clergymeu Of Yankton assembled Mon
day forenoon and organized themselves into a
ministerial association, which il to meet every
Monday forenoon at IL O'Clock. At each
meeting a paper will be read, followed by dis
cussion.
About 2 O'Clock Monday morning John
Westlake's merchant tailoring establishments
at Huron was destroyed by fire. The loss on
building and stock is g 300. Insurance on
building $500, in the German, Of Freeport,
Illinois. He viii resume business ms soon as
a room and stock can be secured.
The bodies of the Hutchinson boys Of Fargo
were found today. They wandered four miles
south Of home. Becoming exhausted they
laid Town and went to sleep. Their bodies
had not been mdtilatcd by the wolves, and
when found they were in each others arms,
same as if they were In a warm bed.
Last Saturday, while Frank Minis was feed
ing a breaking machine at the tow mill Of
Paxton Il Co, at Canton, his left hand was
caught in the machinery, tearing off three
fingers and making an ugly hole in his hand.
This makes the third person who has met
with a serious accident at this same mill with
in the past two years.
Both Fargo and Moorhead were shocked at
the news that a. f.. Henderson, a leading
hardware dealer, OF Fargo, died in New York
city Monday. He had been east several
months for his health. He was one of the
first settlers Of Moorhead, and opened a hard
ware store there fifteen years ago, but has
been a resident Of Fargo eight years. The
body will be returned there for burial.
The first prize fight to a finish in Deadwood
occurred in that place last Monday night be-
tween Pierce and Hart, the former winning
In ten rounds. Hart '7as badly punished, but
his pluck never forsook him. The fight was
for 500, contributed by spectators at 80 a
head.