Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1890-01-25

been completed.
DR.. w. II. Rouse, of Lincoln county, has
been appointed physician at the Sisseton
Indian agency.
Colonel Thomas c. Powell, United States
Eankton saloonkeeper.
AT Spearfsh ever since the first of the
month the thermometer has ranged from 7
70 Il degrees below zero.
The South Dakota Mail is the name of q
weelly paper issued by the inmates of the
industrial school at Flankinton.
Bessie Barclay, a Lead City school girl,
was severely bitten in the face by a vicious
dog Tuesday. The animal was shot.
Patrick Rooney, of F~alsebottom, was adj
judged insane at Deadwood Tuesday and
ordered sent 20 the NanLton asylum.
A fire in the engine room at the water
tank belonging to the Manitoba road at
Sioux Falls did $3.50 worth of damages.
The Waterfowl Journal. Democrat has
chopped off the tail end of its name and
now appears as the plain WATERFOWL Jour
nal.
Henry Leedy, a ranchman near Rapid
City, is suffering from a frightful cash in
Lis left leg made by the tusk of u vicious
bear.
On Thursday evening the grand chapter
of North Dakota masons was organized at
Fargo by I. ). Parvin, grand secretary of
Iowa.
During the past three years no less than
thirty-three u~nfortunates nave been sent 10
the Yankton insane asylum from the Black
Hills district,
Rev. Y. II. Hang, of Aberdeen, has re-
ceived Il consignment of clothing from
Randolph, VT, for distribution among the
drouth sufferers.
Application has been made to the grand
chancellor for the establishment of a X, Of
p. lodge at Sturgis, to be known as Rath-
bone lodge No. 80.
A porter at the Hotel Locke in Pierre
fell down the elevator shaft a distance of
three stories the other day and escaped
with n broken water pitcher.
Ei-Governor Ordway is confined 30 his
room in Washing on with a severe attack
Of inhammatory rheumatism, brought on
by exposure and oyerwork.
Grand Master Workman Frank Wilder,
of Aberdeen, is in Pierre looking after the
interests Of the KNIGHTS of LABOR during
the session of the legislature.
Calvin G. Wilson, q pioneer of the Black
His, and well known hunter aad trapper
OF that section, died at Deadwood last Fri
day of paralysis, aged IS years.
The Rice block ut Watertown was dam
aged to the extent Of $500 by FIRE last
Thursday. The loss to occupants of the
building amounts TO as much more.
The mines in the Bear Butte district Of
the LACK Hills are said to be the richest
in that section OF country, but as yet little
effort has been made to develop them.
August Meme, Lying six miles north of
Harold, had his arm terribly mangled by
the bursting of q double -barreled shotgun
while shooting jack rabbits last Thursday.
While loading Il car in the Homestake
mine at Lead City Friday a mass of rock
fell on Eric Engstrom, breaking his leg in
three places and otherwise badly iniuring
him.
Hahn hnuttson, a farmer living near
Thompson, was found dead in his wagon
between that place and Grand Forks sat
urday night. He was q victim of strong
drink.
The Arlington Sun issued u neatly printed
eight page annual, descriptive OF Arlin ton
and hingsbury county with "a resume of
the business Of that lively town FOR the
past year.
Collector Peters decided upon the
appoint mcnt of J, c. Warnock, editor of
the North Dakota Capital, of Jamestown,
10 be deputy revenue collector For North
Dakota, with headquarters at Fargo.
Marin Nouu gfardorf of Ia1 o,r1a1 nm
the muzzle OF a shotgun with his thumb
while at a dance the other evening and one
of the dancers kicked the weapon on the
trigger. No trace of the thumb could be
found.
North Dakota farmers want the legisla-
ture to enact a law whereby counties may
furnish strychnine free to be used in
poisoning g~ophers. 1t Is thought II would
be u cheaper way of Kidding the country of
the animals than would a law paying a
bounty for them.
The house and contents of Ezra Adair,
living six miles west of Carthage, were en-
tirely destroyed by fire on the 9TH inst.
The family barely escaped will their lives
and are left entirely destitute. Neighbors
are taking up a subscription to aid in no
building the house.
A Minnesota sportsman named Cornett,
while hunting chickens was attacked by
an Infatuated steer, and in trying to get
away slipped and fell, causing q discharge
of both barrels of his gun. The contents
struck the animal full In the face, blowing
the entire top of its head off and killing IL
almost instantly.
Mirages are of common occurrence In
the northern Black Hills country. On
January 5 the psople of Spear6sh wit
messed one of the beautiful illusions in
which the section Of the country lying be-
tween that city and Beaulah was distinctly
mirrored against the sky. The sight lssted
for an hour and a half, and was the second
witnessed In TINT neighborhood inside Of Q |
nooth.