Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1881-02-05
IN CONCLUSION.

ence force. Although the energy Of his
attack upon the election clause was en-
tirely thrown away, as there happened
TO be nothing TO attack, yet, We thought
master charge, the wind mill, that if the
same amount of vim and spirit was
directed against something that was a
q fair combat. that it might deliver some
quite vigorous blows. We have waited
patiently for his two succeeding letters,
expecting something that would force rs
to acaIie,c with him in some single iota
Of belief, but alas We waited in vain
Poor Reno he strained himself so seri-
ously in his first blast that up u the
present writing, he seems able merely to
gasp in astonshment al the inmeusl:y
Of his own effort and to try to discover
the terrific breach in the cncny's work
whiCh his first shot was expected TO
have made. In his last letter the pa
tient reader and oearcher after truth, will
has taken final adicu Of that terribly ber-
ated phantom the election clause, he does
recolect himself in time 10 speak of the
clause about the court house and Jail.
being voted upon jointly.
Now, Reno, has it never yet occurred
to you that we did not draw that bill ?
We don't know but few Of the men
who did have amy hand in H. and sim
ply discuss its merits or defects as we
find them, the same AZ all other citizens,
are supposed To do We are not person
ally responsible for what the bill con
tainS and trust that the readers Of the
CHEoNtCIE have not in general elevated
rs to that responsible position, which
our friend Reno seems determined to
make us occupy, nOlens VOIcnS. The
mantle of Caesar has not fallen upon Us
with such force aS TO make itself ap.
parent t. the unasSistcd optics o. And
lust for the private ana particular in
formation Of our friend Reno, We will
whisper that there are other men in
this county outside OF thi, modest scribe.
Nhu IN their Own proper person attend
20 all !hc law making, while We have
nothing 10 do but answer Reno's letters
I'D draw our salary from the
The n"w county road receives probably
he mos; frightfui walluping that any
uubic measure has had within the
memory of the oldest inhahitant. We
did have great faith that that part Of the
bill would he voted for by the people,
hat now there is no Use in trying any
longer Ii is Knocked 50 high that
when il comes down We don't expect to
be able to discern the mark it will
make, not even with compound,
quadruplex million magnifying, micro
scope.
When we read that our merchants
don't buy their goods at Battle river,
that do settle it," We must have
been most cgrcgiously misinformcd.
We thought that at Battle river there
were goods awaiting simply Il road,
when they would commence rolling by
a kind of spontaneous locomotion to-
wards Custer, and that all such poor
wrctches as newspaper men, and such
like, could then live on the fat of the
land, and wear sUmptuous apparel,
without money and without price. And
now, here comes Mr.. Reno and tells Us
that this amt So. Why. the mans
heart must be adamantine to 50 ruth
ess Y crush our most cherished dreams
Of future afiluence.
Now we took occasion, seriously, to
give our reasons for advocating the
building of this road two weeks ago.
But really forgot To tell Reno, knowing
that everybody else knew it that Gus
ter county ends at tbh Cheyenne river,
which might possibly have been the
reason, why Custer county officials did
not run road across an Indian reser-
vation we also forgot to mention, for
the same reason as above, that the cOun-
try being prairie to the east eff the river,
and good fordable crossing being at the
terminus of the road, all of which facts
are known to every one, who either has
ever been in that vicinity, or who read
the report, printed in the CHRoNIcLs
some six weeks ago, SO that teams can
60 from the ford to almost any point on
the Pierre road that they take notion
10. ~ So
Reno is right on one thing, he says
there are Other farming communities in
the county besides Battle river. Score
a long credit mark for Reno right here.
You are right pard shake. There is Il
farming community at Buffalo Gap and
Hot Brook, and there is road to it over
which every pound of freight we receive
from Sidney is hauled. There is farm
ing community in the immediate vicin-
ity of Custer, which has a good road to
pyarv individual farm Tiara ic q farm