Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1889-01-19
Guster Chronicle.
DAKOTA.

The hardware stock Of A. M. Odell at Cakes
has been attached by creditors.
Yankton's board Of health has declared the
scarlet fever quarantine raised.
Insurance rates have been advanced II per
cent. on Main street In Armour.
Claim jumping is becoming popular In min
ing camps surrounding Deadwood.
Forest City's one great need is q good road
whereby farmers may get to the town.
The improvements made during the past
year at Madison amounted to $260,00O
The free reading rooms at Bismarck have
been refurnished and will be reopened.
The BARRIERS "trust' at Rapid City has gone
othe wall and the price is now Is cents pc
have.
Murphy, the Dell Rapids taylor, has de-
parted, leaving an old sewing machine and
everal unpaid bills.
The Aberdeen Republican announces that
he Brown county bank Is going out Of the
mortgage loan business.
The inhabitants Of Columbia have beer
rise during the past week.
The thirty-second degree Masons at Sioux
Falls have received from the supreme council
a charter for a consistory.
A barn, ten head of cattle and two horses
belonging TO A. Caldwell near Gary were de-
stroyed by fire last Tuesday.
1t is reported that several ''blind pigs"
I, nich closed at Cakes during the recent
term OF court have reopened.
"The Dog Got Left; or How She Captured
the Rooster" is the title Of a new book soon
to be given the public by an lroquois lady.
The new NJ. +. church at Miller will be
dedicated today. Rev. {. b. Clark, presiding
elder Of the Mitchell district, will oficiate.
Preparations are being made for the hold
ing Of dedication exercises In the new high
school building at Aberdeen In the near fu-
ture.
Thirteen saloonkeepers have turned in
s., 500 to the treasury OF Sioux Falls for the
privilege OF dispensing booze during the next
elk months.
The citizens of Faux county will hold a
mass meeting next Wednesday at Faulkton
for the purpose Of organizing an immigration
association.
The Rapid City Electric and Gas Light
company has about completed arrangements
for the addition OF an incandescent light cir
cult to it's plant.
The bank of Eecla has received Its charter,
1t succeeds to the good viii and business OF
the State bank Of that place and starts ou'
with a capital OF $4,000.
Samuel Roy, ~ex-county commissioner anc
the first grand commander OF the Knights
Templar Of Dakota, died at Lead City las
Friday night Of pneumonia.
The Pierre Journal alleges that all whit
men employed at Fort Bennet are being dis
charged whenever the work performed b,
them can be done by an Indian.
The Tribune has received several letters o.
inquiry from a late Chicago firm regarding
the advisability OF putting in a large tow mil.
and steam hay press at Armour.
After further discussion OF the water work:
question the town board of Bridgewater has
ecided to withdraw the call for an election
n the question OF issuing bonds.
The Rapid City Journal estimates the trade
the Black Hills in cured meats during thu
past year at$l50, 900 and agitates the question
OF locating a packing house there.
City Marshall Dunn OF Deadwood reports
total o. seventy nine arrests during the year
the most heinous offense consisting CT too
much stimulant and too much noise.
Many of Lead Clty's young bachelors are
getting tired Of boarding at the regular board
ing houses and hotels and consequently arr
setting up establishments Of their own.
A negro WAS recently confined In the Yank
ton insane saylum for one day. When ht
was discharged he attached u red rag to 4
long pole and struck out on the railroad
track.
The Lead City Herald announc rs that Clarl
Rorapaugb, for many years a deputy sheriff
OF Lawrence county, leaves the Hills VIII
the Intention Of settling In Bismarck Oh
Fargo.
The Sioux Falls Argus Leader says: There
Is a man In town who saws that four months
ago he was not worth $500, and that today he
is as easily worth S5O,0v0. He made 1t In real
estate"
Several Rapid City people wEo have cattle
on ranches on Spring creek report losses from
blackleg. The disease has been among the
cattle for several days and altogether some
forty head have died.
Pardons were granted last Tuesday to Sid
new Weeks, A. A. Green, William Severn,
Joseph Richardson and Joseph Byingeon,
who were serving sentences In the Sioux FAILS
penitentiary for polygamy.
The ladies Of the Methodist church at
whitewood are arranging for a course OF lee
lures to be given by some OF the best talent
Of the Hills, during the last of January and
the first weeks OF February.
The Press declares that nothing would
lease Brookings more than TO enter into an
alliance with Madison and Mitchell to bring
about the extension Of the Manitoba line
Marshall, MINI, to Mitchell, Oak.
The Woonsocket Times says: "We have
three families within visiting distance OF our
CITY. two OF which consist Of father, mother
and fifteen lively children, and the third OF
father. mother and fourteen children, all
and handsome lads and lasses. Beat
this, who canl"
The Rapid City Republican says there is
bright promise of revival in mining matters
In the Black Hills and unless ali signs fall the
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