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Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1884-10-11
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Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1884-10-11

W.
Dennis Carrigan, plf.
VS.
Peter Staplcton and
Clas A.. iiaserodt dcfts
To Peter Stapleton and Charles A Haserodt
defendants above named.
You are hereby summoned and required to
answer the compliant annexed and serve a copy
of yonr answer on the subscriber at his office in
the city of Custer, Custer county, ID. T.. within
thirty days after the service of the luminous on
you exclusive OF the day of service. Ii YOU fail
to answer the complaint within that time the
plaintiff will take Judgment against yon for the
sum nf one hundred dollars with interest from
the 10Th day Of September, 1883 TX well a. an at
tviii,ys &c .: ;Sii dollars ai,,i costs III ti,is action
A. !. SPRAGtE,
Plaintiffs Attorney.
To Peter Stapleton one OF Defendants above nam.
ell.
Please take notice that the complaint in this
action was hlel in the nhice o. the clerk o! the
district court in and FIR Caster county, ID. T., at
custer City ON the 18th day of August, 1854.
A. l.. SPItACUE,
Attorney for Plaintiff
First Publication Sept. -.
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Notice Of Final Proof
or James s. Shepard, HI. No. III.

LAND OFFICE AT DEApwooD. H.. 4.
Sept. II, 1884
Notice is herey given that the ollowiug-nam-
cd settler has fled notice of his intention to make
final proof in support of his claim, and that said
proof will be made before the Judge or clerk of
tie District Court Of Fall River County. -. r., Mt
Hot Springs, D. T.. on November lth. 1854, viz
James :. Shepard, I'd. No, III for the ne sw
ar sw or NV or section 33, and ne or se qr Sec
ton y, township s south, range 6 east, II I'll NJ.
III names the following witnesses to prove his
continuous residence upon, and cultivation of,
said land, viz;
G. g.. Green. Edmund Petty. Joseph Petty,
Henry Marty. all OF Hot Springs, Oak.
!. L. LUSE, Register.
First publication, Sept. 20.
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Summons.

In the district court OF the First Judicial district
of Dakota Territory in and for Custer County
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- y. = - Send six cents for postage
~ " T., aud receive free, a costly box
tnJnlS { of goods which VIII help you
as 3ato more money right away
than anything else in the world, All, of either
sex. succeed from first hour. Thu broad road o.
fortune opens before the workers, absolutely
sure. At once address, TRUE d. Co.. Augusta.
Maine.
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Great ROCK ISLAND ROUTE

Az IL Ia farinary called, offers to travellers a n vantages nd comforts
inc,5e,t TO a smooth track, safe bridges, Umon Dspots at a ~ nnecNn points
Fast E.prsos rains, comaosod OF con- nootous, WELL venILAIEo. wsL
HEATED, FINELY USAoL Stored m ELEGANT DAY COACHES; a ne OF the
MOST MAGNIFICENT horton RECLINING CHAIR cARs over uhti POLLMah.s
i,.,.t denm,ed n andson PALACE SLEEPING CARE, n DINING CARS
arc acknowledged hy press am psops to pc the FINEST RUN oPo AN
ROAD ~ the COUNTRY, n In which superior meals ares ersod TO oasse"s az
n !w rate OF sEvgRTY-FivE CENTS EACH.
Tn,.s TRAINS eaon va, bot~ee, CHICAGO and the MISSOURI RIVER.
Two TRAINS ench way between CHICAGO and MINNEAPOLIS n Z PAU
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OFFICIAL PROCEEDINGS
Ofthe Board Of County Commission
ers Of Custer County. d. Il.


CUSTER City, CUSTER Co, ID. T.
Oct. g, 1884,
Board Of County Commissioners in
regular quarterly session.
Present: w. y. Walker, chairman,
JAS. Clark, and j. l.. Rider, members,
and +. j. Rutkowski, deputy county
clerk.
Minutes of meetings Of September 22d
1854, read and approved.
The county clerk informed the board
that in addition tothe tax levy Of Sept.
last, he has extended on the tax list a
tax Of ten mills on the dollar in Buffalo
Gap school township, rs requested 10y
the school board Of that township since
Sept. lst last.
Resolved by the board That the county
clerk advertise for proposals to be re-
ccived at the office of the county clerk,
till November l4th, 1854, for the deliv-
cry at the court house, Custer City, of
fifty cords of stove wood, in eighteen
inch lengths, split, ready for use. Forty
cords to be of good body wood, and ten
cords OF pitch pine. That all proposals
be accompanied 10y good and sufficient
bonds. Payments to be made in war
rants on the County General Fund.
Report of treasurer of Palmer school
township for year ending June 80, 1854,
examined and approved, and county
clerk directed to issue "A warrant on
County General Fund to JnO. ii. Palmer,
said treasurer, for the sum of $500.
Synopsis of the report as follows:
Amount on hand at be-
ginning Of ycar..."....SlS360
Received during year,. 3l4.56
Paid for Teachers wages. $3.50 90
Paid for Incidental exp. 81 50
Bal. OH hand June 80, "a so 81
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j. M. LEWIS,
Of the Peace.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS TAKEN.
Deeds written and legal business in
my line transacted.
Office at Lower end of Custer Avenue,
Custer City. J. NJ. LEWIS.
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Summons.

In the district court of the First Judicial dis
trict Of Dakota territory In and for Custer couu
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HEALTH HINTS,

Do not imagine you need medicine if
you feel a little sick. Take a rest. In
many cases a good bath and q few hours
sleep are all that is necessary.
A cucumber, in lieu of ice, is cut in
slices and laid upon the heads of fever
patients in England. The effect is said
to be cool, grateful and refreshing.
For the relief of earache-put five
drops of chloroform in q little cotton or
wool in the bowl of n clay pipe, and blow
the vapor through the stem into the ach-
ing ear.
A California physician claims that the
juice from eucalyptus leaves has induced
the hair to grow on his bald head. He
was in the habit of pounding to a pulp
the leaves, which he applied to his hea
for the cure of headache. and was BUR
prised to find a new and abundant crop
of hair commence to grow.
Su%perhuous hair can be removed sue
c~essfully and permanently by using n
paste composed of water and any prop
erly prepared depilatory powder, such as
are put up by all of the leading chemists
and pharmacists. Allow the paste to
remain on for two minutes then remove
it, and the hair and its follicles will have
been completely destroyed. Pcpilatory
powders are very injurious, however, if
improperly prepared.-HeaM and Home
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Center Of Earthquake Trouble.

Though some terrible earthquakes
occur in Europe and Asia, South America
seems to be the center of trouble. In
1912 the city of Caracas, in Venezuela,
was destroyed in three shocks, each Of
which did not occupy twenty seconds.
In 1859 the city of Callao was also com
pletely demolished, this being the second
lime. The first time a wave came in from
the sea one hundred feet high, and with
out warning burst upon the city. In
1922 an earthquake produced some
strange changes in the Andes. Noun,
tains were levcled, others were raised,
and n tract of land one thousand miles
square was bodily elevated about seven
feet.
1t has been learned from old records
that the destruction of Herculancum and
Pompcii was nearly accomplished by an
earthquake sixteen years before the ashes
of Vesuvius covered them from sight.
Biblical records tells lis that earthquakes
were felt in Syria in the time of Ahab,
900 Be, and also in the reign of Uzziah,
800 B. C. In Joscphus there is mention
of an earthquake that desolated Judea at
the time of the battle of Actium, 81 B.
c., destroying over 10, 900 people. An
tioch has been visited by some terrible
n The worst visitation was in 52G,
A. D., when over 200, 900 persons were
destroyed. Sixty years later another
shock destroyed 80, 900 more.
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MORE IN THE MAN THAN IN THE
LAND

LAND.
I knoyed g. man, which he lived in Jones,
Which Jones is a county Of red hills and
stones,
And he lived praity mnchb by gettin, Of loans.
And his mules were nuthin' but skin and
bones,
And his hogs was fiat as his corn bread pones,
And he had bout q thousand acres Of
land.
This man-which his name it was also Jones'
He swore that he'd leave them old red hills
and stones
Fur he couldn't make nuthin' but yelIerish
And little O. thot, aid his fences was rotten,
And what little corn he had, hit was
'boughten,
And DANCED if livin' was in the land.
And the longer he swore the mndder he got,
And he riz and he walked to the stable lot;
And he hollared to Tom to come thar II
hitch,
For to emigrate somewhat whar land was
rich,
And to quit raisin' cockburs, thistles and
SIGH,
And a waistin' their time on the cussed
land.
So him and Tom they hitched up the mules,
Pertestin' that folks was mighty big fools
That 'ud stay in Georgy their lifetime out,
Just scratchin' O livin' when all of 'em
mought
Get places in Texas, whar Gotten would sprout
BY the time you could plant in the land
And he driv by a house whar q mai named
Wa a livin' not far from the edge of town,
And he bantered Brown for to buy his place
And said that bein' as money was skace,
| And bein' as sheriffs was hard O. face
Two dollars and acre would git the land.
They closed at q dollar and fifty cents,
And Jones he bought him a wagin and tents,
And loaded his corn and his wimmin and
truck,
And moved to Texas, which it tuck
His entire pile, with the best o luck,
To git thar and git him a little land.
But Brown moved out on the old Jones farm
And he rolled up his breeches and barred his
arm,
And he picked all the rocks from of'n the
groun',
And he rooted it up and plowed it down;
Then he plowed his corn and his wheat in
the land.
Five years glid by, and Brown, one day
(Which he'd got so fat that he wouldn't
weigh,
Was a settin down, sorter lazily,
To the bulliest dinner you ever see,
When one O. the children jumped on his knee,
And says: "Yan's Jones, which you
bought his land"
And thar was Jones, standing out at the
fence,
And he hadn't no wagin, nor mules nor tents,
For he had left Texas afoot and cum
To Georgy to see if he couldn't get sum
Endowment, and he was looki1 as humble
as eff
He had never owned any land.
But Brown be axed him in, and he sot
Him down to his vittles smokin' hot,
And when he had filed hisself and the floor
Brown looked ct him sharp and rz and swore
That whether mems land was rich or poor,
Thar was more in the man than thar was
in the land"
Sidney Lanier, in Southern Cuttirator.
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Drunken Women in London.

During two months in London. says a
correspondent of the New York Tribune,
| think l have seen more drunken women
than drunken men in the streets. Sta.
tistics of this kind are apt to be mislead-
ing, of course. I happened to see more
public drunkenness in Paris than in Lon
don, and yet in hard drinking London
no doubt takes q long lead. But the
drunken women and the drinking women
that are among the sights of the poorer
quarters in London are not pleasing to
the eve of the American, who is not &C
customed to see women on either side of
the bar. Here they are to be found on
both Sides. Barmaids serve the liquor
in almost every "public house" or "gin
palace" and in every one you pass you
can see women drinking.
Sometimes there may be only a few,
and sometimes they form q large share
of the crowd. You will often see re.
specially dressed women, apparently
well-to-do, walking openly into these
places, and evidently thinking nothing
of it. They may be going in merely for
a glass of beer, but their less prosperous
sisters arc more likely to be taking gin.
Walking through Drury lane or some
other soualid street at midnight ola Sat-
urday night you see a spectacle OF
wretchedness and vice that is fairly dis
hcartening. The street swarms with
dirty, half.naked children and gossiping,
tipsy women. some of whom not even
q yhairs will keep from cursing, quarrel.
ing and fighting. Whether the presence
of the bar-maid behind the counter en-
courages the women to come in and drink
or whether she is put there to encouragethe
men to come in, or simply because her
labor is cheaper than a mans, is a prob
lem. She is there to stay, apparently,
and seems to be regarded as one of the
established institutions of the country.
1t is the custom to speak of her as the
'sprctty barmaid." Perhaps this was
true of the first generation of barmaids,
but it is not easy to find the justification
for it now. The barmaid of the period
has a busincss-like, resolute look, as il
she could exercise the functions of an
American "bouncer" on occasion, but
those we happened to see were certainly
not beautiful. The one making most
pretentions to prettiness was q modest
looking girl in the foyer Of the handsome
new Empire theatre. She tried to open
a bottle of soda water for us. The cork
was obstinate. When she put the hottie
between her knees and began to tug with
all her strength, I confess that my
American instincts ovcrcame. I took
the bottle away from her and pulled the
cork myself. Probably this was q very
ridiculous thing to do. Sir Lepcl Grit
fin says the degree of Difference paid to
women in America is absurd or some
thing of that sort. An American tfrom
wisconsin, told an Englishman, with
some Western intensity, that in Americe
the man who put a woman, behiAh thu
bar to sell his whisky would be lynchec
by the men who drankI. The English
man seemed .verYmuch amused.
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SELECT SIFTINGS.

The bread eaten at table in Turin is
q yard long and an eighth of All inch in
| diameter, of pipe stem form, very crisp,
and exceedingly palatable. It is called
sgrissini," after the doctor who invented
it on hygienic principles.
The business of monarchy promotes
longevity. Witness the ages of the fol-
4 lowing rulers: The emperor of Germany
| is cighty-seVen; the king of the Neither,
/ lands, sixty-seven; the king of Denmark,
| ~sixty-six, and Queen Victoria, siXty-fve.
| Church bells from a Baltimore foundry
are in demand in England. Already
/ China, West Africa, Nova Scotia, New.
foundland, the West Indies and parts OF
South America have drawn upon the
same establishment for it's silver-toncd
bells.
In 1860 we imported half the wooden
goods consumed in cloth and in wool.
Now we produce about four-fifths of the
consumption, and the small proportion
imported is largely carpet woods Of too
low q grade for civilized agriculture to
produce.
A great plague, called the "black
DEATH" beginning on the plains of West
ern Asia, swept over Europe during the
years 134S-1351, destroying probably one
third of the whole population. This, by
diminishing the number Of people, dou-
bled the price of labor.
In Alabama is a China tree ten feet in
circumference. Its top was torn away
by a storm; but six feet up the trunk
two more trees have taken root and
grown up as high as the old tree is.
Half way up the trunk of the original
tree a peach tree stands out.
1t is said that no watch will keep the
same time with two people. This is ow-
ing to the temperature of The wcarcr,
and it is claimed that ever the mere
physical difference in gait and move
mcnt between different people will affect
the time-ketping of q watch, which is
probably also affected in ONE degree by
the magnetism of the wearer.
The origin of the trade dollar is thus
explained. The Chinese are paid for their
tea mainly in silver. In 1878 the United
States coined 30. 900, 900 of the trade
dollars for use in India. Previously the
Mexican dollar had practically monopo-
lized the field. The American dollar
was heavier and possessed more intrinsic
value, but it was found that for some
mysterious reason the Chinese merchants
preferred the Mexican to the American
coin, Il fact probably due to their hered-
itary dislike of novelties, and now no
trade dollars are shipped to China. The
The Chinese heard some years ago, that
our government intended to redeem
these dollars at par, and being shrewd
enough to sec an opportunity for spccu-
lation, they boarded the coins and sent
them to this country. At all events,
they arc said to have disappeared in
China rs we'll as in this country.
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The Cowboys Fayorite Gun.

/ dropped into a large store on FL Paso
street, which enjoys the reputation of
selling more arms than any other house
in the city, writes Il correspondent of the
St. Louis Glo6e-D Democrat. While in.
speeding the glittering array of pistols of
all kinds which filled half q dozen show
cases, q young fellow of about twenty
three entered. He was dressed in ap.
proved frontier style, sombrero it would
take three days to walk around the rim
of, white handkerchief tied loosely round
the neck, blue shirt, pants stuck in his
boots, and large Mexican spurs upQn- his
heels, jingling as he walked. He wished
to buy a "gug.% In the expressiveness
and laconic tongue of the frontier a
''gun" is a revolver; a rifle is called by
the name of the maker; and the weapon
of the sportsman, uncurtailed of its fair
proportions, is known as a shotgun.
Selecting from the case a handsomely
mounted Colts forty-five calibre revol-
yer, the clerk said: ''tIow would you
like this? 1t is the newest thing out
adoublc action forty-five.n "Ain't worth
Il row of beans. No man 'cept he is Il
tenderfoot wants hat kind of thing.
Give me old reliable all the time. You
see a mai that's used to the old style is
apt to get fooled-not pull her off in
time-and then hell be laid out colder'n
a wedge"
He was handed q singlc-action Colts
of the same model, which, after carefully
examining, he proceeded to cock and
fire, twirling the pistol around his fore
finger and pressing tho trigger the mo
mcnt the butt came into palm of his
hand. After some little "kick" about
the price the weapon was paid for and
the customer left the store.
"Therc are few men," observed the
clerk, as his customer left, that can do
that trick. I have been ten years on the
Southwest frontier, among the worst
classes, and don't know more nor half a
dozen. Bill the Kid could do it; 80
can Pat Carrot, former sheriff of Lin
coin county; so can Dan Tucker, deputy
sheriff of Dcming. Curly Bill could do
it best of the lot, and that's how he
killed Sheriff White at Tombstone.
Glow was that2"
"Well, you see Curly Bill was trying
to paint the town red, and White heard
of it, and going up to him, covered him
with his six-shooter, and told him he
had got to give up his gun. Bill handed
the gun out butt first, but kept his finger
inside the guard. and as the sheriff
reached for ii he gave it that twist you've
seen, turned her loose, and the sheriff
passed in his checks"
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An Antique Town Still Unchanged.

Why, | saw houses IN Nuremburg that
are not a day more than a hundred and
fifty years old! I was shocked by the
sight of a dozen, at least, plate glass
windows. There is gas in Nuremburg.
They have street cars there. Some of
the city wall has been torn down to let
in more of the nineteenth century.
But hardly a sight or sound within the
circuit of Rothenburg breaks in upon
your midieval dream. The narrow,
dingy streets are lighted so far as lighted
at abby lanterns. These are hung on
wires stretched across the street, and are
drawn in by pulleys at one side to be re-
plcnished. Strcet-rail or gas-lamp there
are none. The town is Rugged COM
pletely around with turreted gates. And
the towers, as they throw their arms ten
derby about their charge, look back to
bid defiance to all modern institutions.
At some points, the very water in the
moat still sleeps in venerable stagnation.
AS your omnibus rattles under three or
four successive arches into the silent
streets, the lingering echoes OF
our new era die away behind,
and you drop four or five centuries from
human history. You wander through
the little city (of not more than $500
in%habitants) wherever your feet incline,
and pass hundreds of houses, any one Of
which, like a certain old domicile in
New London. c., or one in Medford:
Mass, would be the chief 'liopc, 81 an
American town. Most of them were
standing before the Pilgrim fathers left
Holland-manyS Of them before America
was d~iscoyefed. With their steep, tow
ering, Ded-tiled roofs, their sculptured
gateIays and corner turrets for defense,
and gloomy c%ourt-yards, they look down
in lordly compassion on your freshness
and your upstart nation beyond the sea.
Hour after hour 1 roam the streets, look
ing in vain for a modern house. Every
street is paved throughout, with not a
sidewalk to be seen. The primitive sim
plicity and n%aturalness, too, of the Roth
enbcrgers, are charming. About every
man you meet recognizes you asa strang-
err, and feeling that the town owes you a
courtesy, touches his hat with a cordial
smile. Not a bad example for some of
US Americans. 1t must be granted that
the odor of antiquity in some of the by
streets is slightly too strong for the most
romantic. But one can pardon that and
even overlook the torture chamber, under
the Rathhaus (of which the present gen.
Grafton is innocent) in consideration of
all the wierd fascination of the quaint
old town.-Pryf. C. B. Wilcox.