Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1889-05-25

William Tarrant registered at the
Kleemann from fairburn on Monday.
Mrs. Farris, a Hill City lady, was a
guest at the Kleemann on Wednesday.
A. c. Boland, n prominent Rapidite
was a visitor in the Tin City III We'd
nesday.
II. Ct. Wilkinson came in from the
coal camp on Tuesday, and registered at
the kleemann.
Chas. Record went on record at the
Kleemann on Wednesday from Hat
creek, Wyoming.
George Leavenworth was a Sunday
arrival at the kleemann from New
Haven, Connecticut.
j.. G. Hochmuth, representing a st.
Louis Wholesale house, was booked at
the Kleemann on Wednesday.
Commissioner j. +. Street anne in
Monday to meet with the county board,
which convened on Tuesday morning.
JAS. McCloud came in Sunday from
Hermosa, and remained in the city until
Thursday. when he departed for the
coal aud oil fields.
V. G. Currier, an old time Custerite,
at present residing at Hill City, was
shaking hands with old acquaintance
in this place on Wednesday.
Mrs. NJ. Mclaughlin, who has been
visiting with friends at Centre Point,
Iowa, for several months, returned to
her home near this place on Saturday.
Jas. Thornby returned from a brief
visit to Fields City, Wyo.. on Wednes-
day. His brother John, a resident Of
that place, accompanied him upon bis
return.
w. l.. Henwood, late superintendent
Of the Stephens Tin Mining company,
near Hill City, has gone to South
Carolina, where he has accepted a posi-
ton with a mining company.
F. M. Yost, a prominent physician of
Centre Point, Iowa, was among the ar
rivals in this place on Saturday, and
will remain a month or two with a view
to the investigation Of the mineral re-
sources of this promising region.
James Wimble, Robt. Parsons, Her
bert Hollingsworth and Fred Vernon, a
quartette of expert Cornish coal miners
were among the Thursday arrivals at the
kleemann on their way to the b. & NJ.
coal camp, from Clay City, Indiana.
James Demereau, a well known pros
pector of Sunday gulch, came in from
the Gold Run placers on Monday. He
reports the discovery of promising sill
yer lodes in that locality, but was not
much enthused over gold prospects.
Odo Reder and A. r. Feay of this
place. left by private conveyance on
Wednesday morning for a brief visit at
Hill City. They returned on Thursday,
and report greatly increased activity in
that hitherto somewhat serene locality.
II. b. Moss, of -Four Mile, and Il. NJ.
Kenyon, of this place, returned on
Tuesday from a brief visit at Rapid,
Deadwood and intervening points.
They report a moderate degree of ac-
tivity at a number OF the places visited,
but nothing approaching the semblance
of a boom anywhere.
Mr.. j. B. Fordice, who for some time
has been looking after his tin interests
in the Warren gulch district near this
place, where he has a force of ten men
employed, left for his home in the east
the latter part of last week. He is ex-
| pected TO return to this place in a short
time, in the meantime work will be
continued upon his mining properties in
the locality named.
c. q. Lincoln, accompanied by A. A.
Shoemaker were prominent Hermosans
booked at the kleemann on Thursday.
Mr.. Lincoln was formerly a resident of
this city, and the original leader of the
Custer COrnet band, an institution in
which he takes much interest. He met
with the band on Thursday and Friday
evenings, and expressed his surprise at
the marked progress being made.
Edward Rogers, a former co-partner
with Mr.. Cook in the Grizzly Bear
group of mines, recently sold to a st.
Louis company, was registered at the
Kleemann on Tuesday. Mr.. Rogers,
having wisely concluded to establish a
residence in this city, OF Tuesday closed
q bargain with Mrs. Julia A. Foster for
her residence lot, No. 8, IN block 33, on
Crook street, between Ord and 4th
streets, upon which now stands IA COM
Portable dwelling, and a good barn. Ed
now has a healthy bank account, a good
residence, III a growing town, and every
thing necessary TO the establishment of
home, except a wife, which will
doubtless follow in the near future as a
natural sequence of his prevailing good
fortune. Ed has a host of friends in
this place, who will be pleased to hear
Of his having lOcatplsin tho Tin CIV