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Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1900-10-06
GEEsLiN TOOK $4,000.
Missing Grain buyer Had That
Amount OF Money.

Aberdeen, S. D., Oct. al. +. Gees
lin, the James station grain buyer
who disappeared a week ago, has not
been heard from. A thorough investi
CATION Of his accounts shows he car
ried away with him about $4,000. Oh
this amount the elevator company will
only lose 81 200, and a draft for that
amofnt las already been turned over
to it by the surety comrarv. in which
he was bonded.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1900-10-06

"Pillow lace is lace made on a pill
low, which is a round or oval board,
forming the base of a hard cushion.
Over this is laid n piece Of parch-
ment in which holes have been
pricked 10 indicate the pattern of the
lace to be made. Through each hole
a pin is stuck into the cushion, and
thread, held on bobbins, is twisted
and crossed among the pins to form
the lace.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1900-10-06

The village black oh has ever
been n person Of note. There is u
blacksmith in Gardiner, Me-, who has
not lost a days work from sickness
since he began his apprenticeship,
nearly u third Of a century ago. If
he sharpens duh plows and shoes
fractions horses, how very tired he
must be.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1900-10-06

Mckinley did not bring about the
abundant harvests of the year. But the
Republican tariff set the mills going,
doubled the demand for food products
and raised the farmers prices to the
present prosperity level.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1900-10-06

IL Is said that the japanese news
paper reporter has reduced the inter-
viewing branch of his profession TO a
science. He wastes no time over
pleasant Introductory remarks when
assigned TO interview a foreigner
arriving in japan, but proceeds at
once TO catechise the victim, begin
ming with questions as to the latter's
age, place Of birth, etc, and gradually
wringing from him the whole story OF
his life. The final question, according
70 "A recently returned traveller, who
is quoted by the Washington Star, Is
generally something like this: If
anything of interest has ever befallen
you upon your travels at home or
abroad, please give me full infor-
nation now"
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1900-10-06

Mother" Mary Jones, Queen of
the Mines and the idol of the miners,
occupies n unique place in the world
of labor. This kind hearted, philan-
thropic woman is so loved by the 49,
900 delivers of the coal mines now on
"a strike in the anthracite regions that
with them her word is tantamount to
law. Mrs. Jones is So years old, sill
yer haired and beautiful. Her voice
has been eloquent i'm behalf of the
workers, and her appeals have won
unstinted sympathy for miners. She
lives nj Wilkesbarre Pa,
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1900-10-06

In order to test the assertion that
TX ner cent Of the drummers are for
prvan this year." c. 8. Brownwell OF
he Brownwell H~ardwarde Co. OF Bath
n. y, kept a record of the political
v,ews of the drummers who called at
his store from July 18th until September
Ist The vote shows: Mckinley, sc;
hryan. 3; Prohibition. 2; on the fence,
}; total. 70.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1900-10-06

OF all the late duke of ArgylTs
daughters, only one married a man OF
title-Lady Edith, who is now Ouch.
ess of Northumberland. Four married
plain country gentlemen, one is wife
of the bishop of Peterborough, and
Lady Victoria is unmarried.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1900-10-06

Two different styles of "escalators,"
or moving stairways, carrying pas
sengers up to the level OF the l. roads,
are under practical test in New York.
One, which will accommodate 5000
passengers an hour, looks like an ordi-
nary fight of stairs. Three passen-
gers stand on each step and move at
the rate of seventy feet "A minute. At
the top the steps flatten out gently,
and the passenger steps easily TO the
platform. On the other contrivance
the passenger stands on rubber-cov-
cred cle6ts laid on Stats, and is con-
veyed upward at a speed of eighty
five feet n minute.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1900-10-06
SENATOR PETTIGREW'S
RECORD DISSECTED

His challenge to the World will be met at every p~oint--It will
not do for him to plead the baby act now--How his present
allies set the pace In abuse Of him six years go--Unanswer-
able exposure of Pettigrew's Justification on the record on
the free homes bill. Senators Nelson, Allison and Plat nail
him TO the cross,
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1900-10-06
BLACK HILLS COLLISION.
Wreck Caused by n Conflict 81
Train Orders.

Deadwood, S. d., Oct. q
A collision occurred between the
Spearfsh passenger train and a local
freight on the Burlington railroad be-
tween Puma and Kirk. The freight
engine and two ars were badly brok-
en- and derailed. L. N. Hansen OF Min
neapolis, on the Spearfsh train, re-
ceived bad bruises. A conflict of train
order swas the cause of the wreck.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1900-10-06

'Oh, how full of briers is this work
ingday world" says Shakespeare.
True, but il there were no briers in
the world where would the sweet
brierwood pipes come from?
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1900-10-06

The island of Guam Is shaped like
the sole of a shoe, and has presume
bly, a total area Of about $50 square
miles, although il has never been sur
veyed. The narrowest part has a di-
ameter of seven miles, and il is about
fifteen miles in length. There are a
few lepers in the island. but nobody
pays any particular attention to them,
and they appear TO do no harm. The
water there Is not good to drink, but
II is not missed. for when anybody
is thirsty n native climbs a tree and
throws down n cocoanut, the milk OF
which is a refreshing beverage.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1900-10-06

Nashville, Tenn, is another one of the
cities that is daily crying out for a new
census md will not be comforted because
the people are not there by Uncle Sans
peating and never goes behind the re-
turns.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1900-10-06

The Hon. Tom L. Johnson, million
aire, has returned from Europe and is
prepared to renew his attack upon plu-
tocracy.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1900-10-06

Cleveland Plain Dealer: The Japs
seem to have made some wonderful
charges"
"Yes. 1 paid Sc. 90 for that Satsuma
teapot"
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1900-10-06

The best farce comedy Of the season
is the talk OF purity in politics by Mr..
Bryan, the expenses Of whose cam
paign are being paid by Mr.. Croker Of
New York
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1900-10-06

Every woman likes to see a mans
innermost heart laid bare, and yet
makes a fuss when he goes around
without a coat.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1900-10-06

If the report is tru that Dom Paul
has reached Jigsupfontain" perhaps
he realizes that the war is over and
the jig is up.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1900-10-06
VI, E, Kidd, the Populist leader, says

V. E. Kidd, the Populist leader, says
in the Ruralist:
King Humbert of Italy, was assassi
mated on Saturday ct Milan, Italy. He
was shot three times by an anarchist,
who is said to have gone from Pater-
son. N. j. There will be little grief
outside Humbert's own class In Europe
and the imperialist snobs in this coun-
try
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1900-10-06

There are in Great Britain 5000 the
aters and music halls, giving employ
ment to $4,000 persons.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1900-10-06

When u man gets up in the middle
of the night he doesn't strike q light
half as easily as he strikes his shins.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1900-10-06

We are hearing very little about
imperialism these days. The bogie
doesn't seem to scare.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1900-10-06
CUSTER CHRONICLE
JOSEPH KUBLER, PUBLISHER
Philadelphia Record: .Now that

Philadelphia Record: "Now that
people are moving back TO town, /
shall soon have my hands full with
malaria patients" said a physician
who has a large practice among fash
ionable folk. They think they get it
into their systems while they are
away during the summer, but IL the
truth were known most OF the cases
are contracted after the return to the
city. This is due to the fact that few
families take the precaution to give
their houses a thorough airing before
they move Into them. No house that
has been shut up tight for two or
three months is fit for occupancy at
once The lack of ventilation and
the unavoidable presence of eve gas
from the drainage form an at
mosphere that is not fit TO breathe"
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1900-10-06
absolute refutatlon Of Mr.. pettisrew's

absolute refutation Of Mr.. Pettisrew's
clatmi
United States Senate, Committee on
Appropriations, Dubuque, Ia, August
goth, 1900.-Hon. Chas. H.. Burke. care
of Pierce Hotel, Yankton, 5. ID. My
Dear Mr.. Burkes I have yours of yes
terday relating to the consideration OF
the Free Homes Bill In the senate.
I certainly had no such conversation
with Mr.. Pettigrew as contained In
your letter. / only know that n
Nelson had charge Of the bill. and in
asmuch as l had charge of the appro-
priation bills, he two or three times,
asked me when IL would be conven-
tent for him to call the bill up In the
senate without interfering with appro-
priation bills. I stated to him that at
any time when an appropriation bill was
not under consideration he could call
1t up, and I had no doubt of Its pass
ing without objection, as knew OF no
| objection to the passage OF the bill Ia
the senate.
1t was fully understood in the sem
ate, certainly on the Republican side,
that when the bill vas called up 1t
was to be passed by unanimous con-
sent. / certainly could have given Mr..
Pettigrew no impression that | would
oppose the bill as | had voted for 1t on
every occasion before.
have no distinct recollection as TO
whether I was present at the actual
moment of the passage OF the bill, or
not, but infer that l was from the fact
that II came up Immediately after the
passage of the naval appropriation
1 El1l 1,tk AA.Na A.. "a L. sIa Ahnnn tnfu q M
objection on the Republican side OF the
senate from any quarter to the pas
sage OF the bill, and / had no objection,
and made none. This Is not only
shown by the Record, but Is clear from
the fact that an understanding was had
that this bill was to ONE up at a con-
venient time by unanimous consent
and be disposed Of.
I do o understand why Mr.. Petit
grew should go out Of his way TO make
1t appear that in a private converse
tion | had expressed an intention to
oppose the bill. Certainly no CONVEX
Hation was ever held from which such
inference could be made. Very truly
yours, w. b. Allison.
CLINCHED BY SENATOR PLATT,
Senate Of the United States, Commit
tee on relations with Cuba, Wash
ington, ID. @.
Washington, Conn, Sept. Z, 1900
Hon. Chas. II. Burke, Sioux Falls, s
D.-Dear Sir. | have your favor OF
August 29th. Senator Pettigrew is
mistaken II he says that I was In
Washington on the day that the free
home bill passed. | left Washington for
Connecticut on May 18th, and return
cd Tuesday evening, May 18th. The
bill passed, as | see by the Record. on
Monday, May l4th. | was not In the
Senate on Monday or on Tuesday, and
consequently could have had no such
conversation with Senator Pettigrew
as you say that he alleges. Yours
truly, q. II. Platt.
In closing this same speech at Ar
mour, Pettigrew said!
IF they catch me in falsehood In
any speech l make, I will retire
from the contest"
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1900-10-06
HARPSHOOTING


The commercial travellers Of the
country were not so favorably Impress
ed with the last Democratic admins
tration as to demand an encore.
Mr.. Bryan declares the farmers can
not be deceived by reports OF prosper
ity. No, indeed; they know the real
thing when they experience 1t.
| do not share in the apprehension
felt by macy as to the danger OF gov
ernments being weakened or destroyed
by reason Of their extension Of terri
~tory.-Ulysses s. Grant.
Not a single nation disputes u pos
session of the Philippines. The only
organized opposition to the consumma-
ton of the Paris treaty comes from Ag-
uinaldo and the Democratic party.
In order to maintain a semblance or
consistency Mr.. Bryan Is now COM
pelled TO admit that he was insincere
when he advised the ratification of the
Paris treaty.
Jerry Simpson will give the Kansas
people one more opportunity to send
him to congress-. The trouble with
Jerry is that he and the good times
don't match.
The Hon. Charles A. Towne says we
are existing in the shadow of an m
pire." This Is the same Mr.. Towne
h Joined the Democratic party In or
der to save the country with the free
silver cure.
1.-THE party which will not allow the
constitution to follow the flag through
the Carolinas, through Mississippi n
Texas. has no occasion to distress 1t
self about the constitutions journey,
4 0 miles across the sea."-From Re
publican State Platform, New YORK.
Judging from the extent OF their or
ganization in this state and the char
acter of the men composing 1t the Bry-
antics are we'll provided with funds
this year.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1900-10-06

Why not send Adlai through the
tat on a special?
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1900-10-06

In order to maintain a semblance OF
consistency Mr.. Bryan Is now COM
PEELED to admit that he was insincere
when he advised the ratification OF the
Paris treaty.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1900-10-06

Not a single nation disputes Il pos
session of the Philippines. The only
organized opposition to the consumma-
ton of the Paris treaty comes from Ag-
uinaldo and the Democratic party.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1900-10-06

Jerry Simpson will give the Kansas
neople n more opportunity to send
him To congress. The trouble with
Jerry Is that he and the good times
don't match.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1900-10-06

| do not share in the apprehension
felt by many as to the danger OF gov
ernments being weakened or destroyed
by reason Of their extension OF terri
tory.-Ulysses s. Grant.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1900-10-06

SENATOR ALLISoN'S CORROBORA-
TON.
But this is not all. Senator Allison
was written to and he here gives the
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1900-10-06

Mr.. Bryan declares the farmers can
not be deceived by reports Of prosper
ity. No, indeed; they know the real
thing when they experience 1t.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1900-10-06

The commercial travellers Of the
country were not so ~favorably Impress
ed with the last Democratic admins
tration as to demand an encore
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-02-28

such articles from Puerto Rico only, because It's
production Is not large enough 10 lnJure nome
industry TO any appreciate extent tnough ne
would strongly oppose low duties or no duties
on similar products from Cuba or other Islands.
AS such duties were not originally at all pro-
tective In their intent so their modification
/ now or in the future is likely TO depend rather
upon the needs of the revenue system than upon
other considerations.
The idea that some extortonate monopones
are being created or fostered by duties on i'm
ports has been for forty years constantly cult
waited with the most audacious untruths The
oil trust has been called child of the tariff,
though no duty whatever has ever helped it.
The sugar trust hourished with no duty on raw
sugar, and meets under the Dingley tariff the
most dangerous opposition 1t has ever known
Trusts by the hundred have risen and vanished
most OF them going out through the bankrupt
court, and of all these hardly a score was left
when the latest epidemic of industrial combina-
ton came, about the close Of 1885, as means
of defence for many scattered and compare
lively weak concerns against the growing power
and crushing competition OF the larger In diff
ferent branches Whoever will take the trouble
to make list Of the industrial corporations will
find that much more than half have no tariff
duty of any kind to favor them. He will find
| that many others obviously helped in no
way by the tariff, because they market their
products very largely abroad, as do the wire
corporation and the rail and beam combinations.
There actually remain very few industrial cor
porations which can by any sensible person be
supposed to owe their existence or any part Of
their power TO duties on imports. But as to
these few the question is now, from the first
ii has been. whether the surest and the only
safe protection for the public is not to encour-
age as far as possible the domestic competition
which 1t is the very object of protective duties
to stimulate. Until it can be shown that this
remedy fails, not merely in a single instance,
but more often than it succeeds, 1T will remain
extremely doubtful whether there is wisdom in
making any change of the tariff with intention
! to encourage foreign rather than domestic in
| dustries
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-02-28
LAWYERS JUDGMENT OF A JUDGE.

The members of the Bar Association probably
acted wisely in declining to seek the impeach-
ment of Justice Fitzgerald At the same time
they did we'll In taking note of his action TO
give John F. Carroll a rich receivership, and
good ought to come from the warning they give
to Judges who may be disposed to yield to pOlit
ical pressure and exercise their high discretion
with an eye to friendship that no fear Of judi
cial resentment will prevent the bar Of New
York from close scrutiny of any abuse of power
Now and then Judge may be insensfble to the
moral condemnation of the legal profession, but
in general an active public opinion is powerful
regulator and some OF the most patent faults of
our administration Of justice-cOurt patronage
purchased judicial nominations, bench con-
Quoted potics-have been due largely to the
silence liberation and participation of
respected members of the bar.
Apparently Justice Fitzgerald's conduct meets
the disapprobation of the great majority of law
yers of reputation and character. The oppo-
nents OF the resolutions offered at the Bar Asso-
citation meeting attempted less to defend the
propriety of Mr.. Carrolrs appointment than to
point out the futility of the prosecution pro-
posed If the resolution had been merely one of
censure it might perhaps have been passed by
large majority But it was rightly said that any
attempt to secure Impeachment was doomed to
failure. Inc law gives JuuRe HrSe ulScre-
ton, and must trust him to exercise it wisely
and honestly. 1t is sometimes his duty to refuse
a united request Of counsel for an appointment
and select some person himself to take charge Of
a property. He may do the same thing without
good reason and under circumstances amount
ing TO moral certainty OF disgraceful favor
ltism, but no Assembly can be expected to base
an impeachment act in Itself perfectly
legal which is good or bad only rs the motive
controlling it is good or bad. The Bar Associa-
ton was commercially discreet in avoiding
campaign for impeachment which could only
have weakened Its power for good by creating
the impression that II was given to making I'M
founded charges An unsuccessful prosecution
not merely discredits the prosecutor but in
trenches the person attacked so that he can
with less fear or restraint continue in a vicious
practice
The lawyers who pushed the investigation
and supported the movement to impeach by no
means wasted their energy. The show OF pro-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-02-28
TIE PROTECTIVE OUTLOOK.

That the Republican system of protection for
home industries cannot be directly and honestly
assailed with success has been shown by past
elections. The enemy therefore adopts new tao
tics this year and fills the air with suggestions
that the President has abandoned the old sys-
TEN, that many Of his leading supporters aban-
don IL because it cannot be made to work in
relation TO the new possessions, that most Of
the great industries want 1t abandoned because
the time has come when they could without
embarrassment from that source enter more
confidently upon the conquest of foreign mar
kets, and that the people want it abandoned or
radically changed because there have grown up
under its shelter many oppressive monopolies
When all these misrepresentation are repeated
8 thousand times every day with their cumu-
latiye influence, ii is not strange If the minds
of some are perplexed. AS untruths are usually
dangerous only if they have i'll them some grain
Of truth, these would deceive but little if there
were not circumstances which seem TO support
them. The President has recommended free ex-
change with Puerto Rico. There are some Re-
publicans who honestly believe that duties on
imports have enabled industrial corporations to
plumber the country by monopoly
Yet a little care and precision Of statement
suffice 70 clear away all this impression The
Republican party has not changed nor Its Pres
ident. nor the viii of the people The President
recommended special treatment for Puerto
Rico, unlike that proposed by him for any other
outlying possession. because of special condi.
tiOns. There is no longer doubt that he believes
Congress has full power TO fix the duties on i'm.
ports from the new possessions. and wishes II
done with due regard TO the circumstances in
each case. 1t IS quite true that there are now
as there have been in all past years of Protec-
ton, some individuals who think they could do
better without it and who would like the Ma
TONS prosperity impaired that they might make
more money There is nothing new or sur
prising in that state of facts Some of the
woolen manufacturers who thought free wool
and Cleveland would be good for them tried the
experiment. They do not speak of the result
The men Of larger minds and broader patriot
ism, who know that the welfare Of the whole
people should be sought first Of ALL and In the
long run best promotes the interests OF all, are
not the minority now and have not been for
forty years.
The duties on sugar and tobacco were never
designed for protection, but for revenue. The
tobacco duty was imposed only because the in
ternal taxes on tobacco would be of no avail
without il. But in later years there have grown
up industries which these duties for revenue
have fOstered and ii would not be sound policy
20 destroy them so long as the country still
needs the revenue from sugar and tobacco.
Asr~A with favor low duties or no duties on