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Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1898-03-05
RAISED A CHECK
THAT DID NOT GO
A BungIing Piece of Work and the
Bank Began an lnves-
tigation.
OWNER OF CHECK DISAPPEARS
G. w. Abbott, of Sioux Falls, Or
canizing a Company To be-
velop Copper River
Mines.

Yankton, Feb. 2s.-A man who gave
his name as Johnson made an attempt
YESTERDAY at check raising here. 1t
was early in the morning when one of
the representatives of Hunting d Co.'s
elevator was called from his home TO
weigh a load of wheat. After weigh
ing the load johnson was given "A
check for $34 and some cents. Later
i'm the day "A man wearing a wolfskin
coat. bu,toned close and high, partial
ly conccaling his fece, presented a
check for S134. bearing the name of
johnson. at the Nankton National
bank. for payment. The check pre-
sented the appearance of having beer
trified with. and upon scrutinlzlng II
CLOSELY the bank officials were on
WINGED that something was wrong,
whereupon the elevator company was
called up over the telephone, TO assure
pay ment. Johnson, seeing tins,
stepped out of the bank, and though
Immediately followed by a bank oil
cial, he had disappeared completely,
and a thorough search by the police
failed to reveal his whereabouts. When
in the elevator Johnson displayed a
bel, of cartridges and two huge rcvol-
yerS. 1t is the supposition that he
stole the wheat i'm this neighborhood
and, not being satisfied with the price
the Dad brought him, e~ndeavored to
raise the amount. 1t was n bungling
piece of work, however.
G.. w. Abbott of Sioux Falls, who is
said to be the owner of valuable claims
in tle Copper river country, Alaska,
has been in this city in consultation
with several prominent Nankton men,
who intend in the nea future going
into that country. Mr.. Abbott is en-
detvoring to organize a company for
the purpose of developing the Copper
river mines.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1898-03-05
state Farmers Institute.

Sioux Falls. Feb. 2s.-The Farmers
Institute of South Dakota will meet in
Sioux Falls on next Wednesday. This
gathering will be of considerable in
terest to the people of the state, as
many matters of Importance in the
agricultural industry Of the common
wealth will he discussed by competent
speakers. The following program will
give an idea Of the character of the
conventions:
"Butter Making and Care of Cows"
Prof. T.. 4. Burnett.
seed Wheat and Subsoiling," Prof.
L. c. Chilcott.
stock Raising and Breeding" Prof.
l.. a. Burnett.
"Soil of the State and Soil Moisture"
Prof. L. c. Chilcott.
1.-THE Sugar Beet" illustrated lee
tur.l, Prof. James +. Shepard.
THE Agricultural College Gllu5-
trated), President lleston.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1898-03-05
SHE WON HALF A PROVINCE.
Capture OF sonora Rubin, n Strong
Supporter or Cuba's In
snroents

Havana, Feb. 23.-Senora Isabelle
Rubia, owner of many tobacco estates
in the eastern part of the island and
an active insurgent, has been captured
blythe Spanish in the province of Pr
mar del Rio and is now in the hospital.
At the time of the Maceo incursion she
induced half the province to join the
insurgent cause. She accompanied one
of the original Maceo expeditions to
Cuba, then left the island and after a
time returned with IN expedition from
Key West.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1898-03-05

English society may have its faults,
but one thing can be said in its favor.
The man who has spent more time in
storing his mind is more welcome
than one who has stored nothing but
his hank vault.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1898-03-05

Woman generally passes through
three stages-onc when she beheVeS
her husband couldn't love any n but
her, one when she believes he is in
love with every woman he looks at
and one when She doesn't care which
IF the two is true.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1898-03-05
A HOmb f.xulOtled.

Montpelier, France, Feb. GA bomb
was exploded at the residence of Mes.
Sine, the former president OF the cham
Der of commerce. There was serious
damage, but no loss of life. Three 9th.
er bombs were found.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1898-03-05
FRANCE HASN'T SAID SHE'D HELP
Thinks Past Associations Should
Cause Differences to BE Settled
on Intellectual Basis.

Paris, Feb. 23.-The New York Jour
nails correspondent last night in
formed NJ. H~anatouX, the French min
lister of foreign affairs, that il was
openly charged in America that in
case of war between the United States
and Spain, France would take the field
in support of Spain. NJ. HanatouX
made the following impressive and au-
thoritiye reply: The French govern
ment has o contemplated the proba-
bility of war between the United States
and Spain, therefore the statement
that France will take the field against
America is absurd. / prefer to think
that the memory of Columbus, Wash
ington and Lafayette are sufficiently
cntwined to make the three nations
settle the present or prospective differ
ences upon an intellectual basis
Are Apprehensive.
Washington, ID. c., Feb. 23.--Al-
though today is a national holiday and
the departments will be closed, the
clerks Of the war and navy depart
ments have been instructed not TO 60
beyond call. This is a measure that III
dicates the apprehension Of trouble
pervading the administration circles.
This was the first real intimation
the clerks had that the government
regarded the situation critical, or at
least is likely to become so inside of
t~wenty-four hours.
At the navy department yesterday
the officials were studying with much
care and in detail a chart of Havana
harbor. The knowledge gained will
be utilized in the secret order TO be
s4aAt-+4rthA 1Meaifs"-rrr1ravaffa. N
Much quiet activity has prevailed the
war department during the day. a
scheme has been worked out in every
detail for transferring 100000 men
from New York to Key West within
seven days. This transfer, as figured
out. is TO be six transports under con-
voy of men of war. The plan was
adopted in preference 10 moving so
vast an army Of men by rail, as it was
believed it could be done more safely
and quickly.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1898-03-05

The Winnebago Indians in Niscon-
sin chose Il new chief recently and he
IS Thomas Roddy. a young Hibernian.
His father is Patrick Roddy an Indian
Grader. who came from Limerick. An
Irish Indian chief is something Of a
ppHa1ty
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1898-03-05
Saws IL Was an Accident.

New York, Feb. GA Herald's Mad
rid special says: The Spanish admiral
at Havana telegraphs that the Spanish
investigation into the Maine disaster
made by divers shows il to have been
the result of an accident.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1898-03-05
IN MEMORY OF The NAMES DEAD
Solemn Requiem Mass Was Cele-
brated at the Cathedral in
CIpyoian6 Ohio

Cleveland, Feb. 23.-By direction OF
Bishop Horstmann, solemn requiem
mass was celebrated at ST. Joseph's
cathedral in memory of the dead of the
battleship Maine. The cathedral was
deliberately draped in mourning.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1898-03-05

Mrs. Ernestine hetoch Of Clinton, Ia,
who was gully of the double crime of
killing her husband and of spelling the
preserves with which she poisoned IN,
was let off with life Imprisonment in
che ~penitentiary.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1898-03-05

w. S. Bcekman describes in Popular
science News a sapphire weighing nine
sarats, which contains a bubble that
appears and disappears with changes
Vt temperature. IL bell yes that Il cav
ty in the gem incloses a quantity Of
.arbonic acid gas under great pres,
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1898-03-05
m Signed.

New York, Feb. 22.-The Merritt and
Chapman Derrick and Wrecking COM
pany has signed a contract with the
government to raise the battleship
Maine. Work will begin as soon as
pocsible
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1898-03-05

One Baptist congregation in Missou-
ri has found use for a preacher who
left another Baptist congregation be-
cause a woman was received into the
church who had been immersed, but
by a minister who had not been I'M
mersed.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1898-03-05

The Saltwater. Mimi, Mirror has
suspended publication after Il prosper
gus career of a dozen years. II was
published in the state pcnitcntiarY and
the suspension was unavoidable be-
cause there are no printers stop
ping there at present.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1898-03-05

Some physicians at Bellevue hospital
New York, regard as n great curiosity
a woman patient who is unable to stop
talking. They are very young physi-
clans with a small experience in the
wide, wide world.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1898-03-05

Berlin Feb. 22.-It is announced that
the Chinese loan of $50, ZOO, 900 has been
arranged with the Hong Kong and
Shanghai banks, and the London and
German-Asiatic bank.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1898-03-05

S~anctifcation meetings in a certain
town in North Carolina are causing in.
sanity among the attendants. When
persons assimilate the idea that they
cannot commit sin they have not far
IN 90 10 become crazy.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1898-03-05
A Bank

Fort Dodge, Feb. 22.--The safe of
the Thor Savings bank, at Thor, Ia,
c. J. Lund cashier, was blown up last
night. 1t ir not known how much
money was secured, but probably
81, 900 or $4,000.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1898-03-05

The circulating suicide is an Indiana
idea. \ young man, the young lady he
loved and the mother Of the young
lady have followed one another TO the
grave through self destruction in
RriphtwOod
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1898-03-05

A vegetable party would not be AZ
appropriate in Kansas City ms Il meat
party. Of course there are market gar
dens in the vicinity of the town, but
they are not as important as the pack
ing houses.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1898-03-05

A physician in Mobile, Ala, is proud
of the distinction of having had at
once four patients under his charge
whose aggregate ages amounted to 34l
wears. One is rs, another So, another
IS and the fourth 50 years old.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1898-03-05

The army elephants in India are fed
on rice, like Cinnamon. But the diff
ference between an elephant and a Chi.
m Is that the elephant wears his
cue in front instead of behind.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1898-03-05

Instead of going home to die whcr
she was released from the penitentiar,
rs she agreed to do, Minnie Williams
an Illinois girl, went TO New Orleans
and is locked up for a prison oifense
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1898-03-05

That some Kansas restaurants are
than others seems to be proven
by the fact that a Topeka man was re.
Gently found dead at the door of 9
lunch room at Lawrence.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1898-03-05

The Rev. S%topford w. Brooke has
just resigned the pastorate of the First
church of Boston because he thinks
that n p~astorate of eleven years is long
enough these days for both pastor and
~peOp1e.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1898-03-05

Havana, Feb. 22.-After a call on
Captain General Blanco and Admiral
Manterola this morning the United
States court of inquiry into the loss of
the Maine resumed its sessions.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1898-03-05

Leaders Of New York society have is
sued this edict: NO smoking rooms at
dances" The men WOuld gamer IN
son Tor tnc euIcr, ana rnus upPrlVe tne
ladies of partners in the dances.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1898-03-05

kansas City," says the Minneapolis
Journal, lis going to have a $7b.O4
smoke house. No wonder the ham eat.
ers arp getting numerous in the South,
west"
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1898-03-05

There is n foolish man i'm Chicago
who has no better appreciation of saueT
kraut than to throw dishes full of it
at his mother-in-law.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1898-03-05
To Re Held in Sioux Falls.

Sioux Falls, Feb. 2S.-The people of
this city are rejoicing in the success of
the Business Mems league in securing
for Sioux Falls in 1899 the national
creamery and buttermakers' conven-
ton, which has been in annual session
at Topeka, Kas., the present week.
South Dakota has been making won
derful developments in the butter
making industry the past few years,
and the holding of the next national
convention of buttermakers within her
borders will give the industry quite an
impetus.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1898-03-05

About ten tons of pennies are gath
cred every three weeks from the pen
ny-in-the-slot" gas meters of London
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1898-03-05
Afraid of HOG Cholera.

Huron, Feb. 2s.-Farmers in this To-
cality are somewhat uneasy lest hog
IL tf
some o. the eastern counties. gets into
swine mp this way. The hog industry
has been very profitable to Beadle
county farmers, and the business of
raising hogs is getting well estab-
lished, but should cholera make its APP
pearance the number of hogs will be
greatly diminished and the industry
seriously crippled. There is really nc
way of preventing the spread of the
disease except as measures are adopted
by individual farmers, the bill which
passed both houses of the last legisla-
ture providing for the suppression and
preventing the spread of hog cholera,
was vetoed by the governor. Careful
watch is being kept by owners of
swine to ascertain at the earliest mo-
ment possible the appearance of the
disease, and in this way, and by judi
cious feeding, they hope 10 prevent
loss. Thousands of dollars have gone
into the pockets of farmers in this
vicinity the present season by the sale
of hogs, and it is not surprising that
they are anxious to prevent this ource
of revenue from being cut off.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1898-03-05

The prohibition town Of Portland.
Me-. uses 476. 600 worth Of liqua% every
year for @mcdicinal aud mechanical pur-
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1898-03-05
Zoia's Trial.

Paris, Feb. 22.--Zola's counsel con-
tinued his address today in behalf Of
the prisoner.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1898-03-05
A JAPANESE STORY.
Told by n Native of Japan to an Audiences
In Rochester.

noon Yestaso Okano, a Japanese, told
the following story to a large audience,
says the Rochester Post Express:
"Once upon a time there lived in a
little hamlet in Japan n young couple.
They had one child, q beautiful little
girl. whom both loved very dearly. 1t
came to pass while the child was still a
baby girl that the father was obliged to
take a long journey TO the far-distant
city. 1t was too far for him to take his
wife and child, so he left them at home
and travelled alone.
"ln that great city he saw many new
things which, having lived in the peace
ful little hamlet up among the noun
tains all his life, he had never seen be-
fore. He desired to take home 10 his
wife some Of these new things which
seemed 10 him so wonderful. And the
most wonderful gift he could take. it
seemed to him. was a mirror. He wished
to take home to his wife the pleasure aud
surprise he had experienced when he
hrst looked into a mirror. So he took
one home TO mis- wife.
when he arrived home he gave the
present to his wife and for the first time
she looked into a mirror. What do you
seeP' her husband asked. She replied:
i declare! see a very pretty m
She wears her hair just as l do mine
and she smiles aud moves her lips as il
she were talking TO me- Her husband
told her that the mirror was a present
for her and he hoped she would Use it
every day. But the wife thought it
far too beautiful and rare and costly a
gift to use every day; so she put it
carefully away aud never spoke about
1t to the little daughter. who grew more
beautiful and MORE like her mother
every day.
by and by a great misfortune fell
upon that little household. The wife
and mother fell sick and it was soou
evident that she must die. As she lay
upon her deathbed she called her little
daughter to her and told her that shs
was gong to lose her mother forever.
She could point to no future life after
death. in which they should be reunited.
But in the love and simplicity Of her
heart she did the best she could; she told
hor little daughter about the wonderful
mirror. After l am dead, she said.
take down that box and look into thu
mirror that it contains. There you will
see my face; and l want you to look into
the mirror every day that you may
never forget your mother and that you
may grow like me. more and more every
day.
so the mother died. The little girl
did as she had been told and in the FOR
derful mirror she thought she saw her
mothers face, young and beautiful, not
as she had seen her, pale aud i'll as she
lay dying, hut fair and fresh as she had
looked before the fatal illuess. And
the little girl looked into the mirror
every day and thought of her mother
and her many lovely ways. and SO II
came about that she grew to be more
aud more like her mother as the years
went by"
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1898-03-05

The fashionable quarter of Sydney
bears the beautiful name of WoolloomI
moolloo.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1898-03-05

Yankton, Feb. 2S.-The people OF
Gayville will send q carload of shelled
corn, secured as contributions from
the farmers In that neighborhood, to
the suffering Cubans.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1898-03-05
Caused Mourning in Huron.

Huron, Feb. 2s.-News of the death
of Thomas III. Campbell of this city in
Chicago Thursday evening was re-
ceived here yesterday with great sur
prise and deep regret. j. w. Campbell.
brother of deceased, left here for Chi
cago Thursday. The deceased was for
four years prior TO the LIST of Last jan
uary president of the First National
bank of this city, but resigned and
was succeeded by his brother, j. w.
Campbell. A short time ago Mr.. Camp
bell returned from the south and on
reaching Chicago was stricken with
pneumonia, which resulted in his
death.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1898-03-05

Sioux Falls. Feb. 2s.-Anna Russell,
the young girl recovered from the In
dams, and now Mt the children's home
in this city, has been satisfactorily
identified by a birthmark on her left
shoulder, and she will be taken home
by Mr.. and Mrs. John Trenton, her pa
rents, who came here from the North.
west Territory a few days ago.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1898-03-05
Capture Of n Supposed Murderer

DeadWOod, Feb 2S.-A cOIOred man
was arrested yesterday at Arvada,
Mont, resembling in every respect
William Moore. the negro murderer of
Frank Staley, at Englewood, last sum-
mer. Moore escaped with the Belle
Fourche bank robbers from the county
Jail.
Sheriff Plunkett will return from
Sioux Falls today with Smith, alias
Finch, arrested for rustling two car
loads of cattle from Colonel L. II. Stone
of this city. The sheriff will leave inn
mediateiy to identity Moore. There
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1898-03-05

She-I-I--think / like you, Mr..
Trotter. But l cannot marry and leave
my twin sister alone. Wait until she Is
engaged. Ho-Yes- but er--that's
just what she said when l proposed u
her. Harlem Life.
Chesney--Women would never b
able to vote seriously. RAdbourn-
Why notp Chcsney - Because they
would want to 90 round aud get SAM
pies Of the candidates before making up
thsir minda -Haricn Liza
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1898-03-05

june, with its roses and lilies, passed on.
the laburnums had all fallen, the lilies had
vanished, and still the state OF affairs at Oar
rell Court remained doubtful. Pauline, In
many Of those respects In which her uncle
would faLH lfCye nm her clnueod remained
New Iberia enterprise. (New Iberia, La.) 1885-1902, 1898-11-26
THE PUREST ENGLISH.

A copy Of the following letter of
Abraham Lincoln, written to a Mrs.
Bixby, of Boston, has been en-
crossed, framed and hung in one of
the Oxford University (England)
halls, as "a specimen Of the purest
English and most elegant diction
extant:"
DEAR MADAME: | have been
shown in the files of the War De-
partment statement of the Adju-
tant General Of Massachusetts, that
you are the mother Of FIVE sons who
have died gloriously on the field of
battle. | feel how weak and fruit
less must be any words of mine
which should attempt to beguile
you from the grief of loss so over
whelming. But ! cannot refrain
from rendering to you the conso-
lation that may be found in the
thanks Of the Republic they died to
save. ! pray that our heavenly
Father may assuage the anguish Of
your bereavement, and leave You
only the cherished memory of the
loved and lost, and the solemn pride
that must be yours to have laid SO
costly sacrifice upon the altar Of
freedom.
Very sincerely and respectfully,
ABRAHAM LINCOLN.
New Iberia enterprise. (New Iberia, La.) 1885-1902, 1898-11-26
"CONI;ISCATiON.'

Horny George, whilo expressly stating
that it was not necessary to couGscat,
land did undoubtedly propose to "conhs.
cato rent. This uso of the word econ
hscation' is, IN my jud"ment to he re-
grottcd, because it has been the chict
stumbling block in the minds of cousoic len
tious mon to the acceptance of the general
doctrine OF the Single Tax. 1t has very
naturally led most readers to believe that
Mr. George proposed to punish land own
ing rs if il were crlmc. This impression
has hcen confirmed by other passages in
Mr.. Georges writings. in which he spoke
of private property in land ~ n gigantic
robbery. The miSapprchcnsion thus aris
ing is due to the extreme accuracy with
which Mr.. George endoavorcd to express
ideas which could not easily he expressed
in familiar words, and To his using many
words, in u strictly scientific sense, in
accoruanco with their original and proper
meaning, regardless of the prcvorson OF
that meaning which had takon place in
popular usnge. There ia no better exam
Pile of this than In his uso of these tw,
words .'couIiscato rent" In the general
public mind "conhscation means n
form of punishment for crime especially
for treason and smuggling. In common
usage, "ront' means tho annual price
paid for the use of houses and improve
ments upon land, quite ms much ~ for the
use of the land itself. But the scientific.
original and only strictly proper meaning
the verb "to coutiiscnte' IL merely "to
take into the public treasury - and the
only scientific and strictly proper meaning
of the word rent is tho price paid for
the privilege of using land, irrespective Of
buildings or other visible improvements.
Mr.. George explained, once for all that he
used the word "rcnt' in this sense, and
in this only. And, although he did not
make the explanation, it is none the less
n fact that he used the word "confsea-
ton only in the sense Of taking into the
public treasury, which il its precise moan
ing. Within that meaning, every tax is
conliscation. - Thomas q. Shearmdn. IN
Sclf CHiinre.