Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1888-02-04
DAKOTA.

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A gasoline famine Is what 10 bothcring
Huronitcs.
Several fatal cases Of diphtheria are nj
Woonsocket.
Carthage 10 discussing the question Of IN
cooperating.
A large number Of hogs are reported lost
at Springfield.
Iroquois was six days without a train during
and after the storm.
On February Z Woonsockct will vote on the
question OF incorporation.
The Arlington Sun thinks the loss Of stock
will be less than anticipated.
Dakota taxes become due March / q matter
which 1t would be well 10 note.
The Yankton Press claims the total blizzard
victims ia the territory is 1876.
Deadwood's poet Is no SLOUGH, especially
when babies constitute his theme.
II. Llewellen, Of Mathews, reports the loss
Of over 100 head Of stock In his locality.
T.. A. McNair, near De Smet, lost twenty
seven head of cattle during the storm.
The Lennox Independent was printed or
muslin last week, owing to the blockade.
William Winsor, OF Kingsbury county, lost
twenty head OF cattle during the late storm.
Whether Yankton or Sioux Falls IS to be
the see city seems not 10 be definitely settled.
Three arrests haye been nade at Grand
Forks for "A violation OF the local option
law.
The directors OF the Iron Hill mine
have postponed the declaration Of q divi-
dcnd.
A rich vein Of bitumlnous coal Of an OK.
cellent quality has been found near Rapid
City.
The Dell Rapids Exponent has suspended
publication, and the Time. is monarch OF Ill
1t surveys.
Between skating Kinks, dance-houses and
court-rooms, the denizens Of Deadwood arc
kept about busy,
The saloons closed nt Bridgewater on De-
cember 81, and the dry ones seem to be sober
ing up in the good old way.
The a~rtesian well at Aberdeen is now IN
better condition than ever before, the pressure
registering over 200 pounds.
Adam Corner, father Of the operator at
Iroquois, was lost iu the storm and persisted.
His body was not found for several days.
Mrs. Deyinc, living four miles south Of
Iroquois, attempted to get to her sisters in
the storm, and failing 10 find the house, per-
ished.
The Sun at Arlington commends the wis
dom and prudence OF the teachers OF Wood
bury county as manifested during the late
storm.
The American tin mining have 1900 pounds
of stream tin, averaging Go per cent, that will
be shipped from Deadwood 10 New York in a
few days.
1t is claimed that a flow If natural gas has
been struck at a depth Of l40 feet in an arte-
sian well being sunk by the Manitoba road
near Graccvillc.
Mrs. James Kennedy, who was frozen to
death during the storm, was buried Tuesday
near Sioux Falls. There was an impressive
funeral ceremony.
A. Hillerman, at Church's Ferry, has been
eXoncrated from the charge Of numbering
Neal McKcague, a jury deciding that he acted
in self denfense.
Clark county voted, q few days ago, almost
unanimously il favor of issuing bonds TO the
amount Of $4,000 for the purpose Of erecting
a court house.
A Sioux City train which reached Sioux
fifty sacks of mail matter. 1t was the largest
ever received at that office.
The Dakota papers are predicting their an
nual boom. Dakota can be showed in, but
even a blizzard can't crush It's buoyant and
perennial inclination to boom.
John Callan, u farmer living near Alcestcr,
has lost thirty-fve hogs by cholera. d.. Cha
quette, who resides in the same neighborhood,
has lost 81 900 worth by the same disease.
Gov. Church received Wednesday the plans
and specifications from the new board Of the
Yankton asylum, George Z. Brown, Of Sioux
City, architect. Ii is likely they will be ap-
proved without delay.
From 1000 20 | 200 land patents are at the
land Office in Huron and Register Mcfarland
would be glad to deliver them 10 the parties
for whom they arc intended.
VIM. Potter, who was q little too familiar
with Uncle Sans postal department last fall,
was put in She United States penitentiary at
Sioux Falls, Monday. He came from Lincoln
county.
The Manitoba road has purchased the right
Of way from Grafton, Oak, northwest TO the
boundary line. Deeds for the same are being
recorded now in the register Of deeds Office
In Pemblna. The survey uns parallel with
the old Northern Pacific survey.
Black Hills Times, 81: Johnnie NoOnar
the Lead City butcher, cam in from SIT
lance yesterday. He reports the storm out in
that part OF the range, SO far rs cold Is con
,erned, as perfectly awful. Cattle In and
lnder warm sheds, with plenty TO eat,
actually froZe To death-fat cattle.
The fine new Odd Fellows hall In Lead
City was formally dedicated on Tuesday eve
ling with appropriate ceremonies and in the
presence Of a large number OF people. The
affair closed with a public installation OF off
GERS and ball.
Press and Dakotian, %: +. NJ. Goody-
Of Chamberlain, passed through
YaIkton today on his way nome from Sioux
City. Mr.. Goodykoonz says the prospects
for the opening Of the Sioux reservation dur
ing the present session Of congress are first
,lass.
There is one railroad company operating at