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Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1897-02-13
FRIDAYS ~pRoCEEDINGs.

Pierre. Feb. G.-In the house yesterday
the usury bill was passed bv
a vote of "a to 10. Ii will undoubtedly pass
the senate. The bill provides for I per cent
legal interest and 10 per cent Oh contract.
on amounts less than 81 600 there Is no
limit on the contract interest.
The bill to reimburse state treasurer
Phillips for expense incurred In bring
ing the state cash TO the capitol for in
spection passed the house.
The equal suffrage bill was made n
special order for Monday. N bills were
introduced to define the boundary OF
Mead, Butte, Stanley. Pennington and
Lyman counties. This bill provides for
the adjustment OF all u~norganizcd coun-
ties OH the ceded lands and makes the
boundaries of the above counties include
all OF this land.
Bills were passed giving iuries power to
yet the punishment where fine and impris-
onment are penalties. A bill fixing the
salaries of county auditors on "A basis OF
the valuation of the county, with 500 as
the minimum and $1,000 as the maximum,
was passed.
other bills passed were to allow city
councils to appoint city officials IN case oil
failure to qualify, and a resolution mem
orial.zing ongress for taxation OF lands OF
Indians.
In the senate the liquor license and the
state dispensary bills were up for debate,
and after an hour of filibustering. both
measures were made special orders for
next Tuesday.
There is little doubt now that a high
license measure Will become a law. The
committee has worked upon all kinds or
propositions for the past three weeks and
has reached the conclusion that II is not
yet time for the state to dis
pensing liquor, nor will 1t do to adopt a
low license measure. As "A compromise Ii
will probably retain the main features OF
the Stephens high license bill.
The valued insurance policy bill was de-
be reconsidered tomorrow. when its
friends declare TX Will pass.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1897-02-13
Sugar Trust Formed I'm berlin,

London, Feb. Ga special from Ber-
lin that a sugar trust has
been formed there. The trust is out
spoken, and makes no concealment that
It's object Is to raise the price Of sugar.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1897-02-13

1t Is said of a Hartford City, Ind,
man that the only present he ever made
to his wife was On the t~wenty-fifth an
niversary of their wedding. when he
gave her four yards of cotton cloth with
which to make him a shirt.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1897-02-13
a Protest.

First Republican Politician-What
Ices this mean? 1t says here that the
United States might use its offices 10
settle the trouble in Cuba.
Second Republican Politician-Use It's
offices? Say. some folks must think
this country has offices 10 burn.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1897-02-13

Chief: A Kansas paper wound up a COM
pliment to a young school marin with a
rood word the reputation for teaching
she bears" The next day the school marin
met the editor and chased him down the
street with a blue umbrella. n every
jump In the road she screamed she had
newer taught q she bear in her life.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1897-02-13
Gives Quit Claim Deed of His Wife

Grand Rapids, Mich, Feb. 6.-John
Lane Of this city, In consideration Of
s25. has, under written agreement, sold
and released his wife to James II.
Hurst. All concerned are today cele-
bIallng The event.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1897-02-13

The buckwheat crop of southwestern
Michigan was the largest this season for
many years, and in some localities the
flour is being sold at a lower price than
that charged for wheat flour.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1897-02-13
auditor Sued.

The president Of Bookings Agrlcul-
tural college has brought suit against
Auditor Mayhem to compel him to issue
warrants to educational institutions
from the endowment fund from the sale
and lease of public lands. The legisla-
ture of 1895 enacted a law requiring Il
special appropriation before this fund
can be drawn upon and Auditor Nipple
has since refused to issue the warrants.
The suit is in the nature of mandamus
proceedings and is brought to get a
ruling from the supreme court. Failing
to obtain a decision authorizing the au-
ditor to draw warrants, Governor Lee
will ask the Legislature to repeal the
law OF 1895.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1897-02-13

The following states have never been
represented in any presidents cabinet:
California, Florida, Idaho. Kansas.
Montana, Nevada, North Dakota,
Rhode Island, South Dakota, Texas,
Washington and wyoming.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1897-02-13

Il scientist declares that che ele
ments entering into the ~cornstalk can
be made to produce alcohol, cellulose.
paper, mating. smokeless powder and
condition powders for cattle"
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1897-02-13

Street cars In Washington are now
permitted to run twelve miles an hour,
the permissible speed having lately
been raised from ten miles. Outside OF
the city limits they may run fifteen
miles an hour.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1897-02-13

The work Of SEEMING the Chesapeake
and Ohio canal and OF transferring the
edible fishes to the Potomac has begun.
BY this 1t Is hoped to save the
black bass and TO annihilate the Ger
man carp, with which the canal
abounds,
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1897-02-13
THE MARKETS.
sioux CITY Live Stock.

Sioux City, Feb. G,-Sioux City Stock
Observation-Disclosures: Heavy, SO. lGdt
20; mixed and light, $3.15a3. %.
Cattle-Quotations: Cows and heifers,
| 81. 0Od3. 40: stockers and feeders, 80 Goa 90;
calves and year.ings, SO .V0d4 90; bulls, Sl.1
u3.2 -; veals, $3.t0a5 90.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1897-02-13

In Canton, China. they name streets
after the virtues, as here they are
named after persons. Thus there is a
street called Unblemished Rectltude, a
Pure Pearl street, a street of Benevo-
lence and another OF Love.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1897-02-13

The Wendell Phillips Memorial asso-
citation is endeavoring to Increase the
fund for the Wendell Phillips scholar
ships at Harvard university and Tufts
college to $4,000 each. That at Harvard
is now 81, 300 and the one at Tufts 81, 400.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1897-02-13

Prison authorities in New York think
It would be practicable to employ the
convicts OF the state In roadmaking, af.
ter adopting a secur system Of prison
camps.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1897-02-13
Chicago.

Chicago, Feb. $3.50 a. m~.-Hogs-Re-
ceipts, 1900. Market for light and me-
dunn steady: heavy packers weak. QUO
tations: Heavy. SO. 3Gd3. As; mixed, 50. 25U
3.4j: light, So. S0d3. 30; rough heavy, So. lOu
1926.
Cattle-Receipts, 400. Market steady.
Sheep-Receipts, 1900. Market steady
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1897-02-13

The manufacture OF oriental rugs in
this country, while still In Its Infancy.
is making rapid progress, and a repre-
sentative of the industry recently pre-
scented a petition before congress- calling
attention TO differentiation of imported
goods.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1897-02-13

David Rankin has a farm OF $500
acres in Atchison county, Missouri. Sew
eral hundred acres were planted in corn
and a careful test showed that 1t yield
ed 101 bushels to the acre.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1897-02-13

Press and Printer: Onward and up
ward" was the motto OF a newspaper es-
tablished recently in Kentucky. In life
and death the paper was consistent. For
three months It wen onward. Now it has
aonS upward.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1897-02-13
A Deficiency.

Pierre, Feb. 6.-Governor Lee is o n
fronted with a treasury deficiency and
Is earnestly working for a provision In
the liquor license bill which the leglsla-
ture Will pass hat will divert a portion
Of license fees TO the state treasury.
otherwise he Will have to issue funding
warrants to meet current expenses. He
will In a few days send TO the leglsla-
tuIe a special message declaring that IA
deficiency Of $4,000 exists in the gen
eral fund and advising some measure
for providing the deficiency.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1897-02-13

Toledo, o.. boasts of doing what no
other city has o She has completed
a fine court house and paid for it and
kept within the limits of the a~ppropria-
ton for that purpose.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1897-02-13

All the existing Mayfiower societies r,
the country were organized recently st
Plymouth, Mass, into a general society
Of which they bename the state societies.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1897-02-13

In Paris he best physicians unite In
saying that one death in every eighteen
in h city is from p~reventable epldem-
lie diseases. Over 5 per cent Of the NOR,
tally is needless.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1897-02-13

The retail grocers OF Omaha. Neb.,
are compiling a list OF customers who
can pay and refuse and are to be made
to pay.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1897-02-13

The first day of January and the
first day of October of any year fall on
the same day of the week unless is be
a leap year,
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1897-02-13

Italy, the home of mucic. has commits
stoned its minister of public instruction
to study England's great music schools,
with the idea Of gaining hints for use at
home.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1897-02-13
Well Pleased.

Puck.
DIR. Probe-What you need is a change
of climate.
Slimmer-Good. / was afraid you
would want me to leave New York.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1897-02-13
She Is a Noted Bride.

Chamberlain, s. D., Feb. 5.-The re-
cen wedding OF Myrtle Morrison, the
famous Nowlin county girl broncho
buster" and Frank Dupree, a part
blood Sioux, created a great sensation
In aristocratic circles On the Sioux res
ervation and adjacent territory. The
bride Is a handsome young cowgirl n
Is noted far and neal for her proficiency
in the art OF horse breaking and train
ing. She had many admirers among the
frontier beauX, but always declared
that she would never marry any man
that could not ride, shoot and throw a
lariat better than she could, and as such
men are extremely rare even in that
stock raising section, ii seemed prob
able that the girl was doomed to lead a
life OF single blessedness. However, last
fall, hay being scarce on the upper Bad
River range, her father removed his
family and stock to Big Plum creek, a
tributary Of the Cheyenne river. Here
Myrtle first made the acquaintance of
the good looking, daring young half
breed who has since become her hus-
band. Frank Dupree Is a splendid
horseman. a thorough COW hand" n
is apparently devoid Of fear. The Du-
prees are among the wealthiest stock
men In h state, counting their cattle
by the thousand, and Frank, like many
other mixed bloods In that section, has
received a fair education.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1897-02-13

During the recent holidays every sin.
gle girl in the town OF Brookstown, KY.
wss married.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1897-02-13

A st. Paul judge has awarded a citi-
zen So damages because a motorman re-
fused 10 stop a car for him.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1897-02-13

Missouri papers note a revival OF
prosperity in the marriage license In
dustry.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1897-02-13
THURSDAYS PROCEEDINGS.

Pierre, Feb. ga bill taxing and regu-
lating grain warehouses was passed In the
senate yesterday. This bill increases the
warehouse license from 81 to so. There are
1000 grain warehouses In the state and the
total fees therefore amount TO 1000 Cn-
like the present law, the railroad commits
sioners are directed TO use this fund for
the purpose OF employing lawyers TO en-
force the provisions or the warehouse ana
railroad law, Notwithstanding the attor-
ney general and the county attorneys are
directed to prosecute all violations.
That the bill was passed In the senate
was due to the efforts or Senator Palmer.
1t received a majority of three, eight pop
ulists voting for the measure.
An opponent OF the measure commenting
on Il to a correspondent said:
1T Is a job. pure and Simple that Will
cost the farmers OF the state nearly 5000
n year In excess of the present require
ments. 1t will be severest upon the farm
er, for the reason that farmers cannot
now load their own grain or store II In
granaries or warehouses without first OBJ
tanning n license. Every purchaser OF
grain is held to be q warehouse man. If
farmers DO not rally to oppose this meas
ure II will pass the house and soon become
a law. II seems TO have no other object
than 10 provide a fund for some lawyer,
well qualified to absorb the full $4,000 at
the expense OF farmers"
The bill appropriating 100000 for an ex-
hibition at omaha was killed.
In the house the pure food bill was
passed.
Thc committee reported favorably on the
equal suffrage constitutional amcndmen
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1897-02-13

gle girl In he town of Brookstown. KY,
WINS married.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1897-12-21
Deeenarata Families.

There is a paper on "The Causes OF
Poverty" by the late Francis a. Wal
ker in the December Century. Gen.
Walker says: The true predominant
causes Of pauperism, as of crime,
have been strikingly painfully brought
out in tracing the history of few
families. Three cases will suffice. The
reader remembers the investigation of
the Jukes family in New York state.
Mr.. Dugdale estimated that the men,
bers of this family, descendants of one
worthless woman or intermarried
with her descendants, have in seventy
five years cost the state, as criminals
and paupers, a million and quarter
of dollars. The history OF Kentucky
family founded in 1890 has been traced
to include the character and conduct
of host OF its members by descent
or by sexual alliance. legitimate or IL
legitimate. Among these have been
121 prostitutes. Thieving and beggary
have made up the lives OF most of tho
remainder. Those who try to do some
thing better for themselves prove un-
able to perform hard labor or to en-
dure severe weather. They break down
early and go easily to the poor house
or the hospital. From Berlin we have
the history of another criminal and
pauper family, the descendants Of two
sisters who lived in the last century
The enumerated posterity number
834. or these the history OF 100 has
been traced with tolerable accuracy
They embrace log illegitimate children,
164 prostitutes, II pimps, l42 beggars.
Ga inmates OF poorhouses and 76 who
have been guilty of serious crimes.
Still other instructive cases are given.
in one of which nearly all the inmates
OF county poorhouse have been
found to be related in blood.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1897-12-21
Controlling the Sex.

Many theories have been advocated
as to how male or female offspring may
be produced; and yet, after all, there is
no theory in the matter, but very
simple law of nature, says writer in
Dakota Farmer. Give bull and COW or
like ages and strength and constitu-
ton, and the produce Of these may be
of either sex. But let the bull be old
or weak or out of condition, and the
calf will, almost without exception, be
male, and this is merely the law OF ma
ture trying to reproduce itself, because,
of the two animals, the bull shows evil
dence of being the one most likely to
die first, and, therefore, the male calf
would be the one required to carry on
the breed. In short, the offspring pro-
duced is Of the same sex, as a rule, as
the weaker of the two parents. This, L
know, is quite contrary to the most
general theory; but l have taken the
trouble to study and prove it during
the past six and thirty years, and l
have found that 1t is invariably the
case, not only as regards cattle, but
also in the case Of sheep, horses, and
even human beings. When our colonies
were first settled and quantity rather
than stock was the one thing desired,
young rams were put to old, broken
mouth ewes, with the result that eve
lambs were produced in numbers as
eighty is to twenty. But when the
and heavily fleeced wethers were want
ed, old rams were put to two-year-old
ewes, and the result was that about
three parts of the lambs were rams. l
know that what l have written will be
contradicted by many, but have prov
ed it correct during thirty-six years OF
a farming life, at home and abroad.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1897-12-21
500 To Any Man.
WILL PAY 500 FOR ANY CASE
OF Weakness In Men They Treat and
Fail to Cure.

An Omaha Company places for tho first
time before tho public MAGICAL TREAT
aENr for the cure OF Lost Vitality, Nervous
and Sexual Weakness, and Restoration OF
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TREATMENT. Thousands of men, who have
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This MAGICAL TREATMENT may be taken
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pay railroad fare and hotel bills TO all who
prefer TO go TO there Tor treatment, IL they
fail TO cure. They are perfectly reliable;
have no Free Prescriptions, Free Cure,
FREQ Sample, or c. O. D. fake, They have
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effected. Write them today
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1897-12-21
Raising Ducks ArtiacIaiiy.

OF course In raising 10000 to $4,000
ducks it is important that one should
have the most suitable stock, writes
Samuel Cushman in Northwestern Ag-
riculturist. A cut of one or two cents
per pound from the highest market
rates will make a great difference in
the receipts. The quality must be the
best. The quicker they crow the short
er the time they mist be kept. The
earlier they are put en- the market the
higher the price they bring. There is
more profit in one early bird sold at 80
cents per pound than in several late
ones at Is to 16 cents. Pure white
feathers bring the most. James Ran
kin has tried all breeds of ducks and
finds all have their outs. Aylesbury
ducks have white feathers, but they
and their crosses are longer in matur-
ing and harder to pick. Pekins, he
found, matured earlier by ten days
or a fortnight. Rouens are not only
longer in maturing, but are tender and
delicate. Cayugas are fine, plump birds
and lay as well, eggs hatch as well.
and ducklings mature as early as the
Pekins, but they are smaller, nave
black plumage, and the dark pin
feathers hurt their appearance.
Crosses between the two were fine and
plump, took on fat as readily and ma
tured as early as the Pekins, but they
came notified in plumage, had dark
skin In patches and dark pin feathers,
so brought less. Their feathers also
sell for much less. A cross between
Cayugus and Rouens gave all the good
qualities Of the former and are larger
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1897-12-21
Feeding for Eggs.

It Is difficult to give general for
mula that will suit all conditions, still
we believe in the morning mash win
ter and summer, says Country Gentle
man. 1t is composed Of one-half
ground corn and oats, one-fourth bran,
and one-fourth boiled vegetables or
soaked beef scraps, or cut clover nay
steamed; mixed with boiling water at
night, covered up and left to steam.
and fed warm in winter. In summer.
cold water is better. Whether to feed
this mash every day or every other day
alternating with wheat, or wheat and
cracked corn mixed in winteD can be
decided by experiment. Meat in some
form, either raw or cooked, should be
fed two or three times a week, and
green food every day, winter and sum-
mer, il fowls are confined in yards.
Green cut bone is an excellent feed
either separately or mixed with the
mash. Our manner of feeding for eggs
is to give the mash every other morn
ing in summer and every morning In
late fall and winter. Care should be
taken, however, not to give full meal,
but sufficient to satisfy hunger. and
thus compel the hens to hunt around
for whatever they may find in the
wards or litter of the crops. We feed
nothing at midday but green food, such
as cabbage, and at night, wheat, oats
and cracked corn, separately or mixed
together. The heavy breeds being gen.
orally less active than the light. need
to be carefully fed and kept busy
scratching. Avoid overlooking If you
wish an abundance CT eggs.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1897-12-21
CHESTNUTS AS FOOD.

In many of the provinces of France
chestnuts annually contribute large
part OF the public food. The principal
value of the chestnut Is its easy diges-
tibility over all other 1iours. especially
when boiled or baked.
Many chestnuts are superior to po-
tatoes for food. There is as much az
ote matter in a kilogram of chestnuts
when the kernel contains so per cent
of water as in half kilogram of bread.
When dry it has at least four times as
much sweet and feculous matter as the
best kind OF potato.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1897-12-21
New Inventions.

Inventors sometimes make the mis-
take In passing by simple inventions
as unimportant. A Council Bluffs, Ia.
inventor will undoubtedly before long
be mentioned as one of the inventors
who made fortune simply because he
pressed series of rings into littls
circular disk of metal, resembling
nothing so much as bottom out Of an
oil can. This little invention, which We
have mentioned before, forms a sound
ing toy and when properly vibrated
produces simply wonderful results. In
ventors interested in this most simple
Of late inventions, can obtain free
sample in addressing G.. w. Sizes &
Co., registered patent lawyers. Bee
Building, Omaha, Neb. The copyright
ed cuts show three well-known mech
anical movements.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1897-12-21
Too Smart for Hin.

Eyes" said young Softleigh, II like
to see smart, weli-educated woman,
but wouldn't marry one who knew
more than | did" I'm very sorry"
replied Miss Cutting, Ito hear that you
have resolved to remain bachelor all
your life"
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1897-12-21

than the latter and make better table
bird, but do not equal Pekins. Evil
IDENTIFY the right breed to cross with
Pekins does not exist or has not been
found; that is, with the present re-
Quirements OF the market.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1897-12-21
TALMAGE'S SERMON.
SANCTiFIED MUSCLE, LAST
SUNDAYS SUBJECT.
Takes the Exciting Story of Sampson
as Suggestion-"AndS Sampson Went
Down to Timnath"--Judges; Chapter
AK, Verse 1.

HERE are t W o
sides TO the char
acter OF Samson.
The one phase of
his life, if follow
ed into the partic-
uiars, would ad-
minister to I II e
grotesque and the
mirthful; but there
is a phase of his
character fraught