Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1899-03-18

It warns the heart like sunshine,
cheers the soul like old wine, gives hope
for the future. blots out the past. That's
what Rocky Mountain Tea does. Ask
your druggist.
The Rapid City Journal very pertly
says: Some people say there isn't
any news in the paper That may be,
but some of those very same people
may thank their stars that reporters
don't tell all they know"
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I'll. r. Locke & Co., the photographers
from Deadwood, will open up a photo
graph gallery in Custer in a few days.
Good work or no pay is their motto.
They will only stay a short time. Call
and have your picture taken. /.
The state supreme court has granted !.
rehearing in the case of p. b. Mccarthy
against the Holy Terror Mining Com
pany. 1t will be remembered that
some time ago the supreme court reL-
dered a decision reversing the circuit
court of Pennington county in this case.
IL is stated that the Homestake Com
paDy Of Lead c~ontetnplates doing n
million dollars worth Of improvements
about the mines and mills this year,
says the Black Hills Mining Review, a
large mount Of the money being in
tended for sewering and increased wa
ter supply.
Israel Bower has ~relInquished the
Towne ranch on Willow Creek and has
rented what is known as the Richard
son ranch on French creek, east Of Gus
tel from the Harvey Peak Company.
He is at present engaged in erecting an
addition to the building, and expects to
haye it ready for occupancy about the
first Of April.
The Hay Creek coal mines in Wyom-
ing have temporarily suspended opera
tons, on account Of the company being
unable to secure sufficient concessions
from the other railroad companies to
justify putting the product Of its mines
on the market. The suspension Of work
Is said TO have thrown about a hundred
and twenty-five men out Of employ
ment.
In a recent letter from Manila receiv'
ed by the Journal there is an urgent APP
peal for reaGing matter. A slx-year-old
magazine has been known to sell there
for one dollar, and not because it was n
rare old copy, either, but because read
ing matter is so scarce there. Don't ne.
glect to mail a paper or something of
that sort to a soldier every week.-Rapid
Journal.
For frost bites, burns, indolent sores,
eczema, skin disease, and especially
Piles, DeWitt's Witch Hazel Salve
stands first and best. Look out for dis
honest people who try to initiate and
counterfeit 1t. It's their endorsement
of a good article. Worthless goods are
not initiated. Get DeWitt's Witch
Hazel Salve. A. j. Jones & Co.
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The Fitzpatrick Brothers have secured
a contract on the Union Pacific for
strengthening about forty-seven miles Of
track in western Wyoming, which is
said to be the largest job let by any rail
road company for a long time. 1t will
equal two hundred and fifty miles in
the amount of dirt to be moved. On
the forty-seyen miles it will be neces.
sary to move five million yards of earth.
w. r. Millham, of Mitch ell, S. d.,
general agent for Golden d Ballard of
Emmettsburg, Iowa, dealers in monu.
ments, marble, granite, etc, came in
from the northern Hills Tuesday. Mr..
NJ. has been confined TO his room at the
Kleemann House for several days dur
ing the week with an attack of neuralgia
in his face, but is now able to be up and
around. He expects to remain a few
days looking after the firms interests
here.
The Highland mine, one Of the asso.
ciated Homestake properties, has paid
a dividend Of 20 cents a share for the
month Of March, a~ggregating 100000,
and making a total up to the present
time of 1854, 7lS. The Homestake
dividend has been 90 cents a share
each month for the last year and a half
and the total paid in dividends 10y that
mine, including the dividend for Feb.
ruarv, 1899, (the March dividend not
having yet been a%nnounced) is $780,.
25O.
We are in receipt Of u neat pamphlet
sent out from the school of mines at
Rapid City. 1t is entitled, Notes on
the Geology and mineral deposits of a
portion Of the Southern Black Hills"
It's subject matter, is for the most part
a description, geologically and otherwise
of a small block of territory, embracing
the "Chilcoot" group of mines, about 8
miles east from Custer City. We under
stand that it will be the custom in the
future for the students of that much i'm
proved temple of learning, to make an
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