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

Delegate Glloru mas gone oack to Nneh
ton.
Aberdeen is confident OF a prosperous and
busy fall.
Work has commenced ON the Desdwood
street railway.
Dog concerts In Yank,on keep people
awake nights:
The boss milling wheat this year comes
from central Dakota.
Judge Rose opened his first term OF court
In Bismarck on the 4th inst.
The chicken hunter is abroad In the land
OF the Dakotas for all he's worth.
Aberdeen will be recommended TO the post
oAce department for free delivery.
The total amount Of Rapid City registered
warrants now outstanding is &, 1858.
The Rapid City public schools opened with
an enrolment Of 4O6, the best record yet.
G. w. Dunkel GAS sold the Faulkton Demo
crat to VIII A.. Thomas, who has taken hold.
The Congregational people OF Yankton will
dedicate their new organ on Saturday evening
OF this week.
Brown county has III ex-upion ~sol1iers VIII
are drawing pensions. Last year they were
paid SSH.
The hail losses in Kingsbury county will
aggregate $4,000. The Farmers alliance
hail assessment, 1t is estimated, will amount
to about % cents an acre.
The third annual session Of the James
River Baptist association and Sunday school
convention has just been concluded at Aber-
deem.
The Dakota editors are on their annual
junket. Fortunately the climate is still warm
enough to conserve the interests Of the corn
crop.
Alkali d~isfgures Black hills brick. The
Deadwood Times says that II removed with a
weak solution of acid 1t will not reappear,
and experts say the application does not in
injure the brick.
The city council OF Aberdeen has deferred
for thirty days the further consideration Of
an ordinance for the suppression OF houses OF
prostitution, much to the disgust Of certain
citizens whose homes are in infected loea-
tons.
The Bismarck Tribune observes that the
crop with which the Missouri valley has been
blessed this year, the fact that 4 railroad is
to be completed TO the city next year and the
advantages which are offered by cheap fuel,
should give the Blsmarck chamber Of com
merce an abundance Of material for good
work during the winter months.
Cattlemen at Miles City made an expert
mental shipment of cattle from that place to
Chicago recently. Two lots OF cattle were
selected and weighed. One lot was Skipped in
"A Street stable car, the other In an ordinary
stock ear. The shrinkage on the Street car
lot was thirty-three pounds each; on the
other lot ninety-one pounds each.
The Rapid City Republican propounds this
qrery to a visiting low preacher: SIS 1t q
!, successful method Of converting sinners to
tell them that they are the scum OF his own
state and that he is thankful he does not
have to live among them"
The demand for Sioux Falls jasper is so
: great that the quarrymen are away behind
with their orders. Next year, the Press says,
/ 1000 men can be worked instead of 1000 TO
1,5C0 as now.
Rapid City has a calaboose, chiefly intended
to hold drunken men; and the Journal says
r it will hold a drunken man all right, II he is
sufficiently drunk. Some Of the reformers
[ think the town ought 10 have a calaboose
equal to the restraint Of prisoners only just
{ intoxicated.
The Scotland Citizen says that two years
2 ago it would have been impossible to find a
a car of fat hogs In Bon Homme county, but
the farmers have begun TO realize the fact
that what money there is to he made in farm
t,, 4 bv rafoinn nattla ap.l bono anl u{thyp
two ears these Industries have multiplied
several times.
Alexandria Herald, 81: Farmers are be
ginning to thrash, and wheat Is running 20
bushels to the acre. Flax promises a very
large yield. Some fields Of corn are out Of
| the way of frost now, bat the majority will
require good weather until September. The
crop right through the country is the best and
largest ever raised. The rain did very little
damage.
The Rapid City Journal reports that John
! 8. Warner, a boy IA years OF age, was return
ing from that town to his home driving a
pair OF ponies attached 70 a blackboard In
which were a number OF empty milk cans.
In crossing the railroad an engine pulling the
pay car struck the wagon, knocking 1t into
smithereens and throwing the boy twenty
seven feet into a wire fence. He will lose
two toes. Otherwise he was uniniured, as
were also the two ponies.
Here is the sort Of calaboose Sioux Falls
has, as the Press sees II: THE sanitary con-
dition of the city calaboose is simply awful.
There is no known way 10 remedy 1t except to
burn the building down. The place isn't ft
to put the fllthiest drunk In, let alone lock-
ing up an occasional man who has SOME aem-
blance Of responsibility. 1t is a good place
for a man to contract a disease that viii stay
with him all the days OF his life"
DR.. NcGillycuddy, says the Rapid City
Journal, has a sheet Of paper having a large
number Of signatures Of Indians obtained ~
the Black Hills cess,on treaty OF twelve years
ago. The names Of the signers are rope
scented by designs so significant that they
could be read by almost any one, whether
familiar with Indian signs or not. For in
stance, "Bear Goes Out is represented by
the picture OF a bear In the act OF stepping
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