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Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1916-12-23
VIEW OF THE
FUTURE OF TUNGSTEN

Copper has at times been drug IN
the market but in that metal has oc-
CURED the most spectacular financiai
transactions of the metal world says
the Boulder County Miner. IL mas
come to be more and more important
with each succeeding year. IL mas
developed a field of usefulness SO
wide and so rapidly expanding that
the tremendous increase OF supply
has not been able to keep pace WIN
the demand. Tungsten Is destined 10
an equally wonderful history IL Is
an essential metal in this day OF ao-
vanced manufacturing requirements
New uses for It are being found al
most daily and for IL there is no UNI
versal substitute. On any conce'V-
able grounds of analogy with the MS
tory of copper, zinc or lead or any
theory Of its own Importance IN IN
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1916-12-23
AFTER THE WAR WHAT

After the war what? Most likely
a defensive alliance for all the Eur
mean states will be the outcome OF
this last great war among them. A
certain section of these warning ma
tions. who trusted in the power OF
might TO conquer and rule all the
world as well as the remaining ones
who believed only less in the power
of arms and armaments, will thus oe
ed to see that the brotherhood OF
man is the basic principle of all per-
manent peace.
Awful as the present experience OF
Europe is, it has probably hastened
by hundreds of years the universal
acknowledgement and adoption OF the
principle that right, not might, is the
best law for the welfare or nations.
Then why prolong 1.-TWO and one
third years carnage has been decisive
of nothing) an unnecessary and use
less conflict. that can only result In
the exhaustion Of these self-same
powers and the centufy-long misery
of the great masses of all these peo-
pies? II a new Hague conference
were to sit continuously until the peo-
pies of these countries compelled
their rulers to submit their differ
ences to it's decisions, peace might
come sooner than anyone would i'm
agine What greater role could
America have than to be the first to
take this decisive step. and work for
it necessarily until its fulfillment
came?
f.. L. FISHBAUGH.
Rochester n Y Dec 12 1916.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1916-12-23
"UNCLE JOE" WAS WISE" /"
(McClure's Magazine)

Shortly after Alexander Graham
Bell invented the telephone. Uncle
Joe" Cannon, then young member
of congress, was approached with a
new project to talk over an ordinary
wire strung on top of wooden poles.
For $1,000, he was assured, he could
be in on the ground floor of great
business enterprise that was destined
to revolutionize the methods of COM
munication the world over.
Just a short time before that Can
non had lost few hundred dollars in
a scheme to convert brass into gold
by a new chemical process. So he
laughed heartily and slapped his
thigh when the telephone proposition
was laid before him.
II would much rather" declared
he, put my money in something
more conservative. | think III go
out in the country and buy up few
bee lines"
few days later Cannon had oc-
casion to call at the office of young
chap named VAIL who was at the
head of the railway mail service OF
the postoffice department.
"Mr. Vail is not in. He has resign
ed his place" Cannon was Informed.
Resigned his place." exclaimed
Cannon. for resignation from govern
men jobs was almost unheard of.
"Yes. he's gone with this thing in
vented by a man named Bell You
know-they claim they can talk oe-
tween different towns over a wire
Vail invested some money in 1t ana
&c going to make that his business.
"Well. it's just too bad" said Can
non. II always liked Vail They
tried TO get me for a sucker. I'm
sorry it should have been nice
chap like Vail.
He never saw Vail until last win
ter when he attended big dinner
az the National Geographic society
in Washington. The guests all around
the table placed receivers to their
ears and heard the roar of the Pacifc
ocean at San Francisco Right near
Cannon sat Theodore Vail, the multi
millionaire head of the American
Telegraph and Telephone company
"plamed if it amt a funny little
old world" remarked Cannon
II is at that.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1916-12-23

Frank Davey of Galena was in
town yesterday.
Supt. Alliston, Orc Fino, was at
the Merchants yesterday.
Seth Bullock is confined to his bed
with very heavy cold.
Huger Wilkinson came over from
the Carbonate yesterday, stopping at
the Merchants.
Frank Washabaugh leaves for
Bismarck on the 29th. The Bis
marck Tribune says that arrange
ments for the reception of the leg
stature are now in progress, and the
event promises to be one of unusual
interest and brilliancy.s
Henry Wertneimer, son of Mrs
Henrietta Werthheimer, proprietress
of the Merchants hotel in this city.
who is now attending school in Gin
cinnati, will not come home as was
announced, to assist his mother, but
will remain until he graduates.
George W. Scott, well and favor
ably known in this community, leaves
in day or two for Omaha, where he
will re-enter the United States signal
service, and take station as assist
ant observer at that place.
Failure of the movement to or
ganize a pioneer society in Dead
wood. inspires r. e. Grimshaw to bet
ter effort at the end OF the track.
Only arrivals in 1876 will be eligible
to Grim's order.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1916-12-23
Why Prices Advance Rapidly

One influence upon advancing
prices must not be overlooked. In
the early stages of the boom that
followed the outbreak of the war in
Europe, many concerns that had
made contracts to deliver certain
commodities found the prices of raw
materials advancing so rapidly that
they filled their contracts at loss.
In making subsequent contracts they
anticipated further advances in cost
of materials and charged prices
which weer not justified by costs
then obtaining. This anticipation Of
future advances became sort of end
less chain. Each person who made
an agreement for future perform
ance added to his figures not merely
the certain increased cost but all the
possible increased cost. so that he
would be protected against possible
loss. And no one can Justly criticize
this plan of procedure. The whole
sum and substance of the situation is
that wa have an abnormal prosperity.
not governed by any Of the rules OF
trade and we have had to paw for It
IN an abnormal way. And the pay
ing is far from complete.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1916-12-23

Some timid talk is once more
heard about a contract for disarma-
ment AS one of the features OF the
treaties of peace when they are forih-
ally signed. If Germany wouid now
agree to retire to her own border anu
limit her military and naval expendi-
tures to the amount required lot po-
lice purposes she could have an arin-
istice in week and an honorap'e
neace within three months. by 'aN-
ING what she processes to have gone
N war for. she can get her soiuiers
ont of the trenches by Christmas
why is nothing done to orine 'n,s
about? Because of fear Una. su'" ,
a treaty would be no more oinu'n
than the document guaranteeing INC
neutrality of Belgium.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1916-12-23
GRANGE ENDORSES
RICHARDS DUAL TAX SYSTEM

WASHINGTON, d. c., Dec. 49,
The National Grange in its 50th an
nual session recently held in this
city adopted the following resolution
on taxation; I'VE recommend to all
subordinate oranges the study of the
dual tax and assessment system as
an equitable method of collecting
public revenue, as explained by the
author, Il. o. Richards, of Huron,
South Dakota"
The dual tax differs from the
single tax advocated by Henry
George" in that it standardizes the
assessment of land and does away
with annual assessors and equaliza-
ton board for protected periods, and
provides for a small, uniform income
tax on profits in addition 20 tax on
land.
1t allows all land owners to de-
duct per cent of the assessed value
of any tract of land from the income
of such land before paying an in
come tax upon the profit from such
particular tract of land. 1t exempts
all kinds of improvements and per
sonal property from direct taxation.
II provides no exemptions of land or
income tax. 1t makes the income Tax
a lien on land and business; and pro-
vides penalty for failure to report or
pay the income tax by provision that
no suit will be permitted to enforce
any claim or demand of any kind in
any of the courts of the state where
such claim or demand has been
omitted from schedule required to be
made under the income tax law. 1t
also applies the registration laws In
every way as a penalty, as well as
the use of publicity, TO make the in
come tax assessment and collection
as certain as the land tax The In
come tax is limited to ten mills.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1916-12-23
OIn AND COLD

Darling, l am growing old,
And the house is damp and cold;
Stir the furnace fire ! pray,
1t is fading fast away.
Yet. my darling, well know, know,
Cash is scarce and coal is low;
On the sea of life afloat,
And the coal trust has my goat.
Mollie, if / had my way
I'd 90 back to burning hay;
But, alas, to spoil my fun,
II is twenty bucks ton.
So whichever way / turn. | turn,
There is nothing fit to burn,
Anthracite to Ignite dust,
Rut feeds fat the fuel trust.
Darling. in that realm below,
Where nobody shovels snow;
And the wicked wretch endures
Those exalted temperatures,
Coal is plenty aud to spare, to spare
Uucky dog who enters there)-
Feeds the furnace day and night
Full of semi-anthracite
Darling. let us not prolong
This despairing fuel-song;
Passing cold discomforts by
While we wait for next July.
Summer suns will shine again
again
We can shiver through till then
But the coal trust anyhow
Has us-stir the furnace now.
Lincoln Journal
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1916-12-23
IL. FISHBAUGH.
Rochester. n. Y. Dec. 12, 1916.

The prices of all kinds of print pa
per continue to soar. They have
reached unprecedented if not unwar-
ranted. extremes. These extremes
are inflicting heavy penalties on all
publishers, large and small; they are
running some. Some have been driv-
en- out of business because paper pric-
es have for them gone to prOhibitory
limits. There isn't paper or maga-
zine in the United States that does
not feel the weight of this burden.
Only in sporadic cases have the pub
fishers raised subscription prices to
meet. or attempt to meet. their in
creased costs. While the price to the
consumer of almost everything else
is rising steadily, that of his news
paper and magazine remains station
ary, with few exceptions.
Paper makers seek justification for
these enormous advantages in the
war conditions. Whether this is
bona fide or not may be developed
by the Federal Trade Commission s
investigation. There is some rather
stout evidence to suggest that II Is
not: that much of the increase In
paper prices is the result of arbitrary
action by the manufacturers. There
is a strong suspicion that they are
Initiating prices now to these ABSURD
extremes only because they can--oh
the theory that Ito the victor be-
long the spoils." II this can be prov
ed there is something for the fed-
eral government to do. In any event.
there is. II relief does not follow
the report Of the Trade Commission
investigation, then congress shouid
act. for a problem exists here wnich
is distressing.
Moreover. it is high time the gen.
eral public were taking an interest,"
IN this situation. for the general pup
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1916-12-23
THIRTY YEARS AGO TODAY
December 10. 1886.

Judge Mclaughlin is booked for a
trip to Rapid tomorrow.
Captain Gardner, Spring Creek,
leaves for that place this morning.
Herman Bischoff breasted the
storm, riding over to Spearfish yes
terday.
Charley and Mrs. Randolp, of Car
Donate, were in the city yesterday on
Christmas mission.
We regret to announce the serious
illness with diphtheria of Mrs, j. L..
Denman at her residence. Crook.
Miss Rogers, sister of Mrs George
Bews, with whom she has been visit
ing for number of weeks, leaves
for her home in Wisconsin this morn
ing.
Upon motion of Henry Frawley,
counsel for defendant, the case OF
the territory VS.. Henry Russell
charged with grand larceny and
burglary, was on yesterday. contin-
ued until next Tuesday. by Justice
HALL
Mrs. Hemmings, wife of the Main
street music dealer. was prostrated
last evening, the result of over-exer.
ton caring for her little daughter
who has been sick for number OF
days.
George Holden leaves this morning
for Minneapolis.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1916-12-23
HOLLAND MAY YET BE
DRAGGED INTO THE WAR

LONDON, Dec 16.-Premier Count
Wander Linden, addressing the low
er house of the Dutch parliament
yesterday, said that the Dutch gov
ernment still believes there is danger
of Holland being dragged into the
war, according to disptach to Reu-
ter's from The Hague. The premier
was speaking on the budget and said
that the country's munitions supply
had considerably increased and was
daily increasing and that in view OF
the international situation it was un-
avoidable that sufficient military
forces be kept at the immediate dis
posal of the government.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1916-12-23
December Is. 1885.

Johnnie Mannig and family are Wis
iting friends at the end of the. track.
Mrs. John P. Belding is convalesc-
ing from a severe attack of pneu-
monia.
Colonel Parker and DR.. Scott.
booked to depart for the east today,
will Join with us another day.
County Commissioner Crist. pros
trated with typhoid fever for the last
two weeks, is rapidly convaiescing.
He visited the metropolis YESTERDAY,
the first time in many days.
Judge Bennett is in receipt OF
letter from General Dawson. who has
entirely recovered his health and will
shortly leave for tour of the south.
He will return to Deadwood in the
spring.
6. F. Molliter on yesterday fiied
with the probate judge, an appiica-
t,on for letters OF administration OF
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1916-12-23

The brilliant victory in the capt
ure OF Bucharest, the fifth capital to
fall before the central powers, is ac-
companied by still further fall in
Germann exchanges. In Switzerland.
where this is first registered, 1t is
attributed to the universal service
bill which is expected to result in
1.-The partial suspension of the econ
omic life of the country" But the
military success of Germany depends
so largely upon the economic life OF
the nation that one cannot be weak
ened without having a serious effect
upon The other Perhaps the fall OF
the German marx may be due rather
to the d.scouragement the new condi-
tions will impose upon foreign trade
When everybody is at work for the
army there will be very little to ex-
port and exchange will be bound to
fall.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1916-12-23

the estate OF Mrs. Molliter, deceased.
Thomas Whitaker owns bed rock
on Deadwood street and vicinity. The
lot OF Mrs. Prince, on which she has
house, or portion of it, is on thh,
bed rock. Mrs. Prince is away on a
visit, and one night last week Whit
taker, TO obtain possession, cut a
hole through shed at the rear OF
the house from which he contemplat-
ed entering the next evening and tax
ing possession. When the time came
he found that some one was inside.
and fearing to disturb them he quiet
ly withdrew.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1916-12-23

Minnesota has been reported as
rejecting an initiative and referen'
dunn amendment at the late election.
Minnesota gave a substantial major
ity to that amendment, which failed
only becauce the Minnesota consti-
tuition contains a requirement that
amendments must have a majority of
those voting at the election in order
to carry. That is to say. not Mime
sofa, but a dead hand constitution
defeated the amendment.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1916-12-23

Senator Shafrotn OF Colorado has
introduced presidential election bill
which deserves, whether it receives
or not, serious attention from con-
gress. He retains the electoral meth
ed of counting in presidential cleo
tions but abolishes the electoral col
lege itself. While he is about it, and
this is a valuable feature of his bill,
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1916-12-23

If Congress were to adopt Mr..
Bryan's suggestion that newspapers
be compelled to give space to the
Government in return for pound rates
at the postoffice, farmers would pro-
test The cost of their newspapers
would have to be increased. AS it is
Congress is covering acres of paper
with stuff nobody reads. 1t is not
likely the country would stand for the
expense of wasting more good space
if the cost had to be directly placed
on the buyers of newspapers
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1916-12-23

In answer to the appeals being
sent to the president that he buckle
in and put stop To the murder of
American citizens in Mexico. the Co
president, asserts that in the last doz-
en- years fifty Mexicans have been
killed in America to every American
killed in Mexico, and no word of pro-
test from our troubled sister repub-
lie across the Rio Grande. Now,
then, what are the facts in the case?
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1916-12-23

American students are going in
for chemistry. Germany has infect
ed the world with a desire for dye
stuffs. We shall need to consult her
leading authorities on such works as
"Untersuchungen uber die Stickstoff
nahrung der Graminen und Lugumin-
osen" and "Onleitung zu elmer ra-
tionallen Dungung NIT Phosphorsau-
re-" There is pot of gold at the
end of the coal-tar rainbow. What
we can't buy we must make.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1916-12-23
TROOPERS RETURNING HOME
ARE IN A TRAIN WRECK

GRAPELAND, Texas, Dec. 16.-
Eight troopers of the Iowa field ar
tillery were injured today, when two
tourist cars jumped the track. All
are expected to recover.
GRAPELAND, Aexas, Dec IL
The derailment of three sleeping
cars on a mixed troop train, carrying
a battery of Iowa field artillery from
the border to their homes at a sta
tion near here this morning, result
ed in severe injuries for two train
men, while eight troopers were bruis-
ed.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1916-12-23

The high cost in England OF gaso-
lina-or petrol-has led to trials OF
various other automobile fuels, one
of tn. latest having been ordinary
illuminating or heating gas. nj the
experiments in rrottinghamshire. the
gasholder is a bay of canvas and rub
Der suspended from the roof of the
vehicle. and this, with capacity OF
about 500 cubic feet, is filled direct
" from the gas mains. An efficient
" driven car is said to have made
the distance OF about 80 miles on
1000 cubic feet of gas. This was a
cost of about cent mile. and with
large cars of the type used the saw
ing Is claimed to be as high as 80
per cent.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1916-12-23

The federal government, several
of the states and cities almost with
cut number have commissions dig
ging away at the problem of the high
cost of living. When all of the re-
ports are in it will doubtless become
clear that present prices are due to
two main causes: (1) The war and
(2) The preference of the average
man for a seat at mahogany desk
in a ten-story building or on the
platform of motor car over a place
on a potato digger or milking STOOL
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1916-12-23
Discrimination

Discrimination
The supreme court of the United
States has confirmed the power of the
interstate commerce commission to
prescribe lower rates on transconti-
mental railway shipments to Pacific
coast cities than to interior cities
through which the goods pass in
reaching their destination. This ends
q long and bitter rate controversy.
AT one time the railroads sought to
grant lower rates to the coast cities
because of potential water competi-
ton. This was resisted by interior
cities like Spokane with some sue
cess until the completion of the
Panama canal made the water COM
petition so genuine that the COM
mission felt it necessary to recog-
nize it in rate making. This will
prove a serious blow to interior dis
tributing centers. The argument
justifying this apparent discrimina-
ton against the interior cities is that
If the railroads are not allowed to
compete with the water carriers they
must go out of the coast business.
This would automatically raise the
interior rates and cities like Sacra-
mento and Spokane would be no bet
ter off than before.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1916-12-23

One of the causes for high PRICES
IN the fur market recently held IN
russia is said to be the large amount
Of "free money for the trade III
russia and Siberia furs are COM
mon necessity, and when the peopie
have money they invest in them on
a scale wholly unknown to the peo-
n,e IN the more southern countries
prices of furs have advanced chiehy
on account of this demand ana lor
the further reason that labor lot
dressing the furs is scarce ana 'he
supply of pelts is limited
Earl Curzon IL THIS momeh, q
n,omher Of the newly organized
british cabinet. He is widower
whose deceased wife was daughter
Of the lamented Levi q. Letter OF
Chicago. The earl is soon to De unit
cd in wedlock and, blame the luck
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1916-12-23

dustry it is impossible to avoid the
conclusion that the tungsten mines
are destined to a future Importance
and the tungsten mining industry to
history of wonderful prosperity so
far greater than anything that has
thus far transpired in its history as
to dwarf the boom of last year. We
have faith that will not be discour-
aged that Boulder county's wonder
full tungsten is her greatest endow-
ment and will make her and her peo-
pie rich even in this age of wondrous
wealth.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1916-12-23
RURAL MAIL CARRIERS
TO HOLD MEETINGS

PIPESTONE, Mimi, Dec. 16.-H.
A. Petschow, member of the execu-
tive committee of the Minnesota
Rural Letter Carriers association,
announces that Friday and Saturday
July 13 and IA, have been decided
upon as the dates for the annual state
convention of the rural carriers to
be held in Pipestone.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1916-12-23
WILL HELP OUT THE
FRENCH MINISTER'S

PARIS, Dec. 16.-Albert Mein,
general budget reporter of the cham
Der of deputies and formerly minis
ter of labor, has been appointed un-
der secretary of finance. M. Metin
and the other under secretaries will
not attend cabinet meetings. The
government will appoint shortly a
number Of technical assistants,
drawn from the ranks of acknowl-
edged experts They will direct spec
ial departments of the various min
istries
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1916-12-23

Russia is fast catching step with
the progressive nations of the world.
The minister of education has brought
bill into the duma providing for
compulsory education for all chill
dren between the ages of eight and
eleven. This covers the entire en-
pire. If passed it will be first step
in an educational program of great
magnitude.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1916-12-23

The report that the allies have
placed orders for a million or mil
lion and half tons Of shell steel in
this country, most of il for delivery
in the last half of 1917, indicates
that there is no thought oe peace N
that quarter. The same idea comes
from Russia, which has called several
additional millions Of men into the
ranks. One Russian authority says
thai his country is at last about
ready to get into the war in earnest.