Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1891-10-03
PAYING FOR A NEWSPAPER
ffice-HoIders In South Dakota
Asked to Buy a Daily Paper.
Some Interesting Gossip Concerning th'
Press of That State--Judge Trips
Plans--Pierre Board OF Trade
Tho state Fair.

the Sioux Falls Press which has been
advertised to take place for some time
now and last positively on the 10th ol
| this month, still fails to materialiZe
| for some reason. What at least one o.
their reasons is has leaked out and is
| now public property. 1t seems that
| there was truth in both the rumor
that were prevalent n short time age
and in fact they are both correct.
| These rumors were first, that Senator
| Pettigrew and his friends would con,
| troll it and second, that two young
men from Ohio had bought the plant
and would iun it on business princi'
pies without any particular political
significance A letter from Senator
Pettigrew to the federal officials of the
state has been discovered, that de
mands their assistance for the purpose
of purchasing and controlling the
| Sioux Falls Press, which he says these
two young men from Ohio have bought
but that as they lack someSl2 900 of hav,
| ing sufficient capital he has promised
| to raise it for them. The senator
guarantees per cent on the invest
ment and asks that each office holder
send 500 at once and 500 in sis
months. AS the Press has not changed
hands it is to be supposed that these
attaches of the powers that be, have
not yet all responded.
1t will be interesting to the many
friends Of Editor Caldwell to know
about how much cash it is estimated
that he will take out of the deal and
what disposition he proposes to make
| of himself for the future. Those who
are in position to know say that Mr..
| Caldwell will have nearly $50, 900 clear
| from this sale. He tells his friends
that first of all he proposes TO take
rest and for this purpose will proba bly,
60 abroad. Cal has been in the har:
ness 10, these many years and if there
Is any body in this broad land that dc.
served rest, il is Gal" But after
the "rest?" He says then that there
are number of pleaeant positions
offered him. Senator Pierce, of the
| Minneapolis Tribune, wants him to
| look after that papers interests in the
| big state of South Dakota, which Cald.
well may be expected TO know.
The newspaper men of the state
| seem TO be making considerable changes
| at the present time. Mr.. Owen has
sold his Chamberlain Register and 1t
| Is understood Is figuring for an interest
in one of the papers at the capital OF
| the state.
The democrats are making a move
to establish a daily paper ut either
Sioux Falls or Ianllton that will have
a state influence and be something OF
rival to the Sioux Falls Press. 1t is
fact that there are no states in the
union with as poor leading paper as
the two Dakotas. Their place in these
two states is largely supplied by the
metropolitan papers of the adjoining
states.
Hon. J. c. McManima, the well
known Pierre editor, who .Aade the
territory so popular an auditor under
Governor Mellette's administration,
was in Sioux Falls last week and took
occasion to deny the report that he
contemplated disseminating his
monthly magazine Northwestern Pro.
gress" and going TO Tacoma. Mr.. Me
Mamma said he had good enough
| thing here now and he knew of no
place where the prospects are brighter
The matter that caused the report was
the sending of some surplus job print
ing material he had on hand to a
friend out there.
Mr.. McManima was asked what he
knew about Hon. Rartlett Tripp re.
moving to Tacoma He said he had
received a report to that effect which
he considered quite reliable, from Hon.
John Cain, formerly of Huron, who is
in the newspaper business there and
who might be supposed to be in posi-
tion to know. There are several Da-
kota men in the newspaper business iii
Washington, among them Hon John
=. Rea, of Grand Forks. But il seems
Judge Trip denies the report that he
is to leave the state. 1t may be that
the report arose from the fact that
Judge Trips son-in-law, Hon. c. II.
Dillon. of Mitchell, has just removed
there and Judge Trip has some large
investments in Tacoma.
One of the striking features Of the
proceedings and results of the late
state editorial meeting is the determi.
nation to form closer com bination
for the purpose of furthering their own
peculiar interests. To this end it is
required that all members OF
the association keep standing at
the head of their papers the
| announcement Of such mem mbership. 1t
is made more difficult for new mem.
bers to get in, the endorsements of the
members of their district being re-
quired. With compact membership
the association proposes to discontinue
all foreign advertising in their~patents
| and place this business in the hands of
the secretary of the ass ociation, Mr..
Geo Schlosser, of Aberdeen, who will
arrange for all advertising of this kind
that run in their publications In
short, the South Dakota Editorial As.
sociation has formed trust.
The latest folder of the Northern Pa.
cific railroad shows its line extended
from Oakes to Pierre. 1t is confidently
expected that their next one will show
a similar track extending to the Black
Hills Things will move in South Da.
kota after this year. The best crops in
the world and land at So an acre that
will raise crops worth ten times that
money, will do the business.
Sioux Fall has not only the credit of
preparing for one of the biggest state
fairs that this country has ever seen,
bnt has organized whist club that
promises to add to the power of her
hardheaded schcmers. 1t has been
laid out on a generous scale and the
best talent of the city is included. A
membership fee of s25 is charged and
elegant club rooms have been fitted up.
Here at any time members can resort
and test their powers at the fascinat-
ing and mind improving game OF
whist. The club promises to be big
success
The celebrated Pierre board of trade,
known in every part of the state for
its remarkable achievements in several
capital campaigns, has just been
recognized by the old warhorses step.
ping down and out to make way for
new and young blood. Mr.. B. A. Cum.
minis, the young cashier of the First
National bank has been made presid--
ent, j. Il. Herman wholesale grocer,
vice. president; +. M. March merchant,
secretary and Adolph Edwart banker,
treasurer. The other members of the
executive committee are Chas. Il. Hyde.
Gao McMinden II w praft and II T.