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Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1914-01-03
BEAVER VALLEY AND VICINITY

BY E.P. KING
Perl Chambers and wife were taking
in the sights around Argyle Sunday.
Mrs. w. X. Angelo and Mrs. Fay
Harmon from the vicinity of Argyle
were in Hot Springs Saturday.
"Bill' Gray and Frank Shoey were
Custer county boys who were taking in
the sights in Hot Springs last week.
Edwin Z. serry, who for some time
past has been working with the extra
gang, is again at.home in the post office
in Argyle.
The people around Argyle celebrated
Christmas eve exercises appropriate for
that occasion and Christmas tree. The
exercises were held in the Page school
house.
Either the writer or the printer made
an error in the obituary of r. III. Drain
in the last issue. 1t should have stated
that he married his first wife in 1866
instead of 1886.
Miss Clara Sieg was called to Hot
Springs Monday morning to attend to
some matters relative to the settlement
of the Sieg estate. She will remain in
town for few days.
Carl Hall has been employed at the
Somarindyck dairy for the past two
weeks on account ofthe absence of Gene
Drain, who has been attending to things
relative to his fathers estate.
Mrs. L. G. Williams left for visit at
her old home in Minnesota Monday.
She expects to be absent about month.
She was accompanied by her sister, Miss
Mata Diekm who has been visiting
here for some time.
Mrs. Silas Herring, who will be re-
membered by the old timers here as Miss
Lizzie Drain, who was also here to attend
her fathers funeral, intends to stay
three or four weeks and visit with her
brothers who live here.
| There was meeting of the directors
of the Point of Rocks Telephone Co, in
Pringle Tuesday. The business Of the
past year was discussed and matters
fixed up for the stockholders meeting
which OCCURS the first Tuesday in the
new year.
Mr.. and Mrs. Winn Beaver who were
here from Sioux City attending the
funeral of the latter's father. left fol
their home Christmas day. Mr.. Beaver
has position there with the city, and
could stay away no longer, although be
was very much impressed with the Black
Hills weather.
D. G. Somarindyck, who has beer
confined to his bed for some time with
Bright's Disease, died Sunday evening
at 5 O'Clock. For the past two weeks il
has been necessary to administer opiates
to alleviate his suffering, and during
most of the time he has been irrational
Saturday evening he appeared better
and rested we'll Saturday night and Sun
day. About supper time Sunday even
ing his wife noticed that he was no
! breathing just right and called the nurse
T who saw that the old man was dying
/ He requested that they lift him up ir
, bed, which was done, and he lasted only
about FIVE minutes. His death has beer
} expected, as the doctors had informed
them that it was impossible for him Il
. recover, but it nevertheless comes as {
hard stroke, and bereaved wife and sor
have the sympathy Of all. The funera
services will be held at the home, ant
!, interment made in the Evergreen ceme
! terry at Hot Springs,
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1914-01-03
NEW CURRENCY BILL.

The new currency bill has been pas
sed and now is law. 1t affects the L.
500 national banks of the United States,
requiring each bank to either assent to
the new law and become member bank
or surrender its national charter within
one year. One of the provisions of the
new currency law provides that menu
ber bank in times of stress or panic, can
procure from the government, money by
putting up it's good loans as collateral.
1t will require three years to put the law
in full working order.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1914-01-03

An exchange says the high cost Of
living is due to the fact that 1--WE throw
away ashes and buy soap. We raise
dogs and buy hogs. We grow weeds
and buy vegetables, and catch ten cent
fish with four dollar rod. We build
school houses and send our children
away to school to be educated, so that
the boys will be able to hunt ten cent
rabbits with a forty dollar gun and a
twenty dollar dog, and that the girls may
be sufficiently accomplished to "fancy
work" and play the piano, while mother
washes the dishes. Yes, these are hard
times.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1914-01-03
PRODUCTION $1,000, 900.
South Dakota Gold Production in 1913
Decrease From ecord-Breaking
Yield of 1912.

The mine production of gold in South
Dakota in 1918, according to preliminary
estimates by Charles w. Henderson, of
the United States Geological Survey, was
81, 200. 900, which is $69l.370 less than
the record yield of $7,s9l, $40 in 1912.
The 1918 output, however, is above the
yearly average for the last decade. The
silver production fell from 206, 460 ounces
to 164, 800 ounces. The nominal quantity
of lead and copper was produced.
The Homestake mine and mills were
operated continuously throughout the
year, but with considerably decreased
output. During the year 20 stamps were
added to the ,0O0-stamp equipment. A
considerable tonnage was mined by
"glory-holing" and by caving above the
700-foot level.
The Golden Reward Co. completed a
75-ton roaster at its Astoria shaft early
in the year, and experimental with the
roasting of the sulphide or "blue" ores
before cyanidation. The Lundberg,
Dorr & Wilson mill was closed in Au-
gust, haying been operated since 1904.
The Buxton and Bonanza mines of this
company were also closed. The Mogul
Co. was occupied in building new mill
at the mine at Terry to replace the old
mill at Puma, burned in March, 1912.
The new mill will be of the continuous
countercurrent decantation type and
Will not be completed until 1914. The
Trojan mine and mill were operated
steadily. The New Reliance mill was
operated on company and custom ore.
At this property diamond drills have
been installed for prospecting The
Wasp No. 2 Co., mining by the open cut
system, using steam shovel for stripping,
closed its mill in October until spring of
next year. The Bismarck 3O0-ton cya-
nide mill, under construction in 1912,
was placed in operation in April.
Placer production was nominal, the
dredge at Mystsc being idle. In PEN
nington County development work was
done at the Forest City mine, and the
reopening of the Dakota Calumet cop
per property is in prospect.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1914-01-03
NAME TICKETS NEXT WEEK.

Messrs. w. F. Hanley, Ira McFadden
and Denis Henault will leave here today
for Pierre to attend the meetings of the
State Majority and Minority Proposal
Committees to be held there on the 9th
instant. Mr.. w. F. Sellers who is one
Of the republican proposal committee
men is now in Pierre and will attend.
On Wednesday, the 7th, the county
proposal committeeman will meet at the
Court House at Custer to endorse the
candidates for representatives of the
majority and minority factions of the
Republican and Democratic parties. The
delegates from all the precincts of the
county will receive mileage for their at
tendance at the rate Of 10c per mile for
each mile necessarily travelled in going
to and returning from such meeting.
Voting Of the delegates will be by
what is known as unit representation,
by which each delegate is entitled to
cast vote equal to the number of votes
cast at his precinct for governor at the
last primary election for the party to
which the delegate belongs.
Considerable discussion has arisen as
to whether the delegates will be entitled
to cast the entire vote shown to haye
been cast for Governor of the party they
represent or will be limited to the mum.
ber of votes shown to have been cast for
the Governor representing the faction
of the party with which they are affiliat-
ed. The Attorney General has recently
rendered an opinion that delegates will
be entitled to vote the entire vote given
to the Governors representing their
parties, and will not be limited to the
number of votes cast for the Governor
representing the majority and minority
factions.
Each delegate should make special
effort to attend at the convention held
at Custer on the 9TH in order that his
precinct may have the representation to
which it is entitled.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1914-01-03
FRONTIER: CaARACTER
DIES AT DOUGH-


"Doc" Middleton of Ardmore, who
has been picturesque frontier char.
acter in these parts since the early days,
died in Douglas, Wyo., last Saturday.
Although making his home at Ardmore
for some time past, has been running a
saloon at Grin Junction and it was while
on trip to that place that he was taken
suddenly i'll.
Middleton came into the Black Hills
as freighter from Cheyenne to Custer
and Deadwood in 1875. In 1893, while
living at Chadron, he, with John Berry,
George Bolan and Gillespie, rod horse
back to Chicago and took in the worlds
fair. Buffalo Bill took the quartet and
had them with his Wild West show dur
ing 1896 and 1897. When the Northwest
ern came into Deadwood he opperated a
saloon at Ragged Top and before that
maintained saloons along the route OF
that road in Nebraska, and as far north
as Buffalo Gap. In the early eighties
he had ranch near Rushville, Neb.,
which was rendezvous for many of the
famous outlaws of that period. 1t is said
that many of their expeditions were
planned at his place.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1914-01-03

Unless more cattle are raised. steak
at dollar pound in the course of the
next ten years is the pleasing and
promising prediction Of a Chicago packer
This will give the the vegetarians the
chance Of their lives.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1914-01-03

BOOST FOR POTATO GROWING.
A new arrangement between the plant
pathologist of the state college and the
United States department of agriculture
makes possible statewide cooperation
for improving the culture of potatoes in
South Dakota. II. S. Coe, the expert
at Brookings. desires to get into co-opera.
ton at once with potato growers in the
state, and to this end makes the follow
ing statement:
"The plant phathologist of the South
Dakota Agricultural Experiment station
wishes to get in touch with every far.
mer in the state who had trouble with
his potatoes. The reason for this is two
fold: Firstly, To try to increase the yield
of the potato crop in the state by getting
under control the potato diseases. Sec.
ondly, To guard against the introduction
of several new potato diseases which are
causing great deal of destruction of the
potato crop in Canada. For this rea.
son l am especially interested to get in
contact with any farmer who has i'm.
ported seed from more northerly re-
gions. One of these diseases is known
as powdery scab, disease somewhat
similar to the ordinary potato scab, but
which causes deeper LESSONS to be form
ed on the tubers. The other is known
as the potato wart disease.
''How did your potatoes yield this
year? Was the yield below normal; did
some of the vines die prematurely; did
you notice any rotten potatoes at digging
time; are your potatoes keeping well; do
many of them show abnormal growth;
that is, did you find many warty pota-
toes? How about scabby potatoes?
These are all indications that the trouble
may be due to one or more of the vari-
Gus potato diseases which are common
in South Dakota. and which may, at
least in part, be prevented.
'The United States department of
agriculture is also interested in the pota-
to situation in South Dakota and have
granted the plant pathologist of the ex-
perimeut station the franking privilege.
This privilege permits the plant patholo-
gist to send franked tags and envelopes
to the farmers 80 that they can send
specimens and information to this Office
free of charge. l, therefore, want every
potato grower in the state to write to
this Office in regard to the condition of
his potatoes. Upon receipt of this in
formation I shall be glad to send a
franked tag to any person who is willing
TO send to this Office small quantity of
diseased potatoes for examination. Up
on examination of them information in
regard to their condition will be sent by
return mail. This will give potato grow
ers an excellent opportunity of finding
out the condition of their potatoes.
Through cooperation between the
potato growers and the New York ex-
pertinent station they have doubled
their yield of potatoes. Why not CO.
operate in this state and double our
present yield?"
Address all communications to H. s.
Coe. Plant Pathologist, South Dakota
Agricultural Experiment Station, Brook.
ings, South Oak ota.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1914-01-03

A Missouri judge approves of the slit
skirt on the ground that the wonderful
human machine is nothing to be asham-
ed Of
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1914-01-03
NEW HERD OF BUFFALO.

A new herd of bison has just been es-
tablished by the agricultural department.
There are now five herds under govern
ment supervision. totaling few more
than $50 animals. The new herd was
procured by the Society for the preser-
walton of the American bison from the
Bronx Park herd in New York city, and
was shipped to Wind Cave National
Park, in South Dakota.
This latest inquisition includes fifteen
animals, the youngest being two years
old. Forty acres of the park have been
fenced for pasture. The size will be
greatly increased nextspring. Hay will
be provided for the herd during the
winter, as the grass on the forty acres
will very soon be eaten of. Contracts
will soon be let for fencing 1000 acres
of the 10000 comprising this national
reservation and the herd turned loose
in it next spring, after which they will
forage for their own food altogether.
Latest figures furnished to the United
Press place the number of bison in the
United States and Canada at more than
1000. A few years ago less than 1OC
were known to exist in the world. One
government herd, started in 1909 with
thirty-seven animals, has increased ia
ninety-six.
The bison herds owned by the gov.
ernment are now distributed in Wind
Cave National Park, Niobrara National
Park, Nebraska; Montana National Park
and Wichita Forest reserve in Kansas
and Oklahoma.
The largest herd owned by the govern
ment is the Yellowstone Park herd
The last reports of the warden showed
l43 fenced animals, and forty-nine wild
ones. DR.. Henry W. Henshaw, chief ol
the biological survey, believes the alb
normal increase of the fenced amin all
is because the tanner animals steal th,
calves of the wild animals.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1914-01-03

Arthur Enous has moved to this place
from Edge mont.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1914-01-03

Several months ago decision was
given by U. s. Judge in the state of
Georgia that declarations of intentions
to become citizens issued under the old
law expired or became invalid at the
expiration of seven years. 1t is now
held by the United States District Court
for the western district Of Pennsylvania
that the so-called old law declaration Of
intention is not subject to the seven
year Limitation, and this decision is
sustained by the Bureau of Naturaliza-
tion of the Department OF Labor.
The record., 1914-10-22
PROPERLY BALANCED RATI0NS
Report Of Results of Tests Made by
Illinois Station-Dlsestlble
Nutrients Saved.
CBy II. r. FLINT. Minnesota Experir ,cnt
SlafsOnl

OBy II. r.. FLINT. Minnesota Experir ,ent
Stat.on)
A balanced ration is "one in wi ich
each of the different food materials or
nutrients is present in just the right
proportion and amount TO meet the
needs Of the animals" says Bulktin
l59 of the Illinois agricultural expert
meDt station. Tests indicated that
cows fed balanced rations yielded a
pound of butter fat for each II pounds
OF total nutrients consumed, while
el pounds were consumed TO a pound
OF butter fat when an unbalanced ra-
tion was fed The use OF the balanced
ration thus saved four pounds of di.
gestible nutrients for each pound of
butter fat produced. or pound and q
quarter of butter fat was produced by
the same number Of pounds OF digesti-
Bile nutrients in balanced rations as
was required for pound OF butter fat
when the unbalanced ration was fed.
Not only was the butter fat more
economically produced, hut the COW
given a balanced ration finished the
test with better appetites and in mucl,
better flesh and general physical con.
dition than the others. II Is not spe-
cially difficult to gain tho profit re-
suiting from the balanced ration.
The record., 1914-10-22
SELLING HEiFERS FOR BEEF
System Of Depletion Of Breeding Stoek
Is Going on Continuously
Money for Feeder.

Notwiths;aEG.ng the general scarcity
Of cattle in the country. which is con-
ccded by every cattieman of intelli'
gence. there continue to appear in all
the stockyards daily journals reports
of carloads of extra fine yearlinS
heifers that brought the top price for
the day, etc, gays Twentieth Century
Farmer. or course, these reports are
true. II is an absolute fact that car
loads Of the very best heifer calves
have been bought, fattened for the
baby beef market and shipped back
ard sold to the packers for slaughter
This system of depletion of the
breeding stock OF the country Is going
on continuously in the face of what
might be termed cattle famine
When will 1t stop? Not until these
The record., 1914-10-22
OPERATION OF A ROAD DRAG
Some Simple Lessons Given by Man
Who Learned by Years OF Expe-
rienee-Heiper Is Needed.

Here are some simple lessons.
worth considering. which have
learned by years of experience with
the road drag, writes John X. Good
man in Progressive Farmer.
1. Make your drag reversible q. e.,
to move dirt right or lefD by altering
the hitch. Have the hind section
about five-slxths the length of the
front one: and face both front and
rear sections entire length with iron
or steel.
2. For best results under varying
conditions OF road surface as TO dry,
damp. hard or soft, / find It pays to
have a man along at the end of a rope
attached TO the rear end of drag to
properly steer the machine. and coun-
teract its tendency 10 slide around
hard bumps which need trimming of
and smoothing. II Is not so easy a
matter as talking about II, for one
man 1.-THE driver to rightly direct the
course and work of the drag by step.
ping from point TO point, as common
directions go: in fact, ofttimes lmpos-
sible. Then the drivers weight Is
not always needed on the drag. but
can be there In an instant when re-
quired.
The record., 1914-10-22
ADVANTAGE OF THE ANGORAS
Goat Is Much Harder Than Sheep, Not
So Liable to Disc ase and Eats
Greater Variety of Feed.

in the mountainous regions OF Ash
attic Turkey is the ancient city of An
CORA. celebrated for the long-haired
goats bred in that vicinity. Here An
goras, the most valuable OF all breeds
of goats, reaches its perfection. The
fneness of its hair and the remark
able fact that many other animals in
that region possess long, silky hair has
been Gscribcd by some authorities 10
some peculiarly in the atmosphere.
Tie altitude or soil.
At the present time there are in the
United States between 100000 and
100000 augoras OF pure blood or high
strain. and yet the domestic product
OF mohair does hot equal the home
demand By large amount. Many dol
lars worth of mohair is imported an
nually into the United States. and stu
in Texas alone there is suflicie noun
tain land TO raise not only all the mo-
hair now imported, but enough to en-
port several million dollars worth an
nually, says Farm and Ranch.
There are four profits to the Ansora
the nohair, The Increase, the fertil-
izer and the land they free from brush
and weeds. There is wide difference
between the shearing weight and the
shcaring value of goats. Some will
shear as much as 10 pounds OF mohair
per year, bat the average for the
United States is about two and one
hall pounds. Some mohair brings as
much as $3.50 per pound, but the av-
erago is about SO cents per pound. Mo-
hair ranging from Il inches to 20
inches in length brings from 50 to
$500 Per pound, and is used to make
dolls hair and wigs.
sIohair under Il inches In length
is sold according to fineness and lus-
ter, and ranges from 80 to So cents per
pound. The average sheariug value
of the American Angora Is about 81
per head. but there is more money in
an Angora shearing 81 per head than
in a sheep shearing S1.50 per head, be-
cause the goat Is longer lived, is much
harder. is not liable to disease; the
goat eats a greater.variety of feed, will
come TO the sheds at night, and has
many advantages over the sheep.
The record., 1914-10-22
ROAD >
BUILDING
LAND VALUES ARE INCREASED
English Country Residents Enjoy Good
Roads and Are Ever Within Reach
OF Good Markets.

In England the highest ambition OF
a majority OF well-todo men is to have
a place" in the country. They don't
banker after city living the year
around: indeed. they don't banker aft
er IL at all. except as 1t may be forced
upon them in order that they may live
near their business. But the minute
their business reaches such point as
to AFFORD them some leisure. or the
minute they acquire sufficient means
to retire. they seek a home in the coun-
try. England has good roads. though
IN very early times none were worse,
and these country residents are never
beyond the reach Of good markets and
of the supplies which good markets
offer. A country house ten miles from
a market town, but connected with il
by a good road-a road good at all sea-
sons and in all weathers-isn't really
so difficult of access as some country
The record., 1914-10-22
FIRE BLIGHT or APPLE TREE
Disease Is Caused by Bacterium and
Is Very Contagicus-But One
Method Of Eradication.

(By T.. C.. STACKMAN. Assistant Plant
Pathologist. University Farm, st.
Paul. Mimi
There is a great deal of twig and
branch blight of apple trees this year,
indicated by the browning OF leaves
and blackening of twigs. Not only the
smaller branches are affected. but also
large limbs. and. in some cases. even
the trunks.
The disease is caused by a bacte-
rium, and is very contagious Usually
the microbe is carried by insects to
the flowers, where 1t multiplies rapid
ly. aid the blossom is blackened and
killed, or it may extend along under
the bark. killing the twis and often
extending to the branches also takes
place through tender shoots. For this
reason, IN orchards where the disease
has gained focthold, nothing should
be done 10 encourage rapid growth.
The germs sometimes live through
winter in holdovcr cankers and arc
the source of new Infection.
There is but one method OF eradi-
eating the blight from an orchard, that
is, cut II out, preferably in late sum
mer or fall The branches should al
ways be cut some distance back from
the diseased parts, and after each limb
is cut the pruning knife should be dis
infected by dipping into solgtioa OF
corrosive sublimate in the proportion
of ole part of the poison to onc thou
sand parts of water.
The record., 1914-10-22

heifer calves viii bring moIe for
breeding demands than they dc now,
or will bring as feeders. AS Ions as
the feeder can afford to buy this class
OF cattle and make his feeding venture
profitable, or more profitable than by
Using other kinds of cattle, he will
keep right on buying and feeding
these choice heifers. calves and year
iings. There may be little sentiment
IN this business with some people. but
there are so few c: this kind of per
sons in the beef-making industry that
they are lost sight Of in the scrar BILE
for gain OF the almighty dollar
The record., 1914-10-22
Coed Ration for Sows.

A good ration for brood sows ia
corn or maize, so per cent, and good
alfalfa hay, 20 per cent. by weight.
Sometimes SONS will eat enough al
falfa hay if il is placed in racks in
the pens. If they will not eat enough
in this way. 1t is good plan TO grind
it finely and feed it with eornmeal
in the form of a thick slop. The man
gels or sugar beets had better not
be made a part of the regular ration.
but fed as conditioner; for such
purposes they are excellent. The
amount does not make so much dif-
ference. If you have plenty of them.
throw over what the sows will clean
up readily after they have had other
feed. 1t will not be necessary to cut
the beets or mangels.