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Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1889-11-23
Soldiers Home.

From letter to the Sioux City
Journal we extract the following: "The
site selected is one of beauty, and EN-
braces 100 acres of land which In pic
turesqueness defies the artists brush.
The building is being erected of white
sandstone and the basement and first
story are completed, and show work
which is credit to the contractors as
well as the architect, w. N. Perry, who
is also the superintendent of the building,
1t has 135 rect mont. WITH wings 80 feet
long, and is to be 81 feet high, with
three stories an dormitories in the roof,
and is perhaps as nicely arranged a
building as there is within the limits OF
South Dakota. The dining room is to be
1872 by "a feet, and contains twentyfour
windows, and when the old veterans
gather around the festive board they
will forget that they ever endured the
the hardships of battle field. Last
week good water system was complet.
ed, and the building is now supplied
from the hot water springs, for which
this place has become so widely known.
Fred T. Evans, sr has let the con-
tract for the construction of water
power which will generate electricity
for our electric light system, which will
be complete in the early spring, and
which will supply the soldiers home
with light. The heating room ofthe
building is now completed and with the
average weather of this country the
building will be enclosed by the LIST of
January. All the g. A. r. men who
visited the corner stone laying express
ed themselves as highly p leased with
the building and grounds. The build
ing will be ready for occupancy by the
LIST of June and will be a credit not only
to Hot springs but to all the Hills coun-
try.
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1889-11-23
Black Hills Tobacco.

Last week we received a sample OF
Black Hills grown tobacco from Capt
Joseph Wells. The tobacco was grown
on his ranch three miles north-we OF
Spearfish, and is pronounced by COM
petent judges to be first class. Mr..
Wells has experimental with great
many different kinds of products, and
has proved the fact that anything that
can be grown with profit in the eastern
and middle states can be with profit in
the Black Hills. He has on his ranch
an abundance Of all kinds Of fruit trees
and all kinds of small fruit, and has
been growing all kinds of fruit for the
last six years with success and profit.
We would say to all having any doubt
as TO the Black Hills being able to pro-
duce all kinds of fruit, to visit the inn
mense nursery at Mr.. Wells. ranch and
see for Observation-Disclosures Re
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1889-11-23
New Mail Routes.

The following letter from the postof-
flee department to Senator Moody
further explains the routes of the pro-
posed mail service to be established be-
tween Rapid City and Hill City.
PosToPFrcE DEPARTMENT.
Office of the Second Assistant
Postmaster General.
Washington, ID c., Nov. 1889.
Sir referring to the petition brought
to the attention Of this office by YOU in
person, asking for the establishment of
six times a week service between Rapid
City and Hill City, South Oak, | have
the honor to inform you that advertise
ments inviting proposals for three kinds
of mail services between the points
mentioned above, as follows, have this
day been issued, with view to ascer-
tain their comparative cost, in accord.
ance with your suggestion. Viz: Ist
From Rapid City by Denis and Sheridan.
to Hill City six times week and back.
End. From Rapid City by Rockerville
and Sheridan, to Hill City six times
week and back. 3rd. From Rapid City
via Denis and Sheridan, to Hill City re-
turning via Sheridan and Rockeryiile to
Rapid City, six times week.
AS soon as the returns from these
Advertisements are at hand, the depart
ment will act at once and you will be
notified of the action taken.
Very respectfully,
S. w. WHITFIELD,
Second Asst p. NJ. Genl
Hon. q. c. MOODY, U. S. Senate.
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1889-11-23
Susan Will Speak.

Susan b. Anthony having been billed
for speech at Watertown, the Courier
News ofthat place thus facetiously refers
susan, WIN SPEAK IN this city on
Monday, November IL, in the year of
our Lord, one thousand eight hundred
and elghty-nine, we suppose at about
Z 80 O'Clock in the evening. This means
Susan b., the great and original Anthony
SURPRISING in eloquence aud fame the
renowned Saint Anthony, in whom all
good is concentrated. Ii is rumored
that she will ride in a smoking car part
ofthe way to get additional pointers on
the vile smoking habit, for her friend
Miss Willard. Miss Anthony comes TO
enlighten the people of Dakota on the
weighty subject OF woman sufferage
other far off lights will cluster around
the historic Susan and the brilliant and
charming retinue will flood south Dakota
with their unanswerable arguments. For
one year the genius and talent Of forty
two states and some odd territories will
be let loose on this great commonwealth
and we may expect to be overwhelmed
with more sparkling, bubbling, female
eloquence than will fall to the lot of any
other state within the next generation.
May heavens choicest benedictions fall
upon the heads of the dear darlings
young and old in their efforts to give
the girls the ballot. The Courier-News
will champion their "caws." All ale.
cations by whosoever made, contrary to
the universal doctrine of free suffrage
regardless of color or Indians not taxed
we shall most emphatically deny and
defy alligators. On with the dance LEI
'jaw" be unconfined."
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1889-11-23
Dakota Destttution Refuted.

This Office is in receipt of a circular
letter TO the press from Immigration
Commissioner Hagerty, clearly refuting
the greatly exaggerated reports which
have been so freely circulated over the
country during the past two months
relating to destitution in Dakota. In
support of his denial of the senseless, II
not malicious stories being telegraphed
over the country, that thousands are
upon the verge of starvation in the Da-
kotas, the commissioner submits tables
showing crop returns from every organ
lied county in North and South Dakota
for 1889, from which the CHRONICLE in u
previous issue published the portion re-
lating TO Black Hills counties. The COM
missioner does not deny that in certain
districts destitution exists, but not TO
the extent claimed, or to degree that
would Justify an appeal to the public for
aid. He says:
There are districts in some of the
counties where the people have been
unfortunate enough to lose two srccess-
i've crops and they are in very reduced
circumstances,-in most cases, however,
they are men who came poor in purse
and unskilled in farming. How natural
fc- chose in grieyious want to appeal to
the large and wealthy trade centers for
help, even with we'll filed larders in
sight belonging to more prosperous
neighbors. The inference from sensa-
tional stories and pathetic appeals is
that the two Dakotas enter the Union
with their people in condition of starva.
ton. This is unjust and unfair. Let it
be emphatically understood that eve.y
county has surplus enough to supply all
the destitute within the boundaries Of
the two young states. so rich in resources
and so confident Of future power and
greatness.
The publication Of the circular will,
we trust, serve to dispel the erroneous
and unjust impression now being en-
couraged by the eastern press, that
destitution prevails to any serious ex-
tent in the great and prosperous states
Of North and South Dakota.
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1889-11-23

Newcastle held her first election on
Tuesday Of last week. The total vote
polled was S36. There being but one
ticket in the field, little excitement was
manifested, Prank w. Mondell, we'll
known in this city, was elected mayor.
]. L. Baird, F. r. Curran. M. X. wiker
and L. r. Davis were elected council
men. James Swisher was appointed
marshal; Meyers Frank. treasurer. and
w. s.. Metx city attorney.
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1889-11-23

Private advices from the interior de-
partment state the president will issue
his proclamation opening the Sioux re
servation. The advices state authorit.
atively that the proclamation win be
issued Immediately after the report oi
the commissioners is handed in. The
report has caused great deal of excite
ment here among intending settlers, and
they are making preparations to 60 up.
on the land at once. Tents will be used
by most Of the settlers, until spring
time. An organized town site company
is prepared to locate town about two
miles up the river ffom Fort PIERRE
Pierre Special.
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1889-11-23
AGENT FOR BUCKEYE BINDING AND MOVING MAC

Custer City, So. Dakota.
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1889-11-23

Postmaster Smith. Of Deadwood, has
forwarded his resignation to the depart
ment at Washington. to take effect upon
the appointment Of his successor. w.
H. Whealen, an assistant in the Office,
will, 1t is generally believed, be appoint.
ed to the desirable position.
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1889-11-23

Owing to the fact that South Dakota
will not have full set Of records until
after the final settlement with North
Dakota, which will not occur until
Januray or later. our state officials will
be somewhat handicapped and must
necessarily work to disadvantage.
The officials are men of ability and in
dustry and will do all that men can do to
reduce the inconvenience to a minimum,
but the public must bear with them,
and expect more or less delay in all mat
ters ofbnsiness which requires reference
to the public reerds. A few months
will see the state machinery all running
as smoothly as fit had always been q
state.-Pierre Press.
Los Angeles daily herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1884-1890, 1889-06-08

THE ecale-bug question occupied the
attention Of the Board of Supervisors
yesterday. Some fifty of the prominent
orange growers were represented, either
in person or by communication before
that body, requesting that, instead Of
appointing numerous scale-bug commits
sioners, at great expense, the county
should import large quantities OF the
Australian beetle. The Supervisors
adopted resolution in consonsnce with
these suggestions, and the beetle will be
largely imported. The results of its in
PRODUCTION into this country have thus
far been highly satisfactory. Mr.. Wolf
skill, in March last, brought one hundred
and thirteen of these beetles into Los
Angeles county, and they propagate 80
rapidly that thus far he has already been
able to give away ten thousand OF them
to orchardiste. Mr.. G. 1. Griffith, one
of our prominent orange-men. informs US
that single beetle will demolish myriads
of the scale. The movement is good
Los Angeles daily herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1884-1890, 1889-06-08
The County of Orange.

EDITORS HERALD-The returns of the
special election show very enthusi-
astic majority for the new county to be
christened Orange, out of a portion Of
Los Angeles. AS am in favor of State
division, was more than half willing to
allow the inhabitants of the Santa Ana
Valley to set up for themselves il they
chose to do 30. One of the chief argu-
ments used in favor of separation, and it
was driven home with telling effect, was
the wretched manner which county taxes
were assessed and collected last year.
Complaint was very bitter against the
hardened conscience of Mr.. Assessor
Mason, and his arbitrary assessment of
! the most outrageous taxation in the
State. The argument was unanswerable
and it was one way Of shaking him eff.
On tine other hand, good many who
lived outside the proposed lines argued
in favor Of county division, thinking that
Mr.. Mason went with the new county,
hoping that this would retire him. They
were deeply disappointed when they
learned that he was still in the old
county. A good index of pub
lie sentiment where conscience" takes
the place of the most ordinary
business sense and judgment. Let us
hope that Los Angeles county will
escape a greater calamity, while we are
engaged helping stricken communities,
as long as Mr.. Mason and his conscience
are in authority. CITIZEN.
Los Angeles daily herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1884-1890, 1889-06-08
THE Tribune has silly notion that be-

THE Tribune has silly notion that be.
cause the HERALD presented some COM
mon sense ideas about the direction Of
the outfall sewer, this journal
is therefore opposed to the great
improvement. On a parity of reason.
ing, because this journal objects
to the snarls OF an inharmonious Police
Commission it is also opposed to having
any police in Los Angeles, just as, be-
cause it suggests that the immediate
neighboorhood of the Chinese in large
numbers is Objectionable near that edi-
fee, it is opposed to permanent Expo
sition building, and 30 on, ad minimum.
The HERALD is a journal which is pub
lished in the genuine interest of the pub
lie, and it conceives its mission to be to get
the best results for the people in all public
movements. Our contemporary can
make no point by misrepresenting our at
titude. The HERALD has been the
steady and consistent advocate OF an
efficient sewerage for this city, and it has
not the slightest notion of forgetting the
fact that it has been the real creator of
the sentiment in favor of public i'm
provements in the line of modern and
intelligent sanitation. The Tribune has
started out to enact the role of Esop's
fly on the chariot wheel, and its ridicu-
lous antics are quite as amusing as those
of the classic ephemeron.
Los Angeles daily herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1884-1890, 1889-06-08
Adiulant.GemeraI Ke,ton.

WASHINGTON, June 7.-Colonel J. c.
Kelton has been appointed Adju'aut-
General Of the Army TO succeed General
Drum, retired. He is graduate of West
Point, where he was afterward instructor
in tactics and small-arms firing. He
served during the civil war, and was
breveted Lieut. Colonel and Brigadier.
General for most valuable and arduous
services. Since the war he has held
varions staff positions, in 1885 becoming
Assistant Adjutant- General. He is an
inventor of marked ability, many of his
improvements in rifles, pistols and other
weapons having been adopted by the
Department. He is also writer of
high rspute upon subjects connected
with military service.
Los Angeles daily herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1884-1890, 1889-06-08

The suggestion has been made in some
quarters that the money, or q portion OF
the money, subscribed for the YOUNGSTOWN
sufferers should be diverted to those who
have suffered by the disastrous fire at
Seattle. The Herald sees no way in
which this could be done without the
consent of the donors. 1t is questionable
whether the people Of Seattle themselves
would desire to see such diversion.
The one is a case of loss of property, but
the other is one in which the most poig-
nant appeal is made to the human heart
We have no doubt but that Angelefios
can respond to both calls upon their gen.
erosity.
Since writing the above we have re-
caived dispatch from Seattle which has
a significant bearing upon the PROPOSE
tion to divert the YOUNGSTOWN subscrip-
t;ons here to our Washington Territory
ne;ohbors. At "a meeting of the people OF
Seattle yesterday, q proposition to de-
vots some of the money raised there to
the relief of their own people who had
suffered by the fire, was received with
;eers and cries of "No." We think that
cueht to settle the question. Ii the
Seattleites would not change the direc-
tion of their own Johnstown subtcrip-
tions. it would be presumptuous in US TO
force ours upon them.
Los Angeles daily herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1884-1890, 1889-06-08

WHEN Governor Hill, of New York
vetoed the cumbersome and expensive
Australian ballot bill, his motive was
impugned by the Republican press, which
declared that he was interested in per-
petuating the system that enabled him to
carry elections by fraud at the polls.
Governor Bulkeley, of Connecticut, has
just vetoed bill to protect the indie
pendence of voters and to secure the
secrecy of the ballot. AS Bulkeley is
Republican, we have no fear that his
party papers will denounce him as they
have Hill, notwithstanding one veto is
amenable to that kind Of criticism as
much as the other. If Hill has shown by
his veto that he is in favor of ballot box
stuffing and fraudulent voting, why has
not Buckley shown the same partiality
by his veto? 1t is golden eagles to but
tons that not a single "virtuous indig-
nator" in the whole army OF Republican
newspapers will attempt to bring Bulkeley
to book for his conspicuous stand against
the purity of elections.
Los Angeles daily herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1884-1890, 1889-06-08

IT is pleasing to meet evidences that
great men, in the present as in the past,
occasionally not only think but joak
alike. Thus the Times of yesterday
acquits itself Of this brilliant corusca-
ton:
The Kurds continue to roast people
and commit other blood Kurdling atroci-
ties in Armenia.
In the issue of the Tribune of the same
day we encounter the following witty chef
d'9uUre:
The Kurds continue their outrages in
Armenia, where they roast their victims,
These may be denominated blood. Kurd-
ling crimes.
No wonder that the reputation of Los
Angeles journalists ranks high, even as
far East as San Bernardino, when two
such clear.cut gems, of brightest ray
serene, fash out from the columns Of
two of its journals in single day
When DIR. johnson said that the mar
who would make pun would rob a hen
roost he had no idea that the accomplish
| ment could be carried to such dazzling
heights.
Los Angeles daily herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1884-1890, 1889-06-08

PEOPLE who have failed to visit
Redondo Beach lately, can have no idea
of the great improvements going on there.
The lumber for the hotel, all cut and
ready to be put together, has arrived, and a
large force of men are at work pushing
forward that fine structure. Several
vessels have recently arrived there with
caTgoes, which were placed on the cars
with dispatch and delivered promptly in
this city. Redondo is now asserting her
right to being considered commercial
port of Los Angeles by practical facts.
The arrival in this city of large quantities
Of eeaward freight speaks louder than
words in favor of the harbor advantages
of our new city by the sea.
Los Angeles daily herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1884-1890, 1889-06-08
Uontemps os GsurI.

The Supreme Court of Ohio has
reversed the decree of Judge Pugh IN
sentencing Allen o. Myers to pay fine
of 5000 and serve ninety days in jail FOL
contempt of court, holding that the
punishment was too severe. This, SO TAI
as Ohio is concerned, disposes OF the posi-
ton that every court is q court OF fina
jurisdiction in deciding cases of contempt
The law of contempt needs as much
adjudication and Interpretation as the
law of libel.
In fact, legislation is needed to en-
phasize the point that courts are not fina
judges of contempt against themselves
The unlimited power OF punishment ano
fine which seems to be vested in the
bench to avense its sights and insults
should have bounds and curbs, for il
usually happens that, smarting under it.
real or fancied injury, the judicial mine
lacks the equipoise necessary to calmly
measure out the exact amount OF justice
which the offense demands.
Under the codes which have grown NJ
or been created in certain foreign coun
tries, the jurisdiction of the court il
matters of contempt extends beyond tht
court room and beyond the services o
the law. A newspaper, for instance
which publishes reports Of trials which
the bench forbids, or which even crit
cises the judiciary, may be adjudged il
contempt-a state of law eminent.
agre cable to judges of the Jeffries staml
the world over.
In America the fact that but few case
of contempt have become celebrated ma.
be accepted as evidence that the court
seldom abuse their power, but that doe
not remove the desirability of clearer in
depreciation and legislative enactment
judges should be as open to criticism a
any other public officials. 1t would b
far safer to trust the public welfare il
this respect in the hands of an uncon
trolled press than in the hands of an I'm
curbed judiciary.
Los Angeles daily herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1884-1890, 1889-06-08

THE telegraph, the other day, stated
that the people of Fresno had rejected
the contract already entered into with
the Southern California Sewer Pipe
Company, of this city, for the supply Of
salt.glazed sewer pipe. We learn that
there was controversy concerning the
depth of the sinking of the pipe, the
Fresno people insisting upon its being
sunk some foot and half lower than the
original stipulation, and that the City
Engineer of Fresno held that salt-glazed
pipe could not be cemepted by the quail
ty Of cement rendered by the Los Ange-
les company, which was of the best i'm.
ported Portland grade. Mr.. ]. @. DAILY,
the manager Of the Southern California
Sewer Pipe Company, is now in Fresno,
and, doubtless, some satisfactory adjust
ment of the difficulties will be reached.
The quality Of the Los Angeles Sewer
Pipe Compsny's manufacture is, un-
Los Angeles daily herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1884-1890, 1889-06-08

THERE is unquestionably q great
change in the readiness of intelligent
people to invest in real estate in Los An
geles just now. While nobody is
clamoring to buy, it is quite as true that
the eagerness to sell has materially
sbated, while, underlying the whole
situation. there is marked feeling that
bedrock" has been reached, and
passed, for some months, that the con-
ditions of growth for this section never
existed in such large measure as at pres
ept; and that everything points to great
Developments in the immediate future.
The fact is that Southern California never
before presented the substantial attrac-
tions that characterize her just now.
Ever since her vineyards and orange
groves first attained Roadway there was
strong poetical garnish to the region
which has steadily increased, but we
are now alluding to the strictly utilitarian
phases of the country. The pendulum
following the expansions of 1sS6-S7
swung as far backward in 1855
and the opening months CT 1889 as il
had swung forward, leaving illimitable
opportunities for bargains on the part Of
intelligent investors. These openings are
now being awaited of, not heavily, but
sufficiently to show that we are now
being treated to turn of the tide. AS
an instance in point, We may mention the
case of one gentleman who advertised g
property for sale in the HERALD, and who
sold it Immediately, having parted with
the property before half of the fifteer
| offers which he received had reached
him. We have no hesitation in saying
that no real bargain will be offered in this
community now without its being snapped
up. The last fourteen months have beer
periods OF liquidation. During that tims
nearly all persons who have beer
cramped in their affairs have reached
some sort of solution. This indicates
easier times; and the fact that tn
northern boom, both as regards tn,
northern and central counties o
California and Oregon and Washington
Territory, has been greatly exaggerated
clearly indicates to sagacious people tina
the real future of Southern Californi'
has struck its second period of growth
This region, marked out as the habitat o
palaces, and as the section Of the earth
under system of intelligent horticultur
and agriculture, in which the most mem
orable and varied miracles of vegetation
ever recorded on earth will be achieved
is again on the upward grade. We hav
had our flood and ebb, and now tn
spring tide of fortune is about to set in
Discerning investors realize this fact an
are prepared to profit by it.