Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1889-10-12
CUSTER CHRONICLE.
Omcial Paper OF Custer County
Baths at Stones.

town, at T. V. Garlock's.
The vote on prohibition in Butte
county was a close one, 143 for, and 1853
against.
In the march of empire you will find
that j. Cochran sells good goods, cheap
for cash.
II was a close run between HASTE and
Tomas in Butte, the former receiving
1853 votes and the latter 1852.
Go to Stones barbershop for a smooth
shave or a stylish hair cut.
The first session of the South Dakota
legislature convenes at Pierre, the
capital, next Wednesday, the 18th inst,
10000 men, women and children want
ed to devour the best flour in the Black
Hills, Minneapolis q. A. r. Sold at J..
Cochran's.
The Deadwood Times says the b. M.
will, perhaps, build lines to Deadwood,
Sturgis and Rapid. Whas about Custer
and Hot Springs?
Just received a bran new stock of wall
paper, all the latest patterns. Call and
see them before purchasing elsewhere.
F. Heidepriem.
In Lawrence county, Pierre received
2,5ll votes for Capitol scattering 994.
Pierre's majority over all other capital
candidates, Including Sioux Falls 1914.
Paints, oils, furniture polish, and
varnishes of all kinds for sale at Heide-
priem's.
w. Z. Fletcher has recently been
appointed City Marshal vice James
Scott resigned. Mr. f., as Marshal of
the Tin City, very appropriately sports
a tin star.
Cochran leads the Van. Devote your
leisure hours and examine Cochran's
Big Bargain Counter Everything from
a needle to a war ship: No clap-trap
goods they are all genuine leaders.
Hugh Mcclure, a man in the employ
of Fitzpatrick Bros was killed by a blast
/, near New Castle on the End inst. Nc
CURE was a single man and had no rela-
tives in this country.
If you want anything in the line of
hardware, fancy and staple groceries,
stoves, iron and glassware, mining sup
plies, farm implements, iron, steel, etc.
ETC., go to Cochran's, the cheapest house
in the Black Hills.
The ball game played at Buffalo Gap
during the fair, by the Custer and Gap
clubs, resulted in n victory for the
former. This was the third contest be-
tween these clubs, in all of which the
Custer club has been the victor.
Up 90 the hour of going to press no
report has been received by us from the
Hermosa fair which closed on Thursday.
1t is safe to presume however that the
standard of success usually reached
upon occasions of this character in the
Black Hills has been attained.
Attorney Smith is erecting a hand
some frame residence near the corner
of Montgomery and Fourth street, in
what is conceded to be one of the most
delightful locations to be found in n
portion of this exceptionally charming
city.
O. q. Lincoln, whose arrival is else
where noted in this issue, has accepted
a position in the general store of T. W
Garlock, where his genial presence will
doubtless materially add to the measure
of trade transacted in that popular es-
Enlistment.
The weather experienced in this local
ity for the past two weeks has been ex.
c~eptionally fine even for Custer City,
and thus far not a particle of snow has
fallen to indicate the approach of winter,
now so near at hand. Custer is prob
ably the only town in the Hills where
snow has not fallen in the past month.
Sioux Falls cash capital effort in the
Hills proved to be a losing venture.
Votes come high in the colored eleva-
tions. 1t is said that two hundred dol
lars only secured four votes at Sturgis.
Evidently the average Sturgis voter
AiONp WHICH SluC VI ulS Dftdu lS DuLLer-
ed.
We regret the delay of an interesting
communication from Romeo" our reg
ulr Hill City correspondent, until a
period too late for publication in our
issue of last week. News, unlike wine.
does not improve with age, hence the
cause of its o appearance in the pres
ent Issue may be readily imagined.
The Caledonia Mining company have
declared another eight cent dividend,
payable October 26th. The stock has
appreciably declined on the New York
board during the past ten days, and the
Times says, here, as at New York, no
cause therefor is known to exist, the
mine having never presented as good a
showing as it does at this time, either
in magnitude or value of ore body ex-
posed.
The CHRONICLE predicted that Custer
wonld poll the highest vote for Pierre of
any town Of her population in the Hills.
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