Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1888-04-14
DAKOTA.

Yankton's new school building will cost
i 5000.
The asylum at Yankton is to be lighted by
electricity.
TIE Pearson Comedy company Is a Sioux
Falls concern.
The Northwestern road is building a depot
at Violin siding.
The entire Democratic municipal ticket At
Waph.ton was elected.
Tuesdays real estate transfers at Sioux
Falls amounted to 5000.
The Ptess says there are a great manv fine
buildings being erected In Sioux Falls.
There was glass blowers exhibition at
Deadwood Friday afternoon.
Sioux Falls has a school Of photography
and typcwriting.
A stone planing-rllll will be built in Sioux
Falls in the spring.
Some one stole about 300 wort. of grain
rom a farm near Watertown
Ironing OF the Wilmar and Sioux Falls rail
road viii about May 20.
The spring term Of United Stato6 court be-
can at Yankton Tuesday.
\ Farmers alliance with 100 members was
organized at Gary on Saturday.
A Womans' Relief corps has been organ
izcd a. Aberdeen.
The Watertown Banking and Investment
COMPANY has been established with a capital
of $4,000.
The masons and brlcklaycrs Of Sioux
Falls have organized a union with forty
members.
Thirty-iiye hundred dollars was raised II
WATERFOWL to help build a Methodist churcl
after service Sunday.
The Manitoba road has made application fol
S,00o OF Commissioner McClurc's new book
The Resources Of Dakota"
The American house, Rapid City, wa.
burned Friday; loss $l2,500. The building
was one Of the best in The Black Hills.
The Record says Sturgis is going liz fol
gypsum. \ citizen Of that town is 10 erect q
mill, and Will manufacture stucco, plaster
etc.
George Willard. Of Lead City, has invented
a sign which, standing in three different posi-
VIC III " VI IL, "a III Ahiht LlilttGu
ways.
A new bath house addition 10 the Mime
kahta hotel, at Hot Springs, and a number O
cottages, will probably DC built during tn,
summer.
The attendance at the Madison Norma
school this term is the largest it has ever had
The present term closes with u prize declama
ton contest.
Principal W. II. Dempster, Of the norma
department Of the Dakota college at Reddeld
will conduct the teachers institute in Siou,
Falls this week.
At a meeting Of citizens Of Mandan Tues
day the necessary $1,000 was subscribed il
one hour for a creamery. 1t will be in opera
ton in less than six weeks.
The county commissioner continued in ees
sion at Brookings The examination OF the &C
counts Of ex-Treasurer Nichols, which wer,
badly mixed up on going out OF Office.
The receiver for the defunct Fargo Insur
ance company was discharged 10y Judg
Palmer Wednesday because he was unable t
find assets sufficient to pay his ex expenses. Tn,
liabilities Of the company are $4,000.
The municipal offices were evenly divide
between the Republicans aad Democrats a
Rapid City-the Republicans taking the may
or and the Democrats the treasurer. Til
council stands four and four.
\ bet Of $3.50 a side was made ia Eapi
City Monday. One party offered TO wage
that be will name the successful ca jidat
for president. A man at once accepted ar
the money was put up tn next morning.
There Is a Chicago, Burlington and QGiHc
ear siletracked at Dell Rapids. 1t has be-,
there since The "Q'' strike commenced. I'll
company has ma io repeated efforts to have
moved, but the engineers refuse to touch i
The jury in the case Of Mrs. Katrina Eel
killed by a Union Pacific train at Scyenteent
street, Omaha, Monday night, rendered Il vel
diet Tuesday night, charging the railwa
company with the grosscst negligence IN nc
providing safeguards at the point where Mr.
Eek was killed.
An unfortunate woman. nearly blue
reached Fargo We lnesday night and was care
for by the proprictors OF the Central houst
who notified the relief committee Of the coul
ty commissioners She claims to be from Wi
mar, MINI, on her way TO Willis City, Turtl
Mountains, TO live with her brother.
II. T. b. Baggage and c. h. Pratt were a
rested Tuesday at Redield on complaint c
George j. Jarvis, alleging liquor selling. Tn
city marshall found two cases of beer in Bae
cages establishment, labeled ginger ale. Tn
examination took place on Wednesday.
The jamestown Live Stock association me
Tuesday, perfected organization and electe
j. w. Goodrich president, |, {. Wade sccrt
tary and w. NJ. Lloyd treasurer. 1t was de
cided 20 purchase two thoroughbred stallion
at once, and a committee will probably leav
for Labellc ranch, ia Lake county, 10 exam
inc animals there.
The Hermosa Pilot Is urging the early es
adjustment Of a canning factory at tina
place, with a view of preserving for winte
use the enormous surplus of garden true
grown In that locality, u market for whic'
may be readily found in the mining district
OF the Hills when the boom has fully devcl
oped.
Huronitcs are talking Of sinking an arte
sian well ia a natural basin some three mile
out of town, building a dam across one en-
of the basin and flooding il with water fror
the well, thus converting the basin into