Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1889-05-25
DAKOTA.

The bicyclists OF Aberdeen have organized
a club.
The Elkton Record is 5 years old and
newsy.
Rapid City is to have q foundry and ma
chine shop.
A movement is on foot to have Alpens in
corporated.
Farmers are planting corn In the vicinity
OF Flandreau.
5ioux Falls 6re alarm telegraph system is
nearly completed.
Omaha capitalists propose to erect . SIS, 900
hotel 1T Yankton.
Work has been commenced on the new city
hall at WATERFOWL.
Redaeld claims the finest base ball grounds
in che two Dakotas.
Henry Theis, OF Knitte, Ia, will operate
the Flandreau creamery.
Rapid City will build q high board fence
around her base ball ground.
Bismarck is raising money by subscription
to celebrate the Fourth Of July.
Ex-Governor Church and family have taken
up their permanent residence In Huron.
Cham berlain viii dig an ~artesian well to
furnish power to run an electric light plant.
There Is a scheme ON foot at Yankton TO
build a factory for the manufacture OF twine.
The splendid condition OF the crops is the
subject Of comment by nearly all the papers
in Dakota.
A scheme Is on foot to build sixteen miles
of railroad to connect the town OF Nilbank
with q station on the Manitoba road.
The explosion Of a lighted lantern In the
Thorpe residence, at Eden, on Tuesday
caused commotion and some damage.
Burglars bother at Sioux Falls. They
robbed the gun store Of Gunder Gunderson
Monday night, but got nothing but guns.
w. X. Weaver, formerly a Yankton news
paper man, has recently been ordained IN
Pennsylvania as q Presbyterian minister.
Vacant lands open to settlement In the
sive Of Indian reservation and railroad lands.
ID. w. Wheater, Of Arlington, submits a
| proposition to put In a sixty-barrel roller Iill
at B~ridgewster. The deal will probably be
'osed.
The Nelson County bank at LAX eta was
closed Friday o. an attachment brsught by
the county Of Nelson on a iudg nent TO
50, 800.
An attractive race program has been ar
ranged for the fifth annual ~territor al fair, to
be held At Aberdeen September "a 70 q In
lusive.
The Harvey Peak Mining company at
Rapid City has just received 600, eOo pounds
Of machinery for their mines. There were
thirty-two earlsadA
The plum orchards OF Charles Mix county
are In full blossom, and no lsvelier sight car
be seen than that found along the river at
this time Of the year.
During the last year the city Of WATERFOWL
issued warrants TO the amount OF sl4,s76 ~.
There 10 now In the treasury 80, sS4 ~ and
the city owes 81 ,o37.41.
The mother Of Thomas Nulverhill, ct
wakonds, died last Tuesday morning at the
age Of los years. The deceased was probably
the oldest person In the territory.
sturgis gets the county seat Of the new
county Of Meade, by a majority OF about 500.
According to agreement she will build and
donate a court house costing a15 900.
The new city directory of Aberdeen now
being compiled will show a population Of
about 1900 people In that place, an increase
of nearly 9, 600 In less than two years.
Professor Jay Prothero, a noted composer
and one CT the fnest cornetists in the world,
Is expected at Sioux Falls from Kansas City
shortly to revive the musical talent CT that
city.
The largest shipment Of bullion taken out
OF the hills for months was sent from the belt
mines (Homestabe and associates, Caledonia
Puma and Monitor last week, aggregating
over $4,000.
L. D. Schofeld, an old resident OF Spring
Valley, WAS found dead last week by the
roadside ON the divide between the Belle
Fourche and Elk Creek. His death was
caused by heart disease.
Strong efforts are being MADE to open the
sisseton Indian reservation to settlement.
The reservation comprises nearly 100000
acres of land near the Minnesota liLe in
northeastern South Dakota.
The liberty pole, which was erected In 1884
at Deadwood, was cut down last Wednesday
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Deadwood papers, well preserved, a gold
nugget and some Chinese money.
The Chicago and Northwestern railroad
officials, who are developing the coal mines
near Centerville, announce that their work
is highly satisfactory, and that they have
found coal In unlimited quantities.
TIL "pigs-in-clover' lunacy has gained a
firm foothold In Bismarck and is now q fash
ionable fad. Strong men are already show
Jog the effects, and prominent politicians are
forgetting the interests Of the state.
Huron Huronite, S: The rainfall at the
| Huron station Of the United States signal
service from January l TO May | was an inch
and a half above the normal. The tempera-
ture was 5l1 degrees In excess Of the normal.
George Davis, OF Pleasant Hill, Union
county, while chasing a squirrel with a knife
In his hand, stumbled and fell, the blade
entering his side just above the heart. The
point Of the blade struck 3 rib and glanced,
thus saving his life.
The proposition to annex the western range
of Mcpherson countyto Campbell county was
votaI urnp "a provfSa1 nv 1aw nv tho resi-.