Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1888-10-27
DAKOTA.

n Hc" uauA - sulons LIZ PIOspccufc cn-
terprises at Spencer.
Sioux Falls real estate dealers hope for a
boom before winter sets IN.
It is alleged that tro s-in-the-wall are
operating at Elk Point.
An fort Is being made to revive the local
minstrel troupe at sturgis.
The Highmore Herald threatens to deluge
the country next week with a boom edition.
The city Of Deadwood is FULL Of detectives,
Matched out by IN attempted train robbery.
The electric lights are In full operation
in Bookings and are giving good salts
faction.
The Aberdeen Brick Manufacturing com
psuy has burned its last kiln Of brick for this
season
The city council at Rapid City has decided
70 purchase Loco feet Of new hose for the fire
department.
Arrangements arc being ma to make a
national bank out of the Exchange bank at
Centerylle.
Capt. A. B. Wheclock, who has been q resi-
dent OF Ellen for the pas. twenty years, mas
removed to Sioux Falls.
Carl Johnson, a Sgcde, Was adjudged in
sane at Aberdeen last Saturday night. lie
viii be sent TO Yankton.
Highmore hiss Become possessed Cf q lot Of
FIRE extinguishers, aud citizens now feel safe
from attacks by the Are devil.
The assignee has repleyined all the property
OF the defupet bank al Hitchcock which was
recently attached by creditors.
Burglars entered the Walker house at Red
field last Monday light and secured some
money and ieweiry which belonged TO the
boarders.
a masked burglar went through tho Mani
tosa house At Fargo early last Tuesday morR
ing and stole $3.50 In cash and some
~jewclry.
Tie VI. +. conference at jamestown before
adisurning appoiLtei q committee to prepare
a new marriage law for submission TO the
uext legislature.
AT a city caucus held IN Madison recent Y
It was decided hereafter to hold tepara e
ward caucuses for the better accommodation
Of the increased population.
The halt mile race trlc. now in course Of
construction by c. G.. Coats on hi. farm la the
eastern section Of Sioux Falls viii be com
pleted by saturday.
The work on the NJ, Il church at Water
town, which was DELAYED By lack Of ZONE OF
the lnishing materials, is progressing rapidly
and viii be completed in about mouth.
Tae Press says: Sioux Fails has three
new manufacturing Industries on the s.liug
that are 20 be OF great benefit to the city,
one Of the institutions will furnish employ
ncut to over 200 people,
The residence Of Frank Barlow near Huron
was destroyed by fire last Tuesday, togsher
with the most OF his household goods. The
bars ana Is quantity Of farm machinery were
also destro'ed Loss. $4,000; insurance, 5000.
The commission Of Ltwis w. Crofoot as as
social. justice Of the Seventh judicial district
was received at Huron Tuesday afternoon.
Judge Crofoot will qualify as soon as Judge
Spencer rcturns from D~eadWooa. tie will
then 20 to Aberdeen with MS family to reside.
The thrashlug engine belonging 10 Olsen
Il Peterson at Valley Springs exploded last
! Thursday evening injuriog the engineer, Mr..
Hentou, and q farmer named Matthias Bloom.
Plans have been drawn and c~ontrac, let for
a school building to be put up at once at East
Sioux Falls for the accommodation OF the
sixty children now living at that Fustling
suburb.
The Aberdeen street railway. which was
restrained last spring by Injunction proceed
ings from laying It's track on Main street, has
commenced suit against the city for the pur.
pose OF determining whether It's franchise Is
worth anything IN law.
A very see mpllshed dead beat who
claimed to be V. II. Cushman, Of Chicago,
succeeded In beating his hotel bill and Is few
dollars Ia Scotland and Meuuo Saturday and
Monday. The fellow clsimed to be going
through the country buying wheat.
Andrew Fludstrom, an z-saloonkeepcr at
Fargo, attempted suiciJc last Sunday by cut
ting his throat. His little daughter seeing
him, raised az alarm, and he threw the knifa
away without completing the work. He is
thought to be deranGed.
A splendid Rowing well hes been
the Quincy Bros. stock far northwest Of
Salem. The well is eighty feet IN depth asd
the water rises 10 pipe to the height Of
twenty-five feet absve the surface and lows
at the rate OF 1000 barrels per day.
Tie council at Scotland is preparing 10
build a city hall. The first story Is designed
to be used by the Ere department and the
second story for the city offices and council
rooms. II is estimated that the building viii
cost quite II not more than 5000.
The Carthage News tells the following
"A lady living not more than FIVE miles from
Carthage, one day last week, besides doing
her homework ani the chores at the stable,
her husband being away that day, helping u
nolghsor, dug twenty bushels Of potatoes.
That womsn's husband thinks Dakota good
enough for him"
The Advocate so~liloquzes as follows:
Blunt at the present time 10 about the dirti-
est and meanes' looking town in this part Of
the territory. It's dilapidated sidewalks and
street crossings, It's uncleaE and weedy streets,
together with weeds and tumble down out
houses in the back yards, make q pitiable pic
ture. There Is no sense in this"
Two farmers named Jaster and Averill,
living near Grafton, got into a dispute last
Tuesday over n dog belonging to Averill,
which had been killed by Jaster'sdog. Averill
demanded payment for his dog, and upon