Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1888-03-10
DAKOTA.


Latoba.
+ &. Speiman has been appointed register
Of the land Office at Devils Lake.
Guy S%tearns, who had his legs frozen In
the January blizzard, died at peSmet on
Tuesday.
TX Deputy United states Marshal {. A.
Gray is under arrest for receiving brides
while In Office.
B~lackleg has made its appearance among
the cattle at Valley Springs, but not To any
alarming extent.
The prohibition people Of Madison are max
ing war on the saloonkecpcrs and notorious
characters Of the town.
Herbert GeddSs, late editor Of the Doland
Recorder, has accepted the position of local
editor on the Redtcld Dispatch.
y saloon at Picrre was raidci. The build
ing was taken IN charge, and the whisky
seized by the prohibitionists.
Dcadwood has fifteen grocery stores. five
restaurants and five hotels and should have
No difficulty in getting enough to eat,
The following Dakotans have been granted
pensions: 'iginal, invalid, samuel Dunncll,
Big Stone City. Increase, James $. Parker,
Croton; Ste,hea Hawkins. Aberdeen.
An engine on the Chicago, Milwaukee and
ST, Paul set FIRE to Louis Meisch'a tree claim
near Alexandria and dcstro>ed 5000 large
trees. He has brought suit for : 1890.
1t Is said that the large mining property In
Whitcwood owned by Jones X LOOMS Ia.
been sold to a New York syndicate who vii
eXpcnd s. 900 in developing the property.
a DcadwOoI man has perfected an iugcn.
ious attatchmcnt foL the telephone by which
a ring during his absence is indicated upon
his return. a patent sill be applied for.
Another undertaken is about To locate IL
Sioux Falls. Those already engaged in that
business say that The town Is too healthy anQ
there is practically no business in that line.
There Is a very good prospect O! til,
Chicago and Northwestern stag Express anC
~Trasportation company reviying their oil,
line between Pierre and Deadwood early mex
spring.
a farmer named Page, who lives near Aber
deem, has been sued by the c. Vi. X ST. p
railroad company for failure TO account fol
300 bushels Of seed wheat the company Loaned
him.
John G.. Gould, while digging a well on hi'
farm five miles from Redtcld, struck coal. A
trial proved that it burns free and Is Of goo.
quality. Steps will be taken to organize 4
company for mining purposes.
Thelatcst from The horrid coal stove come,
from Winifrel. Maggie Thcopiius, sixteen
years Old, was staying over night with some
friends aud during the night was surfocate,
to death by the escaping gas from the stove
The first shipment OF about 1000 pound,
OF tin concentrates from the Tin Mountait
mill was made last week. The tin was con.
signed TO the owners OF the Tin Mountain
property ia Chicago, whore it will DE smclted
preparatory to being placed on the market.
The following are the names Of the officer.
elected hy the Miunehaha county Formers
alliance for the ensuing year; President, IL
". Smith; vice president, 4. 5. Fallcr, sec
Rotary, l.. VI. E>tabrook; treasurer, Charlie,
T. Austin; county lecturer, \. :. Fuller,
The business men q Ashton administered
a coat of tar and feathers Friiay night to Dr.
Frank Oulton for slandcrin@ and insult;u.
the respectable omc # that place. He va.
given to understand thar if be remained il
that locality he Would receive several NOR,
dos,s, and wisely concluded to emigrate.
The flkhorn surveyors, who have beer err
gagged IN the survey Of branch lines from BGf
falo Gap 70 the outlying tone quarrics, hay,
completed a survey Of the liuc to the Italian
marble q~uerrics, about nine miles northwcs,
0f Buffalo Gap, and returned TO Buffalo Gan
from which place they will survey a Lire t,
the Elan creek stone q~uarrics, situated alou
four miles in a westerly direction from tina
point.
{. X. Denistcr, a school teacher, drDarte,
very suddenly Eden last week. leaving confd
ing friends To hold the sack to tae tame o
about $500. He WAS dismissed from his echoo
and the order Of Good Icmplars. The Elder
Echo says he has a Sons Of Veterans uuiforn
and badge and warns all such |eocictic
against him, as be is a professional deaibeat
About , O'Clock Tuesday morning the resi-
dcnce Of Mrs. Coukling, at Bismarck, was dis
covered to be on fire, and before ~anythln!
could be done 80 great was the headWav o
the flames that the house was utterly de
stroyed. Mrs. Coukling and her two littl
daughters were asleep when the fire hrok,
out, and they narrowly escaped being burnc,
alive. There is ground for the belief tina
the fire is the work Of an inccndiary. Tn,
building and contents Were insured ver'
lightly, and the loss falls mainly upon Mrs
ConklinC.
\ farmer, \. J. Douglas, living near Estel
line, has been found short OF the disposition
expected Of a virtUous husband. Recently q
young lady stopped with the family over
night, and being short Of accommodation
she was given a bed in "A room with Dougla,
and lis wife. Duriug the night the wife
awoke from her happy dreams and missing
her husband from her side found him occu.
p,ing the same bed with the young lady. Sh,
turned them both out 10 the Inercies Of the
cold, cruel world.
Mis-. Bell Cora Fellows, at the CHEYENNE
agency, viii or March lG, marry Cha-ka, 4
full-hloodcd Sioux Indian. Miss Fellows ~
Gently came from Washington, where she Is
highly CONNECTED. Her father holds an Inn.
portaut position In the pension department
and her sister in tie treasury. Excitement i'm
social circles at Forts Bennett 2ud Sullv is
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