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


0epAthsria 10 prevalent In scribner.
Hebfaska City has voted to invest $4,000
soeeNsFS and "a, 900 In paving.
Counterfeit Ailver dollars arc camping on
- tsail Il The boom in Nebraska City.
~ baak With an authorized capital Of
seoesDo hss wen Incorporated in York.
TAesecent school census in Lincoln Shove
.Se1e9e:s $500 children Of school age.
Drk.6 bailey . Burlington and Missouri
sWttcAmaa 6 Omaha. Lost . leg on Wcdnes-
Aev svesing.
Nine saloons are assured 40 the safety
sasyM 81 Hastings' exabefant spirits the
present year.
Chsdron hes voted eS5, 900 In bonds for the
parposs Il supplying the town with . system
q water works.
10 dato 1917 dog licenses have been Issued
n Omaha and the total number ID expected
- run above 1900.
The eldeat daughter Of Gen. j. G. Cowan,
. Omahs, died on the 10th, at the age oil IA
yeess, Of heart disease.
"A party BY the name Of smith has bought
Tie old Courier plant in Logan and is going
sate Tie Demecsatie newspaper business.
The Misscuri is swallowing acres of land.
scar Peru and threatens to chew up several
small Yarns before it's hunger is satisfied.
NJ. H. Mahoney, from st. Louis, has sue
sseded E. d. Gcrrans Is manager Of the
Western Union telegraph Office at Lincoln.
The proprietors OF the l.indell hotel at
Lincoln arc very anxious to enc their
acquaintance with G. st. Angelo and wife.
Who, for . week or more past until Saturday
ofght. had been stopping at that hotel.
Angelo was selling some fancy art work and
his vile claimed to be . c%lairvoyant. On
Saturday night the couple steslthily evacu-
ated their quarters at the Lindell, leaving an
unpaid board bill behind.
The people Of LeMars are making q strong
s6ort, to secure the Sioux City and Northern
railroad.
The residence Of Robert Leisner, of Fenton
township, Kossuth county, was recently struck
BY lightning.
Fort Dodge K. Of L. are said to be trying to
getT. ". Powderly to deliver q Fourth Of July
GRAFTON there.
A6-year OLD son Of Geo. Huthluff, Of Fort
Dodge, was severely scaldcd by turning over
. kettle OF hot soup.
Rev. II. o. Pratt, Of Marshalltown. has I'M
sssthed . procuress in that city and is going
- have her punished.
II fs said that the heads Of families who
work IN Omaha and live in Council Bluffs
SseRcescnt . population Of 1000.
The grand jury Of Ida Grove returned an
Il btctment against Editor Williams of the
Pioneer, chssIeAg him with libel.
The nnal round up shows that the legisla-
sure passed los general laws, 40 leg.lixiug
acts and % appropriation bills.
The saw mills Of Clinton are buxxipg again
The new Lutheran church In Sioux CIV
WI cost $4,000.
The artesian well at Cedar Rapids is down
toa depth Of 1850 feet.
The artesian we'll at Boone is down about
go feet. The work is now in sandstone.
The state railroad commissioners are tnycs-
agaung the New Hampton bridge disaster.
Sherokes would like tobe on the line of the
proposed spcnccrSioux City branch Of the
Milwaukee road.
Aars Sunday night in the Wholesale gro
sery building Of Oskaloosa resulted in q loss
e1 $4,000 on the stock.
ScotA county farmers are busy with their
sPriag sewtAgAThe barley acreage will be
much larger than usuS>
Mrs. Narcissa Angler died at the home OF
Der con near Storm Lake ON the 9th, 1t the
aks OF 70 years, . months and 8 days.
Rev. Milton II. Dysart died at Bloomfield
on the 9th, in the I'D year of his age. He
had been . minister nearly fifty years.
DAKOTA.
Students In the Dakota university will ct
at up q steamboat and make a summer trip to
New Orleans.
Black Hills tin, the product of o Custer
county mine, is now quoted In the Chicago
ADaEket reports.
Ihe\ emount Of government money handled
yer day % the Deadwood postofico will aver
age nearl,ASs,0Oo.
The Sioux, Falls Granite company is doing
sfne busiress. 1t expects to have $50 men
on the pay rolls by May 1.
Mrs.. Carter, who for several years been con-
neeted with the Avenue hotel Of Deadwood.
died Monday after a brief illness.
Some farmers who left Mandan for Wash
tngton territory . few weeks ago are coming
back as rapidly as they can. They say that
things are oyerdone ON and near the coast.
and the happy medium is, In their opinion.
somewhere or the Missouri slope, where thew
can take the best advantage Of the coal that
10 to be found ~thereabouts.
handan has . spook and 10 proud Of II. A
man named Lansing died in 1881 in q house
which has been vacant every since. Those
Who pass the place. in the nighttime see strange
lights ALTERING about IN the deserted rooms
and hear crowns and cries of distress. One
farmer Who had the courage to look in the
window declares that he saw Lansing, with
bic face ~ pale as death, lying on q bed in the
room.
Mark D. Scott, writing from Helena. M. T..
under date of the 10th inst, to his father ut
Sioux Falls, eaysi It took half . dozen Black
HILLS friends about eighteen hours to convince
the police authorities Of that town that he
wa not Tascott. At least he was Imprisoned
that length Of time before securing his re-.
lease. He further states that he is greatly
pleased With Helena, and h.. decided to re-.
main there.
Factory Girls Strike.
MINNEAPOLIS. April 1s.-Two hundrd
girls employed In the overall and shirt
factory st Shotwell, Clerihew & Lothmau
In this city. walked out at 8 o'clock this