Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1889-02-23
DAKOTA.

Of trade.
Hog thieves are operating in the vicinity OF
Vermillion.
There is talk of organizing g building asso
citation In Wolscy.
Several new business houses are being
opened up at Palisades.
The mercury registered 90 degrees below at
Bookings on Friday last.
Progressive eucnre is the game at fashion
able card parties ia Canton.
The so!diers a. Fort Sally Will indulge In a
| military ball March II.
The horse breeders OF the Black Hills talk
Of forming en- association.
The question OF a Touring mill IN Bridge
| water IS again under discussion.
A Sunday school teachers normal class has
| been orgarized at Woonsocket.
Chamberlain Is having q revival, both In
in religious and real estate matters.
Robert Drysdale, a l8-year old boy, is In
jail At Deadwood charged with stealing 80.
Jasper, one OF the new towns Cd the VII
mar and Sioux Falls line, wants a physician.
Flandieau VIII soon receive the weather
Indications from the department at Wash
ington.
Lead City las been divided into Gre dis.
trIcts and the use OF Are Signals vii hereafter
be adopted.
A law and order league has been organized
at Brookings. 1t viii be auxiliary to the
county league.
1t Is said that Moody county viii be able to
pay all her bonds July / and have a balance
In the treasury.
The Argus-Leader alleges that there Ia ro-
bust talk Of a motor line between sioux Falls
and east Sioux Falls.
Nr. and Mrs. T. N. Clancy of Aberdeen,
lave lost three children within the past two
weeks from diphtheris.
The county commissioners Of Moody county
have ordered steel cells for the new Jail. The
contract price is 50, 300.
The Aberdeen band Is negotiating with the
jules Levy Concert company for a benefit
concert In the early spring.
The legal fraternity Of Rapid City has re-
ceived an addition in the person Of Judge A.
". Bangs, late OF Grand Forks,
Live stock la various portions OF Lawrence
and Pennington counties Is suffering greatly
from the depredations Of wolves.
Geo. Farnham, one of Brown c~ounty's most
honCred lawyers, died at his home in Aber-
deem last Sunday. He was "a years old.
The pastor Of one church at Miller hat
been compelled to post notices In the churcl
2 ~forbidding the use OF tobacco during services
d The saloon keepers OF Aberdeen have pc
t.,ioned the council for privilege TO keep
a their saloons open until II 40 p. N. each
night.
The Eridgewster debating society has &c
Y cepted q challenge from the debating society
! Of Emery for a joint debate to take place a
Emery soon.
The Sioux Falls Journal says there is con
G siderable baled hay held in Miunehahscodntl
which will be shipped east ia the spring whcr
I the price advances.
N. Z. DeCamp, Of Yankton, was stricker
with apoplexy last Thursday morning whil'
o going from his home TO his farm. His condi
d ton is considered serious.
r II Ia reported that NJ. F. Durham, one @
r the earliest citizens q Mitchell. is interested
in a very valuable gold mine near City Creel,
! Col.
/ The rroq0o,s Chief says: eyes, I-cQuo'
; wants The capital, bat the capital she want
10 one Of dollars and cents, with publl
spirited ineu 10 use it,"
The Rapid city Republican says: Hon
d s.. Z. Wells. a former resident Ct this CITY
and well known throughout the Blacl; HIS
= Is sail to have gore crazy on religion and t'
Salvation army, IN Los Angeles, Cal, whcr
c he has been engaged in the real estate bust
ness since his departure from this city, some
2 thing over a year ago"
d The particulars Of q peculiar suicide com
from Castlewoo3, aud which may result II
. the death Of two men. a man named John
n son was found soon after be had taken o dos
Of poison, and a doctor named Stoley wa
: called, examined the poison, and In trying Il
lind cut what it was tasted 1t. A short tina,
aftcrward he was suffering terribly, aud boil
r men may die.
4 Judge A. W. Bangs Of Grand Forks, ha
s reached Rapid City and will locate there per
manently. He has formed a partnership
with Hon. NJ. H.. Day for the practice Of law
Judge Bangs has already achieved considera
/ bic reputation as a lawyer, and Mr.. Day IL
t adding to his fame by proving an excellenf
superintendent of his large mining proper
Z ties.
D.. c.. Bassett, the air ship inventor, resid.
ing at Woonsocket, has received a patent or
his car coupler, which, according to his speci,
f~cations received from the patent Office, can
he coupled from either side or from the tor
Of the car, dispensing with the necessity OF
stepping between the cars. The plans are
such as TO render 1t necessary to build new
coaches to use the invention.
President %Stimmel, Of the territorial couu-
ell, IL something OF a wheat raiser. He has
averaged over forty bushels TO the acre on
2C0 acres. He raised wheat In a garden at
the rate Of eighty bushels to the acre. From
single kernel he has grown forty-two stalks.
lie believes that half a bushel to the acre is
seed enough II the grain is properly sown. 1t
Is his experience that we SOW too much wheat
to the acre.
The White Cap fever has At last struck
Canton. Last week the proprletors Of two Of
the temperance resorts Of the city received