The Hot Springs star. (Hot Spings [Hot Springs], Dakota [Dakota Territory, i.e. S.D.]) 1886-189?, 1888-04-27

Johny Richie, an old time resident
OF this place, but recently OF Buffalo
Gap, has closed out his interests at thai
place and accepted position as clerl
in the store Of & G. Fargo & Son. He
will buy a lot and build q residence
thereon at once. Johny is No.
clerk, gentfemanly and accommodating
and knows how to keep store looking
neat and attractive.
L. B. R, alias William o. Lind
sey, alias "Cowboy," has been spoutine
again this week, and occupies over q
column Of valuable space in last weeks
Custer Chronicle with his rsbaldry and
rot. II may be interesting 10 know
that VIM. o. Lindsey is in Butte City
Mon., while this latest effusion bearing
his name but another's ear marks
is dated at Lame Johny. Is he omni.
present?
Will Crane returned on Saturday
from the sand hills in western Nebras-
ka, where he in company with his
brother Charley and another gentle
man have been endeavoring to run
down and capture some Of the wild
horses ranging in that country. They
succeeded in catching six horses and a
mule, but from Willis account of the
adventure we would infer that they
were well earned. He strayed away
from camp one day and subsisted FOR
forty.eight hours on sage brush and
alkali water, but Will is fond of ad.
venture and the tales he relates smack
somewhat of Gulliver or Munchausen
Geo. Trimmer has about finished
planting his extensive garden and will
be better prepared than ever to sup.
ply the Hot Springs market with all
kings Of garden truck in season. He
has excellent facilities for irrigatine
his garden, thus insuring a rapid
growth and bounteous yield. George
has planted an acre or two to grapes
and in very few years he will supply
this market with grapes and WINE
Grapes seem to be indigenous to this
portion of the Hills, for where ever
tried they have grown luxuriantly and
yielded abundantly. Fall River valley
will some day rival the Rhine as grape
producer and several practical fruit
growers are already contemplating the
planting of extensive Vineyards on the
hill sides adjacent to Hot Springs.
Itis reported that Evans & Donnahue
have contract for furnishing rock
from their quarry at Minnekaota Falls
for IA $4,000 building in Omaha.
This rock has been tested by experienced
architects and builders and pronounced
the best yet found in the Hills. It lies
at the extreme southern edge of the
Hills and when the railroad is COM
pleted to that point will have the adj
vantage over other quarries in the Hills
of nearness to Sionx City, Omaha,
Lincoln and other points in Nebraska
and Iowa. Stone from this quarry is
worth $ll per cubic yard in Omaha
and if the estimated cost of $1.5O fol
getting out and dressing and $3.50 or
$6 for freight be correct, handsome
profit will be realized. A large force
of men will probably he put to work
at the quarry as soon as railroad com.
munication is established.
Many citizens of'qHot Springs have
been actively engaged, of late, in taking
up stone, coal and placer claims, and
water rights, between Hot Spring:
and the Cheyenne river, for the purpose
it is said Of securing the right.of.way
up Fall River valley for the +. E. & NJ
v. railroad shortly to be built into thi.
place. The squatter rights of Jimmi,
Orr, Joe Marty aud Arlie Cleghorr
have been ruthlessly disregarded ant
coal, stone and placer filings placed
thereon by avericious Hot Springcrs
A mineral filing has been put on Jimm,
Orr's front yard and the foundation
Of his house have been swallowed up il
a rock claim. Arlie Cleghorn assert
positively that his plowed fields an,
garden patch were taken as ston
quarry, while Joe Marty was com
PEELED to put four different kinds o.
filings on his farm in order to hold il
ID. I. Jackson has taken up watel
right on his own land to prevent som
corner on that very necessary com
modify.
p. H. Evcrton, who has been engage
during the past two weeks in gradin,
road for DIR. Stewart from the bas
of the hill just north Of the doctor
present residence. to the top of th
plateau on which his handsome ne,
residence is situated, has nearly com
pleted his contract and will have til
road in passable condition about tn
first Of next week. Mr.. Everton is
good workman and is fulfilling his con
tract to the letter. 1t is an easy grade
and when completed will be abou
fourteen feet wide. thereby maxim,
room for the passage of teams meetin
on the grade. This road, for whicl
DIR. Stewart has gone to much expens
to construct, will be a great convenienc
to those residing on the plateau wes
of town, and this, together with til
comparative close proximity Of exceller
drinking water as demonstrated by til
recent drilling Of the we'll on the co
lege ground, will materially increas
the demand for lots in this very desil
able residence portion Of the city.
, Superintendent Hughes, of the Blac
Hills division of the F. z. & NJ. v. raj
way, arrived at Hot Springs on Satul
day, accompanied by his wife. and n
manned in the city until Monday
Mr.. and Mrs. Hughes were very forcfbl
struck with the beauty and grandeu
Of the surrounding scenery and g.
pressed a desire and determination [
spend large portion Of their time
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