Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1907-05-11

THE CHRONICLE
cUeTsn SOUTH DAkoTA
JOSEPH kuELER. Publisher
The scarcity Of horses and men in
the west is one of the most noticeable
features In the progress Of industry
says q st Paul dispatch TO the Boston
Transcript Good draft horses, which
eight years ago We're worth only sac
are now selling at $500 TO $500 each; Z
good team Is worth $500. These horses
are needed in the lumber woods and on
railway construction, but not enough
can be had. Men TO work in the
woods are being paid $40 month and
board. man with a GOOD team com
mands wages OF 50 day hauling
lumber and logs. Never before have
the wages been SO high or the prices Of
horses so great as now.
Sister .Iosefine. of the Order OF St
Paul, died at Lem6erg, Poland, two
weeks ago. She was thirty-six years
old when she took the VOWS, and had
completed her forty second year OF
work when she passed away. In the
world" she was Emile Schiller, and
was q kinsWoman Of Friedrich Won
Schiller In speaking OF her death a
Polish paper says Sister Josehne
was known for her plety, goodness Of
heart and devotion and her readiness
to bring sacrifices and do good made
her generally beloved. She also loved
the Polish people, and at the last up
rising rendered great services TO the
Princess Hedwig."
Although the production OF crude
petroleum in America is making enor-
NOUS strides every year the bulk Of
this comes froTn new territories which
Yield heavy oils containing little or no
spirit. In fact, the fields which have
IN the past supplied the world with
petroleum spirit and high class illumi-
mating oils are, IL lis said, failing, so
much so that the center OF production
is no longer Ia the Eastern states bat
lies equally between the Gulf states
gnd California Recent work in the
midccntinent fields shows, however,
that therc Is q prospect OF the supply
OF high-GraAe oils being Increased En-
.gineer
Lcri Alyerstone, the Lord chief jus
tice Of England, who has a salary OF
$4,000 a year. when AT the bar used
Invariably TO get up between and 6
I'm the morning, except when he had
been hate ia Parliament on one oc-
casior nc wanted TO talk over "A GER
tain point in bricf with one OF his
Juniors. lie as'gcd the young man to
call in the morning. AT what time,
Sir RichacdY' asked the young bar.
rister. AT half past 9, AT my house,
was the rerly The young man ar
rived on the stroke OF the moment. In
order to 90 it however, he sat up all
night!
Relics of the days when Boadicea
conducted her campaign i'm the neigh
borhood Of what is now Kings Cross.
or, perhaps, Of even an earlier day, were
turned up recently by some worlmen
at Crayfcrd Kent, England. The men
were digging IN sand pits on the Wan
stunt estate, when they noticed some
metal articles. on examination these
proved TO be nine gold armlcts Of uni
form shape but varying sizes. The
articles were taken 90 q police station
where the Police took possession Of
them on BEHALF Of The crown a8 trca-
sure-trove.-- TCston Trans rlut
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One of the games OF IN indian c3ys
MT Haskell School, Lawrence Eas. IS
swimming under the water. ON the
shore stands little max "a red man, In
to his serious little mouth Is thrust q
handful OF grass. then-Ilu lurEP and
away beneath the surface! As he
Bwims he blows lightly through the
surface, and by these HIS companions
trace him. and he who goes the long gast
distance is privileged TO strike with a
wet cloth the boy who goes the sh3
est-Western Christian ADVOCATE.
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To-, IA
and peculiar useless collection is be-
ing put up for sale, says the London
Telegraph. II had taken the owner
an eccentric count, Just dead, years to
get 1t together. He spent the greater
part of his lifetime buying specimens
of every known brand of cigar. The
collection numbering thousands OF
eamples, all OF which have long since
become unsmokable. is said TO be we'll
nigh complete. The value Of the coll
lection is estimated al $4,000
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Whatever may be the fate of Rus
sia's reigning family when the revolu-
tionists get through with that country.
one member of IL VIII be beyond the
reach Of want. She ls the Grand
Duchess Olga, eldest of the Cars
daughters. Although still a child. she
has fortune estimated at $10.000,00
In her own right Moreover, her mill
lions are invested abroad. where the
terrorists can not get them.
Few physicians realize that simple
elixir used as a vehicle in prescriptions
intended for children contains con-
siderable proportion OF alcohol. This
means that in Il teaspoonful child,
often less than year old, gets a quar-
ter of a teaspoonful Of alcohol at a
dose. TO avoid this danger an aro-
ff.s for tsty
used.--M Medical Record.
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Baggage belonging to Chinese
coolie who had landed at Singapore from.
Sumatra was being examined the other
day when something hard was felt III
a pillow. Upon opening the pillow the
official found q skull and all the bones
pf human skeleton. The coolie de.
clared that the bones were those OF
his brother and he was taking them tG
China for burial
Pepys's Diary. f659-1669, commenting
on Shakespeare plays. says of Mid.
summer Nights Dream. 1T is the
most insipid, ridiculous play l ever saw
In my life; and upon reading 'Othello
Moor of Venice which ! have hitherto
esteemed mighty good play; but hav-
ing lately read the Adventures OF
Five Hours IL seems mean thing"
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August Wilhelmj. the famous violinA
ist OF London discovered a little boy
by the name of Leopold Lustig playing
.he violin on the streets of the metro
polls. He took him home and gave him
some instruction. and the hey will
shortly appear on the London concert
platform.
Wild deer and chamois have been
entering the villages in some parts OF
Switzerland In a starving state IL
search OF hay. The peasants have walk.
ed tup 10 the famished deer and chamois
lifted them into sledges and taken them
home.
Gfot{1tfcS Shox that fhera ara ,,n,s, an