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Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1892-05-21

Sunday last was recommended by the
Russian Relief Commission of South
Dakota as the day upon which contri-
buttons to the relief fund should be re-
ceived in the churches of the state.
The ministers of Custer believed that
Il mass meeting of citizens would attract
the largest audience and create the
greatest interest in the cause and ac-
cordingly one was announced to be held
in Garlock's opera house Sabbath even
ing. The meeting was called TO order
at 8 o'clock by Chairman McFadden,
and the audience, which represented
about one-third of the population of the
city, was addressed by Reys. Tracy and
Willis, Buel r. Wood and w. II. Frye.
The gentlemen in their remarks stated
the reason why this appeal TO the s, m.
pathy and generosity Of the American
people bad been made, and ~eloquently
portrayed, as nearly as words can, the
terrible destitution and the awful suf,
fering that has been the result of the
failure of the cereal crop Of eastern Rus.
STA. The speeches we're interspersed
with musical selections. At the close OF
the meeting the hat was passed and the
response was liberal, the collection
amounting to SCI. Four dollars were
raised in the school last Friday, and
there are many in the town who as yet
have had no opportunity TO contribute,
Anyone who may wish to should cal
upon t. W. Delicate, who has been
made the director of the Relief Com.
mission for the western part ofCuster
county. Custer City's contributions
should reach 500, and we believe il
will. Times have been hard and money
close, tits true, but who of us can not
afford to spare the few dollars or cents
that Will a V a human life. Everyone
should feel a personal responsibility in
this matter. Don't wait To see what
someone else is doing, but give what
you can Yourself. 1t will be the grand
est investment ever made-the saving
Of q human life.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1892-05-21
Dress Goods Dress oood.l

Never was there a greater variety, OF
Q choicer stock to choose from In the
Hills. than that ON sale ut Mrs. H.
A. Athens.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1892-05-21

Iabieau and poem, arranged and com
posed for tins memorial day. The Blue
and the Grey. strewing flowers DER
the Sacred Mound. Goddess of Liberty.
Star S~pangled Banner. Music and Song.
After which procession will move to the
cemetery and decorate the graves of de-
parted comrades. The Custer City band,
knights in uniform, Fire dept, and all
civic organizations respectfully invited.
We call on all citizens to participate in
this tribute of respect to our nations de.
tenders. BY order of
Com. on Arrangements G. A Il.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1892-05-21

For dyspepsia aud liver complaint
you have a printed guarantee on every
bottle OF ShiI0h's Fitalizer. II never
fails to cure. For sale by G. W. Hitch
cock.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1892-05-21

Andrew Westburg has commenced an
action for damages, in the circuit court
through his attorneys, Mitchell 4 Ham
mond, against the Harvey Peak Tin
company for $4,000. Mr.. Westburg
alleges in his complaint that one day
last November, while working in the
Cowboy mine. the skip fell down and
struck him on the back, injuring him so
badly that he was laid up for two
months, and crippling him so that he is
no longer able TO do mining work aud
earn miners wages.-News.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1892-05-21

II seems that the man who was here
a few weeks ago, representing himself to
be an enlarger Of portraits. was a
swindler with a scheme, the very
shallowness Of which, was the secret Of
its success. The Deadwood Times de-
scribes the manner in which he duped
his would be patrons. Some time ago
a fellow representing himself to be an
agent for a picture enlarging firm of
Omaha, struck the city and reaped a
rich harvest by victimizing a large num-
Der Of our citizens. His game was the
old hoary one Of taking orders for the
enlargement of pictures. his innocent
dupes paying down in advance, IS, he
taking the picture to be enlarged and
their money. they simply having his
word that the picture with a handsome
gilt frame would be forwarded to them
In thirty days c. o. ID. Some of his
dupes have waited three months but
have not received their pictures. This
Is not the first time the people of the
Hills have been taken in. Only last
Summer the same game was worked to
advantage by a smooth individual from
st. Paul. Many of this fellows vic
Tins fell an easy prey to this last one"
He evidently did not succeed in doing
any business in Custer, as we have not
heard anyone kicking.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1892-05-21
CIHCurT COURT.
The First Half of the Week Exhausted
with Criminal Business. Some In
teresttng Cases Disposed OF.

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The First Half of the Week Exhausted
With Criminal Business. Some In
teresting Cases Disposed OF.
Saturday morning the grand jury
made its final report, recommending u
number improvements abouttLe court
house, also the appointment Of a janitor
for the building The various sugces-
tons contained in the report were con-
sidered by the court. and the county
commissioners instructed to make the
improvements and appoint a janitor.
The case of Cyrus Cole ct al. VS.. VIM.
Rosenbaum and l.. 4. Altaffer, which
had been in course Of trial when court
was adjourned the night before, was
taken up and the rest of the witnesses
for the defense examined. The court
fixed Saturday, May 2lst, as the day
upon which arguments by the counsel
would by heard.
L. ID. Bond ct al VS.. Jos. Smith ct al.
The object Of litigation was a water
right IA Buffalo Gap, and the court
ordered that the ease be tried before
referee. 5. +. Wilson was agreed upon
for referee, and the trial of the cause
viii occur at Buffalo Gap.
Francis A. Towner VS.. Laura L.
Booth. Tried to court ana decision re-
served.
II. T.. Chapman Va. John Remington.
Defendant agrees to pay amount de-
manded and case dismissed.
MoNDAY.
State Of South Dakota vs.. Jos White.
Defendant charged with the malicious
killing Of a horse. The evidence intro
duced by the prosecution was to the
effect that during the month of April.
White was employed by ID. f. Shope. in
hauling lumber from = neighboring saw
mill TO Custer. That while thus en-
gagged the defendant became incensed a,
one Of the horses he was driving be-
cause il woald not pull as much rs he
thought it should, and pounded il over
the head with a club, fracturing the
skull Of the horse. from the effects of
which the animal died. The witnesses
for the defense testified that the horse
was balky and when urged to pull
threw himself, striking his head upon a
log and in that way receiving the injury
that resulted in its death. The Jury in
the case found the defendant guilty, but
petitioned the court 10 inliet the light
est penalty fixed by law. The court set
Thursday as the day for p%ronouncing
sentence.
State OF South Dakota rs. Erastus Page
and Isaac Denman. Defendants charg.
ed with grand larceny. Page and Dem
man are saw mill men doing business a
few miles from Custer. The evidence
went 10 show that some time ago they
took from a bo1: car standing on the B.
& NJ tracks an amount Of baled hay,
which they supposed was theirs, bu,
which belonged TO G. Z. Jewett. That
when the hay was demanded of them
they refused to give il up. The jury
found the defendants guilty as charged
in the indictment. Hearing of motion
to set aside verdict was deferred till
Thursday.
John w. Smith, who last week plead
guilty to the charge of obtaining money
under false pretenses was brought into
court and sentenced to one year service
at bard labor in the p~enitentiary a,
Sioux Falls.
TUESDAY.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1892-05-21
Decoration Day.

One weel from Monlag next is De-
eoration Day, and it will be observed
with appropriate exercices in Garlock's
opera house, commencing at / o'clock
p. IN.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1892-05-21

an action TO recover wages for services
rendered. Jury found for the plaintiff
a Judgment for SOL. so.
State ofSouth Dakota VS.. Milton Latta.
Defendant was charged with robbery in
the first degree. John p. Durst, the
prosecuting witness testified that Latta
had taken from him without his consent,
aud by force, a circular saw. valued at
S75. His evidence in part was corrobor-
ated by two or three witnesses. De-
PENDANT swore that the saw was one
which he had originally purchased from
burst, that Dur { replevied it from him.
and after that agreed to return it and
thus settle MI litigation. That he took
the saw with bursts consent, and that
after getting ii in his possession. burst
changed his mind and ordered Latta
not To carry the saw away. Defendant
admitted taking the saw, but claimed
r,ghtful possession. The case was given
to the jury Tuesday evening, and after
eighteen hours deliberation a verdict Of
NOV Suilty NhS dpfttu upon.
Timothy Miller, Of Spokane, an ap-
plicant for admission - ,hs bar was
daily examined by "a committee of three
attorneys, a favorable report was made
to the court, and Mr.. Miller was sworn
in.
WEDNESDAY.
States Attorney Porter requested that
the bond of j. &. Trainor, bound over
to the grand jury, and by that body in
dicted for grand larceny, be forfeited, as
defendant had not appeared. In behalf
of T%rainor's bondsnen, Attorney Fraw-
ley, of Deadwood, asked the court to
grant them eight days in which to bring
the defendant within the jurisdiction of
the court. Granted, and the bond or
dered forfeited with that condition.
The remainder of the Wednesday SEES
sior and all of Thursday morning wal
exhausted in the trial Of the case of the
State Of South Dakota VS.. Clemens Klee-
mann. Kleemann was charged with
manslaua liter. aud the case will be re-
membered as the one which created 40
much excitement and comment a few
months ago, when the crime was said
to bave been committed, aud the de-
PENDANT was examined before . iustice
and bound over. 4 jury was secured
by Wednesday noon and the examine.
ton OF Witnesses commenced immedi-
ately after the 400 adjournment. A
number Of witnesses were called TO the
stand for the state, aud the evidence
which they gave. was of q shocking and
startling character. Nevertheless some
vital links were wanting in the chain OF
evidence which the state attampted 10
form, and despite the earnest efforts of
Prosecuting Attorney Porter, and his
able colleague. B. X. Wood, could not
be supplied. They were absolutely nm
obtainable. The case was given 10 the
jury at noon, and two hours later a verdict
of mot guilty" was reported. That the
evidence justified the verdict no one can
deny, no matter what his convictions
may be as TO the real merits of the case.
Thursday afternoon Jos White. con-
victed OF the maliciouJ killing Of
horse. appeared before the court and
was ordered to pay . fine Of s25 AZ
penalty for his offense.
A motion for a new trial was heard
by the court In the case OF Erastus Page
and Isaac Denman, convicted Of Grand
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1892-05-21

The boiler ola "Mogul" engine, which
was pulling q freight from Newcastle to
Edgemont, exploded about fourteen
miles east Of the former place, last Mon
day morning The engineer and fire.
man were in the cab Of the engine, both
were SO badly injured that they died
from the effects Of IL few hours later.
A brakeman, who was ON the tender,
was badly injured, bat will recover
The engineers name was Rogers, that OF
the fireman Wilson. The engine was
an old one. and the only explanation Of
the accident is that the foreman, who
wal q new hand, failed to keep the
boiler supplied with water.
While making q midnight ride on
some court business the first VI the
week, Deputy Sheriff III. N. Ross enjoy
cd q privilege that was granted to only
a very few, hat Of Witnessing q grand
display Of nrora borsalis. Mr.. Ross
says thar the heavens fairly blazed with
streams OF light. and that IL was the
finest sight Ut the kind he has ever
seen In the Hills, or for . considerable
distance north. We unfortunate mortals
who were sleeping the sleep OF the just
missed something that was certa inly
worth = great effort to see
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1892-05-21
NOTICE OF sHERIFFss SALE.

CTATE OF SOUTH DAKOTA, SEVENTH
Judicial Circuit. 81. In the Circuit Court
within and for Custer County.
John L. Farwefi, Plaintiff,
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-08
DEMOCRACY OF WILHELM.
How He Bumps Up Against Porters and
Fishwives When on the Streets.

How He Bumps Up Against Porters and
Fishwives Whom on the Streets.
The forces behind William IL are such
as have never been cultivated in Russia,
whose Gar lives in hourly dread of assassin
alton, and whose people are so many items
of official budget, so many units in mill
tary report, says Poultney Bigelow in the
Century, The German Emperor walks
about the streets of his town as fearlessly
and naturally as any other man, although
the lite of his grandfather was twice at
tempted. One day, in November of 1891,
he was walking with guest through the
narrow and crowded thoroughfare of city
not far from Berlin. The sidewalks were
narrow, and, as the Emperor is fast
walker, he frequently had to step out into
the street to pass other pedestrians. and es-
pecialiy clusters Of people who stopped for
a chat.
His companion, who had been in Russia,
was struck by the democratic manner in
which the German Emperor rubbed in and
out among porters, fshwives. peasants
and the rest of the moving crowd, chatting
the while, and acting as though this was his
usual manner of getting. about. He was
struck still more by the TACT that no precau-
tions against possible murderous fanatic
appeared to have been taken, and ventured
to speak of this. The Emperor laughed
heartily, and said: 'Oh, if 1 had to stop to
think OF such things, should never get
through with my days work"
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-08
HEALTH In A WHEEL.
What an Enthusiast and a Doctor
Say of Bicycle Exercise.
FACTS FAVORING NEAT DIET.
The Camera Successfully Used in Detecting
False Signatures.
FRESH BITS OF EVERY DAY SCIENCE


WRITTEN FOB DlSPATCHsI
Thomas Stevens has entered an earnest
plea for the bicycle as a factor in modern
hygiene. He holds that bicycling has al
ready been of incalculable benefit to man.
kind, physically, socially, morally, intel
lectually and commercially, and that the
probabilities of its expansion along these
and other vital lines of human concern are
beyond compute.
1t is a popular error to suppose that bicy-
cling exercises no other part of the body, to
any extent, than the legs. AS matter Of
fact, every muscle of the body, every fiber
of the vital man, is brought into healthfuI
play. 1t is doubtful if any other form of
exercise can compare, in the fair and equal
distribution of physical effort and mental
alertness, with bicycle riding in the pure
country air. Mr.. Stevens recommends the
lawyer, doctor, minister, banker, editor,
professor or teacher, whose sedentary mode
of life has been insidiously flching away his
reserve of health, to give a months go-by to
'thealth lifts, Swedish movements" mas
sage treatment, Turkish baths and indoor
exercises of all kinds, and to invest 81 so in
high class safety bicycle, and take to the
road"
He speaks enthusiastically of sfsipping
with strange delight the dew and honey of
health from pleasures the very existence of
which is unknown, even unsupported, by
people who do not ride the bicycle. The
sensation of skimming across country at
the rate of 10 or Is miles an hour is but a
short remove from that of aerial flight,
the dream of the future. The effect is
electrical on all the functions of mind and
body. The brooding cobwebs of the brain
are swept away in the tide of quickened,
oxygenated blood that courses through the
veins in response to the new spirit of health
and action"
In bicycling the lungs have all the action
they need, the muscles of the back and
abdominal region are exercised and strength
ened, and the doctors say that for sluggish
liver, the bane of sedentary men, the
pedalling action of the legs produces
vigorous circulation of blood that nothing
can equal as a remedial measure. A 'wheel-
mans appetite" has become a household
word, and the bicycIer comes to look on
dyspepsia as humorous dream of the past.
Physicians now prescribe the 'bicy Gle" so
often that it is fairly entitled to an honor
able place in the pharmacopeia.
The use of the machine by women is rap
idly extending, and has been the means of
making hundreds of girls of weakly consti-
tuition strong and robust. Not long ago q
meeting of homeopathic doctors in Chicago
unanimously decided that bicycle riding
was zone OF the most wholesome and exnil-
aratIng forms of exercise that women can
indulge in." The great danger to be
guarded against is the tendency to o7erdo.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-08
ACTIVITY OF THE BRAIN.
The Period When 1t Works Best Differ
With Temperaments and Habits.

The Period When 1t Works Best Differs
With Temperaments and Habits.
Disregarding states of excitement, which
do not come within the scope of the ques-
tion, the brain of a healthy man or woman
living simple and natural life would be
most active as soon as the process of awaken
ing is quite complete. But as the demand $
OF civilization gradually abrogate the pro-
cesses of nature, the period of highest in
tellectual activity will vary according to
the condition of the individual mode of life.
The brain of the literary man or the Jour
nalist is, as a rule, most active at night, al
though study of the lives of the most cele-
brated writers will, it should be added, dis
close a wide variety of period and method
of work.
Again the highest capacities of some
brains are only developed during the time
that the mind is on the border-land between
sleeping and waking 1t is then that the
brain, shut off, as it were, from the confus-
ing influences of the external world, seems
to concentrate its energies upon its stored
up impressions, to review them with mar
velous accuracy and scope of vision, and to
recombine them into new shapes and prof.
ects fof the future with a clearness and
originality unknown in actual waxing lite
This faculty is, however, almost entirely
confined to the higher orders of intellect.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-08

There will always be differences of opin-
ion as to the respective merits of the various
kinds of food. The vegetarians point to
splendid specimens of humanity, brought up
in their faith and practice, as proof that the
products of the kitchen garden are the most
natural and wholesome food for man, while
the advocates of the various modern sys-
TENS of physical training are just as en-
phatic in their belief that animal food is
essential to the perfect physical and mental
condition of man. This belief is in line
with the conclusions arrived at by an emf
nent American physician few years ago.
H established a series of careful tests, e1-
tending over considerable period, and en-
ployed a number of men by the month to
do nothing but take the kind of food he gave
them at whatever time and for whatever
length of time he desired. The physical
condition Of these men was accurately
tested and recorded, and the results which
have been preserved are most interesting
reading. Oatmeal, which has quite re-
spectacle reputation as an article of break
fast diet, was found to most desirable
food, and Johnson's Gnition of it as an
article ''used in England as a food for
horses and in Scotland as food for men"
was thoroughly vindicased.
Vegetables were placed very low in the
scale of nutrition, and most Of them were
found to do more harm than good. The best
results in every way were secured from
meat diet. 1t is beyond question that many
races of men who live entirely on animal
food are exceptionally hardy and free from
diseases of all kinds. Sir Francis Head
lived for some time with the Pampas In
dians, who have neither bread, truit nor
vegetables, but subSist entirely on the flesh
of their mares. These men pass their lives
on horseback, and in sDite OF the climate,
which is burning hot in summer and freez-
ing in winter, go absolutely naked, not hav-
ing even a covering for their head. Sir
Francis says that after he had been living
for three or four months on beet and water
he found himself in a condition of superb
health, and felt as if no exertion could kill
him. Although he constantly arrived at
the camp so completely exhausted that he
could not speak, a few hours sleep on the
ground, with his saddle for pillow, always
so completely restored him that for week
he could be on his horse every day before
SUNRISE ride until two or three hours after
sunset, and when necessary tire out 10 or IL
horses dav. He considers that the condi-
tion necessary for covering the immense
distances which people in South America
are said to ride could only be attained on
beef and water.
Another confirmation of this view of the
diet question is afforded by the practice of
the Gauchos of the Argentine Republic,
who live entirely on roast beef and salt,
and whose sole beverage is mate or Para
quay tea, taken without sugar.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-08

defective and dependent classes, and Of
philanthropists, social scientists and private
workers in the great field of charitable and
reformatory effort The Rev. Myron w.
Reed, of Denver, is President this year.
The programme includes papers by numerous
distinguished specialists.
SOCIAL SCIENCE CONGRESS-
many newer organizations which occupy
themselves with one phase or another of the
range of subjects which belong to the yearly
programmes oftheSocialScienceAs Association,
this mature and we'll known body has still
an important place to fill, and its yearly
sessions at Saratoga, n. Y, are always
stimulating and valuable. Eminent among
the men who have for many years contrib
uted to its success are: DR. Andrew D.
White, Prof Francis Wayland, Mr.. F. B.
Sanborn, and others of like standing. The
congress will sit this year from August %
to September 8, and carefully elaborated
programme is assured. The President this
year is Mr. II. L. Wayland, of Philadel-
phia.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-08

of the United States he will be the second
President who has risen from the office of
Sheriff to the highest position in our land.
The story of how he got his office Is inter-
esting. 1t was shortly after he had come to
Wisconsin, and while he was living on his
farm in the country, that man drove up to
his house in buggy, which was pulled by
a single horse which looked pretty well
tagged. The man seemed uneasy and he
told Uncle Jerry that he had been riding
very fast, and that he had started out so
early that he had not had time to get his
breakfast and he asked for something to eat.
He was given a meal and he drove away
rapidly. A few hours after this the county
officers came up and said they were hunting
horse thief, and from their description
Uncle Jerry had no doubt but that the man
of whom they were speaking was the one
who had passed on in the morning.
Now, near Mr.. Rusk's house the roads
forked, and no one knew which road the
horse-thief had taken. The officers decided
to &c one way, and after they had left, Uncle
Jerry, thinking it over, decided that the
thief must have taken the other road, and
he took fast horse out of his stable and
made after him. After riding many miles
on gallop he at last saw the man Iast
asleep in the buggy, and the horse walking
quietly along the road. He quietly jumped
down from his horse and grabbed the man
before he could wake, and tying his hands
together ne bound him to the buggy, and
thus brought him back to town. The e1-
ploit was so noted that at the next election
General Rusk's friends put him up for
Sheriff. and he got the Office after an enthu-
siastic campaign.
New Stories of General Grant.
During a talk which I had the other
night with Secretary Stephen B. Elkins he
spoke most Interestingly of General Grant.