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Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1897-05-15
$50. This makes the total probable ex-
pense Of digging the tunnel and its sub
sidiary branches 500, $4,000.
Don't Know Where They Arc At"

The action Of the Union Hill COM
psny's officials and the profound secrecy
surrounding their intentions or future
operations keeps the merchants and
miners of Galena in a state of uncer.
tainty that is trying to the nerves and
disastrous to business The irregnlarity
Of pay days is annoying alike TO the
miners and the people who furnish them
with clothing, food and lodging. 1t up
sets business Of all kinds and leaves
things in chaotic state. Wages due
for labor done during the month OF
March were paid yesterday, May s, and
it is said that April wages will be paid
May Is. Mines, mill and smelter are
shut down without warning. II work is
resumed on one mine, 1T is shut down
on another. The smelter was shut down
on Thursday but the mill is running and
"the plates are looking we'll" TIE peo-
pie of Galena are blue. The old-timers
realize again that hope deferred
maketh the heart sick"
The Pioneer has no inside informs-
ton regarding the affairs of the Union
Hill company. 1t is guided by surface
indications alone, but it believes that
the people Of Galena are unnecessarily
worried over the situation; that the
prospects for permanent prosperity
were never brighter. The Union Hill
company has not gotten thoroughly Or
ganized as yet, which will account for
any irregularity in pay days So far all
the work on the mines has been for the
purpose of Development, and all the ore
treated has been for experimental pur-
poses. 1t is unreasonable to expect that
ore can be hauled by wagon a mile and
half and treated in baby plant and
made to pay. The experimental stage
has been passed and henceforth the ore
must be mined and reduced on large
scale. The company must either quit
business or erect larger works. The Pio-
neer believes that the big stamp mill
| will be built at Galena and the smelter
at Edgemont, but it will take time. Our
Galena friends who are feeling despon.
| dent should consider what has already
been accomplished by the company, a:
we'll as the obstacles TO be overcome. II
took eighteen years to solve the problem
of how to successfully treat the BALD
Mountain ores; give the Union Hill
company as many months. Pioneer.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1897-05-15
IRE Longest Tunnel.

An exchange says: Two gangs of
men have just begun digging in Colorado
the longest tunnel which man ever at
tempted to construct The main bore
will be twenty miles long, and connect
ing with this are subtidiary tunnels
with total length of thirty miles. So,
in reality. the task tha. has been put
under way is that Of digging fifty miles
of tunnels, and every foot Of this vast
system will be under Pixies Peak and
the mountains that tower on each side.
The starting point of the main tunnel
Is mt the foot of the mountain leading
mp to Pixies Peak, near the old town of
Colorado City. This point is but short
distance from the railroads which span
the country between Colorado Springs
and Manitou. From here it runs al
most due southwest. The further edge
Of the tunnel is at the edge of the
mountains at Four Mile creek, over in
Fremont county, Colorado, six miles
south Of Cripple Creek, and near the
little town ofSunol. Two gangs ofmen,
az stated. are working on the tunnel.
one at each end. Just at present they
are making progress at the rate ofthirty
feet day. 1t is believed that the
mammoth task they have undertaken
will be completed in seven years from
the first of the present month. The main
tunnel will pass directly under the cone
Of Pixies Peak, at depth of nearly 1000
feet, and 2.700 feet beneath the town of
Victor, Its average depth from the sur.
face will be $500 feet, and it is designed
to test the mineral deposits of the terri
tory at these great depths Thirty
miles Of lsterals are contemplated and
these will pase underneath all the
Cripple Creek district at an average
depth of 1000 feet. Cripple Greek. Vic
tor, Gillette, the various small towns,
and thousand mines. are to be made
tributary to this system. Under the
present circumstances the distancs-the
shortest way--from Colorado Springs to
Cripple Crock is City four miles. By
way Of the tunnel the two cities will
only be sixteen miles apart. II is esti-
mated by the contractors that the aver
age cost per foot Of excavation will be
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1897-05-15
Comfort To California.

Every Thursday morning, tourist
sleeping car for Salt Lake City, San
Francisco and Los Angeles leaves Oma.
ha and Lincoln via the Burlington Route
1t is carpeted upholstered in rattan
has spring seats and backs and is pro-
vided with curtains, bedding. towels
soap. etc. An experienced excursion
conductor and a uniformed Pullman
porter accompany it through to the
Pacific Coast.
While neither as expensively finished
nor as fine to look at as palace sleeper
it is just as good to ride in. Second
class tickets are honored and the price
of a birth, wide enough and big enough
for two, is only $500.
For folder giving full particulars
call at the nearest b. 4 NJ. II. X. ticket
office. Or, write to ]. Francis, General
Pass'r Agt., Burlington Route, Omaha
Nebraska.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1897-05-15

Now, as to arbitration. it stands just
this way, says the Sioux City Journal
Whenever a dispute shall arise between
us and Great Britain involving the
alternatives of arbitration or war, Great
Britain will have to choose which
alternative she will take. We shall
always be in favor of arbitration oi
arbitrable questions. The Monroe
doctrine is not arbitrable. We will no,
arbitrate it with Great Britain or any
other nation. We will fight for it. II
Great Britain should resolve to violate
the Monroe dostrine, then there will be
war.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1897-05-15

Tom Watson 10 evidently growing
weary of the long pfotracted howl for
silver to the exclusion of all other
economic questions. In recent issue
of his paper he says: "Great heavens |!
Are we to be compelled to listen four
long years to q constant humping on
that one key Of the piano--silser. silver,
silver? IL there no balm in Gilead for
the bruised and battered ear? Is silver
to be the Aaron's rod Of the reform
movements? Are we never to hear
anything from orator and editor and
book writer except the continual beat
ing Of the same string in the vain effort
to say something about silver7 Is silver
the Alpha and Omega Of human life ?
Give the other Issues chance. We
don't know how you feel, comrade, but
We are sick unto death Of seeing the
peoples party swung around by hand
ful Of utterly selfish millionaire silver
mine owners. II was . day Of finAnits
woe to our movement when we allowed
few place hunters 10 place populism
on the shelf In the interest Of silver
ISM"
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1897-05-15
Mammoth Irrigation schsms.

A late Pierre special to the Omaha
Bee says: Articles of incorporation
have been filed for the Pipe Line Irri-
gat'on and Land company, at Pierre,
with capital of S50, 100000. Directors
OF the company: A. F. Charles, A. p.
Cutter II. G. Arms of Chicago; Louis D.
Bird, Glen Elder, Kan; w. G. Yates
and I. Z. Estes Of Pierre. The purposes
OF the company as set forth in its ar
ticles are for the irrigation of Dakota
lands by means of pumping stations to
draw water from lakes and rivers, and
its distribution for irrigation purposes.
The same company will work in North
Dakota, Nebraska and Kansas, as well
% In this state. 1t expects to begin
operations this season.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1897-05-15

The commission appointed by Presi-
dent Mckinley to confer with the heads
of the various European governments
in relation to the early calling Of an
international bi.metallic conference,
sailed on Saturday last for Paris, France.
The personnel OF the commission is
Senator Wolcott, Of Colorado, Gen. ]. C.
Payne and ex-Vice President Adlai E.
Stevenson. They will 60 from Paris to
London, Berlin, Vienna and other Euro
psan capitals, and they express much
confidence in bringing about the inter
national conference desired, whatever
the result of its deliberations may be,
which at this distance may only be
vaguely conjectured.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1897-05-15
Tongue River Settlers Excited.

A Miles City, Montana, special Of the
9Th inst, says: Upper Tongue river
settlers are greatly excited over the dis
appearance of a young man named
Hoover, a sheep rancher employe.
large parties have been hunting him
for a week. They found dead sheep
with bullet holes through their car
casses and Indian tracks. The supposi-
ton is that he was killed by Indians,
who have been dancing all winter and
threatening what they would do when
the grass was green. If this proves
true, trouble is expected, as the settlers
will not countenance murder.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1897-05-15

Backward, turn backward, oh time in
your flight, feed me on cruel again just
for tonight. l am 30 weary Of sole
leather steak, petriied doughnuts ard
vulcanized cake; oysters that sleep in
watery bath, butter as strong as
Goliath of Gath 4; weary of paying for
what We can't eat, chewing up rubber
and calling it meat. Backward, turn
backward, for weary l am, give me a
whack at my grsndmother's jam let
me drink milk that has never been
skinned let me eat butter whose hair
has been trimmed, let me once more
have an old-fashioned pie and then III
be ready to curl up and die.-Ex.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1897-05-15

The loEg proposed consolidation OF
The Deadwood Daily Times and Pioneer
has at last materialized, the Pioneer
Times having made its appearance yes
terday morning. Pending the arrival OF
the type setting machine and new dis.
play type, the paper will not appear at its
best, but it will, no doubt be, in all re-
spects very creditable sheet, and the
CHRONICLE earnestly hopes the new hy-
phenatsd enterprise may reap the full.
est measure of journalistic success.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1897-05-15
Baliard's snow LInement.

Mrs. Hamilton, Cambridge, Ills. say,
l had the Rheumatism SO bad | coulG
not raise my hand to my head. Bal
ards Snow Lirement has entirely cured
me. / take pleasure in informing my
neighbors and friends what it has done
for me. Chas. Ilandley, clerk for Lay
& Lyman. kewanee, Ills, advises u
Snow Liniment cured him Of Rheumat
ism. Why not try it? 1t will surely
do You good. 1t cures all inflammation
Wounds, Sores. Cuts, Sprains, etc. Pric,
so cents. Sold at Jones & Co.'S dru.
store.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1897-05-15

Spanish paper money in Cuba is
worth only about 35 or 40 per cent Of its
face. 1t is q promise to pay, says the
Sioux City Journal, ard the Spanish
government is paying it in other
promises to pay. Trade is demorallzed.
The people are disguised. Even those
who are otherwise disposed to be loyal
are complaining of the debased cur.
cency. 1t cheats them. 1t ruins trade.
1t is fraud and delusion. In other
words, irredeemable paper promises are
having the same effect in Cuba which
they invariably have in all countries
and in all times.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1897-05-15

A late Athens special says Greece
has given its consent to the prelimin-
aries toward a restoration of peace as
agreed upon between the powers. The
heads Of the different legations have re-
ceived official assurances from the cabi-
net investing them with full authority
to treat with Turkey in behalf of this
nation. Negotiations are regarded here
as being virtually concluded.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1897-05-15

State Treasurer Phillips received a
dispatch from Pierre yesterday saying
that the supreme court had dismissed
the mandamns proceedings against
Auditor Mayhem, whereby the railway
commissioners had sought to compel
the auditor to issue warrants without
taking itemized receipts therefor.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1897-05-15

! The citizens of Marshalltown. Iowa,
are putting forth strong effort to Sc
cure the democratic convention, and as
il is known that there is no circus billed
for that place this year, the Sioux City
Journal concludes that the town is
desirous of securing a substitute.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1897-05-15

The game of war on the Greek dia-
mond is said to have been practically
played out, and while the Turks have
proved to be the most effective ball
throwers, the fact will remain uuques
toned that the Greeks scored the most
runa
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1897-05-15

With view to checking the further
depreciation Of the white metal, the
Peruvian government has suspended
silver coinage, and will prohibit the
further importation Of any silver coin.
The Peruvian dollar will be converted
into bullion for export, not to be re-
turned except as bullion.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1897-05-15

A repetition of Turkish victories have
softened the sultan's heart, and he is
now willing to embrace King George,
and settle the difficulty with him with
out the aid or consent Of any other
power on earth.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1897-05-15

Gen. Miles may not reach his destina.
ton in time to pick up any valu-
able pointers In the art Of modern
warfare, but he might. il be 10 watchful,
catch on to some of the Turkish
methods of doing up the Armsnians.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1897-05-15
carters Dollar Edition Laws of 1897.

In order to continue meeting the pop
ular demand for cheap edition of the
laws, the Carter Publishing Co., Pierre,
will issue their regular Dollar Edition
of the Laws. Immediately after the all
journment Of the legislature. The laws
will be delivered day or two after ad-
journment. Advance sheets will be
mailed each week during the session
for $3.50.
We are publishers of all the Laws and
Supreme Court Reports of the State and
Territory. Orders should also now be
fled for the official edition of the ses-
sion laws of 1897.
Order the Dollar Edition or the Ad
vance Sheets and keep posted. The
edition is intended to fill the gap inter-
vening between the passage of the laws
and the publication Of the Official edi-
ton.
Send for Catalogue Of Law Books and
Legal Blanks.
CARrER PUBInHiNo Co..
Pierre, s. d.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1897-05-15

Hereafter, says a New York paper,
the first FIVE great cities of the world
will rank this way: London, population
4,440OO0; New York, 100000; Paris,
100000; Berlin, 100000, and Vienna,
100000.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1897-05-15
Land Ohce.

Coal declaratory statement-John l..
Orr, Waite! S. Upper, Horace f. Hick-
man and Elan Horner, all of Custer
City, Custer county.
The following cash patents await their
owners at the lard Office: Daniel w
Thomas, William Calvert, Arthur Oliver
William Powell, Mark p. Fillmore, AL
bert II. Utter, al! of Fall River county.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1897-05-15

The president has nominated Brig
adler General ]. w. Forsyth for Major
General, to succeed General Ruger, re.
tired.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1897-05-15

Porter Warmers appointment as re-
ceiver of the U. s. land Office at Rapid
City was confirmed by the senate on
Wednesday.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1897-05-15

President Mckinley has accepted an
invitation to take part in the ceremonies
on Memorial day in the city of New
York, Grover went fishin.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1897-05-15

The L. S. senate has passed the bill
providing for public building at Dead
wood, with an appropriation Of S2GO, 900.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1897-05-15

Quarter section of good land in Ne
brassa for horses. Inquire at this Office.
The evening tribune. (Pawtucket, R.I.) 189?-190?, 1897-07-19

The vigor OF youth given TO the aged and
iniirin by using Hop Bittcrs See adyef ftise
mCnts
The evening tribune. (Pawtucket, R.I.) 189?-190?, 1897-07-19
Two New England Churches.

There are Catholic communities, both
in America and in the old world, says
Alvan F. Sanborn in The Atlantic,
where an extreme wretchedness in the
dwellings is at once partially explained
by the richness and beauty of the
churches. But not so in Dickerman. On
the contrary, both the Dickerman
churches are Of piece with their sur
roundings. The Congregational church,
more than a century old (Orthodox is
the name it still goes by, was a worthy
structure in its day and would be so yet
had it been kept in good repair. Alas,
it is only the ghost Of its former preten-
tious self. Its sills are badly rotted. It's
spire and belfry have been shattered by
lightning and imperfectly restored. Its
roof is leaky, the clapboards of its walls
are warped and blistered, and its heavy
bell, once sweet of tone, is cracked and
dissonant. The Baptist church, built
only few years ago, mainly at the ex-
pense Of church building society, is
one Of the shoddily constructed many
gabled atrocities due to the malign in
fiuence Of the so called Queen Anne
restoration. It's original coat of paint
Of many colors has mostly soaked into
the surrounding soil. It's panes of stain
ed glass, as they have been broken from
time to time, have been replaced by or
dinary window glass, with piebald un-
canny results.
The evening tribune. (Pawtucket, R.I.) 189?-190?, 1897-07-19
CUNNING OF THE LEFT HAND
Some OF the Advantages That Arc Pos
sessed by the Ambidextrous.

Some OF the Advantages That Arc Pos
sessed by the Ambidextrous.
Ambidextrous men and women, or
those who can use either right or left
hand with equal facility. are not near
ly 30 frequently met with as might at
first be supposed-in fact, they are quite
rare. This double faculty is, however,
much more frequently met with among
butchers and sailors than in any other
walks of life. Left handed butchers are
numerous, as a walk through any Of
our large market houses will quickly
demonstrate, but it is a very interest
ing study to watch one Of them who
will cut, chop, saw and handle bis
meat without once changing it from
one side to the other on the block or
changing his own position.
In view of the many advantages de-
rived from the ability to use both hands
equally we'll many people have often
expressed surprise at the action Of edu-
oational authorities in insisting ON the
use Of only the right hand instead Of
trying to develop an equal skill in the
other. They all stick to the right hand
ed idea, however, and an old resident
Of Frankford. noted for his ambidex-
trousness. is still mourning the loss of
prize at school through the use Of his
left hand in writing, although he was
equally skillful as q penman with his
right.
The benefits derived from the use of
both hands were excellently illustrated
in the experience of two carpenters who
lived in Frankford some years ago.
Their names were Cross and Walton,
and the former was right handed, the
latter left handed. AS one was also
very tall and the other very short, they
made "a curious couple, but they always
worked together laying floors and put
ting up joiners' work in buildings.
They could take jobs of this charac-
ter cheaper than any other, because
they could work from either end toward
each other so handily. Cross would
square floor board at one end and
Walton would "scribe'' and cut it off
to fit at the other end and then nail
down, working together from opposite
ends.
Left handed machinists are always
at disadvantage, as machinery is in
variably adapted to people who work
right handed, but the ambidextrous
man or woman is always at home in
whatever work is undertaken. -Phila-
delphia Record.
The evening tribune. (Pawtucket, R.I.) 189?-190?, 1897-07-19
PLENTY OF'CHALK.
Great Block That Was Once as Large ~
the Continent Of Europe.


the Continent Of Europe.
The small piece Of chalk which is in
constant use In the schoolroom. the leo
ture ropm, the billiard room and the
workshop has strange history, the un-
raveling Of which through all its COM
plexities Is one Of the most difficult
problems with which the science of the
present day is called upon to deal. This
piece is in reality chip Of an immense
block OF chalk that once filed an area
the size Of tho continent Of Europe, and
of which even yet several gigantic frag-
ments remain, each hundreds Of square
miles in extent. These patches are scat
tered over the region lying between Ire
land ON the west and China OH the east
and extend In the other direction from
Sweden in the north to Portugal in the
south.
In the British Isles the chalk is found
in greatest perfection and continuity in
the east and southeast of England. A
sheet Of chalk more than 900 feet in
thickness underlies all that portion Of
England which is situated to the south
east Of a line crossing the island dag
onally from the North sea at Flambor-
ough Head to the coast on the English
channel in Dorset. This enormous sheet
of chalk is tilted up slightly on the
west, and its depressed eastern portions
that dip toward the waters of the North
sea are usually buried from sight by
means Of overlying sands and clays.
Where the edges Of the chalk floor come
upon the sea the cliff scenery is strik-
ingly grand and beautiful. Any one
who has once seen the magnificent rocks
Of Flamboroughuand Beechy Head, the
jagged stacks Of the Needles or the diz-
zy mass of shakespeare cliff, near Do
yer, can understand why "the white
cliffs of Albion" has grown into stock
phrase.
This massive sheet of chalk appears
again in France, in many other parts Of
Europe as far east as the Crimea, and
even in central Asia beyond the sea of
Aral. How far it stretched westward
into what Is now the Atlantic may ney-
er be known, but chalk cliffs of at least
200 feet in thickness are seen at An
trim, in Ireland, and less conspicuous
formations are found in Scotland, in
Argyll and Aberdeen. There can be lit
tie question that all these now isolated
patches were once connected in con-
tinuous sheet, which must, therefore,
have occupied superficial area about
5000 miles long by nearly 1000 broad,
an extent larger than that of the pres
ent continent Of Europe. = Pittsburg
Dispatch.
The evening tribune. (Pawtucket, R.I.) 189?-190?, 1897-07-19

An interesting discovery from geo.
logical point of view was recently made
by an explorer in the mountains Of Wit
zies Hoek, Natal. On the summit of an
extinct volcano, on the edge Of lake
that occupies the crater, soundings re-
vealed a layer Of sand inclosing small
diamonds. 1t would bo interesting to
know whether these diamonds were
there accidentally-that is, as the re-
suit of washing operations carried on
by the natives--or whether this diseov-
cry corresponds to an actual mine Of
diamonds, for the hills Of Witzies Hoek
are not situated in regions known to
be diamond bearing On the last hypoth-
esis the presence Of precious stones in
the crater Of volcano would doubtless
throw some light OH tho formation of
the gems in nature. .-Genie Civil.