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The Roanoke times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1897-1977, 1898-01-30

LOWNEY'S CANDY in sealed pack
ages only, You know there is none bet
ter. no matter what you pay. VAN
LEAR BROS. Druggists
The Roanoke times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1897-1977, 1898-01-30
POLICE COURT.

tie police court and for time things
were moving rather hr'skly. Two colored
men were assessed 50 each for Deiny dis
orderly and another colored man was
fined 80. so for fighting. A white man
for heing drunk and a negro for being
discr1erly were each fined $3.50. The
two white men who attempted to brain
each othsr on Friday with. hatchets came
up with their little tale OF woe and were
each fined IS, which they could not pay
aud they are now making up'' behind
the bars. The fines imposed amounted
to S27. 80, of which amount $40 was col.
lected and also back fine Of Sc
The Roanoke times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1897-1977, 1898-01-30
Silk Department Has Been
Kaifed also.

Our s1.25 and 81 Figured
Taffetas, Fable, Bengaline,
Roman Stripe and Two-Toned
Changeable Silks are offered
you for soc.
The 81. SO Scotch Plaid Silks
Just received, perfect beauties.
Think Of it-9Oc a yard.
New Shades in Plain Taffe-
tas during this February blast,
75c Il yard.
The Roanoke times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1897-1977, 1898-01-30
AT THE ACADEMY.

''Mary Stuart" in which Modjeska and
her company will appear at the Academy
of Music on Wednesday evening, February
2, is the greatest and most popular work
of the noted German dramatist and poet,
Schiller, who may be justly called the
Shakespeare of the Germans. 1t Was
translated and adapted especially for
Madam Modjeska by the Hon. Lewis
Wanefield, of London, one Of whose IN.
cestors was royal commissioner at the
execution Of the unhappy Mary Queen of
Scots and made a report of the affair to
Queen Elizabeth, which is in the British
archives to-day. Modjeska al played
the leading role in this play many hun
dreds of time aud her portrayal of it is
one of the most beautiful and affecting
exhibitions known to the current stage.
Mr.. Joseph Haworth, who will play Nor
timer, is an actor Of splendid yirility and
finish and has had training in d school
of Legitimate acting, enjoyed by very fe "
young actors. The rest of the company
is said TO be UP TO high standard, which
insures performance of great general
excellence.
We want to remind you that we are at
the bottom on cut prices. No one can
undersell us. We've got the stock and
it's al! new and we'll selected. VAN
LEAR BROS, Druggists.
The Roanoke times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1897-1977, 1898-01-30
Il. G. BARNES

''He Puts Up Prescriptions,
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The Roanoke times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1897-1977, 1898-01-30
$3.50.

Represents an elegant blue or black
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fit to perfection and will wear nicely.
The Roanoke times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1897-1977, 1898-01-30

The fabric in this coat was i'm por ted by
l.. Adler eros. &c Co.. Of Rochester, and
is soft, dull finish, blue and black; in
style it is single breasted, half box, full
back IL is superbly trimmed and tailored
and could not be duplicated to order for
loss than $4,000
The Roanoke times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1897-1977, 1898-01-30

This represents Isaac Carr g. Co. y
west of England triple milled Melton,
the best goods for service that were ever
purchased for an overooat and cannot se
duplicated TO order for less than $50. 90.
and then it would be no better than ours.
The Roanoke times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1897-1977, 1898-01-30
Rare Bargains in Our LINING
Department.

Midnight Taffeta Fast Black
Percaline, Sc yard, 36 inches
wide.
Black and Colored Silicias
and Percaline, extra wide, 1oc
q yard.
Black Back and Figured
Innings, this week 12ac a yard.
Gray, Black and Brown
Canvas, superior quality, Toe
yard.
silk Department Has Reen
The Roanoke times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1897-1977, 1898-01-30
$1,000.

Buys au elegant blue. or. black kersey:
French faced, satin lined and strictly a
high class garment. Original price was
$lS.C0
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1898-05-14

Timber used to grow" continued the
old man somewhat bitterly, ito be cut,
to burn, to build houses, and fences and
barns with, but now they tell us that
the only utility of pine tree is to pro-
duce rainfall and beautify the land
scapes."
"This rainfall notion is q mere brain
whim of some cracked scientist. If
forests make rain why aint Northern
Minnesota-a heavily wooded country
a moist region? It's not question of
trees, but one of altitude" and the
grizzled woodman looked defiantly in
the direction of Washington and false
science.
"They try to make us cut up the tree
tops and pile the brush-commit delib-
crate bankruptcy. in short The regu
lation is made to prevent the spread of
forest fires, but if it were ever enforced
it would feed the flames Every brush
pile would become new FAM maker,
while If left upon the ground scattered,
the twigs and branches would burn out
without damage. It's the brush piles
that fire and destroy the large trees"
1t seems to me that the saw-mill man
has some rights as we'll as the miner
and the stockman. The miner under
mines towns, pollutes streams and taints
the very air of heaven with the smelter.
fumes. We are expected to move, go
unwashed, and do our breathing in the
next township. The mining industry
demands it The stockman ranges his
herds over Uncle Sans fair green
prairies until they are sh,rn and black
ened wastes. Pure springs become
black and mud-holes. He cuts the
homesteaders wire fence, swallows up
his few head of gentle unbranded cows
in a laundering herd of long horned
steers, and absorbs the whole function
Of the courts in prosecuting cattle
thieves. His interest is to make and
keep the country a desert. Stealing
from the public domain! Bank rupting
posteritv Denuding the country
Drying up the streams, encroaching
upon common rights. Who's doing
most of it? And then, too, what be.
comes Of your beef and your bullion
1t goes to feed foreigners and fill the
purses Of non-residents. Who gets the
profits2 Nine.tenths of it 60 to the
stock kings and the shareholders.
The saw-mill makes homes, schools
and churches possible. Its product
stays in the region to render it habit
able. The saw mill is potent civilizer.
1t is cooperative industry in which
labor takes, as it should the lions share
1t levies no assessments, and declares
general dividend. In whom shall we
trust-the God of Nature or the Forest
ry Commission? In Maine and in
Michigan, the two great pine numbering
states Of the east, the cutting of the first
growth, has been followed by splendid
new forests of hardwood timber in
finitely more valuable than the pine.
In some of the older portions of the
Black Hills the areas cut over years ago
are already green with sturdy young
trees. My remedy for the evils that are
claimed to exis: is a stumpage paid TO
the government for the privilege Of
cutting timber. To be sure, the miner
pays no royalty and the stockman no
pasturage. but we saw-mill men are
simple and inextravapant in Gar habits
and perhaps can afford to be more
liberal with the government.
ALLEN RUEFIELD.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1898-05-14

The following communication devoted
to discussion Of the propriety of the
establishment of forestry reserves, is
given space in the CHRONICLE by reason
of the special local interest involved in
the subject treated:
CUSTER CRY, May 10, 1898.
EDITOR CHRONICLE The probability
that President Cleveland's proclama-
ton placing a considerable area of the
Black Hills region within a forestry
reserve, will receive the sanction of the
present administration is variously re
garded by residents of the Central Hills
The chief outcry against the original
Cleveland order came from the miners.
They declared that the gold of the
region was more important than the
timber. That rainfall could be dis
pensed with in prosperous mining
community, that Holy Terror dividends
we're better than purling brooks or land
scape. Let the country dry up, burn
up anything, rather than close II to the
miner" was the cry.
The people of the few towns included
within the proclaimed district were at
first inclined to regard the measure
somewhat as if it were proposition for
annexation to the Pine Ridge Agency.
They talked facetiously of "breech
clouts," and asked each other if they
had got their rations yet" With the
proposed notifications, however, and
the certainty that gold mining will not
be impeded, both the miners and towns
people regard the measure with more
favor. The interest now chiefly con
cerned is the Black Hills lumber man
or "saw.mill man." as he is called in this
region. There has been great change
in the fortunes Of the saw-mill man
since the days of 1867 when those
few mills in operation furnished the
placer miner with lumber for his sluice
boxes at rates varying from 500 to
5000 per thousand. For years past com.
mon pine lumber has teen sold on
board the cars at from $500 to 800.
There is no profit to the mill, and no
certainty of wages to the labor in these
figures. Both provisions and labor cost
too much. The distance from large
markets, the government regulation
against shipping lumber from the state
cut upon unpatented ground, and the
number of mills employed have brought
what was once a profitable business to
nought. Saw-milling and insolvency
have almost become synonyms, and the
saw mill order" is the wild cat" cur
rency Of the region. And yet a measure
which promises to put an end to his
lie struggles gives the saw-mill man
no joy. He is willing to die naturally,
but refuses to be "killed off,"
1T was a lot of those geologists and
professors that put Cleveland up to the
mischief" said the dean of the buzz saw
fraternity, Uncle Dan Bates of Hill City,
to the Bee correspondent. "He wanted
to do something grand-to benefit pos.
terity, and he only did something very
mean to harass and ruin the saw-mill
man"
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1898-05-14
Call for Mere Volunteers.

A Sioux Falls special to the Sioux
City Journal. under date of May 10th,
says: Col. Frost, commanding the First
regiment has issued call for more
volunteers to fill the places of those
rejected. Applications are being con-
tinually received by telegraph offering
men from different towns in the state,
but they invariably stipulate that at
least one commissioned officer must be
taken from those offered. All but a
dozen of the Huron men have declined
to enlist and have returned home be
cause the commissioned officers failed
to pass the physical examination. The
Pierre company of cowboy cavalry will
be here on Saturday morning and it is
expected that this and the Sioux Falls
company will start south on Monday.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1898-05-14

The effect of war upon the mining
industry will be discouraging for a time
says the Western Mining World mas
much as capital seldom seeks invest
ment in mining propositions during
hostilities, and thousands of miners and
prospectors will go to the front. Al
ready the soft-musced, parlorset heroes
who make war possibility, but who
never spatter their linen with the blood
of fallen foe, are looking for the sturdy
miner and ranchman to face the frowns
of fate in the reign OF the lead Mining
will suffer during the war period, while
some other lines of business will feel
the throb of a temporary prosperity.
Miners are men of action. They will
respond promptly to the call for volun-
teers. Their life is hazard and to
brave new dangers requires no new in
voice of courage. Braving death every
day the battlefield has no terrors to
bring the pallor to their faces or twang
their iron fibers with tremor.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1898-05-14
Press Mention.

The bill of fare at Camp Dewey today
consisted of two slices of bread, cup Of
coffee, potatoes, meat and one egg.
There are no tables set nor napkins fur
nished, but each man Of the company
lines up with his tin plate and passes
along in front of the cooks.-Press
Companies /, L and NJ, comprising the
Black Hills militia, arrived at 2 o'clock
this morning on special train. These
companies are in command of Captain
Denny, from Custer; Captain Gray,
from Spearfish and Captain Medbery, of
Rapid City. Altogether they are as fine
a body of men az can be found on earth.
They were marched to the X. P. and
Maccabees halls, where they were quar-
tered over night.-Press.
The way the young heroes are being
fed will be Of interest to all who have
friends or relatives in the national
guard. The culinary art as practiced by
the chief cooks and kettle wrestlers Of
the company messers has not yet
reached high state of perfection. The
stove, cooking range, Dutch oven, or
whateyer it is called, consists of hole
in the ground about six inches deep,
eighteen inches wide and four feet long.
Light brick walls are built lengthwse
on each side of this pit, eighteen inches
high, and laid across these walls are
strips of iron, upon which the kettles
and cooking utensils are placed, and un.
derneath which big fire is built. The
cook is an enlisted man detailed for the
duty. Sometimes company is fortu-
nate enough to have In the company a
man who has knowledge of cooking.
Such company is in luck, but the com.
pany that has not man who can boil
water without burning it is apt to likely
undergo some hardships in learning the
business. The food furnished is of good
quality, but the hearty appetites of the
recruits seem to demand a little more
than they get. There is fresh meat and
plenty of it if the boss of the mess is
onto his job. The right kind of mess
cook can get almost any kind of steal: or
roast for his company. Fresh bread Is
being served at the camp in thousands
of loaves each day, and there is no nee.
essity for having recourse to flap jacks
or hard tack. Kitchens for each com
pany have been erected at the south end
of each company quarters, and each of
these little houses is equipped with the
necessary furniture for getting up the
meals. The police regulations Of the
camp are excellent and for the benefit
of the uninitiated it may be explained
that policing camp, in military par
lance means keeping it clean. The
grounds are provided with water and
have sewerage systems. Orders have
been issued to discontinue the use of the
water from the spring on the camp
sround.-Sioux Falls Press.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1898-05-14

Somebody has taken the pains to
determine and publish the fact, that
Dewey, the hero Of the great naval
battle Of Manila bay, is republican.
This cuts no ice whatever. The war
now pending between the United States
and Spain is not being fought upon
party issues. 1t is being waged in the
interest of humanity, and it is enough
to say that Dewey is an American,
fighting for a principle advocated and
supported by all true Americans, and
any reference to his political affiliations
in connection with his brilliant naval
achievements can only be regarded as
being entirely improper and in exceed.
ing bad taste.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1898-05-14
Huron Company Rebels.

A Sioux Falls special Of May 9th says:
A sensational incident occurred at Camp
Dewey today, when Company II, of
Huron, decided unanimously to leaye
the regiment and go home with their
officers who had been rejected by the
examining surgeon of the government,
on account Of physical inefficiency.
Capt. Cooper and Lieuts. Sterre and
Stelle were the men rejected, and as
soon as this became known the entire
company revolted. Col. Frost ordered
the men to fall in, and then addressed
them, stating that the officers had failed
to meet the physical requirements and
that the decision OF the examining
board was final. He closed by assuring
the company that they might return
home if they choose, and asked those
who were determined upon this action
to step forward from the ranks. To a
man the company stepped forward.
The non.commissioned officers cut the
stripes and chevrons from their uni
forms and refused to be placated. Re-
Election changed the outlook materially,
and tonight manv of the men have de-
termined to remain. This result was
brought about largely by the decision OF
Gov Lee. who told delegation of the
company that if they would select their
officers he would commission them.
Capt. Cooper and Lieuts sterre and
Stelle did all in their power to persuade
the men to remain. Col. Frost was as.
sured by the men that they entertained
the highest regard for him, and he re-
ceived many compliments for the firm
ness and dignity with which he met the
difficulty.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1898-05-14

"The United States" says the Cleve-
land Plaindealer, Seems to take Is
naturally to water as a cat takes 20
cream. Six months ago we didn't know
a cruiser from gunboat, and now We
are nautical to the top notch. We talk
boats. We think boats. We have pict-
ures of boats all over our daily papers; !;
boats decorate our magazines, boats
cover our hill boards. We fight naval
battles with gravy boats and sail cracker
boats in wastes Of steamy soup. The
mere pigmies of the land, the crawling
infantry, the hoppity-kickity cavalry,
the trundling artillery, are for the
moment set aside it is the sailor lad,
with his rolling gait, the bully Of the
after deck, the captain in his coming
tower, who hold our hearts affection.
The gorgeous galaxy Of generals may
bedizen themselves as they will it is
the admiral on the bridge who catches
the admiring eye Of the adoring pub
IL,
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1898-05-14

A Port au Prince dispatch says Samp.
son, with nine war ships arrived at San
Juan, Porto Rico, on Thursday and com.
menced the bombardment OF the city,
The bsttleship Iowa fred the first shot
which took effect, the Indiana following
The fort replied feebly, but was soon
silenced. and almost Immediately re-
duced 10 ruins. Thousands Of the
population and the foreign consuls
sought refuge in the interior. Then be-
gan an attack on the land batteries, for.
tifcations, government buildings and
the palace of the governor. Cruisers
did effective work, and the Spanish
served their guns as long as there was
hope. Not an American ship was
harmed or an American wounded AT
latest accounts the city had not vet sur
rendered though completely at Samp-
sons mercy.
Late dispatches indicate the intention
on the part of Spain to make descent
upon the PHILIPPINE islands in force,
nine war ships now being made ready
to sail with view to overcoming
Dewey's fleet in Manila bay.
1t is stated that the entire policy OF
Spain has been changed, and that il is
the present intention to abandon Cuba
and Porto Rico and center the entire
strength Of their navy in the waters
surrounding the PHILIPPINE islands. AS
it will require forty days for the Spanish
to make the trip to Manila, there
will be plenty of time to reinforce
Dewey in the meantime, and place him
in position to meet with safety any
force the Spanish could bring against
him.
The first landing Of American troops
on Cuban soil was made on the llth
inst, five hundred soldiers being landed
about fifty miles from Havana, where
they were joined by strong force Of
insurgents. This is but nucleus of the
large force which is soon to follow
Reports coming from Madrid of a
naval engagement alleged to have oc-
Cured off Porto Rico between the
American and Spanish fleets are wholly
dscredited by the officials of the navy
department.
There is perfect reign of terror at
Madrid, where the entire force of the
governm ent is required to keep down
the constantly growing revolt. The
Carlists are exceedingly active, Don
Carlos having taken the initiative in
his move against the present dynasty.
He has already formed ministry
among the names of whom appears that
Of Gen. Weyler.
1t is announced that the Spanish
ministry are considering the subject Of
peace, and that some or tie members
favor a cessation of hostilities in the
hope that it may avert civil war.
The cruiser Charleston, loaded with
and supplies for Admiral
Dewey, sailed for the PHILIPPINE islands
from San Francisco on the llth inst
Press dispatches from Gibraltar state
that the Spanish torpedo boat, Destruc-
tor, while cruising in the Mediterranean
exploeed her boilers on the night Of
May 10th, and went down with the en-
tire crew of fifty-five nen.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1898-05-14

From the advice Uncle Sam IL receiv-
ing from European nations with refer
ence to the proper course to be pursued
in the matter Of the disposition Of the
PHILIPPINE Islands, 1t would appear that
the impression obtained abroad that we
had acquired something that the nation
was at a loss to know what TO do with.
The powers should at once dismiss the
erroneous impression under which they
are laboring, as they will doubtless
learn later on, that the PHILIPPINES is, in
no sense, that kind of an elephant.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1898-05-14
DeKay Bros. Sued for Fraud.

A suit for fraud was filed in the circuit
court, Waukegan, last Tuesday, by 3. A..
Dunn Il Sons, against DeKay Brothers,
editors of the Gazette Register, OF this
city. Mr.. Dunn alleges the damages to
be $25, 900, and has engaged Woodle Il
Arnold as his attorneys to prosecute the
suit, which will come up at the next
term of court in October. DeKay
Brothers are declared to have commit
ted wholesale fraud in misrepresenting
the value Of two newspaper plants in
South Dakota-one at Whitewood and
the other at Belle Fourche-which they
traded last September for the Waukegan
Register, then owned and edited by
Dunn & Sons. Both papers in South
Dakota were weeklies and are said to
have been almost worthless, notwith-
standing statements Of the owners to
the contrary. The DeKays, it is charged,
grossly misrepresented the circulation,
advertising patronage, standing and
everything usually reckoned in the
assets Of newspaper property.
b, A. Dunn is Rnown in Waukegan as
a man of integrity, and is highly esteem
ed here by all classes. The fact that he
would bring such a suit is regarded in
itself as strong evidence that his cause
is just one. Evidence of sensational
and surprising character is promised in
the bill of particulars, which will prob
ably be filed within ten days.-Wauke'
gan (Ill.) Democrat.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1898-05-14

The Sundance Gazette says: When q
man loves sin he goes down; when he
loves his wife he goes home when he
loves another mans wife he goes TO the
graveyard when he loves gambling he
goes broke, and when he loves a girl
they both 90 crazy.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1898-05-14

The Spaniard has not thus FAR, during
the present unpleasantness. demon
strated remarkable fighting qualities;
but the war dispatches recently sent out
from Madrid indicate veiy conclusively
that. as long distance liar, he is with
out peer
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1898-05-14

The Spanish fleets seem to fight shy
Of our naval squadrons. They are cyl.
IDENTIFY awaiting an opportunity to catch
our vessels singly. not particularly
caring to tackle a whole herd of pigs at
once
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1898-05-14

Tabler's Buckeye Pile Ointment re-
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heals. it cures chronic cases when surge
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Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1898-05-14

1t is reported, says the Mining Re.
view, that Richard Wheelock, of Harvey
City, one and half miles below the
town of Keystone, has a forty foot vein
of concentrating ore which will average
$40 to the ton in gold.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1898-05-14

The human machine starts but once
and stops but once. You can keep it
going longest and most regularly by
using DeWitt's Little Early RlserS, the
famous little pills for constipation and
all stomach and liver trouble. A. j.
Jones & Co.