Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1914-05-23
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Important Happenings of the Week at
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Many people at Denver think that
Governor Ammons, following receipt
of advice from President Wilson that
federal troops would be withdrawn
from the Colorado strike zone as soon
as the state was in shape to handle the
situation, is preparing to send militia
into the strike zone again when the reg.
ulars are withdrawn. 1t is believed
this will result in return to former con.
ditions of violence and bloodshed.
A cargo of arms consigned to Huerta
is due at Puerto, Mexico. But the
Americans will not permit it to land.
The vessel with its load will be COM
PEELED to return to Germany. The U.
S. government has received word from
Huerta promising to punish the men
who killed Private Parks, if he was
killed inside the Mexican lines
All defendants in the Structural Iron
Workers dynamite conspiracy case now
out on bonds, or whose convictions
were recently affirmed, must either
surrender to the government prison at
Leavenworth, or be taken to the pen.
itentiary June 18th, according to a
mandate issued by the US court OF
appeals. The court took under advise
ment the cases of Olaf Tvetmoe, Rich
ard H. Houlihan and VIM. Barnhardt.
These three have been granted new
trials, but the government has petition
ed for a rehearing on that action.
Ishi, the aborigne Indian found two
years ago in the wilds of southern Cal.
ifornia, left Saturday with two profess
sors from the University of California
for his native haunts. He will instruct
the professors how he lived for years
by killing with bow and arrow, and
starting a fire without a match. They
expect to remain in the wids for sew.
eral months.
Following is list of banks selected d
to represent the 9th district: lst Natl of
Lead; Capital Natl of st. Paul; lst Natl.
of Grand Forks, N. D.; Commercial Natl.
of Oshkosh, Wis; Merchants Natl. of
St. Paul. The meeting was held Mon
day in St. Paul.
Senator Sutherland of Utah declared
in the senate Monday that never in
the history of free government has such
an astounding proposition been before
presented to great legislative body as
the demand made by President Wilson
that congress repeal the Panama canal
exemption law, without raising the
question of whether we are right OF
wrong"
The village of Alfred hear Escanaba
Mich, was wiped out by forest fire
Monday. The inhabitants were forced
to seek safety in the Escanaba river
where they remained for hours Every
building in the town was destroyed.
Vice President Marshall's declaration
that one of Americas ills today sis thai
there is too much science in the social
ed educational system and too little
God Almighty" occasoned comment In
Washington. The statement was made
at church gathering there Sunday
night.
The state automobile department a
Pierre has issued this year l4,4S0 auto
mobile licenses, l,2l4 motorcycle licenc
es and 299 to dealers. The record fol
the whole year will without doubt b,
we'll past the $4,000 mark.
The gift of Russian nobleman of 6
mammoth, 10000 years old, is bein,
prepared at Paris by the taxidermisls o
the institution for the French Museum
of Natural History. The beast was fount
frozen in ice in Siberia. Too big fo
transportation, it was cut into quarters
each filling the largest sized freight car
Blood, frozen for 400 centuries, wa
found the animals veins.
News from the northern Hills state
that IL families of Central, Terravill
and vicinity are quarantined for small
pox, and vigorous efforts are being mad,
to stamp out the epidemic. All schoo
children of Central are beingvaccinated
Sheridan, Wyo., May 19.-Willian
Mckinney, rancher, and two children
were drowned when their boat capsizec
on the Tongue river.
From Columbus, o., orders have gon,
out from union headquarters declarin,
a strike of all United Mine Workers, O
coal mines in Ohio. Miners officials are
paying strike benefits of So per week Il
every member of the organization. TIL,
mines have been closed since April Is
by order of the operators.
Thomas Ryan, millionaire land owne
who disappeared five years ago from hi
home at Marion, Arizona, was located
few days ago in hospital at Winnipeg
Manitoba, Canada. Many months Q
| searching has been conducted for hin
over the entire country.
The u. S. revenue cutter Seneca pu
in at Halifax. N. s. Monday with fou
survivors of the burned steamer Colum
bian, who were picked up Sunday. Tn
condition of the men is serious but 1t
believed they will recover, When the
left the ship May there were Is of th