Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1889-10-12
Dakota,

Grafton VIII have an ~incandescent electric
plant.
The North Dakota BGptlsss are in session
~ Bismarck.
Active work has been commenced on the
water works.
When completed DcGdwood's new city
tail viii be a model Of architecture,
Fort Meade, one of the handsomest mill
AIRY posts in the west, IS to be abandoned.
Sphinx county will vote on bonding the
.ounty FOR 5000 to build IA jail at Redfeld.
A large number of indian on a fishing
excursion are campcd around Lake Madi-
Tho Aberdeen state fair was n financial
success and all premiums viii be paid in
full.
Dcadwood has u new fire alarm bell with
the names of the city officials engraved
on it.
Tie coal deposits near Bismarck arc
attracting the attention OF eastern CAPT
talists.
The Montrose roller mill is kept running
night and day to meet the demands of Gus
toners.
The Cascade mill at Sioux Falls, which
started up again.
Parties fishing with dynamite in the Big
Sioux, near Richland, have injured the mill
dam at that place.
A Central City man is engaged in eating
up a quartz mill-that is, he traded it for q
months supply of hash.
Some unknown scamp hit Postmaster
Carr, of Woonsocket, in the eye with a po-
tato, and he may lose his eyesight.
Mrs. Guyer, of Rapid City, while horse
back riding was thrown from the horse and
received injuries from which she died.
The second annual Farmers institute OF
the agricultural college will be held at
Brookings from December 8 TO 10 inclusive.
George II. Headley, of the Smithsonian
institute, is searching in the Black Hills
for pathological specimens for that insti-
tuition.
Fire destroyed the barn of Joseph Smith,
living three miles north of Canistota, to-
gether with a large quantity of grain and
four fine horses.
The survey of che Black Hills Central
has been completed from Floral Valley, a
point in Wyoming on the western slope of
the hills, to Rapid City.
Two hundred and fifty carloads of stock
passed through Fargo last week over the
Northern Pacific for the east, mostly from
northwestern Dakota.
\ large number of Indian ministers,
A..-.- r. .-ts.. II 49,
! dian lay delegates attended the Episcopal
conversation at Sioux Falls.
+. Alexander has brought suit against
the Yankton Free Press, the Mound City
Journal and the Campbell County Courier
for defamation of character.
james Shields, one of the Oldest miners
in the Black Hills, was badly injured at
Deadwood by falling into a street excava-
tion while watching a street parade.
\ number of Indians from the Yankton
agency are on their way to Pipestone,
Mimi, 20 lay in a winter supply of pipe
clay TO make their pipes and trinkets
out of.
While Alderman Ellison, of Fargo, was
chasing a thief who had stolen a plush
sacque from his store another thief APP
propriated another sscque and made good
his escape.
An old Indian, 20 years of age, died at
~Flandreau while attending the mission
there. He was from the Yankton agency
and much noted for his wisdom and ora
torical powers
Evangelist Sam Small, in one OF his
''slangy' efforts, jumped onto the editor of
tho Madison Leader and called him all
sorts of bad names, at which the citizens of
that town are highly indignant.
A Spearfsh man is experimenting in rails
ing tobacco and has found the climate of
the Black Hills country to be in accord with
the sensitive nature of that much abused
plant. He raised over 700 pounds during
the past season.
A boy named Oscar Lundstrum, of
frankfort, Sphinx county, having charge of
an exhibit of horses at the state fair at
Aberdeen, was kicked in the chest by a
vicious stallion while entering the fair
grounds and died instantly.
The door of a cattle car on a Northwest
ern freight was left unlocked and when the
train reached Brookings it was dicovered
that some OF the animals had made their
escape. They were captured, however, and
the train proceeded on its journey.
The Russell 81 Miller Milling company
has sold and transferred to the Mandan
Roller Mill company the Bismarck roller
mill, including warehouses, elevator.
brands and good will OF the firm. THIS
gives the Mandan mill exclusive control of
the Missouri valley grain and four trade.
The family of II. NJ. Avery, of Sioux
Falls, has a pet pig which follows them
around like a dog and insists ON sitting at
6rs. Table HIS pigisss took 4 into has hs.A
that he wanted 70 Mr.. Avery to
his place of business the other day and
nothing short of a peck of corn would in
duce him to stay at home.
A probably fatal shooting scrape took
place in a house OF i!l-repute az Watcrtown.
In an argument over the possession OF
some clothes a tough character named
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