Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1888-05-19
DAKOTA.

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Grace.
An electric starter, to be used for all races
at the tournament, has been received at HUI
ron.
There are only FIVE candidates for the Office
Of county superintendent Of schools in How
ard county.
Sioux Falls people have received letters
from two different parties who are DESTROYS OF
starting towmills in that city.
Lincoln county is out Of debt and has sew
crai thousand dollars ahead with which to
pay expenses until next tax gathering time.
A foot race at Kimball resulted I'm a victory
for Walter Klinganlen over Roy Durham.
Saturday the farmers Of the surrounding
country met at Carthage and perfected the
organization Of the Farmers Elevator com
pany.
The business men OF Sioux Falls have or
gained a Commercial club" whose object
will be the advancement OF business and So
cial interests.
T.. w. Hadlcy has been appointed s~uperin-
tcndent of the James rive division Of the Chi
cage, Milwaukee Il st. Paul railway, vice C..
A. Goodnow transferred.
Tn Waiertown band having been employ
cd BY the friends of Gov. Church, the friends
Of Mr.. Day te~iegraphed for the Brookings
band, who responded TO the cali.
Last October Otto Laram, a jamestown
carpenter, went to Grand Forks to work. lie
has not been heard from since that month
II Is Just beginning to be discovered that he
is missing.
Diversified farming is being adopted this
year more generally than heretofore in cen
trail Dakota. The farmers are learning that
they have got 20 have some kind of q paying
crop every year.
Plans are rapidly maturing and shortly
will be announced, for the most elaborate and
in every way attractive Fourth Of july cele-
bration known, not only to Deadwood but to
the entire Hills.
The Ipswich Gazette says: 'lpswich has
one of the finest brass bands in the territory.
This may be accepted as IA challenge by any
son-of-a-sea-cook in the territory who may
happen to read It,"
An Oliyet justice has decided that an
American double action revolver IS not a
weapon or "A iirearm, but bears about the
same relations to weapons as a dumb watch
does to real timepieces.
The university students OF Vermillion are
making great preparations for their field day,
which occurs this year during commence
ment week. About $3.50 will be offered In
prizes for anne and contests.
A Jerauld county young lady has just
proved up on her homestead, and it is ru-
mored that a certain young man has his eye
upon this particular Eden. He may get
snaked out like the other Adam.
The Brlar HUI Coal company, Of Lead
City, has struck another vein of coal six feet
thick, 1000 feet west Of the first tunnel.
They know 1t is fully as good, II not better,
than that taken from the first one.
The council ut Yankton is debating the
question OF abolishing the office of street
commissioner, and making the street com
mittee do the ''bossing'' Of street work when
ever it should be necessary to have a 'boss. ="
The Deadwood Times says that at the rate
IN which the county Jail of Lawrence county
il iilling up the August grand jury will have
business TO attend to. 1t hopes for the good
OF the Hills country that congress may pro
vide another Judge.
A Darlington farmer who left Dakota In
search OF fields fairer and PASTURES greener,
In California, writes back to the News: "Of
fc- a premium at your next county fair for
tho hipuast fool I'm fh. oa,,t- anl al 49,.
to DC there to compete for it,
County Attorney Spencer obtained twenty
nine injunctions restraining saloonkeepcrs in
Walsh county from selling Intoxicating
liqsors The evidence was obtained by one
II. X. Hore, who represented himself to be an
insurance ageEt. He filed up every day and
received g per day for his trouble.
A gentleman who has the interest OF Rapid
City at heart suggests that a railway from
that place to the center Of the tin districts at
Hill City would eTectually settle the question
OF supremacy among the questions Of western
Dakota, and that the people Of Rapid City
should take steps TO build such a road.
Minot has a citizen, John Hyatt by name, a
man OF come 20 years of age, who has never
had a tooth, none ever having grown. But
be has a set OF gum that are almost as hard
rs a stone. Hesays that he can eat anything,
and while in the army had no difficulty in get
ting away with the bareback.
The Sioux Falls vinegar and picking works
have secured cucumber seeds and these they
are going to distribute among the farmers
and then enter into contract with them for
cucumbers. II is the intention to put up sew
eral hundred barrels OF pickles this fall, and
the price to be paid for cucumbers will make
1t a big inducement for farmers to engage in
this business.
John Van Meter, a young Sioux Indian, has
the law office OF Dillon 81 Holmes at
Pierre. He was educated In PHILADELPHIA,
and was sent to London during the queens
as a representative of the educated
Indian, and came back fully determined
to do as the whites. He is an excelleng Eng
scholar.
The Deadwood Pioneer Thus ,o.iplaira:
Some time ago the Fremont, Elknorn and
Valley railroad company sent spec al
artists ana w~rite-up men all along the line for
the purpose OF getting up a great boom edi-
ion OF 10000 copies. Our citizens contributed
thinking they Sould receive the