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Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1903-02-28

| state flower: repeating the obsolete Sec
| lions of the code; requiring bonds for
a depository of county funds relating
to the method of adopting children, and
appropriating s. 5000 for four cottages at
the soldiers home.
The bill providing for the collection Of
! taxes in cities of the first class failed
to pass by the requisite two-thirds, and
reconsideration is ordered for Monday
afternoon.
The bill providing for the incorpora-
ton of telephone companies has called
a number Of representatives OF compan-
les here to look after their interests. w.
| A. Vail Is here from Minneapolis rep
resenting the Bell company, while
United States Marshal Kennedy and
others are guarding the interests OF the
companies organized in the state.
The bill would compel companies
meeting at any point to form connect
ing lines.
Talk Of Revenge.
The insurance lobby spent several
hours in the middle of last night trying
to line up a force sufficient to punish
the newspapers which had been per-
sistent In demanding remedial insur-
ance legislation.
Many members were approached and
asked to go INTO n combination 10 re-
peal the law requiring insurance state
ments to be published in three W
papers in each judicial circuit.
As the repeal Of the law would cut
off the expense of the insurance COM
panies by at least sic, 900 and keep it
out Of the hands of the republican ed
itors of the state, its significance will
be readily understood. The move
ment was discouraged by those who
were approached, who gave as a rea-
son for their unwillingness that there
was too much excitement at present to
permit it's calm consideration.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1903-02-28
PLACER OIL CLAIMS.
Twenty Eight Hundred Filed in the
Nebraska Dakota Country.

Hot Springs, S. D., Feb. 20.-The re-
cent excitement that has been aroused
along the Nebraska line south of here
has resulted In about $50 quarter sec
tons OF land being filed upon for placer
oil mining claims. Eacn claim COM
prises only twenty acres, which means
been taken.
A contract has been let to sink the
present shaft on the Saginaw min near
Custer, 800 feet, the work to be begun
at once.
he miners In the Ida Florence in the
drift from the 200-foot level cut through
a strata in the ledge OF very rich rock
last Friday. The rich strata or CHM
ney is a foot thick and will assay about
$500 a ton of rock. Mr.. Sisk says hat
1t appears to increase in size and rich
ness as they proceed.
While doing assessment work on a
claim south of the Golden Slipper
workmen cut into a ladge 16 inches
thick that is very rich. The report is
that it is all specimen rock and the free
gold can be seen In the entire Is inches.
An extraordinary rich strike is re-
ported as having been made the fore
part of the week on the Leroy mine,
near Custer. 1t is a telluride ore.
At the golden Mortar mine the shaft
Is down about rs feet, and q drift Is be-
ing run to cross-Cut the ore body. The
formation is hornblende mingled with
quartz carrying native copper, free
gold and bismuth telluride. The show
ing is excellent,
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1903-02-28
CASTORIA
Fox Infants and Children.
Tho Kind You Have Always Bought
s' sssss the .. INAZzzM
Eootlessness of Wealth

Indianapolis News: The administrato
Of the Fair estate says that at Paris a $50
Imitation sable cloak was substituted for
the zeal ~thing-one of the most valuable
cloaks In the world--among Mrs. Fairs
effects; also, that Mr.. Fair was In his
lifetime, 20 use a slang phrase, Just pud-
din for Partisan jewelers., who sold
him what was supposed to be valuable
strings OF pearls, but which turn out to
be limitations. 1t seems that II takes
experts 10 tell the difference. At which
the average would be, What's
the odds?'
Aesop has n fable Of a miser who got all
his store i'm the shape OF gold, which he
buried in his garden. He was wont to
visit 1t and gloat over it. At one visit
finally he found the hole empty. and he
troubled deaf heaven with his bootless
cries" A friend, hearing him, inquired
the cause, and then gave this piece Of
sound advice: Just put a stone there
and think that II Is you gold and II will
do you just as much good" So, in the
present case, what is the difference be-
tween sham sablcs and real ones? The
one will keep the wearer just as warm as
the other. and be, so TO say, just as
slightly. And the same thing is TO be said
for the imitation pearls. Neither OF them
comes under the head of productive cap
ltal. Aside from the question Of covering
as clothes. which does not come in here,
both belong to the barbaric category of
ornamentatlon, In which the last develop
ment of human kind seems to Touch the
first.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1903-02-28
ARRIVE.
National Sanitarium Managers in Ses-
sion at Hot Springs.

Hot Springs, S. D., Feb. 21.-Captain
Henry j.. Palmer Of the board of man
ayers of the National Sanitarium at
Hot Springs will arrive here today,
with Thomas X. Kimball, the architect
in charge of the work, n his secre-
tary, Mr.. Prince, and Mr.. Nelson II
Mr.. Potter. The two last named gen.
tlemen are from Chicago. Mr.. Nelson
and Mr.. Potter are distinguished hy-
draulic and civil engineers, who, with
the chief architect, Mr.. Kimball, will
adopt plans for the commencement of
the work. The gentlemen will be ac-
companied by Mrs. Kimbal n Mrs.
Nelson, and will remain at the Springs
possibly u week.
Last week congress appropriated the
additional sum of $3.50, 600 for construc.
ton work and $4,000 for additional
grounds, making the total appropria-
tons to date $500, 600 to be used in the
year 1903. This amount of money 1T
is estimated, will be necessary for the
completion OF what is called the first
group of buildings to take care of 450
inmates or members Of the sanitarium
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1903-02-28
CHAPTER TX.

IF WE'RE TO DIE TOMORROW.
On the seventh day of Villon's week
of wonder, his glory was at Its great
est. No fairer day a graced that
radiant month of June and no more
splendid ~pageantry had adorned the IL
lustrious reign of the new grand con-
stable. Mimic battles, fountains run
ming wine, free doles Of food, fantastic
| pageants, grotesque dances, all the gor-
geous that the fifteenth CEN
fury delighted In was offered In pro-
! fusion to please the fancy n win the
hearts of the people Of Paris. But the
browning triumph was the great fes-
tival which the grand constable gave
with the kings permission in the kings
w rose garden, the magnificent mas
carado in the Italian manner, to which
all who were associated with the court
were summoned. This revelry which
began at sunset was intended to over
top all possible courtly c~eremonials In
the splendor Of it's equipment, the Law
ishness Of it's display, the richness and
profusion Of It's hospitality.
Il was near to the hour of sunset
when Villon sat with the king In the
little room in the grey tower from
which the king loved to follow the
movements of the heavenly bodies. ON
the table by which the king n Villon
were seated lay a large chart OF the
country in the immediate neighborhood
Of Paris, and In front of the table stood
three of the kings most trusty COM
manders, the Lord du Lau, the Lord
| Poncet de Riviere and the Lord OF Nan
toilet.
( Villon had been explaining to the king
and to his military advisers a scheme
whic had been growing in his mind
throughout the week for the confusion
of the enemy, a scheme for which the
! gorgeous entertainment to be given that
evening was to serve as a golden mask.
Villon touched a point on the map
which represented a spot very familiar
to him, a little dip In the swelling land,
where he used to play as a child m
gather wild flowers and hide himself,
and imagine that he was a bandit or a
great captain or a fairy prince-any
one of the thousand illusions Of child
hood at its play.
There sire" he said. IF I can lure
the Burgundians to that hollow, the day
is ours. The sloping ground above 1t
will mask a thousand men,"
Poncet de Riviere leaned forward
questioningly.
Are you sure of the lay of the land?"
Villon answered positively:
Sure. 1 played truant there when I
was no higher than your sword belt"
Nantoillet spoke as a nan who
weighs his words:
1.-The scheme seems feasible, SIRE"
Villon glanced up from the table In
humorous apology.
"You may think me a raw soldier" he
said, yet 1 have practiced strategy al
my days"
Du Lau answered him a~pprovingly:
my lord, you reason like a seasoned
veteran"
Pleased with the praise Villon turned
to the king.
CONTINUED Next Weekly
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1903-02-28
AND MRS. RYAN CAME BACK.
Want Ad Wife Returns to John Henry
and Regulates an Interview,

Sioux Falls, S. D., Feb. 21.-Much to
the surprise of those who have inter-
ested themselves in the fortunes of
John Henry Ryan n his wife, she has
returned to Sioux Falls from Daven-
port and taken up her residence with
her husband. The couple were mar
ried as the result Of a newspaper ad-
vertisement, n the new Mrs. Ryan
departed for her former Iowa home
within a few hours after the marriage
ceremony was performed. 1t was said
she took with her about $500 which had
been given TO her by her husband to
clear off the Indebtedness from some
Of her Iowa property. This was about
the holidays. A week or ten days ago
n Davenport newspaper printed a pur-
ported interview with Mrs. Ryan in
which she was quoted as saying she
never intended returning to her Sioux
Falls husband. Mrs. Ryan now de-
nounces the interview as a fake and
denies ever having made such a state
ment.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1903-02-28
Just in Time

Broadland, s. Oak, Feb. 23.-Beadle
County has never been so worked up
as during the last few weeks. Every
one is talking Of the wonderful case
Of G.. w. Gray OF Broadland, the par
~ticulars OF which are best told In the
following statement which MI. Gray
has just published:
II was dying. l had given up all
hope. l was PROSTATE and as helpless
as a little babe. l had been ailing with
Kidney Trouble for many years and 1t
finally turned to Bright's disease. All
medicine had failed and l was In de-
spair.
81 ordered one box OF Dodd's Kid
ney Pills and this first box helped me
out o. bed. 1 continued the treatment
till now l am n strong, well nan l
praise God for the day when decided
to use Dodd's Kidney Pills"
Everybody expected that MI. Gray
would die and his remarkable recovery
Is regarded as little short Of a miracle
by all who know how very low he was.
Dodd's Kidney Pills are certainly a
wonderful remedy.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1903-02-28
THURSDAYS PROCEEDINGS.

Pierre, S. D., Feb. 19.-The Sunday
observance bill passed the house with
the penalty cut to $40. Other house bills
passed giving miners liens for wages,
for inspection Of branded horses offered
! for shipment by sheriffs, and licensing
sheriffs; amending procedure for call
I'M. turics; appropriatlng $4,000 for the
state fair; for government of charitable
and penal institutions by a salaried
board Of three, N providing that all
of the present board Of five shall serve
out their terms; re-enacting the calf
larceny bill TO cure a defect
discovered by the governor:
supplementary to the scaven-
ger act, to help out counties which
failed to avail themselves of that
measure In 1901; to permit married
women to act as administrators and
executors; to limit the number Of game
birds which may be killed or shipped
by one person to fifteen; appropriating
$1,000 to pay oliver Gibbs for money
expended ten years q in promoting
a worlds fair exhibition; requiring
road overseers to be freeholders.
BY the senate fixing terms OF court
in the Eighth circuit; increasing the
salary OF assistant superintendent Of
education to $1,000; requiring inven-
tories of all institutions property and
fixing county commissioners salary at
81 per day.
The oil inspection bill is before the
house for passage, the plan being to
substitute the senate for the house bill
and pass it without change. There will
probably be no opposition. An at
tempt will be made in senate to strike
out the committee amendment to the
medical examiner bill and adopt it as
1t came from the house.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1903-02-28

A HISTORIC BUILDING RAZEp.
Old blouse at Fort Monroe, in Which
jefferson Davis Was Imprisoned.

Baltimore Herald: Work was begun
Wednesday on the demolition Of the old
Carroll house in the ramparts OF Fort
Monroe. 1t vas the first structure
erected on the reservation and was
built In 1919. This was two years be-
fore the Virginia legislature coded to
the United States the land on which
Fort Monroe now stands.
The building is Of historical interest
also because 1t was occupied by Jeffer-
son Davis after lie was removed from
the casemate dungeon while awaiting
his trial on the charge of high trea-
son. General Simon Bernard. a French
engineer who saw service under the
last Napoleon, supervised the construc-
ton of a bridge from the building to
the top Of the ramparts, where Mr.. Da-
Wis was allowed to take exercise. The
site of the old building will be used for
a new mess hall.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1903-02-28
Didn't Move on Time.

st. Louis Republic: A typical tough
boy, aged 13, was committed to a certain
not long ago by a city magistrate
What did you do that they sent you
here? ?" asked the superintendent mildly.
Huh! They sent me up just for play.
a game snarled the boy.
What gamer" asked the superintendent
Checkers wild de police" he explained
ut was me move, an / didn't move, sc
dey jumped me-"
He had been arrested for lettering.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1903-02-28
FOR NEW COURT HOUSE.
Special Election Held to Declare for
Bond Issue.

Fairfax, s. D., Feb. 20.-Great in
terest is being taken in the special
election which will be held on Tuesday
of next week for the purpose of vot-
ing upon the question of issuing bonds
In the sun Of $4,000 for the constrUc-
ton Of a county court house.
Some of the partisans of Bonesteel
are opposing the proposed erection of
a court house. The people OF that
place hope at some future time to cap
ture the county seat from Fairfax, and
for this reason do not wish 10 see a
court house erected here, for when
such a building is erected the fight to
take the county seat from this place
would be hopeless. With the present
campaign for the issuance of bonds
taking this shape, no safe prediction
can be made as to whether or not the
bonds will carry, although the resi-
dents and friends Of Fairfax are hope
full of being able to secure a majority.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1903-02-28

cry was repeated upon a hundred lips.
AS Toison dor turned and left the
presence, Katherine came swiftly down
the steps and flung herself at Villon's
feet.
my lord" she said. with my lips
the I'M of France thank you for
your words OF fame"
Louis leaned forward, smiling sar-
donically.
mistress. what does this meanY" he
questioned.
The girl rose to her feet. looking into
Villon's face with eyes that mirrored
the admiration shining in his eyes.
TT means, sire, that a man has come
To COURT"
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1903-02-28

j. w. Mauck, former president OF the
university, Will act as POSTMASTER.
The committee on arrangements Is
DR.. e. M. Eperlein, president OF the Chi
cage Association of the University OF
South Dakota; Mrs. Kathleen Lewis
Miller, Professor G.. G. Mars, DR.. j. r.
Ierrick, DR.. Il. l.. Heintz n Clarence
L. Weed, secretary of the association.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1903-02-28
U. S. DIS IN
Annual Banquet Will Mark Washing
toms Birthday.

Chicago, Feb. 19.-South Dakotans in
Chicago will hold their annual univer-
sity banquet and reception February FL
at the Great Northern hotel, in celebra-
ton of Washington's birthday a%nniver-
sary.
The table decoF&lo ions will be of YER
million red, and eNI.y guest is expected
to wear a badge of ribbon Of the same
university color.
over 200 former students of the state
university and members of the South
Dakota colony IN Chicago Will attend
the DanQ~tl.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1903-02-28
Slanderous Statement.

Kansas City Journal: II don't like your
friend Blevins-he Is a coarse, insulting
person. He called me an ass and an alli-
gator"
"He did? Tut, tut. Blevins shouldn't
nave done that. Why, you dom look the
least bit like an alligator-not the least
bit"
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1903-02-28
A Blow at the Free List,

washington Star: The trusts said
the apprehensive citizen, ARE a menace
to our free Institutions"
Possibly" answered Senator Sorghum
when II comes to votes l have been told
that some of 'em are willing TO pay for
what other people expect TO get for MOTH
ing"
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1903-02-28
No Land to Homestead.

WATERFOWL, s.. D., Feb. 19.-The of
flcials and clerks Of the United States
land office in this city are kept busy
answering inquiries concerning a tract
OF 300 acres of land in Codington coun-
ty which was reported TO be vacant.
The report was published in a Twin
city paper a few weeks ago, and in the
past two weeks 500 inquiries have been
received, over half of them being by
mail from parties many miles away.
Only yesterday a man appeared at the
land office to file on the vacant" land,
having come a distance of 200 miles for
the express purpose of filing upon it.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1903-02-28
Cured Him.

Chicago Tribune: YES" the young
man in the corduroy knickerbockers was
saying, my father always intended me
for the ministry. When / was about q,
however, he gave UP the idea"
What made him change his mind2"
well, he heard me try to preach once"
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1903-02-28
Civic Pride.

Chicago Tribune: st. Louis You
have to pay 81 a ton for coal? We can
get 1t in our town for $40.
Kansas City Man-Huh! The people in
your town haven't heard yet that there's
been q coal striks.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1903-02-28

How an abscess in the Fallo.
plan Tubes of Mrs. H0llinger
was removed without a surgical
operation.
81 had an abscess In my side in
the fallopian tube (the fallopian
tube is a connection of the ~ovaries).
I suffered untold misery and was
so weak / could scarcely get around.
The sharp burning pains low down
in my side were terrible. My physi-
clan said there was no help for me
unless ] would go to the hospital
and be operated on. l thought
before that | would try Lydia e.
Pinkham's Vegetable Compound
which, fortunately, / did, and it has
made me a stout, healthy woman.
My advice to all women who suffer
with any kind Of female trouble Is
to commence taking Lydia Il.
%pinkham's Vegetable Compound.
OF Mrs. IRA 8. HoLLINeEH,
Stilvideo, Ohio.-s6ooo forfeit y O,igiusiet
above letter proOin5 eenvirensss cannot BE- produced.
1t would seem by this state
ment that women would save
time and much sickness If they
would get Lydia T.. Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound at once,
and also write to Mrs. Pinkham
ut Lynn, Mass, for special adj
vice. 1t Is free and always helps.
No Other person can give such
helpful advice as Mrs. Plnkham
to women who are sick.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1903-02-28
6be Legislature
Proceedings Of theLawmakers
at the South Dakoto Capital
TuEspAy,3 PRocEEpINcs.

, Pierre, s. D., Feb. 1S.-The local OPP
ton bill was the center of interest in
the senate yesterday. The motion to
adopt the minority report. opposing the
bill, carried by a vote Of % to 20. A
motion to adopt the majority report
failed to carry, Il to 20. A motion to
place the bill on the calendar for final
passage today carried.
The senate was closely and holly d.
vided on the bill, which would make 1t
possible to stop the liquor traffic in
communities where the majority were
opposed TO the sale, and brought out
some heated arguments.
The Perkins bill, providing for the
recognition of the battleship South
Dakota" was passed, also McDougalTs
bill appropriating $4,000 for the MAIN
enanc of the national guard for two
years, n Branson's bill approprlating
$500 for an expense fund OF h public
examiner.
The house committee on state affairs
report favoring a Irvine plant at the
state penitentiary failed OF adoption,
and was sent to the appropriation com
mittee, where it will remain indefinite
ly.
The anti-compact insurance bill was
reported ~unfaVorably, n the house
will disregard the report and place 1t
on the calendar Wednesday for passage.
The house passed bills making notes Of
mutual insurance companies nom
negotiable; appropriating $4,000 for the
deficiency at the reform school: appro-
pritinS 81, 500 for court expenses in I'M
organized counties, and fixing the sal
airy Of state veterinarians at 81, 500.
One important bill was introduced
aiming to place the Office Of school n
public lands commissioner on a fee
system that will make the office self
supporting by increasing the fees for
all classes of the business transacted
in the office. The measure is popular.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1903-02-28

Bishop John Jansen of Bellevue, H.,
has resigned his bishopric and will en-
ter a franciscan monastery, there to
end his days,
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1903-02-28
WEDNESDAYS PROCEEDINGS.

Pierre, S. D., Feb. 19.-The senate
passed the house bills locating the en-
campment grounds at Kampeska; pro-
viding for an inventory Of all property
at the state institutions; for all print
ing OF the laws Of the present session;
making salaries OF county commits
sioners 81 per day.
In the house the anti-compact bill
was reported unfavorably, but the eau
Gus combination changed 1t to a favor
able report and passed 1t along a notch
on the calendar.
he house passed some of its own
bills. and among them one providing
for a state board Of control Of three
members at q salary of 1880 per year
and expenses. 1t barely got through on
Il two-thirds vote, which Is required on
special appropriations. 1t retains five
members the first two years.
Hale's horse inspection bill passed,
making the sheriffs of the state inspec-
tors OF branded horses being shipped
from the state.
The house exhausted it's supply Of
oratory over the bill providing for
punishment of Sabbath breakers, but it
passed with only fourteen opposing
votes.
There are more than a score Of bills
on the house calendar for passage, n
the session will begin at 10 o'clock this
morning.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1903-02-28
The card TabIe in the Far West.

Inc cara taptc tH tnN Far Wests
Washington Star: do you think II po-
iite," said the foolish stranger In rinse
Guich, FOR a man to sit In his shirt
sleeves and play cards all day?"
Yes. sir" Three-Finger Fam;
and maybe It'll be for your own good TO
remind you that the fewer sleeves a man
has on when he plays cards around here
The less liable he is to fall under suspl-
cion."
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1903-02-28
Free Homestead Of 100 Acres, Free

rs-siou1 City and Sioux City Indpt Lists