Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1888-07-28

engine.
a large area Of sunken forest has recently
been discovered In Devils lake.
A larger quantity Of small fruit was shipped
out OF Woonsocket this year than was shipped
in.
Material is arriving for the round house to
ne built at Yankton by the Milwaukee com
pany.
Eden sportsrnen are laying out a half mile
race course and promise some fine races In the
near future.
An effort Is being made 10 secure a noted
aeronaut TO make a balloon ascension at the
Hermosa fair this fall.
Oldham expects to make quite a spot on
the horizon when she gets the alliance eleya-
tor and a g., 200 school house.
The Press reads the riot act to Sioux Falls
fort to establish a good race track.
Casselton parties charged with skeeping
blind pigs were on Monday fined 800 and
costs, amounting TO about $3.50 each.
The number Of liquor applications granted
thus far by the city council at Hastings is
wenty-one, three more than last year.
John Dougherty was accidentally killed by
the discharge Of a Winchester rifle in the
hands OF q friend Sunday at Brainerd.
a sm2l Toy With a match organized q fire
at Faulkton last week but the flames were ex-
tinguished before any damage was done.
\ Chamberlain jeweler has struck a unique
advertising scheme. I!e offers TO clean all
/ binds fF faHglpr fyoa .o,.ory rril.r oTt,r,,,,
Sturgis City has finally made arrangement
for a street car line. A great deal Of traai
is carried on bctween the city and Fort Meade
and the enterprise viii undoubtedly be q
success.
Two specimens of axolot were captured re-
Gently ia Pelican lake near WATERFOWL. They
are said 70 bscqual TO the festive eel as an
article OF food. The specimen captured were
about four inches long.
The bootblacks' union at Sioux Falls has
four mcmbcrs. They have rules and bylaws
and agree to charge 10 cents a Shine. The
penalty for cutting prices IS q pair Of black
eyes made by the other three.
Rapid City people find 1t difficult to get Il
quorum out To transact the business of var
ieus meetings called. People don't like to at
tend meetings indoors these evenings. Out
door ~assemblages are all right.
some Of the Northwestern railroad bows at
Huron are organizing Il base bah club to play
a match game with the ''boss'' club VI Aber-
deem. The contest will occur some day next
week at the Huron fair grounds,
A prisoner is confined In the Hot Springs
jail who is suffering from general debility
He complains Of the sanitary condition Of
the jail and says that he must have more
fresh air or he viii turn up his toes.
For - cents Vermillion people had an OPP
portunity last Monday to view Heaven and
fIell' and contribute to al object OF charity
in the shape Of a man who had had his feet
and hands frozen SO badly as to be deprived
Of their use.
n. p. Pettigraw, Of Sioux Falls, having re-
moved to st. Paul Milan, where he is now
engaged in the drug business, has resigned
his place as member OF the south Dakota
board Of pharmacy, to which position he was
appointed by the governor OF the territory.
The city council OF Sioux Falls is in quan
dairy, 1t ordered the stock yards moved last
winter and again last spring, The railroad
companies are ready TO move, but they want
TO know where. The city council wants to
know where, too, and there the matter stands.
w. j. Huh and Louis Meisch, of Alexandria,
used to keep a brand of cigars IN which one
cigar in 5000 had a 80 bill Embedded ia a
quill Fred Mitchell came across one of the
valuable weeds, threw The quill away and had
Meisch give him another cigar. Hull also
found one OF them and, thinking 1t was
loaded, threw it in the stove. When the
agent came round and explained matters the
Law'er house boys looked for the quill and
Hull locked serious.
The ladies Of Rapid City do not seem to lose
courage on account Of the hot weather, but
on the other hand the interest in the different
benevolent and religious societies composed
entirely Of women is kept up as actively as
though the weather Was the most pleasant
imaginable.
One might conclude that the banking trms
OF Canton were not worth much, if any con-
idence were to be placed In the afidayits
relative to assessments now on file with the
county board. One prominent institution
swore itself 81 $50 in debt above all assets
and resources.
Preparations are being made IN Brule
county for a regular biennial county seat
fight. Chamberlain Is the present county
seat and will probably be able to hold 1t per-
manently, but that doesn't hinder the Jealous
towns OF Kimbail and Pukwana from trying
TO move ii at every general election.
The way a grand Fourth OF July ball at
Whitewood was broken up furnishes a good
story. The boys had made all arrangements
for a dance, engaged hall and girls, and
meant TO have a good time. In the afternoon
they took the girls to camp meeting, and the
services were SO impressive that ali but one
of the girls were converted, and Of course,
after that could not 90 SO unchristianlike an
at as to dance.
Hartford township, Ninnehaba county, has
a first-class sensation. The case Is nothing
more nor less than one Of rape aud bastardy, |
wherein James Van Horn, aged about 81 or
40 years, is the defendant, ADD - Miss Shout,
aged about Ia or ii years, is plaintiff. Van
Horn Is said TO be something Of religious
crank. When lc Was appraised that the par
.pfA of thu ~ iDt,.l girl wpro about tn cause