Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1888-07-21

Inc assessed valuation OF Minneapolis is
$4,000 OO0 more than 1t was two years ago.
Fergus Falls had sixteen saloons before
high license was adopted. Now there are ten.
Seventy-two liquor licenses were granted
by the city council Of Duluth last Monday
night.
Tn clerk Of the court at Albert Lea issued
seventeen marriage licenses during the month
Of June.
The Third regiment, VI. y. g., passed rthe
ordeal OF inspection at Lake City in a very
creditable manner.
The strikers at the Winona lumber mills
expects 10 put on new men.
The Brainera Daily News plant has been
shipped TO Duluth to be used there as an
evening Democratic paper.
A rpea6 thief broke into the new Conrre-
g%ational church ~ Fergus Falls last Satur-
day night and carried of a handsome Bible.
The First National bank Of L.uverne has
declared a serniaunual dividend OF ; per
cent, besides making an addition to It's sur
plus.
he Methodist society Of Austin, at the re-
cent dedication OF its new church, raised
$1,000, which entirely cancels ali its indcbt-
clncsS.
a child was picked up the other day at
"ortAiugton and put In a box ear BY tramps.
\ Charley Ross case is a: likely 10 ucc II there
as any where.
The new creamery at Lake Benton Is in op-
Grafton. The people have become prohib..
t:onists, and viii IN The future drink nothing
but butttrmilk.
The board Of trade at Worthingtou Is wax
ing up and has appointed a committee to col
lect dues for the past Two years from dolin-
qucnt members.
The citizens Of Herman nave decided 20
bond the town in the sun Of - 900 to aid the
construction Of the Minnesota and Northern
railway from Appleton 70 Fergus Falls.
DR.. Taimsge, the great Brooklyn preacher,
was TO have been present at Waseca ana adj
dress the Chautauqua assembly now ia SEES
sion there on the Fourth, but for some reason
ne failed to materialize.
There are many candidates for county
Offices in Goodhue county, and as a nomina-
ton on the Republican ticket in that county
is equivalent to election, the scramble for
place on that ticket is very amusing.
The Garden City Mining company las Just
been organized at Duluth with a capital stock
OF $4,000. The company owns 100 acres of
land five miles east Of Ely, and has purchased
machinery and will go to work at once.
Duluth will send eleven representatives to
the Knightsof Pythias grand lodge TO be held
IN Minneapolis next September. She viii also
send not less than twenty-seven members
who will compete in the drill for prizes.
\ new bank will be established at Tower In
a few weeks TO be called the First National
Bank OF Tower. The Minnesota Iron com
pany and Duluth Union National bank viii
be interested In II. 1t will have a capital of
$50, 600.
Mlllic Kenyon, a 10 year old gill, was Ter.
rihly injured sunday al Red Wing by a dyra-
mite cartridge. She picked i n UP on the rail
road track and struck it with a hammer whea
it exploded. Her face will be horribly Glsfg-
ured for life.
The prospcctors for natural gas AZ ~ '-
opa Falls, near Mankato, have s,ruck ". r
instead of gas at "A depth of sos feet. II flows
a tiye-inch stream and rises fifteen fc,t4y,y,
the surface Of the ground. The water is of
good guilty. This viii probably recelya at
~ttntion a a source OF supply for the citv.
The acrion Of the local board OF eq,.a,ix,-
ton a. Red Wing In raising the persona
property assessments of many prominent cit
liens and merchants is causing no little com
motion in local business circles, although the
move meets with the hearty approval Of the
great mass OF the citizens.
The watch which was given TO a conductor
on the 81. Paul and Dulth road recently sy a
young man FOR his fare to saltwater, and
which was redeemed from the ticket office
soon after his arrival by a thief who hap
pened to be "a board and overheard the
transaction, hGs oeen recovered at south Still
water, where IL had been pawned for -. The
rascal, who had stolen money from a frienC
at White Bear, got on a drunk at South Still
water and was locked M, tut broke jail and
escaped. The ovLCr hes recovered his prop
erty.
Several Rcterts county farmere, saws tie
Wilmot Reporter, will Try the surfcvcr this
season for fuel, and have ordered the seed.
1t should be planted the same MS corn, and
three seeds in a Hill. 1t will yield twenty
cords to the acre, and the seed, besides max
ing nice fuel, is said to be good for feed. But
even for fuel alone it would prove TO te a
great saving.
The Chicago Tribune figures from the
monthly statement OF the department OF az
riculture that the winter wheat Weld will be
23S, 100000 bushels, in place Of 1922, $50, 600
bushels last year. Estimating the spring
wheat at | per cent. less, the aggregate will
be 3s5, Co., 600 bushels or 1915 per cent. less
than last year, and but 10000, 600 bus heels sur
Plus for export, about half tAe amount
needed.
AT saltwater the other day Chris Lcnz,
driver for Louis Allenberg, went to the Office
OF Dr.. Phillip Mueller, on South Main street
in a state Of great mental and physical suffer
ing and informed the doctor that he had
taken trough on rats with suicidal intent.
An emetic was promptly administered ard
antidotes given, and he was shortly relieved.
About 3 2. m. the doctor was summoned to
his residence at the corner OF Fourth and
Willard, where he found his patient again In