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Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1895-01-05
Story of tho Crime.

On the evening Of February 3 1888, there
were camped at Ike Humphreys ranch on
Trail creek. In the immediate vicinity OF
Pine Ridge agency, four cowboys, X;
Royce, John Bennett, Charles Bacon aud
William Kelly. The former two were EN-
ployes at the rNnch ayd the other two
were BOYS from Nebryska, who were I'm
that vicinity i'm search Of some horses that
had wandered of. As they were seated in
IL cabin in the evening five Indians of the
Sioux tribe, Two Sticks, White Faced
Horse, Two Two, First Eagle and Fights
With, entered tho cabin and unceremon.
iously commenced firing on the unsus-
pecting cowboys and did not quit until
the last white man was laid low.
After their murderous work was done
they fed to the camp of old Two Sticks.
Nothing was known of the murder until
next morning, when an Indian by the
name OF Eagle Louise found the ~lifeless
bodies OF tho murdered cowboys. The
murder was reported to the agent, who
under Lieutenant Joe Bush, who succeed.
cd In capturing all except White Faced
Horse, who was wounded In the melee
and fed to Standing Rock agency. First
Eagle was killed and old Two Sticks seri-
ously injured by the police.
On February 8 United States Deputy
Marshal Chris Matthiessen left this city
brought to this city. Two Two, White
Faced horse and Fights With all pleaded
guilty to the crime of m~anslaughter.
The first case to be tried was that of Kill
the Two, whose trial occurred at the fall
term at Dead wood before Judge Edgerton.
The Indians had practically admitted the
crime. but when they ware put on the
stand to testify they ali became suddenly
dumb, and nothing could be gotten from
them. There being no direct evidence, the
Judge directed tho Jury to elect a foreman
and briag In . verdict OF not guilty. The
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1895-01-05
Grain and Provisions.

CHICAGO, Dec. 81.
Flour-Spring patents, $3.10@3.60, win.
ter patents, $2.50a2.S0.
Wheat No. 2 spring, 57l1G59l5c; May;
s7asc.
Crn-Cash, 451ac; closed 4s1sc.
Oats-No. 3 white on track, 31Hq32Lc;
40. 3 white, 3lAM3iHc.
Rye-4Sc.
Barley-55c.
gimothy-$5.52 50.
Flax-sl.39 80.
whisky.
Pork-January, t1l.42IS; May, elisa.
Lard-January, s. IS; May, 500.
Q Ribs-January, @. 70; May, 5000.
Short Clear-8d6hc.
Butter-Creameries, 12923c: diaries,
100 19c.
Cheese - Cheddars, olfc; Young Amer.
icas, 10c.
Eggs-11H@1Sc.
Hides-Light and heavy green sailed
fully cured, 41S@5c; green hides, 3K@4c;
green sailed calf, Tlc; dry flint, 6,{c
deacons, each, SOC.
~Tallow-No 1, solid packed. Be: No. 2
~ G; cake, Sic
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1895-01-05
South Omaha.

SOUTH OMAHA, Dec. 81.
Hogs-iIeavv, A.25d4.40; mixed, s4.006
i.30; light, A.0JCd4.30
Cattle-Stockers and feeders, s2.0od3 8. 30;
cows, 81. OOd3 90: common, 81. 25a1.@.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1895-01-05
Kansas city.

KANSAS CITY. Dec. 81.
Cattle-Native steers, s3.5094.75 cows
and heifers, Q2. 5099.25; stockers and feed.
ers, 81. 6O(d3. 90; calves, N.O0d9.00.
Hogs-Heavy, a. l5td4.50, medium, A.05
m4. 30; light, IS. 70(d4.O5.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1895-01-05
Minneapolis.

MINNEAPOLIS, Dec. 81.
Wheat Closing: December, 5Skc; on
track, No. ] hard, 60Ac. No. l north
ern, SOC; No. 2 northern, 571fc.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1895-01-05
Eighteen Below at Minneapolis.

MrNNEAPoLis, Mimi. Dec. 27.-A light
snow fell in this section yesterday. AS
1t ceased towards night the thermom-
eter began falling rapidly, reaching
Is degrees below this morning.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1895-01-05

|. The Pacific ocean covers G., 200, 600
Of the 1ss, 900, 900 square miles which
compose the eartb's surface, and the
Atlantic covers 81, 000, 600 more. Thus
these two ceans comprise more than
half the area of the globe.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1895-01-05
THE MARKETS.
SiOux CITY Live Stock,

UNION STocK YARDS, SIOUX CITY,
Dec. 3l.-Hogs--Heavy, s4.30a4. 40; mixed,
"a. 1904. 20; light, %. S5G425.
Cattle--Beeves, { 2 .50d3.00 COWS and
heifers, sl.00@3 IS; bulls, Sl.25a2.25
uSngs and caives, ti.1oaz.s 40.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1895-01-05
Gear Ont oe nanrer.

WASHINGTON. Dec. 20. -Senator-elsct
Gear OF Iowa rested we'll last night and
much better today. He is cut %
danger.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1895-01-05
Passsngsr station nurus,

ANDERSON. Ind, Dec. sz-The now
SEQ. 900 passenger station for two divis-
ions Of the Big Four road was totally
destroyed by Ore at in early hour this
morning.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1895-01-05
Churchill a Little Better.

LONDON. Dec. 29.-The condition OF
Lord Randolph Churchill Is somewhat
improved todav.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1895-01-05

Mr.. Nicefello-Dr. Knowitt says that
kissing conveys microbes.
Sweet Chill have some carbohc
acid up stairs.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1895-01-05

In the terrible accident on the Man-
haitian Beach railroad, nearly two
years ago, William Haring lost both
his legs. He was engaged at that time
to marry the young widow Parsells
and, in view of the loss OF his legs and
the sudden change in his plans. the
company was induced to give him S30,-
900. In the course of time Haring Sc.
cured a pair OF artificial legs and soon
learned to get around with tolerable
facility. The first use he made of his
new legs was TO hunt up the young
widow and prosecute his interrupted
suit. She smiled on the wooden legs
and the dollars and last Tuesday they
were married and started south or n
wedding tour. 1t is TO the credit Of the
widow that in no way during Mr.. Ilar-
ing's period of atfiiction did she mani
fest any desire to be relieved from her
former VOWS Of devotion, thereby re-
futing many unkind things which are
said from time to time concerning
widows.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1895-01-05

Critics never tire of guying Richard
Mansfield for his whims and changes
Of mind. For q long time it was a
fancy Of his to come out before the cur
tain at every opportunity and make
long speeches to the audience on every
conceivable topic. Local issues were
his hobby. and il is related thai in
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1895-01-05

Scientists predict that In q century
thers will bs nc disease not durable.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1895-01-05
Cluster Chronicle.
JOSEPH KUBLER, PUBLISHER

Until quite recently there has been a
general belief that cold waves started
at the north pole, and came sweeping
over the country, bringing the chill
and the frost from the vast fields OF
ice and snow which they ~traversed on
their way. But Flammarion, the
French meteorologias and scientist, adj
vances and supports the theory that
cold waves are in, no wise connected
with the north pole, but are direct in
huences from the heatless and client
aether, which is above the blanket OF
the atmosphere and constitutes tho
medium of interstellar space. !
The air constitutes n blanket, ms 1t
were, some forty or fifty miles in thick
ness, and above this the limitiess space
is filed with what, for the Nint OF u
better NAME, has been called aether.
This aether contains no calorihc plrti-
cles, and knows no c~aloric, and the
cold, or the absence of heat, is abso-
Lutte. Flammarion's idea, and the the
orv is that this envelope of atmosphere
Is even more susceptible to the attract
ing influence of the moon than the
waters of the oceans, and that there
are consequently periods when this en-
velope is distorted and made thicker in
some portions and thinner In Others.
Everyone knows that the higher the
ascent in a balloon, the colder it grows,
snd- the reason is. that the nsarer one
is. 1t is therefore not only possible,
but probably correct, that severe cold
waves are coincident with and caused
by the thinning of the atmosphere
over the locality affected, caused by
lunar attraction or some disturbance
that acts upon the heavy air. 1t is an
interesting and plausible theory, at all
events, although it will strike many as
strange to think of cold waves coming
from overhead, instead OF from the
north, which has always popularity
been supposed to be the starting place
of cold in any form.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1895-01-05

Gottlieb Won Klackenberg, q South
African Boer, has two racing ostriches.
One Of them has developed a speed Of
twenty-five miles an hour and has a
stride of fourteen feet. The breeding
of ostriches for racing purposes has
been seriously interfered with by the
passage OF an artibett!ng law by the
English government.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1895-01-05

Little Giri-I've GLUED my dolls hair
~ twiee. and II came n both times.
Mother-Oh, well, ~ IL again.
Little Girl-T'm Roiue 10. This TINA
.m go,n' 70 mix the sluo In . HAIR 70.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1895-01-05

financial Editor of the Times Dead.
LONDON, Dec. 29.-Mr. Ellis, finan-
cial editor of the Times, is dead.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1895-01-05

The Oldest secret trad process now
In existence Is In all prbability either
~ ialayig the hardest
steel with gold and sifNr. which seems
70 nave been practied ut Damascus
ages ago. and Ia still l<tDwn only to the
syrian smiths and thei pupils, or else
q manufacture Of Chhsse red or YER
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1895-01-05
List of the Dead.

s'o' VI nv D,A"
Mrs. John Buick, F.eddie and baby.
Mrs. Qucsby. Lille and Bruce.
D.. J. Buick and daughter.
Mrs. Smelling
Mrs. Howard and two children.
Mr.. Woodhearst and wife.
Mrs. Coshow.
Frank West, wife and two children.
Ed Brown.
Miss MCCaulby.
+. j. Lambrie's child.
Mrs. Ward, sr.
Mrs. |. +. Alesher.
frankie Horning.
Mrs. Payne.
Mrs. Elite Williams and child.
Clay Martin and wife.
Robert Small.
Mrs. Ella Ward and child.
Frank Ross, mother and sister.
Roy Wards child.
Ira Hamilton.
Mrs. Gus Schroeder and child.
The Injured.
The five injured and likely to die are
Mrs. +. J. Lambrie.
Rob Smelling and sister.
Ed Payne and son.
The building, n two story structure
Guiding the postoffice and the entire
stock of goods of Christian Bros, were
consumed. Further particulars cannot
be learned.
Silver Lake is over 100 miles from
klamcth Falls and the stage brought
the news to tins place.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1895-01-05
streets Of Washington Nearly Blocked

WASHINGTON, Dee. 2I-The streets
Of Washington are almost impossible
today. No such severe infection OF
tempestuous weather has been known
here for many years. The heavy snow
fall OF yesterday afternoon was fol-
lowed by a cold rain and then by Bit
ing winds and a keen frost, and conse-
quently the streets and Sidewalks are
laid off in ridges of corrugated ice,
which renders sloigbing impossible and
locomotion by other means extremely
dificnlt.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1895-01-05

At the gate-New arrival-Msy
come In?
st. Peter-Havc you been vaccins
teds
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1895-01-05

1t is estimatea~ dat about 'lo' ooo' 900
has been inyestqH in coffee houses as
an antidote of the saloon in England.
II Is aid there arc about 1000 Of them,
snploying SO. 900 and thy are q pay.
ing investment /.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1895-01-05

Palmer Cox produced the first OF his
quaint "brownie" pictures about ff.
teen years ago, when Arthur Gilmsp|
dean Of the Harvard annex, now6ad-
cliffe college, asked him for>@awinSs
to illustrate a humous/ manuscript
about the alphabet.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1895-01-05

Out of every 100 families living on
farms in the United States forty-seven
are free from incumbrance. nineteen
are mortgaged and thirty-tour are
rented. The mortgage indebtedness
amounts to s2.33 an acre, averaging
over all
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1895-01-05
FORTY KILLED IN OREGON
Lamp Exploded in a Hall Christ
mas Eve.
Con- PEELED TO Dash Through the Flames
to Reach tho Door-The Victims
Tramplcd and Burned--Fiye
BADLY Injured.

ASHLAND. Ore, Dec. 29.-Advices
have been received from Klamath
Falls, Ore, of n horrible accident at
silver Lake, Lake county, Oregon.
caused by an overturned lamp Mt q
gathering on Christmas eve. Over
forty lives were lost and sixteen per-
sons badly injured, five of whom will
probably die.
The gathering had assembled in tho
hall over Christian Bros store and
consisted of children who. with their
parents and relatives, were enjoying
what Santa Claus had brought them.
Some one attempted to get where they
could see and hear better by jumping
upon n bench in .hc middle Of the hall.
In doing so his head struck n lamp hang
log from the ceiling, causing the oil ia
run out. 1t Immediately caught fire.
From that time on the scene was ter
riblc. Tho lamp vas finally taken
down. but fell to the floor. In the at.
tempts to get it outside it was kicked
to the door, where it lay untouched, MS
it could not be approached On account
of the intense heat. The people were
compelled to dash through the flames
attempt many persisted. Ihe killed
are.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1895-01-05
Old Fashioned snow storm.

Dec. 2-.-Aftcr q short i'm
Permission toward morning, the snow
which had been falling during tho
greater part Of last night, began TO
come down again with renewed vigor
and nm old fashioned snow storm Is
now in progress. Street railway lines
are working hard with plows to keep
their tracks clear, but the indications
ure hat there will be a blockade before
night. All trains from the northwest
are reported late. At the weather
Offices il is stnted that the snow storm
Is general throughout the country.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1895-01-05

S.. M. Bridgeman, who died in Chi
sago the other day at the age OF 70,
is a man with a history. He fought in
the Mexican war and was swoundcd ut
Chapultepec. In 1855 he met Allan
Pinkerton and went into the detective
service. During the civil war he did a
great deal Of secret service and his dis.
coveries in tho confederate lines
enabled Mcclellan to gain two notable
victories. After the war he returned
to Chicago and was pensioned three
wears ago.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1895-01-05

Parson Chockley of the Baptist
church in Flushing, n. Y, has an
nounced to his congregation, whom he
is stirring up with a revival, that he
has changed his views considerably
since he was a young nan "At n
time" said the parson, II never be-
lieved hat there were any such things
as devils or that it was possible for any
person TO become possessed Of such
beings. Recent developments, how
ever, have tended to illustrate the falls
ity OF my belief" This was n subtle
slap at Deacon Thornton who was hav-
ing some trouble with the parson about
the organ. The deacon says he will
sue the parson for SANDER.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1895-01-05

1t takes q snail exactly fourteen days
and Eve hours % travc! q mile.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1895-01-05

80 J! !.
n;ob, h.In Elizabeth the other
,L-ASMFSs called out as usual and to
sta |fSat surprise Of the audience his
ed 6 manager appeared and announc-
aGf that Mr.. Mansfield would never
= Pain address an audience in the com
8lnon style, and that he was displeased
at the demand, "as 1t indicated a lack
of appreciation of the artistic side Of
tho actors VOCATION The abashed
audience thereunto went home in
gloom.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-03-24
MILITARY NOTES.
The Third Regiment to Have a New
Observation-Disclosures to Be
Given Next Month.

The Third Infantry is at last to have the
new armory which has been talked of so
long. Last Wednesday evening the board
of officers signed the lease for the fifty-vara
lot on which the building is to be erected
The location selected is the south side of
Fulton street, between Polk and Van Ness
avenue. Work on the plans for the build
ing will begin early in the week, and as
soon as they are approved the actual con-
Struction of the armory will be commenced.
1t will be hurried through to completion as
fast as possible.
The members of Company A of the
Third Infantry are making arrangements
for smoker and high jinks, to be given in
the company room at the armory on the
9th prox. There is considerable talent in
the company and an excellent programme
is promised. The committee of arrange
ments which has the matter in hand in
cludes Lieutenant Ballinger, Sergeant Sui
Ivan and Prfvates Thogode, Donahue and
Davidson.
The members of the First Infantry Regi-
ment will give an exhibition drill and in
spection and grand bail at the Pavilion
on the 10Th prox. The companies are drill
ing regularly in preparation for the event.
The following members of the Second
Artillery have been promoted: Corporal
G. w. Iverson of Battery F, to be SER
geant; Priyates A. Wolff, A w. Ahlborn
and H. Lemeteyer of Battery G, to be cor
porals; Private w. P. Maher of Battery H
| to be corporal.
The sentence of dishonorable discharge
imposed by court martial on two mem
bers of Battery E for conduct prejudicial
| to good order and military discipline has
been confirmed. The men discharged were
Privates Maurice Kirby and F. NJ. Ames.
Neither of them filed an answer to the
| charges.
Among the members of the Second Ar
tillery who have been discharged for vari-
Gus reasons are three first sergeants-J. F.
Siebe of Battery G., S. O'Conner of Battery
G and w. f. Darby of Battery B. OF these
Siebe has served in the Guard for twelve
years and O'Conner since 1885,
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-03-24

taking an extra pull on some heavy ropes
stand out upon his arms in big Jumps that
the same color.
He was without doubt the toughest
piece OF human flesh to be found any
where. AS for his chum Yorky-he was a
lanky, lantern-Jaw fellow, with a nose
that was In blaze of red from its tip to
the roots, and it took all his wages to keep
knew no fear, and were daredeviis enough
to head mutiny or scuttle ship. Both
were good sailors. They could turn in a
oeadeye, clap on a throat-seizing, fit a
crlngle, decorate man rope or serve a STAY
as good as any sailor that I ever met.
What's the matter there, Mrs. For
sythe?D called out the captain, who had
after companionway and stood close to the
pin rail on the mizzen mast, within easy
reach OF a couple of iron Delaying pins
upon which no ropes were coiled.
"They re growing about the duff, sir, and
they've brought it aft to show it to you.''
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-03-24
Co ! FFRfEp RIBK c.


quadrilles to the great delight of bat
talon OF police, Just the men whose bust
ness 1t was to arrest and lead him out to
execution. He left this dangerous society
early on the following morning, but not
until he had discovered that Kinkel was
confined in the fortress OF Spandau, one
OF the strongest in Prussia, only eight
miles from Berlin and the key to the de-
lenses of the capital. 1t was manned by
nearly 1000 men, and kinkel was in the
personal custody OF the governor of the
fortress
Then Schurz went out of the hand-organ
business, and set about concocting a plan
to effect the liberation of his iflustrious
cOmpatriOt. In all the history of recent
events l know of nothing so bold in con-
ception, so daring in execution, as the plan
OF this young man to release a closely
guarded prisoner from the custody of
nearly 1000 jailers, stationed almost with
IN hearing of the central authority of
Prussia
Spandau in 1850 contained, aside from
It's garrison, population of about 10000,
accustomed, like most Germans, to retiring
to their beds before midnight. Into this
quiet place there drove one night, not long
after Carl Schurz had played at organ
grinding for the party of soldiers, post
chalse, escorted by a party of four
dragons. 1t rumbled through the de-
serted streets and halted before the prison,
when an officer in the uniform of a colo
mel OF the Royal Guard alighted from the
vehicle. He was soon closeted with the
eommandant of the prison, to whom he
gave letter bearing the official seal OF the
Minister of the Interior at Berlin. The
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-03-24

brought out and nearly all the facts in the
testimony have already been published.
The half-dozen witnesses who were exam
ined simply corroborated each other and
the verdict of the jury was in consequence
that Cornelius Stage came to his death
by bullets fired by an unknown man on the
evening OF March 1917
Robert Lee, who was in the room with
Stage when the robber entered, testified as
follows: ~ was sitting in the dining
room with Stage. / heard peculiar noise
as though some one was trying to get
quietly into the room. About half min
ute later tall man with mask on walked
by me. He ordered Mr.. Stage into the
barroom and pulled gun. Stage looked
at him in surprise and asked. Is this a
ase of bluff The robber did not speak
but struck him twice over the head with
the butt of the revolver. ran out of the
room and a few minutes later | heard two
shots. | could not recognize the man as
he was masked Lee said in answer to a
question that he did not know whether
Stage had had any trouble with any one
during the day.
Charles Owttrim, the barkeeper, and
Howard Jones, who We're shaking dice at
the time of the shooting, described the men
as being feet 10 inches and feet l inch
high respectively. They were masked,
wore rubber shoes and linen busters. The
police are still in doubt as to who the rob-
hers are.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-03-24
PROM GufsF AbUNsHsn
HOW CARL SGHaR6 REasaEID

The United States has received many
valuable citizens from Germany, but few
have come here from that country in re-
cent years who have brought with them an
already acquired European reputation.
Franz Sigel who landed in New ork in
May, 1852, was known throughout Europe
in consequence of his distinguished service
in the German revolutionary army in 1S4S
and 1S49; and Carl Schurz, who came here
in 1852, had won a wide celebrity by his
rescue of Gottfried Kinkel from Prussian
dungeon, but aside from these two | can
at the moment call to mind no others who
have, since 1850, come to this country her
aided by European fame. The single
act by which Carl Schurz became celebrated
throughout Europe is not much known
here and if it were it was of so heroic a
character that it would be worthy of repe-
tition for the benefit of the generation that
has been born since ii made Carl Schurz
famous.
Gottfried Kinkel was an illustrious poet,
philosopher and patriot, who occupied
high rank in the literature of Germany
and held the position of professor OF
rhetoric in the famous University of Bonn,
in Rhenish Prussia. When the revolution
of 1848 broke out his strong democratic
sympathies led him to take an active part
IN the struggle against despotism: He set
on foot liberal newspaper, and In the
spring of 1849 headed an instruction of
the students at Bonn, which, failing, he
fed to the Palatinate, where he entered
the revolutionary army, and took part in
the defense of Rastadt, strong town and