Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1889-07-13
DAKOTA.
Miller's court house is up.
yermillion complains OF tramps.

Hitchcock has six organized base gall
clubs.
Craps are above the average in Hansen
county.
Dog poisoning is the order OF the day at
Elk Point.
Prisoners in the city jail at Sioux Falls who
refuse to work are fed on ozone.
Citizens of Elk Point have commenced agi-
tating the water works question.
Watertown claims the first and only La
dies Capital club In South Dakota.
A Yankton party will put in q flour mill at
Letcher to be run by the ~artes(an we'll.
The citizens OF Spring Lake are agitating
the question of sinking an ~artesisn well.
Twenty residences are now being erected In
YsnKton with building association funds.
Dakota Free Methodist will a
weeks camp meeting at Parkston J uly 10.
The FIRST delivery Of cut stone sor the new
city hall at Deadwood was made Thursday.
Chamberlain ia organizing a base ball club
and viii enter the new South Dakota league.
The Bottineau Pioneer runs q farmers col.
umn at the request Of the territorial alliance.
An advance guard Of the down-the-river
army Of tramps has found Its way into Yank.
ton.
Over 5000 pounds of wool have been
marketed at Alexandria during the past ten
days.
The citizens Of Planklnton are considering
the question of organizing a military com
pany.
Opponents OF prohibition In South Dakota
have organized for the az APPROACHING cam
paign.
The Vernillion roller mills have been re-
paired and are again running ut their full
capacity.
James Steekman, Of Elk Point, lost 81, 900
unburned brick during the storm Of Wednes-
day night.
The LaMoure gun club has for its object
the enforcement Of the game laws as well as
pleasure.
A stranger giving the name Of Kennedy has
been working the forged check racket at
Waterfowl.
The Methodists OF the Hitchcock district
have commenced a two weeks campmeeting
at Hitchcock.
Sioux Falls is soon 10 have another whole
sale cigar factory, a firm from New York in
tending TO start it.
Nick Halverson, who was shot by the mar
shal OF DEVILS Lake while resisting arrest,
has lost the use Of his right arm.
The Grafton newspapers are now all Ia
one.
The board OF agriculture Of North Dakota
will offer 81 ,0C0 In premiums for a band tour
nament at the fair In September.
Freeman Knowles has changed the name
Of the Tilford Times to Meade County Times.
1t is still a permanent fixture OF Tilford.
Samuel Hall, James p. Rathbun, OF Faux
been appointed a pension board at Faulkton.
A severe wind and rain storm visited the
vicinity Of Lake Herman on the night of the
18th inst. The damage to growing crops was
great.
According TO the latest and most reliable
reports the acreage planted In corn IN South
Dakota this year exceeds by far that Of any
previous year.
The contract for grading the jamestown
, and Northern extension from Minnewaukan
10 Leeds hos been awarded 10 Ed Mccormick.
Of jamestown.
The first constitutional convention OF South !
Dakota was held IN Huron in 1883; the see
ond in Sioux Falls In 1885: the third convened
In Sioux Falls.
The wheat crop viii not be an average crop !
IN North Dakota unless the conditions from
this time to thrashing are peIfec.. Anything
less will be unsatisfactory.
The ~artesian well recently sunk on Henry
Strunk's farm on Jim river is a great success.
Through the two incn piping the water flows
at the rate of i25 gallons a minute.
II Is certain that cement works Will be
built Ia Yankton. The scientific test o. the
clay found there shows The cement will be as
good as the famed goods labeled "PortlAnd."
Tranps broke into a saloon at Canton
Thursday night and stole squantity Of cigars,
q small sum Of money and appropriated a
bottle or two OF yum.yum ana oth5r articles
The trustees CT Jamestown collega have
elected Rev. II. G.. Mendenhall, until re-
Gently pastor OF the Presbyterian church at
Grand Forks and proprietor and Editor Of
the Daily P.aipdealcr, president OF instruc-
ton.
Towns and cities throughout Dakota are
already discussing the public building ques-
ton and by the time statehood arrives there
will be many a claim on the plums OF this
character that are 10 be shaken from the na-
tional tree.
1t is estimated that less than 10 per cent.
| Of the lands fit for agriculture IL South Da-
kota are get located. The 80 per cent. yet
uroccupied is capable Of sustaining q popula-
| ton Of 8 100000 people.
The editors OF ten South Dakota newspa-
pers unite In a call for an editorial prohibi-
ton gathering st Huron on the 9th Of July TO
arrange for a systematic newspaper campaign
In behalf OF prohibition.
Theodore Poole, under arrest at st. Louis
for working the badger game, Is wanted at
Ipswich for nortgsging property he did Tot
own and leaving the country as soon as OBJ
tanning money on the mortgage.
Aberdeen Pioneer: There Is room enough
In Dakota for a few thousand more good,
honest, ~hard-working tillers OF tie soil, and
a cordial hand OF welcome is outstretched to
greet tie newcomer who accepts this invita-
ton 70 share our prosperity.
rartitcrIal Veterir arIan Collins st,tps that