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Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1908-02-29

Islam is a challenge to Christianity
ahere are far more moslems (62 ASS, ,077,
according to the last census) under
British rule than there are protesting
Christians (53.000,000) in the whole
British empire. Islam is still spread
ing. Its progress in Africa is at once
rapid and steady and though in India
the yearly increase in the number of
SITS professors is but slow. IL is still un-
checked
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1908-02-29

or Sir Robert PeePs entire lack of
sympathy OConne said: His smile
was like the silver plate on coffin"
Less scathing, but less witty also was
'O'ConnelPs description of lady OF a
similar repellant temperament: "She
had all the characteristics of a poker
Except its occasional warmth"
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1908-02-29
AWARD CONTRACT FOR
CLAY CREEK DITCH

Yankton, S. d., Feb. 22.-The contract
for the construction of the Clay creek
ditch was awarded TO Pollard Camp
bell, OF Omaha and Missouri Valley
Ia, at cents per cubic yard. The con.
tract will not be signed until February
27 pending investigation of The firm
The ditch is TO be constructed Jointly
by Clay and Yankton counties.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1908-02-29
10000 FIRE IN
AN AUTO FACTORY

Dayton. Ohio. Feb. "a Fire OF un-
known origin broke out In the mann
moth plant of the Stoddard- DAYTON
automobile factory at an early hour
this morning and swept through the old
section OF the plant. causing damage Of
S2EO. 600
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1908-02-29

: Signor Enrico Toselli. the music
teacher. who married the Countess
Montignoso, the divorced wife of the
king OF Saxony, is writing a comic
opera and saws he intends later TO pub
lish some curious and important news
which would asfonish those who are
interested i'm public life
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1908-02-29

Gcrmanys great new battleships Of
the Dreadnought type casnot safely
pass from the North sea to the Baltic.
She is enlarging the Kiel canal to pass
20,000-ton ships. Great Britain feels
that she must build two Dreadnoughts
ITO Germany's one. This means heavy
taxation.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1908-02-29
RAPID CITY TO
HAVE MAIL CARRIERS

Rapid city. S. D.. Feb. 21.-At last
this city is to have its own mail deIiv-
cry by carrier. Postmaster Barber has
been notified that the new service with
two carriers will be started about May
Is and that examinations for the posi-
ton of carrier will be held here at
date to be announced shortly.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1908-02-29

a curiosity ia the form OF a war
settlement warrant" was issued re-
Gently to John |. Curtin. of Bellefonte,
for the sum of 81 cents. II is now
about A years since General Curtin
was mustered ont of the service, and
in all these years he never dreamed
that ne had any such claim against
the United States government II APP
pears that In calculating the time OF his
enlistment an error was made, and this
was just recently discovered The
number of the order Is 1921 which
indicates that there were a few claims
paid before this one
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1908-02-29

Mrs Pearl Hale Tatman, OF Eureka
Springs. is the only woman ever APP
pointed to an examining board of a
medical society i'm Arkansas. Recently
DR. Tatman was in the city, acting as
member of the state eclectic board,
which examined 10 applicants for Ii
cense 10 practice medicine. She and
her husband are practicing physicians
at Eureka Springs. She has practiced
medicine for ~ years and thinks II is
the greatest calling. Surgery was the
subject she was examined on.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1908-02-29
HARRIET HOsMER pEan

Boston, Feb. 24.--.Miss Harriet Hos
mer, the sculptress, died today az her
home at Watertown, after an illness OF
about three weeks. She was the author
of many poems and works OF prose.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1908-02-29
SUES cENTERvILLE
DOCTOR FOR S1o.0

Centerville S. D., Feb. 24.-George Jen-
ter, a young farmer residing near here.
has brought suit against DR.. A. ]. Struble
for malpractice, asking $4,000 damages
The plaintiff has engaged George w
Egan. the noted criminal lawyer Of Sioux
Falls.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1908-02-29

The softest spoken senator is Martin
of Virginia. He rarely does anything
but whisper. and he is the democratic
boss of his state.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1908-02-29

Nebraska experiment station has
kept a careful record for 10 years of
fmilch cows, and they report net profit
:of $40 from each COW a year.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1908-02-29

Walrus skin is used to cover small
boats, to which ii is attached with the
points of the walrus tusks.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1908-02-29

Orchard grass Is richest in protein,
being 40 to 100 Wounds almost double
that Of timothy.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1908-02-29
JONES PARDoNEo
BY THE GOVERNOR

Pierre, s. D.. Feb A.-Harry A. Jones,
convicted of robbery in Yankton county,
and sent up for five years. has been par
doned, II having developed that his plea OF
guilty was not substantiated by the evi-
dence given.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1908-02-29

The telephone is beginning TO find
favor in China. The subscribers in
Pekin now number 1,700.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1908-02-29

The value of the potato crop OF 1907
was S19O.0o0,0 000 or 2 per cent above
the average for the five previous years.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1908-02-29

In 1907. 1000 tons of silver ore, valued
at Slo.0oo,0oo, were skipped from Cobalt
Canada.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1908-02-29

Coffee is a bad thing for a mans
tc,aper-especially If his wife doesn't
know how TO make It.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1908-02-29

This socaiied most delicate OF or
gans, the heart, may be Gods principal
handiwork. There are scientists today
who can make a man, but they cannot
cause his heart TO beat. The human
heart is about by 3ls by 2lA inches in
size il weighs from TO IL ounces.
and its capacity is from -four 80 six
ounces in each yentricle. 1t is hollow.
muscular organ, through which passes
22l9 pounds OF blood every minute. Gaze
on these figures and wonder! Sixteen
tons of blood pass through ii every "a
hours Do some more thinking. II
beats about az times "A minute i'm a
healthy adult man. Now, think still
harder--in one year 1850, 900 pounds OF
blood pass through the heart. Such fig-
nres stagger humanity.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1908-02-29
CHAPTER III.

The chancellor was lodged i'm the
great chamber on the southern side of
the courtyard, a room which we
called the tapestried chamber. and
in which tradition said that King
Henry VI had once slept. III
was on the upper floor, and for this
reason free from the damp air which
in autumn and winter rose from the
moat and hung about the lower range
OF rooms. II was besides of easy ac-
cess from the hall, a door in the gal
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1908-02-29

harder--in one year 1850, 900 pounds of
blood pass through the heart. Such fig
ures stagger humanity.
-------s-e-.-----
When Or. David Todd professor OF
astronomy at Amherst, returned from
the lofty plateau of the Andes where
ne had taken his observations, he
paused for relaxation In the Capuan
gardens OF Lima. There he was in
yeigled on Sunday into visit TO the
great bull ring to see what toreador
looked like outside the cast OF car
men" He carefully slurrcd over any
account of the staying Of the bull but
remarked: 1T may be interesting to
Americans that as soon as football was
introduced AT Lima according 10 the
rules in force at our college the re-
ceipts at the buliring fell off AT once"
---------s-3p-@-----r-
For years, says the Iron and Coal
Trades Review. the steel industry has
confidently expected TO see fulfment
OF the prediction made long ago that
'the open hearth process will 20 to
the funeral Of the Bessemer" Recent
developments indicate rather clearly
that the function will be wedding in
stead Of a funeral, a vastly more hap
py occurrence. The duplex process Is
rapidly gaining In favor, and the de-
tails are being worked out in different
ways by different metallurgists. lt is
more matter OF appliances and man
ipulation than processes. as the metal
Iurgical work is laid out very clearly
----------~-p-.-
Jack Abernethy, the rough rider. can
catch wolf alive by grabbing its lower
jaw with his bare hand. MIR Aber-
nethy on his last visit 10 Washington,
was asked by q reporter for his opin-
ion on certain political question. II
can't give you an opinion on that ques-
ton, the rough rider replied. because
it's a question / pay no attention TO.
am indifferent to it--as Indifferent as
the backwoodsmen's wife That lady,
you know. looked on while her husband
had fierce hand-to-hand tussle with
bear, and afterward she said II was
the only fight she ever saw where she
didn't care who won. F"
Echo de l'ouest. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1883-1929, 1908-01-03

La Iettre dun redacteur en-
chef. j. FL. Moore, de Mount
Morris, ILL.,, un r6dacteur ct jour-
naliste bien connu. ecrit la lettre
su1vante au DR. Peter Farhney de
Chicago, Ill, sur un sujet dun in
teret general: "Je prends en- CO
moment la six eme bouteille de
votre Novoro, Je mai jamais rlen
Gu qui me falt autant de bien. 81
CO n'6tait grace q votre medicine,
]e n'aurais pas pu soutenir Get hi
yer, on raison de Ia grande quantl-
t6 de travail quill ma fallu accom-
plir. Concernant ma condition &C.
neral, Je suis maintenant en- NEIL
leur sant6 que ]e mai )amais etc
depuis bien des ann6es, je me sens
mieux, ct puis faire plus de travail.
LIE Novoro du DIR Pierre demon
tre ses m6rites aux personnes de
toutes les stations de la vie. De.
puis le laboureur dams SO hutte
jusqu'a prince dams son pslais. il
ny qu'une seule h1stoire q racon-
ter, ct c'est que le Novoro est une
bonne medicine" Ne saurait etre
obtenue dams les pharmacies. Des
agents sp6ciaux lie vendent. Sill
ny en- a pas dams votre voisinage
6cr1vez aux propri6taires, le Dr
Peter Farhney & Sons Co., ll2.l18
So. Hoyne Ave., Chicago, Ill.
Echo de l'ouest. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1883-1929, 1908-01-03
Bureaux 3Ol ct 3O5 Avenue Centrale.
DediCaCe dune E8liSe Beige a Chicago

Dimanche, Is d6cembre await lieu
la d6dicace solenelle dune eglise
pour la population beige de la me-
tropole de loueet. LIE principe
des droits de la langue maternelle
en- religion y q etc etfirm6 dune
maniere plus 6clatante.
| Sa grandeur Mgr Quig|ey, ar
cheveque de Chicago, pr6sidait la
c6r6monie. Trois 6veques belges
ainsi que Mgr Muldoon, eveque-
auxillaire, 6taient presents
A la c6r6monie du matin, Mgr
Macs, eveque dc Covington, pre-.
cha en- anglais. Dams lapres-m1,
di, il y cut sermon flamand par
Mgr Gabriels, eveque d'Ogdens-
burg, ct lie soir, sermon franca1s.
par Mgr Meerschart, 4veque d'Ok-
lahoma.
On volt que la campagne entire
prise par la Catholic Church
Extension Society,", don't 10 siege
social est a Chicago, est conduite
dune maniere lcgique ct pratique.
Mgr Quigley est PANE de cette
nouvelIe socl6t6, don't Pie x disait,
dams le bref d'approbatioa qu'elle
est "une des 9nvres les plus di-
gnes d'hommes z6l6s a promouvoir
la gloire divine, ct on ne peut plus
opportune dams un pays, Oh grace
q la multitude d'immlgrants de di-
verses nationalit6s, un grand ct
waste champ est ouvert a l'6tablis-
sement du royaume de Dieu.''
Mgr larcheveque de Chicago
est Ieut. etre le pr6lat AMERICAN,
qui a le mieux compris ct le m1eux
exprlm6 lie role ct le devoir de la
race canadienne. franchise sur le
sol des Etats. Unis. Nous repro
dujsons Je fragment dun discours
quill adressait aux canadiens fran
Gals de Pouest, r6unls pour cole
brer la St. j can. Baptiste, le "a JUN
1904. Nous voudrions voir ces
paroles grav6es en- lettres dor sur
un parchemin, don't un e1emplaire
serait distribute dams chacun de
nos foyers franco am6ricains ct ex-
pose en- place d'honneur. LIE dis
tlngue prelat s'est exprim6 ainsi:
Avant tout, conservez vos tradi-
tlons, pr6servez vos institutions,
propagez votre langue. Get rar-
CO que vous avez gardes votre Ian
Echo de l'ouest. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1883-1929, 1908-01-03

que ct vos traditions, que vous
etes rest6s en- Am6rlque un peu,
ple distinct ct que vous avez con-
quis Padmiration de tous.
Cest en- conservant votre langue
ct vos traditions que vous pourrez
remplir votre mission, qui est celle
de donner a lAm6rique tout CO
que la yieille France await d'admi-
rable ct que vous avez 81 bien con-
serve.
Mgr Quigley est ne au Canada.
Peut etre est ce parce
quill Ia connait mleux
gull appr6cie 81 Justement
la Nouvelle- France. La plupart
des TRADES anti -canadiennes prof6-
rees de ci de Ia par certains anne.
ricanisants prcviennent beaucoup
plus de l'ignorance que de Ia ma
lice. Ce nest pas chose facile de
SO p6n6trer des sentiments dune
autre nationalit6 au point de pou-
voir sajsir l'ideal qu'elle poursult
ct de SO METRE au diapason de ses
aspirations. Ce tour de force, Mgr
larchveque de Chicago la accom-
phi, ct il convent de Zen remercier
avec effusion.
M6ditons ses paroles ct tradui-
sons les en- actes, au foyer, 8 l'6co-
le q l'6glise, dams la presse dams
nos societies natlonnales ct surtout
dams nos relations quotidiennes
entire m embres de "a grande famil-
lie franco-am6ricaine.
Demons une attention sp6ciale d
PEducation Nationale de nos en-
fants. Apprenons-leur les gran
des Ii ignes de phisto!re de not1e
race en- Amerique. Veillons a ce
qua l6cole l'histoire du Canada ct
ce)le des Etats- Unis soient ensei-
gnees avec un soin egal, en- atten-
dant que notre jeunesEe, reunie en-
cercles, relevant dune grande as
sociation Catholique, CONNIE celle
que nous pr6conisons, puisse rea-
User toute la verit6 de ces paroles
au poete:
O notre historic, ecrin de perles
[ignorrfes,
10 baise avec amour tes pages
..... v6n6r6es.
Un ami des jeunes
Echo de l'ouest. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1883-1929, 1908-01-03
On BON MOT SUR L'ENFER.

L'6diteur dun Sunday Paper"
CONNIE il men circule que trop en-
CO pays, demandait r6cemment 3
un pretre catholique une 'inter-
view" cors6e sur Ienfer, atm de Ia
reprodnire dams son journal.
LIE pretre accorda pentrevue ct
dicta CO qu1 suit au rapporteur:
Hell in my opinion, is the place
where your Sunday edition should
be published and circulated"
Ne traduisons pas, de peur de
faire perdre quelque chose de So
saveur d Interview.
Echo de l'ouest. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1883-1929, 1908-01-03
LA Fol QUI SAUVE
CONVERSION DUN MEDECIN INCRE-
DULE

Un m6decin venait de Luchon ct
traversait Lourdes. II entire dams
notre bureau. "Vous voyez, nous
dit-il, des nerveux SOUS toutes les
formes, vous avez des effets de
suggestion; vons ne sortirez pas de
Ia. -
Nous essayons vsinement de le
rameuer q une notion plus exacte
de CO que nous observons: son sie-
ge est fait, il ne veut lien entendre.
| Nous avions en- CO moment une
malade atte1nte dun lupus, Is moi
tie de la figure rong6e par une
plaie affreuse.
'-Ah! 81 cette femme gu6ris.
salt, dit-il, CO serait une autre affai-
re; mails celia n est pas de votre do.
maine.
-Suivez. Ia, ,lui disons nous; 81
ellie gu6rit, vous aurez la preuve
que vous cherchez!
LIE m6decin s'attache aux pas de
cette femme, sans conviction, nous
devons le reconnaitre;il la suit 3
la grotte, q l'h0pital; c'est un def
quill veut relever, son amour pro-
pre- est engage. II la volt entrer
aux plscines, touJours avec la
figure rong6e, sans ]'apparence
dune am6lioration.
Quelques instants apres, la fem
ms au lupus sort de Ia pisoine,
/" Msis CO nest pas ellie ., dlt-il!
II ne Ia reconna1t pas; So plaie s'est
cicatris6e; en- quelques instants
tout a disparu. II s,approche, re-
i garde, touche, interroge:
"-Mais. /. j. .c'est bien vousp
| -Mais oul, monsieur.
-Que vous a-t-on fait?
-Rien. Je me suis baign6e ct
mon NAL disparu."
| Une emotion profonde s'empare
de lui, IL palit, il chancelle; ct lors-
quill Went au bureau, il a de Ia
peine q mons traduire les senti-
ments quill 6prouve. "Voile cette
femme, nous dit-il; regardez! Et
nous constatons CONNIE lui la que.
rison de ce lupus.
Pendant que nous interrogeons
cette femme, il d1spara1t; il a hate
sans doute de SO ressaisir ct d'aller
au pied de la grotte chercher le SO.
-Icret ce cette guerison cont ii Went
d'etre le t6moin.
LIE lendemain matin, nous le
trouvions la Messe; IL faisait Ia
sainte Communion, quill n'avait
pas fait depu1s bien des annees ct
qu' il ne s'attendait pas q faire en-
yenant 3 Lourdes.
Docteur Boiserie.
/ (De la croix du Jurs)
Echo de l'ouest. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1883-1929, 1908-01-03
LIE DIVORCE

LIE bureau du recensement de
Washington prepare actuellement
IN relieve complet des divorces
dams les Etats- Unis. Des ceutai-
nes de commits sont uniquement
employees a ce travail colossal. Bien
que tout ne soft pas encore tarmi.
ne ct cans compter un tres grand
nombre de causes encore perdantes
la statistique nous apprend quill y
a eu aux Etats. Unis, dams les vingt
derniers ans, un million trols cent
mile divorces, soft une augmenta-
tion dun million sur les vlngt an
n6es prec6dentes.
Iln'y pas de pays en- effet ou
la p]aie du divorce soft plus eten-
due que chez ncs voisins d'Ameri-
que On ny compte pas moins de
1921 cours de divorces qui fonc-
tionnent p.esque sans arret. Pour
les causes les plus futiles ct les
plus inattendues le premier venu
dissout les unions. C'est presque
la promiscuit6 des 6poques dc de.
cadence,
Lorsqu'cn salt Gull y aux
Etats- Unls, un divorce par II ia
miles, comment ne pas s'alarmer?
Par lie divorce, lie a toutes les ma
nifestations de la degenerescence,
c'est la famille qui d6sagr6ge, ct
avec ellie la soclet6.
Tous les esp:its dirigeants aux
Etats Unis s'lnquietent aujour-
d'hui s6rieusement des prog 6s du
divorce ct cherchent le moyen de
les eprayer. lie president Roose
velt a porte une attention toute
particuliere a ce grand probleme
sociologique. C'est sur con initia-
tive que 10 recensement don't nous |
parlons plus haut a 6t6 entrepris, !
ct, 3 la suite du rapport, le gouver-
nement proposers une legislation
f6derale restraignant la libert6 du
divorce.
Mais le NAL est profond6ment en-
racine, ct il est Gu propable q 'une
loi 81 radicale soft ellie, sufise q le
guerir, Ce sont les moeurs am6ri-
Gaines quill faudrait d'abord refor.
mer ct les lois ny feront rien.
Au Canada nous devons nous fe-
letter d'avo1r 6t6 jusqu'ici q peu
pres q l'atri de ce fl6au. LIE divor-
CO est pour slnsi dire une exception
chez nous. Dams Ontario, Quebec,
le Manitoba ct les territories du
Nord- Quest, on ne peut pobtenir
qu'en vertu d an acte du parlement
canadien, ct le fait SO produit tres
rarement, Depuis 1868 jusqu' a
1904, 81 divorces ont etc accord6s
par le Parlemen, pour ces diverses
provinces. Ce systeme nous para1t
encore preferable aux cours de dl
vorce que quelqres urs proposent
d'6tablir. Pendant la meme p6rlode
del868 q 1904, 271 divorces ont 6t6
accord6s dams les provinces de la
Nouvelle Ecosse, du Nouveau
Brunswick ct de la Colombo ,oh
CO sont les tribunaux qul pronon-
cent le dAcret.
A cette session du parlemeut, le |
S6nat aura B statuer sur onZe de-
mandes de divorce.
Instruits par l'exemple des Etate
Unis, ne permettons pas au divorc-
de s'6tendre chez nous ct de gan
grener notre vie sociale.
Echo de l'ouest. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1883-1929, 1908-01-03

LIE f6minisme est on marche!
Apres les femmes cocheres, ,voioi les
femmes pollcleres. On await d6ja
4 Pairs. les indicatrices, char gees
dams l'ombre de signaler q la
prefecture les malfaiteurs, les apa-
ches ct autres maladrins. Mais
mons n'avions pas encore les fem
mes agents.
L'innovation est due q un grand
magasin parisien, qui remplac6
ses Inspectors par des inspectri-
ces.
Dams leur entr6e en- fonctions,
les femmes agents ont surpris en-
fragrant delft une voleuse q la tire
uu'elles ont elles-memes arretee ct
conduite chez lie comm1ssalre dc
police.
Inutile d'ajouter qu'aucun costu,
me sp6ciale ne les signale du pu-
bile.
Echo de l'ouest. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1883-1929, 1908-01-03

Commandes par la MALE
promptement rempf' ts dams
notre departement des Jobs
Echo de l'ouest. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1883-1929, 1908-01-03
NUMERO AZ
tariff DES ANNONCES

Avis-Chaque insertion 10 cts par lisn
Tariff spf fcial pour los annonces au mois
ct l'annee.
Demandes d'emplol-demandes de de
mestiques ou employes-annonce pour
chambre c- Pension-annonces pour OBJ
lets perdus Ou trouv6s.
Au taux UN OEN'rIN par mot
Nous enverrons un numero du Journal
4 toute personne qul en- fers a deman-
de.
Echo de l'ouest. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1883-1929, 1908-01-03

On tue les rats qui pullulent d
bord des navires de commerce, car
on salt qu'iIs sont les propagateurs
de la peste. Inversement, q bord
des sous marins, on entoure les
souris d attentions d6licates.
Les sous marins ne won't Jamais
en- mer sans avoir q leur bord quel-
ques souris.
Ges peiirs animaux, exlremement
sensibies aux gaz d6l6taires, sont
Pobjet dune surveillance rigou-
reuse pendant tout les parcours.
Si Pun d'eux Went q mourir, le
sous-marin remonte aussit0t a la
surface.
Les souris sont, d'ailleurs, de-
puis longtemps utillsees dams les
mines pour Ia meme cause.
The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1908-04-18
CONTEST NOTICE
Department OF the Interior United State
Land Office, Clayton, N. M.
March *. looS

Department OF the Interior United States
Land Office, Clayton, N. M.
March iS. 1908
A sufficient contest affidavit having been
filed in this office by Mrs. r. A. Lyon, con.
testant against homestead entry No. 1000.
made Mar. 27. 1907, for sw4 Sec. IS, Twp.
Sn, Range 32e by J. T. Harris. contestee
in which it is alleged under date of Ian. 2S.
1905, that the said ]. T. Harris has
not lived on same since he filed. and that
there are no improvements on said land.
and that said alleged absence from the
said land was not due to his employment
in the army navy or marine corps of the
United Ststes as a private soldier, officer.
seaman or marine during the Wal with
Spain or during any other war in which
the United States may be engaged.
Said parties are hereby notified to APP
pear, respond and offer evidence touching
said allegation at 10 O'Clock a m on May 7.
1908, before w. E. Partlow. u. ). Com
missioner at his office in Hollene. N. NJ.
and that final hearing will be held at 10
O'Clock a. m. on May ID, 1908. before the
Register and Receiver at the United States
Land Office in Clayton, N. Nj.
The said contestant having in a proper
affidavit filed Mar. I8, 1908. set forth facts
which show that after due diligence person
al service of this notice can not be made il
is hereby ordered and directed that such
notice be given by due and proper publica-
ton.
~ Edward w. Fox. Register