Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1889-08-10
DAKOTA.


The Sioux Falls band has II new leader.
Deadwood wants more banking capital.
Crops are all right In the vicinity OF Villas.
Crops In Bon Homme county were never
better.
Sioux Falls street cars will carry f~orty-six
persons.
The Armour Touring mill Is running night
and day.
Ready made cistern are offered for sale In
Yankton.
A capital investment company is being or
gained az ParkstoD.
Wheat will average ten bushels to the
acre la Hand county.
There are no dogs ia Spearfish, according
to the assessors books.
The churches al Parker hold union open
air Sunday evening services.
The city marshal Of Yankton has ordered
lot owners to cut their weeds.
The Presbyterian church at Grand Forks
pays It's pastor g., 600 per year.
The Union county fair commences Septem-
Der II and continues four days.
Over $40, 900 has been distributed In Hand
county for the wood crop this season.
Aberdeen claims TO have the smallest 20
lice force OF any town OF It's size In the terri
tory.
Steps are being taken to induce eastern
capitalists TO establish a canning factory at
Huron.
A farmer named Lepley, in Lake county,
lost his barn and a valuable horse by fire last
Friday night.
A smile is on the face Of the Beadle county
farmer as he harvests his grain, says the
Huron Times.
Geo. b. Wilmarth, a D,Smet merchant, has
confessed judgment in the sum Of 800. His
store is closed.
A two weeks teachers institute has been
announced for Kingsbury county,
Ing August 10.
Harvesting has commenced In Cass county
in earnest. The yield IS light, but unsur-
passed in quality.
Four horses were killed by lightning near
Flandreau last Monday night.
A mule wearing a pair of pants was the
cause OF much merriment on the streets Of
Sioux Falls Saturday.
Over 900 people listened to Rev. j. II.
Hector, the colored orator, at st. Lawrence
last Monday evening.
0 The eighth annual session OF the Brown
county teachers institute will be held at
Columbia, September 9 to -.
The Leader says more improvements are
going on In Elk Point this season than In any
other town In South Dakota.
The mayor and police Of Sioux Falls are
experiencing difficulty In keeping the saloons
OF that city closed on Sunday.
A row occurred on the streets Of Sioux
Falls last Friday night in which Frank Forde
received a severe scalp wound.
A freight train was wrecked near Hetland,
n Kingsbury county last Wednesday. A
brakeman had an arm broken.
Two vlolators of the game law, Bert Requr
and Dunk Morris, were fined $40 anu costs
each, at DEVILS Lake, Wednesday.
The crop OF small fruit grown In the Black
Hills this year is far better IN quality and
quantity than in any previous season.
There is no truth In the reports of crop
failure and restitution in Walsh county from
Park river to Acton, q distance of forty miles.
w. ~ DAOSEtii GIL oAd ICslueDL Oh EIOUA
Falls, has abandoned his wife and family and
gone to Omaha. Mrs. Blosser will sue for a
divorce.
1t is The intention Of the directors OF the
association to make the coming Rapid City
fair far more successful than any ever before
held there.
John H.. Drake, of Aberdeen, has sold the
Dakota Pioneer to A. J. Parshall, formerly
the proprietor CT the Harrison County Advo-
cate at Alexandria.
A purse Of 300 has been subscribed by
business men OF Elk Point to be offered as a
sweepstske purse for trottlng races during
the coming Union county fair.
A division of North Dakota Sons Of Vet
Grant vas organized at Grand Forks last
Tuesday. General G.. B. Abbott, OF Chicago,
national commander, presided.
Albert Burton, a stone cutter at Rowena,
had his left arm badly shattered last Thurs
day by a splinter from his hammer being
driven into the flesh near the elbow.
One OF Mitchell's reasons for asking for
the location Of the capital is that its "edu-
c%ational advantages are in keeping with the
demands OF the future capital city"
A section foreman on the Milwaukee road
at Sioux Falls lost $l5 last Friday. How he
lost 1t or what a section man was doing with
that amount of money Is not stated.
Comnissioner Hagerty: The two Dakotas
could accommodate the entire population of
the United States go, 000, 000-and give them
an acre and a half for breathing space.
Ramsey county has hit upon a novel way of
assisting the need farmers whose crops are
a total failure. II g proposed to issue bonds 10
the extent Of $4,000 for the pcrpose Of build
ing CO tty roads-work to be given Ia those
who g i~estitute and deserving.
The Huron Hcrcnlte is responsible for this
A boy was born in Potter county last week
with a well defined birthmark on the calf Of
his left leg, "Huron for the Capital" That
boy can com down to the capital a few years
from now and pull Huron's leg for almost
any amount
A n Aberdeen man, says an exchange, has
hit upon a scheme TO make a stake IN the cap
ital contest. 1t Is to god 10 each town which
Is a capital aspirant and make a bet against
that town. He will only lose In one and win