Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1889-07-27
DAKOTA.
Madison will have q new hotel.

out of debt.
The knights OF Pythias Of Mitchell have
new uniforms.
The Merchants hotel at Chamberlain Nas
been enlarged.
Dickey county farmers will cut their larg-
est crop this year.
A controlling interest In the Fargo Argus
is advertised for sale.
Work will be commenced at once In sinking
an ~artesian well at Elk Point.
Thomas Mahon, OF Sphinx, lost a 81 900 barn
by fire on the night Of July z.
The storm of Saturday night destroyed
considerable property at Artesian.
Rev. j.. Y. Willis, pastor Of the Congresa-
tional church at Plankinton, has resigned.
The South Sioux Falls brick yard com
menced turning out building material Thurs
day.
In the Milbank valley wheat stands fifty
inches high and bears heads seven inches
long.
Huron papers are printing s. s. Cox's
Fourth of July Grafton on the installment
plan.
John Cannon, an old and well known clti-
zen OF Dickinson, died suddenly Tuesday
morning.
Yankton claims a larger number Of good
looking young ladies than any town In the
territory.
A number OF Rapid City ladies have organ
lied a base ball club. Rolling pins will be
used for bats.
Sportsmen DO not lack for shooting in
Rapid valley. Grouse were never go plenti
full there as now.
The telegram says ths eement works at
Yankton are worth more to the town than
any one railroad.
The people OF Watertown are arranging to
do the proper thing by the editors that meet
with them this month.
Forty stamps are to be added to the Star
mill at Lead City and work will soon be COM
menced on the addition.
Sioux Falls citizens are enthusiastic over
Lake Madison as a summer resort.
South Dakota has less criminals than any
other new state had when II entered the
union, says the Sturgis Record.
Thomas j. Sparks, who was seriously in
jured while umpiriug a game Of ball at Lead
City recently, is not expected to live.
The residence Of w. +. Shaw, Of CastaIia,
burned to the ground last Friday night. The
family barely escaped with their lives.
Jack Keefe, the Sioux Falls slugger, was
arrested at Spirit Lake Wednesday for beat
ing his wife. He was drunk at the time.
With its last issue the Sturgis Advertiser
ceased publication as a semi-weekly, and will
hereafter be issued as a weekly every Thurs
day.
. Fowler d Co.'s hardware store at Dickinson
was entered by burglars "Wednesday night
and 1900 worth of goods and SIS In cash
stolen.
The Turner County Herald presents the
name Of Cortez Salmon, Of that county, for
the position Of state superintendent OF
schools.
The store building and stock of general
merchandise owned by n. and s. Mckay, Of
Mlnot, was burned at / O'Clock Wednesday
morniug.
Miss Mile r. Tappen, OF Sioux Falls, who
graduated at Cornell with the degree OF
bachelor Of letters, is to become pastor Of q
church in Kansas.
A man living near Arlington distributed
poisoned millet around j. A. Penent's barn,
thereof aud died.
A jamestown young man united his rivals
horse at a picnic In order to overcome the
only obstacle TO perpetual bliss, and got Sc
verely drubbed for his trouble.
j. d.. Bergen, Of Bennington county, con
victed of grand larceny and sentenced to one
years. imprisonment, was "Wednesday placed
In the Sioux Falls penitentiary.
The Montrose Herald Is experimenting in
the telegraph business. Telegraph lines have
been put in from the Office to several resi-
dences and business houses in Hermoss.
The announcement was made last Friday
that 8. II. Jumper, president of the First
National bank at Aberdeen would be candi-
date for state treasurer before the republican
convention.
Thomas Bergen, living one mile north Of
Bath, was accidentally shot In the side Sat
urday, the ball penetrating his Jugs and
making a wound from which 1t Is doubtful IL
he will recover.
At 81 ou Falls Saturday evening a young
couple were found asleep In an open motor
car, sitting upright or the seat and claspcd In
each others arms. The Press speaks of
the scene as something unusual for Sioux
Falls.
The Big Stone Lake assembly, the Chau-
tauqua of the northwest, opened Wednesday.
Professor r. G. Hyde's musical festival was
the feature OF the day. The great attraction
Of the meeting will be l. j. johnson, "the
Texas cyclone" on Saturday and Sunday.
John W. Daniel, special agent Of the Aber-
deem and Watertown land districts, received
notice by telegraph last Friday from the com
missioner Of the general land Office that his
services would end July 20. He was APP
pointed under Cleveland's administration.
p. T. Youngblood, a prominent loan agent
Of st. Lawrence, VINO was charged with the
embezzlement Of about 5000 from different
parties, has been caught and brought back
from Helena, Mont, as he was making fcr
the Pacific coast. His trial will take place
next week.
f. Snoopy, OF Union COUNTY, was burned
out for the third time within two year, last