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Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1891-01-31
THE TIN PLATE QUESTION.

AT this late day, after all that was
said in misrepresentation by the de-
mocratic press, and in an honest en-
deavor to present the facts by the repub-
licans, il is remarkable 10 note how
much at sea really intelligent citizens
ton" '.6 prominent 'tItlzeir receniIy"fe-
marked in the hearing Of the writer:
'rhc spirit Of the Mckinley bill from
first to last is shown in that absurd pro-
vision putting a big duty on tin. a com
modify which is noe produced in paying
quantities in this country" Now, as
matter Of fact, the tin schedule does
show the spirit of the bill, and it does
not put duty, either big or little, on
tin. The duty which raised such
howl without cause. is on the sheet iron
which is tin plated. All tin "cassiterite,
or black oxide, bar, block and pig tin,"
is entered absolutely free until the first
of July next. On and after that date, to
encourage the development of our own
mines, a duty of four cents pound will
be imposed, which is to be stopped and
the metal again entered free, unless the
product Of the tin mines of the United
States shall have exceeded 5000 tons in
any one year prior TO July /, 1895. This
is fair, wise and judicious measure, and
one which every true American will
applaud and approve when he fully
understands it. With the market Of
this country secure from the incursions
of the underpaid labor products of
Europe we can produce the plain sheet
iron, or the tin plate article as good and
as cheap as that of any other nation.
Already one large establishment In St.
Louis has begun to turn out the tin
plated iron of very superior qualify.
Works are going forward at other points,
and unless capitalists are fightened at
the bourbon yell of free trade, which
has so much disturbed the peace of the
country of late, the manufacture of this
article Of such common and universal
use, will no doubt be one of the largest
and most prosperous in the country.
Thousands of men will be employed,
and thousands Of families supported by
it and this will increase the market for
all other products, as all these people
must be fed, clothed and housed, and
the tin plate industry gives them the
wberewithal for these purposes. Such
is the plain, common sense idea and
purpose of the tariff. 1t simply pre-
serves to our own people the great ad-
vantages offered by this country. or per-
mits others to participate who are will
ing to grant reciprocal benefits. Hope
lessly blind to their own interest and
advantage, are all citizens of the country
who will not or cannot discern this
great truth Deadwood Times.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1891-01-31
Public Sentiment Rulas.

Arthur C. Phillips, of Sioux Falls,
who was recently in the Hills on busi-
ness connected with the order of the
knights Of Pythias, in communication
to the Chicago Pythian Journal. giving
his impressions concerning the country
submits the following, touching upon
the liquor question:
"The state of South Dakota--and With
1t the Black Hills--is popularity suppos-
ed to be enjoying the blesssings Of
strict prohibitory law as to the sale and
use of intoxicating liquors., but in tho
Hills, as everywhere else in the state,
the sentiment of the community alone
regulates the enforcement or non -obsery-
ance Of the law. For instance: At
Custer City II takes considerable sch en-
ing to procure "drop o the craythur," /"
while at Hill City, fourteen miles dis
tant, saloons. gambling dens and fifth
rate theatre show no respect for the laws
or God or man aud the Sabbath Ii their
regular harvest day. No other town in
the Hills can approach Hill City In that
respect, In fact, a. rule, all other
towns make more or less Of fan effort 10
observe the liquor and gambling laws.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1891-01-31
THE AMERICAN TIN CAN.

A correspon dent of the Chicago
Herald writing over the nom de plume
of "Tin Crank" who has seen the Corn
wall tin mines and the Welch tin plate
mills, submits the following from Whit
ing. Iowa, under date of Jan. 2lst, con-
corning the Norton tin can. and the
outlook for the success Of the tin plate
industry in America:
The legend the can bears reads as fol-
lows: This can is made automatically
Of the first American tin plate ever
manufactured in the United States, by
Norton Bros, Chicago" The plate Il
is made from is as superior to the usual
plate as the can itself is superior to the
usual plate as the can itself is superior
in workmanship, and IL has stamped
upon the edge Of the plate legend that
should make the men that lied Mr.. Nc.
Kinley out of his seat In congress 60
and hide themselves In sackcloth and
ashes, or something worse, for it read,
"for sale at the lowest English prices |"
That legend knocks the writer's fears
silly--that the Mckinley tariff on tin
was two low to invite capital to invest
itself In tin interests.
1t might interest your readers to Fnow
that those fears were tased on three
months experience among the tin
miners of Cornwall, Eng, and three
months among the tin plate factories oil
Wales where hundreds of thousands o
skilled laborers are employed at 2s Cd
az the top price per day, and hundreds
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1891-01-31

of thousands OF women are employed
at Is Cd per day and less, pounding and
shoveling rock, carrying it in sacks to
the reduction works, separating ore
from rock, carrying ore from there to
the smelling works, carrying melted
ore and running it into bars and other
forms, hard, slavish labor, at the very
miserable pay they receive for half un-
sexing themselves for so meager a snow
10 live-while an Irishman with pick
ak an wheelbarrow that you furnish
him in the Black, Hills, will want W a
day to run them for you, and my fear
was that the Yankees inventive genius
was hardly equal to the task of over
coming the difference between % 6dand
So day.
True, told my Cornish friends We
should never employ women at any
price to do the slavish, sledge hammer
work that they did, but when we had
ton Of tin-bearing rock on top Of
ground, we would hit it one blow With
a ten-ton trip hammer and knock itinto
"pi" bofore one of your girls can knock a
fragment Of rock into her next neigh
bors eye large enough TO ruin her eye
sight. Then instead of showing that
crushed rock into sacks 10 be carried to
the reduction works on the backs of
girls, we will carry it there on endless
belts with far less cost than they can
do it at Is I'd per day. But that beauty
Of tin can automatically" made is so
far beyond my conceptions of American
tin possibilities that cave! wilt give
it up and throw up the sponge. adj
nit frankly that | am ashamed of the
narrowness Of my confidence in the
genius Of my countrymen on this tin
question-and | clearly ought to be.
Then, IN the name of common sense,
how ought the anti-American to feel,
whose whole effort has been to hold our
country back while England, with her
half-starved pauper labor, is left to
lead" civilization with crowd of
women armed with shovels and sledge
hammers. If there is a man i'm the
United States to-day who is still trying
to hold this country back to give Eng
land the lead in anything, he ought to
go to England on foot and stay there till
he finds how great fool he has been.
Cornwall and Wales called me tin crank
because l even suggested improved
methods in tin work and as look at
that automatically made tin can | am
ashamed of myself for being so far be-
hind the procession. l have remailed
the little beauty to some extensive tin
operators in Cornwall who are excellent
friends Of mine. and to whom that
automatic tin can must sound the death
knell to Cornish tin interests. Possibly
when they talk back to me l will tell
you what they say-but this article is
already too long. TIN CRANK
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1891-01-31
Mission ofthe Chiefs.

Rushville, Neb. Jan. 26.-[Special Tel
egram to the Bee. ]--At 4clock this
afternoon General Miles and party ar
rived here from the agency and left by
special train for Chicago at o'clock
The general was not easily accessible
and decidedly on-communicative, but
your correspondent managed to learn
definitely that he consi ders the present
Indian cam paign as being completely
finished and all danger of further trouble
removed. The distinguished party
mentioned is made up of General Miles
and staff, General Carr and Captain j.
B. Kerr of Sixth cavalry, the latter hav-
ing in charge forty-one of the lately
belligerent hostiles who are on their
way to confer with the great father at
Washington. Two interpreters, Big
Bat, alias Baptist Pouriar, and Lewis
Shangraw, accompanied the party on
this journey TO make known to the presi-
dent the demands of his stalwart works.
vi tuC iOfty-Ouo luuiituo dbOdIu tuCLC
are sixteen chief Of ofconsiderable premin-
ence, besides others OF lesser influence,
and their names are here given as near
ly as can be ascertained, in the order of
their rank. Young Man-Afraid-of- His
Horses, head chief ofthe Ogallala Sioux |;
American Horse, the acknowledged
silver tongued orator of the nation |;
Standing Soldier, Big Road, He Dog,
Little Wound, Spotted Elk. Fast Thumb
er. Fire Lightning and Captain Sword,
who by the way, is chief of the Indian
police. The Brule chiefs en- route
are: Two Strike, Short Bull, Kicking
Bear, High Hawk and Big Foot No. 2.
The special train bearing these repre-.
sentatives of the two sides Of the late
unpleasantness will 60 via the Elkhorn
and Northwestern to Chicago and
make the trip with the greatest possible
dispatch. Beyond that point no inform
alton could be obtained.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1891-01-31
Railroad News.

A cut on wages resulted in in a bit of
a strike among the B. & NJ. section men
at this place this week. Fifteen walk
ed out.
Arrangements are being made, says
the Cheyenne Leader, by the Cheyenne
and Northern, to make through connec-
ton with the Black Hills without stop
page at Douglas.
The Deadwood Times has information
to the effect that the b. & NJ. will, next
spring, build branch from Edgemont
Dudley to Caspar, Wyoming, dist
ance of l25 miles, the object being to tap
the oil fields of that section.
The first through passenger train will
reach Deadwood probably about IL
o'clock a. m. to- morrow Sunday.
Should the weather be favorable, it is
probable that there will be number of
our citizens avail themselves Of the op-
portunity offered, of going to Deadwood
OIL the innitial b. & M. train, and it is
also probable that number of Dead
wood citizens will avail themselves of
this. the first opportunity ever offered,
of riding from that place to Custer on
B. 4 NJ. train. Custer is greatly pleased
at the completion Of line of road,
which places her in direct connection
with the great metropolis of the north
ern Hills.
RAILROAD POLICY.
Division Superintendent s. d. Beard
sley, ofthe Chicago. Milwaukee and st.
Paul railroad, in q recent interview with
a reporter ofthe Yankton Press, thus
expresses himself in relation to the
future intentions of his company as to
the extension of their lines during the
coming year:
We are waiting TO see what your
legislature does in the way of legislating
concerning railroads before we expend
much money for repairs or improve
ments. 1t seems to me that South Da-
kota owes the railroads which operate
lines in the state q debt of gratitude
which cannot be estimated in dollars
and cents. 1t Is matter of fact, that
there is not q foot of the Milwaukee
road, except my division, extending from
Sioux City to Mitchell. and another
short strip in the north part ofthe state
which paid expenses last year. In
other words we have operated our road
the state at loss. We have hauled
thousand of tons of freight into certain
sections at half rates, and thousands OF
tons deadheaded into some portions of
the state, and We have had nothing to
haul out Of those sections. Now, Is
there any earthly reason why laws
| should be made which will detract from
the earnings of a railroad company Just
because II Is a corporation 2 IL may be
argued that If we TAIL to help South Da-
kota out at such times the people would
have to leave the state,. and our road
would be dead weight on our hands,
but can assure you that Wa might stop
operating most OF our lincs In the
ale with profit to ourselves. II the
South Dakota legislature is wise IL will
g easy on the railroads Al this session.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1891-01-31
Legislative.

The attention Of the State legislature,
during the week, has been mainly di-
rected to the election of U. s. senator,
result which had not been reached at
the date of our latest advices. Late
balloting indicate the defeat of Moody,
and the possible election of an inde-
pendent, as that party by the aid of the
democrats are unseating republican
members, and filing their places with
men of their party to an extent that
makes such a result extremely probable.
A large number of bills have been in
troduced in both houses, but beyond
their mere introduction, but little has
been accomplished in the way OF legis
lation. 1t is believed that senator will
be elected in a few days, when both
houses will settle down to business, and
proceed with the necessary, as well as
unnecessary legislation.
Among the bills introduced, probably
the delinquent tax bill may be consid-
cred the most interesting TO the masses.
This bill, as passed in the senate, where
it originated, provided that taxes should
become delinquent on the first day of
June, and that penalty of three per
cent be added, and one per cent interest
thereafter. The houre amendment to
the bill provides that taxes shall become
delinquent on the first day of February.
with a penalty Of one per cent each
month thereafter.
A bill has been introduced in the SEN
ate providing for the election of United
States senator's by popular vote.
senator Potter, of Meade county, in
troduced bill providing that all candi-
dates for County, Circuit and Supreme
court judges must have practicod as at
torneys for certain number of years.
A bill providing that all counties must
bear the cost of transportation of their
insane, has been introduced in the SEN
ate.
The house joint resolution, asking
congress that four companies of soldiers
be stationed at TT. Randall, passed the
senate.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1891-01-31
Senator ingalls, takes his defeat very

Senator ingalls, takes his defeat very
cheerfully. He has just been offered
two positions by wire. The Detroit
Tribune offers an editorial position, and
the manager of lecture bureau offers
him $500 night for course of lectures,
which latter offer he will probably ac-
cept. "In an interview on the 2Sth inst.
he said; Il shall probably devote my
time to literary work. / will never
consent to leave Kansas / came to the
state three years before its admission
into the Union. have lived here ever
since. All my belongings are here. All
of my children were born in Kansas.
My dead sleep in her bosom and / hope
to mingle my dust with her soil"
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1891-01-31

Chicago, Jan. 28.--Lieutenant Cham
berlain, who arrived today from Pine
Ridge, says the slayer of Lieutenant
Casey Is graduate Of Carlisle. Pa, In
dian school and the son ofa prominent
Sioux, No Water. The murderer was
about TO be turned over to the sola'ers
for trial when news Of the murder ofIlhe
Indian, Few Tails by the whites has
received. The Indians then said kt
they would deliver Casey's murd dsrer
when the murderer Of Few Tall was
brought in ana both hanged tod lAer.
Casey's murderer is still being shief IA.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1891-01-31

The Omaha Bee pertinently says
"The determination of the government
to prosecute the parties guilty of MUIR
dering the Indian, Few Tails, is com
mendable. Bnt its zeal to bring crimi-
nails to justice should not stop there.
The murder of Lieutenant Casey and
brutal assaults perpetrated on settlers
of South Dakota also calls for retribution.
There should be no discrimination
in melting out justice on account of red
color or previous condition"
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1891-01-31

The snow storm of Tuesday was more
extensive in Nebraska than it was in
the Hills, eleven inches being reported
at Hastings and other points. At FL
wood terrific blizzard is reported,
with much snow which caused serious
trouble in the movement Of trains.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1891-01-31

Judging from present appearances,
the present session of the legislature
will probably cost the state several dol
lars and half more than the pesky
thing would amount to at fair valu-
alton
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1891-01-31

III the HIS, With their mineral wealth
"barely scratched" as someone has apty
said. can make such showing upon
gold alone-little of our silver is as yet
shipped-what will be the showing when
forty years have passed away since the
discoveries in this region, as is the case
with California?
The legislature in determining the ap-
preparation for the School of Mines
should bear in mind the splendid total
given above, and give the institution
sufficient fund for experiments with
view to speedily overhauling the Ell
dorado Of the world In mineral produc-
tion.-Republicar
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1891-01-31

An exchange says: In the death of
King Kalakana, the poker interests of
America have suffered sad loss. He
is said to have lost more on four kings,
himself and three others, than any man
now living.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1891-01-31

Lieut.. Byron, of the Eighth Cavalry,
is at Pine Ridge, where he will enlist
sixty Indian recruits for service as
United States scouts.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1891-01-31

Prince Bandoin, nephew Of King
Leopold, and heir to the throne of Bel
gium died at Brussels on the 23rd inst.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1891-01-31

Villas succeeds Spooner ss U. s. Sem
ator from Wisconsin, and Pfeiffer sue
ceeds Ingalls, from Kansas. at never
rains but il pours."
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1891-01-31
Mining Items.

The Rapid Republican says: 1t is
learned upon reliable authority that the
Harvey Peak Company will begin the
erection of two hundred ton mill with
the opening of spring and that the plant
will be in operation by July lst.
The legislature of Wyoming made
an appropriation of thirty thousand
dollars to defray the expense of an ex-
hibit of the state resources at the worlds
fair. which was the first appropriation
made by any state for such purpose.
There is clearly something important
in the Harney Peak tin district. Else
where appears the statement that the
Harvey Peak company is about to begip
the erection of a mill of 200 tons daily
capacity. The statement finds confirma-
ton in the news brought in by Lewis
Everly, Of Harney who arrived Sunday.
1t is to the effect that the superintend-
ent Of the Addie Mine has received
orders to at once put the workings Of
that mine in condition for the produc-
tion of 200 tons of ore daily. This in
telligence coming from entirely different
sources, jibes exactly and confirms the
impression that the actual production of
tin is about to begin.-Republican.
We extract the following items Of
mining news from the Hill City Tin
Miner:
There are several mining deals being
negotiated of which we are forbidden to
make mention, but something will be
done in few days of which we can tell,
and we think the Miner can be trusted
to tell all there is of it.
The Harvey Peak company have put
on quite a number Of extra men in the
mines during the past week. We are
reliably informed that additional men
will be put at work whenever they can
be made available.
Foreman John Higgins informs the
Miner that the Colorow mine will soon
take its place in the front rank Of tin
mines. 1t is now turning out some very
fine ore, and the ledge is improving and
value Of ore increasing with every foot
of depth gained.
w. +. Haskell, of the Minneapolis
Journal, and H., f. Weidelstadt, of st.
Paul, came into Rapid City last Monday
in special car. and in company with
Maj. Eaton, of Rapid City, have been
visiting the mines. These gentlemen
have their eye on some valuable mining
properties in the vicinity of Hill City.
and should they purchase are possessed
of means, energy and ability to hew out
for themselves a large niche in the min
ing history of the Hills.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1891-01-31
A NEW PROCESS.

The London Financial Times gives
the following description ofa new patent
process for the reduction of refractory
ores, which is being used by the Gold
Ores Reduction Company of England,
"The principal features of this process
appear 10 be its simplicity and mex
pensiveness. There is nothing compli-
Gated about the method by which the
reduction of refractory gold ore is OBJ
tained. The ore, haying been ground
10 powder, is transferred into furnace,
where it is subjected to a thorough
roasting by hot air, with the result that
complete oxidation of the intract-
able sulphurets and arsenical ores takes
place, the gold being freed by these
artificial means. The next step is to
pass the ore-now in the condition of a
fine rouge-like product-to the ANAL
gamators, where the powder is ground
with water until the gold has flown to
its natural amalgam, when it is drawn
off and is ready for retort distillation in
the laboratory. B furnace, it is stated,
can be erected for G200, and, as a rule,
from such materials as are to be found
in the neighborhood of any mine, while
the cost of treating ton of ore amounts
to something like rs. Cd. only. The ore
from the Mount Torrens mine treated
by the ordinary process is said TO yield
but 8 dwts. of gold to the ton, whereas
by this company's process the result is,
roughly, OF. Of gold and ozs of silver
per ton, an astonishing difference in the
Weld -
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1891-01-31
OUR PRECIOUS METALS.

The annual.report.. of Wells. Fargo &
Co.. of precious.metals produced during
1890 in the States and territories west of
the Missouri river, shows Dakota (Which
means the Black Hills as fourth on the
list of gold producers. The output from
this section exceeds in amount the ag-
gregats productions Of Montana, Arizona
Oregon, New Mexico, Washington and
Utah. The following table gives the
amount produced hy each state.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1891-01-31

: Ny motto =. quick salos and small PROFITS.
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1891-08-06

The blind genius Of Rhode Island, Her
reshoH, who has produced such marvels
in ship building, seems to have made
revolution in yachts 1t was considered
that his specially lay in steam vessels,
since the queer looking Stiletto created
such a surprise on the waters in New
York Bay. 1t was said that the blind in
ventor could not duplicate woader.
His reply was the production of steam
yachts still faster than the Stiletto. To
prove this theory more conclusive he has
built cutter according in many respects
TO the English cutter type, without the
centerboard, and has eclipsed all Other
experiments in yacht building. The
blind genius of Rhode Island should be
secured by the Navy Department 70 make
designs for its new cruisers.-Albsny
Argus.