The Hot Springs star. (Hot Spings [Hot Springs], Dakota [Dakota Territory, i.e. S.D.]) 1886-189?, 1888-01-06

and Acorn, of Bradley Flat, sends in
newsy and intensely interesting COM
,nunication. We are thankful for
these favors and hope that persons re-
siding in other parts of the county
will follow their example.
If tie predictions of Prof. Foster
prove correct, the weather during the
month of January will be as follows:
'The first seven days will be full of
blustes, storms and changes from cold
to warm weather, and average much
warmer than the last week i'll
December. The principal force of
these storms will reach the river about
the LIST, 5th and 9TH. The other storm
dates will be about the 18th, 18th, 25th
and goth. The changes from warm
to cold, and the reverse, will be sudden
and sharp from the 18th to the 9th.
We expect quite warm weather about
the 5th and 9TH with cold reaction
during the week following
The opening chapters of a splendid
story for the young, by the famous
Snowman, p. I. Barnum, appears this
week in the columns of The New York
Family Story Paper. The story de-
scribes the adventures of an American
boy whom Barnum calls My Plucky
Boy Tom,' and whom he sent to India
in search of wild, fierce, and rare an
imals to replace those destroyed by the
disastrous fire at bridgeport last
month. The reader.is thrilled by the
llair-breadth escapes of this dauntless
American boy when capturing the
fiercest and widest animals ever seen
in any travelling show. The New
York Family Story Paper is for sale at
all news-stands.
When curfew tolled the sncll of
parting year. old topers all a firm
resolve did make, to ne'cr more drink
rum, whiskcy. wine or beer: to never
more their resolutions break. They
all a firm and solemn pledge did sign
no more their vile and vicious habits
to pursue: each proffcred glass they
would, with scorn, decline: acIuaint-
ance more with waywara cllums they'd
ne er renew. But scarce Il week has
passed and they have broke the firm
resolve with one accord they made
their names from off the sacred pledge
are struck: their forms about the bar
room limp are laid. Each for him
self case of tremens now has made:
their honor and their health cheap phavc
they sold; each in his narrow cell for
c'er is laid before another new year
round has rolled.
a silver lining to every clond. With
the short dull DAYS of early winter
come the CHEEKY holidays and Vick's
beautiful annual, and 10! spring al
ready appears not far distant. We
can almost see the greening grass and
the blooming flowers. In the way of
Catalogue Nic!'s S Floral Guide is,,un-
equaled in artistic appearance, and
the edition of each year that appears
simply perfect is unsurpassed the next.
New and beautiful cngravings, and
three colored plates of flowers. vege-
tables, and grain. are features for the
issue for 1888. Its lavender tinted
cover. with original designs of most
pleasing effects. will ensure lta prom
inent place in the household and library.
II you want to know anything about
the garden see Nick's Floral Guide,
price only 10 cents including a certifi-
! cate good for 10 cents worth rof seeds.
Published bv James Wick, Scotsman.
= Rochester, n. Y.
Lackawanna is the name Of the coal
; fields recently located and now being
developed by Rapid City, Custer and
!. Hot Springs parties. The coal fields
$50 far as known) comprise about
twelve square miles, being situated in
a township south of range east of the
Black Hills meridian. They are there.
e fore IS miles south and from 13 to %
: miles west of Rapid City, and ten
r miles in southwest direction from
9 Hot Springs. Bucktail claim. tho
/ one upon which the interested parties
are doing the greatest amount of de-
q velopment work, shows six foot vein
T. of outcropping coal extending for more
i than half a mile in width. The coal
. is ia bituminous character but there
are thin stratas of hard. bright and
extremely black coal which is believed
to be anthricite. III struck with Il
\ hammer it breaks UP into cubes and is
n remarkably clean. TO the south and
between the coal fields and the Chev.
5 enne river Is Il wide and beautiful
5 stretch of valley comprising about
e 5000 acres. The b.. & NJ. survey
e crosses the Cheyenne river from In,
II south coming down Cottonwood creek
a and almost touching some OF tile coal
9 locations. There is another party OF
!, railroad engineers here. supposed TO he
Cheyenne 4 Northern people. Both
parties are working like beavers wlicl
= lead an outsider to believe that the,
d mean business. .-Republican.
= Custer will probably postpone hel
~ y. prorosedjo jolitication meeting indefinate
Z iy as the B. & NJ. threaten to leave hcI
. several miles to the east. Mr.. Eskins
: :, who lives about fourteen miles west O
~ - Hot Springs and who has closel,
- watched the movements of the B. i
l. NJ. survey corps in their progress u,
! i Red Canyon. informs us that they ar
!, 10 now about five miles west OF Custe
- and are making an effort to secur
land for town site at that point
We earnestly hope that this lepor
es is erroneous. as such a proceeding
: would give the "Future Great
h. metropolis of the tin district yer
nd black eve. hut such move oil the pa,
III of the b. 4 NJ. would excite little su,
e. prise as it is noted for totally iynorin
he old established inland towns in clos
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