The Hot Springs star. (Hot Spings [Hot Springs], Dakota [Dakota Territory, i.e. S.D.]) 1886-189?, 1889-10-04
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CITIZENS of Fort Pierre, across iron.
Pierre. have organized to protect their in
terests and employed engineers to run out
'Di,Sa.s and lots inside tile mile square limits
80 that each man will know where his prop
erty is located upon the presidents procla-
nation opening tile reservation. Every foot
oil land Is already taken and prices are going
up steadily. An opinion from the Attorney
general. Of late date. is favorable toward
going ahead i'll tho organization of a city
government.
WILLIAM FRANK. of Chicago. aged 2s. was
seriously injured and narrowly escaped
death while crossing tho Northern Pacific
bridge mt Bismarck q few days since. He
was walking on the bridge when he was
overtaken by train and Knocked down.
He was thrown in such Il position that two
of his toes We're crushed beneath the wheels
and one of his legs was badly bruised.
As Clerk Young of tho supreme court an
nounced the term scheduled to be held in
Yankton was not so held. Six of the Judges
are candidates for the election as circuit
judges and wrote that they were too busy
to attend court. The next term will be held
In Deadwood in October.
A STRANGER got up n pulling match in
Chamberlain. on which he wagcrca that his
horse could pull q bag of sane attached to
the end of II rope 1000 feet long. The horse
pulled the bag. and the stranger pulled
twenty silver dollars out of the pants
pocket of Mr.. Hall. of Chamberlain.
The eighth anniversary of the South Da-
kota Baptist convention and ministerial
union will be held ut Mitchell. October 3 to
6. inclusive.
TERRAvII.LE mourns the loss of one of its
leading citizens. Il. Laurence. n grocer.
hes disappeared and left debts behind him
amounting to 5000.
CLAYTON McCABE. OF Ashton. was acct
dentally shot in the left eye by II companion
named Woolcy while on IL hunting cxpcdi-
tion to Scallerwood lake.
The recent rainfall was the greatest ever
known in Dakota. according to the oldest
inhabitant."
ATTORNEY GEO. COOPER. of Hand county.
Is known as the "wccping willow of the
JIM.
In an inquest held on the remains of IL
miner named Dufraga. who WAS accident
ally killed in IL mine at Dcadwood. the coro-
ner's jury presented two reports. the ma
jority to the effect that the man camc to his
death through his own carclc>ncss and tho
minority that he was killed through the
carelessncss of the company that owned tho
mine in not providing safe apparatus will,
whichto work.
CAPT. MARI. of the United States survey
corps. taking measurements along tho
Missouri river, has arrived ut Wheeler. He
has had much bad wcatlcrto interfere with
his work since leaving Pierre in August.
THREE years & this fall Ihos. Fairfield.
who lives just east of F%orcstburg. put about
forty young carp into n lake on the farm
Of Rev. John vischer. on which he is n ten
ant. Al the present time the fish nave null
tiplied to such an extent that Mr.. Fairfield
is deriving a good income from their snle to
the people OF adjacent towns.
THREE convicts were added to the family
now at the Sioux Falls pcnitentiary. They
came in from Dcadwood in charge of Sheriff
Knight, of Lawrence county. Two of them
are men and one o woman.
HuRoN now hobs up with a radish nine-
teen inches long and thirteen inches in cir
cunfsrence.
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