Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1889-08-03
DAKOTA.

LihSo'h county VIII nave a 1alr this faIl.
Brule oounty's crop is by no means a fail
ure.
Crops are In excellent condition in Buffalo
county.
Highmore is inviting bids for the sinking
OF an ~artesian well.
Frank Pettigrew has been made president
OF the Pioneer soap factory at Sioux Falls.
The city council at Deadwood has ordered
all pig pens removed from the city limits.
The agricultural implement dealers at
Chamberlain are doing a rushing business.
The PIankinton base ball nine has chal-
lenged the White Lake club to play ball for
800 a side.
Dry goods and grocery stores in Deadwood
close at O o'clock p. m. every day except Sat.
urday.
The Rapid City Republican will hereafter
appear as an evening instead OF a morning
paper.
Machinery for the Deadwood Terra mill at
Terraville is arriving and will soon be IN
working order.
An effort is being made by parties In Dead
wood to establish a lecture course for the
coming fall and winter.
The scheme Of securing direct teller hone
communication between Yankton and Sioux
Falls is being agitated.
knoek-down fights In the streets Of Sioux
rails ere OF common occurrence. The par
Elephants are seldom arrested.
Chris. johnson, living near Grand Forks,
was kicked in the side by a mule Tuesday.
and II Is thought he cannot live.
The base ball boys Of Rapid City want It
understood that the best ball grounds in the
Black Hills is located at that place.
Daniel Toomey, a ranchman living at
Speariish, was shot in the arm by his 5-year-
old son Wednesday. Amputation was neces-
sary.
o.. NJ. Trygstad, Of Sioux Falls, has been
taken 10 the asylum at Yankton for the third
time. Each time he has been pronounced
cured.
Joseph Branilla, Of Minot, is looking for
his wife and 5-yearold child, who ran away
with his cousin, Sam Branilla, the foreman of
a brickyard there.
The city OK DEVILS Lake has struck a grand
flow OF water In their ~artesian we'll at a cost
OF 1850. They place a value on the same to
their city of 100000.
Some OF Yankton's young ladies' are plan
ming a weeks camping on the Jim river.
Thieves entered the residence of Geo. H..
Wheeler, at Grand Forks, Friday night and
stole 80.
Pat Mahoney, OF Fargo, met death in at
tpmnfinu m loncan fba karrol -.
by placing it In the stove Friday morning.
The charge passed entirely through his
body.
A murder trial is on the Ward county
docket for the term Of district court com.
mencing at Minot July %, In which BIZ
Erwin, OF st, Paul, will appear for the de
PENDANT.
Ed NJ. klmball and Miss Pauline Madden
both members OF the Clair Patce Opera com
pany, were married on the stage at Sioux
Falls at the close Of Wednesday evenings
performance.
VIM. E.. Mansfield has been appointed
postmaster at Minot. His commission was
signed Wednesday and the citizens Of that
town celebrated the event by a grand display
OF fireworks in the evening.
William Walnack, who was sentenced TO
the pcnitentiary for rape from Scotland for
twenty years five years ago, has been par
doned by the governor. Late DEVELOPMENTS
have tended TO create serious doubts OF the
prisoners guilt.
Workmen in the marble quarries a shor,
distance above Rapid City Wednesday un-
earthed the skeleton Of some prehistoric
monster. 1t is evidently the framework OF
some very large animal. The doctors are en-
deavorlng to classify 1t.
The Terra mill, near Deadwood, was shut
down last Saturday to be rebuilt into a 100.
stamp mill. The batteries are to be taken
from the Deadwood mill and placed in the
Terra. A Corliss engine OF 3no horse power
will be used to run the mills.
The board OF county commissioners OF
Lawrence county have been cited to show
cause why a mandamus should not issue d.
rectlng them to Issue licenses to liquor deal
ers In accordance with the provisions of the
charter OF the city Of Deadwood.
Horse thieves are again causing owners of
horses considerable trouble In the vicinity of
Cha mberlain. "With the present feeling |
among the farmera,' says the Chamberlain |
Democrat, ''no mercy will be shown any OF
The rascsls should they be captured"
Samuel Field was overcome by carbonic
acid gas In q well which he was helping Eu- |
gene Strout to dig at Maurice, west OF Grand
Forks, Friday, and died. Both he and Strout
we're In the well, and burned coffee thrown
n revived Strout, who was taken out
alive.
During a storm on Tuesday evening on the
between Rapid and Box Elder creeks
4 horse belonging to William James was
struck by lightning and killed. James, who
a short distance from the animal, saws
he bolt first struck a wire fence quite a dis
lance from where the animal was walking.
and following IT up, struck and killed the
Lorse.
1t is stated that DEVILS lake recedes two
feet per annum. The Fargo Argus presents
The following theory a. the cause: It is said
that every time a new ~artesian well is
opened DEVILS lake waterlowers correspond
ngly. Those who have inspected the water