Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1889-05-18
DAKOTA.

holders.
The G. A. Il. post at Beresford will erect a
new hall.
Winds have Injured the wheat crop about
Fargo aboIt 10 per cent.
Yankton is making great preparations for
the Rrenen's tournament.
Beavers are go numerous as to be trouble
some in some parts of the Black Hills.
The volga Tribune Is trying to resurrect
the Sioux City and Waterfowl railroad pro-
ject.
Chit Chandler, a Brule county farmer, was
the other day by being run over by a
The new Touring mill at Whitewood will
have capacity for supplying the entire Black
Hills with -four.
Harry Smith, a practical coal miner from
Fort Dodge, Ia, is investigating the coal find
at Centervllle.
VIII II. Stanley, late Of Lead City, will
start a weekly paper at Buffalo Gap to be
called the Globe.
The wife OF Chas. A. Conklin, Of Clark.
died Saturday morning, the third death In
the family in ten days.
o. w. Smell, Of Norfolk, has been appointed
to run on the railroad in The mail service be-
tween Gettysburg and Rrdfeld.
Forts Sully and Bennett raised nearly 500
and a large amount Of clothing for Sully
county people who were burnt out.
Montrose is cot In the capital race, but
claims a steady growth and the best trade OF
any town Of It's size In South Dakota.
Ex-Treasurer Lawler has returned 10
Mitchell from st. Paul and IS making preplr-
atoms FIR houseke, ping at Mitchell sgain.
The new railroad commission has organized
by tlecting Judson Lamoure chairman and
j. L. Robinson, of Watertown, secretary.
Sturgis will build a SIS. coo court house and
present it 10 the county OF Mead on condi-
tion that the county seat be located there.
The Parkston opera house company has re-
ceived its articles OF incorporation and win
at once III operation on the building.
1t is reported that the Alexandria stone
quarry is TO be opened TO get out stone to
build a bridge over the Missouri at Chamber
lain.
Eugene Baudoin, OF Bismarck, has been
missing from his home for over a month and
his parents are anxious to know his where
abouts.
Sam Glover, OF Sioux Falls, on the strength
OF q telegram received the other day says he
Is practically assured Of the consulship at
Sheffield.
to start up about June l. Over 100000
pounds OF present reasons clip has al
ready been contracted for.
Marinus Jensen, wife and child have ar
rived at yerdon from Denmark. They were
passengers on the steamer Danmark that
was abandoned In mid-ocean.
o. r Brooks, Of Fulton, was seriously In
jured one day last week by the explosion of a
pound of powder that he had in a paperunder
his arm. 1t was ignited from h.s pipe.
The Yankton Herald says II that tow had
a good opera house 1t could cease paying
tribute to outside towns. Yankton citizens
spent $500 to see Booth and Barrett at Sioux
City.
At the Aberdeen land Office rs pre-emp-
ton, rs timber culture and 81 homestead I'll.
ings were made In April. Forty cash entry
proofs and 81 homestead proofs were also
made.
Rapid City Journal, %: The Golden Sum
NIT company will resume operations In mine
and mill on the 1st OF next month. Mr..
Lynch, OF Cedar Rapids, will have charge OF
the work.
An attempt was made Thursday night to
bum tha Eyl1ar nn,,ntv cp,1r bnnSa % u taolo
placing dry grass, saturated with kerosene, In
the hall and setting fire to it. Little damage
was done.
The county commissioners Of Lake county
have offered a prize OF $40 to those who de.
stroy the largest number Of gophers this sea
son. To the next highest a prize of $40 is
awarded, and so on.
Rapid City r publican, %: 1t is reported
that the Erglish tin men were far better
pleased with their properties than they ex
pected to be. They found them better thar
had been represented.
Fifty business men Of Sturgis have fled 9
bond with the board Of county commissioner
pledging themselves to donate a s15, 600 cour,
house and Jail to Mead county in case the
county seat Is 10 lated at that point.
A movement is on foot for securing a low
rate for regular suburban trains on the Ill
nois Central between Sioux Falls and East
Sioux Falls, for the accommodation of the
men employed In the quarries.
The crop outlook in Yankton county is ex-
~cellent, although rain would be appreciated
by the farmers. They are unanimous, how
ever, in saying that crops were never in bet
ter condition than at the present time.
Sioux Falls Journal, 81: Charles Howard
has recently invested In a fine $27, 900 cattle
ranch, viii h is located near the one he now
already owns. He evidently believes there Is
more money In a cattle ranch than In real es-
tate.
Centerville journal, 2: Mr.. johnson the
special expert whom the Centerville Coal and
Mining company has been waiting for so long,
arrived last Saturday aud is now superintend-
ing the drilling. IL is expected that next
week something definite may be given the
public.
Canton News, 3: NJ. ~Iverson, Of Lynn
township, this season had the good fortune
to get two pair of twin calves. All four calves