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Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1899-07-08
Not Usury.

The state supreme court has just haCd-
ed down an opinion that is of the great
est importance to all members of build
ing and loan associations. 1t settles
the oft mooted question whether such
associations have the right to receive
as interest on their loans more than the
legal rate fixed for ordinary loans. For
several years there has been much dis
cussion of this matter, many contending
that earnings by these associations in
excess of the IL per cent maximum in
terest rate constitutes usury, and conse-
quently released the debtor. The asso-
Citations on the other hand have con-
tended that they were mutual in their
operations and that consequently
these same earnings were distributed
among the shareholders. including those
who paid this excess of interest, the
increased rate could not be considered
usury. Had the former contention been
sustained all debtors of these associa.
tions in this state would haye been re-
leased and the associations must have
wound up their business in the state.
But the supreme court after full and
thorough hearing decided for the asso-
Citations and declared their manner of
doing business in this respect sound and
legal.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1899-07-08

A rumor is current that the fusionists
will nominate but two candidates for
the supreme bunch at their convention,
says a Pierre special of the 2nd inst.
The place they will leaye open will be
in the first district, where Judge Corson
is the republican nominee, and only
make nominations in the second and
third districts against Judge Haney
and Fuller. They are talking "a non
partisan bench" and by this move they
will go before the people with the plea
that by leaving the field clear for Judge
Corson they are carrying out that
theory. They will nominate Judge Ben
nett in the third district as a democrat,
and will endeayor to secure some more
popular populist in the second district
than Kennedy. of Canton, who is the
only open candidate in that district
Just who he will be is not yet deter
mined. They will then make a hot
canvass on non-partisan bench and
use the old machine railroad bogie
against Judges Fuller and Haney. They
hope by this method to obtain control
of majority of the bench, and believe
that the non.pariisan campaign will help
them in this move than anything else
they can raise.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1899-07-08
treatment for immense bodies of ore
have been found.

treatment for immense bodies Of ore
have been found.
In the report of the Mint for 1898, Dir
ector Roberts says: "There is the best
of reasons for believing that this in.
creased production is permanent, in the
sense of being probable for years. The
recent increase has come from discover
les in methods of reducing ores. The
known deposits ofthese ores, which for
merly defied treatment, but which must
now yield up their treasurers, give as
surance that the present rate of produc-
ton is not likely to soon decline. On
the other hand, gold production under
these conditions has. in great fields late
ly unknown, assumed the character of
staple manufacturing industry, and
capital is available for it in sums which
promise rnexampled development in
the future" No attempt is made to in
dicate the tremendous probabilities Of
this imitation. without precedent in
human experience, but it should be
noted that the United States is getting
it's share Of gold. Director Roberts
states the stock of gold in the United
States is estimated to have been on July
]. 1897, $696,0OO,oOO; on Nov. l, 1898,
$9l5,O0O,0O0, making the gain $22s, s,000,-
900 in sixteen months. This is gain
Of So 1885,, 900 a ek.-Mining and Scien-
tific Press.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1899-07-08
An Important Decision.

What generally known as the "liquor
cases demurrer" has been decided by
Judge Moore. Word was sent down
yesterday that the Judge had sustained
the demurrer interposed by R. L. Wal
lace, attorney for those who had been
indicted at the last term Of court for
alleged violation OF the liquor law. This
leaves matters in a peculiar shape.
According to the judges ruling we Of
the Sth circuit are now under prohibi-
ton law-or, rather, where the state
dispensary must step in and assume
control Of all liquor business. Nobody
can sell liquor at any time or at any place,
nor can any person drink liquor of any
kind in the house where it is purchased,
nor in any way except out of bottle.
This also raises fuss about license. II
the present law is unconstitutional, or
defective, then the license clause is quite
out of joint. The decision is Of wide
scope, and far reaching in it's effect. 1t
has been awaited with much interest all
over the Hills and probably the
state. Lawrence county dealers have
agreed to pay licenses, so the Record
understands, just as usual, but it will be
under a formal protest.-Sturgis Re-
cord.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1899-07-08

Henry Watterson in the Louisville
Courier-J Journal: Issues are never
made. They are born and grow. The
republican party may not be virtuous
party. 1t may be great hypocritical
party, but it is an ALFRED smart party.
1t sees an issue almost as quickly as it
sees an Office, and it has a way peculiar
to itself Of getting at that issue and that
office, and coming off smooth and smil-
ing, just as ifit never stole pig or told
lie. The democrats are either too
good or too foolish to profit by decep.
ton. They go smelling around and
smiling, and by the time they get ready
to gobble the morse is gone. They are
habitually out ofseason. Grover Cleve-
land knew how to beat the republicans
at their own game, and he did beat
them. He was Jim dandy for getting
there and was no slouch for Tipping his
jack at the opportu'.e moment. Grover
Cleveland Is not now in it, and sue
cessor, William Jennings Bryan has
failed to catch the idea or to get onto
the trick
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1899-07-08
Should Apply for Wood.

Fl. @. Hamaker, forest supervisor
while in Deadwood recently stated to a
Pioneer-Times reporter, that the dead
and down timber on the Black Hills
forest reserve is not to be given to the
inhabitants of towns and villages free,
but they will be required to pay a mini.
mum stumpage of fifteen cents cord for
it. He has called the attention of the
people of the reserve to this regulation
several times, but Notwithstanding that
he has not received single application
for wood from the residents of any of
the towns so far. 1t will require sixty
days for an application to be acted upon
and get back from the department, and
if the people of the Black Hills are not
careful they will be in the middle of a
big wood famine next winter. Wood
men should therefore make application
Immediately for what wood they intend
to dispose of this winter, so that it may
be given the attention of the authorities
before IL is too late.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1899-07-08

The republican state judicial conven-
ton at Redfed last week unanimously
renominated the three supreme court
judges-Corson, Fuller and Haney. The
convention was largely attended and
was characterized by intense enthusl-
asm and the utmost harmony. The re
solutions adopted endorse the policy of
the present republican administration
and reaffirm fidelity to the pledges
made by the republican party in the
platform adopted at the st. Louis con-
vention in 1896.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1899-07-08
Gold Production of the World.

The gold production for 1899 is esti-
mated at $340000,000. The returns for
the first four months of this year shows
that the ratio of increased production
continues and will add $50,000,0O0 to
the production of 1898, which was $780,
100000, bringing the 1899 production mp
to $340, 100000. The increase in Africa
alone, if maintained the rest Of the year,
will make the output of the country
$26, 100000 more than. it was in 1898.
The period of thirty years (ls6l-lS9O)
the average annual production IN the
world was very evenly maintained at
$4,000, 900, never running below $780,
900 600, nor above $l30,000,000. For
the seven years (lS93-1S99) the annual
average was double that, or $3.50 100000,
increased from $l57000,000 in 1893 to
$40, 100000 in 1899. Mint Director
Roberts estimated that in 1897, 25 per
cent. of the production went into manu-
factures and arts; rs per cent. of the
estimated production of 1899 at the
same ratio will supply for monetary
uses this year $255, 100000. This annual
production, simply maintained without
increase for nine years and added to
the actual addition made to the none
tary gold since 1893, will make the
monetary gold in the world 1907 double
what it was in 1893. The average
annual production for the l5O years
ending in 1850 was $13,666,000, and for
the following ten years $l33,OO0,0O0, or
ten TINES the old average. New fields
we're found then. Now new fields and
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1899-07-08
Persons troubled with dlarrhea will

Persons troubled with diarrhea will
be interested in the experience of Mr..
w. M. Bush, clerk of Hotel Dorrance,
Providence, R. l. He says: "For sew
eral years have been almost a constant
sufferer from diarrhea, the frequent
attacks completely prostrating me and
rendering me unfit for my duties at this
hotel. About two years ago travelling
salesman kindly gave me small bottle
of Chamberlain's Collie, Cholera and
Diarrh9a Remedy. Much to the sur.
prise and delight its effects were imme-
diate. Whenever l felt symptoms of the
disease 1 would fortify myself against
the attack with few doses of this valu-
able remedy. The result has been very
satisfactory and almost complete relief
from the affection" For sale by A. j..
Jones & Co., druggists.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1899-07-08

Commissioner Herman Of the general
land Office, has announced that no lands
taken up under the reservoir act can be
fenced, and that to take in l60 acres a
reservoir of more than / 100000 gallons
capacity must be built. This will stop
the wholesale entries.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1899-07-08
Kidney or Bladder Troubles.

II you suffer from kidney, bladder or urin-
ary troubles or from too frequent or scanty
urine, DIR. Fenner's Kidney and Backache
Cure is what you want. Bed-wetting by
children is speedily cured by one bottle Of
this powerful remedy. Testimonials are
disregarded, many people doubling the hon.
esty or sincerity OF them, We therefore avoid
giving any here, but furnish them in circular.
Get one of your dealer.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1899-07-08

1t is now given out that the last of the
volunteers in the PHILIPPINES will leave
Manila not later than the 10th ofSep-
tember. and it is expected that they will
all be away by the first.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1899-07-08

Unprecedented rainfall in southern
Texas during the past week has swollen
many Of the streams into rivers. Over
300 lives are reported lost, and the loss
of property is estimated at fifteen mil.
lion dollars.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1899-07-08

Thomas Rhoads, Centerfeld, o.,
writes: 81 suffered from piles seven or
eight years. No remedy gaye me relief
until DeWitt's Witch Hazel Salve, less
than box Of which permanently cured
me-" Soothing, healing, perfectly harm
less. Beware Of counterfeits. A. j.
Jones & Co.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1899-07-08

Gun-shot wounds and powder.burns,
cuts, bruises. sprains, wounds from rusty
nails, insect stings and ivy poisoning
quickly healed by DeWitt's Witch
Hazel Salve. Positively prevents blood
poisoning. Beware of counterfeits
DeWitts is safe and sure. A. j. Jones
e Co
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1899-07-08
N office.

Persons knowing themselves indebted
to the b. II. Lumber Co. or Odo Reder
will please call at their Office and settle
the same within the next thirty days.
All accounts not settled by that time
will be placed in the hands of an attor
ney for collection.
BLACK Hills LUMBER Co.,
ODo REDER, Genl Mgr.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1899-07-08

Imperfect digestion and assimilation
produce dlsordered conditions of the
system, which grow and are confirmed
by neglect. Herbine gives tone to the
stomach, and causes good digestion.
Price so cts. A. j. Jones & Co.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1899-07-08

David Williams. of Webster. s., D.,
has been appointed census supervisor
for the eastern district of South Da-
kota
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1899-07-08

The Bald Mountain News Fourth of
July edition came out in all the colors of
the rainbow.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1899-07-08

Governor Lee has appointed F. G..
King commissioner of insurance for
the term oftwo years commencing July
lst
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1899-07-08

The Nebraska and Utah volunteers
sailed from Manila for home July 1st.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1899-07-08
For Sale by A. J. Jones & GO.

II have used .Chamberlain's Cough
Remedy in my family for years and al
ways with good results" says Mr.. w. b.
Cooper of Ell Rio, Cal. "For small chill
dren we find it especially effective"
For sale by A. J. Jones & Co., druggists.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1899-07-08
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Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1899-07-08

7. d. Edwards has again assumed con.
troll of the Lead Tribune.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1899-07-08

You can buy the most for the money
at Garlock's.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-07-20
WISE WORDS.

The greatest remedy for anger is de-
iay.-Seneca.
Kindness out of season destroys au.
thority. -Saadi.
Avarice is the vice Of declining years.
George Bancroft.
Curiosity is one of the forms OF
feminine bravery.-Victor Hugo.
Behavior is a mirror in which every
one displays his image
The last pleasure in life is the sense
NJ discharging our duty.-Hazlitt.
They that will not be counseled can.
not be helped. enjamin Franklin.
If man is worth knowing at all he
is worth knowing well.-Alexande1
Smith.
Life is not so short, but that there
is always time enough for courtesy
Emerson.
Fine sense and exalted sense are not
half so useful as common sense
Alexander Pope,
He is rich or poor according to what
he is, not according to what he has
Henry Ward Beecher.
He that overvalues himself will un
dervaue others, and he that under.
values others will oppress them.-
johnson.
Adversely is sometimes hard upon q
man; but for one man who can stand
prosperity there are hundred that
will stand adverslty.-Carlyle.
No man is the wiser for his learn
ing. 1t may administer matter tc
work in, or objects to work upon; but
wit and wisdom are born with a man.
john Seldom.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-07-20
SOUTH AFRICAN HORSES.
Their Endurance Is Remarkable-sorry
Mays to Look At.

Their Endurance Is Rema xable-Sorry
Nags to Look At.
One of the first things that strike
the wanderer in the great expanses CT
the southern hemisphere is the
strength and endurance OF the horses,
SAYS South Africa. He notes that,
though to look at they are the sorrl-
est scrags he ever set eyes on, yet they
appear to be possessed of power or
getting over the ground that is little
short of miraculous, and so astonish-
ing in its persistence as to seem auto
matte. A striking instance came un-
der my notice only few days atter
landing in Cape Town, in 1868. was
sitting one Saturday afternoon On the
stoop of Parks hotel, which occupied
the corner of Adderley and Strand
streets, when a dust-covered horseman
stopped and dismounted. His horse
was taken to the stables, and in the
course of conversation in the bar l
learned that he was member OF the
legislative assembly for an up-country
district. There was no railway COM
munication with the interior in those
days. and he had ridden in from his
home, at Colesberg, in less than six
days, having started the previous Mon
day. Now, Colesberg is more than 800
miles from Cape Town, and the coun-
try is very rough going, much OF it
being heavy and other parts very
mountainous. No English-bred horse,
fed according to English methods,
could have accomplished such ride
as this, more especially when we con-
slider the temperature Of the Cape Col
ony. ! went to look at the animal on
which the journey had been performed
and found it to be little roam schim-
mel, barely fourteen hands, and ap-
parently as fresh as paint. Another
very remarkable ride that came under
my notice was performed by Boer
who lived few miles from Greytown,
in Natal His wife was taken ill., and
q particular medicine, not to be OBJ
tanned in Greytown, was imperative.
SO in the early hours of the night he
started for Maritzburg, fifty-fve miles
distant through an extremely hil,y
country, and was back on his farm in
sixteen hours. The remarkable thing
In this instance was that the Boer
weighed over seventeen stone. In my
own experience many instances of the
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-07-20

graves?" I asked. 1t was stupid
enough questien, but it was all that I
could think to ask. To my surprise
it abashed him. He felt an apparent
humiliation that he had left it posi-.
BILE for any man to enter Jackson
County and not know his name.
Turning on his heel, he went out.
My friend, the minister, got to-
gether group of people to walk with
us to our stopping place and protect
me in case of need. We passed the
ruflian, who was watching for us in
the shadow of the schoolhouse, and
his attitude and growing curse con.
vinced my friends that the precau.
tions were not unnecessary.
By the time Pal had taken one OF
two additional drinks, he appeared to
repent of having let me off so easily
and came galloping up to the log house
where we were entertained. 1 had
gone to bed, and was making some
mental calculations of the thickness oi
the walls when heard his voice.
My landlord went out TO the fence
and reasoned with him. Pal demanded
that "the preachers" should be brought
out. He wanted to see both of them
If we did not come out, he would come
in and fetch us out. And there wat
more talk of this sort, emphasized now
and then by the firing of bullet over
the house.
My host pleaded the law that govern
hospitality, and seem ed to be urging
my youth in extenuation of my con.
duct. Somewhat Modified, Pal at last
rode off, and as the light of the new
day was coming in, ceased to wonder
if he would return again and fer
asleep.
That was the last time I saw Pal
Seagraves; but I was told year age
that he has settled down into shift.
less farmer, and "rides on his raids nc
more" About three years since, his
nerve shaken and his aim less true,
he found himself with empty pistols
looking into the loaded barrel of re.
9olver in the hands of younger and
equally desperate man, and gained his
life by the hardest begging upon his
knees.
The stock in trade Of such a des.
perado is chiefly the fear which his
name excites. The power of his name
to frighten once broken, his poor,
sham courage oozes out, and he stands
confessed coward. 1 never knew a
rufhsn who had not in him some patent
elements of cowardice. The swagger.
ing and buster of the desperate rarely
go with true courage, which, as have
seen it, is almost uniformly modest
and at the root, moral
Now, they told me, "Anybody can
kick Pal Seagraves around" and
"When fight begins, and you see a
man going through the brush to where
he's tied his horse, and hi tting the
road right lively-that's Pal!"-
Youths Companion.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-07-20
Organization of Our Fighting Forces in
and Out of Action.

Previous to the outbreak of the
Spanish war the permanent military
establishment of the United States was
comprised in ten regiments of cavalry,
five regiments of artillery and twenty
five regiments of infantry, with their
necessary adjuncts Of the staff bureaus,
altogether aggregating 2,164 officers
and $4,000 enlisted men. BY law its en-
listed strength was limited to $4,000
men, not including some hundreds of
general service clerks, hospital attend
ants, etc. So that, with slight fluctua-
tions in the official personnel and these
subsidiary corps, the aggregate
strength Of the army had ranged for a
number of years around $4,000. In 1898
In the forty regiments of the line there
were 23,310 enlisted men, or an aver
age Of 610 in the cavalry regiments $40
in the artillery regiments and 521 in
the infantry regiments.
On April %, 1898, Congress passed
an act to provide for temporarily in
creasing the military establishments of
the country in time of war. Three days
later an act declaring war against
Spain was passed, reciting that war
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-07-20

over it knew that large bodies Of
troops would be required to preserve
order in Cuba, Porto Rico and the
Philippines, yet the law compelled a
reduction Of the army. Subsequently
the outbreak of the Filipinos added to
the gravity of the situation. The plan
adopted was to muster out the volun-
teers gradually, and depend in future
solely upon the regular army, which
the military authorities proposed to
Congress to have permanently in
creased to 100000 men.
To this there was strong opposition,
but what was known as the Hull re-
organization bill was passed by the
house in the last days of January.
Although 1t was called the Hull reor-
ganization bill 1t carried no changes
Of moment in the organization of the
army. 1t simply provided for it's per-
manent increase to 9S,763 officers and
enlisted men, for an increase of three
major generals and six brigadiers, five
regiments of infantry and two of cav
airy, and for "a corps of artillery"
dropping the regimental organization
in that arm. 1t also provided for a
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-07-20

wonderful staying powers of African
horses have occurred. To mention one:
In 1866 l had been appointed honora-
BILE secretary for the first athletic
sports held in the Umboti country of
Natal They were to be held in Grey
town on boxing day, which fell on a
Monday. All preparations, entries, ETC.,
were concluded early in December,
when l received an urgent request to
go to the Transvaal to look after a
friend who was lying very i'll in his
wagon with no attendants but a couple
of raw KafTlrs. l rode as hard as l
could, and found him among the KEEP
jes of the Drakenberg, between Lyden-
berg and Wakkersthoom, very bad with
fever, which he bad contracted some
where in the low country to the north
west l tended him for some days, un-
til he was clearly out of danger, and
then suddenly remembered that | had
to be in Greytown on Monday morn
ing. | was then sitting on the wagon
box, drinking my morning coffee, at G
a. m. Saturday morning, Grewtown
was 220 miles away, but | was at my
post there at 10 a. m. and in addition
took a second prize, both in the run
ming and jumping competitions.