Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1915-01-16
CONDENSED NEWS.

The South Dakota Board of Pharmacy
will hold its next regular meeting for
the examination of candidates at Pierre
January 26 and q.
The value of the estate of the late T..
j. Grier, Homestake superintendent,
was fixed by the court at $243,O0O. The
inheritance tax on this amounts to
$3,92S.
Willie Ritchie, former lightweight
champion, has accepted an offer to meet
the title holder, Freddie Welsh in ten
round, no decision bout in New York.
Feb. 8, at catch weights.
Now comes the report that Roumania
with ali army of half million and per-
haps Italy with an army of a million,
are about to get into the European war,
on the side of the aitgs Indications
point to the most terrible fighting in
the spring that this cruel and bloody
world has ever seen.
Washington, d. c., Jan. ga nation
al employment bureau, reaching every
section of the United States will be put
in operation by the department of labor
next week, carrying out the suggestion
of President Wilson in his Indianapolis
speach for "a systematic method of
helping the working men of the coun-
try" The preliminary work has been
completed.
Mrs. E. p. Wanzer, of Armour, chair,
man of the South Dakota Red Cross
commission. reports that over 100000
Red Cross seals were sold in this state
during the month of December and that
at least ten counties in the state haye
sold the required amount of 10000 seals,
which entities each county SO doing to
the services of National Red Cross
nurse for one entire month during the
year 1915. This is the second year of
the Red Cross in this state and the re-
suits this year are fully treble that of
1918 and are source of qualification to
the commission.
Louis Peterson, homesteader who
has been in the employ of the Home
stake, committed suicide in their hos.
pital at Lead Tuesday morning. He
was i'll with pleurisy. He was not suf-
ering greatly, nor did he show any
sign of arrangement, the nurse says.
But while she stepped for moment from
the room, he broke glass on the edge
of the table, and cut his throat. He
was discovered while doing it by the re-
turn of the nurse, and was restrained
from further efforts. But he had reach
ed the jugular artery and death ensued
shortly. His homestead was north of
Belle Fourche. He is survived by a
wife and five children.
Lawrence county sportsmen have out
lined some defects in the game laws
which will be presented to the law. max
ers at Pierre with the recommendation
that the suggested changes be made at
this session of the legislature. 1t is pro-
posed to empower the state game COM
mission to make such rules and regu-
lations for the protection of game birds
and fishes by prescribing closed seasons
according to the difference in tempera-
ture, altitude, breeding habits, ETC., as
may appear best for the different sec
tions of the state. 1t is also proposed to
increase the penalties for violations of
the game laws. 1t is also proposed to
compel all fishermen to procure licenses
There is also another proposition which
will interest owners of irrigating bitches.
1t is suggested that the state shall install
screens in all bitches leading from
streams which contain trout.-Spearfish
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