The Hot Springs star. (Hot Spings [Hot Springs], Dakota [Dakota Territory, i.e. S.D.]) 1886-189?, 1889-09-27
A Tramp Prevent. . i.ailroaa Wreck.

Tho story of an unknown tramp's hero
ism comes from Council Bluffs. He was
walking on the Chicago and Northwestern
track from Cou.cil Bluffs to Missouri
Valley, and between Crescent and Stoney
Creek he found "a broken rail ON q high
~embankment where the track makes a
sharp curve. 1t was an outside rail next
to the river, and no train could have passed
over in safety. The next train due was the
limited passenger. and no resolved to
avert a terrible wreck if possible. He ran
to Honey Creek, three miles, mud tried to
raise the operator, who was not ut his post.
He then aroused the section hands and
they took the handcar and went back to
the broken rail, arriving there just in time
to flag the limited and stop it within a few
feet of almost certain destruction.
sabin Charged With wrccking tho lnsur-
ancs Company of Dakota.
Senator Dwight Nj. Sabin was recently
served with papers at Chicago in q suit
calling for $4,000 damages, the plaintiffs
being represented by Attorney George +.
Wcstover. Tho fact of the suit was sup
pressed until this action, and The news
that it had been instituted caused n sensa-
ton, it being surimised i'll the absence of
information on the subject that the case
grew out of the re, ent divorce suit brought
by the senator. The lawyer was seen and
gave the history OF the suit as follows:
N 1883 Saba made II contract to furnish
Sl2o, 100 to bolster up the insurance Com
pany of Dakota. whose headquarters were
located ut Sioux Falls. Az security he was
given $l83 900 worth of the company's
stock, and Mt II meeting of the stock
holders, which was held Immediately after,
the senator's men were elected officers of
the company. 1t is alleged by Westover,
who was then president of the concern,
that the first move of the new officers was
to buy up all the premium notes of the
company, after viii il they proceeded to
wreck the company, and had a receiver
appointed. Sabin, 1t is declared, never
paid IL cent of the money which he con-
tractcd to turn over, and the present suit
is brought to ccover. Westovcr says his
personal loss was Sl5. 900. and that repre-
sentatives of Sabin called upon and Of
fered to pay him that mount provided he
would abstain from instituting legal pro-
ceedings.
Valuable Property in Idaho Soon to be
Opened Up.
The federal commission appointed to
negotiate for the purchase of the mineral
and timber lands and navigable waters
confined within the reservation of the
Couer a Alene Indians in Idaho has re-
turned to Portland, Ore, having sue
ceeded IN their mission. They report that
the Indians have good schools, splendid
farms, etc. The commission was offered
the land they wanted for 50. OG0. 900. The
mineral lands are said to be very valuable.
One member OF the commission has sew
eral fine specimens of collaborating quartz
from a ledge lie declared he had traced
for three miles. The Indians finally con-
sented to sell 200. 600 acres of the north
end of their reservation for $500, 400, AMI
if the agreement made with the Indians is
confirmed there will be u great influx of
prospectors. The commissions report
will be taken to Washington by General
Simpson.
The Starving Indians i'm the Far North.
The venerable %Archdeacon Reeve, who
has a mission in the Athabasca district at
Fort Chippowayan, 800 miles north of
Edmonton, is in Winnipeg. He says
there are less than 400 Indians ut Fort
Chippewayan, SO many have died during
the past four seasons. Two months ago
thirty died from starvation. Last winter