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Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1910-06-18

WASHINGTON, d. G. June T.
Following a conference this after
noon between President Taft and
President Brown Of the New York
Central, McCrea Of the Pennsylvania
and Finlay of the Southern railway
1t was announced that If the amend
ment recommended by the president
in his message to congress this
morning, is adopted and the bill be-
comes law before July /, no agree
ment will be necessary to bring the
rates in question, before the inter-
state commerce commission, but II
the passage OF the bill is deferred,
the railroads will submit the propos-
ed advances to the commission, in
accordance with the provision Of the
new law.
The presidents proposed amend
ment would make Immediately effect
tive the clause giving the commits
sion power to investigate and sus-
pend rates fled. This afternoons
conference was in regard to the
rates east of Chicago and In the
South.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1910-06-18
WISCONSIN CONVENTION
DENOUNCES INSURGENTS

MILWAUKEE, June S.-Denuncia-
ton of the insurgents" and commen
dation of the national administra-
ton were the keynotes Of the addres
es before the Wisconsin republican
convention today. Every mention Of
Taft's name was greeted with cheers
The leading address was by Vice
President Sherman, who urged party
regularity and rehearsed republican
history.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1910-06-18
STALWARTS CLAIM ALL
BUT GOVERNORSHIP

ABERDEEN, S. D., June TO-
Chairman John C. Simmons and Sec
retary 7. b. Roberts refuse to give
out any statement on the result Of
the primary yet. They state that
both the stalwart congressman are
nominated by heavy majorities and
that will indicate the nomination Of
the state ticket. except governor
but the details are too meager to
base definite conclusions.
The returns at headquarters still
indicate that Egan has a good lead
over Vessey, with Elrod third in the
race.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1910-06-18
NAY BE BUsT.UP
IN JEFFS CAMP.

BEN LOMOND, June Concur
rent with the managerial ruction in
the Johnson camp there are indi-
cations of something doing in the
same line in the Jeffries quarters.
The presence in the camp Of Eddie
Graney. the Frisco referee who Is
frankly antagonistic to Sam Berger,
ond OF Jack Gleason, one Of the
light promoters, gave occasion for a
report Of changes and explanations
that they merely were there to see
Jeff and Corbett box was not gener-
ally accepted about the camp. The
bout between Jeff and Corbett was
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1910-06-18

COMO, Italy, June 1.-THE po-
lice have made little progress in SOL
wing the mystery of the murder of
Mrs. Porter Charlton, of New York.
whose body was found in a trunk
at the bottom of Lake Como. It
has been established that the woman
was placed in the trunk while yet
alive. 1t is said by the police that
on the evening before the crime is
supposed to have been accomplish
ed, Charlton went to hotel to make
a purchase, and being asked about
his wife, answered she was not well.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1910-06-18
LABOR TROUBLES GET BLAME

DENVER, June S.-The sulphur
is acid plant was destroyed and 9TH
er buildings Of the Western Chem
ical company were damaged by a
fire tonight. The loss is $225.000.
Two fremen were severely burned,
when a falling wall released a guam
tity facid fumes. The officials Of
the company charge the fire to in
cendiarism, due to recent labor
troubles at the plant.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1910-06-18

WASHINGTON. d. c., June g.
Senators Elkins and Aldrich and Rep
resentative Mann of Illinois held
several conferences today prepara-
tory to the formal conference on the
railway bill, probably tomorrow. The
general understanding is that the
senate and house leaders will get to-
get l-sr on the subject matter to be
taken from the house and senate bill
before action is formally taken by
the conferees. This course would
leave the only question to be voted
on by the house and senate. the ad-
option Of the conference report. The
insurgents are unwilling to have the
subject come before them In this
manner.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1910-06-18

again postponed today. Jeffries at
the last moment deciding to await
the completion Of the outdoor ring
before mixing with Corbett. A hand
ball game between Jeff and Corbett
was the feature Of the days train
ing.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1910-06-18
AMERICAN WOMAN
MUTRnERET

COMO, Italy, June 10.-The ter
ribly mutilated body of a woman. be-
lieved to be Mrs. H. N. Castle, form
erly Mary Scott, Of San Jose. Calf
was found today in trunk, submerg
ed in a lake near the village Of Mol
trasio. Constantine Ispolitoff, a
Russian, SO years old, suspected of
having knowledge of the crime has
been arrested.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1910-06-18

LONDON, June 9.-Col. Roose-
velt's visit to England will end to-
morrow morning. when he sails from
South Hampton for the United States
The colonel this morning, in his char
acteristic manner, deprived the Lon
doners of chance of giving him q
send-off. Declaring he had not had
time to see the hundredth part OF
the country. and being particularly
desirous to walk through typical
he set of at an early
hour with Sir Edward Grey, foreign
secretary, for a tramp through the
New Forest. A picturesque spot
near South Hampton, full of geolog
ical and antiquarian interest. It is
believed the pair will spend the day
on the tramp, stopping at country
inn for the night and motoring to
South Hampton in the morning to
join Mrs. Roosevelt and family, Just
before sailing.
DEATH LIST WAS
MUCH EXAGGERATED
CALITRI Italy June S.-The ruins
Of Calitri and the adjoining villages,
were inspected today by King EN-
manuel and Queen Helena. Most of
the houses Of Calitri were destroyed
by yesterdays earthquake and the
people are camping in the fields.
Thirty-two bodies have been recov-
cred and ten more are thought to
be buried in the ruins. One sec
tion Of the town was completely de-
molished when an ancient castle
toppled from the crest of the hill and
came crashing down the slope, crush
ing the houses below. The king and
queen left tonight for Naples, after
SO hours in the stricken region, dur
ing which time neither slept. A
touching demonstration accompanied
their departure, the women in tears,
kneeling before the Queen. A Sc
we're shock was reported this even
ing at Gallo, which was greatly dam
aged in the quake of 1908. This
causes apprehension.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1910-06-18

DES MONIES Ia, June Semi
official returns from Tuesdays pri-
maries are in from every county.
Both the progressive and stand
patters" claim the control of the
coming republieaa slsSs couventi,
the delegates to which were elected
at the primary. The convention will
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1910-06-18

SIOUX FALLS, s. D., June TO-
Confident from the returns received
at both the local republican and Eg-
an headquarters that the latter has
won out over Vessey and Elrod, a
dispatch was sent to the Huron cor
respondent of the local standpat
daily requesting him to call on Chair
man Richards of the progressive com
mittee and demand the figures on
which he continues to base his esti-
mates that Vessey has won. The ef-
fort was futile, Mr.. Richards merely
saying that the official canvass will
verify the estimates he has made.
This does not satisfy either of the
here and the claim is now
made emphatically that Egan Is the
winner of the contest. Both stall
warts and proogressives continue to
talk of bolting the ticket II 1t carries
the name of Egan.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1910-06-18

PIERRE, S. D., June 10.-Scat-
tering returns received here indicate
Governor Vessey Is renominated.
Burke also seems to lead for cong
ress. No general compilation Of re-
turns is made here.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1910-06-18

CONWAY CHARGED WITH
CONSPIRACY TO DEFRAUD
]. H. Conway, who at different
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-05-30

900 on mail collected, and one col
lected as little as $40 in a suburban
community where presumably COM
muters mail most of the letters in the
city.
This splendid service, in a word, is
not earning the money it should earn.
Mr.. DeGraw shows that the rural let
ter carrier usually has but 25 pounds
of mail to handle, while his light
wagon could easily carry ten times as
much. Rural communities nave tel
ephone connection with the city stores,
and If delivery might be made by mail
the carriers could collect all their pay,
instead of about one-fifth of it, as at
present. Hence Mr.. DeGraw recon-
mends that the postmaster general "be
authorized to arrange experimentally
for a limited period" for a rural par
GELS post.
Such an experiment would be well
and common sense, but is not neces-
sary. The people know perfectly we'll
that a parcels post service would pay;
that it would be great public conven-
fence; that it would aid in overcom-
ing the postal deficit and that in
practically every civilized country but
our own it is in satisfactory operation.
The point has recently been strongly
urged that even under present statutes
the express has no right to carry mail
able parcels under four pounds in
weight in competition with the post
Office. Whether this be the case or
not, the postoff1ce should begin serv-
ing the people as they desire and not
as the express interests may dictate.
New York World.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-05-30
GLOBE SIGHTS.
[From the Atchison Globe.1


Do you do as we'll when on exhibit
ton as you expect Johnny Killing to
do?
Put yoke on man, and within a
very few days, he will complain that
it rubs.
II hope" every one says or thinks
when lecturer gets up, that he will
not talk long,
Repeated vindications may keep
you out of jail, but in other respects
they are as bad as a conviction.
During fat years, do not spend your
money in far away places; you may
need it to scrimp through the lean
years.
The American people have been try
ing for years to stir up mischief, and
it will not be surprising if they finally
succeed.
1t may be all right for a man to
sing at amateur entertainments, but
we object if such man really thinks
he can sing.
In nine cases out of ten, a mischiev-
Gus meddler gets a salary from peo-
pie who are we'll behaved, and attend
to their own business.
A woman's idea of getting great
good from sermon is to go home
from church with her ears so sealed
that she doesn't hear her husbands
complaints.
She can't be very SICK" man will
say of his wife (and it is her sole re-
ward for attending to her duties
Why She Isn't Even Sick Enoguh To
be in Bed"
Il am a wretched grammarian, but
confess that when 1 catch a man in an
error, an error SO palpable that 1 can
detect it, 1 enjoy it as much as any
one."-Drake Watson.
Two old cranks were recently dis
cussing a question, when one of them
brought up new question. Don't
you remember said the other crank
impatiently, I'VE settled that the other
day so thoroughly that it will never
come up again ?"
Man is contrary in some ways. Air
is free, and water comparatively so,
yet the Wise Guys tell us that few
take enough of either, while about so
per cent of those who die before their
time are hurried on their way by par
taking too freely of high priced foods.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-05-30
KANSAS COMMENT
THE MISSOURI PLAN.


If the state. the government. or
some philanthropic organization takes
hold of the matter. the Missouri
farms may work. 1t can't be success
full without capital behind it and it
may not then prove successful, but 1t is
worth trying. Anything is worth try
ing which will revive interest in farm
work and develop the country.
1t is proposed to establish commune
ties of thirty-two forty-acres tracts of
land grouped about a central tract of
$50 acres. These farms are to be on
cheap Missouri land. The center farm
is to be a sort of experimental station
and school of instruction under ex-
perts. The men of the forty-acre
farms are to follow instructions and
learn how to make farming pay. They
are to pay for the land on long terms.
They ara to furnished the equipment
and instruction free.
This plan is not new one. Land
is being sold in Mexico on the same
plan and the government is behind it.
If 1t works in Mexico it certainly
should be successful in Missouri and in
other states
The movement is a good one and is
the first proposition which has been put
forward as means of in 3ucing people
to farm. Thousands of people in the
cities would be willing to go on farms
providing they could get the land and
had some knowledge of farming. The
Missouri plan seems to meet the re-
quirments of this class of people
Wichita Eagle.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-05-30

Thanks should go up to God today
from the lips of every one that SO many
of the veterans of the great war are
alive and well; that so many of them
are able to march again to the fife and
drum and gather once more for
memorial services at the graves of
their brethren who fought by their
sides and fell. The ranks of the G. A.
r. are thinning rapidly. The steps of
its surviving members may falter a
tri1e. But they are a goodly company
yet, and as noble a one as ever drew
breath.
Theirs was a great sacrifice, one that
cannot be measured and expressed in
words and phrases. Their accomplish
ment was greater. In preventing the
utter disintegration of these United
States, they made possible the develop
ment of nation, the like of which
there is no record on the pages of his
tory. Things are far from perfect 10
it. Discussions of an economic sort are
being voiced from one end of it to the
other Brother is again arrayed against
brother as to how shall be settled in
the best possible way the various and
important questions on whose proper
solution will depend the continued pro-
gress Of the nation to even greater
things than it has yet enjoyed. There
is a striving now to reach that won
derful level where every man will get
his just dues according to his just de-
serts.
1t is not a sectional conflict, nor one
that calls for the bearing of arms.
Thanks to the soldiers who are being
honored today this is no longer a coun-
try where there is a North or a South,
and East or West. 1t is one and in
divisable. Honest minded men in all
its parts are fighting shoulder to Shout
der according to their ideas. There
must be painstaking and intelligent
sitting of these ideas on the part of
the people before a wreath of victory is
woven. That victory may not come as
soon as many would like to have it,
but it is on the way, and as has always
been the case it will be carried on the
banners of those who are in the right.
1t is the soldiers of the civil war,
those dead as we'll as those living, who
have made this struggle for better
things possible. If they had not won
their fight there would be no nation
here today to develop and make grand
er and better in all of it's particulars.
All honor to them.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-05-30
HUNOR OF THE DAY

20 pepper, deari Did my-I mean did
Dick come to see you today about-er-
about rather important matter?' Yes
daughter. he did. But 1 told hin1 he
couldn't have cent until he produced
better security. "-Cleveland Leader
Mother-Do you think that young man
has matrimonial intentions, my dear5
Daughter-I certainly do, mamma He
tried to convince me last night that
looked prettie- in that 2-guinea hat than
In the 3-guinea one.-Scraps.
What 1 want said the Young mo,
is to get married and have a ol11et and
peaceful home of my own We'll - -
piled the man who knew, 'sometines -
works that way, and sometimes It's Itl-s
joining debating society ''-Strav
Stories.
II think the duke must be really in love.
He displays signs of jealousy at times :;
Toward whom?' Toward anyone who
wants to know how much money fat nao
has" Louisville Courier-Journai
PA, what is a braggart?'' Hes a mo-,
my SON who is not afraid to exr-ee. 81 "a,
real opinion of himself. Boston Transs
cript @hs-
Tomdix-Blankleigh has just bought i.
new airship. Hojax-So? How rss a
bird power Is it2-Chicago News many
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-05-30
QUAKER NIEDITATTONs.
From the Philadelphia Recor,

[F'rom the Philadelphia Record
It's a mans own push that usually
gets him a pull.
Even train of thought is sometimes
side-tracked.
Gossip is quite as necessary to a wo-
mans life as sugar is to her tea
The pessimist expects nothing, and is
disappointed if he doesn't get it.
1t is much more unusual to see a
shot.
A man never knows half as much
about himself as a woman knows about
him.
Love is a good bit like lightning in
that never strikes twice in the same
place.
The man who boasts that he would
die for his country would prefer to die
of old age.
It's when the comedian fails to get
laugh that the masculine portion of
the audience goes out for a smile.
The man who forgets that he was
once a boy is almost as scarce as the
woman who refuses to admit that she
is still a girl.
Blobbs-"Harduppe says he doesn't
believe it takes nine tailors to make a
If he can get trusted by one"
Nell-"His conversation is very heavy
and he SENS to have some difficulty IN
expressing it, Belle-'If it's so heavy
he ought to send 1t by freight"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-05-30
AYHAWKER JOTS

Probably the only useful purpose of
the comet, says the Wichita Beacon, is
to get the city people out of bed once
in rs years in time to see the sun rise.
The Minneapolis Messenger tells of a
Washington county man who sat up all
night to see the comet, and to keep
awake he provided an eye opener or
two. When asked by the family next
day he reported that there were two
comets, and that their tails wiggled in
a peculiar manner.
eLce journal. Twenty years ago a
man living here bought land for SIS
All acre. His neighbors laughed at him.
They supposed that when the timber
was cut off the land could not be pro-
ducible Until another crop of timber
had been raised. The land is now
worth $40 an acre.
Some Of these may be new, says the
Atchison Globe. A colored man went
to a lawyer and complained because of
the attentions paid to his wife by an
other colored man. Lawyer advised di-
vorce. But 1 cont want a divorce .
protested the complainant. IT want an
injunction" Club man returned
home very early in the morning, went
to his dresser, reached for hand mir
ror, but got hold of a hair brush. At
ter holding it before his face he re-
marked: ''Great Scott, old man, you
certainly 90 need a shave" Small
boy returned from grandparents. was
told the stork had left new baby
and to go in and see him. I'D rather
see the stork," replied the boy. E.
That's right" said the teacher en-
couragingly to the very small boy who
was laboring his A B C's. Now what
comes after G?'' "Whizz."
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-05-30

piness- His black eyes took unto
themselves a tender light hitherto un-
associated with thoughts of the maid,
but his knowledge of her would not
come back to him without a struggle.
In fact, he was sure that she did not
love him at all. 1t was she who had
suggested that the lifelong engage
ment be broken.
The doctor, a fussy little person
with straggly mutton-chop whiskers.
steel-bowed glasses and a double chin,
hurriedly entered the machine and the
return trip was made in record time
From behind came onto them the mu-
sic of muffied drums, and the plain
tive minor of the flies. The march to
the cemetery had begun.
He is badly shaken up" diagnosed
the little doctor. He wants rest ana
quiet, otherwise there is nothing more
serious the matter with him-no frac-
lures, nor anything in the nature OF
bruised bones. However, he must not
be moved for several days"
An to think, complained the oc-
togenarian, who had now recovered
consciousness. tibet, after all thls
trouble I'm a-goin to miss the doin's
today for the first time since the war"
Don't feel bad" soothed Dolly,
tender note in her voice. as she placed
a cool, soft little hand on the brow Of
the old soldier. He was now in bed In
the Horton home.
Corliss gazed at the girl wistfully.
Every moment it was being brought
home to him that he had lost a Jewel.
Darn such luckr grumbled the dis
contented Uncle Ezra.
The eyes of the repentant lover sped
telepathic message to the brain of
the maid and, responding to this, she
turned her head and looked at him and
-blushed.
On the broad veranda, as the young
man was taking his leave, he sudden
ly turned to the pretty girl who had ac-
companied him.
Must the engagement remain brok-
en?" he asked.
why. II thought you wished it
So" she replied, eyes cast down, but
if you don't, why, of course
To the ears of the jubilant Corliss,
speeding homeward some moments
later, came the string notes of 1.-THE
Girl Left Behind Me" The veterans
were coming back.-(Copyright 1870
by Associated Literary Press.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-05-30
FRON OTHER PENS
NEUTRAL TERRITORY.

General Keifer is opposed to the
erection of Notifications at Panama for
the defense of the canal. or the ground
that there should be an International
agreement that the canal should be
neutral territory and thus be safe
from attack from all nations. The
Suez Canal is so guarded and it it i'm
possible to arrange for better protec-
ton.
The general is right about 1t. Tha
neutral territory idea is a peace propo-
sition; the fertilization idea is war
proposition. The canal will be perfect
ly safe if it is made neutral territory;
it will always be in danger if depend
ence is put in Notifications. There are
several little pieces of territory on the
globe that are neutral by International
agreement, and there is never any dan
ger of war at these places. 1t is the
peace fertilization, impre enable and
invulnerabIe.
The chief obstacle to the establish
ment of this idea at Panama will,
doubtless, come from those interests
which are always opposing anything
that looks to peace, in the interest of
contracts and material Business be-
fore peace is one of the ideas that do
a deal of harm in this land.-Ohio
State Journal.