Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1888-12-29

ID w. Raridan and II. f. Smiley came
in from Fairburn on Saturday.
Thursday from Elk Mountain.
A. s. Mangold registered at the Klee-
mann, from Omaha, on Saturday,
Geo. Martin and Ed Holman, Of Hill
City were Vienna guests on Saturday.
c. c. Chambers, Of Cascade, was pur-
chasing supplies in town on Saturday.
w. L. Henwood, of Hill City, made
Custer a business call on Thursday.
T. NJ. Warren was in from his horse
ranch on lower Battle creek on Satur-
day.
B. F. Shelton and J. A. Thinner were
visitors in town from Iron creek on
Sunday.
r. j. Truax. James Driscoll and f. G..
Hunt were in from Spring creek on
Wednesday.
Chas. Ennis and Ed Bowser signed at
the kleemahn, from the l. A X ranch
on Sunday.
Harry Harkins was a guest at the
Vienna on Tuesday from Pittsburgh,
Pennsylvania.
III. p. Blevins, of Lightning creek, was
among the guests at the Vienna on
Christmas day.
j. w. Fowler and NJ. Mcclure, of
Rapid, were among the arrivals at the
Vienna on Thursday.
w. ID. Brown and Charles Schwartz
came in from the 81 Horse ranch on
Monday to spend Christmas in town.
William Tarrant, a prominent ranch
nan residing near Fairburn, was pur-
chasing Christmas goods in town on
Saturday.
X. p. Thompson FATTY and J. Gam
NUT passed through Custer on Saturday,
on route to Hill City, on business known
to themselves.
l.. ID. Sturgeon and f. Nilsson were ar
rivals from the b. & Nj. coal camp on
Monday who came to spend Christmas
in this place.
James Lee, a teamster at the B. & M.
coal camp, came in Monday, in a hurry
for supplies, returning to camp on
Christmas day.
jeff McDermott came in from the
Grand Junction mine on Saturday,
where he is still operating on the tunnel
with medium success.
M. Willsie, superintendent of the
Harvey Peak Tin company, is expected
here to-day for the purpose of paying of
the employees of the company.
Uri Gillette, of Slate creek, came in
Friday of last week for attendance at a
session of the Grand Army post of this
place, of which he is a member.
r. p. Wheelock, a well known resi-
dent of Harvey, was loading up in this
place with Christmas presents for ex-
pectant Harvey Juveniles on Monday.
w. S. Porterfeld, accompanied by
Miss Knecht, came in on Christmas,
dined at the Keenan,, after which
they proceeded to Point of Rocks to
visit friends.
Con Beggs, foreman at the + Y A
ranch, on Salt creek, Wyoming, and
Charles Snyder, also an employe at the
ranch, were Wednesday arrivals at the
Kleemann.
A. w. Cotton and wife, who have
been sojourning in this vicinity for the
past year, left last week for Evanston,
ILL.,, where it is their intention to re-
main indefinitely.
7 Frank Hebert, John Foster and j.
Gundlach were a trio Of tin prospectors,
who came in from Bear gulch (Penning-
ton county, on Monday. and remained
in town until after Christmas.
II. w. Carter, and John Mcnamara of
st. Paul, were at the Vienna on Satur-
day. They were in the Hills on a tin
mission, which has not yet matured
sufficiently, to justify a guess as to final
results.
j. c. Dickover, of this place, returned
on Monday from the Stockade oil field,
where he has been sojourning for q
number of days in the interest of a local
oil company, with whom he is jointly
interested in valuable oil lands in that
locality.
j. ID. Junod, Of the Gillette (B. & NJ
surveyors, now encamped at the l. A X
ranch, was a guest at the Vienna on
Monday and Tuesday. Mr.. Junod's
mission was mainly in the direction Of
mail and supplies, but it was also season.
ed with a little Christmas fun at the
court house on Christmas night. where
he moved most gracefully and ~joyously
in the misty maZeS of the dance until