The Hot Springs star. (Hot Spings [Hot Springs], Dakota [Dakota Territory, i.e. S.D.]) 1886-189?, 1888-09-28

to recover from Il dose OF over work he
hand administered to himself in the
forenoon. Bro. Harris, Of the Times
is Oelrichs Nasty and city clerk and
the people are heaping the honors on
him so thick and fast that he has found
it advisable to resign the postmaster
ship and as soon as a democrat can be
found who can read, his successor will
be appointed. When he gets rid of the
post-office, he will have more room to
exercise his taste for Il nicely arranged
print shop. We called OH Messrs.
snivsly, Hanna, Eastman, Stack and
a number Of others whose names we
cannot recall. They all expressed con-
tidence in the future of their town and
some of them, notably banker Parker,
invited us to assist in the selection of a
suitable site for court house, but Of
course, we declined the invitation.
Accompanied by Mr.. Parker and Bro.
Jones we visited the abatoif Of the AN
glo American Cattle Co., where Supt.
Cairn and Foreman Rogers courteous
ly took us through the mammoth estab-
lishment and explained the manner of
Transforming the splendid range cattle
into the various styles Of beef ready
for market. While the artists who
were dressing couple of beeves up
ON onr arrival, were getting them ready
for the cooling room, we We're shown
through the building. The ''smoke
house contained 1000 lbs. of beef and
ham that We're in process Of curing.
The cooling room contained a car load
of dressed beef ready for shipment,
while in another department, workinen
were preparing for shipmenta car load
of meats foot oil of the very finest quail
ty. by this time the artists before
mentioned were ready for work and
! two more beeves were driven into the
.pen;" we'll directed shots from vicious
looking revolver in the hands of Fore
man Rodgers. terminated their lives
and i'll nearly as little time as it takes
to tell it they We're stripped of their
hides and the C;ircasses were ready for
the cooling room. Mechanical appli-
races and all the modern convenlences
enable this company to handle an enor-
nous business quietly and expeditions
ly. We sampled some Of the finest
dried beef and bologna sausage that
ever passed our lips. We then returned
to the city where another treat was in
store for us. Oelrichs water has a bad
reputation and we refrained from tast-
ing it. hut an unfortunate ranchman
whose thirst was greater than his judge
ment had tasted it and the marshal and
| his assistant were assisting the ranch
man to find the police judge, who pre-
scribed the usualremcdy, a few minutes
later the marshal was seen to make a
dash for the rear of one of the water
| ing places and moment later several
shots were heard. Then a Mexican
half breed was seen running like deer
with the marshal in hot pursuit. Soon
growing tired, the marshal siezed a po-
nv and very shortly corallcd the greaset
and rounded him ZIP at police head.
quarte.'s. Whether this was Il diver
sion COTTON up for our especial enter
tainnent, OF was a bid for the county
seat. we did not stop 10 enquire. but as
our team was liz rca,lincss started home.
ward. arriving at the peaceful county
seat at $50 p. ,n.. where the water
whether outside or inside, does moi
make the over thirsty require the kind
ly assistance OF a marshal.