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Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1910-10-22

ready to set in place. Because Of
this expert preparation the Portu-
gese republic sails of as smoothly as
the mission rocker we buy Knocked
down" ready for any child to "set
up".
The expulsion of the monks and
nuns, a radical appearing policy, is
but a sign of the philosophical work.
ing out Of this revolution. Some Of
the DEEPEST difficulties of the French
republic came of the hostility of the
religious orders, which have great
influence with the people. The Por-
tugese revolutionists propose to
steer clear Of that rock by remov-
ing it in this hour of their greatest
strength. They propose, moreover to
have no such struggle between
church and state for control of edu-
cation as France has had only late
ly, and as Spain is beginning to now
have. The church schools have been
closed, at least temporarily and pub
lie eduction is at once to be provid-
ed for. II the republic is to endure
this is essential, ignorance and sup
erstition are rife among the people
who are now to rule in Portugal.
Another effect Of the application of
scientific principles to the revolution
is the small loss of life. The launch
ing of the Portuguese republic cost
800 lives, about the same as our lat
est little forest fire.
The strides made by the science of
revolution as illustrated in Portugal
have no small interest for the rest
Of the world. The swift develop
ment Of efficient machinery of revol-
ution, machinery that is to the old
as the modern iron clad to the an
cient galley, is not a sight to reas-
sure a throne or the power behind
1t. A united people is the greatest
power in the world. People never
before knew half so we'll how to
unite and conquer" as now.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1910-10-22
House of Too Much Trouble.


In the House of Too Much Trouble
Lived lonely little boy;
He was eager for a playmate,
He was hungry for toy.
But twas always too much bother,
Too much dirt and too much noise
For the House of Too Much Trouble
Wasn't meant for little boys.
And sometimes the little fellow
Left book upon the floor,
Or forget and laughed loudly,
Or he failed to close the door
In the House of Too Much Trouble
Things must be precise and trim /;
In the House of Too Much Trouble
There was little room for him.
He must never scatter playthings,
He must never romp and play;
Ev'ry room must be in order
And kept quiet all the day.
He had never had companions,
He never owned pet,
In the House of Too Much Trouble
1t is trim and quiet yet.
Ev'ry room is set in order,
Every book is in its place,
And the lonely little fellow
Wears a smile upon his face.
In the House of Too Much Trouble
Ee is silent and at reast-
In the House of Too Much Trouble
With lily on his breast.
ALFRED Biglow Paine
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1910-10-22
The Inimitable Teddy,

Lincoln Journal: There's no use
trying to follow him, or to stop him,
or to pocket him. To try to be as in
teresting as he is makes you ridicul-
GUS. To try to butt him off the track
is to get what Sunny Jim" got. To
try to divert attention by different
show is to be solitary as Judge Par
ker.
When he was president and the
dull season on he dived to the bot
tom of the sea in a submarine. He
came up laughing at the way we held
our breath. Another time, when the
show at Washington began to pail he
woke us with bobcat shooting ex-
pedition. His term out, new broom
at Washington about to take the
floor, did he sink from sight or make
an absured attempt to hold the stage,
as less inspired players would have
done? Not much. He dashed for
the inside Of Africa, keeping us IN
mortal fear for year lest lion, hippo
or tsetse fly should "do it's duty"
Military officers inspire their fol-
lowers and with support by standing
where the bulits fly thicket. Mr..
Roosevelt is the most conspicuous
statesman to apply the principle to
civil leadership. His fight in an aero
plane at st. Louis is his master
stroke in that policy. Get people
scared about you and yu have their
interest ever after. Moreover, the
timidest Cholly that ever rolled a
cigarette worships dash and courage.
That three miles by airship carried
him thousands of miles into the af-
fections Of hero worshiping peo-
pie. Three minutes in the air spoke
more volumes than three years on
the platform. The colonel is now
incincible. The country is his.
Before leaving the subject it may
be we'll to warn other statesmen that
some world winning ways are not
susceptible of imitation. They might
remember the fables of the daring
monkey and the cumulative donkey.
The Billy Possum was a bad second
to the Teddy Bear. Even boldness,
to win applause, must be original.
Teddy tips off the principle. Ones
own genuius must make the applica-
tion. Many a statesman's fortune
will yet be made by breath stilling
boldness, but not in the form of
journeys to Africa or dashes into
the atmosphere. Those cards have
been played.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1910-10-22
PRESIDENTS TRAVELLING
EXPENSES.

EAfENSES.
By all odds the most foolish
outcry of the hysterical face scatch-
ing tumult in the Republican house.
hold is the accusation that Theo-
dore Roosevelt, as president of the
United States, contracted an in
debtedness of more than 100000 to
the Pennsylvania Railroad which it
is incumbent upon him to pay as a
private citizen. to discharge.
This is intended solely to preju-
dice Col. Roosevelt, at the outset Of
a momentous campaign, in the eyes
of those who clamor constantly
against the slightest privileges for
the occupant of the White House,
whoever he may be.
If the president makes use of an
otherwise idle cruiser of the Navy,
he is charged with applying to his
own benefit that which belongs to
"the people"
If he seeks an appropriation to
defray the expenses of tour in
tended to bring the chief executive
into direct and useful contact with
sections of the country whose needs
1t is essential that he should know
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1910-10-22
MODERN GOLD MINING.

Just as the grandsons OF some OF
the early settlers of New England
have gone back to the comparatively
dead acres of their ancestors and are
feeding up the land to crop values
again, so the argonauts' children
are working here and there in Cali
fornia and far western placers where
their forefathers passed over the
gold dust that sixty years ago was
considered inconsequential.
With the hydraulic basin and the
dredge the Trinity river basin in
California has been yielding from
$350,000 to 100000 in gold annu-
ally, in spite of the fact that the old
miner with the pan" decided that
the district had been worked out.
The gold deposit in the granite ages
ago was cut and ground by the
erosive glaciers which crashed and
ground the rock surfaces. When
gold was discovered in the Trinity
basin sixty years ago it was washed
with comparative ease and when the
work became harder the old miner
deserted. Now in the coarser gravel
and by improved processes those finer
sands of gold are recovered in guam
titles to pay.
In the Randsburg district on the
border fthe Mojave desert gold
chiefly in the rocks, and there the
stamp mills are busy, having taken
out $10,000,O00 since the work was
renewed. In 1908 these mines pro-
duce $656,0OO Of the metal. Still
farther south, near Greatervile, Ariz,.
placers were worked in 1880 with
water carried on burroback for four
miles-and the work was profitable.
At the present time, a few Mexicans
are panning in gulch and an Ameri-
can is operating a dry washer.
In the Superior and Granite dis
tricts Of Oregon the glacial gravels
were deposited in the valley Of an
ancient river system. Later a new
river system imposed its water on
the dry bed Of the ancient stream,
but insuff1ciently to have concenrr-
ated them in marked manner. Yet
since 1868 this gravel has been
worked and at the present time the
dredges are busy there, in spite Of
the fact that the old time miner has
passed on in search Of richer pros
poets.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1910-10-22
GROSS FRAUDS IN
TAKING THE CENSUS.


WASHINGTON, d. c., Oct. 15.-
Staggered by the enormous growth
shown by the census returns for a
number Of western cities, Director
|Durand ordered an investigation, the
result appearing in an announcement
tonight that gross frauds have been
|perpetrated. Durand gave out let
ter from the president. directing that
all persons implicated, be prose-
|cuted.
The cities specifically mentioned
ARE Tacoma, Seattle, Aberdeen,
Wash; Portland, Ore.; Minneapolis,
Mimi; Boise, Idaho; Fort Smith,
Ark. But it is said there are many
others. The result of the second
enumeration Of Tacoma, announced
tonight, shows the population to be
S2,973, an increase Of 45,258, or 100
per cent over 1900. The first fig-
ures for Tacoma were 116.246.
Durand claims that attempted pad
ding was secured through the use of
slips, printed by private individuals,
containing the census questions.
These were generally distributed,
filled out by people already counted
or not permanent residents The
slips were then turned in through a
special agent of the census bureau
to thirty-four enumerators, who ad-
ded the names as boarders or lodg-
ers. The claim is made that the
names were given the enumerators
at Tacoma, to ascertain whether they
were already counted and that the
enumerators added them, without
making an investigation.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1910-10-22
No Fault Of Mine.

/ sometimes take myself in hand
And view my faults and con them
DER
And try and see the things I do
That makes some other fellow sore
I know that I am quick Of speech,
And lose my temper now and then,
But I have never sat around
And interferred with busy men.
I'm selfish, too; I recognize
That I want all that I can get.
But still in spite Of that too oft
For books I go headlong in debt.
I've other faults, some big, some
small,
Too numerous they are to pen,
But still I'm glad that never have
I interferred with busy men.
-Detriot Free Press.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1910-10-22

there arises instant opposition end
ing in grudging grant.
II 1t becomes necessary for him
to make journeys of official inn
portance in which expedition and
safety are requisites, he must foot
the bills from a private purse
stingily supplied by the greatest yet
most parsimonious nation in the
world.
The element from which these
protests arise apparently believes
the president of the United
States should voyage by sea in a
tramp steamer and travel by land
in the caboose of freight train.
But this sort of sentiment, happi-
ly, is fading away. 1t is not in ac-
cord with the wishes of the great
majority. 1t merely reflects the
sordid view Of those who mistake
miserliness for Americanism, who
continually harp upon the days when
the country and its people were
scrimping and self-denying because
they had to be.
The growth of the United States
has been not merely a matter of
possessions, but Of liberal thought.
II the nations Of the world were to
accept seriously the vaporings of the
few they must inevitably regard us
as mean and niggardly beyond ex-
preston.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1910-10-22
Drops.
Just a little Vermont,
Just a little Maine,
Fills the weary Democrats
Full of Hope again.-Life.
Drops.
A SAFE OCCUPATION.

Everything considered, fighting
with guns and revolvers is a re-
markably safe occupation. The late
siege in Wisconsin, of the poor
wretch Dietz, who hopelessly set his
private sense Of justice against the
rules Of society, is a remarkable IL
lustrayion of the providence that
guides bullets to an empty mark. At
one time two hundred deputy sher-
ifs fronted the Dietz cabin and bull
lets flew like snowballs. Through
several days guerilla war went on.
Yet the net result is one deputy
dead and four other persons safely
wounded. One begins to see now
how a Frenchman can fight duels all
his life without hurting or getting
hurt. We all take extreme pains not
to be shot at, yet the risk in a pitch
ed battle is apparently not material
ly greater than the risk of husking
corn in the hunting season.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1910-10-22
NEVADA SPORTS CAsHED IN.

At midnight September 30th gam
bling ceased in Nevada. 1t has been
going on fifty years. The little ivory
balls clicked away many fortunes.
The five-spdts and the two-spots
rolled up and stared at you from
the green baize like so many hope
less eyes. Five and two make seven
and that means "craps," and then
the dealer sang out, "Up jumps the
devil" and reached out and took
your money. So it was for half a
century. Men worked in mines, or
on railroads, or ranches, or got
money from home, and gave it to
the cynical, white-faced dealer, with
the back sateen shirt and the little
oilcloth apron and the big signet
ring, and the dealer got $40 a day
for dealing and gave the rest to the
boss, and the boss waxed fat and
prosperous, and so the tale runs
round again with more ruin staring
up from the hopeless eyes of the
dice.
Mark Twain and Bret Harte were
among the players. They have gone
back to the faro layout and cashed
in for good. Famous old "Hassiam-
pas" and desert rats" have passed
one by one. New camps have risen
and waned, but gambling has con-
tinued uninterrupted through it all.
The plays at the famous camps in
the big days surpassed any ever
known at Monte Carlo. Even in
Goldfield stakes of $4,000 or $780,
900 were not uncommon. The tab
les were stacked high with gold and
every known game was played, Faro,
Craps, Roulette, Keno, Policy, Klon-
dyke. Many are the tales of dra-
matte tilts with fortune and fiction
writer's have exhausted their thesau-
rus in their chronicles these ad-
ventures. But 1t all ended at the
close Of September, 1910. No long
er will the barkeeper shout gang
way" as he charges through the
crows around the tables with a tray
full Of drinks; no longer will the
weather-beaten old lookout" sit on
his dais thoughtfully pulling his
mustache as he watches the faro
game; no longer will the wild yell
of keno" suddenly break the crap
dealers monotone.
So it is that all the glorious,
wicked, picturesque, ruinous, adven-
turous life must pass. There is
nothing picturesque or adventurous
about collars and store cloes clothes
and barber shops and consolidated
mining companies. Nevada is to be
just like all the rest of us. She is
taking her place in the line.
There is something decidedly pa
thetic about breaking young colt
Ito harness, or in seeing an adventur-'
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1910-10-22

Gus youth cramped into commercial
pursuits, but there is nothing to be
deplored or regretted in the ending
of gambling in Nevada. Those little
white ivory balls have clinked, OF
murder and suicide, and despair and
endless misery have issued in fateful
sequence from that polished nickel
faro box. Let the dealers and the
cappers and the lookouts and the
case keepers and the bouncers and
the bosses and all the rest of the
crew go out and get a job. or several
jobs, and go to work. There is a
lot of digging and prospecting still
to be done in Nevada.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1910-10-22
AN EXPERT REVOLUTION.

The Portuguese revolution is in the
hands of experts. A revolution by
mob would have been accompanied
By the usual expensive mistakes Of
revolutionists. The Portuguese lead
ers are scholars. They have stud
led the revolution business. They
understand the mistakes of the
French. They see where revolution
failed in Spain and why it succeed
ed in Brazil. Before this revolution
was sprung they had 1t figured out
to scale with blue prints drawn and
building material sawed to size and
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1910-10-22
Farmers Institute.

The following have been assigned
for Farmers Institutes west of the
Missouri river for this fall:
Piedmont, October 20.
Whitewood, October 21-22.
Sturgis. October 24-25.
st. Onge, October 25-26.
Spearfish, October 1929.
Vale, October 81 to Nov. 1.
snoma, November 2-3.
Newell, November A.
At this point the corps will divide,
holding one afternoon meeting with
them as follows, each meeting be-
ing held at 1880 o'clock, speakers.
Hon. Frank Gardner and Superin-
tendent A. e. Chamberlain.
Chalk Butte, November s.
White Owl, November 6, Sunday
Afternoon. Subject-"Pioneering."
November z, Monday afternoon. Sub
ject-"Dry Farming"
Marcus, November s.
Brushie, November 8.
Cation, November 10.
Sulphur, November IL.
Fairpoint, November 12.
From Newell DR.. H. H. Stone and
Hon. w. D. Mckee will hold one day
meeting as follows:
Meers, November z.
Hayes, November 8.
Sansarc, November 9.
Manila, November 10.
Ottumwa, November II.
Milesville, November IL.
Marietta, November IA.
Grindstone, November 15.
November 16, IT, and Is the Dry
Farming congress will be held at
Pierre. Further dates of meetings
will be announced in due time.
All places desiring Institutes this
season are requested to write the
undersigned at Brookings. s. D., at
once.
A. q. CHAMBERLAIN,
superintendent
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1910-10-22
Canned Phrases.

Canned Phrases.
Daring aviator.
Reckless chaffeur.
Bold Burgler.
Desperate footpad.
Popular society belle.
One of the younger social contin-
rent.
Heartless husband.
Faithless wife.
Awful holocaust.
And
Stubborn flames.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1910-10-22
DELINQUENT TAX SALE NOTICE.
State Of South Dakota, ..

State Of South Dakota, -.
County Of Custer, ss'
ONCE OF Co. Treasurer, Custer Co., s. D.,
Custer, So OAK, Oct. 6, 1910
/, N B. Streeter, Treasurer Of Custer county,
State OF South Dakota, do hereby certify that
the taxes on the annexed list of Real Property
ment thereof, for the year 1909 and prior; and
said Real Property will be sold In the manner
provided by law TO satisfy said taxes with pen.
Of sale. Said sale will commence on the second
Monday Of November next, being the 14th day
OF November, A. ID. 1910, between the hours of
in the Court House in Custer, Custer county, 5.
D., and will continue from day TO day until all
have been offered at Public Sale.
Witness my hand, this 9Th day OF October,
1910.
The Washington times., 1910-11-14
SEEKING TO AVERT
OKLAHOMA LYNCHING
State Department Appeals to
Governor TO Protect Fugi-
tive If Caught.

Officials Of the state Department are
sppreheusfEe over the possibility OF an
other IyGchinE, this time IN Oklahoma,
o. a EeSicau accused OF killing the
Chief of Police of Anaderko. a small
town IN that State
If the iraJe citizens of that section
capture the fugitive and handle him
as roughly as did the Texas mob in the
week ago. II is feared that the hostility
OF the Nexicans against Americans in
that country VIII break out again. and
that IL viii result in renewed violence
With this in view, Secretary Knox
wired Governor Haskell 20 use his best
efforts 70 prevent any violence 10 The
person Of the Mexican murderer IN his
State Today the Secretary heard from
Governor Haskell The governor as
srrred the department that 2II the re-
necessary to protect the MeElC@n II he
should be captured He said That 81
ready every precaution had been taken
10 prevent the mob from taking the law
into its hands.
Aside from this there was hut little
Information available at the state De
parJmeut concerning the troubles in
Mexico Az haESador Wilson has wired
the department that there seems to De
q cessation OF antI-AmcrICau feeling
aEnonS the Me1icans and that no further
trouble seems imminent
No answer to President DiaZ.S note 90
President Taft VIII be made .lhIS not
was in answer TO one originally sent b}
the President asking the Mexican PreSi-
dent TO use his hest efforts &c protest
Ehe American citizens IN the southern
republic The reply closed that CORE
SpOudeHCe for the present
The Washington times., 1910-11-14
WANTED.
BUT NONE APPLIES
Famine of Male Instructors
Now Felt in Manual Train
ing Department.

The Washington male school teacher
famine has reached the manual train
ing department of the public schools
After hard work 10 get an aDpTODTia-
ton for additional teachers at Mckinley
Manual Training school. the director OF
manual training, w z. Chamberlain,
TODAY faces the dUandary OF not being
able TO provide the teacher for the DO-
sitiOn autho4i1ed.
There is no eligible list at present
and the notice that an examination was
10 5e held brought no applicants
I'VE are HELPLESS under the present
salary list" said Director Chamberlain
today. I'VE can start a teacher at but
zsC0, and that news is enough 70 scare
of most OF the desirable applicants
There are men employed at the navy
yard IN teaching seanen gunners' ap-
prentices and in other branches who are
anxious to get into the schools but who
are now drawing S1.20D a year. Since
we pay but $500 they probably viii stay
where they are"
The problem OF filing the vacancies
probably will be brought 10 the atten-
ton OF the Board of EduCa ton II WIZ
be used bv the board as an additional
argument 20 place special teachers, In
Guiding manual training instructors, IN
line for promotion 20 class SIX, making
them eligible for an increase in salaries
The Washington times., 1910-11-14
CHILEAN MINISTER
BACK IN CAPITAL

Back from q five and half months
tour abroad. Senior Don Anibal Cruz
Chilean minister to the United States
vas busy at the legation, 1104 Vermont
avenue, this morning, going through a
bulk Of communications accumulated
during his absence
The minister. accompanied By Sonora
De Cruz, returned last night They left
" ashington the latter part OF May
They visited several places IN Europe
ana also Chile. but spent most Of the
time in Buenos Aires, where Senior
cruz was delegate 10 the Pan Aneri-
can Conference
Minister cruz is strongly IN favor Of
the suggestion OF Director John Barrett,
Of the Bureau Of American Republics,
that a society be org nIzed in New
YORK Tor the purpose Of showing hos
pitaHty and attention 10 all distin-
guished South Americans VIZ visit this
cOuntry- he said he talked u It'll several
persons Ia New York cOncer wing the
proposed society, and indications are
that II VIII be organized shortly Sen
ator E!ihu Root. he declared. would
ma ke an excellent president Tor the so
Cietv-
The Washington times., 1910-11-14
MISS WISE'S WILL
FILED FOR PROBATE
Church Organizations and W G. I.
u. Are Left BeCueStS of
Various Amounts.

Several requests 90 church organiza-
tons and the " g T L are made in
the vviIl Of Miss TIuldah J Wise which
was fled in Probate Court today. Miss
Wise died October 19-
Beauests of s.. 600 eachy are made TO
the Home Missionary and Church TX
tension Society Of the Methodist Epis-
copaI Church. the Wumau'S Home Mis-
s.onary Society. the wesley Methodist
Episcopal Church, the Woistan's Home
MISSIONARY Society," Tie Wesley Meth
odiSt Episcopal Church, OF Washington
and the Conference Claimants Endow-
r7leuf Fund OF he Baltimore Conference
OF the Metho=i-t Episcopal Church
IRE sum of S1Ue IS left 10 the W G
r T. Of the District
The benenCiaTicS named wiH receive
bequests after the death of Harriet L
wise "A sister WHO was committed TO
the Government Hospital Ter the IN
sane in SeptembeT-
Among the other beEeaciaTieS under
The VIII are Claiborne A Wilson. Mary
u BreHeman. Sarah Turner caro- ln1
Adams. and the children OF William F.
Wilson, one-half the estate, which Il
valued at about S1S.G9o, 10 be distributed
among them