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Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1890-02-22
Railroad Revelations. |.

A late st. Panl special to the Chicago
Inter Ocean, gives the following gratify-
ing information "Many extensive
railroad enterprises are now under way,
the Sioux Reservation having been at
last opened. The famous tin mines OF
the Black Hills will be worked to their
fullest extent. Besides the lines of the
Milwaukee and the Northwestern Roads
which have been surveyed and will be
laid as soon as possible across the reser-
vation, there are number Of import
ant additions to the roads in the Black
Hills district, which will open up the
mines to use. The Burlington and Mis-
souri, River Road Announces that it will
reach the heart Of the Harney Peak TIN
district, via New Castle. by the middle
Of July. The Rapid City, Harney
Peak and Southwestern will be changed
from narrow to standard gauge, and,
to connect with Fremont. Elkhorn Val.
ley and Missouri River at Rapid City,
will begin work in two weeks on line
TO Custer City and Hill City. These
will be in the Northwestern system.
The Deadwood Central extend its line 10
the Ruby Basin, one of the richest tin
districts in the Black Hills. The rail-
roads and miners of the Hills have de-
termined to turn their attention to the
tin output and leave the gold to take
care of itself for the nonce. They an
nounce that with the proposed tariff to
give them starter they will within q
few months be prepared to furnish all
the tin needed In the United States.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1890-02-22
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Lost on tha Reserve.

The Chicago Tribune is responsible
for the following intensely thrilling epi-
sode in the history Of a drummer of that
city:
Speaking of the Sioux Reservation"
said drummdr at the Palmer last even
ing, "reminds me of q frightlul expert
ance had in that country during tn @
last real. estate boom. The railroad
terminus was at Rapid City then, and
We had to make several towns by stage
or by saddle. As knew nothing about
that wild land engaged a guide. He
had been in every Western real-estate
boom for forty years and knew the land
as well as l know Chicago. We were
about twenty miles from Rapid City one
day when snow-storm overlook us.
This was followed by blizzard and the
binding snow made it impossible to see
over our horses heads. We aimlessly
wandered over the praire until darkness
came. Tnen We seemed no better off
than twelve hours before. We could
not stop for the night, as there was not
a stick of wood in sight. So we kept on
riding. We were about to give up, when
the guide discovered what he thought
was tTaii. nc Staftcu MS morse on q
brisk run, and / closely followed him.
Suddenly the old settler waved his
sombrero and gave regular cowboy
yell. 1t was the most Joyous sound l
had ever heard, for supposed he could
see Rapid City. Riding behind him I
asked:
Whats the good news, Bill?
90 Ken yer see that white spot over
yonder?'
"Just below that prairie dog town.
"'Yes. Wal, that's q sign what be-
longs ter some city store, an we be near
homer
I'VE made quick time to that sign
board, while visions ofa hot supper and
a roaring fire warmed our hearts. Pre-
sently we came to the board and leaped
from our saddles. Bill lighted a match
and scanned the letters. Then utterlng
heart rendering shrek he fell to the
ground, dead as door nail. I struck a
match and when l read that sign I fell
in swoon. About midnight some COW
boys found me and took me to their
camp"
"What was on that sign-board ?" ask.
ed one of the listeners.
Choice town lots staked out for
Eastern investors. Only q days ride
from town.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1890-02-22
South Dakota's Opportunities.

The Dubuque Herald is moved to tax G
cognizance of Dakota droughts, bliz.
yards, grasshoppers and failures ol
crops" and to say; Dakota is not hall
as good state as Iowa, for instance,
and yet people are rushing there"
This is sheer Misrepresentation and
nonsense, and The Journal is disposed
to resent it. 1t is grossly unjust to
South Dakota. 1t is false in every i'm
plication.
South Dakoa has made incomparably
more rapid progress during the past ten
wears as territory than Iowa did dur
ing the first ten years Of its history as a
state. The people of South Dakota have
not suffered more from storms, drought
and failures of crops than the people
OF Iowa did at the corresponding period
OF their history-not Learly SO much
The people Of South Dakota have ac-
cumulated more wealth and at vastly
more rapid rate than did the people Of
Iowa in the early stages of their settle
ment. The epcopie ofsouth Dakota have
actually taken more value out Of their
soil than the people Of Iowa were able
to do.
This is the absolute and demonstrable
fact There is no excuse for such mis-
representation as the Herald INDUCES
in.
1t is doubtless true that many have
gone to South Dakota who went unwise-
ly, who might have done better else
where, and who ought never to have
tried their fortunes in the new north
west. Precisely the same thing happened
in Iowa. Improvident. thriftless, weak
or otherwise unqualified men always
rush off to new regions. and when they
fail they return to curse the country for
their own fault. Iowa would never
have prospered if it had been judged by
this standard. And it is no more fair as
applied TO Iowa then.
The Journal is free to say that the
averageman who is prosperous where
he is, often makes mistake by going
elsewhere. The farmer who is situated
to his liking in Iowa or Illinois may rue
1t if he pulls up stakes and hies away to
new countries But for thousands in
the older states South Dakota offers OPP
portunities which they cannot have or
hope to have where they now are
cheap lands, rich soil, varied resources,
surely growing community and a field
where not only will valnes rise, but
where the pick of the opportunities are
for those who are first on hand to seize
them.
In short, South Dakota offers precisely
the same kind of new opportunities
which were offered in Iowa a generation
ago, and still earlier in Illinois and the
states still further east-the same kind
of opportunities with nothing like equal
hardships and perils which pioneering
involved in earlier days.
South Dakota offers just such oppor-
tunities now to just such men as were
capable of success in early Iowa. No
more is South Dakota place for the
sluggard or the shirk. Men of energy,
of industry. of hope, of nerve, men who
have paience and the endurance to work
and wait, 10 build for the future and to
brave every emergency-for all such
there is no field on the continent afford.
ing opportunities superior to South pa-
kota.-Sioux CITY Journal.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1890-02-22

The rush to the reservation from
Pierre and Chamberlain has been great
ly exaggerated by special correspondents
whose communications were indited
with special view to creating sensa-
ton without reference to existing facts.
1t now appears that little excitement
has been manifested, no trouble to speak
of has been experienced from any cause
whatever, and that the first stages of
settlement upon the great reserve may
be reasonably accepted as having been a
very queit affair.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1890-02-22

The first report of the commissioners
of the Soldiers Home has been submit
ted to the governor. The building, q
three-story and basement. l32 feet long
by IS feet deep, is shown to be well
under way. The structure is being built
Of sandstone, found in great abundance
in that locality. Nearly $4,000 has been
expended thus far in its construction,
the contract price of the building being
$3i,224. Upon completion the home
will be admirably adapted for the pur.
pose intended, and an ornament to the
town in which it is located. The board
of commissioners are deserving Of the
highest credit for the faithful attention
and deep interest shown in the manage
ment of Its affairs.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1890-02-22

through other states to reach the capi-
tai The distance by the roads to be
built direct from Pierre will reduce the
mileage to less than 200 miles. Provis-
ion will be made in the bill for the ex-
tension Of two of the great railroad sys-
TENS to the Hills, and it is presumed
that work on them will be commenced
this year. The opening up Of the reser-
vation will make ncighbors of the isol-
ated reigon with the rest of the state,
and tend to unity the interest of the
several sections.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1890-02-22

We neglected to note last week the
change in the make up" and head OF
the Custer CHRONICLE, but 1t was an
improvement nevertheless, and we hope
to note many more improvements in
Custer in the immediate by and by
Hill City Miner.
And your hopes will bud blossom and
bear; don't doubt it; just keep your eye
on Custer.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1890-02-22

The Rapid Journal says: Although
there are number of people here who
invest monthly in the Louisiana lottery,
none of them have drawn a prize for
several months past. Last month an
unusually large number invested, but
no prizes were drawn" We see nothing
surprising In the above statement. II
the Journal had noted the drawing of a
prize, then indeed, would 1t have greatly
surprised its readers.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1890-02-22

The new wrap that now encircles the
fashionable female form is model of
simplicity and anybody can make it.
You just get blanket, put draw string
in one end and a puckering string in
the middle, and behold the thing is done,
1t looks nice, too.-Evanston News.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1890-02-22

The st. Paul Globe pertinently says :
THE great feature In the opening Of the
Sioux reservation Is the removal Of the
barrier between the main portion of the
state in area and population and the
Black Hills. BY the present travelled
routes the Legislators from the Hills
have q journey Of some 500 miles
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1890-02-22

The argument before the supreme
court on the Jones-Driscoll clerk OF
court case has been concluded. Decis-
ion will not be rendered for several
days. The opinion is prevalent at Pierre
that Jones will be retired.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1890-02-22

The Sioux Falls Argus, referring TO
the matter Of Governor Mellette's plea
for seed wheat for drouth stricken far
mers, mildly says, "he begged, not wise
ly, but too WE'LL"
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1890-02-22

The latest proposed method for side
tracking prohibition was discussed in
the presence of this reporter few even.
ings since. The plan was to organize q
new church, to be known as the Sacra-
mental church, and to have the organi-
zatlon perfected and ready to open up
on the day fixed for prohibition to 60
into effect, and continue indefinitely.
The doctrinal tenets upon whicht he
church is based will be Of the most
liberal and conservative character, and
the form Of worship will be of the
simplest order, consisting mainly in
taking sacrament, which will be admin
istered ad libitem, and not at stated in
tervals as in other churches. The
church will be open TO all applicants for
admission to its fold, excepting only
prohibitionists, who under no circum-
stances need apply.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1890-02-22

A fatal affray between G. Carter and
r. La Flamme, two farmers Of Elk
creek, Meade county, occurred on Fri
day Of last week, resulting in the death
OF the former from the effect OF blow
upon the head from billet Of wood.
La Famine has been committed to Jail
q Stnrgis pending trial. The fight ID
the result OF an old feud engendered
over settlement Of land matters.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1890-02-22

Bismarck, Feb. IA rumor Is cur
rent tonight that the friends Of the lo.-
terry bill will introduce new measure
tomorrow, to provide for the payment
to the state of $3.50, 900 per year instead
of$75,OO0. One ofthe strongest oppon-
ents of the measure said he thought the
report correct and feared the result, as
he. did not think the lottery people
would make another attempt unless alb.
solutely sure Of their ground. Others
think there is nothing In the rumor.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1890-02-22

The appropriation bill recently intro
duced in the lower house of Il e state
legislature provides for an appropriation
ofS5, ,4S0 fer the School of Mines, which
niggardly sum is intended to keep the
institution grinding for another year.
There is something remarkably peculiar
about this appropriation, as it must be
apparent to every member of that body,
that if the bill should pass in its present
form, that institution would be com.
PEELED to make an assignment, and be
ultimately compelled to retire from
business. There is evidently a desire
on the part Of some of the members to
place the institution on the retired list
on reduced rations.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1890-02-22

Cole of Custer" who has reputation
of being one of the busiest workers in
the lower house of the legislature, is
also putting in good word on the side
for the tin interests of the section he
represents. The Pierre Press Of late
date says: "This Office is now decorated
with fine specimen of tin ore, given
us by Hon. Cyrus Cole, member of the
lower house from Custer county. He
states with degree of positive convic-
ton that that mineral will soon bring a
boom to the Hills country that viii lay
all previous booms on the table. They
have only about l60 square miles of the
stuff-but enough to supply the demands
of the world for few centuries or So"
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1890-02-22

The following statements. made before
the ways and means committee at
Washington, by Samuel Untermeyer,
president of the Harvey Peak Tin CON-
pany, will be regarded by local readers
as very refreshing reading: "The Har.
ney Peak Mining, Milling and Manu-
featuring company will be prepared by
May 1, 1891, to place upon the market
from the Black Hills all the tin required
for consumption in the United States.
An idea of the enormous proportions OF
the company's plant can be had from
the fact that it will furnish employment
to from 1000 to 1900 men and will re
quire railroad eighty miles in length
to form circuit of the different mines
within its territory"
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-11-16

against the wall and sketched for an hour,
till the kerosene lamps began to smell, and
the girls threw themselves painting on the
hard beaten ground. Then be shut his book
with a snap and moved away, Binat plucking
feebly at his elbow. ''Show me-" he whim-
pereG. 81 too once was an artist, even II
Dick showed him the rough sketch. sam
that?" be screamed. "Will you take that
away with you and show all the world that
it is 1, Binat?" He moaned and wept.
Monsieur has paid for all" said
madame. "To the pleasure of seeing Mon
sieur again."
|, The court yard gate shut, and Dick hut-
r1ed up the sandy street to the nearest
gambling hell, where ne was we'll known.
'If the luck holds, it's an omen; if lose,
1 mus. stay here" He placed his money
picturesquely about the board, hardly dar-
ing to look at what he did. The luck held.
Three turns of the wheel left him richer by
920, and he went down to the shipping to
make friends with the captain of decayed
cargo steamer, who landed him in London
with fewer pounds in his pocket than he
cared to think about.
A thin gray fog hung over the city. and
the streets were very cold; for summer was
in England.
Its cheerful wilderness, and it hasn't
the knack of altering much" Dick thought,
as he tramped from the docks westward.
Now, what must do?"
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-11-16
POSTAL TECHNICALITIEs.
The Letter was Damp and Weighed More at
Night Than in the Morning.

The Letter was Damp and Weighed More at
Night Than in the Morning.
Not long ago 1 mailed several letters, with
circulars Enclosed, and put what supposed
was sufficient postage on, says business
man in the st. Louis Globe Democrat. 10
my annoyance was notified the next morn
ing that the whole batch was held for post
age. I went around to the postefice and
was informed that each envelope and Its
contents weighed just enough to turn the
scale and that I must in consequence pay
the extra postage. At my request one OF
the letters was weighed on the official scales
and instead of being over 1t turned out 70
be fraction under weight.
Blu. my triumph was short-lived, Tor !
was informed that the weight when mailed
was what had to be charged on, and the let
ter weighed more the preceding night than
then. The explanation as to the loss In
weight was that the letter had been copled,
and mailed damp, subsequently giving OF
quite an appreciable weight by evaporation.
Now insist on letters being copied as early
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-11-16
LIGHT IN YOUR CANE.
An Application of the Electric Current That
Will Save Profanity.

An Application of the Electric Current That
Will Save Profanity.
New York Star.1
You have often been in some position
where you would give pretty much anything
for light, when you have searched every
pocket in vain for . match: when ysu have
been obliged to give 1t up and 60 on your
way disconsolate. 1t is just this contingency
that a dealer in canes and umbrellas has
been providing against. This dealer has
succeeded in inventing a cane which has an
electric light. The top of the cane unscrews
and discloses small incandescent
burner. This latest application of the
subtle fluid consists of cane with hollow
shank, in which is snugly stored fairy-size
battery. This is of sufficient power to supply
a current for year with only occasional
use, and when exhausted it can be readily
renewed. II you drop your pocketbook on
the street at night, if you want to consult
your watch, if the keyhole is lodging, after
the frequent manner of keyholes, all you
have to do is to touch button and the cleo
trio cane goes into service, and there you
are, with light at your disposal.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-11-16
CONDUCTOR sURRENDERING THE SIGNAL STAFF.

men of ability devoted their attention to
simplifying the mode of land and water sig
nails. RedPs system of cones was consld-
cred superior form. 1t did not depend on
color, but resorted to form and motion.
There were four cones fixed to a mast. The
cones were collapsable, and were formed in
a similar way to umbrellas. Their usual
condition was shut and they could only be
held open bv a rope on each, pulled taut.
Each cone represented a number, and thus,
by the combinations, the signal or message
was sent.
For night signals the old naval plan to
hang dingy lanterns in various shapes-tri-
angles, squares, crosses, etc. Besides re.
quiring large bases to be at all visible, this
was generally found from the motion of the
ship to be useless. RedPs cone system was
utilized instead at night by hanging four
lanterns in a vertical line to represent the
cones, and obscuring those which cor
responded to shut cones.
WESTINGHOUSE TRIED IT TOO. g.
OF late years various appliances have been
invented for signaling the movements of
trains On American railroads. George
Westinghouse of Pittsburg, has been fore
most in this science, and his system of auto
matte switches and signals is we'll known.
The Ducousso brothers once invented a
curious device that gave notice of passing
trains on certain portions of railroad. The
transmitter was magnetto-electric genera
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-11-16
CHAPTER III.

30 he thinks he shall take to the sea again
For one more cruise with his buccaneers,
To SINCE the beard Of the King Of Spain,
And capture another dean of Jaen
And sell him in Algiers.
A Dutch Picture.
The Soudan campaign and Dicks broken
head had been some months ended and
mended, and the Central Southern Syndi-
cate had paid Dick a certain sum on account
for work done, which work they were care
full to assure him was not altogether up to
their standard. Dick heaved the letter into
the Nile at Cairo, cashed the draft in the
same town, and bade a warm farewell to
Torpenhow at the station.
81 am going to lie up for a while and
rest, said Torpenhow. 81 don't know where
L shall live in London, but if God brings US
to meet, We shall meet. Are you staying
here on the off chance of another row? There
will be none till the Southern SOudan is re-
occupied by our troops. Mark that. Good
by, bless you, come back when your moneys
spent, and give me your address"
Dick loitered in Cairo, Alexandra, Is
malta, and Port Said, especially Port Said.
There is iniquity In. many parts of the
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-11-16

phores were first established by the French
in 1894 as the plan OF conveying intelll-
gence from the capital to the armies on the
frontiers. In the following year George
Murray introduced them in England, and
by their means the Board OF Admiralty
were placed within a Jew minutes of Ports
mouth.
These semaphores were towers built at in
tervals OF from five to ten miles on COM
manding sites. On the top of each tower
was the telegraphIc apparatus. which at first
comprised six shutters arranged in two
frames, by the opening and shutting of
which, in various combinations, 63- distinct
signalsaeould be formed. In 1916 Sir Home
Popham substituted mast with two arms;
similar to many of the present railway
signal masts about Pittsburg.
AIDED BY TELESCOPES.
These arms were worked from within the
tower by winces in the lookout room, where
a powerful telescope in either direction con-
stantly commanded the mast of the next sta
ton. II a Jog set in at any point on the
route, the message was delayed; otherwise,
when sharp lookout was kept, the trans
mission was very rapid. For instance, the
hour of l o'clock by Greenwich time was
always communicated to Portsmouth.
When the ball fell at Greenwich the sema-
phores were ready for the message, and it
commonly passed from London to Ports
mouth, and the acknowledgment back to
London within three-quarters of a minute.
In calm weather even to this day when
flags will not extend on shipboard, sema-
phores are employed on board some ships as
means of signaling from one vessel to an
other. In such a case the post containing
the arms is movable, and can readily be
shipped or unshipped near the stern.
CONES AND LANTERNS.
Pafora the electric te1arranb roaoy oant1a
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-11-16

ranges. extensive plains, rivers and other
natural boundaries, but are constantly en-
gagged in petty international fighting. A
Sakalava able-bodied man would never
think of venturing out of his own village
unless fully armed, as here shown, with an
old flint-lock over his shoulder one or more
spears in the hand, shield, powder flask,
and last, but by no means least, strings of
beads and charms around the neck or tied
around the wrist. The charms are most
essential, and are supposed to render the
wearer invulnerable. The Sakalavas are
slaves to superstitious fears, and regard one
another with great suspicion. IF stories are
to be believed, they are so full of mistrust
that they dare not wash both sides of their
face at one time lest some foe should take
them unawares. First one half of the face
is rubbed and then the other, a method that
admits of watchful observation by the eye
left free. OF course, this is story told in
derision, and must be taken cum grsno sails;
but that they are completely vict;mized by
Ignorant belief in fetishes is quite notorious.