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Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1901-03-02
ELECTS ITS OFFICERS.
New boulder Copper Mining Comptny VIII
Develop Valuable Property.

Custer, $. d., Feb. 23.-The Boulder
Copper Mining company, recently
granted n charter under the laws Of
this state. held it's first election Of Of
ticers here yesterday. w. A. Nelson
was elected president, +. a.. Towner,
treasurer and Louis Knowles, secretary.
Mr.. Nelson is a prominent mining mar
and has been secretary of the Copper
Butt Mining company until recently.
Mr.. Towner, the treasurer, is vice presi-
dent OF the First National bank of Gus
ter and is considered one of the sound
est business men in the Black Hills. e.
A. Dickson, an experienced miner, "a
chosen as general mana ger of the COM
pany and Ed. l.. Grantham is the COM
pany's legal adviser. The company
owns nine claims ON Spring Creek,
about 10 miles northwest from Custer
on which are the most pronounced cop
per groupings in the entire Hills. The
work of development will be com
menced at once. Mr.. Dickson expects
TO have the shaft down $50 feet by
July list. and hopes to put the property
on n paying basis within a year.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1901-03-02

Andrew Carnegie's residence to be
constructed on Fifth avenue, New York,
Will be "a novelty In the line OF close
packed houses fronting the famous
thoroughfare. Mr.. Carnegie has grad
ually been acquiring the whole block
on which he proposes to build. His
house viii be erected In the center OF
the lot thus obtained and will be sur
rounded by spacious lawns and walks.
1t will be the only hous In Million
aires row. so set off.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1901-03-02

The Oldest English subject Is be-
lleved to be Mrs. Elizabeth Hamburg,
who lives with her son at Dynevor
house, on the top Of Richmond hill,
prd is nov in her 10Sth year. Her SON,
Cornelius Hamburg, who is the church
warden OF Christ church, Richmond, Is
well advanced I'm his eighth decade.
Mrs. Hamburg is a member OF the So
ciety Of Friends. Her faculties, with
the exception OF increasing deafness.
are still rood, and her interest In pass
Ing events is well maintained.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1901-03-02

A Mr.. Thompson, a member of the
Connecticut legislature, introduced q
new word the other day in legislative
debate. He was telling a horse story.
1t seems that a neighbor OF Mr.. Thomp-
sons went to buy a fast horse. After
having been shown some with past rec.
ords and some with possible future rec.
ords, the man said: Il don't want q
has-been nor a WILDE; 1 want an is
ar -
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1901-03-02

Senator Towne served just fifty-six
days, and drew $7l2 as salary and $2SS
for mileage-$1, 900 in all. During his
brief term he only delivered n speech.
II was 90 900 words In length and occu-
pied three hours and twenty minutes.
AS that speech was about the only pub
lie service Mr.. Towne performed dur
ing his senatorial career 1t Is estimated
that the government paid him at the
rate Of $3.50 n minute, or 5 cents n word.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1901-03-02
He'd Sooner walk.

London Spare Moments: At e funeral
some time ago two old men, after a long
discussion on the good qualities of the
deceased, turned their conversation to
the dilapidated appearance Of the
hearse which bore the remains of poor
Con Conway to their last resting
place.
We'll, now, Mickey" said n to the
other. earnestly, Il wonder greatly at
Biddy to put her husband in that Guild
hearse."
AYE, troth you're right there, Pat"
answered his companion, absent mind
eddy. Sure, I'd ooner walk h be
seen going to my grave in that ould
yoke
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1901-03-02

According to present prospects Mex
leo is going TO have half a dozen Of
the palatial hotels hat have made
Flagler's name known to bonifaces the
world over. This is distinctively an
era OF hotel building and keeping. and
Americans lead the procession. as ever.
But the big hotel is as much n lottery
ns other Investments. The beautiful
ChamEerlin at Old Point, built at a
cost OF 81, 800, 900, sold for $500, 900 the
other day.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1901-03-02

Vice President-e,ect and Mrs. Roose-
welt. with their children. will be the
guests of Commander and Mrs. Cowles
in Washington from March 2 to March
s They will then go to their oyster
bay home and return about october to
Washington, where they will occupy
the house of Bellamy Storer, at Rhode
Island avenue and Seventeenth street,
which Mr.. Roosevelt has leased.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1901-03-02
! They Were Wise.

Philadelphia Press: Sunday :sohool
tencher-Where did the three wise men
come fromi
Phil Adelphy (whose family had only
recently moved to Chlcago)-They came
from tho east.
Sunday school teacher-And why were
they called wise men7"
Phil Adelphy-Becauss, ma ana. the
went pack home again.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1901-03-02
The Trust Problem.

To a Thoughtful mind the trust prob
lem Is one OF serious import. 1t must
be firmly grappled with, for 1t creeps
upon society before you are aware OF Its
existence, in this respect much resem-
bling the various disorders which attack
the stomach, such as constipation, in
digesJ'n, dyspepsia and biliousness.
HostetIey'5 Stomach Bitters will cure
all such ailments and prevent la grippe,
malarial fever and ague. Be sure to
give IL q trial.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1901-03-02
Honesty.

New York World: Jim-Honesty Is
the best policy, after all.
Bill-How?
Remember that dog l stole?"
Yes"
well / tried two hull days to sell
I'm, an no m offered me more'n n
quarter. So / wen, like an honest man,
an guy him to tn ole lady what owned
i'm, and she guy me a dollar"
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1901-03-02

Man O'Rell, who has been spoken OF
as a prince OF lecturers, has been on
the platform for sixteen years. visit
ing the United Kingdom, France, Bel
GUM, Holland, America, Canada, New
Zealand, Australia, Tasmania and South
Africa. He has delivered 2,lS6 lectures
in all manner Of halls, from theater
10 lunatic asylums.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1901-03-02

on the first day OF every February
Charles A. Squires, postmaster OF Echo,
l., l., stops using tobacco for n month.
For many years he has observed this
custom, and declares that in this way
he prevents tobacco have injurious eff
feet upon his health. 1t will be OBJ
served that Mr.. Squires selects the
shortest month In the year
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1901-03-02

and Miss Rose Dimick took place here
yesterday at the home of the brides
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. III. E. Dimick
Rev. Donald Mclean performed the
ceremony. Mr.. and Mrs. Mclean de-
parted at once for their home in Fair
mort
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1901-03-02

Mrs. S. M. Saunders, Of Mount Yer
non. N. Y, has a piece of Queen Vic.
toria's wedding cake. which was giver
10 Mrs. Saunders mother, Mrs. Amelia
Kohler, by Lady M%ulgrave. a maid al
the wedding.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1901-03-02
Persuasive Woman.

Indianapolis Journal: "skaggs didn't
vote the way he said he would"
mo: he had to give his wife written
promise to vote for her candidate or
she would have gone with him to the
polls" ~ Ss
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1901-03-02
Two rownshlps ouarnntlned.

Canton. s.. D., Feb. 26.-The smallpox
scare in the southeastern part of the
state has extended to Canton. and the
authorities of that place have quar-
antined against the people of two entire
townships In Lincoln county.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1901-03-02

The soldiers at Fort Meyer, opposite
Washington in Virginia, have changed
the name of their post TO Fort Carrie
Nation. The new name was applied
the day the canteen was abolished.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1901-03-02
His Type.

Detroit Free Press: Mother-what type
you met In New York when you went 10
bring her homer =,
Father-Well, to judge from his clothes,
I should say he was poster type.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1901-03-02
Hurt by Falling Rock.

Custer, s. D., Feb. 23.-Isaac Ainslie
was badly injured by a falling rock
while working in the DAILY mica mine.
Ainslie is a miner in the employ OF the
Chicago Mica Co.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1901-03-02
Enlightcnod.

Chicago Tribune: The n~ear-sighted
citizen looked helplessly at the piles Of
drifted snow hat lay on the sidewalk
Il front of his house.
What would you take to clean this
walk?" he said, addressing the first
man who came along.
"a shovel, sir" replied Mr.. Ruffon
wratts, walking delegate of jewelers.
union, No. 247, passing on.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1901-03-02
Chixalrous Consideration.

March Smart Set: She-You mean
thing! What made you steal that kiss2
Hell didn't want to go away and leave
you thinking 1 was sorry i called.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1901-03-02
sHoUsE OF fLANKINToN.
lie Gets First Place In the Examination
n CndCtshIn.

Huron, S. D., Feb. 23.-James b.
Shouse of Plankinton will be appointed
to a cadetship at West Point by Sen
ator Kyle. OF the thirteen young men
examined by the faculty of Huron col
leCe this week Shouse stood first and
Sanford A. Lyon OF Huron, second.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1901-03-02
SOUTH DAKOTA LEGISLATURE.
The Proceedings OF the Lawmakers Dur
Ing the Week.


TUESDAYS PROCEEDINGS.
Pierre. 8. D., Feb. 2O.-Most Of the
members OF the legislature and a large
number Of visitors came in Monday
night, v passenger coaches being
crowded. Notwithstanding this, there
were many absentees In both houses
yesterday, including the chief clerk Of
the house and h secretary of the
senate.
Stewards negotiable instrument bill
got a frost In the house, a motion to in
definitely postpone being carried A to
20. Willmarth made a defense OF the
bill n Heath and cortland criticised
the measure. the latter declaring II a
good thing for bankers and lawyers
and bad for farmers. and business men
generally.
There was a fight In the senate on the
modified wolf bounty bill, Sweet
Ing indefinite -postponement and Stew
art contesting. Sweet charged fraud
as a result OF the present law, Stewart
warmly declaring that he would dis
prove Sweets charges at the proper
time. The motion TO indefinitely post
pone was defeated and the bill was laid
over till next Monday at 3 o'clock.
"A large number OF house and senate
bills were put over by the senate until
today. Bills were passed by the senate
furnishing the unlawful use Of te!e-
graph and telephone wires; requiring
owners OF steam threshers to give $500
bond; empowering towns of $50 nhabi-
tants to construct w~aterworks, and pro-
yiding for the election Of assessors in
cities.
a letter from Ex-Governor Lee 30
Lieutenant Governor Snow declining
his Office chair on the ground hat he
did not approve OF the giving away OF
state property was read just before ad-
tournment and on motion OF Stewart
was received, but given no place in the
journal.
Bills were passed by the house plac-
ing the government OF the Sioux Falls
children's home under the control OF
the board OF charities; allowing the
killing OF ducks after April 10; Great
Ing the office OF sheep inspector; per-
hitting owners of five shares TO be
come directors OF state banks, and le-
CALLING the incorporation OF Revillo.
Governor Herreid sent his first veto
TO the house, declining to APP
prove house bill Nc. 80 permitting aD-
breyiations to be used Ia describing
land sold for taxes on the ground that
IL was indefinite In It's phraseology and
would result only I'm curing errors OF
and indolent county Of
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1901-03-02
Leach-Dlmick Nuptiais.

Vermillion, s. D., Feb. 23.-The mar
rage Of Austin Leach Of Fairport. Ia,
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1901-03-02

Z SATURDAYS PROCEEDINGS.
Pierre, s.. D., Feb. 25.-The bill fixing
the terms OF the commissioner OF the
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1901-03-02
M'MARTIN Is NAMED.
Attorney of the Railroad Com
mission to Succeed Null.

Pierre, S. D., Feb. 2O.-At the meeting
of the board of railway commissioners
yesterday, Thomas Il. McMartin OF Sioux
Falls was appointed attorney of the COM
mission to succeed Thomas H.. Null. fu-
~sionist, OF Huron.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1901-03-02

Everything is machine-made now
adays-even appointments TO office.
Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1901-03-29

ers few up to the ceiling, the doors
banged open, ana burst Of flame filed
the kitchen. Mrs. Bowser from the
room above heard "A howl from the cat,
scream from the cook and yell from
Mr.. Bowser, and she knew what had
happened. She couldn't go down for
the smoke, but as she opened the front
door the trio came flying out OF the
basement TO roll in the snow in the
front yard.
1t wasn't much OF fire. The seven
or eight pedestrians who rushed in and
upset everything and flooded water all
over the floors soon had it out, and In
the course OF quarter of an hour the
open doors and windows had freed the
house Of smoke. Mr.. Bowser sat on
the lounge, with red eyes and singed
hair and Mrs. Bqwser finally faced
him and asked:
well, sir, any further experiments
this evening, or will you wait until to-
morrow night"
"Wo-wo-woman" he gasped as he
lifted his hands and bulged eyes, but
that was the end. His words had gone
up with his fuel. NJ. QUAD.
Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1901-03-29
JAMES 8. HARLAN.

torney general. To this responsible po.
sition the president has just appointed
James Shanklin Harlan, son OF JUS
tice Harlan Of the United States su-
prene court. Last spring, when the
president was seeking men to carry on
the governmental work in Porto Rico,
be offered the attorney generalship to
Mr.. Harlan, but the young man declin-
ed the honor. 1t is understood that he
is more inclined now to go to the is
land, although acceptance of the sal
ary, "a 800, means financial loss to him.
Mr.. Harlan is 40 years old and a man
of broad and deep culture and excel
lent legal attainments. He was brought
up in Louisville and entered Prince
ton university In the class OF 'S3. In
college he won hOnors in Latin and
Greek and was prominent in athletics.
After graduation he spent a short time
In Europe and then entered the Law
school of Columbian university, Wash
ington. He studied for time in the
offices OF his father and in those of
Chief Justice Fuller SO that his legal
training is probably as good as could
be obtained In the United States. Mr..
Harlan has been a member of the
Chicago bar for number of years and
has attained great success in his pro-
fession. He has won an enviable repu-
tation in the western city for persever-
ance and great physical and moral
courage
Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1901-03-29
Ch,ucsc Criticism os our Alphabet.

The high class Chiuaman, speaking
through his Interpreter was giving the
cminent American visitor his impress
slons Of the English language
81 cannot understand" he said, show
anybody over mas time 10 learn II.
Take that singularly formed letter in
your alphabet, for instance, the letter
s.. What an awkward aud i'll shaped
character II is What is the signifi,
cance Of that little curling projection
at the upper end Of iti l have never
seen anybody who could tell me. Then,
again, when the learner has familiar.
ICED himself with that letter and can
recognize II Mt sight he learns that It Is
only part Of word and that 1t enters
Into the composition Of thousands of
words. II has different pronunciations
and sometimes is not pronounced at all,
being entirely silent. Now, when you
see one Of our Chinese characters you
know at once what it. is 1t is won.
der TO me that your people do not dis
card the cumbersome forms of your
written language ana learn our simpler
and more easily understood system"
The eminent American could only
bow his head IN humiliation and prom
ise to bring the matter before the edu-
cationai authorities OF his native land.
Chicago Tribune.
Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1901-03-29
INHERITED SKILL.
SON OF JUSTICE HARLAN TO BE PORTO
RlCO,S ATTORNEY GENERAL.

laws OF the Island III nm Uncertain
state--spapish and American Meth
ods side by side Cause Confusion.
New Omciai an Attorney of Ability.
In view of the fact that whatever
will be the form of government final
" decided on for Porto Rico that is
land will for long time he under the
direct control of the United States, the
question of the law and courts of the
island is one of the utmost Importance.
The present condition of the law is by
no means satisfactory. The act pro-
viding for civil government for Porto
Rico passed last April provided that
all laws of the country not in conflict
with those of the United States should
continue in force until altered or modi-
fed by the legislative authority provid-
ed in the act. The civil and criminal
laws of Spain, many of them based on
mediev val usage, are still in force. I'm
questionably, however they will be
revised within ~ very short time, for
the act creates commission for that
purpose.
1t is clear that the work of Amer
lean lawyers and others having bust
ness in the courts of Porto Rico will re-
quire carefulness and legal acumen.
At. the head of the legal branch of the
territorial government stands the atr
Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1901-03-29

year. The conl man cheats us out of at
least four tons. That coal must be dug
from the bowels of the earth. raised to
the surface, loaded on to cars, unloaded
again, loaded into carts and delivered
and even then must be handled again,
to say nothing of the ashes, Can't you
see why 1t costs so much?
"Of course"
1--WE are only one of 100000 fami-
lies using coal, and there are all the
shops and factories besides. Suppose
we had substitute for coal, some
thug which needed scarcely any han
ding, gave out five times the heat and
left no ashes behind? What would
that substitute be worth to America
to the world at large? No dust, no
ashes, no giving LOO pounds for n
ton, no cinkers and no waste"
II thought you'd been taken in
again." replied Mrs. Bowser, with IL
sigh.
"Oh, you did? Very kind of you, in
deed! Well, my friend, I'm going 10
Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1901-03-29

what little fire there is, will you, SO
that / can start afreshT
"rhere'll be bobbery Of some sort"
protested the cook as she obeyed. "Yol.
know there allus is"
"Never you mind about bobberies.
I've got dead sure thing in this, and
there's barrels of money in 1t. You
came from Ireland, believer
81 did, sir"
will be talking about Bowser's new
fuel, and 1t win probably be mentioned
IN the papers that you were the first
cook I'm the world to use it,
ITS more likely they will be sayin
I've left my place, but git along with it
and have it over with"
Mr.. Bowser put In paper and kin
dlings, added q liberal quantity of his
new fuel and then stood back. Things
went off with rush, and he stood back
and rubbed his hands and whispered
"Only one pound of my patent fuel in
there, and just feel the heat! The fuel
question is solved. You could put a
roast of beef in that oven and have it
fit for the table in an hour. My dear
woman, I'll be running cotton factories
for 70 cents day and driving locomo-
tves 1000 miles for a dollar. Do you
observe? DO you feel2 DO you realize
a hundredth part of what this means to
the civilized world?"
The cook had opened her mouth to
say that she thought her wages ought
to he raised 50 per month, when there
was low rumbling, trembling of the
whole range, and next instant the GOV.
Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1901-03-29
A norria1y Prnctlcal GlrI.

He-Your life shall be filled with sun
shine.
She-Yes, but how about lamplighti
Can you undertake TO keep the oil can
flled ?-Detroit Free Press.
Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1901-03-29

II encouraged that young man to
have more confidence in himself"
"WellY
Ties got SO conceited that he's quit
speaking TO me."-Chicago Record.
Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1901-03-29
PLANETS IN ELECTRICAL OCEAN.

forming vast electrical circuit. The
conductor is the ether space between
the planets,
electricity is the primal source OF
light and heat where chemical action
Is impossible" says Mr.. Whitehouse,
who is a noted archaologist. with
this basic fact as a starting point, in
yestigation has led me to believe
that the earth is bubble in the vast
ocean Of interstellar space, that the 50
called ether is not very thin and clear
gas through which feeble twinkle
from 4 star billion miles away be-
comes visible to the eye, but that each
star as seen by us, as well as the great
est OF the planets, the sun, is only to
our eyes the point at which the vibra-
tlon comes into our atmospheric
sphere" w..
-.
Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1901-03-29
BOWSER'S NEW FUEL,
WAS SURE HE HAD DISCOVERED a
SUBSTITUTE FOR COAL.
Mrs. Bowser and the Cook Were
skepticaI, but, According to His lie.
lief, He wouId Soon Become Fa
nous aud q MiIIionairs.
copyright, 1901, by C. b. Lewis ]

1t was Z O'Clock the other evening
when boy left heavy sack of some
thing at the basement door of the Bow.
ser mansion, and Mr.. Bowser lost no
time in conveying specimens of it to
the sitting room for Mrs. Bowser's In
spection. They looked like chunks of
asphalt dug UP from an old pavement,
and she turned from them with the re.
mark:
81 suppose somebody has been after
you again with patent something OF
other"
"Have you the slightest idea what
that something or other isp' asked Mr..
Bowser, with smile of complaccncy.
SIS it plaster to fix the holes in the
cellar fioor?"
"My dear woman, / am not in the
plaster business this evening II Is no
plaster or compressed food for the cat.
1t isn't microbe killer nor n moth de.
stroyer. VIII YOU kindly listen to me
for moment while ! give you Il few
facts and figuresp
go on," she said.
"To heat this house and do you1
cooking we consume 20 tons Of coal pc,