The Hot Springs star. (Hot Spings [Hot Springs], Dakota [Dakota Territory, i.e. S.D.]) 1886-189?, 1888-02-17
H SPRINGS STAR.
ES WILL II. STANLEY.
Bradley Ninf

Ast"sliey EtAt.
The late thaw is about to be succeed.
ed by some more lolid winter and mr
neighbors who attired themselves in
simmer apparel begin once more to
don u overshoes and overcoats.
The momentous question that has
agitated the minds of the Taxpayers
OF this end of the county Of late has
been where and how to get mone TO
pay their taxes. That question has alb.
so.hed every other topic Of interest
aai has CHASED many a sieeplcss night
Az many an anxious day. Happily
tie most of them have been able to
get there, and we eau now rcsllme our
wontel avocations for olie year lonse.
Wien we all hope TO be in better cir:
cu:astanccs and 10 meet all other ol,-
legations more promptly. Ali-what a
word !!iat hope is. We're it not for
l,cpe many would iall by the wayside
etc The year was past, and emery and
perseverance would be unknown.
Snrely we live in hope if we die in
di.pair. Let us pas.se. ponder and
reject fer a moment and see what we
have to hope Tor. by looking back over
the past. The past shows us plainly
tillt we have the most productive soil,
the best and most varied OF mines.
aud other abuilant TN
surpassed by amy other new country
in America. This being il.e case we
are certainly justified in hppang and
believing that this country viii not be
i, ,.i,nlnj liz. 4l,A.. l,. ..,,
neither will it he overlooked by those
desiring to g in mining or Other
enterprises with which this country
aboMnds. There is Only ole drawback
10 this country, hut that time Will
remedy. That is the excessive taxation.
No one wants to settle in any country
where it takes their years wag to
pay their taxes. and For what pray. is.
this done for here in Fall River county.
Surely not to improve the county. Init
that a few. forsooth. may live luxur-
icntly, at TIE expense OF the ioiling
mass. lt seems that nvcsy county seat
hasi!s combination torob The taxpayer
| see b. the STAR that the honorable
hoard OF county commissioners have
RAISED the salary of the presenting
attorney TO $1,000 per year. while they
have limited a daily latorer on The
highways To $500 per day. ooh
consistency thou ar. II jewel MIR.
Norton is Il fns Young man with whom
| have no fault whatever to Sind. and
Ibe!ievc in paying him every dollar
ihat his services are worth. He prob
ably does not exceed forty or fifty good
hard days work for this county in one
wear. and it looks extremely outrage
ous to pay any one with a capital OF
10000 three times at least what Il farm
q. or stockraiser with il capital of
$1,000 can make. | have been figuring
a little on the Labor question and | find
that the la5orer after paying for his
board aud lodging. is in debt for the
same Just forty cents. at the rates |
have always had to pay at the Springs.
He gets 81 per day in county script
worth SLIGO cents in cash and he pays
$500 per day for board and lodging.
OF course If he gets q frying pan
and camps out he can do a little
better. Again if this county has got
such a surplus of cash why i'm The
name of the Holy Ghost don't they
do something to benefit tho tax-pay-
ers. 1t is no benefit to the tax-pay-
ers, that is the majority of them. to
have good roads and fine bridges right
at Hot Springs, when we have to 90
on horse back over a rough trail il
get onto them. The fact of the bis.
in"rs Is we have to pay an eNorh
liant price for tool hire, for building
rent for county officers, and for i
thousand and one useless and I'M.
necessary things while the man thai
labors for the county and earns his
money. gets but a beggardl.y pittancs
and Oft times has to wait six months OF
more for the action of the board to gel
that. All we want is a square deal
and a just distribution and the tim.
will come when we will have it. 'Thi,
ostraclsm and %boycotting. will avail
You nothing in the long rln. We
want what 'sright what is just and W,
want nothing more. Acorn
COMMISSIONERS PSocEED,Gs.
F%LE."AHY Isl. 1858.
Board met pursuant to adjournment
Present: A. a. Powell. A. ID. Jone.
and ED. Stack. commissioners, an,
kennctt +. Harris. clerk.
On motion minutes of previous meet
ing were read.