Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1889-06-22
DAKOTA.
Canton hotels are crowded.

Parkston will celebrate the Fourth.
Sioux Falls sent $3.50 to Johnstown.
The building boom has struck Washington.
The Spearfsh Register Is q healthy 9-year-
old.
The Kimbsil -four mills are runLing night
and day.
The Armour Tribune has entered upon itS
seventh year.
Work on Woonsocket's a~rtesian we'll has
been resumed.
The 'sweet girl graduate" is numerous In
the two new states.
The rain Of Thursday night vas just what
the farmers wanted.
Sioux Falls 10 to have Q new church, the
Presbyterian mission.
The Aberdeen street railway Will be in
operation September l.
The Pierre Signal has changed hands. q.
p. ROBBIE is the new editor.
The machinery for the canning factory at
Sioux Falls has been ordered.
Brule county has q population Of 10000,
an increase OF 8, 1862 since 1880.
A camp Of Sons OF Veterans is being Or
gained At Washington Springs.
Parker claims the ownership Of more fast
horses thar any town In the territory.
Meade county commissioner are strug-
CLING with the liquor license problem.
Sitting Bull, the Sioux chief, is dying of
pneumonia at Standing Rock agency.
Thirty-four bands are expected to be In at
tendance at the June tournament In Fargo.
Thu South nolypta o;roy{& raoae ur,t1 ona,
at Mitchell June 90 and continue three weeks.
Over 81 900 has been subscribed for the
erection Of Of the Methodist church at Spear:
ash.
Large quantities Of apples will be grown In
Rapid City and surrounding country this
year.
The headquarters Of the Y. VI. c. A. OF
South Dakota will hereafter be at Sioux
Falls.
1t takes FIVE days for mail 10 reach Minue
sela from spearfsh, a distance of fourteen
miles.
The opening Of the fair grounds Of the Red
River Agricultural society will occur July 4
at Wshpeton.
Salem has organized and appointed com
mittees TO look after her interests In securing
more railroads.
South Dakota prohibitionists have arranged
for the publication Of campaign papers at
Yankton. Sioux Falls, Mitchell, Pierre and
Aberdeen.
The Republican says Vermillion Is pre-
pared to welcome 10000 people at her Fourth
Of July celebration.
Work on the new court house at Miller has
commenced and the building will be ready for
occupancy August |.
A Sioux Falls dry goods house offers 10
give ! per cent. Of is gross sales to the Johns,
town food sufferers.
Aberdeen's vote on the capital question
will be about evenly divided between Sioux
Falls and Watertown.
Judge Ford, q well known character OF
Bear Butte valley, died at the county hospital
at Sturgis last Friday.
Woonsocket is torn up over the finding Of
the body Of a newly born infant that had been
slyly buried in the cemetery.
The Sioux Falls Journal appeared last Sat
urdsy In new dress. 1t 10 now q handsome
as well as q good newspaper.
Whitewood and vicinity was visited By a
severe hailstorm Thursday night, doing con.
siderable damage to growing crops.
Brookings has disposed Of her water works
bonds at 2 per cent. premium and will put In
a complete ~standpipe system at once.
The total debt OF Deadwood, as appears
from the auditors report just published, is
$+3, 1884 ID, Of which s2s,000 IL hsnded.
A newspaper Is soon to be started In Bow
die, known as the Bowdle Republican. d. e.
Williams is to be editor and publisher.
A kimball man, q little the worse for a
nights indulgence, picketed himself out on
the prairie the next morning and left his COW
In the barn.
A farmer named Lucer, living west Of Elk
Point, lost an eye Wednesday. The accident
occurred while taking q pitchfork away from
his s-year-old boy.
James Smith, Of Elk Point, lost his barn by
fire last Thursday afternoon. Matches In
the hands Of thoughtless children Is said 10
be the origin Of the fire.
Dell Rapids claims to have the largest but
ter trade in South Dakota. One dealer han
dies 2 800 pounds per day, aside from the pro-
duet OF q large creamery.
Tascctt has again been captured. This
time 1t Is at Deadwood. The sheriff is conf
dent he has the right man, and has notified
the authorities a. Chicago.
A flow Of water was struck at the a~rteeian
we'll at Devils Lake the sth inst, in a guam
tity equal to 800 barrels a day. The water lie
excellent and clear as crystal.
John L. Pennington, IT,, at one time man
ager Of the Yankton Telegram, and Miss
Annie z. Bradbury, Of Denver, were mar
ried at Omaha on the 5th inst.
Sioux Falls Is to have another college. II
will be An independent schools for the present.
The ultimate plan is for a building which
shall cost not less than 100000.
A Deadwood boy, Luther Carey by name,
recently won the 100 yards bicycle race at
Oberlin college Ia 91S seconds, one fifth Of a
| second faster than the former record.
A German Lutheran Presby terrain church
society has been organized at Rapid City.
Arrangements have already been entered
into by the society to build a new church
edifce.
A canvas for the city directory Of Sioux
Falls is being made, and Mr.. Pettibone, who
has the work in charge, estimates that the
population of that city Is between Il. 600 and