The Weekly Pioneer-Times from Deadwood, South Dakota • 8

It is announced that a large tract of timber land in the vicinity of Whitewood has recently been bonded, and it is believed that it is a Homestake deal, The land that has been secured in this way comprises about all the available timbered tract in that re gion. INSTRUCT FOR JUDGE MOORE. Populists and Democrats of Lawrence County Hold Conventions. The populists and democrats of Law rence county elected delegates to the district judicial convention yesterday, and both delegations were instructed to use all honorable means to secure the nomination of Judge Joseph B. Moore to succeed himself.

Both county conventions were beld in the city hall of Deadwood yesterday. The populist convention was called to order by Dr. J. A. Harding, county chairman, and twenty-six delegates were chosen to represent this county in the district convention as follows, the representation being on the basis of one delegate for every hundred votes or major fraction thereof cast for B.

H. Lien for governor at the last election: P. H. Early, Henry McGill, Matt Plunkett, Dr. Harding, J.

B. Mars, Orman F. Ong, Eli T. Forrester, H. Schadd, George Martin, James Terry, J.

B. Fagan, D. J. Toomey, Henry Court, F. E.

Bushner, R. B. Stewart, J. A. Gallagher, W.

E. Scoggin, A. H. Olesen, Charles Ecklund, L. J.

Ames, Ed Knowlton, Mr. Boone, Chas. Floorman, George Godfrey, F. E. Baird.

The democratic convention selected delegates as follows, the representation being the same as the populists: J. A. Colins, Tim Coleman, T. W. Thompson, A.

A. Jackson, M. Welch, J. B. LeBeau, W.

C. Benfer, Jerry Harrington, Samuel Wall, Hi Dotson, R. F. Crawford, Judge Bradley, John Fagan, George Marks, John L. Sullivan, John Welch, P.

F. Kelley, Dr. N. M. Wade, Charles Evans, S.

Zerega, W. L. McLaughlin, J. R. Wilson, Charles E.

Davis, David Brown, J. S. McClintock, S. Jacobs. The district convention will be held at the county court house in this city Saturday afternoon of this week.

There are three counties in the district, and they will be represented as follows: Lawrence county, 26 delegates; Meade, 6 delegates, and Butte 4 delegates, both parties having the same representation. Meade and Butte counties held their conventions last Saturday afternoon, the former at Sturgis, the latter at Belle Fourche. The conventions in both counties instructed their delegations to give Judge Moore their solid support for renomination. Governor's Proclamation. PIERRE.

S. appalling calamity has befallen the A- merican people. For the third time during one generation the illustrious chief magistrate of our country has been assassinated. All hearts are fill led with grief and horror at the hideous crime which has darkened our! fair republic. Whereas, It is fitting that the profound sorrow of our people should find appropriate expression and that we should bow before the Almighty and I seek consolation in our national afflic) tion.

Now, therefore, in obedience to sacred duty, in compliance with the desire of our people and in accordance with the proclamation of the president, I Charles N. Herreid, of the State of South Dakota, do hereby appoint Thursday next, the 194 th day of September, A. D. 1901, on which day the remains of our honored and beloved dead will be consigned to their last resting place on earth, and the anniversary of the death of the martyred Garfield, to be observed thruout the state as a day of meditation, mourning and prayer, and I earnestly recommend that all the people of our state assemble on that day and with appropriate ceremonies render tribute to the memory of the exalted character, patriotic life and splendid achievements of our late president, William McKinley, and sorrowful submission to the inscrutable will of Almighty God. Whereof I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the state to be offixed.

By the Governor. CHARLES N. HERRIED. 0. C.

BERG, Secretary of State. Helen, the infant daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Sasse, died Monday of summer complaint, aged three months. The funeral took place from the residence yesterday forenoon at 11 o'clock, and the remains were giv.

en burial ni St. Ambrose cemetery, C. H. Robinson having charge. IN HONOR OF M'KINLEY.

Memorial Service at the Opera House For the Dead President, The people of Deadwood, always patriotic, always sympathetic, always appreciative or what affects the welfare of their nation, met in public assemoly at the opera house Sunday evening, to pay tribute to the memory of the late President McKinley. It was in the nature of a divine service, in which a majority of the churches of the city joined. The opera house was comfortably filled, and it was ai most impressive service. Judge G. G.

Bennett presided and called the meeting to order. On the right of where the presiding office sat was a large medallion of the deceased president mounted on an easel and embellished with crepe. Occupying the rostrum with the chairman were the different speakers of the evening. Hymns were sung by mixed choir consisting of Mrs. Bowers, Mrs.

Hedge, Mrs. Sullivan, Miss Grimshaw and Miss Cornwall, and Messrs. Hedge, Rice, Frazer, Bower, and Neil, with J. B. Wethrell as accompanist on the piano.

Mr. Hedge sang as a solo, "Asleep in Jesus." and Miss Helen Clough rendered as a violin solo, Hauser's Lullaby, a charming selection. Rev. George W. Sheafor, pastor of the First Baptist church, read the scripture lesson and Rev.

O. P. Avery, pastor of the Congregational church, delivered the invocation, Judge Bennett then introduced as the first speaker of the evening Col. James A. George who spoke upon the dead president from the standpoint of an exConfederate, as follows: "It is hard to speak on a sad occasion like this, when the whole American nation is standing, with bowed heads and stricken hearts around the' 1 bier of our murdered president.

I have been asked, as one from the Southland, one who for four years wore a uniform different from that worn by the man we mourn to say a few words for the old South, I first met Mr. McKinley in 1877, at the time he first took his seat in congress, and can truly say, that in the twenty-four years that have ed, I have always found him the same considerate gentleman, conceding tq those who differed from himself the same sincirity that he claimed as actuated him. For a quarter of a century he has been in the fierce glare of battles, and during that time not a word or whisper was ever uttered, against his personal character or integ rity. "But it was as president of our country that he drew the hearts of the people to him. When the war with Spain began, and troops were raised he took the people of the South into his confidence as tully and freely as from the rest of the country.

Four major and eight brigadier-generals were appointed, and every one of them had followed the stars and bars through the war of 1861-5. He did not ask any. pledge other than they would serve under the flag of our United Country with the same loyalty, zeal and com age that they had served under the stars and bars; and it is history that they did so. He in truth was the president of a united country, and to-night throughout the Southland, the silent prayers and sobs of the people mingle in a sad and sweet cadence, with the low and melancholy soughing of the winds among the pines. No purer tears nor sincere prayers, will be shed or offered up than in the Southland.

and among them, I must in justice say that the prayers, tears and grief of those of the South with black skins, will be as sincere and heartfelt as any offered in this broad land." Mr. William Selbie spoke upon "Mc. Kinley, the Business Man." He said in part: "President McKinley held his 'office during the most momentous times since the civil war, and if he has some times seemed slow to more impetuous natures, he has steered the ship ably and carefully, and best of all successfully. Regardless of his tragic fate he win go down to posterity asi one of our historic presidents, noted as the man under whose administra. tion the sun of prosperity shone on the business interests of the nation in 1 its full strength for a long glorious sumE Sureq won passed sey sales pa mer day.

"During his administration the Unitdebtor nation to a creditor nation. Six years ago what was puzzling the people was how to pay what they owed to the outside world. Now the debts of the world to us are accumulating so fast that the puzzle is. how to col4 lect without hurting their ability to pay. President McKinley with his usual clear headedness suggested one way to help in this matter in his recent speech at Buffalo.

Reciprocity was what he urged, and this from the man who carried thru provably the most tariff ever adopted by any THE CITY. M. Stern, who has peen Sol Bloom's clothing house in this city for years, expects to leave about the 19th of the month for Chicago, where he will engage in business. A number of his friends had arranged to give him a farewell banquet at the Bullock hotel to-morrow night, but it has been put off on account of the death of President McKinley. Dr.

C. B. Clark, superintendent of the Black Hills Methodist mission, left yesterday afternoon on his first quarterly circuit. He went from here to Spearfish and will hold a quarterly meeting there to-day. This evening he will deliver a memorial address at the Methodist church on the death of President McKinley.

There is to be a union service, and the doctor will deliver the address in response to an invitation. The wires of the Black Hills Telephone company within the city are being enclosed in metallic cables, and hereafter there will not be the annoy. ance that has been occasioned in the past by crossed wires, induction and other troublesome agencies. The company has had its men employed in putting up the cables for a number of days, and it is proving no small task, for Deadwood probably has more wires than any city of its size in the country. The cables are stretched by means of large drum, that is moved from one point to another with teams.

A man stationed at the stretcher at night, see that the cable within reach of micheivous passerby is not molested. The metal used in the cable is soft, and to cut thru it with a penknife impairs it for service. F. D. Radecke, of Chicago, owner the Whitewood Plaindealer, is negotiating for the sale of the material used in the publication of the paper, and if the sale takes place the Plaindealer will in all probility suspend publication.

Mr. Redecke has been in Whitewood for a number of days on business connected with the plant, and visited Deadwood yesterday, returning to Whitewood in the evening. Miss Laura Tremble has been editor and manager of the paper for the last year or more. Mrs. Charles G.

Knight, formerly Miss Tony Martin, left last night for Chicago, to join her husband. Mr. Knight was formerly employed in Jen king' pharmacy at Lead, and he and wife have made their home in Chicago for the last two years, Mr. Knight having a good position in the city. Mrs.

Knight and baby have been visiting Mr. and Mrs. Martin of Lead. Mrs. Knight's parents.

A short time after they arrived in Lead Mrs. Knight and baby were taken down with small pox, which confined them under quarantine five weeks. The disease attacked them mildly, however, and they have entirely recovered. The grand jury returned indictments against William H. Ward, charged with the murder of Lee Shepbard.

Michael Reedy, charged with manslaughter in the killing of George Bennett, and Albert Tonkin, charged with arand larceny. The three accused were brought into court and arraigned were given until Monday at 2 o'clock to plead. Twelve other indict-1 ments were returned, but the persons, named are not in custody Dr. E. E.

Clough, who was for five years superintendent of the Black Hills Methodist Episcopal mission unlast week, received a telegram yesterday, announcing his appointment to thepastorate of the Methodist church Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin. Chippewa Falls is a city of twelve or ftteen thousand people and a very 1 pleas place to reside. -Dr. Clough and family will leave for there this evening, having shipped their household goods. Judge A.

J. Plowman left yesterday morning for Belle Fourche after spendseveral days in the city. The judge having disposed of his ranch and live stock is contemplating a trip the south for the winter, in hopes benefitting his health, which has been very poorly for 8 number of years. It is probable that he will go Cuba or Porto Rico. D.

C. Baker returned Sunday evening from Chicago, St. Louis and other cities of the east and middle rast, where he had been visiting his David, and attending to mining bustness pertaining to properties in the Black Hills. David is remembered in where he was born, but it Deadwood, not likely that many of his Deadwood friends would recognize the young man to-day. He is holding responsible position 113 asa'stan: bouk and cashier in the large stakeeper tionary house of Cameron Amberg company, of Chicago.

ani the place much to his liking. He has occasion to visit Milwaukee and other cities and towns in the of his establishment, and altogether trusted employe of the fitness, they deeming it amiss to give way to festivity at this time and country. "He went along surely if sometimes slowly, feeling his way and being sure he was right, and he thus avoided many pitfalis that a less well balanced man might have fallen in. He had plenty of good common sense and that is not as common a thing as its name implies. "It was the confidence of the business men that elected him last year.

They felt that the business life of the country was at stake, With some men it was a matter of business pure and simple. As showing the business side of the administration I will quote one item: The expense of collecting the internal revenue in 1896 was 2.62 per cent; in 1900, 1:51 per cent. The expense of colle. ting customs duties in 1896 was 4:52 per cent; in 1900, 3.2 per cent. "Six years ago many railroads were in the hands of receivers, and even good dividend paying stocks were below par.

Today values of railroad stocks have gone up from 100 to 500 per cent, and several of the railroads then in receivers' hands are paying dividends and their stocks are above par. It is not necessary to refer to the condition of things six years ago in the business world in detail. Business was paralyzed and factories closed. Today all industries are flourishing, production enormous, prices excellent, prosperity everywhere. Instead of exporting gold to pay our bills we are loaning money to the nations of Europe without having to export gold.

New York bank clearings last ear were 25 per cent more than those of London, and more than three times that of the banks of France, and we I had more gold 1 in circulation and in the treasury than any other nation This state of affairs was made possible by the policy pursued by President McKinley and the confidence felt: in him the business men." Judge John H. Burns spoke of McKinley as a man, and referred to the brilliant achievements which led to his rapid promotion from the ranks during the civil war. The speaker said: "We witness the whole world bow in grief at his untimely and oruel death. We hear the lamentations of eighty millions of his countrymen whose sighs ascend in one great wave even to the throne of God. We find him in his domestic relations marked as the model for all mankind.

We find him the idol of the purer and better and frailer and sweeter half of mankind, and knowing and feeling these things we may in some degree measure William McKinley as a man, a soldier and a citizen. But when we attempt to gauge him as a statesman we stand too close to the unmade grave. Brilliant as he was as a soldier, noble, chivalrous, brave and lovable as a man, a citizen and a husband, yet it is in the broader fields of human activity as a legislator and a statesman that his highest laurels will have been won, and is that his most enduring fame will rest. "In the future, maybe not in this generation, yet in the future, a grateful and appreciative people will erect a pedestal grander than the world has yet known, and thereon with reverent hands and grateful hearts they will place statues of that immortal triumvirate, Washington, Lincoln and McKinley." Resolutions of sympathy on the death of the president and calling upon the government to take steps to uproot anarchy, and urging that an attempt upon the life of the chief magistrate should be made treasonable, were introduced by Dr. E.

E. Clough and passed unanimously. Dr. Clough then spoke for a few moments, his remarks being more in the nature of an exhortation than anything else, during which the life of the lamented McKinley was held aloft as example for Christian men and women. The services were closed with the singing of the national hymn, "America," in which the audience joined.

No Encampment This Year. The reunion of the Black Hills Soldiers and Sailors' association, which was advertised to be held at White wood to-day, has been deferred on account of the assassination of President McKinley, and the leading members of the Grand Army of the Republic, after consulting with as many members of the association as they could reach, have decided not to have a reunion this year. The same officers will be continued in charge of the association, and the annual reunion will be held at Whitewood next year. General Crook Post, No. 153, of Whitewood, had made elaborate preparations for the encampment to be held there to-day, and they had been looking forward to it with a great deal of expectancy.

It is, therefore, a heavy sacrifice for them to forego the event, but it is done voluntarily on heir part, out of their sense of patriotism and der these conditions. Commander W. H. Williams of the post visited Deadwood last Saturday for the purpose of conferring with Grand Army men nere relative to the proposed postponement of the reunion, and was upon his suggestion that the derision was reached to abandon it for this year. MORRIS STERN IS CHARMED.

Beautiful Consistory Pendant Present. ed by His Associates, Morris Stern, who has been bookkeeper and manager of Sol Bloom's Deadwood store, was presented with a handsome charm last night by his fellow Bloom employes. It was a magnificent jewel, in the form of a Prussian eagle, emblematical of the thirtysecond degree of Scottish rites of Masonry, and it came from D. Kahn, manager of Bloom's store at Sheridan, Wyoming; Ed. Gavin, manager of the Sturgis branch, and C.

H. Hyman, of the Deadwood store. The jewel was presented by Henry Frawley in a few chosen remarks, on the eve of Mr. Stern's departure from Deadwood. There was a happy assemblage of friends of Mr.

Stern last night to bid farewell and God-speed. Some twenty five got together, and the evening was passed with a lunch and refreshments and cigars. Some of those present were in a reminiscent mood, and found ready listeners while they looked into a Havana haze and told of the doings of an earlier period. They all testifled to a sincere regret at Mr. Stern's departure, and they were profuse in wishing him success in his -new location.

Mr. Stern has resided in Deadwood since 1877, and he has been manager of Bloom's Deadwood store since 1878. He and his family will leave Deadwood to-morrow for Chicago, and there is a genuine feeling of sadness at their leaving. STOOD NEAR THE PRESIDENT. G.

F. Stebbins of Spearfish Within Fifty Feet of the Assassination, G. F. Stebbins of the Bank of Spearfish stood within fifty feet of Presi dent McKinley when the latter wan assassinated at Buffalo a week ago Friday afternoon. Mr.

Stebbins ar rived in yesterday from New York City, Buffalo and other eastern points, where he had been spending a vacation of several weeks. He was in the Pan-American city at the time the president visited the exposition, and was in the temple of music on the grounds when the ecutive was holding his public reception. "It was out of the question to make much out of what said Mr. Stebbins yesterday. "Everything was over in such a hurry that people could not make ont in the crowd just what was going on.

The police had the assassin under arrest and in jail down town before the people at the exposition grounds knew much about it. And then the fighting began on the grounds: A crowd would form and declare they were going to take the prisoner out of jail and tear him to pieces. Others would argue against it, being in favor of allowing the law to take its course, and giving the officers time to learn if they could who the intigators had been. The arguments would usually lead to a fight, and it was a fight all the rest of the afternoon on the exposition grounds. I guess they have the fellow where he can't be reached by the mob now, and I don't think there is any possibility of a Man Identified.

The man who was killed by a Burlington freight train Friday evening between Deadwood and Pluma has been identified as C. B. Clark. Gus Everhart, cattle buyer for Zoeckler brothers, recognized him as a man who arrived in Deadwood on the train Friday forenoon from Rapid City. The Pioneer-Times telephoned to the International hotel at Rapid City last night and ascertained that the man had arrived at the place the fore part of the week from Gettysburg, this state, coming from Pierre by stage.

He said he was a cook, but did not find employment at Rapid, so he came to the northern Hills. The man was drinking heavily while in Rapid. The letter found on his person was addressed to his wife, and his name is signed to it. The letter was dated at Plum Creek, South Dakota. Plum Creek is 45 miles this side of Pierre on the old freight road.

In the letter he assures his wife that he has not touched a drop of liquor for four months, and he. hopes it will be four years before he touches another drop An inquest was held over the remains last night at R. W. Lewis undertaking rooms. SYRUP NEVER, IMITATED- An Excellent Cont The peasant method effects of the welt asl SYRUP OF FiGs.

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At day night meeting the mat tending the city main was ant it was referred to the mittee of the council with in to make an investigation 4 at the meeting to be held 01 day night following. The looked over the ground cared reported on what it consid most feasible course for sion. It is thought likely the port of the committee will be in laying the main. It an intersection with the mail street at the corner of Mai and Dunlap avenue. It will under the creek at or near lap avenue bridge, which opposite the Cottage boarding and near the Miners' Union practically fol extension will course of Dunlap avenue, and laid to a point near the Elkha tle.

A greater portion of DuE dedicated to the nue has been the owners of the abutting section of There remains a dedicated, however, and the laying the extension will 1 dedication is mence until the is a singular fact, and It unjust, that all the plants fo duction of ores in the city deprived of in the past fire, a and it is to rem against of the WE that the extension The old is contemplated. smelter in the Delaware from the had no protection it will be remembered that! 8 March, 19 stroyed by fire in Reward chlorination 1 Golden also beyond the city fire PA destroyed by fire and was to the burning of the smelt smelter has since been reba constructed of fire proof solid maso steel and iron and the Rossiter cyanide plant is ble to fire, the Golden Rewal building a plant of frame, the has a plant Mining company plete, and the commencing a build Imperial Mina pany is of and ed these are in need protection. It is to apparent present city situation, and is will government is to the to and everything foster the in important inde power Filed for Record. Thomas Hoskinga to Eyed certain piece of ground 11 gulch, with side of Bogtail 89 frame dwelling, known kings property, $150. BO Mcl SCI The ash nig coI wit riel be wa ma Do sic pe ve ha ca ri: th ar ed..