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Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1889-08-24

At Hot Springs, Oak, August 18th,
1889, of chror'' dyspepsia, Elijah X,
McVey, aged AZ years.
The deceased was well and favorably
known in this city, where he vas a
frequent visitor, being a member ia
good standing Of Gen. Steele Grand
Army post Of this place. He was born
at McVeytown, Pennsylvania, in 1916,
served as a soldier in the wal Of the
rebellion in the Goth Penn. Cavalry
came to the Hills in 1875, was among
the first locators in Deadwood gulch
where he and his partners worked out
claim No. ] above discovery. He has
been located at Lame johnny for the
past six years, where his attention has
been directed to agriculture and stock
raising.
He was married at Rockerville on The
Sth day of August, 1878, to Miss Estells
Ferguson, daughter of III. IL. Ferguson
at present a resident at Hot Springs
His wife and two children are left te
mourn the loss of a most DEVOTED hus
band and father. His funeral, ant
burial conducted by the G. A. Il. post O.
Hot Springs, occurred at that place on
the l4th inst.
A large circle Of friends of the deceas.
ed extend sympathy to his surviving
family in their deep bereavement.
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1889-08-24
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PERSONAL.

o. c. Lapp came in from Rapid OF
Monday.
+. Howard came in from Buffalo GaI
on Monday.
l.. F. Nudge came in from Hot Spring,
on Tuesday.
A. n. Pohlson came in from Rapid on
Wednesday.
j. X. Weyer represented st. Louis in
this place on Monday.
Chas. larson had business in town
from Hill City OF Sunday.
ID, j. Brown and p. Jenkins came in
from Hill City on Monday.
"a. j. King came in on business from
the ltta mine on Wednesday.
John Gillespie. of Hot Springs, was a
guest 1T the Kleemann on Saturday,
A. ii. Bushnell, Of Portsmouth, Neb.,
at the kleemann on sunday.
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1889-08-24

James Morrissey, Of st. Louis, ac-
companied by his sou Thomas
and daughter Katie arrived in the
city on Thursday. Mr.. Morrisey
is interested in the Grand Junction
mine, near this place, and comes here
with a view to making arrangements for
the completion of a tunnel which after
being driven POO feet was thrown up by
the contractors on account Of the hard.
are here for recreation, and will spend
several weeks ru~sticating in this locality
where the air is as inyisorating as the
scenery is enchanting.
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1889-08-24

A letter received this week by JEFF
McDermott from William Wilkinson,
formerly of this place, at present at The
gold mines of South Africa, furnishes a
less flattering account of the mines OF
that remote region than is given by the
average newspaper. He STAGED that The
country is nearly all located, and that
water is very scarce. He thinks now
ever that if he had been there a year
earlier he could have made consider
able money. The gold found thus far,
is mainly in lodes, which are payable,
but not to the extent reported. Natives
are extensively employed in the mines,
and receive from % TO 30 cents per day
for their services. White miners are
only employed as foremen over the
native employees. He states that @. ID.
Holiday, formerly of this place, and
n Of the original locators Of the Old
Bill mine, is there in the employ Of a
mining company as superintendent at a
salary of $500 per month.
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1889-08-24

The match game Of ball between tn e
Custer and Buffalo Gap clubs, played at
the latter place on Saturday, resulted in
a score Of % to 90 in favor of the Custer
club. The game is said to have been a
very interesting one up to the close oil
the 9th inning, when the score stood
to 4 in favor of the Gap club, after
which, by a repetition Of errors, the
score was raDidly increased until the
close. This being the second contest
between these clubs, and the Gap club
being defeated in both, it is far to
ascribe the mead Of supremacy to the
Tin City club, and a reasonable assump-
ton that their defeat in this city on the
4th of July was not due TO the high
altitude Of the place, or lightness of the
air as claimed on that occasion. The
dance ut the opera house i'm the evening
was a feature greatly enjoyed by the
Custer club, ana the accompanying
delegation from this place.
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1889-08-24
Coal Camp.

Frank w. Mondell, the afrable super
intendent at the coal camp, was pun
chasing supplies in the city on Monday
and made this office a very pleasant
call. Interrogated concerning the status
of the new town recently surveyed on
the line of the b. Il NJ. railroad, on the
northeast corner Of section 80, five miles
south of the coal mines now in opera.
ton, and seven miles northwest Of Field
City, he said there was no question but
what it would eventually become the
metropolis of the region, but that nc
lots would be offered for sale for at least
a month. The town has not vet been
cnristened, but it is believed it will be
given the name of New Castle, a name
decidedly appropriate, inasmuch as it
will at once suggest the character of the
great predominating resource of the
region in which it is located.
The company is at present engaged in
sinking for artesian water, which, it is
believed, will be encountered at a depth
of go feet.
Fitzpatrick & Collins are erecting a
three-story brick and stone building, 50
by 100 feet, which is designed for a
store room and company Offices.
There is a brick yard in operation
which is turning out 10000 brick per
day. 1t is expected that The railroad
will be completed to that point on or
before the first of November.
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1889-08-24

A Republican Judicial Convention is
hereby called, to assemble at Oelrichs,
Fall River county Dakota territory, on
the 2Sth day Of August. 1889, ut two
O'Clock in the afternoon for the purpose
Of nominating n judge Of the Circuit
Court for the seventh Judicial district.
consisting of Pennington county, Fall
River county and Custer county.
The representation in said convention
shall be as follows:
Pennington county, 9.
Custer county, 8.
Fall River county, 3.
The said apportionment being the
same as the said counties are entitled to
in the state convention.
Dated, Rapid City, ID. IT,, August 3,
1889. WILLIAM r. CoAD,
Member Of the Territorial Republican
Committee for said district. A..
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1889-08-24
Lost.

On Thursday, between Custer and
Hill City a ladies brown striped cloa k.
Finder will leave same at +. II. Flynn's
store.
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1889-08-24
EDWIN H. FLYNN,
ATTORNEY AT LAW

Associated with best Legal Firm in Territory.
Allkina Jfdocuments accurately drawn. Once
in Court House, Custer. ID. 7.
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1889-08-24
CUSTER CHRONICLE.
Official Paper Of Custer County


The working force at the Tin Reef
group was increased by putting on a
night shift on Monday night.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-05-25
The Temple street Grade.

An esteemed correspondent writes a
half column article to correct one OF a
"stick" length in the HERALD, in rela-
ton to the Temple street grade. This
communication starts out with an utter
misapprehension of what the HERALD
said. For this journal did not say word
about any Bunker Hill avenue property
now being connected with the Temple
street sewer. The rest of the long
article goes to show that the proposed
grade is the best, indeed, that it is the
only practicable drainage possible, yet it
comedies the point that the differ
ence between the proposed grade
and that asked for by those who
oppose that one is a very slight one. In
the proposed grade there is fall of
about three feet between the intersection
of Grand avenue and that of Bunker
Hill avenue. In the grade asked for by
the objectors, Temple street would be on
dead level between these two points.
Here is the HERALD's position: 1t claims
it would be a wiser thing for the two
sides to compromise on this slight
change than to spend years in litigation
over the dispute. The writer of the
communication is lawyer, and there
fore ought to know that no new Charter,
or any other device, is of any avail in
doing away with the laws delay.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-05-25

The conference to be held in Washing
ton in October between the American
Republics will be success, as far as the
full re representation of the different coun-
tries is concerned. Already the follow.
ing Governments have taken steps in
that direction, and most of these have
officially informed the State Departm ent
of their acceptance of the invitation !:
Mexico, Guatemala, San Salvador, Hon.
duras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Colombia,
Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Chile, the Ar
gentine Republic, Uruguay and Vene-
zuela. 1t is expected that Mexico will
be represented by three delegates, Chile
by two delegates, Venezuela by two
delegates, and the other countries named
by one delegate each. We doubt
whether anyone has yet given thought
to the far-reaching effects which this
initial conference may have upon the
future. If the seeds for unity of opin-
ion upon all great American questions
should be successfully sown at this in
ternational conference, they would pro-
duce very important fruit in the near
future. The spirit OF the Monroe doc
trine would then become the guiding
principle Of the American nations. To
give it greater power and enduring force
it is but necessary shat the American
peoples should be brought into closer
Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-05-25
About Opening First street.

Many citizens deeply interested in the
opening of First street, in discussing the
matter yesterday, said that the matter
now rests in the hands of one or more.
1t is, they allege, for the City Attorney
to say whether or not useless and vexa-
tious delay is to be the course of events
in this, or whether something will be
done promptly in the way of getting a
thoroughfare through the hill. How is
this, Mr.. City Attorney? Will you rise
and explain if this is a correct view or
not? If you are in position to press
the opening of this street, and you will
use your advantage, you can leave a
monument of your incumbency in office
behind you.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-05-25

THE mysterious murder of DIR. Cronin
in Chicago ought to be traced to its
authors without the exercise of very
superior detective skill. There are we'll
ascertained clews which it ought to be
easy to follow up to satisfactory conclu-
sions. There is no doubt that the man
Woodruff, who figured with the ice
wagon, and has confessed to carrying of
the bloody trunk, knows enough to throw
light upon the persons who employed
him, and upon the men who went with
him to Lake View Park. 1t should be
possible to trace and locate the young
man who drove up to the doctors door
and started off with him, ostensibly tC
attend a person who had been seriously
injured at Lake View Park. He was
seen and talked to, before he drove off,
by the Doctors clerk. The mysterious
cottage at Lake View Park, with its tell
tale blood spots, furnishes link in the
chain which should lead bright detect
i've upon trail that would give substantial
results. Then, it would seem to an
ordinary understanding, that the various
efforts made by parties to place the de-
tectives on false trail would suggest a
guilty knowledge on their part. If the
murderers of DIR. Cronin are not brought
to grief, it will certainly not be for the
want of clews that point the way to the
unravelling of the mystery and to the
perpe traitors of the crime.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-05-25
relations by the intercourse and traffic
which will spring from this international
oanfaraupa

AT Ell ToRo, a station on the Santa Fe
road, ten miles south of Santa Ana, have
been found large deposits OF silicate OF
alu minum and beds of blue clay of Pc
culiar tenaciousness, from which, prop,
erly mixed, very fine article of cement
of the Portland character can be manu-
factured. If the parties who are now
interested in these deposits are certain oi
their material, it would be difficult tc
place limit on the value of their prop
erty. This county alone used $750,00C
worth of Portland cement last year, and
not less than 100000 would represent
the amount paid out by this southern
tier of counties last year for this very
indispensable article.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-05-25
"MY MURDERED Boy"
Mind-Reader Bishops Mother
on the Stand.
DONE TO DEATH BY SURGEONS.
Carved by Doctors When in Cata-
leptic Trance-Scientific
Precipitancy.
Associated Press Dispatches to the HERALD

f,ssoc,sted Press Dispatches to the HERALD
New York, May 24.-At to-days ses--
sion of the inquest in the case Of WASH.
ington Irving Bishop, Mrs. Bishop,
mother of the deceased, testified that, on
one occasion, her son had been, for six
DAYS, as if dead, but she held to the be-
lief that he was alive, and on the sew
enth day he rose up and was himself
again. This, Mrs. Bishop said, was
when he was boy, and he had had sew
eral similar experiences since. She
further said that he had horror OF the
surgeons knife, while in the trance,
and always carried paper about his
person explaining this feeling. She said
she saw this paper with him an hour be-
fore be left Philadelphia on the fatal
evening. Although she came on at
| once, when notified of his illness, they
would not let her zee him, but said that
the doctors were with him. She
had presentiment that they
would try to cut him with their
knives before they would let her see
him. She argued with them to no pur-
l pose, anu salu, ne ID eihPiy ,n q
trance, and they do not understand his
case. On Tuesday morning." she added,
'I was brought to the undertaker's,. and
there shown the body of my murdered
boy"
Miss Ida Orine Jones, who had known
Bishop for fifteen years, told of trance
of Bishop, where the physicians pro-
nounced him dead, and his recovery
half an hour after he had been laid out.
DR.. Briggs corroborated Mrs. Bishops
testimony as to his attendance on her
J son in 1873, and stated that the doctors
J who were with him had pronounced him
dead, though he would not be convinced,
, having had charge Of similar cases. Ad-
, iourned until Monday.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-05-25
SHORT INTERVIEWS.
what Business Men Think OF tn
Situation.

situation.
Judge Widney: Yes, / am back on
short visit to the East. l saw good
deal while away. Things are quiet in
all parts of the East, but the future is
hopeful. 1 look for big movement to
Los Angeles next fall and winter. The
future of this section cannot be doubted.
Wherever 1 went I heard Los Angeles
discussed. 1 came in contact with many
who wished to know about it:
Captain r. r. Thompson, OF Redondo
We are working away at our railroad
from the beach to Los Angeles. The
ties are here now and the iron is arriving
daily. do not see what there is to keep
this section back. We thought when we
purchased 80 large an interest IN
Redondo and Inglewood that there
is absolutely everything here out
of which to make fine conntry
the best under the sun. We
are improving our property, and moi
trying to force it on the market. an
confident the market will come for al
we have as soon as we are we'll prepared
for it. :.
Major E. L. Stern-Well, business i;
a little quiet, but still there ls nothing
TO Justify saying times are dull. We are
not doing as much business this year as
we did in 1887, but we are doing a. gooc
deal more than we did in 1885, and quite
as much as we did in 1886. Yes, there are
more people here than there were in 1886
but there are more houses in our line tt
do the business. We are greatly encour
aged. The Spring business opened W
well, and it continues. Things are al
right, and times will improve in the
Fall.
G. A. Stillson-The HERALD called the
turn the other day, when it predicted
better times, more activity in stock, ant
rise in values. Anyone who has
watched the New York markets for the
past week will see how correct you were
in your representations. Yesterday
there was marked improvement, espe
pecially in the western railroad stocks
The tone of the market is much etrongel
than it was, and it is gaining strength
daily. There is turn in the tide OF al
fairs in the financial world. A period
greater confidence, of more active opera
tions, and of higher prices, is at hand.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-05-25
Antelope Valley Grain.

S. A. Waldron, the great she'll binder
of the last campaign, whose lucid free
trade speeches had SO much effect on the
minds of the voters, is no longer con-
cerneo about politics or tariff schedules.
He is happy granger, and halls from
the land of jack rabbits in Antelope
Valley. The rabbits and Waldron both
know good thing when they
see it. They both saw Ante
lope Valley, and there they settled.
Waldron and a great many other
far. seeing people have determined
that the big prairie is too fertile to allow
the rabbit to enjoy an undisputed title to
the soil. They intend to dispossess
bunny and make the desert bios
som, etc.
Yesterday Waldron came into the city,
bearing his sheaves. He had lot of
barley as fine as ever was seen. The
straw is as bright as silver, and the
heads are long, full and heavy with gol-
den grain. Waldron said to HERALD
man: have $500 acres of land in the
valley. There is an enormous crop of
grain there this year. OF wheat alone
there will be threshed 1000 sacks this
fall. Both wheat and barley are looking
inc. There is no smut, no rust, no
blight in Antelope. 1t will be fine
country.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-05-25

We SEE that two of our city contempo-
raries have published official acknowl-
edgements from the City and the County
Treasurers of the receipt of $45 and $50,
respectively, from some conscience
stricken prcperty-owner, who evidently
shirked the payment of his taxes. II
this sort of thing should become epi'
demic, our city and county treasures
would soon be suffering from plethora
Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-05-25
The sheets of the mammoth issue of

The sheets of the mammoth issue OF
the ILLUSTRATED ANNUAL HERALD are
now going through the press. 1t is an
acknowledged fact that since the first ap-
pearance of this publication in 1880, the
vast numbers of it which have gone to
the East, replete as the pages are with
the most carefully prepared matter relat-
ing to all the industries and interests of
this section, and embellished by pictor-
ial representations of the most attractive
features in 30 superb a style, its infu-
ence in inducing immigration to our
shores has been greater than that of any
other ublication-indeed, greater than
all others combined. The present issue
will be great improvement on
all its predecessors. It's forty
eight quarto pages will contain
exhaustive exhibits of the varied re-
sources of this and the surrounding
counties. Special pains have been taken
to make these articles telling in their
presentation of the attractions OF Los
Angeles. 1t will be splendidly illustrated
with new cuts of interesting and beauti-
full features, obtained at great expense.
The climate of the semi-tropics; Los An
geles as great railway center; the street
railway service Of the city; dairying in
Los Angeles county; the oil measures of
Southern California; orange culture, and
that of fruit generally; our churches,
schools and societies; our seaside resorts
the profits of farming and the comforts
experienced in agricultural pursuits in 60
mild climate will all find careful and
complete treatment in the ILLUSTRATED
HERALD of 1889. There is still some
small space left for advertising purposes
in its pages; and this is an opportun-
ity which land own ers, real estate agents,
architects, lumber dealers, and business
mem generally cannot afford to let pass
The results are vastly larger in the way
Il returns than those of any similar
aedium. Those who desire to secure
,pace must do 30 at once.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-05-25
ON THE DIAMOND.
The Result of the League Games
Played Yesterday.

PHILADELPHIA, May "a The Phillies
outbatted the Clevelands this afternoon
but the majority of their hits were
wasted, while every hit made by the Wis
itors contributed to run-getting. Score
Phillies 4, Cleveland5. Batteries Phil
lies, Casey and Schriver; Cleveland
Bakely and Snyder.
WASHINGTON, May 24.-The game here
this afternoon between the Washingtons
and Pittsburgs was poorly played, but
exciting. The Senator'S batted hard and
frequently, but it availed them very little,
their fielding miserable. Score: Wash
ington 7, Pittsburg 8. Batteries: Wash
ingtou, Haddock and Mack; Pittsburg,
Staley and Lauer.
Boston, May 24.-The Boston-Indian-
apois game this afternoon was an excit-
ing one, and was won in the ninth
inning, on base on balls, single, a
tumble of Johnson's, long fly to Nc
Geachy, and the latter's poor return OF
the ball. Score: Boston, 5; Indianap-
oils, 3. Batteries: Boston, Radbourne
and Bennett; indianapolis, Whitney and
Daily.
New York, May 24-The Giants won
their second game from the Chicagos
this afternoon. 1t was lively battle,
and replete with interesting situations.
Score: New York, 8; Chicago, z. Bat
teries: New York, Welch and Ewing
Chicago, Dwyer and Farrell.
ASSOCIATION GAMES.
COLUMBUS, May 24.-Columbus, 0;
Cincinnati, 4.
ST. LOUIS, May "a The st. Louis.
Kansas City game was postponed on ac-
count of rain.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-05-25
.sATURDAY, MAY s5, 1859.
An Abuse that ought 10 ne
Rectified.

Perhaps there is nothing, outside OF
the fraud of false labelling, that conduces
more to the injury of the vineyard In
terest of this State than the licensing by
The Government of the business OF the
rectifers. These men, with the sanction
of the authority of the United States,
pursue a trade which is not only inlurl'
ous to legitimate business, but which is
inexpressibly pernicious in its effects
upon the public. What is a rectitler =?
He is one who doctors bad and in
ferior liquors and palms them off
upon the public as genuine brands
of pure and superior goods. He turns
high wines into French cognacs. He
sophisticates everything he touches, and
does more to vitiate the taste and destroy
the health of the public than could be
accomplished by the most unlimited
abuse of the drinking habit If it were
confined to pure, but inferior, distilla-
tons. The Iectifer is responsible for
the fact that pure liquors are no longer to
be had in the markets. The genuine
wines and brandies of former times
have, through his instrumentality, been
replaced by decoctions of insidious poi
sons and brain-crazing mixtures. With
alcohol or spirits of wine as basis, he
manufactures, by the aid Of coloring
tinctures and favoring drugs, everything
in the whole range of spirituous and
vinous brands. From his laboratory
emerges the entire stock in trade oi
nearly every first class or last
sclass bar in the United States
He is responsible for nine-tenths
of the crime and insanity that are
traced to drunkenness. If it were moi
for him the vineyards of California could
not supply the one.thousandth part Of
the demand there would be for
good, pure wines and bTaudies
made from our grapes. Instead OF
the product of our vineyards being al
most unsaleable at starvation prices,
they would be in demand at figures that
would extend the grape growing industry
of California five hundred fold in the
next five years. He is the meanest and
the most injurious enemy to the vine in
terest it has ever encountered. Phyl'
loxera, couture, malnero, and all the
maladies that ever afflicted viticulture
are as nothing to the destruc'
tive and insidious deviltry of the
licensed and legalized United States
recti6er. That the Government encour.
ages by the authority Of its high sanction
q calling that is thus pernicious is one oi
the gravest reflections upon its integrity
that could be advanced. 1t is an srraign'
ment which involves it's implication in g
conspiracy to defraud and murder the
people whom it is instituted to guard and
protect.