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

on the dollar.
Edition offers a good place to a frst-class
blacksmith.
Whitewood will vote on the question Of in
corporation.
The latest organization in Ipswich is a de
tective association.
Temporary munitions are scoring the ga
loon keepers OF Fargo.
Governor Church is fixing his fence for the
Watertown convention.
The military fair at Waterfowl is attract
ing considerable attention.
Dakota has sixty national banks, rep
resenting sl2, 100000 capital.
A running team for the season Of 1888 is
soon TO be organized In Huron.
A territorial mass convention OF the | lion
Labor party will be held in Huron April %.
Bicycling interest is spreading in Mitchell
while the ladies are cultivating the tricycle..
Since March 400 ears OF em'grants have
gone into the territory through Minneapolis.
A uumoer of Inuian churches are being
cod ted on the reservation at Fort Ben on
Chauncy NJ. Depew viii visit Deadwood in
June. The Hills country will extend an oya-
ton.
Two forest fires burning near Rapid City
are doing an immJnsc mou Of destruc-
ton.
The establishment OF a furnace for smelling
tin at Rapid City is one Of the projects now
on foot.
Spencer is forming u stock company
for the furnishing Of stone to building e0n-
FACTORS.
Because OF an error in his expense account
of 81 Deputy United States Marshal Foster
was indicted.
Students in the Dal-ota university will tit
up a steamboat and make 4 summer trip TO
New ORLEANS.
John Gottlieb, the Potter county rape tiend,
was Identified ut Warner last Friday, but he
escaped arrest.
Mcpherson county cattle have passed
through the winter in good shape. Very few
losses are reported.
The first term OF district court ever held In
Judge Spencer presiding.
In u shooting match Saturday between the
Rapid City anu Deadwood gun clubs RAPID
City won by u score Of So to 81.
Several Of the leading monied men Of Clark
have organized a stock company and Will
establish u bank at Willow Lake.
The Black Hi Is papers say that with the
pleasure Of nearer railroad communication is
mixed the pain Of bod agents.
More final proof have beeu made at the
Yankton land office during April than for the
same time during the past two years.
The Aberdeen Building and Loan assocla-
ton has loaned 5000 for the construction of
residences during the present month.
Charles Herr, near Washington, had his
barn destroyed by fire Sunday night, together
with grain, machinery, etc. Loss, 81 500
+. w. Speed, cashier Of the First National
bauk Of Rapid City, married Miss Mary f
Spencer, at Washington, D.. c., last week.
An attempt is being made to organize a
base ball league which shall iaclude Sioux
Falls, WATERFOWL, Huron, Mitchell and Aber-
d en-.
Rumor says that lack Of funds will deprive
Dakota Of the joys Of its annual militia en-.
campnent, together with It's sorrows and
headaches.
j. Robinson, the bogus draft man who
Heeced Yanktan people, has gone To find new
pastures and suckers. His other name is j.
q. Robinson.
The McCeok County Agricultural society
haf decided to compete for the prize county
exhibit at the territorial fair to be held in
Mitchell next fall.
The Brookings city council has abolished
the Office Of city marshal and night watch,
and enacted an ordinance licensing billiard
halls and prohibiting card playing.
The Black Hills have experienced some pc
culiarly dark and try ing hours In n business
way during the past year, but it is believed
that the dawn Of better times Is rapidly APP
preaching.
The Grow Creek reservation is being filed
with settles. 1t is being occupied largely by
the same people that went there in 's5 under
Arthur's proclamation and were driven of
under Cleveland.
Some frolicksome young Rismarckers en-
veloped themselves ia sheets and occupied an
old log house Of that city and laid In wait for
belated travellers, who now firmly believe The
house IL haunted.
Ice In the James river has formed gorges In
Jim aud Arrowwood lakes, about twenty
miles north Of jamestown, and danger Of an
overflow, which was thought to be over, is
now greater than ever.
The Northwestern has discontinued Its
Sturgis line OF coaches. Practically all
through travel proceeds Via Whitewood, and
what little local traffic there ia, is accommo-
dated by the several hack lines.
James McGhee, OF Faulk.on, had q narrow
escape from death last week. While on a
hunting expedition he accidentally discharged
a gun, the charge striking his face, mutilating
1t badly. He will probably lose the use OF one
eye.
The program for the fourteenth annual
meeting OF the Dakota Sunday school associa-
ton is nearly completed. The convention
will be held at Mitchell, July 10, IL and l2.
The Forest City and Sioux Falls railway
company claim that they will have the road
finished from Forest City to Gettysburg with
In two months. The right-of-way parties are
now In the field.