Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1888-03-04
CUSTER CHRONICLE.
Omcial Paper Of Custer County.
Boots and shoes, at Smith & Fltch's.

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Of Custer Avenue and fifth street.
All kinds of new grass and garden
seeds at 7. V. Garlock's.
Iron Hill took another tumble on
Tuesdap, selling, as reported as low as
523 cents, presumably caused by the
shutting down of the smelter.
A new stock of furniture is now ar.
irving at Heidepriem's.
County Surveyor Mcintyre this week
completed the survey of the Tin Noun
tain company's claims at Warren's gulch,
with a view to procuring patents there
on.
At car load Of sash and doors, just re
oeived at Heidepriem's.
George C Hickok, of the Deadwood
National bank, has recently been APP
pointed treasurer of the Iron Hill Min
ing company, vice d. A. Mcpherson,
resigned.
Buy Axeline and C~astroleum for wa
CONS and buggies it knocks axle grease
gallywest, at L. V. Garlock's.
Deadwood liquor dealers are jubilant
over a recent supreme court decision in
their case, which saves them the differ
ence between $3.50 and $500 per year in
the cost Of license to retail spirits in that
city.
Clothing and furnishing goods, at
Smith IL Fitch =.
Sixty acres Of the burst ranch near
the western boundary Of this place was
located for mining purposes during the
week. There is evidently a growing
desire on the part Of the masses to be-
com possessed of real property near
this city.
Hyou want to counteract any condi-
ton of the thermometer, buy your goods
at COchran's.
A rumor in Rapid this week of the
final contamination Of the Harvey tin
deal could not be traced to a reliable
source. Rumors to this effect after the
Goth Of this month, may be fraught with
greater significance; just now they don't
90.
Hats, caps and gloves, at
Smith 4 Fitch's.
The ladies of Rapid await the arrival
Of the charter, when the organization Of
"a Woman's Relief Corps will be per-
fected. This will be the second organ
ization Of the kind in the Hills; the
irst having been established in this
city, last summer
In the march Of empire YOU will find
that j. Cochran sells good goods, cheap
for cash.
The first Sunday mail from Buffalo
Gap, under the new order, arrived here
last Sunday. Hereafter we can enjoy
the perusal Of the Saturday Omaha and
Sioux City dailies on Sunday evenings.
Clusters eastern mail facilities are now
fairly complete.
You can get better boots and shoest A
Smith & Fitch's for less money than at
any other house i'm town.
The attendance at the oyster supper
given by the ladies of the Methodist
church on Wednesday evening, notwith-
standing the u%nfavorable character of
the weather, was large. The occasion
was one Of rare enjoyment, and highly
satisfactory in a financial view.
If you want to make your wife and
daughters a good present 90 to Smith d
Fitch's and get a Tricot dress.
We learn that n petition asking for
the pardon of John +. Lol,r, who was
sent to the penitentiary at Sioux Falls
from this place r year or two ago. for
the murder of George Middleton at
Battle creek, will be circulated in this
place and elsewhere in this county.
March came in at this point unlike a
lion, and not strictly lamblike. While
it did not storm raginglv, it was not as
remarkably serene as it has been kno wn
to be on many former occasions. a
light snow fell during the night, un-
accompanied by wind or buster, and
mercury crept quietly to zero before
davbreak. The day following was not
without it sunny hours, which almost
invariably characterizes the days here,
even in midwinter.
II you want anything in the line of
hardware, fancy and staple groceries,
stoves, iron and glassware, mining sup
plies, farm implements, iron, steel, etc,
etc, 90 to Cochran's, the cheapest house
in the Black Hills.
Considerable i'll feeling has been en-
gendered during the week past by rea-
sons Of certain locations being made un.
der the placer act upon the ranches in
this vicinity. 1t seems to be a question of
the most intricate and complex char
acter, to determine with any degree of
precision, the exact line dividing the
mineral from the agricultural districts,
or indeed as to whether there is any
land in this immediate vicinity which
could be declared strictly agricultural.
OpiniOn is divided upon the question