Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1888-01-07
DAKOTA


Fargo has a free letter delivery.
Rapid City l.. shipping brick to Wyoming.
Rev. Fielder Is the new presiding eide. IT
Aberdeen.
Iron Hill stock Is down to so cents In Dad
wood.
abei d zen IL to have q new national bank
Capital $4,000.
The Mitchell saloons closed Saturday under
the local option law.
There are $50 enrolled pupils in the Sioux
Falls public schools.
Bishop Taylor denies that he and Mrs. Kate
Noel are to be married.
A cock fght was one OF the Christmas
amusements at Yankton.
The Edgerton hotel aG White Lake WAS re-
Gently destroyed by fire.
Huronites are prospecting for coal, and are
very coandent of success.
, Scarlet fever is raging OF Mandan. Schools
have closed In lonst Guence.
Steps are being taken to induce parties to
establish a fax mill at Groton.
Watertown parties think they have u be-
mar "a In a newly invented car coupler.
The reform school building at Piankinton
will be completed at about February Is.
Clark county people are agitating the ques-
ton OF providing a court house aud al.
The Chicago aud Northwestern railroad
reached Yankton two years ago last Friday.
Dskota's bonded Indebtedness Is SAID TO be
81, Goa, 900. Assessed valua ION 8 81 co 900.
The city OF Aberdeen will not revoke tn
ui~-u .-.-z. .la-L 49, AL A.-t A.
run.
Chris Huber, OF D~eadwood, has been sd-
jldged insrne and sent to the asylum at Sioux
Falls.
The commissioners at Deadwood have fixed
the license for selling intoxicating liquors at
500.
Cash receipts OF the Aberdeen lard Office
for the week ending December "a were So
S67S 81.
The Liuety-seven c~onVicts In the Sioux
Falls penitentiary werI treated to q Christmas
dinner.
The g. A. r.. had a campfire at Hlghmore
on Saturday last. Crows opera house was
crowded.
Redfeld parties have formed a company for
the purpose of building q railroad from Nor
ris, Minnesota.
The Huron board Of trade would like to
correspond with parties who could be induced
to start q crermery.
A new location of a valuable s.n lode has
been recently located near Sheridan by Henry
shans and Oscar Klein.
The young ladies of Yankton are organix-
log q society for the purpose Of utilizing the
rrerogatives OF leap year.
Blunt special: Z. 8. Willisms, school and
town treasurer OF Britton township, Is re-
ported to be short $500 In his OH cial ac-
counts.
Joseph Horner, a saloonkeeper at Warner,
Is accused Of marrying his niece. Consider
able indignation is being manifested over
the matter.
The Cass county grand jury has indicted The
publisher Of the Fargo Argus for admitting
lottery advertisements contrary to the stat,
utes Of Dakota.
The supreme court Of the United States has
: firmed a judgment for $50, 900 secured by
Richard Narer against the Northern Pacific
for loss OF both legs In Fargo.
The office Of the Nelson County News, at
Lskots, together with the s.ereotyping out
fit and all the Office material, was burned
Thursday morning. Loss, $1,000; insural C !.
81, 900
The Illinois Central road Thursday paid to
laborers In Sioux Falls the sum Of $50, coo.
The company will retain 125 men, who viii be
employed all winter on the yards and depot
grounds in the city.
Huron expects soon to have a new daily
paper, to be called the Huron Daily News.
The proprietors are Heron, Woods g. Co.,
but the editorial charge will be In the hands
Of w. u. Clark, OF Canton.
The Rapid City Daily Republican warns the
public against what is known as the Farmers
Mutual Live Sock association, Of Austin,
Minnesota, as being the blacklist swiudle OF
the kind ever in the country.
Geo. d. Farwel', Of LaMourc, has been &C.
quilted on a charge OF obtaining money uu-
der false pretenses, brought by j. T. Lanney,
and has sued Lanney for 5000 damages,
claiming that he was pres :cuted through spite.
1t is estimated ty good authority that the
mills OF Dakota will grind 10, 5000 0 bus hels
Of wheat from September, 1887, to s. pte nber,
1883. II that proves correct, the -four indus
try Of Dakota will soon make itself felt In
the manufacturing world.
The board Of trustees for the jamestown
asylum has decided to enlarge and extend the
electric light plant now In operation to meet
the require ents Of recent building opera
tions. They have accordingly contracted with
the Edison Electric Light company OF New
York city for a 22O light plant.
At an adjourned session OF Judge Spencer's
court In Watertown old man Mitchell,
seventy four years OF age, was given q New
Years present from the honorable Judge in
the form Of q ten years. sentence TO the peni-
Tertiary at Sioux Falls, for rapipg his step
DAUGHTER last July. This sentence means
life for the inhuman guardian Of his thirteen
year-old step-child.
At the orstorical contest at Sioux Falls
Thursday for the honor Of representing Sioux
Falls university In the Interstate collegiate
contest, Mr.. George K. V~arDey-subiact,
''The Byzantine Emp!re''-was awarded frs,
place, and Mr.. Sanford Varns-subject, s.Man"
second. The judges were K. A. Sherman,
F.. P. Beebe and 4. A. Fairfax.
The G. A.. r. had q grand campfire and