Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1888-09-15
PERSONAL

town on Wednesday.
ID. T.. Caufield came in from the Col
den Summit mine on Saturday.
Archie Beaton anchored at the Vienna
from Brownsville, on Saturday.
NJ. w. Ensign signed at the Vienna,
from Lincoln, Nob., on Sunday.
Louis Miller, Of Laramie, Wyo., was a
guest at the Vienna on Saturday.
+. w. Kimberly vas a 500 City man
arriving at the Vienna on Saturday.
'Wm. Martin of Palmer Gulch broke
bread at the Vienna on Wednesday.
John Meyer was at the Kleemann on
Monday from the b. & NJ. coal camp.
John Walter was a Monday arrival at
the kleemann from Oil Creek, Wyo.
j. Shnuettgen was a Rapid man TAX
ing comfort at the kleemann on Satur-
day.
S. II. Mott came in from Oelrichs on
Sunday, and registered at the Klee-
a
l. +. Fish of Hill City was seer picking
his teeth at the Hleemann House on
Saturday.
S. r. Elwood and c. O.. Elwood were
booked at the Kleemann on Wednesday
from Colo, Iowa.
Frank Mowry, Ed Holman, and f.
Palmer represented Hill City in this
place on Tuesday.
l.. S. Gull, an attorney of Buffalo Gap
was among the arrivals at the Klee-
mann on Wednesday.
Joseph Pepin was a brick layer who
came from Chadron on Monday to work
on the Kleemann annex.
j. w. Fowler and NJ. Willsie, of Ra.
pid, were s%ojourning in the Tin City on
Saturday, Sunday, and Monday.
d. X. Snively, a prominent merchant
Of Oelrichs, was s%ojourning in this place
on Friday and Saturday of last week.
HI. p. Phillips, hailing from Hot
Springs, was a guest at the kleemann
on Friday and Saturday Of last week.
j. c. Spencer, G. +. Walling, j. c.
Smith, ]. f. Sheehan, and +. j. Bowser
were registered at the Vienna on Tues
day from the l. A X ranch.
AT a meeting Of the board of educa
ton held on Monday evening, it was
decided to establish the third, or inter.
mediate department in the public
schools of this city.
Work on the Deadwood reduction
works is said to be progressing rapidly.
Seventy men are now employed, and il
is believed that there will be no cessa.
ton of operation until the plant has
been completed.
A. 7. Van Devort has been visiting
with his family at the Gap this week
His new residence in this city will soon
be completed, when his family will re,
move here, after which his visits to the
stone city will doubtless be less fre.
quent.
VIM Allen, after a brief visit with
his family at Buffalo Gap, returned tC
this place on Tuesday, where a resi-,
dencs is being fitted up for his accom-
mediation, and where be will perma
nently reside with his family when the
same is completed.
Local politics is attra citing bu. little
attention SO far, among the masses il
this section, but the attention Of officia
%aspirants may be said to be thoroughly
aroused. Unwisely, but as usual, the
average voter is quite Indifferent rs tl
who may secure the nomination for i'm,
portant county, and legislative Offices
is careless Of nominations, being con.
tent to express his preference at the
polls.
Information comes from st. Louis tc
the effect that the owners Of the Grand
Junction gold mine, near this place,
have decided to run a tunnel, instead o.
sinking a shaft as formerly contemplate
ed. The contract will be let in a few
days, as we are informed, when opera
tons will commence. The dimensions
Of the tunnel is 6x7 feet, and 400 feet
long. and will tap the vein at a depth of
nearly 200 feet below the surface.
Nj. Lehman and G. w. Shankland
were among the Monday arrivals in the
city from Hot Springs. Mr.. Lehman is
the leading dry goods merchant of
Deadwood, and has been rusticating for
a few days at the springs upon his return
from New York, where he had been
making extensive purchases for his
Deadwood establishment. He remained
iii this place until Wednesday, where he
was greatly delighted with the beauty Of
the adjacent scenery, and the marked
excellence Of Clusters climate &. W..
Shankland is well known to our readers
| as a brother of ours who if somaubot