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Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1897-12-11
The Message.

The presidents first annual message
to congress, which has been awaited
with so much interest, was presented
before that body on Monday. The
document is quite voluminous, in which
the more important questions are very
clearly and elaborately reviewed. The
question of the currency is held to he of
paramount importance, and the plan
proposed by Secretary Gage, with which
the reading public is generally familiar,
is strongly recommended. The presi-
dents views upon the Cuban question,
which are fnlly and clearly stated, ad.
vising no congressional action pending
further developments, while it will
doubtless be Endorsed by large con
servative element, will be disappoint'
| ing, and even distasteful TO faction by
no means insignificant, who advocate
the policy of granting beligerent rights
to the Cubans. The question of the
annexation Of the Hawaiian Islands is
strongly favored, and as upon all other
questions, the president gives clear and
specific reasons for the position taken.
Upon the question of inter national
bimetalism he is sill hopeful that such
agreement will ultimately be effected
Civil service reform will be upheld and
extended the outlook for reciprocity
agreements is regarded as being favor
able. The president recommends thu
enlargement of the merchants marin'
service that attention should be direct
ed to the requirements of the navy, aE'
the better government of Alaska. Th
message treats upon the present trouble
in the Indian territory, and the need
!, Lof new quantantine laws, closing will
. WIN the general approvai 81 me fiasse
The full text of the message appea
an the second page Of this issue Of II
CHRONICLE
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1897-12-11

Congress convened at noon OH Mon
day, the attendance being notably large.
Among the more important bills intro
duced in the house on that day were
the following; To prohibit further
coinage of silver dollars, except at COM
mercial ratio; to relieve the president
Of the appointment of third class post
masters; to increase the pay of letter
carriers; to grant service pension to
honorsbly discharged soldiers; to pro-
vide representation by commissioners
at any international monetary confer
ence; to reduce internal revenue tax on
distilled spirits to rs cents gallon to
establish a uniform system of bank.
ruptcy; to establish a postal savings
bank. In the senate the reception and
reading Of the presidents message was
the only feature Of the day.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1897-12-11

A car load of cancelled Kansas farm
mortgages is one of the novel exhibits
planned by the Kansans for the Trans
Mississippi exposition in Omaha next
wear, as an evidence OF the sure return
of prosperity. Such an exhibit as the
Kansans propose would have served its
purpose very well few months ago,
but before the opening of the pending
expo, the presence Of prosperity will
have become so well established as to
require no object lessons, and it might
therefore be just as well to abandon the
project.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1897-12-11

"Third-Alternate claims shall be re.
served by the government and sold at
auction.
As to the first provision-tns royalty
lit may be said safely. under present
conditions not one out of the 10 pro-
ducing mines in the district could be
worked at profit and pay it. Nearly
all the mines on Bonanza are to be
worked on lays or will be if this pro-
vision does not discourage the lay holder
The owners have given lays rather than
pay wages, and layholders expect to
make only wages or little more. Many
mines or interests in mines have been
purchased for sums which the owners
can never expect to recover and pay the
royalty. With wages at 81 or Sl.5O an
hour few mines will return 10 or 20 per
cent profit out Of the gross yield. Out
side Of the few mines on Eldorado
Creek, not exceeding 40. and half a
dozen in Bonanza and few in Hunker,
say 30 in all, of the mines can make 20
per cent profit, or even 10 per cent at
present prices Of supplies and rates OF
wsfes. Men owning low-grade mines
Siilnot work them, and an exodus may
be expected to the other side fthe line.
"Hunker, Dominion, Henderson and
all other creeks which have bsen prom
Using will le deserted. The mine own
ers assert, and with good reason, that
! the Canadian government is not acting
in good faith and is, in fact, violating a
contract I These men have been in
duced to come in here and locate and
open up mines upon certain conditions
One of fhe clauses of the lease under
which hey hold is this: The said
Ministes of the Interior hereby grants
to the said John Doe, for one year, the
exc usGe privilege TO enter on salc
claim fbr mineral working thereof, anC
the exclusive right to all the proceed
realized therefrom'
The clause Of the new law cuttin!
down The size of claims to be located t
100 feet in length will prevent an,
further prospecting. On opening up
mine the owner is at heavy expense 70
what may be called permanent improve
ments. If it is a claim that may b
sluiced he must build cabins, put u
) sluices, cut a drain, put in dam, bu
, tools, etc. Besides this he will haN
) sunk prospect shafts to locate the pa
channel. Then, his time lost in pro
pecting for a claim should be conside
; ed There are few claims from whi(
1 enough money has been taken in Il
I first 100 feet TO pay for this-certain
e none outside of FL Dorado, and one
/ two on Bonanza
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1897-12-11

A Washington correspondent says
Members Of congress learn on their re.
turn here that all American prisoners
In Cuba have now been set at liberty.
1t will be remembered that this admin.
istration, when it came into Office nine
months ago, found that a very large
number of American citizens were con-
fined in Cuban prisons aid had been 90
confined, in many cases, for months.
Within less than single month MANY
OF these were released, and now con.
gress finds upon reassembling that
through the firm. but conservative.
course Of the administration, eyery
American citizen who was thus confined
in Cuban prisons and had been 90 con-
fined for months, if not years, has been
set at liberty. This fact is already
having Its effect in modifying the dis
position on the part Of certain people TO
criticisc the course of the administra-
ton in regard to Cuban affairs and to
lead to feeling that the President and
his advisers. II permitted to carry out
their plans, will shape the matter in !
way.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1897-12-11
Gary Invites Discussion.

Postmaster-G General Gary expresses
pleasure at the widespread comment
upon his recommendation for the estab-
lishment of postal savings banks and
invites further discussion Of the subject.
IF we all put our heads together, the
postmaster. general says, "the right plan
can be devised, end that is what the
country wants"
1t is not often that cabinet officer
manifests such disposition TO learn the
desires Of the people on matters of legis-
lation connected with the development
of his department. Postmaster-Generai
Gary's request for widespread popular
expression of opinion on the subject
should meet with hearty response on
the part the people. The newspapers
have already performed their duty
in The matter. Labor organizations, too,
have very generally given consideration
to the subject and with almost unani.
nous voice have asked for postal banks.
1t remalns now for other bodies, especi-
rlly those representing the commercial
Interests of the country. to give their
approval TO the aggita,ion, In order thes
! congress may be assured that the senti'
ment of all classes in the nation is
virtually united in favor Of the early
establishment Of these much needed
| institutions for the safe keeping Of the
savings Of persons of moderate means
| II may be true that the commercial and
business classes Of the country have not
such an immediate personal interest in
| the establishment Of postal savings
banks as have the wage earners. Blu
the commercial portion of the commun
ity cannot afford TO manifest indiffer
ence to the well being and contentmen
of the working population of the coun
try. Let them do what they can Il
promote good feeling at least by giyin
consideration to propositions like tina
for the establishment of postal saving
banks, the only object of which is to d
something for the people, whose inter
ests are only too rarely the subject
intelligent consideration by law makers
Chicago Record.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1897-12-11
Harney Peak Tax Case.

TeBhstEs 81 Pen1ingtep county
store TO Albert t.. Ledoux, or his agent
duly authorized, the possession of the
property seized by said defendant; tha,
said receiver, Albert r. Ledoux, his
agent, and all person acting under and
by virtue of his authority, be, and they
are hereby forbidden from selling or
disposing of any of the assets of prop.
erty of said Harnsy Peak Company
within the district of South Dakota, for
any other purpose than the payment of
she c!a:g; for taxes herein specified
until the further order of the court.
And said Albert Il. Ledoux shall within
ten days from the service of a copy
of this order upon said Ledoux
or his authorized agent pay TO the
treasurer of Pennington county, said
claim for taxes, and in default Of anv
money with which to pay said claim.
the said receiver, upon the notice re-
CURED by the laws of the state of South
Dakota, regulating the sale of personal
property under execution, sell so much
OF the assets In his possession belonging
to the Harney Peak Company. and sitn-
afed IN the district of South Dakota. as
may be sufhclent TO pay said claim for
taxes. And II sufficient personal prop
erty cannot be found, that said receiver
upon the notice required by the laws of
the state of South Dakota, upon the sale
of real estate by execution, sell so much
of the real property in his possession in
the district Of South Dakota. belonging
to the Harney Peak Company. as NAV
be sufficient to pay said claim for taxes.
And that said receiver make report TO
this court of his proceedings under this
order.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1897-12-11

The news of the advance in wages on
the Missouri Pacific comes as balm in
Gilead to the railroad men, says the
Laramie Republican. During the dark
days of the panic the Missouri Pacific
was compelled to make cut and during
the campaign of 1896 these same men
wero tod time and again that the
election Of William Mckinley would
mean another cut. The present in
crease in wages is the strongest refuta-
ton that can be cited. On the Union
fos..sssss tho "sanu maj intainsd. @ilasix4Mages
the past few years. The earnings o.
employees in the manufacturing section,
have already been increased in many
instances. and recent dispatches from
Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Ohio show
that number Of the great iron mines
of Pennsylvania and Michigan are 10
increase the wages of their employ ses
10 per cent on January lst, and that the
limestone operators Of the Mahoninc
Valley, in Ohio, have increased the
wages of their employees 20 per cent.
The effect of the return of a protective
tariff is being promptly felt.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1897-12-11
John II. King came in from Chambc

John III. King came in from Chamber
lain today, says the Mitchell Republi.
can, and went east to Parker A tele-
graphic report was shown him, sent
from Sioux Falls TO the effect that he
had abandoned his attempt to assess the
settlers ~on the Indian reservation for
Sl5 to raise fund to be used in lobbying
in behalf of the free homestead bill
when it came before congress. Mr..
King said that the report was false, that
he was still making arrangements to
sec1rs funds from the settlers to carry
on the work. He further said that over
200 settlers had contributed toward the
fund and that they did not feel that
they were being feeced either.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1897-12-11

South Dakota is going to make an
extraordinary effort to be creditably
represented at the Trans Mississippi
Exposition. South Dakota is young
state. yet rich in resources, and can
with the proper support from its people
make an exhibit that will open the eyes
of the world to the riches that only
await the application of labor and capi'
tai to develop them. Participation
in the exposition will do more to hasten
South Dakota's industrial progress than
anything that has ever been undertaken
for this purpose. Omaha Bee.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1897-12-11
Keep Cool.

The N. Y. Engineering and Mining
Joernal has lengthy article descriptive
of the Klondike gold fields which is
supplemented with sensible advice 10
those who are contemplating a visit to
that remote and desolate region. The
articles closes as follows:
Keep cool, don't believe one per cent
OF the beliefs" and estimates" of
vendors or other interested parties.
whether they be unknown miners or di-
rectors with eminent names. When the
ten millions or so of dollars come down
from there next year, don't get excited,
but remember they are the sole product
of years labor of from 5000 to 5000
men, who cannot afford to work gravel
that yields less than one ounce Of gold
per man per day. When you hear of
this one or that one who has taken
out hundreds Of thousands of dollars in
gold or has sold his claim for million.
remember that there are men who have
made similar amounts in chances which
are easier to find here than on the
klondike. and look back at the wrecks
that have marked the many great min
ing crazes which have spread over this
country since l8i9. If those who think
OF going to the Yukon country to get
rich will work as hard and undergo as
many priyations here at home in the
pursuit of money. they will, we have
no doubt, be richer at the end of 5
years here than will be the average of
those who go to Klondike. The Klon-
dixie is not nearly AS rich as California
was in 1850, nor as manv districts in
California and some other States are
o-dayn
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1897-12-11

The Press and Dakotan, Mr.. Petit
crews organ says: Senator Pettigrew
will reach Washington from his tour to
Japan, about December 10th He is not
expected to visit South Dakota before
the holidays. The trip has been of
great benefit to him in various ways,
particularly as health restorer.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1897-12-11
burlington Route-Cehfornia Excur-
slons.

Cheap; quick; comfortable. Leave
Omaha 435 p. m., Linco!n Clio p. M,
and Hastings $50 p. III. every Thursday
in clean, modern, not crowded tourist
s!eepers. No transfers; cars run right
through to San Francisco and Los An
geles over the Scenic Route-through
Denver and Salt Lake City. Cars are
carpeted upholstered in rattan have
spring seats and backs and are provided
with curtains, bedding, towels, soap, etc.
Uniformed porters and experienced
excursion conductors accompany each
excursion, relieving passengers of all
bother ab.ut baggage, pointing ont
objects of inteIest aud in many other
ways helping to make the overland trip
a delightful experience. Second class
tickets are honored. Berths So.
For folder giving full information,
call at nearest Burlington Route ticket
office, or write to J. Francis, General
Passenger Agent, Omaha, Neb.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1897-12-11

A Seattle, Wash, dispatch announces
the death at juneau, Alaska, on the 25th
ult. of Louis X. Church, appointed as
sociate Justice of the supreme court of
Dakota territory in 1885, and afterward
appointed governor of the territory by
President Cleveland. His death was
due to violent attack of pneumonia.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1897-12-11

Latest advices we're to the effect that
Mrs. Mckinley, mother Of the president,
was still alive but that her death was
momentarily expected. her physicians
having abandoned all hope of her re-
covery.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1897-12-11

Mrs. Mary Bird, Harrisburg, Pa, says:
MY child is worth millions to me; ye.
l would have lost her by Group had |
not invested twenty-five cents in bot
tie of One Minute Cough Cure" 1t
cures coughs, colds and all throat and
lung troubles A. j. Jones & Co.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1897-12-11
Mining Items.

ihe owners Of the Southern Queen
copper mine, located Is miles east of
this place, received the returns from a
car Of ore shipped some time ago to the
Chicago Copper Refinery. Chicago,
which was entirely satisfactory to the
shippers, The ore shipped was of three
distinct grades, carrying Is. 80 and 60
per cent copper respectively. Further
shipments Of ore from this valuable
property will be made after the holi
days
WILL COMMENCES AT ONCE.
Fs9m reliable authority the Journal
- 'nlermed that the 81. Elmo Gold Min
ING Company has recently perfected ar
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1897-12-11

w. L. Williams, of Boughton, Ark,
says: Have suffered for years with
constipation, and indigestion, and ON
bottle of Beggs Little Giant Pills has
cured me. At ]. E. Pitcher & Co. drug
store.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1897-12-11
The Omclal Count.

Pierre. Dec. Especial: The official
count on the judicial elections has been
completed and certificates issued to all
except Levi McGee. of the Seventh cir
cult, who will have to wait until cor
rectly certified returns are secured from
Pennington and Custer counties. The
votes given to each Of the candidates
are as follows:
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1897-12-11

Vol. One. Number One, Buy One, Of
the Kiondike Times. an Sxl2inch, three
column folio. purporting to be located
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1897-12-11
Marked Mining Progress.

With the fast approaching close ofthe
year 1897, says the Black Hills Mi'ing
Review the people Of the Black Hills
have pronounced reasons to be i'm
pressively gratifed with the abundant
ly prosperous season, and an Immediate
future that unquestionably presents a
promise Of unriyaled Developments of
the mineral wealth of this state The
opportunities for the inauguration Of
enterprises of great industrial magni-
tude, which are trustworthy and war
I-rrtre~sYef 6bfy-ifegs' ttss N nSft ss,
State OF South Dakota where the people
are occupied in mining for the preciou,
metal, but notwithstanding. our gold
output for the year 1897 will only b.
exceeded by the States of Colorado and
California. There will be from now
forward, however, a marked increase in
the output of gold bullion from the
Black Hills, as the ore supply is becom.
ing 30 abundant that the capacity of all
the mills are taxed to the utmost. with
perhaps not less than 200 tons of ore
per day being shipped out of the state
for treatment,
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1897-12-11

The t,tal republican majority In the
state is 5000. q compared with . tic
last year.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1897-10-15
A Woman with O History.

The ingenuity of the book agent has
not been exhausted, II an incident thai
occurred the other day in a lawyer,
office down town Is to be taken al
characteristic, says the New York Sun
The principal partner Is one of the beS
known lawyers of the New York bar
One day last week a woman came into
the outer Office, and, asking for the
head of the firm, said that she was
anxious to see him on important bust
ness. The clerks gave her the stere0-
typed answer. MI. So-and-So was busy,
one Of them said, but he offered to
take In her name. Then she produced
a card to which she added some words
in pencil. The clerk glanced at it and
saw that beneath her name she had
written "a woman with history" He
gave 1t to his employer, who was, in
deed, busily engaged. The unusual card
attracted his attention, and the woman
was shown into his Office. She gave no
evidence of having had history, and
seemed rather a business-like, cheer
full young person.
81 wrote on my card" she said,
that have a history. That is true
It is one of the best Of the United
States ever published, and it is the
cheapest" Continuing the description
so rapidly that there was no time for
the lawyer to interfere, she told him
all that she wanted to before he had
called in a clerk to show her out. She
did not succeed in selling copy Of
the book, but she got nearer the great
man than any book agent had ever
done before.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1897-10-15
ITO BE CoNTINUED.)


The autobiography Of Thomas Coop
er, the English chartist, is, as Carlyle
would say, altogether human and
worthy" and one of the most fasci-
mating records Of a strange and often
stormy career that can be read in any
language. With a vividness that even
Carlyle might envy, it describes the
hard struggle of Cooper's early years
how his poor widowed mother was
tempted to sell her boy to the village
sweep for money with which to pay
the rent Of their little cottage; how
he got smattering Of the three RS,
and at Is was apprenticed to shoe
maker; how he learned by hook and
crook to read four languages, and ac-
quired, besides, as much history, math-
ematics and science as made him a
prodigy even in the eyes of educated
men; how he became schoolmaster,
then a journalist, and at last, in $780,
flung himself heart and soul into the
Chartist agitation. 1t cost him two
years in Stafford gaol. Through the
kind Offices of Charles Kingsley he was
provided with writing materials. Mix
ing them with brains" he speedily
produced a number of short poems and
stories, History of Mind" and, most
important of all, vigorous and imagi-
native poem in the Spenserian stanza,
1.-THE Purgatory Of Suicides" which
has gone through several editions. 1t
ia lust about four years since Thomas
Cooper died, at the age Of 81. He had
outlived his fame, as he had outlived
his Chartism. Indeed, we might say
Of him what an American critic said
of Beecher, that, had he died sooner
he would have lived longer"
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1897-10-15

and then put among pile of others
where it is not exactly suitable. Every
one ought to be most seriously consid-
cred, not only in relation to the others.
but also to the covering of the divan
on which it is to rest. The fine white
linen pillows, daintily embroidered
with silks or narrow ribbons in Wat
teau colors, are appropriate to use with
others as delicate upon rattan divan,
or one that Is finished in white enam-
ell, but among dark rich stuffs, upon
massive settee; they are clashingly in
harmonious. An antique piece of fur
niture must invariably have antique
looking cushions, both as to color and
design. If, as is always wise, one Sc
lects for a divan covering a fabric of
neutral tint, that the cushions may car
ry out in self-color the tonal scheme
without monotony by an infinite varie-
ty of shades and patterns in the da-
mask chosen. Or for this neutral back
ground, If more license is desired, one
will be discreet in selecting such COM
bination of color as may be found on
the canvas Of some master in color.