Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1889-09-21

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Bancroft has n new paper.
Deadwood people are feasting on veni-
son.
The Rapid City real ESTATE market is act
We.
United States court is in session at
Huron.
New fax brings s1.04 a bushel at North
Vile.
Yankton wants an opera house that will
seat $500 people.
Pierre expects the Milwaukee road in
side Of two years.
Lawrence county is divided into forty
one election precincts.
Work is being actively pushed on the
Centervills coal shaft.
w. S. Chase received his commission as
postmaster at Sturgis.
Brookings county farmers nave put up
large quantities of hay.
High winds have delayed haying and
thrashing in Sully county.
Hughes county has purchased a poor
farm, paying 81, 400 for it.
Ninety-six cents was paid for Lawrence
cSuhts "uTFdnbs ~ Weeks
Brush frea in the Black Hils have caused
considerable trouble of late.
A cheese factory 10 among tho things
Harrsld expects next spring.
A mysterious disease Is carrying of
many horses In the vicinity of Blunt.
A move b. being made toward the organ
~izatioa of a Presbyterian church Mt onida.
The old steamer Rosebud 10 doing ser
vice between Bismarck and down river
points.
Fire set by sparks from a locomotive did
considerable damage near Rec Heights last
week.
E. b. Stacy, of Madison, threshed four
acres OF wheat last week that yielded los
bushels.
The full faculty of Redfeld college Is
aow made sp, and the fall term opens Sop
tember Is.
The Black Hills National bank, Of Rapid
City, has increased its capital from $4,000
to sl25, 900.
Bon Homme has Just contracted for
81, 99S wsrtk of building improvements on
he poor farm.
Clark people are enthusiastic over the
prospects Of getting the Duluth, Mlbank
and Huron railroad.
As an induoemeat for people to die, q
washington undertaken offers to sell collins
and caskets at cost.
Aberdeen people are planning an excur-
don to Pierre, probably to buy town lots
In the future capital oity.
Ben Jewell, the pioneer navigator of the
apper Missouri, will establish q ferry be-
tween Bismarck and Mandan.
A Charles Nix county Presbyterian
church docs double duty by being occupied
FOR school purposes during the woek.
The parishoners Of Rev. n. b. Baldwin,
sf Olivet, recently donated three milch
BOWS to help out on his years allowance.
]. Z. JeIeries' saw mill, near Deadwood,
burned Thursday night with 10000 feet of
lumber. Loss, 5000; insurance, 5000.
The Landau Bros, of Fairview town.
ship, sully county, sowed $50 acres of
wheat and thrashed eighty-seven bushels.
Drought.
pi..l ..-4----------ys,co tv, or
Bismarck, with death If she don't stop cir
.ulating slanderous stories about her
aeighbors.
Extensive repairs are being made on the
Yankton linseed oil mill, which expects to
grind 10000 bushels of oil during the com.
Ing season.
George Sumption, Of Brown county, is
under bonds to appear before the grand
jury on q charge of assault and battery,
perferred by his wife.
Athp- JT,,a -. l--.-l "
from Belvidsre, Neb., on Friday by Sheriff
Green and placed in jail to await examina.
ton on the charge of bigamy.
Dakota people have been warned in time
to make ample protection against prairie
fires. The grass is very dry and will
ignite easily and burn like finder.
An s-yearold boy named Oscar Wilcox
living near Rapid City, was shot and killed
last Thursday by his l1-year-old sister, who
was carelessly handling a revolver.
Governor Mellette has appointed DIR. w
Bentley, Captain W. S. Moorhouse ans
George w. Newton as the commissioners
of public lands to have control of the CAPT
tai lands and grounds.
James NJ. Leonard, who was sentenced
~ " omukbhbS Oplunl, was re
eased from the United States wing of the
Sioux Falls peEitentiary Monday, having
served his sentence of seven months.
According TO the report of Auditor Nc
Mamma, the direct tax in the territory OF
the assessed valuation will yield a revenue
of s492, $50. SO exclusive of the revenue from
the gross earnings tar ON railway and othe,
companies.
A Sioux Falls youngster stepped on .
wire screen over a well and fell in up te
his arms. Its crying for help brought as
sistance and 1t was taken out unhurt. II
q had passed through sle ssresp A vvoule
have fallen some thirty feet.
Fifty thousand dollars will be expendeS