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Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1895-11-23
Attempted Murder.

This friday afternoon the Franklin
hotel dinning room was the scene of a
most cowardly and brutal attempt at
murder. Chas. Maryland, . young man
of about 22 or % years. entered the he
tel about 2:30 in the afternoon. walking
up to his wife, who for the past two
months has been working at the hotel
to support them. asked her il she was
going to live with him any more. Upon
receiving her answer in the negative,
he drew from his pocket a 3s calibre
revolver and attempted to shoot her.
She turned and screamed and ran to
the door. closely followed by the brute.
As she reached the door, he leveled the
gun and fred. the bullet passing under
the shoulder and coming out just above
the heart, thence lodging in her wrist,
her arm being upraised. The wounded
girl was then taken to q room in the
hotel, and DR.. Smith summoned. The
doctor pronounced the wound quite
serious but not likely to prove fatal.
After the shooting the would.be muir
derer, in true dime novel style, rushed
to the street, flung down his coat and
hat and, waving his revolver above his
head, de6ed arrest. His nerve. how
ever, failed him when the officers ap-
peared, and he went peacefully along
with them.-keYstone Nugget, Is.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1895-11-23
HarneY Peak Tin Co.

In New York, November 1lth, Judge
Lacombe, in the United States Circuit
court, handed down a decision in the
action of Charles Fletcher and others,
against the company, authorizing the
issue Of receivers certificates. The re-
ceiver's certificates are to bear interest
not to exceed 6 per cent per year, and
are to be negotiable at not less than par.
The first series Of certificates, the de
cision says, shall be lien upon so much
Of the property as is covered by the first
mortgage. and will be superior to either
mortgage, but not superior to the re-
ceiver's certificates already outstanding.
They shall e iceed in amount S.. 500,
and the proceeds shall be used to pay
past due taxes and those of the current
year, and assessment work on claims
covered by this mortgage. The second
series Of certificates shall be lien upon
SO much of the property as is covered by
the second mortgage, and not covered
by the fret mortgage. and will be su-
perior to such second mortgage. but not
to the receivers certificates already out
standing. They shall not exceed in
amount S2s,0O0.-N Y. Engineering and
Mining Journal.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1895-11-23


The CHRONICLE IS in receipt of small
pamphlet containing Senator Pettigrew's
response to "The Editor in Politics." a
toast ,resented at the late Editorial
banqn , at Sioux Fails, in which he
refers to the mighty influence welded
by the public press In directing the
political course Of the people. While
deprecating the fact that many Of the
great papers In our eastern cities are
owned by corporations, who shape the
sentiment and misdirect the opinions of
the people, he turns with hope to the
country press, to the papers owned by
men who edit them. The response is
interesting, able and appropriate, and
in it there is far more truth than poetry
The senator, unlike many of our public
speakers, has happy faculty of saying
something every time he attempts to ad
dress an audience, and in this instance
the rule was strictly observed.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1895-11-23

J. H. Aims of Philadelphia, now at
the Paxton, has just returned from the
Black Hills, where has been inspecting
mining property. In regard to the
Black Hills, he had to say that there is
more gold in the hundred miles square
covered by the Hills than in any other
part Of the world. II have been In
South Africa, in Johannesburg, and In
Australia, and in all of my travels 1
have never seen gold so plentiful as In
the Black Hills. In those countries
there is much gold, and it is being min
ed at rapid rate. but the gold bearing
sand and quartz of the Black Hills has
as yet hardly been touched, SO to speak.
II know many men in the Hills who
do nothing the year around, except oc-
casionally. when they want some money.
Then they pack up their -four, bacon,
salsratus and frying pans, load their
picks and shovels on their mules and 90
up to their claim for a while and w3sh
ont few hundred and then return 10
civilization. They are the hardest peo-
pie on earth to deal with. They are as
independent as men can be. II they
want money, they 60 and wash out gold
If they have a good mine, they have
the gold in better place than If it were
in the bank. Snch PEOPLE may want to
sell today. and tomorrow they have
changed their minds.
sin regard to money going into the
Hills to develop the mining properties,
there is not much money going in, but
when one hears of the vast amounts
going to South Africa and Australia, one
wonders Why it is. One reason for it is,
l think, English capitalists have become
more or less tired of American securi-
ties, and they want something new.
They have some sense of patriotism and
would rather have their money invested
in Australia or Cape Colony than in
America. And, again, though there is
great deal of honest work done, there is
certain amount of 'bunco' work, and
people are always inclined to look at
mining properties as yalueless. This
floating Of bonds and stocks cannot we'll
be done in America, for the Americans
are very greatly interested in other
things, and then they do not like to
develop their own mines. They would
rather 60 to Alaska or Mexico than to
the Black Hills, and every far-away
yarn that comes from some new Col
conda calls them and they follow the
will-o'-th'-wisp.
But the Black Hills has the brightest
future ahead of it of any mining coun-
try have ever seen. / can take you to
hundreds of places where you can pan
out free gold and l can show you lodges
Of rock where you can chip off gold
quartz. Some Of these are places that
are said to be inaccessible, but when
men can be convinced that there is gold
there, they find some way to reach il,
and hence it ID that l say the Black
Hills has the brightest prospects OF
development of any hundred miles
square in the United States, and,
think, in the world. Omaha Bee.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1895-11-23

Senator Thurston, of Nebraska. is
evidently imbued with true and clear
cut republican ideas. In a recenti inter.
view reported in the Omaha Bee. he
says: II think the republicans shonld
try to organize the senate without COM
bination with the populists When the
two Utah senators come in in January
the republicans will be able to organize
the senate, If not before. think the
republicans in congress ought to pass a
general tariff act in harmony with their
idea of American prot 'ction and on
which We would be willing to so to the
country in the presidential campaign.
/ do not believe in any temporary sx-
pedient to increase the revenues"
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1895-11-23
Revival Of the Mica Industry.

The mica industry in this locality
which a few weeks ago was suspended
has been revived, and now bids fair to
be operated upon q higher scale of
magnitude than ever before.
Messrs. Miller & Worley, a prominent
mica firm of st. Louis, purchased on
Tuesday, through Joseph Major, three
mica claims located six miles east Of this
city, owned by Geo. Gundlach, Fred
Russell and Charles Castner, the con-
sideration named in the deed being
s., 800.
Mr.. Major. the company's resident
superintendent and manager, informs
the CHRONICLE that the outlook for a
large output OF the product is very en-
couraging, that he has put on force of
ten men to open up the mines, after
which the force will be increased to
twenty five. He expresses much conf
dence in the success Of the enterprise.
The Black Hills, and especially this
section, is to be congratulated upon the
Inauguration Of this new mica enter
prise, and upon the further fact that in
addition to this, arrangements have
been perfected whereby all the mica
which can be produced in the Hills may
find ready cash market in this city.
II. II. Williamson, of Cleveland, repre-
senting the largest mica company in the
country, who spent some time here in
-estigating our mica deposits. and who
departed for the east on Sunday, made
arrangements with the Akron Mining,
Milling & Manufacturing company, who
are operating the Axle Grease factory
in this place, for the purchase Of mica
IN the rough, in any quantity offered, at
prices which offer handsome margin
Of profit for the producers, and which
will doubtless be the means Of putting
a large number Of mines in operation
and establishing fourishing industry in
the near future.
1t is q well known fact that there are
a large number of promising mica lodes
in the immediate vicinity Of Custer,
which have slumbered untouched for
years for the reason that there has been
no available market for the product. and
nov that home market has been open
ed up, offering remunerative returns to
the producer, there is every reason to
believe that the production of large
quantities of this valuable mineral will
be the speedy result. To the mica mine
owners Of the Hills, an excellent op-
portunity is now offered for the disposi-
ton of the product Of their mines, and
il is to be hoped they may at once avail
themselves of the same by opening up
their mines and producing the mica,
which as above stated will find ready
cash market at the Axle Grease factory
in this citv
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1895-11-23

or the least money that has been offer
ed to eastern capitalists for many q day.
The mill, which it is estimated cost
from sS0,0 600 to si5G, 600, was secured for
$4,000, and the mines are all bonded
for about the same proportion of their
value. Miners who own property ad-
joining the bonded group say that the
property would be cheap at three times
the amount called for in the bonds
Pioneer.
REMARKABLE DISCOVERY.
Is that recently made near Spring
creek, ten miles nortweast Of Rockerville
by couple Of tenderfeet who knew
nothing whatever of prospecting or min
ing. A few weeks ago they started out,
and considering one place as good as an
other commenced digging hole in the
ground. At few feet beneath the sur
face they encountered ore that is fairly
pock marked with free gold. Fred
Helm, one Of the owners ofthe Caliboga
property, heard of it and with q COM
panion at once started for the camr.
On arriving there he found that the dis
covers had posted up crude notice of
location, at variance with all legal re-
quirements, to which he drew their
attention. In response TO their request
he made one in proper from and staked
out the claim for them. For his service
he was located in as an equal partner.
Fred and his partner then located sever
al claims adjoining. News Of the dis
coyery soon spread, and in a few days
the entire county was located for dis
tance Of several miles in every direction.
Samples of the ore brought to Silver
City camp, a week ago last Saturday,
caused stampede to the new locality.
Two pounds, pounded up in mortar
and panned, yielded 81 worth of fine
gold. A number of the residents Of
Rapid City and Keystone, among whom
is Major Jack Simmons, have located
claims in the vicinity. The work, so
far done, shows vertical formation Of
slate, porphyry and granite. The ore il
self is a grayish country looking rock,
which no experienced prospector would
look at a second time. The surface Of
the mountain OIL which the discovery
vas made is fat treeless table and
showing no indications Of the value
hidden below. Contracts have already
been awarded for sinking shafts and
running tunnels to demonstrate the
permanency and width ofthe ledge. The
locality is virgin ground and has never
before been invaded by the prospector,
except in passing over to what appeared
a more promising section.-Times.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1895-11-23
Thanksgiving Proclamation.
Governor Sheldon has issued the fol-
lowing proclamation

lowing proclamation
STATE OF SoUrH DAKOTA,
EXECUTIVE CHAMBER. !
That the proclamation Of the Presi-
dent may be properly observed by our
people, |, Charles III. Sheldon, governor
of South Dakota, do hereby appoint
Thursday, the 2Sth day of November, A.
ID. 1895, a day of thanksgiving and pray
er throughout this state.
On that day let all the people, with
reverent and thankful heart, repair to
their several places of worship and
properly express to the Great Giver Of
all that is good, their thankfulness for
the many blessings that have come from
his bountiful hand during the past year.
1t is true we have regretted that all
our people could not have been blessed
with the same more than bountiful har-
vest, which has been gathered over
much of the agricultural portion of the
state. We have watched anxiously for
the earlier and latter rain and have, in
some sections, been disappointed.
Thoughtful men, however, now ques-
ton whether the disappointment is not
8 blessing in disguise. Our people are
awakened to the need that they should
make use of the means at their COM
mand to promote their own prosperity,
and with this awakening comes renewed
belief that all unfavorab.e conditions
may in the future be conquered.
Our usual health for which as a state
we are Justly celebrated still remains to
us. The courage and hopefulness of the
people is not abated We have not
been the victims of rioting and lawless-
ness
F,r all these blessings let us be truly
thankful, and in its expression bring re-
newed courage for the future.
Let those who have been especially
blessed not forget their less fortunate
neighbors, never failing to remember
that loving and assisting our fellow men
Is the noblest expression which can be
given to our lives.
"Inasmuch as ye have done it unto
one Of the least OF these, my brethren,
We have done it unto me-"
Given under my hand and
the Great Seal of the State oi
[sEAL1 South Dakota this 9th day oi
November, A. ID. 1895.
CHARLES III. SHELDON.
BY the Governor
THOMAS THoRsoN, Secretary of State.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1895-11-23

The manifestation of more energy and
public spirit, and less selfishness on the
part of our citizens would result in much
benefit to Custer at this critical period
in her history, when the eye Of capital
is being so largely directed to the mining
industry. We have a wealth of un-
developed mineral resources at our
doors which only require the magic
wand Of capital to bring into profitable
utilization, and proper effort on our
part would dispel the chances of their
being overlooked and ignored, which
our present apathy renders fairly prob.
able. Once more the CHRONICLE urges
the necessity of active and energetic
endeavor on the part of our citizens to
the end that Clusters advancement may
be quickened. and her future progress
augmented.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1895-11-23

The late democratic fiasco in Ken
tucky has fairly upset and knocked the
supposedly well settled political calcu-
lstions of Secretary Carlisle into
cooked hat. He evidently realizes the
awful. but palpable fact that. as polti-
cal duck he is very dead, as he is said to
be posing as a prominent probability
for an appointment to soft and sooth-
ing seat upon the supreme bench, where
future political problems will not dis
turb him, and where the political per-
plexities incident to his past career.
win soon pass into dreamy and fast
fading reminescence. $50
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1895-11-23
Bill Cav w ould Suic,de.

A Helena. Montana. special of the
18th says; Sheriff Jurgens has discov
cred plot among the prisoners confined
in the county jail charged with murder
to defeat the ends of justics BY commit.
ting suicide. BY some means, as yet
unknown, the prisoners In. murderers'
row had gained possession of enough
morphine to kill score Of peobIe.
Eugene Stanney was first to kill himself.
He died the day be was to have been
taken to the penitentiary for life. To-
day when Bill Gay was found guilty OF
murder ID the first degree. charged with
killing Deputy Sheriff Will Macke, his
cell was searched and morphine found
The plot was then Disclosed BY the pris,
rome.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1895-11-23


North Carolina has an output Of l00,-
600 pounds year. New Hampshire
produces 25,000 pounds, South Dakota,
$4,000 pounds and New Mexico 1000
pounds. The mica of North Carolina is
of the best quality and brings the high
est price New York Tribune.
The Tribune is talking through its hat
with regard to the superior quality Of
North Carolina mica. tits probably the
clearest and most brilliant mica mined in
America, but it's fire proof qualities are
we'll known TO he vastly inferior to the
South Dakota tBlack Hills) product,
with which a furnace might be con-
structed in which the North Carolina
product could be burned to ashes with
out perceptible effect upon the furnace.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1895-11-23

Governor Sheldon is reported as being
very enthusiastic over the poposed rail-
road to the Black Hills wich is receiv-
ing considerable attention at the present
time. He states that he has no dcnbt
but what the road viii. be ironed from
Aberdeen to Pierre this coming year,
and some work done west Of Pierre if
business men of the points interested
will actively bestir themselves. Yes,
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1895-11-23

The progress Of the republican party
and the great principle of protection
has been SO marked in the past year as
to be even surprising to republicans
themselves, and the pleasing fact has
now resolved itself into an irresistible
certainty that, its course will remain
unchecked until the final climax has
been reached in the election of presi-
dent. and placing the country under re-
publican rule, which means a radical
and complete restoration of our present
palsied condition to the highest plane
of national prosperity. If there ever
was time in the country's history
when citizen Of the great republic
could righteously feel proud of his party,
it is to-day with all true republicans.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1895-11-23

Utah only awaits the proclamation of
the president to became a member of
the great galaxy, when she will scintilate
as the 45th star in the illustrious banner
of,he nation. She is o. X. politically,
and will be represented in the U. s.
senate by brace of rock ribbed repub-
licans, whose votes may come in handy
in the organization of that important
body
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1895-11-23
A Strong Girl.

A late Hill City special to the Omaha
Bee says: keystone seems to have q
juvenile strong woman in the person VI
Maud Fay. aged about IL years, daugh-
ter Of AL Fay, proprietor Of one of Key
stones hotels. There is nothing un-
commonly muscular in the appearance
Of Maud. who ID rather slender child
Of prepcsessina appearances, bot on
Thursday last she surprised crowd
and won . box Of candy by lihinc.
bodily from the floor, d. NJ. Wolf, . 2A0
pound Omaha travelling man. Mr.. Fay
says when Maud was years Of age she
would easily shoulder and carry away Z
sack offiour.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1895-11-23
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Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1895-11-23

The coming thanksgiving bids fair to
be of more than usual interest. All of
the leading foreign nations are now
turning their attention in the direction
of Turkey.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1895-11-23

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Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1895-11-23

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Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1895-12-05
Notes From Nearby.

Mrs. Mary Shackleford, wife of Mr..
Jno. H. Shackleford, of Berryvllle,
died on Saturday morning last, after
a short but painful illness, aged 43
years.
The fine estate known as "Farnley,
containing 500 acres of land and situa-
ted in the southern end of Clarke coun-
ty,Va., has been sold to H. Wise Sewers
for $50 per acre.
Isaac Fine, peddler, mysteriously
disappeared near Oakland, Nd, about
two weeks ago. His brother, Samuel
Fine, offers 800 reward for informa-
ton concerning his whereabouts.
Mrs. John Barry and her sister-in-
law, Miss Margaret Barry, both aged
ladies residing in Williamsport, were
made violently i'll from eating pud-
ding which was supposed to be poi
soned
Some of the peach growers Of Wash
ington county were very successful
last season and large profits were real
lied by many of them. A Smithsbure
grower from fifty acres Of land is re-
ported to have cleared $4,000. An
other from ten acres realized $1,000
Another from fifteen acres cleared
$4,000. Another from thirty acres
cleared $4,000.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1895-12-05

Few people know that all plants con-
tain digestive principles They cannot
absorb their food until ii is digested any
more than animals can. The Mount
Lebanon Shakers have learned the art
of extracting and utilizing these diges-
tive principles, and it is for this reason
that their Shaker Digestive Cordial is
meeting with such phenomenal success
IN the treatment of dyspepsia. The Sha-
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food already digested. but it also con-
tains digestive principles which aid the
digestion of other foods that may be
eaten with it. A single 10 cent sample
bottle will be sufficient to demonstrate
its value, and we suggest that every suf-
fering dyspeptic make trial oft. Any
druggist can supply it.
Laxol is the best medicine for chill
drep. Doctors recommend it in place
of Castor Oil,
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1895-12-05
MARRIED.

In Roanoke, Va, November q,
1895, Mr.. DANIEL X. FAYMAN, FORM
erly of Shepberdstown, and Miss MARY
ELwINGER-both of Roanoke.
At Dufields, this county, Novem-
Der 90, 1895, by Rev. ]. E. Triplett,
Mr.. NAPOLEON LARUE and Miss ANNIE
RUSSELL, both of Harper's Ferry.
On November 81, 1895, at the res
idence of Mrs. Feagans, near Porter s
Factory, by Rev. ]. II. Wolff, Mr..
GEO. W. ROWLAND and Miss MAMIE
L. BANEY, both of this county.
In Martinsburg, December 4, 1893
in the Lutheran church, by Rev. c. 5.
Trump, Mr.. JOHN NJ. SMALL and Miss
VARINA B. SLAUGHTER, both of Berke-
ley county.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1895-12-05
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