Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1889-04-20
DAKOTA.

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Yankton will be prominently illustrated In
the New York Graphic soon.
Donald Mcdonald, formerly Of Rapid City,
died recently in New Mexico.
Five Dakota colleges have adopted a con,
s~titution for a state athletic association.
The Clay county fair will be held four days
next September instead Of three as last year.
Of Sanborn county for delegate to the Sioux
Falls convention.
A praire fire consumed q lot OF fence posts
and twelve tons Of hay for Timothy Welby at
La Grange Monday.
g. N. Lanning has been appointed post
master at Egan; William 8. Chase, Sturgis
John Cutter, Parker.
There are good prospects that Potter
county will give a large majority for the
Sioux Falls constitution.
A teachers institute will be held 1t Yer
million, beginning April Is, with Prof. Kratz,
Of Mitchell, as conductor.
F.. A. La Toilette, of Plankinton, is secur-
Ing endorsements as the successor Of United
States Marshal Marratta.
There are now thirteen mules at work In
the Homestake mines, two Of them having
been sent down the shaft last week.
c. G. Shaw, for fourteen years postmaster
at vermillion, has gone to Washington terri
tory to recuperate, and will remain for q year
or more.
Ed Green, who was charged with killing an
infant at Sturgis OF which he was supposed tc
be the father, has been acquitted after q trial
at Deadwood.
"Sbang,"a noted gambler. who made q
fortune In the Black Hills, died last week at
Spokane Falls. His real name was Edward
Stanton Currans.
A. +. Wickmire, q young married man of
Grand Forks, was arrested for stealing wheat.
He confessed to have stolen two loads from q
farmers granary.
The farmers near Minot are dragging the
fields preparatory to seeding. The snow is
all gone. immigration to the government
land Is setting In.
Ernest Selvert, OF Csstalia, has been exam
ined by the commissioners of insanity and
declared crazy. Religious excitement Is sup
posed to be the cause.
An important purchase OF real estate was
made at Chamberlain Saturday by prominent
gentlemen from Lincoln, Neb. A tract con
taining l60 acres a adjoining Chamberlain on
the south was purchased by these gentlemen
for $l5 600. Other important transfers will
soon be made, and real estate is in great de-
mand.
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The sixth annual encampment Of the G.. A.
r. met at Aberdeen Tuesday. Two hundred
delegates from 1913 posts were present and
the old veterans enjoyed themselves as they
only know how.
Valuable farm buildings, the property Of
DR.. j. Harcourt, were destroyed by fire near
Steele Monday. Much trouble has been ex-
periencedi In that vicinity by the careless burn
ing Of prairie grass.
The board Of agriculture Of North Dakota
is arranging a premium list OF the coming
fair. President Wade says that the additional
g., 900 appropriation received VIII be used for
making additional premiums.
Ramsey county commissioners refused to
bond the county under the seed lien act
passed by the last legislature fer the purpose
Of supplying the needy farmers with seed
grain, thtre being no occasion for such a
measure.
The district court convened at Milbank
Tuesday, the first In a year and a half. Ju ige
Crotoot presided. Much interest centers IN
the work Of the grand jury, as twenty-five al
legged violations OF the local option law await
Indictment.
A theological i~nsii'ute Is to be held at
Yankton next July under the auspices OF the
Yankton college, and some Of the ablest Con
gregational t~heologians In the country viii
be present. The Baptists are arranging for
a similar institute at Sioux Falls.
The order to remove the signal office from
Yankton to Sioux City, July l, has been sus-
pended till January by General Greedy
through the efforts Of Delegate Matthews. 1t
is expected by that line to secure an appro-
~priation sufficient to have an office at both
places. The Yankton Office contains records
Of great value to South Dakota.
A Deadwood wood sawyer has discovered a
wonderful climatic popularity at that place.
He says that last winter a man who he owed
30 cents could, owing to the clearness of the
atmosphere, readily distinguish him the full
length of Main street. while at present he
cannot see him at all, nor can he see the man.
He says the man now owes him e., and ad-
mits the possibility Of that having something
to do with It.
When the miners Of Galena district are of
shift, says the Deadwood Times, they have
an exciting way Of passing their time. 1t
was ~inaugurated Friday afternoon. One Of
the number places himself against the side
Of an old house with arms and legs out
stretched. When in position Prof. Cavanaugh,
the "Dr. Carver Of the Black Hills" takes his
gun and sees how near he can sepd q bullet
to the extremities Of the human target with
out hitting i'm. II he shoots too close the
victim cries quits and all hands adjourn to
the professors room for liquid refreshments
The Courier News of Watertown has passed
recently under the management OF Mr.. II. f.
Johnson, q live and capable journalist. Mr..
Johnson has been identified for many years
| with the interests Of Dakota and deserves to
share In her prosperity. The change OF con-
ditions involved in the prospect OF immediate
advance to statehood has stimulated activity