Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1889-03-16
Cluster Chronicle.
DAKOTA.

ing for now.
The Hutehison county court conyenes at
OlIvet March 10.
The Methodists at Kimball are preparing to
erect q parsonage.
The Times-Record Is clamoring for q new
school house for Doland.
The town board of Memo has formulated
and adopted a set OF ordinances.
A movement is on foot to organize a law
and order society at Whitewood.
The PAYERS and stone cutters Of East Sioux
Falls are organizing a brass band.
The net receipts of the Congregational
fair held at WATERFOWL on Friday last were
$50.
A Chinaman living at Spesrfsh claims to
have lost So, 800 gambling at Deadwood.
A term of court will be held at Milbank
March 10 for the first time in nearly two
years.
IL IL claimed that the business transacted
in Glendale amounts to over 100000 an
nually.
The people Of De Smet talk OF building q
large water tank and thereby furnish protec-
ton against fire.
The citizens Of Blunt have passed resolu.
tions asking the county commissioner to ex'
pend 5000 to advertise the county.
There is some talk OF a meeting between
the readwood and Rapid City gun clubs
shortly after warm weather returns.
An assessment Of 81 per share, or 10 per
cent. OF the capital, has been levied upon the
stock OF the Deadwood reduction works.
According to the Press, the opinion prevails
In Sioux Falls that from $4,000 to 500, 600
should be expended for sewers this year.
An effort is being made at Madison to or
ganize an agricultural society and invite adj
joining counties to unite In holding a district
fair.
An Aberdeen syndicate has purchased a
quarter section OF land one mile from the
city limits of Pierre. The consideration was
Sl6. 600.
The iremen's fair at Yankton last week
Melted the laddies over 5000, which sum is to
be applied to the tournament to be held thers
In June.
II. w. Scott, Of Watertown, has been held
to answer to the charge OF adultery, COM
United With q married woman named
Knowlton.
Liquor dealers at Parker are receiving little
sympathy from the judge. Geo. Lowrle was
sentenced to a fine Of $50 or three months In
the county jail.
The Journal says: There are now five
buildings under course of construction In
Centerville and work In that line has not
commenced yet
Marriage is not a failure among the Sioux.
Al Indian woman at Lower Brule agency has
given birth TO triplets--two girls and a boy
and all are doing well.
vermillion was the scene Of a rare musical
event on Saturday last. Part No. ! OF
Haydn's "Creation'' was produced by the
University choir and imported talent.
The members Of the choir Of the Scandi
navian Trinity church Of Yankton will give
q concert at Vermilllon on the evening of
March 6. They sing In English, Swede and
Norwegian.
II. w. Scott, an ex-msrshai and ex-street
commissioner OF WATERFOWL, Is out under a
bail of s400 to answer to the charge Of adul
terry, the alleged offense having been com
mitted with O married woman by the name of
Knowlton.
Lead City now claims to be a railroad CEN
ter as well as a mining center. The Herald
says trains arrive from the east, arrive from
the west, and there are miles OF road under
meath the city.
~ Tuvn ndiafuanfa for murder have happ 70.
turned from Huron, one against John Flaher-
ty for the murder of Hattie Wilson in a
bawdy house, and one against Mary Jobst, a
German girl, for the murder of her child.
The Office OF clerk Of court for Fall River
county is said TO be one of the most lucrative
in the district. Final proof fees average
$3.50 per month, whilst the amount taken
in for filings will swell that to about 800.
The board Of directors Of the Aberdeen
public library met Monday afternoon and re-
organized under the provisions Of the general
law pertaining to cities where 1t has been
voted to support the library by special tax.
January 2S q tramp received q severe pound
ing from q farmer living near Volga. The
tramp had the farmer arrested for assault and
battery and the jury after being out all night
failed to agree.
United States Marshal Maratta arrested
two men Saturday near Dunseith who had
been selling liquors to Indians. Their stock
In trade was seized and a numbe Of wit
nesees taken to Bismarck to testify against
the prisoners.
B. X. Rowley, for several years passenger
conductor on the Dakota Central division OF
the Chicago and Northwestern railway, has
resigned his position. He Is dotted W by
the governor for an appointment as railway
commissioner.
Eastern capitalists, represented by Edward
Crist, OF the Beadle County bank, purchased
T. NJ. Jefie's block, In Huron, known as the
Masonic temple, for $4,000. The same par
ties have the refusal Of other city property
and farm lands in that locality.
The Ysnkton Press says: 1.-The fact that
the Manitoba company has decided positively
to build to Yaukton, leaving the question Of
time as the only open one, has already given
Yankton considerable Of a lift, which Is aided
by the certainty of the Norfolk link"
Arthur Springer, a young man at Vermil-
lion, is a veritable ire-eater. IL Is said that
he can take red hot Goals into his mouth