Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1889-04-06
DAKOTA.

Union county.
The Bap,ists OF Msdison are raising funds
to build d church.
The sheriff has closed the doors OF the Far
go Furniture company.
The Monarch quarry at Sioux Falls has
been reopened for the season.
Governor Church made the formal transfer
OF the governors office to Governor elect Mel
lette Friday.
A Huron butcher filed up ON bad whisky
Wednesday and pounded his wife In a most
brutal manner. He paid q fine Of SIS.
Eight carloads OF immigrants with their
household goods arrived at Huron Wednesday
morning and will locate on farms within a
few miles OF that city.
Members OF the South Dakota Farmers nj.
lance met at Huron Thursday and considered
the formation and adoption Of constitutions
for the two new states.
Ernest Seivert, of Charles Mix county, was
examined Wednesday by the insane commits
element was the cause.
Scarlet fever is prevalent In the vicinity OF
Parkston and especially so among the Rus
slams. They employ no physicians and con-
sequently many deaths are occurring.
Superintendent j. f. Gage, OF the Northern
Pacific Elevator company, deuies the terri
torial statistician's report that there is a
shortage OF 1900, 600 bushels Of wheat in
Dakota.
A suit for SIC, 600 damages for SANDER has
been commenced In the district court at
Rapid City by a lady who resides on Spring
creek. The defendant is a well-to-do farmer
OF that vicinity.
Sioux Falls has been made headquarters for
the distribution Of monographs for Dakota.
Applications have been made for 100 of the
machines, most Of which number will be used
In Sioux Falls.
The exodus from the states Is beneftting
Hyde county. Last week fourteen immi-
grants settled in Hyde county, with many
more on the way, and all settling on decided
lands sold at low cash prices.
President McLouth has returned from Bis
marck and opened the umr1er term Of the
Brookings Agricultural college. The school
opens with fattering prospects, forty new
students being on hand to begin the term,
every room in the young mems dormitory
being taken,
1t is now authoritatively stated that the
Mlller-St. Lawrence deal which was proposed
last summer has at last materialized and that
these two towns have really purchased the
land lying between them and Will endeavor
to have the capital located thereon.
During the past week Highmore witnessed
two funerals--a very unusual thing, as 1t is
seldom that q death can be chroplcled In the
town or county. Sylvester Bates, aged u,
and Mrs. John Grant, aged Is, both died on
the 9th. They were both old residents Of
Highmore and very highly respected by all.
The proprietor Of the hole in the ground
near Castslia In which coal was found stands
guard over his property and will allow no one
TO examine the vein or the coal therefrom. II
Is thought that good bituminous coal is there
all right and the owner is waiting until he re-
ceives his patent for the land before declar-
irg the fact to the world.
The difficulty lately existing between the
management and member OF the Farmers
Shipping and Purchasing association Of Wcon-
socket, owing to the management which run
the company into debt, has been cleared by
the payment OF an assessment on stock.
However, the warehouse will be closed until
next fall, when, instead of purchasing from
al farmers, as heretofore, the association
Will try and ship grain only for its own mem
bers.
AT Grand Forks Saturday a Freedman
named b. Braueh arrived with $1,000 cash.
He was Immediately surrounded by friends"
and began a tour Of the saloons. Chief Hen
messy followed the crowd TO a house of Ill
fame and secured Braugh as he was being
drugged preparatory TO being robbed.
Leisure Billy" one OF the men, fired six
shots at the officers before the arrest was
made. Cneo of the balls grszed the skin OF
Officer Murray.
A procession nearly a mile long, marched
through the principal streets of Fargo and
Moorhead Monday In honor OF st. Patrick.
All the civic societies were represented IN the
line. The Valley City and regimental bands
furnished the music. Taken as a whole 1t
was the grandest celebration Of the kind ever
witnessed west of the Twin Cities. The sur
rounding country was well represented and
the streets reminded old timers Of Fargo in
her palmy days. Over 6oo tickets were sold
for the entertainment at the opera house in
the evening.
Near Grand Forks Tuesday afternoon a
Norwegian, 40 years old, named Lewis
Thompson. broke through the ice on the river
and was carried In under about 200 yards. He
was seen by Sam Forkey, who saw the body
pass under the ice and drove q hole through
below and grasped the body IS 1t came along.
DR.. Rutledge happened on the river at the
time and worked with Thompson, who came
to after an hours work. He was taken to the
police station and placed on a cot, and was
supposed to be al right. He died suddenly,
however, at 6 o'clock. While Thompson was
being conveyed ashore Leon Robeirre went
through the ice, and Sam Forkey also res.
cued him. Robeirre suffered nothing more
than a ducking. Much praise is bestowed on
Forkey for his bravery.
The Fargo Argus says; ut Is serious
question where our farmers are to get suitable
seed for their spring sowing. There Is some
wheat still in the hands OF farmers, but the
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