Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1888-04-28
MINNESOTA

Dllull III ltlDIs lttI lldt stilllNIchb 'Oi-
sideratlol was not given to home industry.
The Rochester board OF trade will make n
strong effort TO induce the Winvna and South
western railroad TO include that city ia their
survey before actual work is begun.
The Duluth Gas and Water company re.
Gently filed a mortgage Of S75O,NU with he
Central Trust company, of Few York. This
company will build = new reservoi. this sum
ner.
There Is p revival Of interest In the silver
Shafts have been suak ia different plr ces and
rock hearing good indications oi silver has
been taken out.
Some villain recently attempted to burn up
q crowded boarding house at Duluth. He
bad set fire To a bundle Of rags and placed il
ucder NE stairs. one of the hoarders very
fnrtaa0tciy aHoAe and cXtinguished thu
Aaa,es, Otherwise a large loss Of lite must
have followed.
The Rrpublican county committee, com
posed OF John Gibbs, w. z. Sergent ana other
leading Republicans, met last Saturday at
Albert Lea and called u delegate county con-
%vention for May II, to elect SIX delegates to
the state convention and nine each to the
congressional conventions TO be held ut Oya
tonna and Rochester.
: The Southern Minnesota Dental association
convened at Mauksto last Tuesday. The
meetings are held in Dr. DcGraw.s Office.
President c. III. Robinson del ver-d an able
address at 3 p. IN. DR.. DeGraw read a paper
on prosthetic dentistry. Dr. +. n. Angee
took up The treatment of dental irregularities
an his paper was supplemented by iliustra-
tons aud occupied u part of the afternoon
and evening sessions. The evening session
was mainly devoted to DR.. S. ID. Leonard,
who had for his subi,ct Tissues, Sott and
Hard" HIS paper was exhaustive a.d illss-
tr.tcd by a steropticon.
The city council Of Albert Lea me. Tuesday
evening and organizcd by electipg K. G. Van
Fchen, p'c,il"ht. The committees are % be
announce { tbs NJ yt meetiI z. The follow
Ing officers were elected; f.. A. johnson,
clerk; s. A. Morgan, attorney; J. Q Annis,
assessor, and II. l~.uckins, street commission
er, all except the latter being reelected.
1ndIlSS MuIItlN, NlGtltT NOIkllldn OF IHC
Knights Of Labor, held the Office last year,
hut as beaten hy Luckins. who bad been eY-
PEELED. The council ordered n contract for
six electric lights and transacted q good deal
Of bu mess in a business way.
a Birch Cody, Mimi, correspondent to the
GloDe says ! see "A good deal of speculation
In your paper rs to The identity OF Chaska and
the congruiry or otherwise of Wise Fellows
attachment 10 him. Chaske is Samuel Camp
bell, a young mixed blood Of ABOUT twenty
two years lie is a son OF A. }. Campbell, the
Old Indian trader, Interpreter, etc, who until
lately lived in Mendoza, anG Is yell known /.
al the Older ~citizcis Of ST. Paul. His mother
4. dead. She was n fall FLOODED Sioux woman
and Il daughter OF old Pay pay (Pe-pe), who
used to live at Fairbault. She was Cainpbcll's
wife O. for \ ime, while he was employed as
a scout near redwood Ia 1851. Campbell,
tls, has grown UP among the Indians at San
tee Agency, Neo., and his stay at Lincoln IN
sDitute was but brief. His mother's brothcr,
George PAyssy, was recently "a patient in 81.
Lukc's hospital, ST. Paul.
The Democratic county convention met in
Ada last saturday aud elected Charles Can
ning, Of llcndrusn, anu q. l.. Thorpe, OF Ada,
delegates 10 the state Democratic convention
in st. Paul, May II. The convention indorsed
CT, voiaud anu his message. Your correspond
cut learned from Mr.. Canning. who, by the
way, Il the vice president Of the State Farm
ero' alliance, that he intends to work for
Cleveland, SchciIcr and the Democratic party
generally. lie says that he believes that If
the Farmers alliance state convention nom
mates Schetfer and then the Democrats in
dorae the nominee, that the state can be car
rird for Cleveland and S hefrcr by = large
majority, Mr.. Thorpe fsyors Cleveland and
tariff reform. Sam Wilton for gov
ernor, with Scheffer as second choice.
Considering the short time that the
Farmers alliance has been IN exist
ence In Norman county their strength Is won
derful and their IL lueace Is bound to be felt
quite . considerable this fall. Then, too, the
prohibition!sts are doing great work In this
county. Prohibition clubs are being organ
ized in cvcrv school district in the county by
Mrs. Bailey, one of the w. c. 7. L.. laborers,
and the prohibition leaders say that they will
have a full county ticket TO tack on to the
end OF the Prohibition, national and state
ii kcts, which will carry the county. 1t is
very evident that thu delegation to the state
Republican convention VIII be Instructed for
NcGlll. Norman county is solid for Judge
Stearnsongress for c.
Robert Mcdonald, OF ST. Jamca, this prin
erected a house upon land in the town o
Adrian, that county, the title TO which i. In
dispute between him and the widow OF his
brother, the late Thomas Mcdonald, who
died three ,ears AGO. Robert lst@jv moved
into the house with his wife AMI daughter.
On SHada, night last, during bis absence IN
town, the house was partially DESTROYED by
fire., ono end being Burned out. Yesterday
Hr. AicDoEald took steps 10 have Nrs. Thomas
MCDONALD and her adopted son, L. a. Alice,
arrested for incendiarism, his complaint
cbgrgiu. then with setting ths f-e. Years
ago thc lsud In question WAS held az a tree
claim by Robert Mcdonald, but during his
absence IL Canada his brother Thomas ann ped
the claim ans h.ld II. On his death bed he
made a will, In which h. gave forty acres Of
the land ~ Robert, but thsre was az error In
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