Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1889-04-27
DAKOTA.

Armour reels very JuDliant over ner sue
cess In the county seat campaign.
Huron Is dividing It's attention between the
capitol location and the measles.
The Press estimates the loss In Hand
county from prairie fire at $57,215.
The warehouse OF the roller mills At Man
don burned Saturday. Loss $50, ZOO.
Lead City is arranging for a grand Easter
ball for the bereft OF the fire sufferers.
Sioux Falls will celebrate the first inaugura-
ton Of President Washington on Aprfl 30. !
The Journal says real estate In and around
Reddeld has doubled IN value in the last
thirty days.
The division districts for constitution pur-
poses does not meet the appreciation OF all
the counties.
over the future d~estinies Of the Presbyterian
people Of Scotland.
The Madison board of trade has appointed
q committee Of five to look after the railroad
interests Of Madison.
The Watertown Daily Courier News.oap-
pears In a new dress and parades In great
shape for Watertown.
Governor Mellette has appointed johnson
Nickeus, Of jamestown, encouragement.
His appointment was a great surprise.
j. NJ. Dain and w. B. Robinson are csndi-
dates for postofice honors at Scotland. One
Is an old settler and the other a butcher.
At Yankton stock is being subscribed for a
$50, 600 hotel and also for a $50, 600 opera
house. Both are assured and to be built this
summer
Proprietors Of the extensive tin mines near
Rapid City have arrived from England and
work will be begun at the mines at once on q
large scale.
The testimony in the Flaherty murder
trial at Huron Is all In. The opinion ia that
the e~pileptic theory set up by the defense
will amount to nothing.
John Fl. King, speaking OF the capitol locs-
ton, is reported by a Sioux Falls paper as
saying: 81 am frank to admit the contest
seems to be narrowing down to Sioux Falls
and Pierre"
The Sioux reservation which will soon be
opened to settlement is In every way superior
to the Oklahoma lands. Many disappointed
Oklahoma boomers will undoubtedly avail
themselves OF the Sioux lands.
Sioux Falls is enjoying an extensive build
Ing boom. A canvass OF the city shows that
l72 dwelling houses have been begun since
January |. Some are cottages, but many are
excellent dwellings to cost from $l2, 900 to
$15, 900.
Lee Gay, a Chinaman who lives In Cakes
and who is married to a German woman, had
kio opnht4fnn 80 h. .L~{<t, a-J - a.
as a tirs.-class boomer encoursge d this week
by the appearance at his home of a pal. Of
twin boys.
The Injunction "I.ove one another is hay
ing its frui.ion in the bountiful responses for
aid that has been called for In some parts Of
this state. Minneapolis, st. Paul, Sioux
City, Chicago, and other outside cities, are
doing their full share. Sioux Falls, Yankton,
Huron, Pierre, Redheld and Aberdeen are
the principal towns In our state that are
showing themselves whole hearted in for
warding money, clothing and seed to their
fellow citizens who were stripped of these
commodities by the fires Of April 2.
The Indebtedness Of North Dakota Is more
than $780, 600, as generally stated by the
HlS5es liz pOhdCu lnANDlEhhtsb VI hIduu
Forks university is s74, 000; Of the Bismarck
penitent.ary, s93, 600; OF the jamestown in
sane asylum, $4,000. This is not all. The
capitol building warrants, legalized by the
last legislature, foots up, in round numbers,
$50, 900. Also one third of the refunding
bonds of May /, 1887, $4,000. Grand total,
$493, eco. This is North Dakota's debt-a
half million in round numbers.
Cakes special, ~: Quite a little
furry OF excitement was caused in the
Methodist church Sunday evening. The
pastor, a young and inexperienced
advocate OF the gospel, undertook to score a
few Of the leading ladies Of the city for play
ing cards and purchasing too much fnery In
the way Of spring b%onnets. His remarks be-
came so personal that one-half the congrega-
ton left the church abruptly and the prevail
Ing opinion is they were justified In their rash
action. Many Of the leading members Of the
church are loud in their denunciations OF the
pastor, and declare 1t will break up the
now well organized society.
A calamity like the wind storm of April
2, accompanied by that awful prairie fire, is a
feast for the fool correspondent. One OF this
class telegraphed In carmine how a passenger
train was caught by the fire between Kimball
and Chamberlain; how the engineer feared
to go ahead and couldn't go back; how old
men paled, women sobbed and prayed and
children cried their eyes out for fear of an
advance number Of sheel. There was hardly
a spark OF truth In the entire ed-fre tele-
gram. Nobody cried or grew pale; the cars
were not damaged; no glass broken nor paint
cracked. While the cloud Of dust and smoke
we're flying about his train, the engineer stop
ped his engine to tighten q bolt, then went
ahead to his destination. The correspondent
may get his sheol later.
Beadle county, South Dakota, Press: John
Baily, living three miles south of town, cut
down his wire fence to let his stock out Tues
day. laying q stone on the loose wires to hold
them down. The wires were so charged with
electricity that they set the grass on fire.
The way they discovered the wires were 50
charged Mr.. Bailey happened to get his ankle
against them and 1t gave him such . shock
that 1t nearly knocked him Down. After