Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1889-09-14

be ST in the country.
A Farmers alliance has been organized
in Lawrence county.
a Methodist tent meeting is in progress
five miles north of PIankinton.
A wholesale house in Sioux Falls ships
native wine to Hanover, Germany.
The Bijou Hills Times says the Farmers
alliance of Brule county is in the soup.
Farmers in the vicinity of spearfsh COM
plain of the scarcity of thrashing machines.
The Sentinel says there are several can
didates for the reform school in White
wood.
Rec Heights wants a physician and a drug
store. The nearest doctor is ten miles
away.
All the business houses in Aberdeen will
hereafter keep flags boisted during bust
ness hours.
The drill at the Drake springs In Sioux
Falls is now down nearly 600 feet and still
in solid rock.
A new paper will soon be published at
Hot Springs, I. ]. Spangler, Of Sioux
City, will have charge.
y NhoN huo bNNh $500 80
numbers of cattle in Yankton county is
rapidly disappearing.
Willie Lightfoot was drowned while bath
ing in the Lac Out Pearle, several miles
from Gary last Thursday.
Growers Of corn do not bring it in fast
enough to supply the demand of the can
ming factory in Sioux Falls.
The farmers of Pembina county now adj
init that the wheat crop was damaged con-
siderably by the frost of August IL.
The Castalia base ball club took first
money at the Wheeler tournament, White
Lake second and Fort Randall third.
Whitewood citizens will make an attempt
TO secure a government appropriation for
the sinking of an artesian well at that
place.
A mass meeting will be held in Hand
drilling artesian wells in each township Of
the county.
The Sioux Falls electric motor company
propose TO construct a viaduct across the
railroad track, to connect with n bridge on
the other side.
|N -
ton for sinking artesian wells are being
circulated in Dickie, Beadle, Hand and
other counties.
Valley City citizens are excited over the
reports sent out that a riot was in progress
there last Wednesday night. Nothing of
the kind has occurred.
Several hunting parties left Yankton
Saturday night for the country so as to
commence legal proceedings against the
festive prairie chicken.
Mrs. Andrew Nelson is under arrest at
Valley Springs, charged with setting fire to
and burning $40 worth of wheat, the prop
erty of Peter Phillips, of Bruce.
Last Friday was the hottest day ever
known at Cakes, reliable thermometers
registering Ill degrees in the shade. Gar
dens there look as If scorched by fire.
w. s. Schellenger, living north of Kim
bali, lost a valuable horse last Wednesday.
1t became ~entangled in a barbed wire
fence and cut to such an extent that il had
to be killed.
While Andrew Eayeas, of Armenia, was
engaged in moving a building last Satur-
day, some of the supports gave way and
part of the building fell upon aim. He died
an hour later.
w. n. Roach, democratic candidate for
governor of North Dakota, is 40 years old
and has been a resident of Grand Forks
county ten years. He is a farmer and a
handsome man.
A number Of the member of the w. G..
II. u, of Sioux Falls, are soliciting sub
scriptions to a fund that Is to be used in
running a prohibition paper in that city
through the campaign.
The threshing of 800 acres of wheat on a
farm near Columbus shows a yield Of
eleven bushels per acre. Something over
800 acres yet to thrash is expected to bring
the yield up to thirteen bushels as an
average.
The marshal of Sioux Falls found 1t diff
cult TO Jail a one-legged man last Saturday.
Before he got through with him the pris-
oner had a large piece chewed out of the
marshal's leg and had bitten him severely
,on the hand.
Dwight L. Moody, the evangelist, will de-
vote the first two weeks of October to Sioux
Falls. The Press says it will be a problem
to find a hall to accommodate all the
crowd and possibly the preaching will be
done in u tent.
w. L. Wielder and c. A. Allen were driv
ing through the country near Grand Forks
Thursday, when their team became fright,
ened by a steam thrasher and ran away
throwing the occupants out and seriously
intnring both parties.
Aberdeen News, 30: A skillfully executed
counterfeit Is gold piece was passed at one
of the city banks yesterday. 1t has the true
ring and only a close examination reveals
its spurious character. It is said that con-
siderable bad coin is floating about.
Dell Rapids Times, 80: The water In a
good many wells In town Is giving out.
The same complaint is made from the
country, and as the water is rather low in
all the wells there is a prospect Of a
scarcity Of water this winter, unless rains
come to ill the streams and soak up the
earth.
Latest crop reports say North and South
Dakota will produce q. OOO. 600 bushels of