Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1889-08-24
DAKOTA.

Corr1ne lake, near jamestown, mas gone
dry.
A fire company Is being organized at White
1 AXE.
The miners of Ednl City have organized a
union.
Armour's new paper will be called the
Herald.
There is an excellent opening for a bank in
Hill City.
The material for Pierre's new. daily paper
has arrived.
Grading and sewering is the order OF the
day at Huron.
Sphinx county has an assessed valuation OF
s,s3O3, 4Os.
A city engineer is something sioux Falls
does not possess.
New wheat lie selling at 30 and 10 cents per
bushel at Kimball.
The fall term Of the Sioux Falls schools
| opens September 2.
The Sioux Falls soap factory commenced
| operations this week.
Many farmers have commenced blowing
for next seasons crop.
A robbers roost has been discovered on an
island below Yankton.
An addition is being built to the Evangel-
ical church at Certeiville.
A lodge Of Knights Of Pythias will be or
ganized at Pierre soon.
PIerre's large new school building is rap
idly approaching completion.
The new Episcopal church at Vermillion is
nearly ready for occupancy.
The date Of Sam small's visit to Vermillion
has been fixed FOR September %.
Citizens OF Grand Forks insist on the CAPT
tai of North Dakota being located by popular
vote.
The republican convention Of Pennington
county will meet at Rapid City on the Goth
inst.
The assessed valuation of Yankton Is
81, 9l6, 222, an increase of $500, 600 over last
year.
DR.. Mary Lewis, of Brookings, has been
talking physical culture to the Sioux Falls
ladies.
Mayor Johnson, Of Mitchell, is expected to
be In the field as a candidate for state sena
tor.
A 1000 barrel cistern is being dug at
Brookings college. 1t is a big hole in the
ground.
"Whoopup' is the name Of a town twelve
miles south Of Field City, in the Black Hills.
Grand Forks is to have an opera house
costing SAC, coo, to be built by a capitalistic
syndicate.
Fred Couron got SIS from the Edgerton
bank On chattels that he never owned and
then skipped.
The Johnstown disaster was described by
an eye witness before a Huron audience
Thursday night.
Belle McEwan, a Grand Forks prostitute,
attempted to kidnap Ter son In a convent
last Wednesday.
An effort is being made to secure the es-
Enlistment Of a packing and meat curing
plant at Minnesota.
The Truax and Garfield groups Of tin mines
on Spring creek, In the southern Hills, have
been sold for $40, 1000.
Large shipments of cattle are being made
from Whitewood, and the town is unusually
lively in consequence
Four hundred land seekers reached Aber-
deem over various lines Of railroad on the
first harvest excursion.
The crazy man named Mahoney recently
found In Sauk Center, Mimi, turns out to be
a resident Of Grand Forks.
The wheat yield In Pease Valley will be far
above the average. Some fields will yield
twenty-five bushels per acre.
D.ouuu oo,,o%c haa own candidate for NON
gress, one for governor, two for treasurer and
one for land commissioner
Montrose has the ~artesian well fever and
the Herald says the town Is so situated one
could be had at little expense.
l.. Dickey, an Eden saloonkeeper has been
arrested for selling intoxicating liquors and
bound over to the district court.
Chicken shooting at Aberdeen has become
quite prevalent, and game wardens have war
rants for the arrest Of several offenders.
Dakota has the bravest men, the prettiest
women, the best babies and the smartest
children In the world. -Plankinton Standard.
James Long, who awaits trial for an at
tempt to kill Dennis Mccarthy, In Lead City,
has been released from jail under a $500
bond.
Madison claims to have the best base ball
club In South Dakota, and that the teams
record thus far this season will justify the
claim.
The mayor of jamestown has ordered all
owners Of threshing engines not to drive
across the principal bridges leading out Of
that city.
An enterprising painter In Aberdeen
agreed to paint the state fair buildings for
the advertising space he can sell on the
fences.
The Rapid City Fair association has de-
cided to hold an agricultural fair, horse trot
and stock show on tie 18th, 10th and Goth Of
September.
The saw mills In the vicinity of Rapid City
are doing a land office business. They are
compelled to rue day and night to supply the
demand for lumber.
Material is on the ground for the new
| Episcopal dormitory at Vermillion. Only a
part Of the building will be put up this year
and the remainder next.
A project is being matured for the con
struction Of an elevator by the Farmers ALI