Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1889-06-08
DAKOTA.

| Ipswich wants q board OF traue.
The Rapid City Gun club will be revived.
Horse thieves are operating near Her
mosa.
Marion Junction would like to have a
bank.
A company OF cavalry has been organized
at Parker
1t is proposed to locate an Indian school at
Rapid City.
Minnesota feels sure OF securing the Elk
horn railroad.
Parkston will decide on June IL whether 1t
will incorporate.
A deaf and dumb boy attends public school
In Brown county.
The 'sweet girl graduste'' Is numerous at
Huron just at present.
There are an even 200 patients In the In
sane asylum at Yankton.
The Marion creameries shipped 5000
pounds Of butter last week.
Mrs. A. Rhodes has been appointed post
mistress at Marion Junction.
Hundreds Of chickens are dying about Har-
rison OF ZONE mysterious disease.
Rapid City now has six church buildings,
and two others will be built this year.
Groton wiz vote this week on Issuing
SIS, 900 In bonds to sink an ~artesian well.
An Aberdeen Wholesale house has just or
dered 10000 dozen cans Of vegetable canned
goods.
r. X. Briggs has been elected grand sec
rotary Of the grand lodge l. o. 0. F. Of
Dakota.
Fred Adams, one Of the member of the
last legislature, has removed to Washington
territory.
The difficulties between Custer and Fall
River counties Will be adjusted by a board OF
arbitration.
The people OF Briagewater last Friday
held their first municipal election under the
general city law.
One hundred and twenty Russians arrived
at Eureka the past week and will locate on
lands near that place.
Over 140 presumption proofs have been
made at the United States land Office at
Aberdeen since the lst of May.
Brookings has disposed Of her water works
bonds at 2 per cent. premium and will put In
a complete standpipe system at once.
Royal Riblets, q 10 year-old boy at Colum-
ia, has plowed and put in over 300 acres OF
crops this spring with the aid of four horses.
A new paper is soon to be started in Bow
die, to be known as the Bowdle Republican.
ID. G. Williams will be the editor and pub,
Usher.
The Harvey Peak TIN Mining company,
Of the Black Hills, will place some OF their
tin specimens on exhibition In the Paris ex-
position.
A4-year-old daughter Of Mr.. and Mrs. L.
z. Benson, Of st. Lawrence, fell into an
abandoned well last Wednesday aud was
drowned.
The summer term OF the agricultural col
lege at Brookings opens June 3 and contin-
ues twelve weeks. The fall term opens Sep
TENDER 4.
Deadwood Times: 1t will cost Meade
county at least 81 500 to set up housekeeping,
inasmuch as that was the size Of its first order
for books and stationery.
Frank Downs, formerly Of the Sioux Falls
A~r2us-Leader composing rooms, but at pres
ent engaged In detective work In that city,
has Just fallen heir to S36, 900.
I The Hitchcock creamery Is now using the
product Of 600 COWS and expects to secure COO
more. The power which runs the machinery
Ia secured from an ~artesian well.
VIM. Wilkins, a German farmer, living
near Columbia, was kicked by a horse the
other day and his Jaw broken in two places
and his front teeth knocked out.
A Deadwood boy, Luther Carey qy name,
recently won the 100 yards bicycle race at
Oberlin college IN 9I seconcs, one-ffth Of a
second faster than the former record.
he most modest young lady in the terri
tory Is living at Kimball. she has had two
bookcases made for her library SO as to keep
the works of male and female authors separ-
ate.
The WOODEN mill at Sioux Falls received
between 1000 and 5000 pounds OF wool dur
ing last week. AS soon as tie Lew force
pump is ready for work the manufacture of
cloth will begin.
Minnesota will celebrate the Fourth Of July
with q grand parade, an grafton, a pyrotech-
mic display in the evening and a grand ball
sfterwsrd. The town will be decorated with
flags, evergreens and banners.
The following ex-soldiers have been ap-
pointed by Governor Millette as members OF
the soldiers home board Of trustees Gen
eral Hammond, Of Ashton; j. j. Kleiner, of
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