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Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1889-02-09
The Soldiers Claim.

The following sensible communication
recently appeared in the Sioux City
Journal In 1861 to 1865, when a
large army was n necessity to preserve
our nations life, volunteers to the num-
Der Of 100000 were enrolled and com
prised that army. To encourage volun-
teering the government made a contract
with each enlisted man. That contract
was that for services properly rendered
during the term OF his enlistment he
should receive $l3 per month wages.
$3.50 per month IN clothing, a soldiers
rations and 500 bounty for a three
years enlistment. The most of the en-
|listIments in 1861, 1862 and 1868 were
under this contract. The men served
their terms faithfully, sacrificing their
time, health, limbs and life without a
murmur. In 1861 the government kept
her pledge by paying the soldiers in
specie, or its equivalent. From the be-
ginning Of 1862 until the day that the
last soldier was paid off and mustered
out she broke faith with the men, pay
ing them in a deprecated currency,
sometimes worth not more than 40 cents
on the dollar. Everybody else who
transacted business with the govern
ment received his pay on a gold basis.
All bondholders. the parties who fur
nished the munitions of "a
ammunition, medical supplies, commissary
stores and c~lothing-all received pay for
their wares in gold, or its equivalent,
but the poor fellow who put his blood
and life into the conflict was only paid
in part. Is there anything due the sol
der? If so, is it not about time he re-
ceiyed it?"
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1889-02-09

The editor of the Advocate is in re-
coipt Of q letter from Judge Moody, who
Is now in Washington, and in referring
to the opening of the Sioux reservation
he says that next week, when the house
bill reaches the senate, he has some
hope of securing an amendment to the
bill extending the opening lines to
White river. He does not spea very
hopefully, however, Of the bill passing
the senate in any shape. | elative to
the early admission of Dakota he is not
without hope and thinks the event, in
some shape, will take place early Tie
coming ummer. -Oelrichs Advocate.
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1889-02-09
II Will Not Pass.

The Saint Paul Globe is strongly in
clined to the opinion that no prohibi
tory law will be passed by the Dakots
legislature during the present session, al
indicated by the following, copied from
a late issue of that paper:
There is no doubt that a large major
ity of the members of the legislature are
in favor of the enactment of prohibitory
laws, and under ordinary circumstances
would pass almost anything the re-
formers on that line might agree upon.
The fact noted with so much JUNCTION in
some quarters that only three or four
members ever indulge in anything in
ebriating, at least in public, is g matter
of small. moment to the public, and not
a basis of inference. Personal habits
have little to do in such cases. Very
stringent temperance laws are often
passed by men who are not governed
by their spirit, and total abstainers can
not be depended upon to embody their
personal preferences in legislation. The
logic Of the situation is adverse to legis-
lation on temperance at this session.
The latest popular expression has been
against the continuance of the ~restric-
tive system in nearly all the larger
counties that have had experience, and
the people Of these counties expect their
members to take note ofthis fact. Then
the states coming in will build for them
They will be prejudiced against
ANYTHING hat savors of dictation by Il
territorial body. The safest
wager then would be that no ~prohibitory
law will be passed this winter.
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1889-02-09

Why embitter life by dragging around
with lame back, diseased kidneys, drop
steal swellings, female weakness, nerv-
GUS debility, heart disease and rheuma-
tic complaints, when DR. Fenner's Kid
ney and Backache Cure will so quickly
cure? Rev. A. j. Merchant, Presiding
Elder writes: 1T gave me almost in.
slant and entirely permanent relief"
Superior to all known medicines in these
diseases. For sale at Hitchcock's.
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1889-02-09

One member of the Dakota house ha,
introduced a bill requiring that a news
paper must be published at least six
months before it may be made the Of
fetal paper of county. This is a very
good move, and one that should have
been made i'm Dakota years ago. II
would be well, too, if such a provision
could be extended to coyer land office
printing. Numerous small papers were
started in Eastern Dakota for the sole
purpose of catching land office printing
and with no intention of making them
permanent, thus greatly injuring bona
6de newspapers which are of some good
to the communities in which they are
published.-Rapid Journal.
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1889-02-09

The Dakota Farmer, commenting
upon the bill recently introduced in the
Dakota legislature, by Mr.. Campbell, of
Brown county, TO abolish the Office OF
Commissioner of immigration, says
Dakota to-day needs more farmers, and
in order to secure them more reliable
and official information should be sem
east while the ordinary boom literature
could just as probably be kept at home.
Kansas appropriates $4,000 per year
for immigration purposes and as a result
to-day has a million and a half Of people
within her 10000 square miles, while
Dakota has q better soil and climate and
an area twice as large with but 100000
people. Dakota needs more people,
more of the same class that are here
now-intelligent, young and energetic.
Such people will be brought here only
by reliable and official information and
statistics. Boomers" will come with
their pockets filed with boom literature.
but they will fly before the first set
back. Intelligent and enegetic people
will not move to Dakota without thor
oughly investigating our resources,
climate and soil, but when they come
they will come to stay. Abolish the
office of Commissioner Of immigration?
No! Give him rather at least $25,O coo
per year to more efiectually advertise
us, and in three years time his work
will double the price Of every farm in
Dakota
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1889-02-09
Advice to

Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup, for
children %teething, is the prescription OF
one of the best female nurses and ply
sicians in the United States, and has
been used for forty years with never
failing success by millions of mothers
for their children, During the process
of teething It's value is incalculable. 1t
relieves the child from pain, cures dys-
entery and diarrh9a, gripping in the
bowels, and wind-colic. BY giving
health to the child it rests the mother.
Price 25c. a bottle.
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1889-02-09
An exchange tells .he Way il is do

An exchange tells The way it is done
at a school i'm a town in eatern Dakota
A certain school main has introduced
tn following novel feature: when
one Of the girls misses a word the boy
who spells it correctly is allowed to kiss
the girl. 1t is said that the boys have
improved so rapidly that they can knock
out such words as idiosyncracy, muck
.allonge. oleaginous, ETC., with their
hands tied behind them, while the girls
actually are forgetting how to spell their
own names"
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1889-02-09

A p~ostofice will soon be established
In the Stockade country. The name
given is Burlington, with Chas. Brewer
postmaster. The people Of that neigh
borhood surely need mail facilities, and
the necessity is increasing daily. 1t is
proposed to extend the mail route from
lnyan Kara postoffice, a distance of
t~hirty-ive miles, to establish mail com
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Gazette.
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1889-02-09

The st. Paul Pioneer Press saws
THE talk Of a recess by the legislature
is Increasing at Bismarck, and the fact
that the members are all republicans is
some proof that it will not diminish. II
in Washington is received there will be
an earnest movement to ecure a recess
Councilman Washabaugh Of Deadwood
" one Of the fathers Of the idea, and he
II receiving support 10Y that was dead
t.siinsi The suggestion when the council
. ia is the only practicable way of
aatiGg the nominations of the gov
and securing to the party the
90 OF the campaign"
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1889-02-09
"A farmer who raises scrub colts and

"A farmer who raises scrub colts and
scrub steers, which cost as much to be
raised as good one and sell for not half
as much, is not farming for finance but
for fun" Oh, no. He isn't farming for
fun he isn't farming at all. He is just
knocking along on the farm because he
"haste, y and he raises scrub horses te
trade-that's where the fun comes in
The scrub farmer is a great trader, and
If he did not have the scrub horse his
occupation would tie gone.-Iowa State
Register.
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1889-02-09

clay, and above this strata of yellow and
blue clay from one to ten feet. Heated
gases continue to escape, more noticea-
bly, when the loose surface or shale is
disturbed. There is almost no smoke,
but the shale is as hot as q coal fire, boil
ing water quickly. Thousands of people
have visited the place, but no satisfac-
tory explanation has been evolved. 1t
is a good field for the natural scientist
ST. Paul Globe.
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1889-02-09
Baby Chaska.

The New York Dispatch notes an ar
rangement lately perfected between a
we'll known dime museum manager and
Mrs. Chaska, nee Cora Belle Fellows,
whereby the latter and her dusky baby
will be exhibited at the various eastern
cities. Copper-colored Chaska, the al
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1889-02-09
Soldiers Home.

The Sturgis Record has declared in
favor Of Pierre for the location of the
soldiers home. The following taken
from that paper of the LIST inst. is well
calculated to arouse the ire ofthe people
Of Hot Springs and other points in the
Hills, a reply to which we leave to the
Hot Springs Star, a paper more directly
interested in the matter than we could
be reasonably expected to be:
Pierre has put in a bid for the soldiers
home, and offered to donate 20 the terri.
tory a fine large building of l02 rooms
ana twenty acres of ground. This stroke
of enterprise has aroused the feeble
wrath of the Hot Springs country and
notice has been served in glazing letters
on Pierre that she must desist and let
a small poverty stricken Black Hills
settlement get away with q big appro-
priation or lose u few votes when il
comes to locating a new capital.
AS one old soldier has said-and well
said-there are not one lone dozen O
veterans OF the war residing in Dakota
who would not scorn the offer of a home
on the bounty Of the territory. Even
allowing that all will drop their tool,
and their present locations to rush into
a soldiers home, how many years will
elapse before the last shattered frame
will be laid away? They what will q
soldiers home be worth?
Lot owners in the cross roads of Hot
Springs may think they have a right tc
a big appropriation, but Pierre comes to
the front with a tangible offer valuable
property-and Pierre, so far, is entitled
to the persimmons, as well as the sol
diers home.
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1889-02-09

The Vesuvius, the New United States
cruiser, on her third trial trip the other
day, sailed 81. 65 knots an hours. This
is equivalent to twenty-five miles, or to
the average speed of an express train.
The record for steam vessels Of all kinds
is beaten and the superiority Of Ameri-
can shipbuilders re established.--Ex.
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1889-02-09

After a stormy time Of it the citizens of
Hot Springs last Saturday raised five
hundred dollars-in wind-to send one
of their citizens to Bismarck to look
after the soldiers home bill. DR.. Stewart
was selected as the party to go.-Oelrichs
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1889-02-09
from the reports from Bis

Y from the reports from Bis
tempt will be made to har-
ana simplify the school laws of
At present these laws form
a[ the tawnship system. and dis
System-laws which were passed at
i|,aerent times. 1t follows almost
sariiy that these laws are vague,
fraslicting and hard to understand
!, they could scarcely be in a
nii,icn and the idea Of wiping
at and starting anew has much
il Experience has demon
Tie township system is the
he territory will gain should a
g township law replace that
prevails, but which nobody
tu.ly understand.-Pierre
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1889-02-09

of be Charles Mix Courier
ed hi, exhaustive and scien-
Aptoration of the Charles Mix vol
rano, AS HE burning bluff in that county
been called. The more he finds out
ess he seems to know as to the ma
t1r' nd cause of the phenomenon. The
II is composed entirely Of black and
brown shale With veins Of mica and
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1889-02-09

TERRITORY OF DAKOTA. FIRST JUDICIAL
District, IS. In the District Court within and
for Custer County.
investment Guaranty Trust
Company Qimited) a C0rpor.
alton, Plaintih.
Frank L. HeSnard, Jon. T..
Plunkctt, Edward Lynch,
Thomas Sweeney, &C Cham
bers, and George i. Upton,
Defendants.
Notice is hereby given, that by virtue OF a judg-
ment OF foreclosure and sale IN the above en-
tilled action on the Twentieth day of December,
A. ID. 1855. and an execution issued upon said
judgment, the subscriber, VIM. ), Wood. sheriff
OF Custer county Dakota Territory, for that pur-
pose appointed, viii sell 1T public auction at the
front door OF the court house in the city of Gus
ter City, county of Custer, Dakota territory, ON
Monday, February lSth, 1889, at 10 O'Clock in the
gagged premises situate IN lhe county OF Custer.
territory of Dakota, and directed in said judg-
ment and execution 10 be sold, and therein
described as follows: The southwest quarter OF
the southwest quarter Is W a : W IA Of section
twenty-ci@ht 2S), The southeast quarter Of the
northeast quarter g r a \ T. Al the northeast
quarter of the southeast quarter On l. "A : 4 l).
and the north half OF the southeast quarter OF
the southeast quarter N n = l. Il > T. IA, Of
section twenty-nine (20. all in township two (2),
south OF range eight (Sl, east, II. Ill. NJ, or SO
much thereof as may be sufficient 10 satisfy said
Judgment 3nd costs, amounting IN all 10 nine
hundred and ninety-SiN dollars and thirty cents,
with interest thereon from the date OF said judg-
ment and all accruing costs OF sale.
Dated Custer City, ID. T., January 9Th, 1889.
WM. =. WOOD,
sheriff Of Custer County, ID. I.
VAN CIsF & WILSON, Plaintiffs Attorneys.
flrSf IlhlPlf!NN. January ~.
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1889-02-09

The Dakota legislative assembly is
composed Of AZ farmers, IL lawyers, 9
editors, 2 doctors, A bankers and IA ex-
school teachers.
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1889-02-09
SATURDAY FEBRUARY 8. 1889.

Fire at Buffalo, New York, on the 2nd
inst, destroyed property the value of
which is estimated at over two million
dollars.
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1889-02-09

Three full. courses leading to the degrees of B 8. c + sd T. NJ ru
Chemical and Metanurgical Laboratories, Mineral Cabinets Natheroot;cai Trd.,
ments, Etc. The new Metalugcal Laboratory alone occupies n fine brck az
structure 10 by l3S feet. and is supplied with all the better mimi a.
Mealnrg1cai machinery, such as Stamp Mills, Bruckner Cylinders SrnaTere r.
Bubbles, Nanners, Teaching Mill, etc, all of actual working size '"''"N
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1889-02-09
VAN C1SE II WILSON, ATTORNEYS.
Sheriff's acknowledgement Of Fore
closure,

TERRITORY OF DAKOTA. FIRST JUDICIAL
District, IS. In the District Court within and
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1889-02-09

FRENCH, GERMAN AND LATIN TAUGHT
Circulars of Information upon application, or address
FRANKLIN r. CARPENTER, Dean.
T. L HUGHES, Secretary Of Board.
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1889-02-09

Location Of Mills, one mile South of Custer City. Yerds
located Corer Seventh and Harvey Street.
St. Paul daily globe., 1889-06-24
DEHORNlNG CATTLE.

Some Methods Employed Pro
/ nOunced Cruel by an English
4 Court.
( In suit recently brought by the En-
glish society for the prevention of cru
city to animals against a farmer who
had dishorned some cattle, the lord
chiefjustice Of the high court Of justice.
London, held that the practice was
cruel and unnecessary and therefore
unlawful, says the Indiana Farmer
The evidence of expert veteri
narianS was to the effect
that the operation, as performed
with common saw, was extremely
painful and that 1t did not result in any
benefit to the animal, but on the con-
. ttary was productive of Inflammation
and disease. Twenty or thirty years
ago dishOrning was common practice
in parts of England and Scotland, but
was abandoned in most places and has
not been generally followed until the
last year or two.
If the methods in this particular case
are fair sample of the English way of
doing 1t, the justice was quite right in
calling it unnecessary cruelty. The
bullOcks were two-year-olds when dis
horned. They were led between
wagons, heads fastened and the horns
roughly cut off with an ordinary hand
saw, after which they were turned
loose and the blood allowed to squirt out
without any effect to check it.
Within week or two large proper
ton showed signs of Inflammation, pus
formed in the horn sockets, some lost
flesh and nearly all suffered great pain.
We do not understand how such meth
DDS brought any financial gain to the
owner of the cattle.
St. Paul daily globe., 1889-06-24

Nine entries; association adds $50; 2:24
class, trotting, purse 800; 2.32 class trot-
ting, purse $780,
THURSDAY, SEPT. D.
Three-year-old stake race for trotters,
twelve entries, association adds $luO; 2:4O
class, trotting, purse $500; 2:24 class, pac-
ing, purse $3.50.
FRIDAY, SEPT. 6.
Two year-old colt stake race for pacers
three entries, association adds $50; 2:2l
class, trotting, purse $4O0; 2:27 class, trot-
ting, $3.50.
St. Paul daily globe., 1889-06-24
To Duluth and Ashland.

Trains over "'Fhe Northwestern
Line,' c., st. P, NJ. & o. Ry., to Du-
luth and Ashland, leave Minneapolis
9:2O a. m. and 9 p. m.; st. Paul, 9:55 a.
NJ. and $40 p. M, and returning to St..
Paul leave Duluth 10:30 a. m. and 10 p.
m.; Ashland, 10:05 a. IN. and 10 p. III.
The day trains carry luxurious parlor
ears: Pullman sleepers On night trains.
Seats in parlor cars, so cents; double
berth in sleeping cars, $1.5O.
Take '.The Northwestern Line" from
Minneapolis, st. Paul and Duluth to
Milwaukee and Chicago. Handsomely
equipped vestibule trains running at a
speed consistent with safety, and With
an unriyaled record of always making
their schedule time.
Excursion tickets now OH sale to
Eastern cities, either all rail via Chi
cago, or via Lake Superior and the
steamer lines.
Ticketsand full information may be
obtained at 159 East Third street, ST..
Paul; 13 Nicollet House block, Mime
apolis, and 332 Hotel st. Louis block,
Duluth.
St. Paul daily globe., 1889-06-24

$50 jackson Street.
ST. PAUL, MINI.

Speedily cures all private. nervous. chronic
and blood and skin diseases of both sexes
without the use Of mercury or hindrance from
business. NO CURE. NO PAY. Pri-
vate diseases and all old, lingering cases,
where the blood has become poisoned, caus-
ing ulcers, blotches sore throat and mouth
pal is in the head and bones. and all DIS
eases of the kidneys and bladder, are cured
for life. Men of all ages who are suffering
from the result of youthful indiscretion, or
exeesses of mature years, producing nervous
ness, indigestion. constipation. loss of mem
ory, etc, are thoroughly and permanently
cured.
DR.. Feller. who has had many years of ex-
peIience in this specially, is graduate from
one Of the leading medical colleges Of the
country He has never failed in curing any
cases that he has undertaken Cases and
correspondence sacredly confidential Call
or write for list Of questions. Medicines sent
by mail and express everywhere free from
risk and exposure.
St. Paul daily globe., 1889-06-24
GEN. WITHERS DEAD.
The Famous Kentucky Breeder
Yields to the Grim DESTROYER,


The wire announces the death of Gen.
William Temple Withers at the age of
sixty-four years. He died at Fairlawn.
his estate near Lexington, KY, after
long and painful illness, resulting from
wound received in the Mexican war.
One by one the pioneer breeders of Ken
lucky are yielding to the stern and in-
exorable demands of the grim DESTROYER.
1t is only little over year ago since
the death of Col. Richard West, and
now Gen. Withers has crossed
the river and gone to his last
resting place. He was in many re-
spects notable man, who in active
participation in stirring affairs had ac-
quired unusual distinction. He served
with credit In the Mexican war, and
received dangerous wound at Buena
Vista. He was also prominent in the
Confederate army. although before war
was declared, he vigorously and earn
estly opposed secession. His record as
a soldier was honorable, and at the close
of the war he retired to private life
with poor health and impaired fortune.
Previous to the war of the rebellion,
and for some years subsequent to it, he
was engaged in the practice of the pro-
fession Of the law in Mississippi. In
1871 he moved to Lexington,
KY, and became resident of
the famous blue grass region.
He purchased the well-known estate
now called Fairlawn. and gave his
time, his attention and his most earnest
thought to the business of breeding the
trotting-b bred horse. 1t is as breeder
that we have known him, and it was as
a breeder of the highest type of the
American trotter that his reputation
has become national. Fairlawn is one
of the most lovely Of the many beauti-
full farms which in the charming blue
grass regions of Kentucky do so greatly
abound. 1t is situated in the suburbs
OF Lexington, and is by nature admir-
ably adapted to the purposes for which
it has been used. There is scarcely in
all the land more desirable farm for
the purpose OF breeding fine horses.
Here Gen. Withers studied the great
science he loved so well, and here he
acquired the reputation of being one of
the best-informed and most astute
breeders in the nation. Gen. Withers
was close student, and all his pur-
chases were made after deliberate con-
sideration and with definite purpose,
He studied the action of the laws of
heredity, the effect of mingling certain
lines of trOtting blood, and from first to
last his business was remarkably pros
porous. He never bought an animal
because it was cheap, or for the pur-
pose Of selling it again at an advanced
St. Paul daily globe., 1889-06-24
Oak Lawn Farm,

80 miles from town ON Alton road, $50
acres choice pasture land. Summering