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Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1903-03-28
N DR.. M'NUTT.
Parent of New Medical Bill Got a Ban
ouet and a Fur Overcoat.

Aberdeen, S. D., March 2O.-At thu
annual meeting of the Aberdeen Dis
trict Medical society held TUESDAY
night, a banquet was served In honoi
of DIR. M. E. McNutt, who secured III,
passage through the legislature OF tn,
new medical bill, which became a law
There was a large attendance OF ply
sicians from northern counties of thu
state which are embraced In the So
ciety's territory. In addition to tn,
honor of the banquet, DR.. McNutt wal
presented with a very elegant fur lnet
o%vercoat. The papers read by ply
sicians consisted of one on "~Trachoma,'
by DR.. r. d. Away, Aberdeen; "Teta'
NUS Dr.. C. B. Mallory, Aberdeeni
"Osteomyalitis," DR.. w. E. Edgerton
Faulkton. At the banquet the speak
ers were DR.. F. M. Grain, Redfeld
presidents annual address; DR.. Nc
Mutt, Medical legislation" Senator
]. M. Lawson, THE Legal Profession
]. l.. Browne, speaker of the house
Our legislature" DR.. H. j. Rock
Our Honored Dead" DR.. w. e. Ed
wards, Bowdle, Progress"
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1903-03-28
Demand for School Fund Loans.

Pierre, S. D., March 20.-With Lam
Commissioner Bach hustling to secure
municipal securities, and the increased
amount which may be loaned on rea
estate at reduced interest rates, the
school fund surplus promises to be re-
duced to a smaller sum than 1t hai
reached for a long time. Loans were
called for last week amounting to $10,.
800, Gregory county taking $1,000 of his
while Sphinx and Roberts called fol
SIS, 200.
The other side of the ledger also
shows that the funds are coming along
to meet any calls for cash which may
be made for a time, ten patents having
been issued last week to final pur'
RS, who paid their cash into the
school fund. -Four patents went t.
Turner county; two each to Yanktor
and Hutchinson, and n each to Cod
ington and Clay.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1903-03-28

While this was being done, he turned
and spoke TO his brothers-in-aTms:
Comrades, let C man carry him
self tonight as If the fate of France de-
pended upon his heart, his arm, his
courage. Strike for the mothers that
bore you, the wives hat comfort you.
the children that renew you-the wom-
EN- that love you" For a his
voice qualied and almost failed him.
There were happy men there, no doubt,
whom women loved. But he rallied In
a breath and his voice rang out valiant
ly again: Forward in Gods name and
the king's!"
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1903-03-28
FOR FLOUR MILL.
arule County Farmers Will Grind Thelr
Own Grain.

Pukwana, S. D., March 23.-The work
Of forming a stock company for the
construction of a Touring mill at his
place has been completed. The COM
pany has peer named The Brule Coun-
ty Farmers Milling company. The di-
rectors nave been authorized to ex-
pend the sum of not to exceed 5 1000
for the building, equipping and com
pletion of a flour mill. The capital
stock Of the new company is $40, 900,
divided into 90 0share Of 800 each.
The stock bears 10 per cent. interest,
payable annually. Not more than
three shares of stock will be sold to
any one person, and no stakeholder
can cast more than three votes al
meetings Of the stockholders.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1903-03-28
WHIPPED THE T
Legislator WeIoh Pays SOS for a CracL
at Head of Platte Epitome.

Armour, S. d., March 20.-Word ha:
reached here of the smuggling" of Edi.
tor Davis Of the Platte Epitome by Irv-
ing H. WEIGH, member of the last state
legislature from Charles Mix county
Davis made some slurring remark
about Welch's family in the Epitome
and WEIGH walked into the editorial
sanctum and handled the editor sc
roughly that the justice fined the legis.
!ative member $65.
Davis has been very bitter against
WEIGH since the last political campaign
and the straw that broke the camels
back grew out of a divorce case re.
ported from Goshen, Ind, in which 8
sister of Mrs. Welch was the defendant
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1903-03-28
JOSEPH kUBLER, Publisher.

Two registering young New Workers
entered a cafe or Broadway and tostled
against a sallow- faced little man wear
ing a sombrero. He turned, expecting
an apology, and was insulted by one of
them. The little mans fist shot out to
h swell's jaw, lifting the insulter off
his feet and knocking him senseless.
The assailant was arrested and I'm court
told the magistrate that he was
Wounded Elk, son of Chief Running
Elk OF the Mohawk tribe. He learned
to DOB at the Carlisle school, where he
played with the football eleven. On
hearing the circumstances the magis-
trate discharged him.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1903-03-28
GETS GOOD RENTAL.
Northwestern Leases School Land Nea,
Brennan for Shipping Pens.

Rapid City, S. D., March 23.-The
Northwestern railroad company has
leased a section and a half of school
land in the vicinity Of Brennan, the
cattle shipping station a few miles east
from Rapid City, for a period of four
years. Four hundred and eighty acres
OF the land Is located at the shipping
pens and for this the company pays
42R cents an acre per year. The rest
commands water holes that are of value
In watering beef herds. For this land
the Company is to pay q cents an acre.
Captain T. G. Carter, right-of-way man
for the Northwestern says these are
the highest prices his company has had
to pay for school land In the state.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1903-03-28
JUST TO KEEP ORGANIZATION.
Sioux Falls Socialists Will Nominate
but Do Not Hope to Elect.

Sioux Falls, s. D., March 23.-The So
cialists of Sioux Falls that
their organization will again enter city
politics this spring and place candi-
dates for aldermen in nomination in
each of the six wards of the city, to
be voted on at the regular municipal
election, to be held next month. Even
the most sanguine socialists refuse to
predict that they will elect a single one
of their candidates, but will place the
men in nomination for the purpose Of
maintaining their organization.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1903-03-28
Three New Weeklies.

Lead, S. D., March 23.-Three new
weekly newspapers have appeared in
Lawrence county within the last few
days. M. II. Lyon has started the Tin
ton Times, in the western part of the
county. John II. Skinner has estab-
lished the Roubaix Globe at RoubaiX,
In the southern part of the county, and
A. c.. Potter of Spearfish a purchased
the Whitewood Plaindealer and moved
II to Spearfish.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1903-03-28
-Four Miners MISSING.

Sydney. N. S., March 21.-As the re-
suit Of an explosion, followed by fire, in
Dominion No. 1 colliery at Glace Bay,
yesterday, four men are missing, seven
ty-eight were suffocated by fire damp,
and property estimated at $500, 900 was
destroyed.
AS 1t was between shifts. only a few
men were in the mine at the time. They
made a rush for the mouth Of the pit,
and 1t was believed all got out. Last
night 1t was learned, however. that
four Observation-Disclosures are missing. The
fire is still burning.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1903-03-28
Violated a New Law.

Sioux Falls, S. D., March 20.-A pic.
ture canvasser, Michael Ginsburg, ha,
been arrested in Lake county for ped.
ding without a license, this being the
first arrest to be made in the state fol
a violation of the new law. He wa.
fined $25 and costs or twenty days al
work on the streets of Madison. Gins.
burg was originally arrested on com.
plant of a young girl for assault, but
the case against him was dismissed
after his preliminary hearing, when hi
was at once rearrested or the charge
of peddling without a license.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1903-03-28

That the bubonic plague is carried
from pert to port by rats In ships is
an established fac A French inves-
tigator now finds that the disease Is
communicated from rat to rat by fieas,
and that promiscuous intercourse be-
tween healthy and infected rats or their
cadavers never transmits the plague,
while fleas conveyed the disease in
eight tests out of nine. So medical
officers are now giving assiduous at
tention to the health and comfort OF the
rats In their district.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1903-03-28

France has a special association for
discovering a remedy for seasickness.
In September, 1901, 1t held an exhibition
at Ostende. The Investigations have
since been continued, partly with the
aid of q steamer lent by the Belgian
government. The results are now made
public in a book written by DR.. Ma
leuf of Paris. 1t contains various rules
IS to diet, clothing, ETC., but points out
no sure remedy.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1903-03-28

Delany's high-speed telegraph sys-
tenn recently perfected. Is capable Of
transmitting 100 to 5000 words a min
ute over a single wire-the speed de-
pending On the distance and the cleo
trical properties OF the line, that is, on
the ~electrostatic capacity resistance n
inductance OF the circuit. Eight thous-
and words a minute can be recorded
over a line Of fifty miles, while 100
words would be about the limit over a
No. 8 copper wire between New York
and San Francisco,
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1903-03-28
APPEALED HIS CASE.
Richard Hayes Asks the Supreme Court
for a New Trial.

Sioux Falls, $. D., March 23.-The in
formation given Il Thursday by off,
Gals OF the penltentiary that Richard
Hayes, serving five years for rape, COM
mitted in Moody county. had been
granted a new trial, was
Judge J.. W.. Jones, who presided at
Hayes trial, states that Hayes appealed
his case to the supreme court, and that
court made an order s%uspending i'm
prisonment in the penitentiary until a
decision Is rendered on the appeal.
Hayes will remain In Jail at Flandreau,
where he has been taken, unless he fur
nishes a satisfactory bond.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1903-03-28

A ray Of sunlight shining through a
prism and separated into the succession
of colors called the spectrum, Is only
visible in part to human vision. Below
the red at one end and above the vio-
let at the other, as we all know, are col
ors which are invisible to us, and whose
quality we cannot conceive. We know,
however, that they are appreciated by
the eyes of some insects.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1903-03-28

The electrical fan is increasing In
popularity as a purveyor of comfort,
both at home n In the equatorial reg
ions, so that the American output for
the coming summer Is estimated by the
Electrical World at $780, 600. Not only
does IL serve to mitigate the heat OF
summe but In a great many instances
1t W the purpose OF sanitation
and ventilation so economically n
efficiently that few other appliances can
Compnre with IL.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1903-03-28
Fire Protection of platte,

Platte, S. D., March 21.-A South
Send, Ind, firm has been awarded the
contract to construct a new water
works system here. Their bid Of $500
the lowest. The contract requires
he firm to construct the system. erect
| brick building for a waterworks sta
ion, furnish hooks and ladders and
900 feet of good hose. Five per cent.
,onds voted for the construction of the
Iystom have been sold at par.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1903-03-28
She Thounht of Him.

Philadelphia Press: Coamley -
didn't know you were acquainted with
Miss Lovett. She asked me last night
If / knew you.
H~oamley-That was nice OF her. What
led her to ask you that / wonder?
Coamley-Why-er- ! q just asked
her If she could imagine any one uslier
than Bill Thompson.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1903-03-28

An American professor, after visiting
O large chronological institute In Ger
many. said that the school and It's
equipment was ahead Of anything at
home. When this compliment was re-
peated afterward to a prominent In
structor In the institute he replied:
why, that is exactly what l said of
your technical schools after my trip
to America, and that is the only way
j could get the money to make ours
what 1t is today.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1903-03-28
Natural Gas Well.

Blackhawk, S. D., March 23.-It is
reported that a gas well has been found
hear o Elder creek. A man who was
riding along the stream had his atten-
ton attracted by a peculiar sound, and,
Upon investigation, found gas issuing
from q broken ledge of shale rock.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1903-03-28

Three years ago, some gold rings,
chains and crown decorated with jew
els were found in the Dresden Kreuz
Kirche in the grave Of Duke Albrecht
of Holstein, who died in 1919. They
were claimed by Duk Ernst Gunther
and the courts AVE now acknowledged
his title to them.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1903-03-28

The doyen of French medical men is
DIR. David of Montpelier, who cele-
brated his 103d birthday or February
10. The doctor practiced medicine un-
til he reached the ripe g OF 9S years.
He then retired n went to live at
Montpelier with his daughter. DR.. Da-
vid Is in full possession of all his facul-
ties. He Is an authority on certain
diseases and patients still come to con-
suit him. some from great distances.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1903-03-28
The Power of Principle.

founded on the living rock of prin-
ciple, il, in fact, not a solitary phenom-
enon, to be at once perceived, limited
and described. 1t is n d~ispensation of
Providence, designed to have, not
merely an immediate. but a continuous,
progressive, and ne~Ver-ending agency.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1903-03-28

President Jordan of Stanford univer-
sity worked his way through Cornell by
waiting on table. husking corn and dig
ging bitches. His tuition was free, un-
der the state scholarship which he re-
ceived from Wyoming county, where
he lived. AS a farmers boy and coun-
try school teacher he had learned the
entire fauna and fora of his vicinity
and shown unmistakable signs Of his
genius for scholarship.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1903-03-28

The policy of western educators re-
garding the Rhodes scholarships has
been decided upon. Young men, to be,
eligible, must be at least "a years old,
unmarried, and not under the grade of
juniors in college, according to the de-
cision OF the representatives OF TWEEN
ty-four western universities. DR.. Geo.
H. Parkin, representing the Rhodes
fund, was present at the meeting of
the educators, which was held at the
University of Chicago, recently.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1903-03-28
A plausible explanation of the fact

A plausible explanation Of the fact
noted by Marconi that ethergrams
travel farther by night h by day Is
that of NJ. Jolly quoted by La Nature.
The waves constituting the message
were sent from east to west, and would,
therefore, be travelling during the day.
against the earth current from England,
while by night they would be travelling
with that current In conditions SINH
lar to sounds carried by a strong gale.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1903-03-28
New Insurance Company.

Sioux Falls, S. D., March PA new
Insurance company, the Sioux Falls
Mutual Fire Insurance company, has
been organized here. AT a meeting OF
the stockholders the following officers
we're elected: w. III. Lyon, president;
II. N. Gates, vice president; H. NJ.
Avery, secretary; ID. A. Scott, treasurer.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1903-03-28
Third Conviction in Rape Cases.

Deadwood, s. D., March 21.-A third
conviction has been secured In circuit
court in the criminal assault cases. The
last is In the case against Adelbert
Smith. He will be sentenced March 21,
with the other two. The law provides
a maximum penalty of five years in the
p~enitentiary.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1903-03-28
IL Was Not lecse-

Philadelphia Public Ledger: Doctor to
Gilbert (aged D-Put your tongue out,
dear.
Sick little Gilbert feebly protruded the
tip of his tongue.
Doctor-No, no; put 1t right out.
The little fellow shook his head weak
ly, and the tears gathered in his eyes
Il can't doctor; it's fastened on to me"
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1903-03-28

Tipping Is getting to be a nuisance
In his country, but II is not nearly as
bad as In Austrian restaurants, where
one is expected to pay three walters
the one who brings the food, the n
who receives the pay and the "piccolo'
who serves the drinks.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1903-03-28
Sprjnotime in Georoia.

Atlanta Constitution: You have an
early spring here. do your" asked the Wis
itor from the north.
"Yes, sir-right airly. You kin always
tell when springs come fer good by the
snakes. That one you're a-standin' or
now is a ground RATHER, and this one
where you're a-jumpin' to is a spreadin!
adder!
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1903-03-28
Wronq as to the Attitude.

Chicago Tribune: Foreigner-Youl
country, it seems, is now facing a race
problem.
Native-Well, no.; were trying to
dodge 1t.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1903-03-28
Fertile in Expcdients,

New York Sun: DeGarry-You let
the other fellow put his arm around
you.
Polly-Pshaw! We were dancing.
DeGarry-But l can't dance.
Dolly-Then why don't you axe me
out for a sleigh ride?
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1903-03-28

The United States government anc
foreign governments as we'll, have quite
recently, for the purpose of ascertain
ing the migratory habits of the cod,
released the fish with metal checks at
tached for the purpose of later identi-
Araftou
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1903-03-28
Iinney Murder Trial On,

Pierre, s. d., March 20.-The case On
the state VS.. Bert M. Linney on charg,
of the murder Of Milton F. Gunsale,
at Blunt, July 5 last, was called IL
circuit court here yesterday, and the
whole day was spent in an effort to Sc
cure a jury. The case will probably
take all the rest Of the week.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1903-03-28

Confidently with the presentation OF
a silver service to the battleship Ala
bama by the citizens of the Cotton
state a portrait of Admiral Raphael
Semmes was placed in the gallery of
the state historical department at
Montgomery.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1903-03-28
Uncle Allen.

Chicago Tribune: when you come
across one of these column articles on
The JOY of Working" Uncle Al!er
Sparks was saying, you can't help
feeling sorry for the man that wrote it.
How he must have toiled, and wor-
ried. and sweat over it,"
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1903-03-28
Famine Fund Growing.

Pierre, s. D.. March 21.-The total
Finland famine relief fund In the hands
Of the state treasurer to date Is
81, 329.22. OF this sum Brown county
has donated $516.29.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1903-03-28

The baby born in 1903 has three times
a better chance of living through its
first year and five times a better chance
of living to be 5 years old than 1t would
have had q dozen years ago.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1903-03-28

Umbrella bearers are shown in an
cient sculptures at Persepolis, where
q king is depicted in royal state at
tended by n fly fapper and an UNI
brella man. In Persia the umbrella Is
still an a~ppendage of royalty.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1903-03-28
Burninu Words.

Chicago Tribune: Assistant-"Here
is a book on typography. Want any
thing written about it,"
Literary Editor-"Yes; you might
give it one or two short pyrographs."
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1903-03-28

To to his musical friends
the birth of a son, q Welsh musician
has sent a card simply bearing four
bars OF music. They were recognized
as from 1.-The Messiah" Unto us a
child is born, unto us a sou Is given
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1903-03-28

Within half an hour Of the death of
one of a pair of twin boys, at Leicester,
England, the other one died-through,,
the doctor said. a certain curious sym,
patty which exists between twins. \
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1903-03-28
Pioneer Woman Dead.

Rapid City, s. D., March 1S.--Mrs. Heller
Kresse Lampert died at the home Of hei
daughter, Mrs. George p. Bennett, of can.
Ger, aged SO years. She came to the Blacl
Hills in 1881. Besides her husband she lef
Ave children, two daughters n thre,
sons.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1903-03-28

John ID. Strassburg has been a post
office employee in louisville sixty years.
He IN IS years Old, and says he will
work as long rs lie ,an walk.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1903-03-28

The nightly at <. q roe at London
theaters AVERAGES 5i.CC0 persons.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-12-02
THE IOWA CARRIE NATION.

Abrams, the Iowa Carrie Nation.
lectured to fair sized audience in
the NJ. E. church Sunday evening.
Abrams is loved, admired, hated, de-
spised, respected, and reyiled. by a
whole lot of Iowa people who look at
things from entirely different stand
points. He has ability, grit, spunk,
cheek, gall and pertinacity, a thorn
in the side Of the liquor vender, he is
just the kind of fellow to get blown
up with dynamite and come down
right side up everywhere. He has
been squelcEed hundred times and
has made the squelcher howl to pay
for it. Abrams is an agitator. he in
cites men to heroic action and excites
others to lawlessness. About one such
man to hundred thousand is perhars
good thing. Thicker than that
would be too much. Britt Tribune.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-12-02
A FINE MONUMENT.

The James Holahan family has had
erected upon their lot in Mount
Olivet cemetery, what is declared to
be the finest monument in this part of
Iowa. 1t is of very imposing de.
sign and size and in point of material
and finish is plainly in class by it.
self. 1t is made from pink New West.
erly granite. The bottom base is eight
feet long and five feet and three in.
ches wide. Total height of the monu-
ment, thirteen feet and five inches
The monument is the work of Ed. H.
Prior of Postville. whose superior
ability and knowledge have produced
the finest monuments in northeastern
Iowa. -Waukon Democrat.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-12-02
FROM SOUTH AFRICA.
New Way of Using Chamberlain's Cough
Remedy.

Mr.. Arthur Chapman writing from
Durham, Natal, South Africa. says:
"As proof that Chamberlain
Cough Remedy is cure suitable for
old and young, pen you the follow
ing: A neighbor of mine had child
just over two months old. 1t Lad a
very bad cough and the parents did
not know what to give it. / suggested
that if they would get a bottle of
Chamberlain's Cough Remedy and
put some upon the dummy teat the
baby was sucking it would no doubt
cure the child. This they did and
brought about quick relief and cured
the baby" This remedy is for sale
by Engbretson's Pharmacy.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-12-02

Josh Billings said that "the only
thing some underwear is good for is to
make fellow scratch and forget his
other troubles" The underwear we
sell has the quality in it and you
don { need to scratch. Come look over
our line and we guarantee you will
buy your winter underwear from us.
Prices 80 cents to 49, Bears.