The Hot Springs star. (Hot Spings [Hot Springs], Dakota [Dakota Territory, i.e. S.D.]) 1886-189?, 1888-11-30
value al Dakota Lands.

eu'"e ho'tuwest. thlhipfOved lands of
the best quality. with perfect title. nicely
located in good Meighborhoods near
school and church privileges. with plenty
OF neighbors and within ten miles of u
thriving railroad town, with market and
commercial advantages, can be had for $50
or 81 per acre. The terms of payment are
made easy. A portion only of the pur-
chase money need be paid down: the bal
ance can be paid i'll the purchasers own
good time. A few hundred dollars will
erect buildings and purchase "a team and
other necessary articles. Some hard work.
n little self-lenial and II few wears of
waiting for ground to become thoroughly
pulverized, and for trees and shrubbery to
grow and the Industrious farmer has n
holne to which lie can point with pride,
ana which by the rise i'll land generally
mas become truly valuable. If one dis
iikes to begin ny opening up a farm from
the START, he can purchase a partially inn
proved farm for about &S or $lW per acre.
Such II farm would have IL small house. a
Well, II few trees aud from forty to one
hundred acres of ground under %cultiva-
non. one purchasing such IL tract would
nave IL place to begin living ut one. and
land enough nnder cultivation to make his
living and something more with which
to improve his farm each wear. A
farm with this amount Of improve
ments enables the purchaser TO begin
prohtabie farming ut once. and his family
never experience any of the hardships Of
pioneer life. In Il year M " the p,r-
chaser has Il comfortable home. with all
the comforts of an eastern farm home,
which Was sold at four OF five times the
amount paid for his pleasant Dakota home.
improved farms. with house, harms. gran
'ries and Outbnildings as good AS the or
dlhary farms of older states, with five or
ten acres of forest trees twenty feet high,
fenced pastures. lou acres OF more under
cultivation, some fruit and shr,bberv.
making a complete farm home, can lie
bought for for S2O to $25 per acre, and
occasionally one for even less than that.
An eastern farm, which is not increasin.
IN value. can he sold for enough to Lny
four times. as many acres in Dakota Of
equally as good land and nearly rs we'll
located. aud which will more than double
III value within the next three years. The
reasons for this are apparent to- nil. For
Years Dakota has been denied admission.
The rapid strides made in settlement and
material progreS, has been made in spite
OF the oppression of the general govern
lnent. But now the tables are turned.
The next administration will he very
friendly to Dakota. and will afford her
every facility for advancement. Dakota
will he divided and both sections admitted
to the union. and then she will have such
II boom as has never been before witnessed
IN the northwest. immigration will in
crease rapidly, capital will seek investment
there, business will revive. rates of interest
and taxes will he much lower. and IA time
OF general prosperity will be innlgurated
that can not fail Ia make the rich farming
lands double in value at once.
The Asylum Collapse.
l.. ID. Jenny of Chicago md Sidney
Smith of Omaha. architects belonging to
the Architects association. engaged to ex-
anime the work of the asylum which fell
through recently and killed two men, have
rendered the following report: lin regard
to the causes of the fall of II portion of the
east wing. which occurred October ~.
after IL careful consideration OF all the cir
cumstances MS related by the workmel. and
others, aud which statements substantially
agree III all important particulars, and also
from what We are able to learn from the
designs and from the building. the UNDER
ntSuc't Wotiu Stutt tIlat from the hest OF
their knowledge and belief the accident
was caused by the falling of Il floor arch of
the third flor. adjacent to the outside wall,
causing the fiooi, arches of the several
other cells to follow, and pushing out IL
portion of the outer wall. The SAID tioor
arch. the fall of which was. us we believe.
the sole cause of the accident. Was of very
recent construction aud the mortar still
green. The outer wall adjacent was
scarcely higher than the spring of the arch:
not high enough To receive the end
of the tie rods and lot as Vet as.
sisted by the weight of the stories
thrust of said floor arch. This arch was
held in place solely by the center below
and it is alleged that the removal of SAID
center was followed Immediately ly the
fall of said arch and the attendant conse-
quences. NJ er II careful examination it
is the conviction of the undersigned that
the accident was solely due to the removal
of said center. for 30 long MS said center
remained in place the arch could not fail
and no such accident could have occurred.
The undersigned II learn that there
was any cause. Or that amy person in ALL
thority ordered the removal of this center,
or that the superintendent of construction
was aware that it was being removed until
too late to prevent the accident. We be-
lieye ii was done by unauthorized work
men, ignorant of the inevitable conse.
qnences. The undersigned would further |
state that i'll their opinion this accident |
Was one that could not be guarded against.
it being always possible. during the con- |
strlction of large buildings. for an ignor-
ant or th%Onghtless workman to knock away
a temporary support and he the immediate
cause OF n serious accident.
Sick Savaees at Fort Rertllold.
Indian Agent Jones. of the Be,thold
agency, has made application to the de-
pastment for II physician who shall remain
constantly at the agency. This request is
the result of hurried examination of the
health of the Indians. Mr.. Jones was re-
Gently appointed. He finds that disease
runs rampant among the entire Indian
community. The Indians at this agency
are i'll a most deploratle condition. In the
past their health has been neglected. they
have been permitted TO roam about the
country. and as n result some members of
the tribe have returned to their camps la
den with disease, which has spread to
nearly every Indian at the agency. II Is
understood that the request for a physi-
clan has been granted aud that steps will
lie taken To prevent the further spread of
disease among the tribes. The condition
of affairs at the agency in the past has not
only ruined the health of the Indians. hut
has been u constant menace to the whites,
with whom the Indians necessarily assocl-
ated. So great became this danger that
the county n city authorities were