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Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1889-05-18
Notice.

A special meeting Of the board of
commissioners of Custer county is here
by called to meet on Tuesday, May DIST,
1889, for the purpose of canvassing the
vote of the late election. and for the
transaction of such other business AS
may be regularly presented for consid-
Grafton. }. +. PITCHER,
County Clerk.
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1889-05-18
Buck Handy Shot.

Buck Handy, a well known tough
located on a ranch about five miles from
Fields City, on Salt creek, Wyo., was
shot and killed by Jim Swisher, a de-
putty sheriff of Crook county, or Tues
day, while resisting arrest for a murder
committed sometime ago in Kansas.
Further particulars we were unable to
obtain.
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1889-05-18
CASH OR SECURITY.

Do not fail to call your wants shall have
prompt attention.
Yonrs truly,
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1889-05-18

Your attention is called to an adver-
tisement in this paper of A. I. Evans q
Co., Chicago, H., who are offering a
complete set Of family scales for 50 cts.
This extremely low price is made to get
new customers, for to every M to
whom a set Of scales is sold they mail
their catalogue, giving full description
and wholesale prices of watches, jewelry,
sewing machines, books, and a large
variety of useful household articles.
They give such unquestioned bank re-
ferences as should insure every one that
the firm is entirely reliable.
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1889-05-18
Notice.

To Whom it May Concern:
Notice is hereby given that all stock
by the Dolphin Mining and Mill.
ing Company, of Custer county, Dakota,
prior to the lst day Of January, 1889, has
been cancelled, by order Of the board of
directors Of SAID company, by reason of
such stock being lost.
O. ID. Moore, Secretary.
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1889-05-18

All persons indebted ID WOOD & Co..
on account, are hereby notified that the
undersigned has the collection of such
accounts, and that immediate settlement
Of the same is required. Early attention
to this matter is earnestly desired.
w. :. Wood.
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1889-05-18
For Sale

Or exchange for city property 3 COWS,
with calves, l two-year old heifer, l year
ling heifer. For further particulars APP
ply at this office.
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1889-05-18
Notice Of Application for Letters Of Admins
fraiiOr.

In the Probate Court OF the County of Custer,
Territory of Dakota.
In the matter of the estate of Albion +. Smith,
Deceased.
Notice of Application for Letters OF Admins
tration.
Notice is hereby given that Wallace A Smith
and John l.. Thompson have fled with the Judge
OF TINS court, a petition, praying for letters Of
administration of the estate of Albion L. smith,
deceased, and that Monday, the tenth day of
June, 1889, at three O'Clock p. IN. Of said day,
being a day OF a special term OF this court, to-
wit: AT the court room in the cOurr house in the
town OF Custer City, county of Custer, has been
set for hearing said petition when and where
cause why the said petition should not be
granted.
Dated May 10, 1889.
EDWIN G.. JOHNSON,
Probate Judge.
First publication, May Is.
Omaha daily bee., 1889-10-17
TARIFF REEORMERS.
They Hold Meeting and Organize n
Spciety.

They Hold Meeting and Organize n
Society.
About fifty citizens gathered in Max
Meyers hall on Eleventh and Farnam
streets last evening for the purpose of or
ganizing u tariff reform club.
j. j. Points was selected as temporary
chairman and w. S. Poppleton secretary.
The avowed objects Of the organization,
as asserted by the members present,
who engaged in the general de-
bate which followed the temporary
organization, are to promote honest, efficient
and economical government, and TO welcome
citizens who agree with its policy in respect
to the tariff. The cluo will also favor effect
i've agitation IN favor of tariff reform by re-
ductlon or abrogation of so-callei protective
taxes, especially of those either SO diScour
aging imports to yield to the government
but a small revenue when compared with the
enormous subsidies thereby compelled to be
paid by the people at large TO the favored
few, or so enhancing the cost of materials to
our manufacturers as to bar them from the
markets of the world.
After organizing, u motion was made that
when the committee on bylaws and consti-
they insert that the club favors tariff reduc-
tion. This met with some opposition,
but was finally carried.
The chair appointed Messrs. Lewis, Curtis
Gibson, PoppletOn and Montgomery COM
mittee on constitution and bylaws, and
Wa llace, Emery, Blake, Kaufman ana Hen
shaw committee on business and location
The meeting then adjourned until next
Thursday evening.
Omaha daily bee., 1889-10-17
RATES In The NORTHWEST.
No Possible Way of Settlement Be-
fore Navigation Closes.
THE BURLINGTON AT WORK.
That Road Adding Every Possible
Eastern Connection In an At
tempt to Secure an ALI
Rail Route.
Cold weather VIII Settle It.

CHICAGO, Oct. 1G.--fSpecial Telegram to
THE BEE. 1t is understood that there can
be no possible way of settling the north
western break in rates before navigation
closes and lake competition ceases. AS al
ready mentioned in these dispatches, the
500 line has agreed to advance rates when
navigation closes and the Chlcago-St Paul
lines have also agreed to the advance. Mean
time, however, the Burlington &c Northern
is adding every possible eastern connection
and still hopes to secure an all-rall outlet.
To-day the Toledo, Columbus Sc Cincinnati
issued q Joint tariff in connection with the
Burlington S Northern, giving the latter a
valuable cross line feeder in Central Traffic
territory.
1t developed to-day that even the close of
navigation will not settle the DISPUTE be-
tween the central traffic and trunk lines on
one side and the northwestern lines on the
other on the question of pro-rating. The
former will still continue pro-
rating with Canadian lines and
will firmly refuse to pro-rate
with lines in the United States. II must be
remembered that in all cases the eastern
lines get their full local to Chicago, the JOINT
tariffs being issued so that n low enough
proportion from Chicago to St. Paul can be
made so as TO meet lake and Canadian COM
petition. The joint tariffs will still remain
IN effect after navigation closes, and If the
rates are raised the advance will be on the
ChiCagO-St Paul prODortlon alone
Omaha daily bee., 1889-10-17
THERMoM sTeRS.
Three Kinds of fInstrumcnts-Fahr
hci,, Rcaumur aud Ccntigradc.

NiUuS ot
hcit, Rcaumur aud Ccntigradc.
The earliest account we have of an in
strument for measuring the heat or cold
of the atmosphere is that noticed by
the "Spiritalia" of Hero, about l5O Ii,
&. The use of mercury in the tube was
suggested by HALEY about 1897. and
ilrst practically carried out by Fahren-
heit, native of Dant2ic-at the time
his invention was completed an in
strument maker ut Amsterdam.
He divided the spaces be-
tween the freezing aud boiling
points OF water into $50 degrees, aLd
commenced tho graduation of his scale
at the point TO which the mercury fell
when the bulb was treated to n mixture
OF salt and pounded ice. The salt and
ice made the lowest degree of cold
known to the eXperimenter or any Of
mis- scientific friends, ana was, on this
account, termed "2ero.h 1t is u gen
orally received idea that the zero point
on the Fahrenheit thermometer WAS
so named because of its correspond-
ing to the lowest degree of
cold known on the shores
at the Baltic sea, the native home of
Fahrenheit, but this is as enron eous as
several other popular ideas respecting
the temperature scale, 1t is simply, ms
tifcial cold known to the inventor of
the useful little instrument. The freez-
ing point Of water was marked at $40
above zero, because it corresponded to
32 of the $50 equal spaces marked by
the inventor on his scale before anv OF
the points had been named.
About 1920 Reaumur of France used
spirits of wine and adopted the freezing
and boiling points as the two standards
of his scale. The space between these
was divided into 80 degrees. The frecz-
ing is the zero point of the Reaumur
thermometer, the graduations extend
ing each way. The Reaumur was the
standard thermometer OF France until
the time of the revolution of 1889. when
it was superseded by the centigrade,
the invention of a Swedish astronomer
named Celsino. The ccntigrade ther-
mometcr marks 100 degrees between
the freezing and the boiling points of
water. 1t is used to the exclusion OF
the others mentioned throughout CONT
mental Europe, the Farenheit being al
most wholly confined to Great Britain,
Holland and the United States.
Omaha daily bee., 1889-10-17
BURNING AT THE STAKE.
Horrible Story Told BY Travelling
SniPSm N af tntp-RpIIun, NI,SS,uri

Horrible Story Told BY Travelling
Saiesm IN of inte-Beiium Missouri.
Il can fully appreciate what the min
lister in Sundays sermon said about
martyrs said II. @. Hatton, IA St. Louis
travelling man. Burning at the stake
is the most painful and horrible manner
of death | ever witnessed"
How many centuries, have you lived,
Mr.. Hatton?' was asked.
Il am forty-fivc years old, and the
burning | SAW took place at noon one
day about the middle of July. 1859, at
Marshall. the county seat of Saline
county, eighty-four miles from Kansas
City. The victim was Il colored man
named John, who belonged TO Giles
Kiser, IA farmer. On the evening of
May IL John had murdered young Ben
iamin Hinton at his steamboat wood
yard ON the Missouri river between
Laynesvllle and Miami. John mur-
dered young Hinton for his money,
and obtained So, some of which
he distributed among other negroes.
Judge Russell Hicks, of independence.
was then Judge of the Sixth district.
lie was afterward the law partner of
Judge John f.. Philips and Senator
| George Il. Vest. Judge Hicks granted
| II motion for n special term OF court TO
| try John and two other negro crimi-
nails. This was in the forenoon. When
| the court adjourned for Il noouing the
| people, impatient at the laws Lelay,
| burst upon the sheriff as he was CON
| veying the prisoners from the court
room to the Jail, took them from the Of
| ficers, and there in the sight of hun
dreds hanged the other two and
| chained John to walnut tree and
| burned him to death. He lived about
| six or eight minutes after the flames
wrung the first cry of agony from his
! lips. Then the inhalation of the
blazing fire sutfocated him. His face,
| arms and breast were scorched fright
| fully. and the lower portion of his body
was Il charred. shapeless mass. Judge
Hicks was so indignant ut this outrage
that he resigned from the bench. No
trouble to those concerned ever erresulted
from the case, nor was there ever any
thing done To those VINO burned an-
other colored man in st. Louis in the
vicinity of what is now the site OF the
Laclede hotcl.n
Omaha daily bee., 1889-10-17
IOWA NEWS.
Anti-Horse Thief Association.


DEs MorSEs. H., Oct. l6.-ISpecial Tcle-
gram to Tue BEE. Tho annual meeting OF
the Iowa Anti-Horse Thief association was
held here to day ard was under the direc-
tion of the president of the association, Sen
ator Yale, of Van Buren, county. The meet
ing was secret. as all the meetings are, but
the business transacted was confined to hear
ing reports OF the executive officers election
of officers and discussion of plans for maxi
ing their work more effective. Sixty mem
bers of the association were present. The
society has branched out and Is now gem
eral law and order society, though making
horse thieves speciality. IL has a
vigilance committee of five in
each communitywhere branches OF the society
exist, and il is their duty to investigate al
legged violations of law, and detect, II posi-
BILE, the offenders, and band them over to the
authorities. The members OF tho aocioty are
nearly all farmers, and they work secretly
but in connection with the sheriff whenever T.
it is practicable.
The society elected the following officers:
President w. B. Frisbee. Pottawattamie
county; secretary, ]. G.. Buckle; treasurer,
o. B Cobb. Wayne county marshal, Il. IL.
Liddle, Lee county.
Omaha daily bee., 1889-10-17
Ran Away From Home.

OsKALoosA, Ia, Oct 16.-TSpecial Tele-
gram to THE BEE. Lee Johnson, the fif-
tcen-year.old son of J. w. johnson, editor of
the Saturday Globe, and Cecil Carpenter,
about the same age, son of t. f. Carpenter,
a travelling salesman of this city, disap-
peared last Monday night and have not been
heard of since. they took IA freight on the
Iowa Central aud beat their way rs
far as Hedrick, whore the conductor put
them off, after which they got on again and
paid their way as far as Brighton, where all
traces of them ceases Mr.. johnson went to
Kansas City last night, where he hopes to be
able To find them, as he thinks they have
started for that place, No cause can be
thought of for their leaving, as the boys
seemed perfectly contented at home John.
son was member of one of the high school
classes, and Carpenter was message boy at
the Western Union lelegranh Office.
Omaha daily bee., 1889-10-17
SPORTING.
The Omciai Averages.

A proof.slip of the official averages OF all
the players IN tue Western association was
received by TuK BEE from Secretary Sam
Morton last evening, from which the follow
ing has been excepted:
Young Earl, Milwaukee's new catcher,
heads the batting list with an average of
$50. He played, however, in but 81 games.
Hudson, OF Minneapolis, who played in 80
games, is second, With with an average OF
.351; Cline, OF Sioux City, third, with 1856;
Reilly, of St. Paul fourth, with .354; Crooks,
Of Omaha fifth; with .344 Werrick. OF st.
Paul sixth, with .3ii; Picket, OF st. Paul,
seventh, with 1888; Dalrymple, of Denver,
eighth, with .33i. The batters that reached
an average of over 800 follow in the order
named: Kreig, Tredway, Devlin, Mains,
Lowe, Cleveland, Morrissey, Sutton, Halves,
Poorman, McQuaid, Cooney, Shock and
est average of the Omahas, viz,
1919, and ,Emmerlse, of Des MONIES,
is at the tail end Of the whole association,
with an average of .0S0. Cline, Reilly,
Crooks, WerrcS Dalrymple, Tredway,
Cleveland, Niorrssey, Sutton, Hawes, Poor
man, Coonoy, Minnehan, Sagle, Carroll,
Curtis, Powell, Foster, Cartright, Silch,
Rowe, Alberts, Mcclellan, Murphy, Miller
Glenn, Maskrey, DAILY, Genins, Brosnan,
Canavan, Hanrahan. Broughton, Andrews,
'pb'ouoSs LNihbtii hdlou, Suuucll
and Bradley made 100 hits or more.
Poorman leads in stolen bases with .97,
Crooks second with .93, Cline third with 30.
Carroll fourth with SO, and Silch fifth with
.S3.
Crooks leads the run gctters with .191,
with Carroll second with .l52 and Cleveland
third with .1i2.
Andrews tops. the list of first basemen with
an average OF .9s5, while the balance follow
in order: Powell, Hawes Smith, Morrissey,
Cartright Mnnchan, Rowe.
Hengle leads the second basemen with
.949. The balance follow: Ardner, Brosnan,
Sutton, klusman, Crooks, Werrck, Phelan,
Mcclellan,
Bradley, of Sioux City, leads the third
basemen with $751; and Cleveland seventh
with .S67.
Macullar leads the short stops with oil,
and Walsh second, 902.
Driscol, left field, with .94l, CanGgan fifth,
.90S.
CooEey, center, with .o37, and Silch sec
ond, 1888.
Patton, right, 9o7; Strauss second. .s9s.
Nagle leads the catchers with .9O5, and
Trafftey and Hellman second, with $50.
Duke leads the pitchers. The average runs
off OF him per game being 1b2: Nichols sec.
ond, LII; Mains third, 1.SS; Clarke fourth,
200.
Nichols leads In strike outs with .35T
Duke secoud, .347; Hart, 1888; Clark, .223.
Omaha daily bee., 1889-10-17
The Red Man in Politics.

PENDER. Neb., Oct. l6 Il Special to THE
Bee. The first political gathering held in
Thurston county this fall assembled about
eight miles east of this place yesterday, the
republican politicians having some days pre-
viously announced that banquet would be
rendered the Omaha and Winnebago Indians.
A G. Abbott, of this place, was the speaker
of the day on the white side of the house,
while White Horse, an Omaha Indian, rep
resented the reds. The republican aspirants
for county positions this fall were on the
ground, aud were one by one introduced by
Abbott and a brief account of their merits
related The speech was delivered through
an interpreter, and tho only evidence of
their appreciation of MIR. Abbotts re-
marks was an occasional lazy grunt.
After ABBOTT had spoken White Horse took
the floor and told his storyc and everything
passed off without either trouble or enthusl-
asm. The attendance was very small there
being only about fifty redskins present.
Omaha daily bee., 1889-10-17
Rumored Consolidation.

CHICAGO. Oct. 16.-A morning paper has a
story that C. p. Huntington has formed a
combination of western lines under Joint
management. The lines in question are the
Wabash, Chicago, Milwaukee & st, Paul,
Atchison, Topeka e. Santa E'e, Denver & Rio
Grande, Denver S Rio Grande Western,
Missouri Pacific, and Southern Pacific roads,
and comprises total mileage of over TWEEN
ty-seveu thousand. ....
An Associated press reporter this morning
sought a confirmation or denial of the report
from p. d. Armour, who said II have not
heard anything about it.n s....
'As one of the directors of the Chicago,
Milwaukee g. St. Paul road, you would
know it if that line were included in the deal
as stated, would you nott' suggested the re-
porter.
"My impression is,'' he replied, 'that There
is nothing in it. l certainly have heard
nothing of il. ''-.-..-.-.
Omaha daily bee., 1889-10-17

Pads Of portable ink may be had ut
some of the stalioners or dealers in SUCH
supplies in various places, says the
Paper Mill. The plan is OF German
origin and at one time was used in this
country, though this was, as we'll as we
remember, ten or more years ago, and
it may have fallen into disuse, though
it certainly should be quite boon TO
travellers. The portable ink eau read =
lily be made by any one by simply OBJ
tanning some aniline color Of the de-
sired tint, making II strong solution Of
the same in n little alcohol, immersing
in the solution suitable cut strips OF
absorbent paper and allowing these to
dry, when they will he ready for use in
the manner above described.
Omaha daily bee., 1889-10-17
The Federal Court.

DEs MONIES, Ia, Oct. l6.-lSpecial Tele-
gram to The BEE. In tho federal court TO-
day the following cases were tried:
Bensley Bros. tS Co. against Stuart was
submitted to the court. Bergman against
McVissoclS, receiver for the Wabash, st.
Louis e. Pacific railroad company, was tried
before full bench, Judges Brewer, Love
ana Shiras, The case was brought here
from Council Bluffs. A decree was given in
the case of the Mercantile Trust company
against the Des Mones & Northern rail road
company for the complainant and n sale was
ordered. The case of the Eagle Manufac-
turing company against l.. w. Miller & Co.
will be heard by Judge Shras at Dubuque
on October "a. Tho case was originally
brought in the keokuS court.
Omaha daily bee., 1889-10-17
LATE POLICE NEWS.
Three Police Officers Bruised Up
A Street Gar Robbed.

n Street Car RODbed.
Last night was hard one on the police.
Billy White, who is on the Thirteenth street
beat, was the first victim. Night before last
he apprehended some parties trying to break
into Andy Murphys blacksmith shop, but
they took fright and ran away. Last night
he again heard noise and went in to iuvesti-
gate. That was the last he remembered
for half an hour for some one in the rear Of
the room hit him over the head with piece
of iron, cutting gash in his head about two
and one-half inches in length. DR.. Ralph
sewed him up and sent him home.
Officer Mitchell was victim number two
He was run over py wagon and knocked
down couple of fbmes. Pete Rhode and
FRITZ Lewan, two Sarpy county farmers,
came to town yesterday afternoon in u
wagon and at once loaded themselves with
the liquid, which, lf closely adhered to,
briDgeth forth snakes and other reptiles
They drove theirIsessn up sixteenth street
at "A frightful gait and Mitchell tried TO stop
them. He was run oyer by the wagon for
his pains. While he was rubbing
his sore shins II. N. Kelly came
along in buggy and picked
him up and then they gave chase. They
soon overlook the m9n, captured them and
then went to the police station. But Mitch
ellis troubles were nat over then, for tho two
pitched on him at the door and made lawn
tennis ball of b6ps Finally, with the as
sstance of the jaior, they were captured.
Jaior Havey was victim No. 3. Stephen
Greedy, soldier discharged from Fort
Omaha yesterday, started for Council Bluffs
to do little painting. On tho way he got
gay and drew a gun on the motor conductor
He was arrested and taken TO the station
He had on his person $1,000
in cash, which he objected 10 relnquish, and
when Havey insisted he hit him blow
under the ear that made him see the transit
of Venus and other stellar attractions. But
Havey will recover, while Greely will pay u
fine.
A horse car driver was held up at Thirty.
second and Cunning last night by two masked
men, who relieved HIM OF Sl56O.
Omaha daily bee., 1889-10-17
The Appointmentor Mr.. Low.

The appointment of Seth Low eX-
mayor OF Brooklyn, as president OF Co
lumbia, must, at first impression, sur
prise those who are familiar with such
matters, says the Chicago Herald. The
common idea of college president is
that of venerable and highly religious
man, who is, practically, omniscient;
he must know more about each sepa-
rate speciality than the professor
teaching it does. Second thought
will convince any one that such
wide, diversified and accurate informa-
tion is Impossible in any Que man, when
the number of branches taught in the
modern university is taken into consid-
GRAFTON. In Mr.. Lows selection rs
president Of Columbia, even the old
traditions in such matters hay, been
disregarded. He is a comparatively
young man, and has not yet been par