Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1889-09-07

tory.
Cement walks are the fashion in Sioux
Falls.
The Watertown band boys have new uni
forms.
Scotland's school building is O credit to
the town,
The calaboose in Sioux Falls lie q disgrace
TO the city.
Rapid City boasts Of a large number Of
fast horses.
Four cases of scarlet fever are reported
at Pennville.
Spearfsh boasts Of her superior educs-
tional facilities.
The sportsmen say the prairie chickens
are ripe in Clay county.
The shooting of unlicensed dogs 10 the or
der Of the day at Scotland.
There is a prospect Of Hill City being q
railroad town in the near future.
Renewed effort is being made TO estab-
lish q postofice a, South Sioux Falls.
The walls of the new commercial college
at Watertown are nearly completed.
Carpenters are at work raising the frame
Of a new Catholic church at Deadwood.
Excursion parties bound for the National
park pass through Bismarck almost daily.
The population Of Lawrence county Is
9,109, of which 5,4S4 are males and 1925 fe-
males.
Charles Schuster, of Rapid City, had his
arm broken by tie kick of a horse We'd
nesday.
Over 49, 900 was distributed among en-
ployes of the Lookout mines at Rapid City
Wednesday.
The laying of the corner stone Of the
Methodist college at Hot Springs will oc-
cur September IL.
A bakers dozen Of yermillion veterans
left yesterday for the national encamp-
ment at Milwaukee.
Petitions TO congress for an appropriation
for sinking artesian wells are being circu-
lated in Dickey county.
District Attorney Harden was arrested
and fined $50 for shooting prairie chickens
at Olivet last Tuesday.
Long-beaded citizens OF Springfield have
formed a syndicate and are laying in their
winters supply of coal.
Lumber for the new Deadwood Terra
mill is arriving and a large force of car
penters is busy framing.
Charles Fargo, of Deadwood, is making
q collection of minerals to be exhibited at
the territorial fair at Aberdeen.
A. NJ. Avery, Of Deadwood, narrowly es-
capped death by the premature explosion of
q powder blast last Wednesday.
The Commercial club, press representa-
tives and other citizens of Sioux Falls are
spending the Sabbath at Spirit Lake.
Rev. Sam Small will finish his labors in
South Dakota at Sioux Falls, speaking
there for six days just preceding the cleo
tion.
A young son Of z. II. Washburn, of Bon
Homme, hed a leg broken and ribs crushed
by a horse falling upon him last Wednes-
day.
Efforts are being made to arrange a Sc
ries Of games between the Bismarck base
ball club and the teams in the Red river
valley.
A tie vote on the two leading applicants
for the position of principal of schools a.
Bismarck makes it difficult for the board
TO make a selection.
A letter was received in Sioux Falls
Thursday addressed to ~. Q. Gilbert, Sioux
Falls, Woodbury. county, Dakota" j. Q,
Gilbert lives in Sioux City.
Crops in the vicinity of Bismarck will be
above the average, and the Tribune says
that with good prices Burleigh county will
be in a prosperous condition this fall.
The farm house of Nels Jorgenson, near
Yates, was struck by lightning Wednesday
night and burned, together with two colts
and considerable farm machinery, hay, etc
The Hot Springs Star announces the fact
that its editor, Mr.. Benedict, 'bas gone to
hat bourne from which no bachelor re-
turns" having recently married Ionia
Druse, of Canton.
kota would do well to engage more extern
sively in sheep raising. Statistics this
year show that the Dakota farmers can in
vest in nothing more profitable.
Deadwood's -four mill closed the most
successful season in its history last Thars-
day. The milling season began September
IL, since which date 1900 bushels Of wheat
Wefe Srouno ihto I,sSo,VVO pounds OF uOur.
The indictment against John Mowatt and
John yerwolf for timber trespass was
Quashed in the United States court at
Deadwood Wednesday. The ruling dis
poses Of twelve other similar indictments.
A society has been organized at Yankton
which is declared to be for the purpose Of
"a union on perfectly equal terms between
those who use moderately and those who
abstain entirely from Intoxicating liquors
Is beverages
Meade county has been having its pris-
onsrs csned for In the Desdwood iall, but
viii do SO NO more. The new jail at Stur.
gfs has just been completed, and hereafter
violators of the law living in Meade county
viii be cared for at home.
Rapid City Journal, %: The actual dis
tance from the Missouri river to the Black
Hills Is not great. A theatrical troupe IL
now ON the way across rather than make
the trip around the world from Pierre TO
Rapid City by rail. But the rail route
won't be nearly as long in a year or two.
There are lS0,S79 acres Of and under
fence in Lawrence county. OF this number
3l,S06 are under cultivation. Last year