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Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1910-06-25
A Venture in Vaudeville.

The June Fra" is a Vaudeville
Number. The leading article is a con-
fession and an apology by Elbert
Hubbard, wherein are related the
trials, difficulties, heartbreaks, and
joys, sweets and successes of Vaude-
vilist. Incidentally, discreet men,
ton is made Of pleasant friendships
with ladies Of the ballet, and vari-
Gus vain attempts to rival troupe
Of trained dogs. Tumblers, aero
bats, singers, players on sweet
zithern strings, heavies, soubrettes
and first comedians come In for
their turn, with examples of how not
to do 1t.
Many experiences come and go
and are lost in the dust-bin of for
getfulness. This one will never pass.
Fra Elbertus made new friendships
and for week he was one with a
strange world. separate and divorc-
cd from the world Of trads-ths
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1910-06-25

world of mimicry and mines, Of
players to whom "The plays the
thing! tender, intense, in
nocent, loyal to their art living in
dreams grips, clearinghouse,
steamer-trunks and emotions, the
Children of the Stage. after nfe's
fitful play may they sleep well. God
bless them ALI" says the Fra. Con-
tinuing he says
mo one ever saw a church where
the auditors were more orderly, de-
cent, well-behaved, better dressed
and revealed a higher average of in
teligence than at the Majestic Thea
ter of Chicago. No one ever saw a
church more beautiful, hygienic, safe
and sanitary than the Majestic Thea
ter. The commondity offered is
amusing, with instruction on the
side, all presented on a business
basis Of a complete organization, and
a vigilant service to the public.
The siren song of the stage has
a wondrous lure. To stand in the
glare, unarmed save for your wit
and gesture, before two thousand in
different people, and to play upon
them, to sound their stops, to ap-
peal to that great common heart
throb OF humanity which ebbs and
flows through US all, to get their re-
sponse-that breathless silence, fol-
lowed by roar and rumble Of pro-
longed applause-to bow yourself off
the stage and be called back, and
yet again called back, until the Or
chestra chops off the tumult-this
Is a gratification--a wild, weird in
toxication, which once tasted ia
never forgotten.
And if at the Last Great Day,
Gabriel wants a response from me,
let him lay aside his B-Flat horn
and use the stage managers call
bell, and I'll pull myself together,
though hell yawns, and as the
heavenly orchestra blares at it, with
boom of the big drum and crash of
cymbals, though my veins will again
run the ruby wine Of life, and l will
shout under my breath, Coming up!
Aha, aha! Letter go, Marshwildus,
flash those lights-let the curtains
part, here We are again!' "
The rest will be found In the June
Fra"
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1910-06-25
SPECULATIONS ON
THE STATE CONVENTION.

WASHINGTON, d. c., June IT,
Trouble is brewing for the progress
sives Of South Dakota according to
reports which have reached the SEN
ators and representatives from that
state. If the majority of the pro-
gressive delegates to the state con-
vention have their way anti-adminis-
tration resolutions will be passed.
This will not be at all satisfactory to
Senators Gamble and Crawford, who
have stood with President Taft right
along. Consequently it is a matter
OF comment here that the stalwarts
are being asked by the administra-
tion faction of the progressives to as
sist in the making of the platform.
or course the stalwarts, led by Con-
gressmen Burke and Martin, will
have to stand with the administra-
tion, and the result will be a plat
form that will be satisfactory. Mean
while Burke, Martin and their fol-
lowers are laughing in their sleeves.
They have been willing that the pro-
gressives should control the state
convention. They are more than
pleased to have the onus of making
the platform thrown upon their oppo
nents. The fact is, according to in
formation that has reached Burke
and Martin, the stalwarts will hold
the balance of power in the state con-
vention and will be able to write
what they will, Notwithstanding they
are in the minority.
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ment may be summarized as follows:

mehI may pe summarized as 10llOw6:
The fight is either on the square
or 1t is frame-up; If it is on the
square, who should win; If it is a
frame-up, who will win. Supposing
that 1t is on the square, the main
question appears to be can Jeffries
come back" 1t is generally con-
ceded that if the fight were to have
taken place six years ago, before
Jeffries had retired and when he
was at his best, and Johnson was in
the condition that he is today, which
| is regarded as the best of his fight
ing career, Jeffries would have a
decided advantage over the negro.
He is bigger man and undoubtedly
was a stronger man, his gameness
was never questioned and he had ac-
quired a cleverness in the ring that
rivaled ever that master sparrer, Jim
Corbett. After life of idleness for
more than five years. during which
he undoubtedly dissipated to a con-
siderable extent, became a confirmed
cigarette smoker and boosted for his
own bar in Los Angeles, absorbing
numerous beers every day and some
times indulging in all-night wine
suppers, can he recover his former
stamina. In the opinion of some
who have made a careful inyestiga-
ton of the physical properties of ath
letes, it is impossible to fully re-
gain the strength and endurance of
full manhood, after a protracted per
iod of dissipation. The principal
question Is "can he go the route"
He may recover his strength and
cleverness, but will he have the en-
durance. Johnson is noted as a
"staller.' All his principal fights
have been waiting games, he has
mastery defense and can hold off an
opponent for an indefinite number of
rounds and avoid serious punishment
In the meantime. Can Jeffries break
through the defense by sheer brute
force and finish the negro in a few
rounds? If the fight goes beyond
fifteen rounds, will Jeffries' endur-
ance hold out? These are the Dues
tions that are being argued pro and
con in Deadwood, with contenders on
both sides.
If the fight is to be a frame-up
who will win? If this is the case it
is generally admitted that Jeffries
will be declared the winner, because
it means more money to all concern
ed. The men who are in the deal
could afford to give the entire purse
Of 100000 to Johnson and his share
in the moving pictures and then
make millions out Of Jeffries, IL he
regains the championship. johnson
has been champion since his defeat
of Burns and still his exhibitions
throughout the country have been
frosts, as money-makers, compared
with the tour that Jeffries made be-
fore he started training and after
the fight terms were arranged. A
white champion would be ten times
the money maker that a negro would
be. Thus 1t appears that If the fight
is a frame-up, it is a cinch for JEFF
ries to win.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1910-06-25
REV. KELLER ACCEPTS
HURON RECTORSHIP.

Rev. George S. Keller, who has
been rector of the Emmanuel mis-
sion of Rapid City for nearly two
years, has handed in his resignation
and accepted the rectorship Of Grace
Episcopal parish at Huron, S. D.
He succeeds Rev. l.. X. Smith, Har-
ward graduate, who leaves Huron to
take up mission work in Wyoming,
having his headquarters at Saratoga.
Grace parish is in one of the grow
ing church districts of South Dako-
ia and in addition to having a hand
some church edifice, there is a rec
tory to which Rev. Mr.. Keller will
take Miss Ruth Mansfield as his
bride.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1910-06-25
"sWIFTWATER BILL"
GOES TO PERU.

SPOKANE. Wash, June H.
"Swiftwater Bill' Gates OF Spokane
prospector and bonanza operator,
known in every mining camp from
Alaska to Mexico and from Puget
Sound to Missouri and Mrs. Gates.
his fourth wife are on the way 70
New York, whence they will travel
by steamships. trains and horses to
Huarez, Peru, where he II interest
ed in the San vincente group Of
silver claims. Gates will install Q
$4,000 concentrator to handle the
ore also opening In the interior what
he declares are the largest placer
workings in the world. He owns ls
per cent Of the silver group, Spo-
kane interests hold 1 1-2 per cent
and New York capitalists he says
control the remaining. Several ex-
perienced gold miners from Alaska,
where Gates cleaned up q half dog
en- fortunes only to lose them In 9TH
er ventures. will assist him in devel-
oping the mines in Peru: "and" he
added. 81 expect that more than so.-
600 natives will be employed in the
diggings during the next three or
four years. This is the biggest prop
osition I have ever tackled and this
means that millions of dollars worth
of metal will be taken out Of the
ground In that district"
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1910-06-25

ing up the procession. The band play
ed "There'll be hot time in the old
town tonight"
Following the disbandment Of the
parade at Central Park. Colonel
Roosevelt was driven to the home of
Thereon Butler where he lunched
and inspected the wedding presents
of Miss Alexander, who 10 to marry
Theodore, Jr.. next Monday. At .
little after four o'clock he was driven
to the ferry In An auto and left for
Oyster Bay.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1910-06-25
ROUSIN OVATION TO
COLONEL ROOSEVELT

NEW YORK, June 1S.-Theodore
Roosevelt set his foot on his home
shores this morning for the first
time in nearly fifteen months and re-
ceived rousing welcome. He bore
with his usual buoyancy a day of
heavy fatigues, public duties and pri
vate emotions, commingled. Late
this afternoon after a family reun-
ion at the home Of Thereon Butler,
grandfather Of his prospective daugh
ter-in-law, Miss Eleanor Butler AL
exander, he left for Oyster Bay. To
morrow he will rest.
AS private citizen, he was the
same outspoken vigorous man of
words and deeds that the city of
his birth has known in the last thir-
ty years, as assemblyman, police com
missioner, assistant secretary of the
navy, colonel of rough riders, COVER
nor of the state, vice president and
president and more latterly ambassa-
dor to the jungle and monitor of
those who sit in the seats of the
mighty. He had an expansive
smile for everybody, a cheerful word
for "the boys" the newspapermen
"a pat anecdote for the politicians
and an especial greeting of affection
for the rough riders. He called his
old friends by their first names and
fairly bubbled over with Joy at be-
ing home again.
Roosevelt luck" followed him
Though hot and sultry, the weather
held fair until the conclusion Of the
marine parade, the exercises at the
battery and the march up Broadway.
Then 1t rained great guns" but
cleared up again, just before o.
clock when his old neighbors gath
cred at the Oyster Bay station, to
welcome him to his home. True to
the policy announced on his depart
ure for Africa, reiterated on his re-
turn from the jungle and adhered
to in his speeches abroad, he de.
clared II shall have nothing what.
ever to say now or in the immediate
future about politics" His one speech
a reply to Mayor Gaynor's address
Of welcome contained nothing thai
could be applied specifically to state
or national issues.
The sharp crack of the president
ial salute wakened Mr.. Roosevelt a.
seven o'clock this morning, as the
Kaiserine Auguste Victoria drew IL
to her harbor. From the mist Of
early morning, emerged the dral
hull Of the battleship South Caro-
lima, two lean destroyers and two
torpedo boats, behind her. Blue
clad sailors lined the decks while
massed on the quarterdecks Of thu
South Carolina, the marine bant
burst forth in the "Star Spanglet
Banner. Roosevelt, in q frock Goa
and silk hat, stood on the bridge o
the liner, waving silent greeting II
the cheers of the men. He lost n,
time on board the Auguste Victor
a. After the usual customs ant
health inspection formalities were o,
er, he transhipped to the revenu,
>utter Manhattan, where with tn
immediate members of his famil!
and a few intimate friends, he sa
down to a hasty breakfast. The bill
guns roared again when he left tn,
Manhattan for the Androssoggin ant
led by the Dolphin, the marine par
ade began, Great crowds packet
In Battery park and along the rive
front watched the procession o
ships and roared welcome to the re
turning traveller.
When the marine parade was over
Colonel Roosevelt. escorted by Cor
'nslius Vanderbilt. chairman of tn
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1910-06-25

reception committee emerged from
the dock house, where he landed
and proceeded to the speakers stand
in Battery park amid a roar Of
cheers and the click of hundreds Of
moving picture machines and cam
eras. At the foot of the stand, May
or Gaynor took his arm and walked
up the steps with him. On the stand
his gravity dropped from him; he
grinned the true Roosevelt grin and
waved familiarly to friends in the
stand calling out to Clifford Pinchot
who was seated in the front row
Glad to see you, glad to see you in
deed"
Following Mayor Gaynor's speech
OF welcome, Colonel Roosevelt spoke
as follows, Il thank you, Mayor Gay
nor. Through you l thank your com
mittee and through them, l wish to
thank the American people for this
greeting. l need hardly say am
most deeply moved by the reception
given me. No man could receive
such greeting, without being made
to feel proud and very humble. /
have been away year and a quarter
from America and have seen
strange and interesting things. l
thoroughly enjoyed myself, and, /
am more glad than l can say to
get home, and be back in my own
countrq, back among the people /
love. am glad and eager to do
my part, so far as l am able In solv-
ing the problems which must be
solved. II We do this, the greatest
democratic republic on which the sun
ever shone, is to see its destinies
rise to the high levels of our hopes
and its opportunities. This is the
duty Of every citizen but particularly
it is my duty; for any man who has
been honored by being made presi.
dent is thereby forever after rend-
cred debtor to the American pople
and bound through life to remember
this as his prime obligation, and in
private life las much as in public
life, so to carry himself that the Am,
lerican people may never have cause
to regret that once they placed hin
at their head"
The exercises were surprisingly
brief and at their close the land par.
ade was formed. While Col. Roose
welt and his escort were waiting fol
the head Of the parade to form, the
Rough Riders had the first chance tc
welcome their old chief. As his car
riage drew up behind. they gave /;
long, wild yell. The colonel was OF
his feet in an instant. 81 certainly
love all my boys" he shouted back, II
voice almost hysterical in its inten
sity.
The march through the city wal
a whirlpool of enthusiasm in which
the colonel was just as enthusiast,
as the crowd. Whirls of ticker tap,
thrown from windows in the finan
cial district, wound about him, bu
he seemed to like 1t and waved
piece Of tape in one hand and hi
hat in the other. Passing City Hall
park, a woman from the window o
factory where baby hats are made
tossed a half dozen tiny bonnets int,
his carriage and Roosevelt CRIME,
broadly.
All through the parade, It wa
Teddy Bear" Bully for you, Teddy
Eat 'em alive, Teddy" and 600,
Boy, Teddy" At Bleeker street
some one In the crowd yelled
"Who'll be our next president" an.
the crowd roared back Teddy. A
the parade swung around Fourtl
street into Washington square an,
up Fifth Avenue. the Spanish Wa
Veterans other than Rough Rider
fell in line with Roosevelt's neigh
bors and many political clubs. wind
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1910-06-25
BLACK HILLS FOREST TO
BE SUBDIVIDED.

The announcement comes from
Washington that on July 1st the
Black Hills forest will be divided in
to two units. The headquarters of
the northern reserve will remain in
Deadwood and will continue under
the supervision of Paul d. Kelleter
while the southern reserve will have
its headquarters at Custer and will
be in charge of r. p. lines, now con-
nected with the district forest office
at Ogden, Utah, and formerly as
sociated with the local office. The
division between the two reserves
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1910-06-25
NOTICE OF FoRFEITURE.
STATE OF SOUTH DAKOTA

STATE OF SOUTH DAKOTA,
County OF Custer, So.
To J. d. Jameson, and to X. G. Nickerson, heir
at Law of s. Nickerson, deceased.
You are hereby notified that have expended
Three Hundred Dollars, In labor and improve.
ments, upon each of the following lode mining
claims, to-wit: Levathan. Leyfathan No, 1,
Leyathan No. 2, Leyiathan No. 8, Levlathan No.
4, Leyiathan No. 8, Leviathan Fraction, Te-
cumsche lodes, amended location certificates
whereof are OF record In the Office OF the Regis
ter OF Deeds of Custer County, South Dakota, At
pages 273 to 279 inclusive OF Book 8 Of amended
locations, as will appear by certificate filed and
recorded n Book 8, page 1874. in the ofice Of the
Register OF Deeds OF said County, in order to
hold said premises. under the provisions Of Sec
ton 1924 Revised Statutes OF the United States,
being the amount required to hold the same for
the years ending December 81, 1907, 1905 1909.
And If within ninety days from the service oi
THIS notice, ,(or within ninety days after this
notice by publication), you fail or refuse TO con
tribute your proportion OF such expenditure as
co-owner, your interest in said claims will be-
come the property Of the subscriber under said
Section 1924.
FIJI. LONG,
ED. L. GRANTHAM, Attorney.
First publication, April 2. 1910.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1910-06-25
is THE BIG FIGHT
A FRAME-UP.

There is decided division of OPP
inion among the sports of Deadwood
on the outcome of the big Jeffries-
Johnson fight, which is scheduled. to
take place somewhere on July
4th. The various phases of the argu
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1910-06-25
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The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1910-01-13
With Your Ballots, Shoot These
DeSerterS!

When a soldier goes over to the enemy and
is afterwards captured by his former com
rades, what is done to him?
If he has not only deserted, but turned his
guns on his former comrades he is invariably
shot
Read this
'To put it in another way, the nominal Repub-
lican majority in the House would have been de-
stroyed if all the minority had co-operated with
the so-called 'insurgent Republicans, and the
very first pledge of the Republican national COM
ventiOn and the Republican President, MIR. Taft,
would have failed completely though a
Democratic House of Representatives had been
elected instead of House with nominal Re-
publican majority of 49,
That is an extract from speech made by
Speaker Joe Cannon, at Washington City,
on the night of November 26, 1909. By "mi-
nority," he means, of course, the Democrats
of the House Of Representatives By "the
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1910-01-13


the same narroWness, unfalrness and lntoer-
ance~@which DR.. Lovett has displayed in The
Wesleyan Christian Ad0ocate, and which
Bell and Graham have shown in The Chris
tian Iqdew, is exhibited by Dr. Broughton, in
The Golden Age
Don't you-fnd yourself wondering qohy
these sectarlan papers are so afraid to let their
readers see both sides of the shield?
Are you not surprised to see them so much
less fair, liberal and candid than THE JET
FERsoNIAN, and other secular publications?
Are you beginning TO haze your suspicious
aroused? [ should think SO. If you were on
jury, in the courtroom, and one party to
the case should object to your hearing the
other party and his witnesses, aoouzd y0u not
Immediately suspect something a0r0ng?
Would you, under such conditions, allow
verdict in favor of the man who objected to
your hearing what the other man had to say?
You certainly would not. Well, that is
what these sectarian papers are asking the
people to do-give verdsct IN their favor,
aoithout azzoaoiaog me hearing en- their co.,
atn171s.
Now, as to Bro. Len.
His first njustice to me is where he says
that Mr.. W. T. Ellis, having studied mission
work abroad, with an open mind, has be-
come "a wise, enthusiastic advocate of preach
ing the gospel in foreign lands".
That statement made In connection with
illusions to me, and to the challenge to de-
bate with Ellis, leaves the reader to infer that
I did not study the question with "an open
mind", and that [ am not an "advocate of
preaching the gospel in heather lands"
The readers of The JEFFERsoNIAN know
better; those Of The Golden Age do not Our
readers know that [ do earnestly advocate the
very thing stated by DR.. Broughton, towit-
the preaching Of the Gospel to the heather.
If the missionaries were not subordanati,1g
the euangezi8tic qOork to school teaching,
music lessons, gymnastics, farming indus
trial training the practice of medicine and
surgery; the support of widows orphans,
lepers; blind deaf and dumb heathen-and
much other unscriptllral work, [ never would
have trained q gaao on them.
In stating my position at ALL DR.. Brough-
ton should have stated it right It is not fair
to me to use the word "proclaim", only, as
representing my attitude in the matter Time
and again, have said that heartily favored !
the method of missionary work which Paul
and the early apostles instituted; and which
the churches continued to follow for eighteen
hundred years! To preach the Gospel or to
teach it, in the way that Christ meant, is to
become its messenger, its herald, its "pro-
claimer', if you please but the word pro
claim, In that connection, means such an
announcement as Paul, Peter, Timothy and
the others made, in their day-the same as
that which Augustine made in Britain; Co
lumba, in Scotland; and Patrick, in Ireland.
Dr. Broughton is mighty smart man: so
is DR.. Lovett: SO are Bell and Graham, /
guess but I can't bring myself to believe that
the apostles of early missions did not under
stand what Christ meant, better than Bro.
Len Broughton and his associates do. Some