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Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1900-07-21
KANSAS.
.........$ SO, 1903. 6S4 Sill, SO
MISSOURI.
Total .............$ s., 219, $40 s 7S,4l1, 465

Corn. oats, hay and potatoes show
the largest gains in both states. While
wool is not so much grown here as in
the far western states, still the in
crease under protection in the value
of the clip has been satisfactory to
those farmers who raise sheep.
In Missouri this years cotton crop
was worth almost twice as much as it
was in 1896 under the democratic adj
ministration.
Lastly, an explanation Of the num-
Der of bank depositors in Kansas and
Missouri is full of facts upon which
our citizens can congratulate them
selves. The figures are taken from the
last annual report Of the controller of
the currency:
In the state of Kansas there were
53.t51 people who had bank accounts
i'm 1894; last year there were 100, $40
bank accounts i'm that state.
In 1894 the total deposits in Kansas
amounted TO $l7, 147, 100; last year the
total amount of the deposits was $780,
sos, t01.
There has been an increase of prac-
tically 100 per cent, both in the num-
Der of people who had money to de-
post i'm the banks, and in the total
amount of money or deposit in Kan
sas.
In the state of Missouri there were
1880 persons who had bank accounts
in 1894; last year there were 213,OO9
bank accounts. In 1894 the total
amount of deposits in Missouri was
S53,012,953. In 1899 the deposits in all
the banks of Missouri had increased
to $141, 726,449.
While the number Of depositors in
Missouri had increased by 90 per cent,
the total amount of money deposited
had increased by 100 per cent.
These facts and figures do not show
the increase in the business lone at
the stores, mines and factories, nor
the larger amount of wages paid TO
the thousands of people who earn
their livelihood in these two states
While the democratic orators are
charging upon the benefits that will
happen to the country if a democratic
president and democratic congress be
elected this year, our citizens should
not neglact the blessings and prosper
ity which they have derived under the
republican administration that is now
in power.
1t is unwise to throw away the sub
stance for the shadow.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1900-07-21

archy, pillage and oppression, recognize
American sovereignty as the symbol ana
the pledge OF peace, Justice: religious
property and the welfare and prosperity
OF their several communities.
Control OF Dependencies.
We reassert the early principle OF the
republican party, SUSTAINED by unbroken
tives OF the people In congress assembled
have full legislative power over territory
belonging TO the United States subject
TO the fundamental safeguards of lib
crty. justice and personal rights, and are
vested with ample authority to act for
the highest interests OF our nation and
5 aae, I People entr praeiaim no Us IN ca ire ca Tnis
of freedom. will never be used as a
weapon for oppression. j am glad TO be
assured by you that what we have done
IN the far east has the approval OF the
country.
The sudden and terrible crisis In China
calls for the grayest consideration, and
you will not expect from me now n
further expression than TO say that my
best efforts shall be given to the imme-
date purpose of protecting the lives or
ultimate object Of the peace and welfare
OF China, the safeguarding OF all our
treaty rights and the maintenance o.
those principles 81 mpartia intercourse
/ canot conclude without congratulate
Ing my countrymen, upon Tho strong ma
ttonal sentiment winch nndS expression
In every part Of our common country,
and the increased respect with which the
American name liz greeted throughout
the world. We ave been moving In un-
tried paths, but our steps have been
guided by honor and duty. There VIII be
no turning aside, no wavering, no re-
treat. No blow has been struck except
for liberty and humanity, and none will
be. We Will perform without fear every
national and inter national obligation.
The republican party was dedicated to
freedom forty-four years ago. 1t has been
the party OF liberty and emancipation
from that hour. not OF profession but or
performance. II broke the shackleB OF
1000. 600 slaves md made them free, and
TO the party 81 Lincoln has come am
other supreme opportunity which II has
bravely met In tho liberation OF 100000
OF the human family from the yoke OF
Imperialism. 10. its solution Of great
problems. In Its performance of high du-
lies. II has had the support OF members
OF all parties In tho past and confidently
invokcs their cooperation In the future.
Permit me 10 express, Mr.. Chairman,
my most sincere appreciation OF the COM
plimentary terms In which o convey
the official notice Of my nomination, and
my thanks to the members OF the COM
mittee and TO the great constituency
which they represent for this additional
evidence OF their favor and support.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1900-07-21
West Virsinia's Producers.

West Virginia's coal output in
creased from 100000 tons in 1895 to
$4,000 o tons last year, giving en-
ployment to nearly 1000 more men,
who worked every day in that year, in
stead of 1915 days in 1895. The bank
deposits in that state have doubled
within the same period. Trade fail,
ures have decreased by two-thirds
The value of the sheep has increased
by so per cent, while the price of WOO
has doubled. Tobacco is worth con
siderably more money now than un-
der the last democratic administers
ton. The lumber mills and factories
are running full time, and it is safe &c
predict that West Virginia will stay
in the republican column.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1900-07-21
GREAT PROSPERITY
IN THE SOUTHWEST
Better Times in Kansas and Mis-
souri, Than Have Been
Known in Years.
HARD FACTS FOR THE DEMOCRATS
Ei, quent Statistics That Anti-Pros-
perity and Calamity Party
viii Have Dificulty
Explaining.

Great prosperity has visited Mis-
souri, and Kansas curing the last three
years. This should not be forgotten
by the citizens during the whirl and
excitement of the democratic conven-
ton.
Missouri has gained $i2S, 000, 900 in
wealth under this republican admin
istration.
The state of Kansas has gained al
most 500, 600, 900 in wealth under this
republican administration.
The democratic party is VIGOROUSLY
an anti-prosperous party, anu the
farmers and wage in Kansas
and Missouri must not allow them
selves to be led away by the false
promises and calamity howling OF
their friends who are assembling to-
day in national convention. Our state
ments are from official figures and
show the increase in wealth in these
two states TO be as follows.
U~ANcAC
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1900-07-21
Railroad Prosperity.

The following official statement con
corning the railroads of the United
States for the years ending June 30,
1895, and 1899, is instructive:
Number employees, 1895, 7S5, 034; 1899, 92S,-
1924; increase, l43, $50.
Total yearly wages. 1895, $445, sos, 261; 1899,
$522. 967, $50: increase, $77, 459, 635.
Tons of freight carried, 1895, COG, 76l III;
1899, $50, 1853, $50; Increase, 263, O02, 412.
Tons carried one mile, 1895, IS, 227 SIS. S91
1899. l23, 1867, 257, 1853; increase, 3S, 439, al .262.
Total gross earnings, 1895. $l.075, 81 ,462
1899, $l,3l3, 6l0, 1lS; increase, $23S, 23S, GOO.
In this branch of American indus
try alone there has been an increase
of $4,000 people employed since the
last democratic administration, and
an annual increase of nearly S77, 500,
900 in wages paid. Almost the whole
Of it was additional money expended
in purchasing the products of our
farms and factories.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1900-07-21

King Humbert, Of Italy, is burdened
with many palaces to keep up, which
takes t~wo-thirds of his civil allow.
nnce Of So, 100000 a year. He is going
TO sell a number OF them, according
to the London Evening News, includ-
ing the palaces at Genoa, Milan, Capo-
dimonte and Palermo, the country
seats at Val Tournanche OF the south
slope of the Matterhorn and at Vina.
do in Piedmont, and all the domain
property in the former kingdom Of
the two Sicilies, lie will retain the
royal palaces at Turin, Venice and
Naples and the country seats at Mon
"a, near Milsn, at Val ~Sayaranche in
the Alps and Mt Castelporziano. With
the money from the sale of the rest
he will rebuild the palace pm the OUR
inal. He will propose besides that the
amount of the civil list be reduced.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1900-07-21

Four steamships sailing Saturday
carried the largest excursion party
which ever left New York for Europe
under the direction OF one man There
were $50 tourists i'm the four groups,
and they were divided as follows:
City of Rome for Glasgow, SO; State
of Nebraska for Glasgow, 254; Mas
dam for Rotterdam, 50; Aller for Ge-
noa, 81; Minneapolis for London, 80.
They will visit England, Ireland and
the continent, returning In August.
Ascalon commandry, Knights Temp
lar, 10 strong, were on the City of
Rome. They were in charge of Her
bert c. Clark. United States vice o n
sui in Palestine. There were ais 100
physicians and their families from Iii
uois. Kansas and iowa, who are dele
gates 10 the medical convention In
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1900-07-21
Using Mare Cotton.

In 1894, during democratic admins
t~ration, the cotton mills of the United
States consumed only 16 per cent OF
the entire average cotton crop. Last
year they used over 81 per cent, ano
this year they will use about one
third of the whole crop; more thar
twice as much as in 1894. Workers In
the cotton mills should not forget thai
republican administration mean dou
BILE the quantity of wor and higher
wage besides.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1900-07-21
CusInms ReCeiniR.

In the four years of President Har-
rison's administration, under protec-
ton, the customs receipts of the
United States amounted to $500, $685.
III. In the four years of the demo-
cratic administration ending in 1897,
our customs receipts amounted to
only $620,553,D77. The difference be-
tween republican and democratic poll
cies was worth to the United States
treasury almost $780, 00, 900 from this
source of revenue alone.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1900-07-21
Money We'll Snent.

While all the appropriations made
during the last session of congress
were $4,000, 900 larger than in 1900,
it should be remembered that $4,000
900 will be expended in taking the
census and upwards of ~$17,o0o,oOo will
be used for improving the postal serv-
ice, while another $7,000,O00 Will DC
spent in increasing u navy. In oth,
err directions there has been an actual
decrease in the appropriations.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1900-07-21

James A. Burden, chief owner Of the
big Burden Iron mills nc Troy, n. y,
has for many years contributed 81, 500
TO be distributed among the residents
of the lower section of the city,
wherein the iron mills are located.
The sum has been yearly placed in the
hands of the foreman IN each Of the
departments of the iron mills, who
distribute the money TO the deserving
people in their respective localities.
This year Mr.. Burden has supple
mented his generosity by giving an
order TO supply ice to all who are too
poor 10 buy il this m
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1900-07-21
His Part I'm the Quarrel.

Green Bag: Magistrate Ito witness)
Il understand that you overheard the
his wife?
Witness-Yes, sor.
Tell the court, if you cam, what he
seemed to be doing"
"He seemed to be doin' the lis
TENN"
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1900-07-21

"A interesting engineering problem
is being discussed i'm Pittsburg, Pa.
where il is proposed TO move the
Carnegie library, a structure weighing
about $4,000 tons. a distance Of 1000
feet. The library is a steel and stone
building, 392 feet in length by 1iS
feet in width and three stories in
height. The director OF public works
of the city of Pittsburg believes that
IL could be raised on jacks and placed
on car trucks which would run on
rails. In the trip to the new site a
rayine 100 feet in depth and 200 feet
I'm width must be crossed, and this
would either have to be filed or a tim
Der false work erected.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1900-07-21

An eloquent instance of Chinese
barbarity is reported from Shanghai
by q correspondent. A wretched Grim
inal has been handed over TO the mob
and is being starved to death in a
cage in sight of n brutal public gloat-
ing on his agonies. AS an isolated case,
this is a mere drop in the water OF
Chinese morality.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1900-07-21
Halls Catarrh Cure
Is q constitutional cure. Price 70 cents.

Advices from the Columbia river
salmon packing industries indicate the
probability of a deficiency in the total
pack. The scarcity of fish now in the
river is pronounced abnormal by all
engaged in the spring and summer
season. The one redeeming feature
is the fine quality and size of the
catch.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1900-07-21

According to Mr.. Wilson, secretary
of agriculture, the skins of superfiu-
Gus dogs in Nebraska are tanned and
made into gloves. Hundreds of thou
sands of dollars worth of canine pelts
are imported annually for this very
purpose, dogskin being one of the best
materials for gloves.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1900-07-21

Although Mary is believed to be the
commonest of the names OF women,
the wife Of only N president was so
named, and she, fittingly, was the
wife of homespun Lincoln-Mary Todd
Lincoln. There were two Marthas,
both from Virginia, Martha Washing
ton and Martha Jefferson; two Abb
gals, the wives of President Fillmore
and John Adams, and two Elias, Mrs.
Monroe and Mrs. Johnson. OF the
wives OF the other presidents, no two
have had the same Christian name.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1900-07-21
Cyclone Strainers.

They have a unique way of enabling
people to get cooled OFF in Kansas City
in many of the hotels, says the New
York Sun. In the floors there are
huge iron gratings which look like
registers. Underneath these registers
are big fans, and from out these OPEN
ings, when the fans are working,
there comes almost a gale of wind.
You stand over one a minute and you
are cool. The wind is forceful enough
to blow your hat off and blow your
coat over your head. The visitors call
them "cyclone strainers."
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1900-07-21

Charles V. Cusachs. of New Or
leans. instructor i'm the French and
Spanish departments Of Harvard uni
versity, who has just been appointed
to the chair of Spanish at the United
States naval academy, is only % years
old.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1900-07-21
In the Savings Banks.

In the United Kinkdom the average
amount of money to the credit of each
depositor in the savings banks is $103.
In the United States it is 1870, over
ESQ per cent more than in the British
country.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1900-07-21
KANSAS.
$50, Oi9,212 &lJ2, 159,5N
MISSOURI.
Total .$9S, MS, 7O9 $l13, soc, 3S6

In Kansas the largest gains to farm
ers have been in their cattle and
hogs. This they we'll know, because
their returns when selling their live
stock have been so much larger this
year than they were under a demo-
cratic administration.
The next table shows the improve
mcnt in the price of the staple crops
grown W farmers, which represent an
Increase of SOS, 900, 900 for Kansas, and
over $50, O0O, 900 for Missouri.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1900-07-21

In the early days of the political
history of this country il was custom
airy To choose as the president the can
didate getting the highest number OF
electoral votes and TO make the candi-
date Casually Of the opposite party
who got the largest number of votes
vice president. This plan was adhered
TO until 1904, when the present sys-
TEN of popular votes for presidential
electors was iDaugurated.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1900-07-21

DR.. w. =. Roberts, protector of eli
matology in a Chicago medical college,
is of the opinion that, under proper
and fitting climatic conditions 100
per cent of all cases of consumption
can be cured"
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1900-07-21

The Park avenue hotel at Fourth
avenue and Thirty-third street, New
York, has passed into new manage
ment. 1t was leased last week for ten
years for nearly 81 600, 900. This
rental Is 25 per cent more than was
paid during the last ten years. The
edifice was built by Alexander II.
Stewart, who intended IT for u wom-
ans hotel. 1t has been a quietly
fashionable hostelry for a number OF
Npnrs.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1900-07-21
Hnrd an tho pess,,nists

In addition to our abundant yield
of grain we are TO have al enormous
fruit crop this year. Democratic con-
ditions are about the only things
upon the kst of failures
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1900-07-21

The magazines multiply apace. The
latest announced accession is the
Worlds Work, to be published by Dou-
bleday, Page d Co., of New York. The
editor will be Walter IL. Page, who did
such good work on the Atlantic Month
ly during his editorial control. The
character of the new magazine has
not yet been announced, but il is safe
TO say that il will have some original
features. The first number will APP
pear in the fall.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1900-07-21

Herman Merivale, the dramatist and
~essayist, has been granted a pension
on the English civil list. He is about
81 years old and has lost money lately,
as many others have, by the failures
of London solicitors, SO numerous of
late.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1900-07-21

Piso'sC Cure cannot be too highly spo-
ken of as a cough cur j. w. O'Brien.
322 Third avenue, ~, Minneapolis,
Mimi, January G, 1900.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1900-07-21
w97.156.6S9
Total $1,000. SOS, $50, 532 $685., 9i4. 300
increase in 1890 .... sl2S, OS3, 76S
In Knhsns Il Will he nnIed that thl

In Kansas It will be noted that the
farmers have gained sS0,00O,000
through the increased value of their
live stock and principal crops this
year as compared with 1890. In Mis-
souri, the farmers have gained 100000
600 this year alone from the same
source. The following detailed state
ment of values of live stock is official,
being taken from the returns of the
department of agriculture:
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1900-07-21

Pawnbrokers take some curious
pledges, but il is not often hat they
receive one from another world. a
London p~awnshop, however, exhibits
in its window as cn unredeemed
pledge n magnificent aerolite, a mass
of fused metal that fell, as it were,
from heaven, to provide n poor man
with his beer. A ticket bears the
statement that II was brought from
the Arctic regions by n sailor.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1900-07-21

In buying out his associates in the
Southern Pacific, Coils i. Huntington
becomes sole and individual owner,
manager and controller of n vast
transportation ftsystcm, embracing
1900 miles of railroad, ferries, termin-
ais, river and ocean lines extending
from Portland. Ore, through Califor-
mia, to New Orleans, and representing
$3.50, 100000 of securities and nearly
$50, 900, 900 of annual gross earnings.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1900-07-21
PRICES OF FARM PRODUCTS.
Great Increase Over Prices
Democratic Times.

Great Increase Over Prices in
Democratic Times.
Never in American history was the
situation of the American farmer as
distressing as when the republican
party met in convention in June, 1896,
Business confidence was gone, labor
was idle, capital retired, farm values
shrunken, and the sheriff with his
foreclosed mortgage sales the only ac-
| tive man in rural communities. That
convention, planting itself squarely
upon the side of national honor and
business integrity, nominated a man
whose whole life work was summed up
in his trenchant declaration: open
American mills to American work
men," With Mr.. Bryan's nomination
the issue was squarely joined and pre-
sented to the American farmer for
settlement, one candidate Offering a
debased currency, a cheap dollar; the
other standing for sound money, pro-
lection to American industries, and
full employment for labor at American
wages.
The vote of the great farming states
of the west elected Mckinley, and the
statistics already presented prove that
rural prosperity followed. The best
showing Of the change in the condi-
tion of the American farmer, between
the first nomination Of Mr.. Mckinley
and the denomination, is a simple
statement of-the prices ruling for
farm staples at each date. 1t is an ar
gument against the abandonment OF
republican policies which canot be
met. The following table shows the
current market prices of different
staple crops On June /, 1896, and June
/, 1900:
Farm Grade June1, June1, Adv.
Products. Quoted. : 1896. 1900. pc. Mkt
Corn. No. 2, in store.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1900-07-21
$3.50, 5OO,l s277, $50, so

Increase in 1899 -.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1900-06-23

OCsnnor, "Mr Gladstone, who had
already been Minister, asked herr
"Shall 1 tell yeu nothing and you
can say anything, or shall tell you
everything and ysu say nOthing!' She
chose the latter, and he told her
everything and she never told any,
thing.'
On the hftisth anniversary Of their
wedding Mr. and Mrs Gladstone
went to reception at an old friends
house. "When it began to get lat" ,"
adds Mr. O'COnnOr, "Mr Gladstone
went over to his wife and, with an
expression Of sweetness and tender
ness, teok her by the hand az though
she acre . little child that had to be
reminded that it was time to 60 to
bed and led her out of the rsom. It
was a sight that might well have
brought tears"
These and other anecdotes bear
out fully the previous accounts Of
the intense affection existing bet.
wesn the great liberal leader and his
wife, and also point to the fact that
Mrs. Gladstone exercised a more po-
werful political influence over her
husband than is generally credited.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1900-06-23

TO fOresee the outcome. Our cable
adyices leave the condition Of affairs
somewhat obscure, but it is evident
that the Pekin government must act
promptly and vigorously if it is to
stamp ont this rebellion. Despite
the stories Of defeats Of the Chinese
troops, we still think the army suf-
ficiently strong to suppress the in
surrection, but it must act at once.
ssIn the meantime we intend to
cooperate sOith other Powers in
taking such measures az are neces-
sary to safeguard our countrymen
and their properties. Our interests
are identical with those OF the United
States, and there is every reason to
believe we shall act in unison in the
present crisis. The aim OF both is
to act purely in defence Of the lives
and interests Of our compatriots.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1900-06-23

Frenchmen are naturally with their
ally, Russia. 1t is not thought that
England is likely at the present mo-
ment, when her hands are occupied
with South Africa, to take any step
that will cause q direct collision
with Russia, but she is believed here
to be behind Japan, and her support
may encourage the latter TO adopt a
policy that will result in hOstilitief
with Russia, for which. apparently'
the Japanese are itching.
The course of the United States
is acknowledged TO be most i'm
portant factor in the situation, ani
/ adyiees from Washington are closely
followed with . ylei0 Of gaining
clear Indication as to s0hether Amer