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

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iron In the Vermillion region.
The spriug apportionment Of the state
school fund gives Murray county 81, GOO, which
is about 70 cents for each Of it's 1850 chill
nren.
The Minnesota Loan and Investment com
pany Is preparing to grade streets, plant
trees and build houses in Worthington this
spring.
Superintendent 3. s. Watkins, OF the Min
nesota Dish hatchery, arrived in Duluth Satur-
day morning with 300, 900 white fish to put in
Lake Superior.
Byron Lodge No. 1875 l. o. O., has been in
stitutcd by Deputy trend Master j. w. Ever.
slime at Rochester. The new lodge has a
good membership ana high hopes for the
future.
A patent steel nail machine, capable Of
making so 10 100 pounds OF nails a dav,
has hecn set up in D.uih, and il successful
Duluth men may s4Jsc..4e enough 10 start
the mill.
}. B.. stevens, the Detroit. prohibition
leader, IL busily engaged in working for u
prohibition club among Duluth Scandina-
VANS. A meeting will be called neA. week
and the Organization effected.
Dockucy X Kingston, OF Ashland, have
placed III the sheriff hands attachment rape,
f"r 4 lien Of s., on the steamer :. b. Bak,~,
now the property OF Capt. Finn, OF Duluth.
lie will run her In The excursion business.
Annie Olson, Il 81. Paul domestic, at
tempted suicide Saturday by leaping over the
wall OF the Summit avenue lookout. She
VIII likely die. Sickness, dependency, and
= failure To get money She expected are
thought % be the cause.
The remains Of an unknown man were
found twelve miles northwest Of Luvcrnc on
Sunday morning. The body was partially
buried In a snow bank, the feet clad in over
shoes, protruding. 1t is probable that the
man persisted in the blizzard Of January II.
Fred Weston, aged twenty-six, living In
MeGo, twenty milas southeast OF Mankato. is
insane. His father was sent to the ponitcn-
tiaIy several years ago for murder, but was
recently taken thence To the asylum at ST.
Peter. The sons insanity is the result of
brooding over his father trouble.
Surveys have been made by the D., $. s.
and A. for a branch road from three to five
miles IN length, TO be built this spring to the
sandstone q%uarrics at Portage Entry. The
business that will be received from these
q%uarries viii be immense, for one firm cx-
poets to ship 10000 tons Of stone by rail. it
being the third largest quarry in America.
A heavy snow storm prevailed at Princeton
Tuesday morning, which, with the snow
nearly three feet on the level, dos not look
much like early spring. Nearly all the log
giug crews in the p~ineries north of that place
Nave broken camp, and the streets and roads
are crowded with men and teams returning
from the numbering operations Of the past
winter. The log cut this season Oh the Rum
river has been very successful.
The twenty days which IS given the saloons
OF Pipestone to close after prohibition has
been voted were passed on Tuesday and still
the three greg shops in that city are running.
Lest year, council granted thein a license to
run until July !, 1855, and the ray they ar,
going to keep open till date. On account Of
their holding a license It IA thought they will
be allowed to run until the time expires with.
on; being molcst,d, after which they say the,
viii close without any trouble.
4 couple Of small boys Sunday morning.
Whsle PLAYING on q lumrcr pile il the ALLEY
back Of Pnuiig"'s JOB printing oni,c. q,
NJornyal, Ill eoycrc! a female bahy a Gay
Old wrapped IN a pillow case. Examination
showed that II, head had been crushed y,
some bllnt Instrument. When found tn,
body was frozen stiff. The case Is q being in.
,ertigat,d.
The poig2-Sexsuith sawmill, on Connor'.
Point, near Duluth, which has been shut
down -four or five years, viii rua this year
Scott Il Ho.son, who bought the mill and req.
estate last winter for $4,000 have leased it &c
James McDcnough, Of Eau Claire, who will
saw on a contract this season. He has made
a contract for L., 100000 feet. coo, OO0 fee.
FOR Ii. NJ, Stocking and 10000 0O feet for Pat
rick IIyncs. This mill is the largest and tn,
finest Of the mills in this vicinity.
Head man War-ne-gar-boo Of the Chiape
was died a fow days ago at Crooked Lake
northeast Of Brairerd. He had lived at hs
late abode very many years, and was M In
ulaH ol Iaigt lhlucnct. lie was specially
anxious that the Chippewas should be remov
ed TO the White Earth reservation, and aide(
the recent Indian commission very great,
in the r Efforts to secure the treaty. The old
man was. nearly a hundred years Old.
Rochester special: 1t is generally conceded
In this vicinity that there wds never such
body OF snow and ice seen on the face OF the
country at this time OF year as now. Woo
haulers report the snow from two to tire,
feet on the level in the woods, while on the
open fields it is still piled up 10 an incredible
depth for April. The prediction of a spring
hood is freely made by many good observers
Bonds for the twelve saloon men haze beer
accepted and the 5000 paid into the city
looms will DO opened in this city during til
uIumcr.
Ottumwa special, April A public mas.
meeting of citizens was held this evening II
afInory hall for the purpose Of considering
and taking ti0al action on the proposition OF
George a. Plisbury, Of Minneapolis, in rela
ton 70 the Piilsbury academy, located in thi,
city. Alr. PillsbuIy has offered 10 erect {
So, 900 building for this Institution and Il
increase its endowment fund to 500, 600, pro