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Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1884-12-06

The Sioux City and Pacific r. r. will
on the best of authority be running
trains to White River Junction or
Chadron, within Is miles of Custer, by
the LIST of next August.
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1884-12-06

The Deadwood Times objects to the
mentioning Of Martin for speaker Of the
house for fear it will injure Washa-
baugh's chances for presiding officer of
the council.
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1884-12-06

Another find is announced from the
Ceur d'Alene vicinity. Quartz rich in
silver it is this time on the banks Of the
Colville river, but the suckers won't be
q plentiful this winter as they were
last.
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1884-12-06

Mr.. John Morrison, the partner Of J.
S. Collins, Of Cheyenne, w. IT,, honored
Custer with a short stay Wednesday
night On his way through the Hills to
the Northern Pacific.
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1884-12-06
-Con<rrrafionaI Church.

Rev. A. G Dill. Pastor.-Divine Worship san.
day nj II n, IN and 100 p. m. Sunday School
At q. IS. Church PRAYER and Social gathering
Thursday evening at 7:3o. Young Peoples
Christian Social I'm on Friday evenings. A cor
dial and hearty welcome to all.
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1884-12-06

A special meeting Of the members OF
the Custer City Fire and Hose Company
No. ! is hereby called for Monday even
ing to make arrangements for q Christ
mas Ball.
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1884-12-06

The editor Of the Republican says: "a
Rapid City waitcrgiri has e.even pairs Of
six hose, most OF them thirty inches
long; they come high. but the n%ecessi-
ties Of her avocation require them.
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1884-12-06

Rev. ". A. James. Pastor Services In the "
Church every Sunday at II o'clock a. m. and
5:3D O'Clock y. IN. All are cordially invited.
Sabbath School at 10 o'clock q. M.
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1884-12-06
Notice Of Final Proof.
james s. Shepard. Hid III
Land Office at Dcadwooi, Dal

Land Office at Dcadwood, Dakl
Dec. lst. 1884,
Notice Is hereby given that the following
named settler has filed notice of his intention to
make final proof in support of his claim
and that said proof win be made before TIE
judge or clerk of the distr ct court in and ior Fall
River county AT Hot Springs. on January l9, 1885
viz
JamcsS. Shepard I'D I'll for the W hfsw ar sw
or NV arse 30 and ne or sc ar sec 8, Up SIS range
6 Il NJ.
He names the following witnesses 10 prove his
continuous residence upon, and cultivation Of,
said land. viz:
C.. p. Green. Edmund Petty. Joseph Petty and
Henry Marty all OF Hot Springs, Fall River Co.,
Oak.
j.. p. LCsE. Register
First publication. Dec. o,
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1884-12-06

Sam Moses was a visitor in Custer
Monday. He expects to leave shortly
for a visit to his old home and New Or
leans.
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1884-12-06

The l20-stamp mill at Greenwood will
drop her stamps for the first time in
about ten days.
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1884-12-06

Al Powell and bride 90 to house keep
ing IN the house lately built by Sam
Moses on his Cheyenne river ranch.
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1884-12-06
Societies.


Fidelity Lodge NJ I. o. q. T., meets at the
Court. Honse ut 7so p. m. Saturday evenings.
]. G. CAR. w. C. r. c. z. BoyDEs, W. s.
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1884-12-06

Z. II. Flynn's brick residence is to be
%snrmounted with a mansard roof under
which will be a second floor.
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1884-12-06

Either Barney Caulfield, Col. w. Il
steele or john Il. wilson would ill the
position Of judge Of this district with
ability, character and decency. Our
democratic friends should take imme-
date step, to secure the appointment OF
one of these gentlemen to that most re-
sponsible position. They are all sue.
ceesgul lawyers, and understand the
code Of procedure of,his territory after
year, OF large and important Practice
Register.
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1884-12-06

Go to Cochran's for hardware, stoves,
tinware, plows. Scythes, racks, etc.
Cheapest house in the Hills.
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1884-12-06

Chicago and North Western r. R.
Time OF departure OF Passenger Trains from
Pierre. in eject 1882:
Lea,e for Chicago and the East.......7O0 An.
L.. 8. BULLARD, Genl Agent,
Pierre. Dakota.
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1884-12-06

Thos Quigley was a visitor in Custer
this week looking after his witnesses in
order to make final proof.
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1884-12-06
The Boss" cigar at Stones.

Doctor d. w. Flick left Tuesday morn
ing for a visit TO Rapid.
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1884-12-06

r. d. Jennings was "a visitor in Custer
yesterday from the Hot Springs.
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1884-12-06
Arrival and Departure Of Mails.

Deadwood and Custer leaves Custer Monday.
Wednesday and Friday mornings. at 8 a. m,
snd arrives Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays
at 9 d. m.
Custer and Hot Springs leaves Custer Monday,
Wednesday aud Friday at 8 q. m; arrives Tues.
day, Thursday and Saturday at 4 p. m i.
Custer and Rapid leaves Custer daily at 7 q. m. /;
arrives at Caster daily at 8 p. m.
Al mails close thirty minutes before depar:aie.
Re istry aud Money order window closes at 9
o'clock p. m.
once open on Sunday until IL O'Clock. noon.
III. A. ALBIES r. ~.
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1884-12-06

Journal: A short time 2 A.. z
Sterling brought in from one of his
prospecting trips Il number of specimens
of iron ore, which he informs us we're
taken from a large body of like char
acter ut no great distance from this
place. Mr.. Sterling, who Is an iron
s,neiier of many years experience, IT ties
that this ore is Of the same character
and in fact is almost identical with the
hrmatite ores which he is used to treat
ing, and that there is no doubt that fur
naces will, after the advent Of railroads.
be erected for the treatment of ihe>e
ores in the Black Hills. The assurance
of Mr.. Sterling as to the quality of the
ore il Il sufficient guarantee.
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1884-12-06

The struggle for positions under the
Cleveland administration is m~anifestine
itself here in the Hills and we suppose
il is the same all through the country.
In Dead wood Capt. Tom Russell is
booked for The L. :. marsh.lship Of the
territory, Al S~wearingen, for postmaster,
and Dan Gallagher, for register of the
land office. These are all representative
democrats and their respective appoint
ments would be in the order of the
fitness of th~ings"-after the democratic
style. AS postmaster, Swearingen has a
place to put the Office down AZ the Gem,
which lis in the very centre Of the dem
orratic part Of town. where the demo-
cratic masses could be entertained by
playing on a harp OLA thousand strings.
Of just men made perfect
Speartish X gister.
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1884-12-06

General Missionary Dill returned
Wednesday afternoon from the South
erin Hills where he has been enjoying
the generous hospitality OF Doe Jen-
nings. He addressed a fun house sun
day evening. He speaks in the highest
terms of the Hot Springs people.
McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1884-09-18

be saved by proper previous prepare
ton of the soil. TO do this we should
first pillow thoroughly. If the field is
sod land the sod should be turned COM
pletely over and in burrows of uniform
width and depth, and the depth should
be sufficient to allow of making mel
low seed bed upon the inverted burrows
without turning back any of the sod.
If the pillow runs eight inches deep in
some places and only two or three
inches deep in other places, or if the
burrows are partly turned and left upon
their edges, this mellow seed bed with
out turf or sods will be impossible to
obtain, and the subsequent work of
tending crop will be expensive and
annoying. Good blowing is Of the
highest Importance in the preparation
of a cultivated field, and upon it de-
ponds very largely the cost and per-
lection of all the subsequent work OF
tillage.
McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1884-09-18
MIR in Hot Weather.

Mr.. Roberts, the Hartford sealer,
gives an explanation of the faint of
milk, which is often noticed after being
taken from the ice. '.Most people put
the milk on top of the ice. The cold
current descends and comes up on the
other side; after being more or less
heated. On the second trip the air
loaded with the scents of the different
articles goes directly into the milk and
stays there; because the impurities will
be attracted by moisture. Now place
the milk under the ice and you will see
that the odors of the different foods
will be left on the ice, and the milk will
be as pure from bad smell or taste as
when put there. have placed glass
of water on ice in one side of refrig-
orator and box of strawberries in the
other In three hours the water was
colored from the impurities of the ber-
ries. This is clearly good illustration
of my point on milk. Milk is one of
the greatest absorbing liquids, and it
should never be left in the sick room or
where there are unhealthy scents. You
will notice a greasy scum on water left
in your sleeping room over night, that
comes from the impurities of every
thing in that room being attracted
by the moisture. l always place a
glass of water in my room before re-
tiringh
McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1884-09-18
FARM NOTES.

Alabama has demonstrated the value
of State Geologist. The recent dis.
covery of rich phosphate beds in Perry
and Autauga counties is one of the most
valuable that could be made. 1t is
thought that Dallas and other coun-
ties will also show rich beds of phos-
phate.
A cultivator who grated grapevines
after they had grown foot or two said
that month afterward they had done
as well as those set in December, and
all the trouble of winter protection was
saved.
In packing apples for shipment not
one should be placed in the barrel that
has the slightest trace of unsoundness,
as such apples decay sooner than the
others, and also affect all in the barrel.
A Georgia dairyman figures the cost
OF good butter in that state at 124 cents
a pound, where good pastures can be
had on easy terms for ten months in
the year, and the butter sells at 25 cents
pound.
Lambs can be safely weaned and
separated from their mothers at four
months, and should not be allowed to
subsist upon the ewes longer than five
months, as they cannot thrive best
while raising lambs.
If a brood SOW gets too much feed by
accident or lack of care she may be
speedily relieved by giving her a quart
of charcoal. 1t will tone up the stom-
ach of a hog quicker than anything
else.
Salt is necessary article of food to
all classes of stock, and especially to
those turned out to grass. 1t should be
fed regularly and not at intervals.
A lump of rock salt at convenient To-
cation is an excellent method of pro-
viding them with it.
John Gould, in the Breeders Gazette,
says: 81 have been quite strongly of
the opinion that the foot and mouth
disease, so reputed, was not anything
but the foot-rot, or hOof-ail, that was
thirty or more years ago prevalent by
spells upon the Western Reserve. 1t
was then supposed to be the result of
eating rank-growing grass, that had an
abundance of smut or ergot upon it,
and corn-fodder that was very smutty
either of them more abundant in wet
seasons like the one of 1888"
The latest statistics of the agricul-
tural industry of New Jersey give the
number of farms in that state as
"a 34,307, embracing 2,O96.297 acres of
improved land, having an estimated
value of S19O,S95, 1888. The sum of
S14,S61,512 is invested in live stock.
There are $4,000 mich cows, yielding
15,472,7SS gallons Of milk, 9,513,S35
pounds of butter and 66,5lS pounds of
cheese. The total number of persons
engaged in agricultural pursuits is
placed at So, PA, of whom 36,57S were
farmers and 1852 farm laborers.
McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1884-09-18
Effective Insect Destroyer.
From the Farm, Field and Fireside.

Nearly all the liquid insecticides may
be applied in the shape of powder, but
the powder only keeps the bugs off as
long as the odor remains. Take fine
sawdust, plaster, dry muck, or fine dry
dirt, and mix it well with kerosene,
and by springkling the plants with the
powder after it had has absorbed the
kerosene, many of them will be pro
tected for awhile. The best liquid
preparation is to dissolve half a pound
of hard soap in three gallons of water.
Then mix half pint of kerosene with
pint of milk. Mix the two liquids to-
gether and sprinkle from watering
pot lightly over the plants. Anything
that is obnoxious to insects may be
mixed with dry dirt, such as carbolic
acid, chloride of lime and tobacco de-
coction. Sheep dips are also excellent,
either sprinkled or mixed with dry
dirt, the principal material in such be-
ing coal tar. Coal tar itself, when
mixed with water (Which it only does
slightly,) gives off powerful odor
which keeps off insects. One thing to
be remembered is that such things
must be applied often, or but little ben
eft will result.
McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1884-09-18
AGRICULTURAL.
Making the Granaries Ready.
Iarscan Aprfeulfurfsf

American ARricultuTlst
The weevil infested our wheat gra-
naries several years ago, and since then
we have been careful to scrub them out
once each year with boiling-hot-salt-
water. If the bins are not all empty
when threshing time approaches, pre-
pare those that are empty for the re-
ception of grain, and transfer the old
grain to these, and scald the bins just
emptied. First, scrub the floor and
sides with the boiling brine, being care
full that it fills all the crevices. When
this has well dried. prepare a thick
white-wash, and with it coat the entire
interior of the bins, filling the cracks
with it. The day before threshing,
take an old broom and sweep off the
thickest of the white-wash. Since
adopting this plan, we have had no
pests in the granaries.
If the mice have gnawed holes
through the sides, tack pieces of sheet
iron or tin over these, and place we'll
trained cats in the granary. tits much
better to have the boards jointed than
to place lath over the cracks, as the
inclosed cracks will be inhabited by
pests, very difficult to reach and de-
stroy.
The loss occasioned by pests is not
measured by what they consume. Mice
may not eat much, but they leave
crumbs plentifully behind them, which
detract from the appearance of the
wheat and lower its price, when it is
sent to market. Weevils may not de-
stroy much grain, but many millers will
not buy grain infested with them at any
price.
McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1884-09-18
HOPE.

while Ger LIES sea my bark I'm rowing,
storms often lower;
And for time at their free blowing
My soul doth COVER;
CT soon above the pillows heaving
see Hopes banner brightly waving,
ana tnen the gales that I've been Drawing
withhold their power.
Enough clouds Of sorrow DER me darken,
Even might smile,
Ii to the voice of Hope I'd harkep;
It's 80 short q while
Inat their shadowy mist will tarry,
For t. their nell, dim folds are light and airy.
AND slightest touch of finger fairy
Might their reign beguile.
Sometimes as pensively ponder
Der my saddened lot,
lquestion fate, and weeping wonder
IL am forgot
BY the merciful and great All-wise,
Whose home is SO far beyond the skies,
That from the portals of Paradise.
He may heed me not.
Then cheeringly hear Hope calling,
Cast aside thy fear!
Blessings around thee soft are falling,
And thine every tear
Will add a brighter luster, even,
To the crown that waits the in Heaven
BY the Messiah to be given
On thine exit here.
What though grievous now to thy crosses?
Rest is very near;
Christ will repay for earthly losses,
o, faint heart, have cheer!"
Ills thus the siren kept on singing,
Till all the air seems gladly ringing
With the blest message it is bringing
A message sweet and dear.
And then / half forget my sorrow,
While the tears I've shed
Serve to enliyen for the morrow
Flowers reckoned dead;
And for time my burden seems light,
And the clOuded sky again grows bright,
For the drear eclipse of sorrows night.
Is phantom fed.
McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1884-09-18
KILLING Weeds.
Boston Globe.


If farmers could only be made to re-
alize the the economy of a thorough
pulverization of the soil before planting
or sowing their seeds we should soon
find very marked improvement in the
appearance of the cultivated fields in
the country, for wherever we 90 we
find a great deal of very poor and very
coarse farm work Many farmers seem
to make as hard work of taking care of
a field of corn, potatoes or other annual
crop and do their work as ''back-hand-
ed'' as carpenter would who should
undertake to build house or make a
nice piece of furniture out of undressed
lumber, and then attempt to smooth it
up and polish it off after the parts are
all put together. The best market
gardeners have learned too that the
highest success in cultivation of their
crops can only be attained upon land
that has been most thoroughly pre-
pared, not only by high manuring, but
by repeated blowing and narrowing,
and with implements suited to the
work. Coarse turfs, stones or hard
Jumps of loan or clay are not allowable
in any good market garden, and they
should not be in ordinary farm fields.
Nor is there half the necessity for rough,
coarse farm work that one might infer
from the too common practices of the
average American farmer. 1t is not
necessary to grow half crop instead
of full crop. Neither is there any
need of having one-half the product of
our lands returned to us in the shape
of worthless weeds. 1t cost no more to
grow a pound of wheat or corn than to
grow a pound of weed seeds, and it
costs no more to keep clear OF weeds
than to keep it half clear, provided one
takes hold of the work at the right end
and at the right time. Indeed, good
work on the farm saves labor rather
wastes it, just as good work in any
other industry proves economical IN
the long run. No one need travel far
in the country at this time of the year
to find planted fields that were so rough
and coarsely worked during the early
of the season as to require great deal
of patience, as well as hard work, in
their cultivation during the growing
period of the crop. All the work of the
present seems to have been done poorly,
and far too much left for the future.
The ploughing having been but half
done the harrow failed to do its part of
the work of pulverization. The surface
being left rough and uneven. the rows
could not be planted straight, nor could
the seeds be covered at an even depth,
nor upon the uniformly level surface.
The rows being crooked, and the hills
coming at various heights, the work of
the harrow or cultivator must be far
from complete.
We have seen, in one instance, a
farmer going four times through each
row in his corn field with his cultivator
before he could get the soil in any kind
of condition for the hand hoe. In other
instances a less amount of team work
has left the field so thoroughly titled
that little or no hand labor was re-
ouired. Good farmers are learning
that more than half the effort usually
expended in tending hoed crop might
McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1884-09-18
The Ne,v "Holstein'' Cattle Furore.

The Ne,v "Holstei,s" Cattle Ft.rore.
American AgricuIturist.
The cattle of the Netherlands are at
tracing more attention from the dairy
farmers of the country than any other
breed. For many years they have been
carefully bred, with an aim to produce
large quantities of milk. Doubtless the
quality of the milk has been less an OBJ
ject with the breeders of Holland; but
when well-fed COWS give enormous
quantities of milk, and the milk can be
disposed of as as such, the profit is al
most invariably greater to the producer
than if the quality were better and the
quantity less. Besides, milk of low
quality is poor in fat, but not neces-
sarily poor in cheese substance. The
districts whence they come, have al
ways been famous for both cheese and
butter, so that without further evidence
our farmers might safely assume, that
the milk was really rich in both butter
and cheese. But we have other facts.
The famous COW Mercedes, now dead,
was the especial rival of the Jersey COW
Mary Anne of St. Lambert, for the
honor of being the greatest butter COW
in the world, and the no less worthy
and scarcely less famous heifer Jamai-
ca, is credited as giving one hundred
and three and one-quarter pounds of
milk day, and in week as yielding
twenty-siX pounds three ounces of but
ter, while Ethelka gave eighty-one and
one-half pounds of milk a day. These
cows were neither of them four years
Il 4
A breed with such possibilities, even
though the average fall far below, is
one upon which too great care can not
be spent, with a view to both preserva-
ton of these inbred qualities, and to
render them the more uniform inherit
ance of the race.
McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1884-09-18

An odd amusement for Sunday
school picnic was devised by some
Scotch Sunday school teachers, who,
on their way home from days pleas
ure, persuaded the parish clergyman to
perform the marriage ceremony in the
railway carriage three times for the
benefit of three couples, mated at hap
hazard. He consented, and now there
is the usual complaint because the
jokers find themselves really married.
McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1884-09-18

FOR SALE-Improvsd Decided Farm
and hay Land. Timber and rstsr. Two
farm houses, with other Improvement.
Convenient to No. school privileges. Sit
uated ON Republican river, near 1outh Of
Red Willow creek. Call on j. r. Black,
on premises, or address him at Indianola,
Nebraska.
McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1884-09-18
Ea7ly Loyi1eg Pallets.

Kinsley (Kan.) Graphic, June ID.
Mr.. Abner Wilson, of the South Side,
who is usually wide awake and pro-
gressive and doesn't like to be outdone
by any one, seems to have impaired the
same spirit to the poultry upon his
farm. He placed upon our table last
Saturday a half dozen eggs almost
the double size of quail's egg, which
he says were laid by pullets which were
Matched this spring. He says he has
four of those pullets, or spring chickens,
which have laid two dozen eggs. The
fowls are brown Brahmas and sell for
about the usual price. This is not
a 'sfish story" but relates wholly to
poultry of the egg-laying variety.
McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1884-09-18

Egg sucking is new sport in Geor-
gia. At recent match the winner
swallowed fifteen at one sitting and
then crowed over his victory.