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Bluefield evening leader. [volume] (Bluefield, W. Va.) 1906-1911, 1909-08-14
LESSONS FOR TIE ELEcToR.

In a wonderfully frank editorial
entitled Lessons for the Elector'
the Wall Street Journal SAYS:
of the voter has not earned some
valuable lessons from the tariff dis
cussion. ne is great deal deneor
than the Wall Street Journal b.
lievcs. Never has sucn A food Of
daylight been thrown upon high
projections meanest and uEliest fea-
lures The pretense Of high tariff
for the cncOuragcment OF infant iu-
duStres has been abandoned. That
kind of infant, in fact, never grows
old enough 10 be weaned and, indeed,
demands more infant nourishmcnt
the older il gets. Another hard
worked theory, also. which has re-
ceiyed some nude shocks Is tbay an
advance in tariff schedules means an
advance i'm wages. II IS incrcas-
ingly probable that the two things
are not related. Wages went down
last year ir:eSpcC i've OF the tariff i'm
the enormously protectct~ tccl indus
try. and have since been restored, al
though iron ore and pig iron are
among the few articles on which the
duty has been revised downwards.
The New England cotton .pinners are
making great dividends. but the
wages OF mill operatives have not
advanced. So much is this the case
that unintelligenl and unskiued inn
ported laborers from Europe or even
children of Sch-ol az are SUB itut-
Cd for .eiue1ted American operatives.
These are plain facts, and the voter
will be n fool it. be can not appreciate
What they mean Nobody i'm his
what they mean. Nobody in h:
senses can believe tina; taepresent
compromise viii .proseut The tariff
system of This country for MORE thaa
a brief period Now IS ho'ume Tor
the voter 10 take MP She education
of mis- cougr, -men ann senators. He
can not begin too soon.
Bluefield evening leader. [volume] (Bluefield, W. Va.) 1906-1911, 1909-08-14

WHO SIS that neglected looking little
boy with dirt over bis faccf"
Tie f. the child OF the noted asiron-
omcr vino lives over the way"
"oh. rs he7 Como here. sonny. Run
home and tell your f0thcr De doesn't
need hls telescope ~ he wants To see
epNs on tho SON. Baltimore Amcri-
can.
Bluefield evening leader. [volume] (Bluefield, W. Va.) 1906-1911, 1909-08-14

Friend Don't worry because your
sweetheart has turned YOU down since
sou lo.t your money There arc ~
FDo1 dsh iu the sea as ever wore
r7ueht lifted ono r,e. but I've Rst
my bait IIarper'5 Bazar.
Bluefield evening leader. [volume] (Bluefield, W. Va.) 1906-1911, 1909-08-14

FOR SiLE,-My three story brick
store, No. 20 Bland street, anu
stock of goods If wanted Also my
home OF about is acres. 900 to
1000 fruit trees. Land in fine
state OF cultivation for trucking.
On Bowyera Branch. If you mean
business can Or write me. ]. L.
HORTON. 7-2q-Gt-eod
Bluefield evening leader. [volume] (Bluefield, W. Va.) 1906-1911, 1909-08-14

FOR SALE CHEAP - Two aice
homes on Franklin street. Cot
taga, corner Franklin and Jack
son street. lot 5Ox14O, price
81 400. Also one room house.
with bath connection, lot 55x14O.
good stable on rear OF lot. Cheap
Tor cash, or one-third cash. bal
ance in one and two years. Apply
10 A. r. HARDWOOD, care w. II.
HAIRY x Co. 7-22-6t.
Bluefield evening leader. [volume] (Bluefield, W. Va.) 1906-1911, 1909-08-14

New York authorities say the
westher reports have been notably"
correct for hhe past ten years. This
is cas- OF foresight being better
than hindsi%ht, and in this respect
New York is better of than tine rest
OF the country by d. sight.-At-
llnta Journal.
Bluefield evening leader. [volume] (Bluefield, W. Va.) 1906-1911, 1909-08-14
CRUSHED LINIE STONE

and size made and delivered TO any
part of the city Mt a reasonable
price by w. II. Coffman Coke Co..
Bluefield, w. Va.
Bluefield evening leader. [volume] (Bluefield, W. Va.) 1906-1911, 1909-08-14
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WANTED.

Pupils for Violin, Mandolin and
by Prof. f.. b. Schoenbaun,
graduate violinist. Years OF eXper-
fence. Phone 30S or care Of Duvau
Music Co, 10 Princeton avenue,
Bluefeld, w. Va.
Bluefield evening leader. [volume] (Bluefield, W. Va.) 1906-1911, 1909-08-14

WANTED-Fifty boys TO sell Even
ing Leader on streets Of Bluefcld.
Apply at office on HigEinbotham
avenue after o'clock.
Bluefield evening leader. [volume] (Bluefield, W. Va.) 1906-1911, 1909-08-14

HUFF, ANDREWS e THOMAS,
TWENTY-FOUR YEARS IN RUSI-
NESS, GUARANTEE THE HIGH
QUALITY OF MONITOR AND JET
FEItSoN. 7-29-3t
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1909-05-01
Boys Excursion to College.

Miss Mary Heumphreus, county sup.
erintendent, has received from State
Superintendent Ustrud the following let
ter, with reference to the annual boys
excursion to the State Agricultural Col.
lege at Brookings:
To the County Superintendent:
Greetings.
June 3rd and 4th are the dates agreed
on for the Boys Excursion TO the State
College of Agriculture at Brookings,
The Northwestern Railway has already
agreed to make low rates and render
special service over all its lines in this
state and we are now in correspondence
with other railroads and hope that they
will also cooperate. would especially
urge that uperintendents of such coun-
ties as are removed from the Northwes-
tern system to write at once to Prof.
James w. Wilson, Brookings, S. D.,
who has kindly consented to conmuni-
cate with the different railroads in re-
gard to the excursion. In writing be
sure to give some estimate of about how
many boys you expect will 60 on the
trip and also be free to offer any sugges-
tions that you think would assist in max :
ing the trip success.
To the country boy who during the
winter time attends school in that little
country school house and before and af-
ter school each day assists in doing the
chores and who during the rest Of the
year cheerfully does his part in assisting g
and performing the manifold duties on
the farm, such trip as the one contem-
plated will be hailed with delight. And
why shouldn't he be entitled to an out
ing of this kind
l venture to say that the farmer who
will assist his boy in getting some recre-
alton and enjoyment out of life will as
sist materially in solving the problem of
how to keep boys on the farm. He will
also get better results from their work
and for such investment will receive ex-
celent results.
A splendid program is being prepared.
Prof. P. G. Holden of the State College
of Agriculture at Ames, Iowa, the we'll
known lecturer on Farm Topics, will
speak on both days and will be ably as
sisted by the different instructors at the
College.
Kindly advertise this excursion and
try to enlist the cooperation ofthe press
and the public in general. They will all
be glad to assist if their interest is arous-
ed.
We ought to bring $1,000 boys to
Brookings. If this can be done 1 feel
that it will result in much good for the
upbuilding and betterment of the life
on the farm.
Yours very truly,
ii. A. UsTRUD,
Superintendent
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1909-05-01
CUSTER CITY. SOUTH DAKOTA. L

the whole people must know and must
do the things that make for health and
freedom from disease. And as this sort
of knowledge is spread through the
masses, 80, in just the same proportion
or ratio, win the spread Of consumption
and the other preventable diseases dim
inish.
"Are you helping in this great work
of spreading the right kind of knowl-
edge2'
'It is said that two hundred thousand
persons die in the United States each
year from tuberculosis.
Statistics tell US that in 1908, in our
own state, two hundred and eighty-six
(2S6) persons died of it; that is, six and
one-half per cent. of the deaths from
all causes were due to tuberculosis.
1t can safely be said that there are
twelve hundred cases OF It in the state
today"
SIS it not we'll that South Dakota has
joined the fight against it?
Respectfully,
DR.. H. F. RATE.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1909-05-01
Get the Garden Habit.

In these days when the cost of living
is mounting up until the problem of
making the income account balance the
needs of family, is a good time to turn
for relief to the back yard garden. The
amount which can be raised on small
plot of ground well titled is astonishing,
and the utilization of these patches,
which are lying idle, may be a big fac
tor in solving the economic problem of
the home. A growing tomato vine is
much more of an ornament than an
empty tomato can in the back yard, and
blister on your hand resulting from
gripping a hoe handle much to be pre-
ferred to CLASSY spot on the seat Of
your trousers due to constant contact
with porch chair. A melted down col
lar due to eradicating parsley is no more
difficult to launder than one rendered
unserviceable playing one-old-cat with
the boy and it will produce whole lot
more for the family table. The back.
yard bean and spud are gold mines on
small scale, which are more certain to
render dividends than the kind which
gives back nothing but gilded certifi-
cate whose only purpose is to remind
you in subsequent years that chump
and his money had been parted.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1909-05-01
Parents, Heed This Advice.

When the reporter for the CHRONICLE
was small lad, his grandfather urged
him each evening to read a paper-frst
placing my geography open before me
on the table. Then when read of a
country, stream or city unknown to me,
I was to stop and hunt it out in my ge-
ography. In this manner learned not
only of the United States, but of foreign
countries as we'll, of the principal places,
products and waterways of the world.
The knowledge thus gained I haye found
of valuable benefit in after life.
The following paragraphs taken from
'school Notes., in the Sioux Falls
Argus-Lesder, is good advice, which
parents should heed. Your children
will learn more in general way from
papers and magazines than from the
textbooks. Read and act upon the sug.
gestions given in the following para
graphs:
"How many parents provide papers
and books for their children?
"The superintendent has visited scores
of homes in this county during the last
two years, and, with two or three excep-
tions, he has not found a single paper or
magazine for the boys and girls of the
home. There are dsilies and weeklies
for the father and hired man, but no
reading for the children. The majority
of parents would not think of keeping
house without daily paper, and in some
homes three dailies are taken. In the
evening the father sits down and read ds
his papers with the keenest pleasure.
"But what about the boys?
"What about the girls2
"Has anything been done to provide
them with wholesome reading2
"They cannot read the dailies that in.
terest the parents. Their reading at
school is work, not recreation. The gu
perintendent believes that every boy
and girl has as much right to good
paper in the home as the father and
mother. One of the happiest recol-
lections he has of his childhood days
is the reading of the books and papers
that were put into his hands by his par
ents, books and papers published exclu-
siyely for young people. The reading of
those papers and books gave him an
early taste for good literature which has
been source of great profit and pleas
nre to him all his life. There are a
number of good papers and magazines
published for boys and girls. Subscribe
for one for that child Of yours. Have
the paper sent in the boys own name.
1t will be one the best investments eyer
made,n
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1909-05-01
Appoint Commandant.

The State Soldiers Home Board met
in regular session, Tuesday, Wednesday
and Thursday, and transacted the regu-
lar routine business. The matter of ap-
pointing a commandant was taken up
and acting commandant, Col. C. B. Ged-
des was chosen to fill that place perma-
nently. Col. Geddes has had charge of
the affairs of the Home for some time
and is thoroughly familiar with the
work. A number of new improvements
are to be made this year and some are
at present under construction. He is
we'll and favorably known throughout
the state and will ill the position with
credit to himself and the old boys in
blue. The following named members of
the board were present: P. V. Fitzpat-
rick, president, Rapid City A. B. Mel
son, secretary, Pierre; j. s. Pratt, Spear
fish; Arthur Linn, Canton, and c. B..
Geddes.-Hot Springs Star
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1909-05-01
Personal Mention.

E. B. Sine left Tuesday night for Chic
ago.
]. H. Bostwick made a business trip
to Hot Springs Monday.
Clyde Cessna liyeryman, drove down
from Hill City Tuesday evening.
George Raver and Glenn Peterson re-
turned Sunday from Thermopolis.
s. R. Herber is spending a month in
California and other Pacific Coast states.
A. Kresse and T. Marsh of Hill City,
were south bound passengers for Hot
Springs Sunday.
Mrs. J. c. Hayes came in from the
ranch Wednesday and was the guest of
Mrs. d. Carrigan.
Miss Clara Flynn, of Keystone, visit
ed friends in Custer this week, the guest
of Miss Ruberta Olds.
Mrs. Eller and her daughter, Mrs. J.
P. Foran Of Custer Park were in town
Wednesday on business.
Miss Anna Konrad visited the fore
part of the week with her sister, Mrs.
W. Donaldson at Hill City.
w. H. Harrison came up from the
Soldiers Home Tuesday and went out to
his ranch on French creek.
W. E. Fletcher came up from the SOL
diers' Home "Wednesday and is spend.
ing the time with old friends.
Miss Louise Pitcher went up to Dead
wood Saturday to visit with friends and
with her father at the Wasp No. 2 mine.
Mrs. George Phillips and daughter,
Belle, departed last night, for Dayton,
Ohio, where they will reside in the
future.
J. c. Carr, a former citizen Of Custer,
but now residing at Buffalo, Wyo., came
in Wednesday on protracted visit with
his children.
Owen S. Shay, of Edgemont, was in
Custer on business Wednesday. He
has resided near Edgemont for the past
twenty-three years, but has recently sold
his ranch and stock.
w. NJ. Whitsell, of Hot Springs, a
relative of George Phillips, who visited
here last week, departed Monday for
Danville, Illinois, and then will visit
relatives and friends in Wisconsin.
Miss Mary Heumphreus, our efficient
county superintendent, is this week at
tending the meeting of county superin-
tendent's at Pierre, gathered at the call
Of the State supt. to consider education.
al matters.
John Thornby, of Los Angeles, Cali.
fofnia, who has been visiting with biz
sister, Mrs. j. E. Pitcher the past week,
went up to the northern Hills Wednes-
day to visit other relatives. He was q
resident of Custer eighteen or twenty
years ago.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1909-05-01
Saw Mil Burns.

The Mclaughlin Tie and Lumber
company's saw mill at Nahant was to-
tally destroyed by fire at 2:30 o'clock
Monday morning, and the loss is esti-
mated at $4,000, partially covered by
insurance.
Four box cars and two fats on the sid
ing were consumed. One of the cars was
loaded with ties.
The danger zone was confined to the
saw mill, and there is no fear that there
will be another outbreak from last nights
disaster.
Between forty and fifty men were
employed at the camp and probably a
third will be thrown out of work.-Lead
Call.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1909-05-01
GEO. A. BABC0GK,
Most Powerful in W orld.

The heaviest locomotive ever built,
weighing 430, 600 pounds without a ten
der and 60s, 900 With tender, and meas
uring ninety-two feet long over all, is
on it's way to Chicago from Philadelphia.
1t will be exhibited for a day at the
Northwestern passenger station before
being sent west for freight service on the
Sierra Nevada mountain division of the
Southern Pacific railroad.
With the possible exception of one To-
comotive used on the Erie railroad, this
is also the most powerful locomotive in
the world and is two and two-tenths
times more powerful than the heaviest
freight locomotive used by the South ern
Pacific on its steepest grade. tits known
as the double consolidated type of NAL
let compound engine and is equipped
with sixteen driving wheels, each fifty
seven inches in diameter. Two of them
will pull slightly larger train than is
now used. This locomotive will burn
crude oil from California wells.
The weight on the driving wheels is
390,0u0 pounds, as compared with 49,
900 for the heaviest used by this road at
present. The tender loaded and ready
for service weighs l70, 500 pounds, max
ing total weight Of more than 800 tons.
The boiler has a diameter of eighty
four inches and the total heating sur
face is 6,l72 square feet. The wheel
base of the locomotive is fifty-fve feet
ten inches.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1909-05-01
Case Of Denis Henault of Custer to Serve
as Test for Others.
very CrUIy,
ii. A. UsTRUD,
Superintendent.

Another one of the contests brought
by the forestry service to knock out GER
tain mining claims held by men in the
Hills, was that of Denis Henault before
the land Office at Rapid City this week.
Mr.. Henault was represented by At
torney E. L. Grantham of Custer, who
during the contest, raised the point that
possibly the land department did not
have jurisdiction in instances where the
validity of mining claims was in ques-
tion prior to the filing of an application
for patent. The land Office officials
decided this was necessary.
The contests were the fruit of investi-
cations conducted by government en-
ployee named Curry, 1t is said. He is
no longer with the government and
none of the witnesses have seen the
property in question to judge from re-
ports of the hearing.
One of the contests similar to that
against Henault's property is that against
the Saginaw company, which has milled
some very good ore within the recent
months.
Mr.. Henault is confident the land Of
flee will decide the case in his favor aud
has no fear but what the decision will
be sustained if taken higher.-Dead.
wood Telegram.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1909-05-01
Gard Of Thanks.

We desire to extend our sincere and
heartfelt thanks to the Brother Masons,
Eastern Stars and Company and friends
who 80 kindly assisted US in our time OF
sorrow and burial of our beloved hus-
band, father and brother.
Mrs. T. A. Foran and Family.
Mr.. and Mrs. W. M. Eller.
Mr.. and Mrs. E. c. Eller.
Miss Eleanor EIler.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1909-05-01
Notice Of Bids.

Office Of County Auditor, Custer county,
8. d.
Notice is hereby given that sealed bids
will be received at this Office up to IL
O'Clock noon, May Goth, 1909, for build
ing bridge across Battle Creek at or
near the old Beatty place. Said bridge
to be pile bridge 4s feet long and l6
feet wide, and built on same plan as
bridges built on said creek last year.
County to furnish material and pile
driver.
E. A. ScorT, Co. Auditor.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1909-05-01

Within the past week quite q number
of Denver capitalists who have stock in
the Castle Creek Hydraulic Placer Min
ing Company, have been at Mystic in
specting their property, and also some
ground on Slate creek. They contem-
plate doing considerable work this COM
ing season-that is If we have any warm
weather this year.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1909-05-01
For Sale.

One eight room house in good condi-
tion. All conveniences. Fine water.
Barn room for eight head of stock, all
in good location in Custer, South Dakota.
Also good farming and grazing ranch
near Pactola, Pennington county, South
Dakota. All of this property will be
sold at a bargain. For further informa-
ton see or write
GEO. W. PHILLIPS,
Custer, s. D.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1909-05-01
For Rent.

The Pitcher residence In west end of
town; including Groom house, with
spring water in house and barnyard;
spacious gardens, barn and out-build-
ings. Reasonable terms. Write or see
]. E. Pitcher,
Custer, So. Oak.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1909-05-01
For Sale Cheap.

One So-horse power boiler and engine,
one double cylinder hoist, one sinking
pump, one large derrick with 1000 feet
cable.
H. 81. Francis,
Custer; So. Dak.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1909-05-01

In Tennessee GO students have been
expelled from college because they
went to circus.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1909-05-01
For Sale.

Two Jersey cows, five and six years
old, two half breed Jersey heifers, two
years old, one Jersey heifer, one year
old. Inquire of
j. S. PELTz,
Custer, s. D.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1909-05-01
For Sale.

One set of Concord work harness, one
farm wagon, three milch COWS.
HENRY MoNHEIM.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1909-05-01
OBITUARY.

JOHN PAINE FoRAN died at Battle Noun
tain Sanitarium, in Hot Springs, s.
D., Tuesday evening, April l3, 1909,
Chokenut creek near Friendsville,
Susquehanna county, Pennsylvania,
September 23, 1857. At time of his
death was 81 years, 8 months and 20
days old.
He lived at home until 10 years of
age, then worked in lumber regions un-
til the spring of 1877, when he came to
the Black Hills and engaged in mining.
In the spring Of 1898 he enlisted in com.
pany "I", First S. D. Volunteers, and
was in the Spanish-American war, serv-
ing in all engagements of his regiment
while in the Philippine Islands. He
came home in l900-when the war
closed-and was honorably discharged.
]. P. Foran was married to Miss Ia
litha A. Eller, May IL, 1901, in Hot
Springs, S. D. Unto them was born
three children-two boys and one girl
Emmet Warren Foran, Earl Eller Foran
and Margaret Foran, all Of whom sur
vive him. In character he was unas-
suming, sensitive and generous to a
fault. He was a man of great hospi-
tality.
Mr.. Foran was Master Mason, also
a member of the Order of the Eastern
Star. He joined the Order of Home
Guardians in the spring of 1907. He
was member in good standing in the
State lodge at the time of his death.
Miss Eleanor Foran, his sister, and J.
E. Perkinson, cousin, both of st. Louis,
attended the funeral.
Comrade John p. Foran has departed
from earth life. esteem it a privilege
to pay tribute to our deceased friend and
neighbor, who was an old-timer. For
the past 32 years he has made Custer
his home. As one who knew him we'll,
l wish to say that Jack, although he had
a touch of the wild in bis nature, which
cannot be denied, yet he was one of the
truest and kindliest men / ever knew.
His affections were very strong. He
loved his wife and children and was
true to them. He respected his friends
and neighbors; and was fond of horses
and dogs.
Yet Jack was brave man and could
fight when occasion required it. 1t was
this spirit that induced him to join the
army at the time of the Spanish-Amer-
fcan war. Exposure and hardship of
army life ruined his health, for it was
in the PHILIPPINES that he inhaled the
germs of disease that broke him down,
sapped his energies and later destroyed
his life.
Mr.. Foran's intellect was above the
average, his reading more extensive and
his reasoning deeper than most people
gave him credit for. He was raised
a Catholic-he loved its people and
always defended them, but had lost
faith in many of its teachings. He loved
the Masonic Order; its grand precepts,
its moral teachings and its fraternal
VOWS were all sacred to him. His funeral
sermon was rendered by brother Of
the Order, and it was elegant and sub
lime. We have buried him with all the
honors that his brethren Of the Masonic
fraternity could confer. We have con-
signed his "body to the grave, and his
soul to the God who gave itp' So far as
that poor, old, worn-out body is con.
cerned, we have left it to sleep the slum-
ber that knows no waking!
C. w. RoBBINs