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Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1886-12-11

The business performed at the Dead
wood land office has grown the past
year into large proportions, and the
limited force that the government has
provided have always been overworked,
as compared with other Offices i'm the
territory. The past months business
as published in the Pioneer on Wednes-
day shows that the receipts, which was
over $4,000 certainly would warrant
the department to give the officers suti-
Gent clerical force to run the Office.
The report shows also that over 1000
acres have been proven upon, and at
the present rate OF exhaustation of the
public domain, our valuable homestead
lands will soon be all taken up. especi-
ally so is this a fact in regard to survey
ed townships.
That the foot hills Of the Black Hills
is valuable to those wishing to locate
homes for themselves and their chill
dren is plainly indicated by the rush
that there has been during the past
year to this locality. The valleys that
extend out FOR miles are garden spots
found in few locations where the public
domain can be taken up, as every n
who looks at them are convinced of
this. The news Of these beautiful val
leys in the Black Hills have been
spread before the world through the in
fluence of our newspapers, as they are
largely quoted in the eastern press. The
travellers that have been carried here
by the railroad managers exertions to
secure travel too, added greatly to ad.
vertise us abroad. Those people who
come as far as Deadwood cannot helm
but speak we'll and enthusiastically of
our country. We not only have fne
agricultural lands but we have the
greatest mines in the world, as is being
proven every year. The Black Hills
are but in their infancy, but when a few
more years pass over our heads and our
mines have been developed we will as
tonish the world with our vas,ness in
wealth, both as an agricultural and min.
ing section.--Pioneer.
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1886-12-11
Pilot Pointers.

Judge Thornby returned from Custer
on Wednesday and reports things lively
| over there.
Cy Cole says that everything is en-
couraging again up at the Eta mine,
and that better ore has been found than
men expected. Hermosa's future grows
brighter every day.
Will Stanley, who has aided in bring
ing the Pilot out on time during the
past five months, departed for Gary,
Dakota, last Monday evening, where he
will visit with his parents, and many
other good people until after the holi-
days.
Our respected townsman John s.
White, is about to enter upon the rest
less and overcoming sea of journalism,
having purchased the Minnesota Star.
The paper has very good prospects of
being a financial success very contrary
to custom-and while We tender our
sympathy to our good friend we extend
him both hands for success.
When the time pieces Of this section
are turned rearward about an hour it
will seem as though the old earth had
slipped n cog somewhere. What the
village ROSTERS propose to do in regard
to the matter is MOI known, but in order
TO hold their job they should certainly
commence growing an hour earlier
the fact that Mountain time is to be
adopted is worth Growing over anyway.
/. If there's any one In this vicinity who
feels that he has more strength than h
knows what TO do with, and wants a
copy of the Pilot for a year worse than
We do, he may call around at the head
quarters of u wood pile, and wen
agree to make a dicker with him. Ap-
p%earance or previous condition of servi-
tnde cuts no figure with us, although a
physicians certificate may somewhat
facilitate matters. The wood pile is at
home most of the time, where we NAV
be consulted at all hours.
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1886-12-11
i,uckless Ventures.

~ isuPiu ~, NV ioSiihS WY
well itself, gives vent to the following
"In this enlightened age a newspaper
Is almost as much of a necessity in a
we'll regulated community as a post
Office or a boot jack, and a town without
one or more Is always considered too
small or too dead to be mentioned in
any important connection or sense.
The spirit Of our system Of government
makes it necessary that III citizens be
Informed upon the current events of
the day, the character and ability Of the
men who are, or desire to be, the di-
rectors Of u public affairs and the
price Of hand made mince pies. And
what other medium can be found that
so cheaply, fully and honestly supplies
the place of advertiser, friend and
teacher as the live newspaper? None.
Any sensible. honest thinking mar will
admit that without a question as to
whether it is true or not. Notwith-
standing this fundamental truth there
is not a line Of legitimate business in
the United States that pays AS little re-
turn for the investment, taken as a
whole, Us the newspaper business; nor
is there another business that furnishes
SO large a proportion of failures as this,
nor is there another that requires as
much labor and thought TO make it
nyyan An nnn1nrafn ot,n.apo ,,p1apo - 10
dealing faro or tending bar. and yet the
woods are full Of men who know they
could supply o "long felt want" taking
their pay in short length cord wood,
wilted turnips and Hubbard squashes
that have been harvested before their
season Of verdancy was over. Every
year a large and very respectable body
OF men buy Army presses, a sack full
apiece of second hand type in the CON
venient form Of pi, and, vending their
way westward, each settles down upon
a community with the same fixedness
OF purpose that characterizes the
measles or mumps. and proceeds to N.
bounce that hereafter "no III shall befall
the people in that neck Of the woods,
that is If a generous support is accorded
to the Windsplitter." After a few is
sues the deluded man--for he is really
n man-discovers that his paper is not
likely to become a second New York
Times, and though he has worn the
knot Of his lucent necktie under his
ear ever since he began to issue badly
spelled advice, no one has even mis-.
taken him for Chas. A. Dana and the
man who holds the mortgage on the
material loses faith in the editor, no,
In the mortgage. After the sale this
man Of letters meditates as he shucks
corn at six bits a day that the public is
not an apprcciative employer, and tina,
day wages beat an unpaid board bill
especially if the holder Of the bill is in,
ciined to collect with a club. Not al
who engage in this mighty work enc
thus suddenly a few from each invoice
become permanent fixtures with limited
credit at the gin mills in their vicinity
taking with their editorial inspirers tn,
musty cracker and cold bologna tina,
belongeth with the same, and wher
their hair has grown gray pleading n
the bar of "Tommy's Place" or the
Coin of the Realm" they lie dowr
iuil or honor and bad whisky"
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1886-12-11
Drunkenness, or Liquor Habit, can be Cured by
administering Or. Haines' Golden Specific.

1t can be given in a cup of coffee or
tea without the knowledge of the per-
son taking it, eiiecting Il speedy and per-
manent cure, whether the patient is q
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Thousands Of drunkards have been
made temperate men who have taken
the Golden Specific in their coffee with
out their knowledge, and to-day believe
they quit drinking oftheir own free will.
No harmful effects results from its add
m~inistration. Cures guaranteed. Send
for circular and full particulars. Adj
dress in confidence GOLDEN SPECIFIC Co,
lS5 Race St, Cincinnati, Ohio.
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1886-12-11

William SelE!o of Deadwood, who has
been spending some time visiting with
his family in England, the land Of his
nativity, has recently written Il very IN
teresting letter to the Deadwood Times
from which we extract the following
Next day we proceeded to Cornwall.
Here the country was very different
from what We had seen before. All
through the middle and southern coun-
ties of England it is a beautiful country;
grass in November as green and velvety
as it is possible fer grass to be, with
hedges and clumps of fine trees scatter
ed everywhere. In Cornwall among
the mines, the land is barren, rocky and
dreary looking; old dumps cover the
country, and along with them old hoist
ing works, which, being built Of stone,
look like Old castles. Only the walls
are left. The roof and contents are
gone. At Claiborne, where / stopped.
the richest tin mine in Cornwall, the
Dolcoath, is located many other mines
are also here, The Dolcoath is about
one-half a mile deep now and the lode
is getting richer and larger. Even now
it is only thirty feet wide. For more
than half the way down it was all cop
per, nc tin whatever, except a little on
tho surface. About f3, 100000 worth OF
copper WAS taken ont. The tin ores are
entirely unlike those in the Black Hills.
They have no mica of any consequence,
but they have plenty of arsenic and
sulphur in their ore. After crushing
in the stamp mill, their ore is concen-
trated, and the concentrates are then
roasted again, and the product is ready
for sale to the smelters. After all this
work the concentrates, when ready for
market, only go about 81 per cent me.
tallic tin. At the Dolcoath they est
mate that one third oftheir receipts are
net profits. | saw some tin ore from
Spain that is very similar To Black
Hills, but saw no ore in Cornwall or
in London that looked in the least like
ours. In London l saw native silver
like roots of bushes, it was so long and
heavy, but | have seen no horn silver
equal to the Iron Hill anywhere. On
the way to and from Cornwall we tray.
eled on the Flying Dutciiman on a
broad gauge road. This is about the
fastest train in the world. On a run
we made 43 mile in 40 minutes. We
spent a week or more in London on our
return from Cornwall, and saw the
Tower and other sights Of interest. |
was very anxious to see the WoOlwich
arsenal, where the modern tig guns are
made and tested. ANY British subject
can see ove it, but foreigners have to
get tickets through their ambassador
| wrote to the honorable gentleman
representing the United States for an
order of admission and waited for three
weeks without getting any reply, wher
! again wrote him, and this time was
honored by receiving an answer excus
ing himself for not getting an order fol
ine as | vas not connected with tn,
army Of the United States. The Amer;
Can citizen abroad may have To blusl
for Doodle aldermen and others OF tina
ilk, but he can always point with pat
riotic pride to the earthquakes, cyclone.
and foreign representatives Of his own
his native land"
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1886-12-11

Indications from every part Of the
country show that with the coming
season there may be reasonably antici-
pated 4 marked improvement in the in.
vestment of capital in mining opera
tons. The field Of choice is by no
means limited various portions of the
country offer the most promising in
ducements to well-directed capital and
energy. The capital that now seeks in
vestment in this great field goes with
much added knowledge and a larger
measure of costly experience. The
opinion generally prevails III the eastern
capital centers that the days of specula
tive fraud and dishonesty which have
marked too much of the past history OF
mining have been discontinued, and
that this business now is established
upon a business basis as q legitimate.
reliable, productive industry. Any
revelation Of proof that this fact is not
established will deter the investment
during the coming season Of millions of
dollars of capital so much needed in
many parts Of the mining territory.
And it behooves all those interested in
the development Of this one Of the
largest and most Important enterprises
in this country to unite in a determined
and positive opposition to anything, in
whatever form it may appear that will
in the least interfere or retard the
development of the magnificent mineral
resources Of this great nation.-Chicago
Mining Riview.
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1886-12-11

New Workers have not declared in
favor of the erection of a snow palace.
but they are busily engaged in the con.
%struction of ~toboggan side at the 9th
avenue end of the Polo grounds which
will have a sliding capacity of 1900 feet.
The incline will be 10 feet above the
level at the highest point, with a grad
ual descent for 200 feet, leaving a level
glide OF 1000 feet. The width of the
track will be Is feet, affording ample
room tor three toboggans to be run at
once. The pathways will be Of ice laid
In blocks, and banked with snow. The
slide will be thoroughly illuminated by
electric lights, and colored lanterns, and
music of the most enhancing character
will serve to keep up the enthusiasm of
OF the gliding throng.
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1886-12-11
a. CA E8 ID.

To MI who are suffering from the errors and
indiscretions OF youth. nervous weakness, carly
decay. los3o OF manhood. SC. ] Will send n recipe
tina. viii cure you. FREE OF CHARGE. This great
remedy was discovered by a missionary In South
America. Sond u sclf-addrossed envelope ~ the
REV. JOSEPH T. INMAH, Station D, New FORK City.
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1886-12-11

The semi royal baby bud, recently
born to Princess Beatrice increases the
number of Queen Vic's grandchildren
to thirty. England may justly pride
herself upon the prolifcal perfection Of
her ROYAL family.
The Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1885-1886, 1886-09-23
,c,rr,lN,s FORTUNATE p,SroyyEy

Capt. Coleman, schr. Weymouth, ply
ing between Atlantic City and N Y, had
been troubled with a cough SO that he
WAS unable TO sleep, and was induced TO
try Dir. Kings New Discovery for cons
sumption 1t not only gave him instant
relief, but allaycd the extreme soreness
in his breast. His children were similarly
affected and a single dose had the same
happy effect. DIR. Kings New Discovery
is now the standard remedy in the Coles
man household and on board the
schooner. Free trial bottles of this
standard remedy at llarIz & Bahmsen's
drug store.
The Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1885-1886, 1886-09-23
The BEST PHYSICIANS ouInnNE

J. A. Crawford says: II have had the
worst form of Eczema two years and fonnd
no relief from some of our best pbysic-
ianS who have made this disease a speci
ality. was persuaded to try Papillon
(cxtract of flaX). The relief | received
was like charm and am well. | think
Papillon one of the blessings of the age.
Try Papilliou (extract of flax Skin Cure
when all others fail. Large bottles 81 90
for sale by IL. ii. DeSanso.
The Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1885-1886, 1886-09-23
WORTH ITS WEIGHT IN GOLD.

Albert Emminger, Covington Ky. was
afflicted with catarrh three years. lie
says: After trying every known patent
medicine which saw advertised, none of
which helped me, tried Papillon (extract
of t1aX) Catarrh Cure rs last resort. 1t
has made a complete cure, and is worth
its weight in gold. | will give you other
references from parties who have been
cured. 1t is no experiment, but posi- ,
tive cure Large bottles s100 at II.
H. DcSautos
The Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1885-1886, 1886-09-23

Allcock's Porous Plastcrs have, in the
last twenty-five years, proved themselves
the best, safest, and most cifcctual rem,
cdy for spinal complaints, incipicnt con-
sumption, diarrhoca, plcurisy, tumors,
asthma, bronchitis, epilepsy lumbago,
debility, Rheumatism, govt, sciatica. loss
of vigor, dropsy, paralysis. loss of voice,
hysteria, nervousness, Indigestion, palp
itation.
The Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1885-1886, 1886-09-23

Don't give up. There is n cure for ca
tarrh and cold in head Thousands testify
that Ely's Cream Balm has entirely cured
them. 1t is safe and pleasant remedy.
1t is not liquid or snuff. 1t cures BY
cleansing and healing. Price 50 cents
AT druggists GO ceuts by mail. Ely
Bros, Oswego, N. Y.
The Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1885-1886, 1886-09-23
AN END TO BONE sCRAPING.

Edward Shepherd. of Harrisburg, ILL.,,
says: Having received so much benefit
from Electric Bitters. feel it my duty to
let suffering humanity know il. Have had
a running sore on my leg for eight years;
my doctors told me would have TO have
the bone scraped or leg amputated. |
used, instead. three bottles of Electric
Bitters and seven boxes Bucklen's Arnica
Salve. and my leg is now sound and well >
Electric Bitters are sold at fifty cents
bottle. and Bucklen's Arnica Salve at PC.
per box by Hartz Il Bahnsen.
The Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1885-1886, 1886-09-23

Who Of us are without trouble be they
small or large? The blessings of health
are best appreciated when We are sick
and in pain. \ hacking cough, a severe
cold, OF any throat or lung disease are
very troublesome; but all of these NAV be
quickly and permanently cured by Dr..
HIgclow Cure. Safe and pleasant for
children. Price 50 cents.
The Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1885-1886, 1886-09-23

My son, when you 90 to the city, get
you bicycle, some tight pants, some
tooth pick shoes. and slender cane, but
with all your gettings don't fail to get a
bottle of Salvation Oh. for pride (you
know goeth before fall
The Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1885-1886, 1886-09-23

Every day adds To III" c'cnt amount of
evl'cn"" rs 10 the curative pnwrr> If
Hood ,ilrSaparila Letters are contin-
uaIlv benz received from an sections ri
the country, telling OF hcncits derived
from tbs great medicine. Ii Is unequal
ed Tor general debility, aud rs blood
purifier, cNpclhng every lrarc Of scrotnla
or other impuruy- Now is the time To
take it Made hy G. Hood Il Go.
Lowell. Mass Sold hA Ill druggists.
The Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1885-1886, 1886-09-23

Enemies of the late Premier, who are
also skIllful in discovering anagrams.
have succeeded in making al am the whig
who'll be a traitor to EngIand's rule" out
OF the Right Honorable William Ewart
Gladstone"
The Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1885-1886, 1886-09-23

Many mothers are unable to nurse
their children. In such cases the best
substitute to be found is McIlins Food,
prepared after Liebig's formula. which
has proved TO correspond physiologically
with mothers milk.
The Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1885-1886, 1886-09-23

CnrPuicacy il ofteItlneS burden and
e5pe Tally was 1t su h 10 30 ton police
nan who entered a dwelling III search of a
burglar The t'lHo coat finally caught sight
Of the lntrud r, who seeing retreat 10y the
Usual avenue was cut off, dartad through
tho ceiiar 10 the coal hole leading to the
street Tho Off .er started IN purs nit, and
reached the hoi5 Ia time to catch the lee
ln- man ) foot \ struggle here erfsued
i he lhioi, though, wa. mp 10 snuff an l.
watching hts opportunity, slipped from his
shoe an'l gained hl5 liberty, smiling a. he
FASTENED away at tn IRE liCament oil the
peace pIrserNor, whose Immnnse waist meas
urrtn"rt r"nHrre passage through tue hnlr
impossible Exchange
The Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1885-1886, 1886-09-23

A North Carolina man is shipping
wagon wheel spokcs to st. Petersburg,
Russia.
The Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1885-1886, 1886-09-23
Sufferers from kidney Troubles,

will find Simmons Liver Regulator true
remedy for such complaints.
II have been troubled with liver COM
plant, kidney disease and bad blood for
"a long time have used Simmons Liver
Regulator, and ii has done me more good
than all the medicine | ever took.
would not he without it-GeO. ii. Pratt,
U. S. Deputy Collector, ID District Ga. j"
The Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1885-1886, 1886-09-23

Cornelius Vanderbilt scorns crcsts and
notices, c. v" simply is painted on his
carriage
The Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1885-1886, 1886-09-23

Ex~President Arthur is still at the Pc
quot House. New London, slowly but
surely improving in health.
The Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1885-1886, 1886-09-23

An apple tree is blooming aS thickly as
it did in spring on the grounds of Mark
W. Pierce, at Bartlett, n. Y.
The Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1885-1886, 1886-09-23

A Canadian greatgrandfAther recently
was present at The christening OF his one
hundred ard seventeenth descendant.
The Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1885-1886, 1886-09-23

The city council of Miner, ILL., has
passed an ordinance forbiding The sale of
cider inside the city limits.
The Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1885-1886, 1886-09-23

-Four wives Is the ailowance IL one ma,
IN Turkey,
The Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1885-1886, 1886-09-23

felt like goin' back, fur our bowsnrit bs
gan to climb up as If it war goiu' 10 Jam
a hole in the sky, an then down it would
go again rs if it war goin TO harpoon the
bottom o the bay. Outside | could see the
big whitecap' arollin' in, an l could boar
the surf breakia Oh the Hook aS if it war
soin' TO knock tho pint right OF. We
wcatherel the Hook in good shape, an war
soon a-bilin' past Buoy No J. The boat
war a-laborin little too much, an Mr.
Parker ordered Inc to have the topsail taken
IN an tie toPmaats hou ed When that war
done VIZ war n little mpro comfortable. but
still we wonii st'iIs tn, seas bs if We had
run into a stone wall, an thsre war tons of
water comm in forrard
by tAiS time We war past tls Scotland
ii5at'hip an war bearin' down on the
SANDY Hook boat The Arab war iust on
our weather quarter, an seem Il TO 10
rlinln' o. us The juiS S boat war away
in by the lInoS She didn't dare come out.
for no yacht IA . had ever been saiIei in
such sea, aa' the tags captain war afrai,!
to try goin' around the lightship Well, sir,
hope may never 500 hlue water again il
the win didn't die right SMACK nut. The
yachts thar hadn't turned bdck-the
schoone-s, ths cutters Arab, Verona, and
l;oilo, aai tha slooPs Hold Hard, Sylcme-
The Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1885-1886, 1886-09-23
JOHN s. HOLLAND

ATTORNEY AND COUNSELLOR AT LAW
Il over postonice, Moiue Illinois
The Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1885-1886, 1886-09-23

own, aud ouerates nearly $500 miles of thor
IuShly equipped road in Illinois. Wisconsin,
iowa, Mlssauti. Ninnts sofa and Dakota
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1886-11-25
Observation-Disclosures

Caesar Alexander Shakewen, colored
citizen of Bridgeville, owned no turkeys, end
his richer white neighbors had put theirs In
special security as Thanksgiving Day drew
near. Mrs. Shakeweli kept nagging Cesar
about turkey until be determined to havo
one before another sun set, ut any cost. Ho
sat down before the fire in the twilight to
study out some plan of action on the import
ant question.
It came to him quite readily, it appears, for
all at once he found himself carrying it out.
He had noticed loose board on Col Fair
groves back fence the Gay before. The Fair
groves wcre easy-Goins people, not much
riyen to hammer and nails, and they would
be sure to have turkey in coop in the
backward getting ready for the annual feast.
Sure enough, the board fell off at the bid
ding of his brawny arm, and there in pen
in the corner was the bird of his hopes. Tho
Stats of his coop dropped before the same po-
tent force, es though they had been mere
ravclincs. 1t was no trouble at all to to tie
bis legs, cover his body with all old bag and
slip quietly lay with him. Once Mt home
Caesar Alexander put him in q barrel and
laid heavy sticks of wood on the open top.
Then ho called to his wife to come and see
him and to quit "jorrin'" him about their
Thanksgiving dinner.
She appeared, looked at the bird with eyes
like saucers, and then grew very grave.
"Whar did ye git him'" she asked, with
something like awe in her voice.
"Worked for i'm, O course" said her gen-
tie spouse, with snecr. "Knowed all the
time dat 1 was to git i'm; but yon had to hev
yer fill O. jorrin' and complainin' at me for
wuthless nigger. knowed it wns 10 use to
tell yc. Yc wouldn't b'liese HE iii H., come"
Mrs. Shakewell looked at her husband, q
fresh well of admiration springing up in her
heart. He was q superior creature, to DO
sure; she would never doubt it again.