Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1914-09-05
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| Inc Calumet hecla mines at Calumet
Mich, have announced ten per cent
cut in wages. Twelve thousand miners
are affected. The cause assigned fol
the cut is the depression in the copper
market due to the European war.
Cardinal Chiesa was Sept. 3rd elected
pope in succession to the late Plus X
The new pope comes from Bologna,
Italy, and was created and proclaimed
cardinal on May 25, 1914. The pope
will assume the name of Benedict XIV.
The revenue cutter, Bear, which sail
ed from Nome, Alaska, July 26 for
WIangall Island, to rescue the members
of the Stefanson expedition, stranded
there, is returning to Nome without the
castaways. 1t is said the Bear ran out
of coal.
The progressives of South Dakota
have completed their state and con-
gressional ticket, by nominating Louis
j. Johnson, wealthy farmer of Gro
ton, as a candidate for railroad COM
missioner and nominating Attorney j.
M. Russell of Hayti, as attorney gen.
eral.
One of the very noticeable increases
in prices owing to war conditions is the
| increase in the price of tin. Last July
tin sold as low as 81 cents a pound.
During the last week it was quoted at
65 cents a pound. American deposits
are small and the loss in importation is
causing the advances.
Congress recently passed bill which
has for its purpose the docking of con-
gressmen who are absent from their
duties without a good excuse such as
being sick or sickness in their families,
This absenting themselves from congress
for weeks looking after political fences
will not go down. Among the congress
men who have been excused from the
working of the act is Congressman Mar
tin of South Dakota who is home sick.
That antelope are becoming a nuisance
to alfalfa growers in the northwest part
Of the state is the complaint coming from
that section. Since the law protecting
these animals has been in effect, with
Jail sentence as the mildest penalty for
violation, the few small herds left at the
time the law was enacted. have made
considerable gaines in numbers. One
herd of more than eighty is said to be
ranging in the country northeast of Mis-
land. Other smaller herds of ten to
twenty are also reported in different
portions of Meade, Butte and Harding
counties, with several small herds in the
breaks along Cheyenne river in the
vicinity of Leslie.
The South Dakota Irrigation Associa-
ton was formed at Pierre last Friday.
DR.. Walker, republican candidate for
the state senate for Custer and Fall
River counties, represented the big
Angostura project in the southern Hills.
This state organization, formed at Pierre,
has for its object the launching of a
vigorous campaign for the adoption of
the irrigation amendment to be voted
upon this fall. If this amendment pas
ses, as it is expected, it will permit the
organization of irrigation districts by
private parties, townships, and counties
to issue bonds and build hundred little
irrigation projects of several hundred to
ten thousand acres each. We know of
several such proposed projects that un-
der such conditions could be constructed
in this and neighboring counties. We
shall have more to say about the amend
ment. DR.. Walker was selected as vice
president and organizer for Fall River
county, and Chas. A. Nystrom for Gus
ter. Each county was asked to raise
$50 to help push the state campaign.
Either of the above gentlemen will be
pleased to receive contributions to help
the good cause along.