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Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1910-08-13
NEW ROAD TO
OPEN BUSINESS.


Gettysberg, s. D.-The new James
Valley & Northwestern road which
has been in course of construction
between Blunt and Gettysburg, s. D.,
is announced as finished and will be-
gin running two accommodation
trains daily except Sunday at once
A. c. Johnston will be the traffic
manager and he announces that train
No. leaves Blunt at 7:45 a. m, ar
irving in Gettysburg at 10:45 and
No. 2 leaves Gettysburg at 1:15, ar
irving in Blunt at 1855 The track
runs a distance of 1929 miles.
The opening of this line will be
appreciated by Rapid City people
who have business in the country
in the Gettysburg district. 1t has
been quite task to get into that
section but the opening of the Blunt
Gettysburg line will make that part
Of the country much easier of access
to those from the Black Hills who
desire to attend to business affairs
in the newly opened territory.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1910-08-13

Albuquerque, N. NJ, Aug. 6.-For
the second thine within a week, the
Mogellen-Silver City stage was held
up and robbed today and Jose Do
minguez the driver, who opened fire
On the bandits, was killed by volley
from their guns. The robbers hasti-
ly gathered up twelve bars of silver
bullion, the property ,of a mining
company which were being shipped
from the mines but later, because Of
the weight, abandoned all but one
bar, which makes net haul of about
$1,000. The mail sacks were not
disturbed. The stage carried no
passengers. A posse is In pursuit.
The scene Of the hold-up is twenty
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1910-08-13
BAIL APPLICATION TO
BE HEARD THIS MORNING

The hearing on the application for
bail for Mrs. Nellie Mcmahon and
Mrs. Mary Hannify, charged with the
murder of David P. Thomas of Stur.
gis, which was to have come up be-
fore Judge McGee in Rapid City last
evening was postponed until o.
clock this morning.
Arguments in favor Of admitting
the defendants to bail will be made
by Attorneys Harry P. Atwater of
Sturgis and A. X. Gardner of Hur-
on and the application will be oppos-
ed by Attorney Kasper, who is act
ing in place Of States Attorney MIL
leck of Meade county and r. p.
Stewart of Deadwood, who has been
retained to assist the prosecution.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1910-08-13
Married in San Francisco.

Spearfish Mail.-The marriage Of
Henry burden Roper and June C.
Shane took place on May IA. 1910
In San Francisco. While this may
appear somewhat late for an an
nouncement of this event 1t is the
first public announcement, and will
therefore be news to many Spearfish
people who have known the bride
since her childhood. Mr.. Roper is
secretary of the Lauritzen Steamship
company, whose boats ply between
San Francisco and Stockton. He Is
cousin of Thomas Hardy, the Eng
lish novelist and is himself an auth
or of some note,
The bride has been a resident of
this city for many years, being q
daughter of Mrs j. Cowgirl. Mrs.
Roper is member of the 1897 grad
uation class at the Spearfish Norm
al School, and has been actively en-
gagged in teaching at Antioch, CAL.
since that time. Mrs. Roper de-
parted yesterday for San Francisco
where she will join her husband.
Her two daughters-Rachael and
Margaret-will remain in Spearflsh
until next spring, when they expect
to join their mother in California.
While it is rather late for congratu-
lations, the many friends of the
bride will join in wishing her hap
by and prosperous life.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1910-08-13
DIFFICULT TO SAVE
NEGRO FROM MOB

ST. LOUIS, MO-, Aug. 6.-Bessie
Unger, girl decoyed to an office
building by a bogus advertisement
for an office assistant, was rescued
tonight from a negro janitor, who
stood guard over her with a drawn
revolver, by the police guided to the
place by man whose daughter also
had answered the advertisement.
The negro's pockets were filled with
answers to the advertisement, writ
ten by girls and photographs of five
young white women were found on
him. A crowd gathered to lynch the
negro, and he was saved by the
police with great difficulty.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1910-08-13
BEAR STORIES FROM
YELLOWSTONE PARK
Yellowstone Park, Aug. 1st.

Yellowstone Park, Aug. 1st.
We have now moved out of the
wilderness and are near the beautiful
Lake hotel, within twenty yards of
the main road. We have sign
tackled on a nearby tree, which reads,
"How'dy stranger; door always open,
Deadwood, South Dakota" 1t af-
fords the tourists a good deal Of
amusement, as we have no doors on
our quarters, and it adverttises
Deadwood some. as about two or
three hundred people pass it every
day.
1t takes five days to go through the
park, with any of the transportation
companies. The Hotel company
charges $50 and the Wiley Perma-
nent Camp company charges $40.
The transportation people are very
accommodating and have shown US
many favors, of which we were
greatly in need and for which we
were duly grateful. The Wileys
have been particularly kind to US.
There are several other cheaper
camping companies. They call a
tourist "dude," one who is camp
ing out, "sage brusher," and the
camp or hotel help they call "sav-
ages" I believe we come under the
head Of savages.
Talk about bear; there is plenty OF
them here and some to spare. Any
night, back of the hotel, you can see
from one to twenty of them in q
bunch about the garbage pile. The
brown bear bosses the black bear
and they all take to the brush when
a grizzley shows up. Some of the
boys have mixed with them. The
man who drove us out, stopped at a
soldiers station on the way in and
put his supplies in the store house.
During the night he was awakened
by the bears breaking the door and
found them makinig away with all
the meat he had. He made no at
tempt to interfere with their work
and had place picked out in the
rafters for himself, II they had
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1910-08-13
HOW TO REGISTER A KICK

Under date of June 25, the di-
rector of the reclamation service is
sued the following instructions for
appeal to the director and secretary
of the interior from actions Of the
field officers. These regulations
cover specifically complaints as to
farm unit subdivisions or matters
concerning water right applications.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1910-08-13

NUSKOGEE, OKLA, Aug. 6.-J.
F. McMurray, the holder Of contracts
with the Choctaw and Chicksaw In
dians for the sale Of $30,00O,000
worth of coal, asphalt and timber
lands, by the terms of which $3,000,-
900 was to be paid as attorney fees,
which is being investigated by a
congressional committee named as a
result of the statement of Senator
Gore Of Oklahoma that he had been
offered bribe of $4,000 to with
draw his opposition to the contract
in congress, was named today as the
would-be briber by d. c. McCurtain,
a Choctaw Indian, representing the
tribe at Washington, who declared
that McMurray offered him $25, 900 in
1906 to withdraw his opposition to
the old tribal contracts with McMur-
ray, which were subsequently disap-
proved by President Roosevelt.
Greene McCurtain, chief of $4,000
Choctaws, father of d. c. McCurtain,
declared he had been offered one
fourth of the ten per cent attorneys
fees, if he could persuade the tribe
to withdraw its opposition.
This was offered by one George w.
Scott. McCurtain said the presenta-
tion of charges against McMurray
who was not heretofore named as a
bribe offerer, the accusation of the
senator and Congressman Creager
having been directed against Jake
Hamon, former republican national
committeeman from Oklahoma, fol-
lowed another day of sensational tes-
timony before the congressional COM
mittee, during which Senator Charles
Curtis Of Kansas and Congressman
+. S. Mcclure Of Oklahoma appeared
on the stand, to deny the statements
that they were interested in the deal.
Curtis told of being summoned by
President Taft and Vice President
Sherman to discuss the merits of the
McMurray contracts and declared he
had agreed with the president when
the latter said a 10 percent fee was
toolarge. This Curtis said, ought to
refute sufficiently the statement that
he was interested.
Congressman Mcclure entered q
general denial that he was ever in
terested in the contracts or had
sought their approval by congress
He said he knew McMurray and Ha-
mon, and that Hamon sometimes
stopped at his room at the hotel In
Washington. He declared he had
told McMurray, when the latter asked
his opinion, that he was not opposed
to the contracts and had agreed with
McMurray, to tell President Taft that
the entire Oklahoma delegation was
not opposed to the contracts. He
said he had never been improperly
| approached in regard to the matter
and was never interested in the con-
tracts to extent Of one penny.
McCurtain, the Choctaw delegate
to Washington, told of McMurray in
1906 offering him $4,000, If he
would not oppose the contract. He
declared that later he had told Nc.
Murray he would accept the propo,
sition, thinking in this way ultimate
ly to defeat the contracts. McMur.
ray then, McCurtain said, became ~,
tive again in the matter and wanted
to represent the Choctaws before 6
| committee named by the Oklahoma
constitutional convention to investi
gate the possibility of purchasing
lands from the Indians. McCurtair
then closed negotiations with Nc
| Murray, he declared. In an inter
view, McMurray today denied Nc
Curtains testimony.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1910-08-13

& Northern Telephone Co., were in
Nisland Monday on company busi-
ness. They had been down the line
to Newell and Vale making repairs.
Mr.. Rich informs us that the COM
pany had ordered seventy-five tele.
phone for use at different points on
their lines and as quick as they ar
rived they would establish an ex.
change at this place and would be
ready to put in individual phones
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1910-08-13

The remodeling of the Sol Levin
son building on Main street is now
well under way and work is in pro-
gress at the rear, where q new wall
is being put In. which will enclose
the ground floor and the second
story which is to be added.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1910-08-13

miles from the railroad, in a sparsely
settled region. A few days ago, the
same stage was held up and the
passengers robbed of six hundred
dollars.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1910-08-13

is said to have extended down into
Nebraska. Along the Burlington a.
far south as Edgemont, there was
likewise heavy fail.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1910-08-13
TELEPHONE EXCHANGE
FOR NISLAND.

Butte Co. Press.-H. E. Rich,
manager and J. w. Smith. promin-
ent stockholder In the Belle Fourche
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1910-01-27
Buttered Side Up.

One of the stories which Levi Hutch
ins, the old time clockmaker of Con
cord, N. H., delighted to tell related to
the youth of Daniel Webster.
zone day." said the old man, while
l was taking breakfast at the tavern
kept by Daniels father, Daniel and his
brother Ezekiel, who were little boys
with dirty faces and snarly hair, came
to the table and asked me for bread
and butter. l compiled with their re-
quest, little thinking that they would
become very distinguished men. Dan
iel dropped his piece of bread on the
sandy floor, and the buttered side, Of
course, was down. He looked at it a
moment, then picked 1t up and showed
it to me, saying:
"'What a pity! Please give me a
piece of bread buttered on both sides;
then If l let it fall one of the buttered
sides will be up"
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1910-01-27
A Bernard Shaw Criticism.

Before fame came to him Bernard
shaw wrote dramatic criticisms for
the London Saturday Review The
following sample is characteristic of
the man:
Il am in Il somewhat foolish posi-
ton concerning play at the Opera
Comique. whittier | was bidden this
day week. For some reason | was not
supplied with a program, so that |
never learned the name of the play
AT the end Of the second act the play
had advanced about as far as an or
binary dra matist would have brought
1t five minutes after the first rising
of the curtain or, say. as far as Ibsen
would have brought it ten years be
fore that event. Taking advantage Of
the second interval to stroll out into
the Strand for q little exercise. l M
fortunately forgot all about my buSi
ness and actually reached home before
1t occurred to me that I had not seen
the end Of the play. Under these cir
eumstances 1t would i'll become me to
dogmatize on the merits of the work or
its performance. l can only offer the
management my apologies" - Every
body'S.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1910-01-27
His ConciIiatorv Wav.

Fir. and Mrs. Pickaway, although
really fond of each other, had frequent
quarrels owing no doubt to infrmities
of temper on the part of both Mr..
Pickaway was telling his troubles to
his elderly maiden aunt.
81 try to be as good a husband to
Bertha as l know how to be-" he said.
but we don't seem to get along. 1t
takes so little to irritate her, and when
she starts to scolding she never knows
when to stop. She takes offense. too,
at such little things"
"Then don't say those little things,
JOSHUA" said his aunt. when she
is cross you must try to be concilia-
tory"
~ am conciliatory. Aunt Betty" he
answered. II often say to her. Der
tina, know the utter uselessness OF
trying to reason with you, but will
you listen to me just a minuteY and
she gets mad even at that."-Youth's
Companion.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1910-01-27
A u sefuI Pest.

Despite the fact that the spider, next
to the mouse, is most violently stimu-
lating to feminine sensitiveness, it is
an insect of very good character. 1t
feeds exclusively upon other freshly
killed insects, and they are the kinds
denounced by sanitary authorities, the
housefy being its favorite quarry.
His service in reducing the numbers
of this pest is considerable, because
the spider is always busy. and he Is
present in countless numbers, says
Leslie's Weekly. The reason why he
is not more frequently seen is that he
is retiring In his habits and shuns hu-
man society quite as much as that
shuns him. He seldom bites anything
but food, and even when in self de-
fense he does assert himself the result
is no worse than mosquito bite or a
bee sting. The touching story of 'The
Spider and the Fly" was evidently in
tended to invite sympathy for the fly.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1910-01-27
BIoodhounds to Halt an uprisina.

Storm swept jamaica was In 1893
thH scene OF a rising of the negro
plantation slaves Al first there were
brushes between the soldiers of the
island garrison and the insurgents, and
lives We're lost on both sides. Then
the commander. General Walpole, be-
thought him of having 100 dogs trained
to track slaves brought from Cuba.
These powerful and savage brutes,
misnamed bloodhounds. were really of
the mastiif tribe, says the London
Chronicle. After being muzzled they
were led to the position taken up by
the malcontents. General Walpole
sent message to the slaves threaten
ing to unmuZzle and unleash the ami
mails IL they did not surrender. The
negroes. who had shown themselves
to be by no means afraid of the bull
let's of the military, were now mad
with terror They threw down their
arms and gave in. Remarks q con-
temporary historian of Jamaica, at is
pleasing to observe that not drop Of
blood was spilled after the dogs ar
rived in the island"
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1910-01-27
AIabama's Capitals.

When Alabama was territory its
capital was at ST. Stephens, in Wash
ington county. The convention that
framed the constitution under which
1. was admitted into the Union was
held in Huntsville, where the first leg
islature met in October, 1919, and the
first governor was inaugurated. Caha-
ba became the seat of government in
1920 In 1926 the capital was removed
to Tuscaloosa. and in 1916 it was again
removed, this time to Montgomery.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1910-01-27
ENDING His Rride

In one part of the canton of Ticino,
in Switzerland, very quaint marriage
ceremony prevails. The bridegroom
dresses in his Sunday best" and, ac-
companied by as many friends and rel
atives as he can muster for the fete,
goes to claim his bride. Finding the
door locked, he demands admittance.
The inmates ask him his business, and
in reply he solicits the hand of his
chosen maiden. If his answer be
deemed satisfactory he is successive
ly introduced to number of matronS
and maids, some perhaps deformed
and others old and ugly. Then he is
presented to some large dolls, all of
which he rejects with scorn, amid gen
eral merriment. The bewildered bride
groom, whose impetuosity and temper
are now sorely tried is then informed
that his ladylove is absent and in
vited in to see for himself. He rushes
into the house and searches from room
to room until he finds her in her bridal
dress ready to go to church. Then are
his troubles over and his state as a
benedict assured.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1910-01-27
Wood Too Hard to Burn.

There are certain kinds OF wood that
are too hard to burn or refuse to ignite
for some other reason, such as IRON
wood and the good brier root, but 1t is
a curiosity to come across q piece of
common deal-the soft, light wood of
which so many boxes are made-that
cannot be set fire to. The piece of
wood in question was common white
deal from Sweden, but was remarka-
BILE for its comparative weight. 1t had
formed part of boat belonging to a
whaler and had been dragged below
the surface of the water to the depth
of more than half n mile by a har-
pooned whale. The length of line and
the short distance from the point of
descent after being struck at which
the whale rose to the surface was
proof of the depth to which it had
dragged the boat. Only part Of the
boat came up again at the end Of the
line, and it was taken on board when
the whale had been killed. That piece
of wood was so hard that 1t would not
burn in gas jet The weight Of wa
ter had compressed it.-London Stand
ard
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1910-01-27
They Like Fat Girls In Tunis.

A Tunisian girl has no chance of
marriage unless she tips the scale at
200 pounds, and to that end she COM
mences to fatten when she Is fifteen
years old. She takes aperients and
eats a great deal of sweet stuff and
leads a sedentary life to hasten the
process. Up to fifteen she is very
handsome, but at twenty what an i'm
mense, unwieldy mass of fat sha be-
comes! She waddles, or, rather, undu-
lates, along the street. Her costume is
very picturesque, especially if she be
of the richer class. She is clothed
In fine silks of resplendent hues Of a
bright red, yellow or green and wears a
sort of conical shaped headdress, from
which depends loose white drapery.
Turkish trousers and dainty slippers,
the heels of which barely reach the
middle of the feet, complete the cos
tune.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1910-01-27
He Was Relieved.

The other day a person dropped
down in an apoplectic fit Immediately
in front of a police station and was
carried inside. A moment after a wo-
man forced her way in through the
crowd gathered around the door, ex-
claiming:
"My husband! My poor husband!
Clear the way and let In the ART"
She then busted herself by taking
off the mans cravat and performing
other little offices until q surgeon ar
rived, when the patient gradually re-
covered his senses. On this the ser
geant in charge observed that it was
a happy relief for his distressed wife
as well as for himself
"My wifer' exclaimed the man.
"Why, am bachelor"t
On seeking for the woman 1t was
found that she had disappeared and
with her the watch and purse of the
patient, which she had adroitly abb
stracted under the very eyes Of the
police.-London Tit-Bits.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1910-01-27
A Touch of Nature.

He was the worst boy In school; she
was the teacher She was angered by
his stubbornness; he was defiant. She
took him to the hall for punishment
Angrily she administered the penalty,
and-then somehow a great wave of
pity for the boy swept over her. She
looked at the worn coat of the little
fellow. She thought of the frail body
deprived of nourishing food. She
thought of the hard and loveless home
and of the starved soul of the poor
kid
Tears sprang to the teachers eyes
as the boy waited for further punish
ment. Then he saw the tears. His
own eyes grew moist and overf1owed.
Thinking of how the poor boy had no
chance, in an impulse Of love she put
her arms around the boy, and they
cried together.
That is religion.
She and the boy both found it.-Mor
rill (Kan) News.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1910-01-27
An Obtiuinu Father,

A man who grew rich had a son OF
whom he disapproved, and when the
son was married against the fathers
wishes the father made him an allow
ance of $50 a week and said that was
all he could have.
Awhile later he was discussing the
matter with a friend of his pioneer
days. "Do you think $50 week is
enough for the boy?" he asked.
well" replied the friend judicially.
II don't know about that"
ITS a darn sight more than we had
when we started in" argued the ia
ther.
Perhaps it is" said the friend, "but
you must remember that times have
changed. We used to dig clans for
our dinner"
"By George" said the father, Il
guess l have been too severe with
him! I'll be kinder in the future. I'll
buy him a spade and show him where
the clans re."-Exchange.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1910-01-27
Evolution of the Apple.

Apples are new in the economy of
the worlds use and taste. At the be-
ginning of the last century few varie-
ties were known, and we can go back
In history to time when all apples
were little, sour and puckery-crab ap-
pies and nothing else. The crab apple
was and is in its wildness nothing but
a rosebush. Away back in time the
wild rose, with its pretty blossoms
that turn to little red balls, apple fla
vored, and the thorny crab had the
same grandmother.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1910-01-27
Comets of the Past Century.

During the nineteenth century 235
new comets were discovered as against
sixty-two In the eighteenth century.
The nineteenth century also beheld a
greater number of large and brilliant
comets than did its predecessor. The
finest of these were the comets of 1911,
1913, 1858, 1881 and 1892 In the year
1900 only one periodical comet was
known, Halleys. Now many are
known, of which at least seventeen
have been seen at more than one re-
turn to perihelion.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1910-01-27
To Make a Glass Gutter.

A glass cutter can easily be made
with an ordinary mapping pen and a
small piece of carborundum or car
bide of silicon. Cut off a part Of the
nib to form q small tube. Fit crys-
tai or part of one of carborundum into
the tube, take it out again and dip one
end in cement and replace it. Next
wind a piece Of fine wire tightly
around the tube and part of the handle
and fix it in a notch cut in the latter.
Put it aside for day to allow the ce-
ment to harden. A glass cutter made
thus will do it's work as well as the
expensive diamond and a great deal
better than the ordinary wheel cutter.