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&c Upon Loeb.

II .Ited that Mr. Loeb might
be founC % be the most available man
for the position. bat the fact Is well
known that another member Of the board
would be willing 10 assume the executive
leadership Of the company. and il was
pretty strongly minated yesterday thar
one OF the reasons why more OF the local
shareholders had not signed proxies for
their stock was that they hoped by at
tending the stockholders meeting I'm per-
son they might make their individual
preferences felt with reference 10 the
president Of the company and its future
management
The situation last night seemed To be
that sufficient proxies had been secured
TO insure the election Of the ticket named.
that the future management OF the sys-
TEN would be in the hands OF this direc-
torate, made up largely Of local business
meni that d vigorous policy Of general
Improvement Of the system would be In
augurated. and that the selection Of the
executive head of the company IS yet
an open question.
Meeting of Subsidiary Companies.
Coincident with the stockholders meet
ing of the Washington Railway and Elec-
trio Company will be similar meetings Of
the subsidiary companies which make up
the system. Included are the Anacostia
and Potomac River Railroad Company.
City and Suburban Railway Of Wash
ington, Brightwood Railroad Company.
Georgetown and Tennallytown Railway
Company, and Potomac Electric Power
Company
Business on the Washington Stock Ex-
change yesterday was $500 In bonds and
ZIG shares Of stock. of which 200 were
Mitchell Mining Prices in general con-
tinued thsiA gpward way toward the re-
covery Of the level they occupied before
the depression began last October A
large number OF brokers were present.
but they seemed TO have come to the
meeting 10 discuss something after the
session. rather than to take an active part
in the proceedings.
George A. Ellis. q member Of the firm
OF E. F. Hutton & Co. OF New York.
spent the day in Washington yesterday.
looking after the Inauguration of the
Offices Of the firm. under the management
of G. Bowie Chapman, at Thirteenth and
r streets northwest. Mr. Ellis stated
that his firm expected to secure its share
OF business al the Capital, and that every
effort would be made to serve the patrons
OF the firm in manner satisfactory TO
them. Mr., Ellis returned 10 New York
last night
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TO ELECT DIRECTORS
Washington Railway Stock
holders Meet To-day.
EXPECT LOCAL TICKET TO WIN

Proxies in Strong Hands Sufficient to
Carry the DRy-Subject of Presi-
deney Regarded by some an open
Observation-Disclosures Small an Local
stock Exchange Yesterday.
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GAVE THEM A SCARE
HOnduran Secretary Both
cred Local Merchants.
DID NOT PAY FOR THE GOODS

Legation Attache Now I'm Psyche
pathIc ward OF Bellevue Hospital,
New York, said 40 Have Ordered
$4,000 Worth Of JevveIry and
Merchandise from Local Dealers.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1908-06-27
seth BULLOCK
INDUCES IN A
TALKING STUNT
Strives to Correct False I'm.
pressions About Western
Men and Conditions.

Chicago. H., June 22.--"The people
out west would be damned glad to elect
Teddy president for life II they could,
but they know they can't, and they're
getting ready to hit the tran for Taft
because they like his style. Old tim
ers think IL is a rank shame he never
lived out there, as Teddy has. but
they've found out he bears the same
brand as the man with the big stick
and that he's n mixer all right"
So spoke Seth Bullock, of Deauwood,
one time blazer OF ways on frontiers,
and now United States marshal for
South Dakota, as he tossed his broad
brimmed slouch hat on the bed at the
Palmer house and began to tell re-
porter how things political are looking
to him.
I'm keeping pretty close TO the res
ervation here" he said. Little afraid
to trust myself in Chicago, especially
after the sun goes down. You can't tell
what's going to happen here on the
side streets and in the alleys, and I'm
not In my old time training for self
defense.
Maybe you don't know-Most New
Yorkers don't-that there Is no more
OF this wild and woolly' business ex-
cept what may have moved here to Chi
caRo or on down TO New York. New
Workers. have an idea that they could
put North and South Dakota both In
Central park and have a lot OF the
park left for the children to play in.
And they've got the notion that II the
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1908-06-27
LIGHT FRoSTs VISITED
PARTS OF DAKOTA

Huron, S. D., June 10. A weekly
weather bulletin for the week ending
Monday, June l5: There was consid-
cradle unsettled weather. Rains oc-
CURED generally on Thursday or FRI
day. Parts of the Black Hills district
received showers nearly every day.
Much low and fiat land continues too
wet, and In some places low land Is
covered with water. The weatSer was
unusually cool for the season. On
Wednesday light frost occurred in
come OF the middle and northern coun=
ties east of the Missouri river, and
minimum temperature Of 80 degrees
was recorded in a part of Hamlin
county. A minimum temperature of
32 degrees occurred on the same day
in parts OF Clark and Codington coun-
ties. There was more sunshine than
during the preceding week but the av-
eragc amount was rather less than
normal.
The mean temperature for the state
was about six degrees below the nor
NAL, the greatest deficiency being over
the middle and northern portions of
the James and Big Sioux river valleys.
The maximum temperatures were for
the most part above 10 degrees, and in
some places reached or exceeded so
degrees, the highest recorded being SO
degrees, at Howell Hand county, on
Friday. The minimum temperatures!
which occurred on either Tuesday or
Wednesday. were generally above 40
degrees over the western portion OF the
state and below 40 degrees over the
eastern portion, the lowest recorded
being 80 degrees. at CastlewOod, Ham
lin county, on Wednesday.
A general raip which was in num-
Der of places generous TO heavy, oc-
CURED on Sunday or Sunday night, the
18th instant. The rainfall for the week
just closed was well distributed, aver
Lged slightly below the normal, and
for the most part occurred on Thurs
day and Friday, although in some
places showers occurred on other days.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1908-06-27

Dakotas were in Central park there
would be guns popping like popcorn
and blood flowing clear over to River
side park.
That's all wrong. Look at these fel-
lows who are here as delegates from
North Dakota and South Dakota. They
may not be flashing the latest thing in
clothes or hats. but what's under the
hats Is good goods. You haven't no
ticed that any of them have to be roped
and tied before they're taken up in the
elevators. It's money and not guns
that makes their pockets bulge out, be-
cause we're prosperous In the north
west, and we're going to have the big
gest wheat crop ever. Possibly you
think that hasn't anything to do with
politics, conventions and nominations,
but II has. Give us a bumper crop and
II won't be hard for the rulers of tie
ranch TO round up and corral the voters
for Taft.
Human life is safer in Deadwood
and the mining gulches today than IL Is
in the alleys Of Chicago and on the
Bowery. Nobody is packing guns in
Deadwood any more except an occa-
sional tanshod tenderfoot who comes
out from the east to annex n mountain
tan and accumulate few pipe dreams
to spring on Broadway"
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1908-06-27
BRIDE CLAIMS
She WAS DOPED
BY old RASCAL
Married and Separated Within
IL Hours and Bride Can't
Recall Ceremony.

Hot Springs, s. D., June ia mar
riage rivaling in sensationalism the
one recently occurring wherein the
bride was arrayed in mems clothing,
was consummated here when S. NJ.
LoOmer, aged 76, Of Chadron, Neb., and
Miss Armetta May Buchtel, aged 26,
of the same place, were married Sat-
urday evening at 8 o'clock and separ-
ated Sunday morning. when the groom
returned to Chadron, where he is the
manager of an opera house. Before
leaving for an unknown destination the
bride told local detective that she had
been "doped" by the aged Lothario and
had no recollection OF the marriage
ceremony. Miss Buchtel Is a comely
young woman who had until recently
been 4 teacher on the Pine Ridge In
dian reservation. Loomer seems to
have become addicted to the habit Of
getting married. his last matrimonial
venture being his fifth, two of his wives
being dead and two divorced.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1908-06-27
SOLD ANOTHER MANS
HORSE WHILE DRUNK

Dallas. S. D., June 19.-Harry Hur-
ley, a well known resident of Tripp
county, west of here, finds himself in
serious trouble through becoming in
toxicated and selling a horse which
did not belong TO him. He borrowed a
team from Henry Ramus. an acquaint-
ance, stating that he wished to drive
to Springview, Neb. Instead of going
TO Springyiew he came to Dallas and
got drunk. He squandered money
right and left, and when he ran short
of funds he sold one Of the borrowed
horses to Chet Slaughter, a local liv-
eryman. The crime was not discovered
until the following morning, when
Ramus thanCed to come to Dallas.
About the first thing he saw upon en-
terlng town was Slaughter driving one
of his horses. Ramus Immediately
claimed the animal as hia own, and the
upon explanations being made the
horse was turned over to him. A war
rant then was sworn out for Hurley's
arrest and when taken before local
Justice he was held in bonds of $500
for appearance at the next term of
state circuit court in this (Gregory)
county.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1908-06-27
DIVORCE DECREE ExcITES
COMMENT AMONG FRIENDS

Beresford. S. D.. June l9.-Something
of a sensation has been created in this
city and vicinity by the announcement
that Mrs. Ethel Bennett has been
granted a divorce from her husband,
Ray V. Bennett. They are compare
lively young and both grew to matur-
ity In Beresford numbering their close
personal friends by the score. Some
two or three weeks ago Mrs. Bennett
resigned a good position here and deS
parted for other points in the state,
Her departure caused a great deal OF
comment. and soon the report gained
circulation that she had applied for q
divorce. Word now has been received
that she has been granted a decree
Upon what grounds she secured the di!
vorce is unknown, as the facts have
been concealed from the people OF
Beresford. Mr.. Bennett Is a travelling
man and at present has Texas as his
territory. II was generally supposed
that their domestic relations were OF
the most pleasant character, and the
knowledge that they have been sepa-
rated by the divorce courts was a great
shock to their many friends in Beres-
ford and vicinity.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1908-06-27
Agricultural Experts From Japan

FrCm the San Francisco Chronicle
r. r. Nagamine, a Japanese expert
on agriculture, who has been employed
by the mikado's government at Ear
mosa for the last few years, arrived
in this city recently on the steamer
Asia on his way to Washington to
investigate the methods OF the United
States department Of agriculture.
I'VE have, in Formosa, over 500, 900
acres under cultivation" he said as he
stepped of the steamer, and we want
to find out how the United States
goes about it to improve the condi-
tion of it's fertile land so that we can
improve conditions in our country.
shall go to Washington soon to get
some advice from your authorities as
to how to organize our department.
In my country we can raise corn,
rice, sugar, tobacco, sweet potatoes,
green crops, barley, wheat and beans.
In fact, we can raise almost any crop,
but the emperor realizes that we must
do something for the soil from which
we are demanding so much. We can
not continue TO take everything from
the soil and put nothing back. l hope
to stay in the country several months
and return home to my native land by
way of Europe"
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1908-06-27
YOUNG MAN SHOOTS
GIRL THROUGH HEAD

Armour, s. D., June 22.-Another ac-
cident with the fellow that was fooling
with a gun and didn't know IT was
loaded" occurred recently at belmont,
but has been carefully covered up. A
young man named Albert Goehring ac-
cidentally shot a young lady named
Hildebrand, during an outing. The
bullet from n 30 rifle passed through
the skull of the young woman. Medical
assistance was hurriedly called and 1t
is thought she will fully recover.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1908-06-27
Tho Song of the Skillet.

All. The Song of The Skillet,
With it's sizzling and it's spurts.
Is the sweetest that the camper wants to
hear;
The grace-notes meet the zephyrs,,
And the faint Staccato tones
Whisper greetings in the lonely anglers
ear.
The vesper shedes are falling,
And the glowing embers shed
Their mellow light along the splashing
creek; -r
The whip-poor-will rs calling
To the world a last goodnight,
And the skillet song, itself. Is growing
weak.
The dying embers blacken,
AS they singe their grassy nest,
And the dusky twilight steals along the
shore;
The twinkling stars their javelins cast
To taunt the drowsy creek,
And The Song of The Skillet Is no more.
ID, A. Sachs. jr., in Field and Stream.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1908-06-27
JosEPM kUsLER pubIi.h.s.

The medals to be awarded at the
Olympic games in London are now be-
ing exhibited in the Royal academy.
The artist IL a talented young Austral-
ian, Bertram Mackennal. They are said
and appear from photographs to be
finely Imagined and executed. The re-
verse of the prize medal shows ST.
George riding down the dragon, with
an angel hooking on; that of the COM
memorative medal a winged Fame,
erect, with a palm In the right hand
and a trumpet I'm the left. The reverses
are TO be used this year alone. The
obverses. 1t is said, have been adopted
for use at future Olympic meetings.
The diverse OF the prize medal shows
an athlete being crowned by two fe-
male figures; that OF the commemora-
tive medal a victor returning home In
a four-horse chariot
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1908-06-27
BRYAN WILL GET
NEW Y0RK'S VOTES

New York, June 10. - Seventy-eight
votes, the number from New York
state in the democratic national con-
vention, will be cast for William Jen-
nings Bryan on the first ballot at Den
yer, according to information at Tam
many hall today. To obtain them the
unit rule may be enforced.
Charles F. Murphy, who has been at
his summer home at Good Ground for
several days, returned to the city and
began work on the final plans for get
ting the Tammany delegation to Den
YER
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1908-06-27

In 1905 the exports OF polished dia-
monds from the Netherlands to the
United States amounted to $9197,S43;
in 1906 the exports were S1l,633,352
The year 1907 opened auspiciously, but
in the month of July the American
buyers began TO reduce their pur-
chases, and az the financial crisis be-
came more acute the orders from
America ceased entirely, and from the
middle OF August up to the end OF the
year the entire shipment of diamonds
did not exceed $4,000. and the total
exports for the year amounted to only
T,452,604, as against S11 .633,352 for the
calendar wear 1905
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1908-06-27
LITTLE BOY WAS
DROWNED IN WELL

Armour, s. D., June 22.-The 2-year-
old son Of Mr.. and Mrs VIII Hall, Of
this city, met death by falling into
"a partly constructed well and drown
ing Wednesday afternoon about 4
o'clock. The well was being sunk by
Mr.. Hall and owing to the heavy rains
was not completed. The mother of the
child was attending to some house,
hold duties Wednesday afternoon and
the little fellow strayed out into the
yard and 1t was some time before he
was missed
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1908-06-27

The finest songster among our Scot
tish warblers is undoubtedly the black
cap. am afraid cannot describe its
song. II has to be heard to be truly
appreciated. Once heard, II Is never
forgotten-the rare sweetness, the pure
quality Of the song. / cannot compare
the blackcap's song with that of the
nightingale, for, unfortunately, / have
never heard the song of that bird.
could never be in England at the proper
dime. But have often heard our lark.
and its song is bolder, louder. more
overwhelming in its grand outpouring
of melody. But for sweetness nothing
has ever thrilled me like the song OF the
blackcap. says a writer In The Scotch
man.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1908-06-27

The recent municipal elections In
Paris were remarkable not only for the
candidature of Mile. Laloe, who was
soundly beaten, but for the first re-
corded candidature OF domestic SER
want. The liveried class is supposed
TO take on the political color of its sur
roundings and to be ultra-conserva-
tive as a rule, but this candidate stood
as a republican socialist, and he is said
to have been strongly supported by
his kind
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1908-06-27
JAILED FOR TEARING
PEEK-A-BOO WAIST,
MAN WANTS TO DIE

FarralI, Ia, June 22.-Ward, commit
ted to the county jail for six days for
tearing his wife's peek-a-boo waist in
a family tussle yesterday, swallowed an
ounce of carbolic acid because she
would not come to see him in the bas-
tile this afternoon, and will probably
dIa
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1908-06-27
DYNAMITE CAP
EXPLODES IN POCKET

Scotland, S. D.. June IS. - Joseph
Wipf, jr., a member of a large Mem
MONTE colony near here was the VIC
tim OF serious accident as the re-
suit of carrying a dynamite cap in his
pocket. The cap was exploded as the
result Of coming into contact with a
ring which was dropped into his pocket.
The force of the explosion was suf-
ficient to tear a piece of flesh as large
as a baseball from his thigh, and In
addition the ends of two of his fingers
were blown off. Needless to say, the
unfortunate young man will not here
after make a practice of carrying dyna-
mite caps In his pocket.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1908-06-27
RAID GOTHAM GAMBLERS.

New York, June l9.-Three thousand
persons gathered along West Thirty
third street near Broadway last night
and watched the police make spectac-
ular raid on a gambling house, said to
be patronized by guests of several up
town hotels.
Patrons Of the place, all in evening
clothes, endeavored to get away by the
fire escapes, but were confronted by
the detectives who had been placed at
every possible exit. The managers Of
the place and the patrons were taken
to the police station in patrol wagons
Twelve arrests were made.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1908-06-27
INK STAINS LED
TO TWO ARRESTS

Ollvet, s. D., June 22.-Henry Evans,
formerly of st. Louis, and Henry Wipf,
of this county, were bound over for
trial In the sum of $1,000 each for
robbing the Milwaukee depot at Free
man. In default of bond both are in
Jail.
In breaking open the money drawer
the robbers upset bottle OF indelible
ink, and the ink stains were found on
Evans person. 1t was by this evidence
trat the crime was fixed on him. He
was arrested and confessed, duplicating
Wipf and laying on him the blame for
putting up the deal. Wipf maintains
b,C
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1908-06-27

England is interested in a discussion
over a suggested censorship of novels.
Prominent writer's insist that the dan
ger is impending. Certain English la
dies who make a speciality of produce
ing erotic fiction are pointed out as
the chief offenders against good taste
and good morals. Responsibility for
the possible censorship is laid at their
door. In England an official censor
may be appointed to exercise his func-
tions in the same way as the censor
of plays,
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1908-06-27
The Tailor and the College Humorist.
From the Yale Record, by L. r. Embree
I'm the bohemian


Perennial victims OF the humorous paper
at Yale are the familiar campus charac-
tiers. Jim Donnelly, the policeman; Pop
Warner, the "teeming eXpressman," so
called because he delivers his goods IN an
automobile, and Rosenberg Sons, the suit
pressers, about whom, in a Pegasian
fight of distress at the time of the junior
prom. the Record uttered these winged
words:
Oh, Rosenberg. dear Rosenberg,
Thy sons Wen ne'er forget
That suit of clothes,
God only knows,
I'm waiting for them yet.
I'll miss that train. I'll 60 insane.
And rip and tear and cuss.
Just out of reach
There goes that peach
I've missed my chance to fuss.
With this same suit presser as hero the
story IS told Un popular professor that
in leading chapel one morning he stopped
short, leaned over and whispered excitedly
to the choir: What's the name of that
song Press On, Christian Soldier, Press
On"" Rosenberg" came from a dozen
men at once. wen sing three stanzas Of
Rosenberg!" said the leader with ecclesi-
aStical assurance.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1908-06-27

Bohemia has ceased to exist In the
Paris Latin quarter, according to AL
fred Capus, the playwright, who may
be regarded as an authority on the
point. In a lecture delivered on behalf
of the 'Maison d'Etudiants," which is
TO be the headquarters Of the General
Association Of Paris Students, he re-
marked: I'VE must not be afraid to
acknowledge that our students are no
longer Bohemians"
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1908-06-27

Professor A. Herschel in the Quarter
1y Journal of the Royal Meteorological
society for October last, describes the
extraordinary effects produced by light
ming In the midst OF an open moor in
Northumberland. A hole four or five
feet in diameter was made In the fiat,
peaty ground, and from This half
dozen furrows extended on all sides.
Pieces Of turf were thrown I'm various
directions, one three feet in diameter
and a foot thick having fallen 7S feet
from the hole. Investigation showed
that In addition to the effects visible on
the surface, small holes had been bored
in the earth radiating from the large
excavation,
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1908-06-27

On one occasion when Timothy
Nicholson who has recently retired
from charity work at the age OF so
years, was heading the prosecution OF
illegal liquor selling in Richmond, Ind,
the defendant was put on the witness
stand and was asked, among other
questions, IL he was acquainted with
Mr.. Nicholson. Answering in the af-
firmative. he was asked what kind Of
man Nicholson was. He said he was
"a pretty good man. taking him alto
gether, and he would be a first -class
fellow IL he would only leave liquor
alone"
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1908-06-27

The severest criticism OF the stupid
fly and inefficiency of the parliaments
of the world is, in NJ. Marcel Prevost's
opinion, the almost universal indiffer-
ence OF women on the subject of vot-
ing Neither the representative nor
the voter" says this expert in feminine
psychology. "excites their envy. They
do not even think about the vote, and
IL men offer II as a gift they pay no
attention. burst out laughing or refuse
point blank"