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Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1884-06-14
OFFICIAL PROCEEDINGS
of the Roard Of Trustees of Custer
City, Custer County. D. T.
CUSTER Cry, June 10, 1884.


Board met pursuant to adjournment
Chairman Thompson and Trustees
Curran. Klcemann, Kimble and Kubler
being present.
Minutes of last meeting read, correct
ed and made to read, that the fees al.
lowed to the Town Justice of the Peace
shall he the same as are allowed to
county justices, but he shall not be al.
lowed any part of fines collected.
Special committee, appointed to selec,
a site for cemetery, granted further time
in which to make report.
Bill Of A. II. Kemmish, $40 90, adverse
entry Of claim to lot in block /, order.
ed paid.
On motion, clerk instructed to give
notice that the Board of Trustees will sit
as board of equalization June 18th.
1884.
On motion, general tax of five mills
on the dollar valuation Of all property
enumerated on assessors returns, was
ordered levied for the year 1884.
Board then adjourned 70 meet at
o'clock p. M, June 25th. 1884.
]. p. THOMPSON,
Attest: President of the Board.
A. T. FEAY, Town Clerk.
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1884-06-14
tieth, l2O. Highest for Edmunds on the

tieth, l20. Highest for Edmunds on the
twelfth and thirteenth, 33. Chester A.
Arthur of New York was nominated for
vice president on first ballot by 46s
votes, Washburn receiving l22, Jewell
Al, and Maynard 80, the rest scattering
The platform on which Garfield and
Arthur ran denounced the solid sonth
and the democratic party, favored pro-
tective tariff, the protection Of citizens
by federal power, and the restriction OF
Chinese immigration. The fact of per.
haps greatest importance in connection
with the convention in 1880 i'm its efIec,
on the republican party was the prece-
dent established by the abolition Of the
unit rule absolutely and beyond the pos
sibility Of its restoration. This circum-
stance has had everything to do with
the varied character and composition Of
the several state delegations this wear
The attack on the nntit rule was led by
MIR. Blaine's licutenants, and the sup.
porters Of Gen. Grant fought in its de-
fence desperately to the bitter end.
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Notice.
Notice.
CUSTER, d. T., May "a, 1884.

CUSTER, d. T., May "A, 1884.
Notice is hereby given mat on June
oath, 1884, at the court house, Custer
City, Custer county, Dakota Territory,
an election ,s to be held for Treasurer Of
Custer school Township, which election
will be opened at O'Clock in the morn.
ing and continue until 4 o'clock In the
afternoon of the same day.
. Also at the school house on Squaw
Creek, Custer county, Dakota Territory.
to elect treasurer Of Palmer School
Township.
At the school house, Battle River,
Custer county, Dakota Territory, to elect
. treasurer Of Battle River School Town
ship.
At the residence Of Geo. Boland, Cus.
ter county, Dak ota Territory, to elect .
treasurer for Buffalo Gap School Town.
ship.
Al the school house near French
Creek, Custer county, Dakota Territory,
to elect a treasurer for Glen Erin School
Township.
E. H. FLYNN, County Clerk.
BY F. J. RurxowsKr, Deputy.
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Sheep Growers.

A meeting Of sheep growers Of the
Black Hills was he'd ut Sturgis last Sat
urdav, the oath, at which a permanent
organization was effected with officers
as follows:
President-P. E. Sparks.
First vice president-John d. Hale
Custer county.
Second vice president-Ira d. Putnam
Laramie county, Wyoming.
Third vice president-W. s. Fan
shave, Pennington county.
Fourth vice president-A. Nyswanger
Custer county.
Fifth vice president-N. M. Hinton
Fall River county.
Sixth vice president-P. Caldwell
Butte county.
Recording secretary-A. c. Eveleth
Corresponding secretary-F. M Allen
Treasurer-H 0. Henderson.
The board Of directors, consisting O
the officers above named, is to exercis,
jurisdiction over the general affairs o
the association.
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Tilden's willingness Proved.

Washington, June 5.--The attitude ol
Mr.. Tilden with reference to the demo
cratic nomination is again exciting con.
| siderable comment. A circumstantial
statement made by Representative Dor.
sheimer, and published by the Star here,
has revived the question Of Tilden's
candidacy and given it additional inter.
est at this time. In this publication ii
is represented that Dorsheimer was told
by MIR Dana, of the New York Sun, that
he (pana) had recently visited Tilden
and informed him that the democratic
party was suffering because of the un-
certainty whether he would be a candi-
date. Mr.. Tildcn assured Dana that he
had not wavered, and had written a
letter declining to be candidate. which
would be read at the New York state
convention, June Is. This is the same
story to which allusion was made in
these dispatches on Sunday night last
There is now reason to believe that Mr..
Dorsheimer misunderstood or has mis-
represented Mr.. Dana, or that the re-
porter Of the Star has misunderstood
or misrepresented Mr.. Dorsheimer. As
Mr.. Dorsheimcr has not denied the cor.
rectness Of the published statements, il
is fair to assume that it is accurately
given. Mr. Randall and other demo-
Gratis here laugh at the Dorsheimer story
and give it no credence whatever MIR
Randall is confident that Tillen has not
written such letter as Dorsheimer said
the 'irrmercy Park sage exhibited to
Nj Dana, and tie Dorshci.ner pnblics,
tion is further discredited by the New
York correspondent OF the Philadelphia
Ledger, whose opportunities to be we'll
Informed in this particular entitle his
statement to the fullest credit. The
Ledger correspondent says:
Mr.. Tilden will write no letter TO be
read at the Utica convention, but, as
heretofore stated, he will write letter
to the national convention intimating
his readiness TO accept the nomination,
piONlNCu III OC lCIlucTcu lllIl
ly. That is the programme, all state.
ments to the contrary notwithstanding
From not less reliable sources of finfor.
nation it is asccrtained also that the
feeling throughout the state, as develop
ed at the primaries, is running equally
strong in the same direction. Here is a
Cat contradiction Of Dorsheimer's story
by thoroughly reliable and careful
correspondent, and the fact that dele
gates are being chosen to the state con.
vention in Mr.. Tilden's interest, and for
the purpose Of making him the demo-
cratic nominee, strengthens the CORE.
spondent's statement. /. looks as if Mr.
Dorsheimer had confounded the letter
that Mr.. Tilden will write to the nation
al convention demanding an unanimous
nomination with one which he did no
write, and which will not be presented
to the Utica convention.
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1884-06-14

Plaindealer, 3lst: T. w. Furlong ar
rived Thursday morning from Missouri.
He has resigned his position as superir.
tendent Of the Sidney and Black Hills
stage line and will return to Canton,
Mo-, as soon as his successor is installed.
The stage company loses an efficient
superintendent in the resignation of
Mr.. Furlong, who has devoted his whole
energy, of which he is chock full, to the
Interests Of the company since his ar.
rival here in July, 1882, but his business
demanding his personal attention he
deemed it expedient to resign. H. A.
Billing. an old employe Of the company
from California, will the new superin.
tendent.
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1884-06-14

The following description Of tin ore
by A. T. Wood, M. E., will be ofinterest
to those prospecting for that mineral in
in this vicinity:
"Tin ore, generally known among
mining engineers as cassiterite or oxide
Of tin, is found and worked very largely
in Cornwall, England. The appearance
of tin ore, as found in Cornwall. is Of a
black color, highly adamantine, when
in crystals. The streak is a pale grey
color, the hardness about six and the
specific gravity from $40. The crys-
tails are usually octahedrous. Tin ore
occurs in veins in the crystalline rocks,
granite, mica slate, and is principally
found associated with copper, iron
pyrites and tourmaline. Tin ore has
some resemblance TO a dark garnet, TO
black zinc blende, and to some varieties
Of ftourmaline, but is directly disguished
by its infusibility, and is yielding a
small globule of tin before the blow
pipe on charcoal with soda. 1t differs
from blende also in superior hardness.
The tin ore Of mines in Cornwall gener-
ally contain 1880 per cent of tin and 20
80 Of oxygen. Tin is also found as tin
pyrites, or Bell metal, steel grey color,
and it is easily decomposed py nitric
acid, giving off sulphur fumes and leav-
ing peroxide of tin, a blue solution. l
have seen this having been found at st.
Michael's Mount, Cornwall. Tin is also
found in what is known as stream tin, a
gravel-like substance, found in debris in
low ground Tin has been mentioned
rs having been found in the pure state
in Cornwall, but never have seen il
there found, nor do l know Of it ever
having been found"
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1884-06-14

Mr.. NJ. M. Shoffner, Postmaster and
Justice of the Peace, Company Shops,
Alamance Co., N c., writes, he has used
st. Jacobs Oil for rheumatism, cuts,
swelled ankles and knees, pains in the
back and sore-throt. One or two appli.
cations in each case has always cured
and he believes the Great German Re.
medy is the best in the world. "As long
as can get it," he adds, Il never in.
tend To be without it.
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CUSTER CIry, CUSTER Co., d. T. I
Tupo q yQoa Z

4 -
| June 8, 1884.
! Board Of County Commissioners met
pursuant to adjournment.
Present, A. Johnson, chairman, C.
Cole, member, and F. Rutkowski,
deputy county clerk.
Minutes Of meetings since May 5th,
1884, read and approved.
The board proceeded to the consider.
alton Of the matter of school organiza-
ton, and after mature deliberation 10
was moved and carried, that the follow
ing be entered on the minutes as tho
resolution of the board:
After listening to all the arguments
and taking into consideration all the
circumstances connected with the ques-
ton for the consideration Of which this
board was convened, and while We
desire at all time to do our whole duty
in any matter affecting the interests Of
the people of the whole county, we do
not feel called upon to make Of this
board catspaw in the adjustment of
personal differences Of private nature,
and having once performed our duty in
the matter in question, il is our opinion
that we as board Of commissioners
have exhausted our powers in the prem.
ises, and that the remedy lies with q
power higher than this board.
A petition of the Probate Judge was
laid before the board, requesting that q
number of copies Of the Revised Statutes
of Dakota b purchased for the use Of tho
county officers, and it was ordered that
FIVE copies of the statutes, as published
by the West Publishing Co. Of st Paul,
Mimi, be purchased as requested.
The following bills were presented,
and were approved, and the county
clerk authorized to draw warrants on
the county General Fund for the 70.
spec:;ye amounts:
Bill Of A. w. HASTE, for $500.
for services as district attor.
ney, in re Of Territory w J.
Walker, owed....-............-& rs 90
Bill of Clark & Kubler. itemized
Tor printing for $42.50, allow.
ed .............................. q 50
Bill Of Star, Bullock & Co. for
$l4.75 for tools furnished for
road work, allowed............... IA rs
and warrant on Road and
Bridge Fund ordered issued
for that amount.
There being no further business be-
fore it, the board adjourned sine die.
ALFRED JOHNSON. Chairman.
Attest:
E. II. FLYNN, County Clerk.
BY F. J. RUrKowsKI, Deputy.
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1884-06-14
OFFICIAL PROCEEDINGS
or the Board Of County Commission.
crs Of Custer County, ID. T.
CUSTER CRY, CUSTER Co., D. T. I
June 2, 1884. !
Notice.

NOOC0.
A special meeting Of the board ofcoan.
ty commissioners, Custer county, Dako.
ia territory, will be held at the cour,
house, Custer City, d. T., at 10 o'clock
a. m June 7th, 1884, to take action on q
communication from the Territorial
Superintendent of Public Instructions to
the County Superintendent of this coun-
ty, in regard to the organization OF
school townships. under an act Of the
Legislative Assembly Of the Territory oi
Dakota, approved March 9th. 1888, and
for the transaction ofsll such other bust.
ness as may be properly brought before
it.
f. H. FLYNN, County Clerk.
BY -. RUTKowsKI, Deputy.
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There being no quorum present, board
adjourned to / o'clock p. m. same day.
ALFRED JOHNSON, Chairman
Attest:
+. II. FLYNN, County Clerk.
By F. J. RurKowsxr, Deputy.

] O'CLOCK ?. y.
Meeting Of board pursuant to adjourn.
ment.
Present: A. johnson, chairman, and
F. j. Rutkowski, deputy county clerk.
There being no quorum of county com.
missioners present, board adjourned to
10 o'clock q. m, June 9th, 1884.
ALFRED JOHNSON, Chairman.
Attest:
E. II. FLYNN, County Clerk.
BY +. J. RUTxowsxI, Deputy.
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1884-06-14

A meeting Of all resident ex-soldiers
Is called for next Wednesday evening at
the court house to organize y Grand
Army Post for Custer.
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1884-06-14

All taxes due Custer county are de-
linquent II not paid by July lst will
be collected by distress.
Dated, Custer City, June LIST, 1884.
A. T. VAN DEvoRr,
County Treasurer.
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1884-06-14

Notice is hereby given that q co.pars.
nership has been formed between Felix
Michaud and J. F. Allen to carry on the
livery business under the frm name Of
MIchaud 4 Allen.
Felix Michaud,
]. +. Allen,
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Blame and Logan.

John A. Logan was nominated by
acclamation for vice president on Friday
June 9Th.
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JAMES @. BLAINE.


James Gillespie Blaine is Pennsyl-
vanian, fifty-four years old, Jan. 81. His
father was one of the heaviest landed
2roprietors in the state, and the son
spent several years in early youth at
school III Lancaster, Ohio, living in the
family Of the Hon. Thomas Ewing, who
was at that time secretary of tha treas
ury. He graduated at Washington col
lege in lS47. and taught school for sever
al years. In 1853 he became editor Of
the kenebec, Me-, Journal, and later Of
the Portland Advertiser. He was elect
ed to the legislature in 1858. served four
years and was speaker for two. He
went to congress in 1852. became the
best parliamentarian i'm the body. aud
was made speaker in 1869. His rulings
were always prompt, exact and correct.
1t was while in the speakers desk
charges Of charges Of corruption were
made against him. They have haunted
him ever since. He was defeated for
the presidency in 1876 by Roscoe Conk
ling, who engineered the nomination Of
Hayes in revenge for Blaine's calling
him turkey gobbler. In 1877 he en-
tered the senate and voted against the
electoral commission as unconstitution-
al. In 1880 Blaine practically nominat-
ed Garfield, breaking the Conkling
Logan triumvirate to put
Grant in third time. When Garfield
was shot he retired from the state de.
partment and began to write n history
Of his twenty years in public life, wors
that has made him a fortune and may
make MIN u president.
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1884-06-14

CUSTER CRY, CUSTER Co., D. T. |
June z, 1884.

Board met pursuant to above call.
Present: A.. johnson, chairman, and
:. J. Rutkowski, deputy county clerk,
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1884-06-14
THE STRUGGLE FOUR YEARS AGO.

The convention of 1880 was called to
order ut noon, June 2, in the Chicago
exposition building, by Don Cameron,
chairman of the national committee,
George F. Hoar of Massachusetts was
chosen temporary chairman and later
on the 5th, was made permanent chair
man. The first ballot was not reached
until Tuesday, the 8th. The total vote
was 755; necessary to choice, 379. On
the first ballot Grant received 304, Blaine
1884, Sherman 90. Edmunds "a, Window
10, and Washburn 80. During the TWEEN
ty-eight ballots of the day Grant gained
FIVE on the fifteenth ballot and dropped
back to 308 Ola the twenty eighth. Blaine
reached 2S5 on the fourteenth and closed
with 27S on the twenty. eighth. Sherman
had two less on the twenty-eigbth than
on the first; Edmnnds three less, and
Window kept his ten the whole twenty
eight ballots. Washburn had five more
on the twenty eighth than on the first
Garfield had one on the second ballot
Auctuated between one and two and
wound up with the latter number on
THE twenty eighth. On the third, fourth
and fifth, Harrison, of Indiana, had one
vote. Hayes received one on the tenth.
Twenty-nin;h ballot, taken on the 9th of
June, was practically the same as the
twenty eighth, as wac also the thirtieth
on the thirty-6rst Blaine lost two. on
the thirty-second six; on the thirty
third gained six lost one on the thirty
fourth. On the thirty-fifth Grant went
to 3l2, Blaine fell back to 257, and Ear
field went to 30. On the thirty-six bal
lot Blaine men went to Garfield all but
AZ. the result being Garfield 800, Grant
eos, Blaine 4c, Sherman s, Washburn S.
The highest vote Grant received on any
ballot was OF the thirty fourth, which
was 3l2. The highest vote Blaine re-
ceived was On the fourteenth, 2S5 The
highest for Sherman wss On the thir-
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1884-06-14
JOHN A. LOGAN.

Gen. John A. Logan was born Feb. 8,
1926. in Jackson county, Illinois, and is
Of Irish parentage. He was lieute
nant in the Mexican war, and was ad
mitted to the bar in 1852, being elected
to the legislature the same year. and in
the next to the office Of prosecuting at
torney Of the Third judicial dirtrict,
holding that Office until 1857 He was
re elected to the state legislature in 1853,
1856 and 1857, and was presidential
elector on the Buchanan and Brecken.
ridge ticket. In 1853 and 1860 he was
elected representative at congress. In
July, 1861, he enlisted in time to be in
the first battle at Bull Run. His brav-
cry in Grants Northern Mississippi
movements met with promotion to the
rank vf major general! A: Vic:sburs
his column led the entrance on June %,
anil he WAS the first military governor.
He succeeded Sherman at the head OF
The Fiftcenth army corps in November,
1853, and when NJ Pherson lost his life
Oh the I'D OF July, Logan succeeded
him and commanded the army Of the
Tennessee, going with Sherman on the
march to the sea. From tue close Of the
war to 1871 Gen. Logan served in the
house. In that year he was elected SEN
ator. He was defeated for reelection
in 1877 by David Davis, but was return.
ed at the expiration Of Gov Oglesby's 's
term in 1879. He is a man of great
decision, some learning, and is linger.
ing monument of the machine period
in American politics. He was Grants
lieutenant in 1880, and is suspected OF
an alliance with Blaine this year.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-09-01
Protesting Taxpayers.

SANTA BARBARA, August 30th.-A peti-
ton, signed by 400 citizens, demonstrating
against the State Board of Equalization
raising the rate OF taxation 20 per cent, has
been in circulation to-day. The valuation
taken by the Assessor this year was 20 per
cent higher than last year. The remon-
STRANGE will be presented before the Board
at Sacramento by Thomas r, Dibblee on
September 3D.
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Difficulties in Judging of Distance

Place a man and dog side by side, at 4
distance Of twenty feet, and any persn
with AL eye capable of distinguishing then
will be able to tell which is Oh the right
which on the left The eye is not easily
deceived as to positions at right angles tt
the line of vision Let the man advan3
five feet; it is easy to tell that the dog is
further away than the man. Next place
the man at 4 distance of 100 feet, the dog al
105 fe2t; it is notso easily decidedas before,
although mistakes are rare with a normal
eye But at 500 and $50 feet, respectively,
it is less easy, although we can still tell
which is to the right and which to the left.
The images formed on the retina by the
same object at different distances are very
similar, differing only in size and distinct
ness. For this reason it is difficulttO judge
OF distances, requiring much practice. Re
fraction always changes the apparent place
Of an object. 50 that we seem TO see the
sun after it has gone below the horizon. A
more striking but less frequentph phenomenon
of refractiOn is that known as mirage.
Refraction also affects the color of an
object The media through which light
passes has more or less effect upon the ray.
In a fog objects are dimly seen, the effect
resembling that due TO distance; hence OBJ
jects look larger, for the eye judges of the
size OF an object by multiplying he size OF
the image or impression received by the
square of the distance, while the latter is
estimated from the indistinCtness of the
object. In the fog the apparent distance is
increased, but the eye interprets it as due
to the opposite cause. On looking at the
photograph of Il tree, a church, a monu.
nent or a pyramid, it is not possible tc
form q correct idea of its size unless man
or animal is seen in the same view with
which to compare it. In nature, especially
on land, the intervening objects which leaC
up to it give the data on which to calculate
the distance. Where none intervene, as il
looking from peak to peak, the eye mus
depend on distinctness, and where the all
is very clear and transparent, as in Colo
RADIO, distances seem less than they are. i
the object is seen through transparent
though colored, media, the form remain.
true but the colors are changed.
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j. C. DEYINE.
j. Q. DEf me,

IMPORTER AND MANUFACTURER OF MON
| uments. Headstones, Tablets, Mantlepieces,
Plumbers Slabs. FurnlUure Tops, etc. Sculptur-
ing and other Fine Work done to order. Ali
kinds of work done in Marble and Granite at
the lowest cash price. No 72i K street, Sacra-
mento. Country orders solicited and all work
guaranteed. Nineteen Premiums and the Gold
Medals of 1871 and 1875. jel6-tf
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Down South.

"Yes, I've been down South said a
dusty, tanned passenger, with quite va
liety Of baggage lying on the seat in front
q him, and it's mighty glad I am to get
back North again. The South is no place
for my business"
And what might your business be?'
k"Selling clOthes-wringers, fluters and
sad-irons The colored women do all
the washing and ironing in the South,
AMI of course / canyassed among
them. They're a queer lot of citizens,
they are In one house in Memphis |
We nted to sell woman huter; and
Wien she saw it she said Go way wild yo'
slrysidge macbine-wes no Dutch trash in
dh hyah house, IN Vicksburg | was
SHOWING a colored woman some sad-irons,
when she said: We's got no use 1or any
stI Ii weep'ns, sab; I'm a speble woman, |
ADJ. and don't go gaddin' roun' nights wild
cdnmon folks; an as 70 my husban' he
ne5ber would be boddahed wild one o dem
afTons-he prefahs razah.' Even in one
of the back streets of the colored district of
st Louis | was carrying a wringer along
one day, when about four dozen picka-
nhlnies ran after me and cried out Mis-
tall, mistah, pleathe play us a tune. In
two hours l lit out for Chicago. u Chicago
Herald