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The Hot Springs star. (Hot Spings [Hot Springs], Dakota [Dakota Territory, i.e. S.D.]) 1886-189?, 1889-11-29

A PIrrsBuRen genius has invented
an attachment to opera-glasses to en-
able them to be used with comfort by
persons afflicted with %spectacles. It
fills q long-felt want, and the inventor,
shrewd business man that he is. has
already refused $40, 900 for the patent.
The Hot Springs star. (Hot Spings [Hot Springs], Dakota [Dakota Territory, i.e. S.D.]) 1886-189?, 1889-11-29

EMILE DE LAvELEY, the European
publicist, says that a hundred years
hence, leaving China out OF the ques-
ton, there will be two colossal powers
in tho world beside which Germany,
England, France and Italy will he
rs pigmies-the United States and
Russia.
The Hot Springs star. (Hot Spings [Hot Springs], Dakota [Dakota Territory, i.e. S.D.]) 1886-189?, 1889-11-29

The French are now able to put in
the field seven armies. of u total
strength of 1900, 600 men, equipped for
a prolonged campaign. and supported
by an ample reserve. This is five
times the force that Napoleon Ill.
could muster in 1870.
The Hot Springs star. (Hot Spings [Hot Springs], Dakota [Dakota Territory, i.e. S.D.]) 1886-189?, 1889-11-29

JUDGE LEEpEn once owned 100 acres
of land near Pierre, the new capital of
South Dakota. The land would now
he worth $3.50, 600, but the Judge sold
it for $4,000, and is now shoveling
coal for a living.
The Hot Springs star. (Hot Spings [Hot Springs], Dakota [Dakota Territory, i.e. S.D.]) 1886-189?, 1889-11-29

A suBrERRANEAN river has Just been
discovered in the Department. of Lot.
France. The discovercrs worked their
way down stream for couple of miles
through a succession of wonderful
grottoes sparkling with stalactites.
They found seven lakes on their way,
and had to shoot thirty-seven cascades
or rapids.
The Hot Springs star. (Hot Spings [Hot Springs], Dakota [Dakota Territory, i.e. S.D.]) 1886-189?, 1889-11-29

H. D. GREaa, once Gen. sheridan's
private secretary and connected with
prominent men, has been sent to a
Kansas Jail for horse-stealing.
The Hot Springs star. (Hot Spings [Hot Springs], Dakota [Dakota Territory, i.e. S.D.]) 1886-189?, 1889-11-29

A WESTERN Ono editor apologies
for the lateness of his paper by saying:
I'VE were unable to give proper atten-
ton to work owing to our wives ILL.,
~..N
The Hot Springs star. (Hot Spings [Hot Springs], Dakota [Dakota Territory, i.e. S.D.]) 1886-189?, 1889-11-29

The Government monopoly articles
of Honduras are gunpowder. tobacco,
cigars and liquor. 1t retains COM
plete and absolute control of the
liquor traffic.
The Hot Springs star. (Hot Spings [Hot Springs], Dakota [Dakota Territory, i.e. S.D.]) 1886-189?, 1889-11-29
The LITTLE FOLKS
'O,or., Nidiver.

George Nldiver.
Men have done brave deeds.
And bards have sung them wsll;
LOT George Nidivsr
Now the tals will tell.
In California mountains,
A hunter bold was he;
Keen his eye ald ssrc his aim
As any one should SEQ.
A little Indian boy
Followed him everywhere,
Eager to share the hunters Joy,
The hunters meal to share.
And when the bird or deer
Fell by tho hunters skill,
The boy was always near
To help with right goodwill.
One day as through the cleft
Between two mountains steep.
Shut In both right and left.
Their questing way they keep.
They ses two grizzly BEARS.
With hunger fierce and fell,
Rush ut them unawares,
Right down the narrow dell
The boy turned round with screams.
And ran with terror wild:
One OF the pair of savage beasts
Pursued the shrieking child.
The hunter raised his gun
He knew n charge was all
And through the boys pursuing foe
He sent his only ball.
The other bear, now furious,
Came on with dreadful pace;
The hunter stood unarmed,
And mot him faco to face.
say unarmed he stood,
Against those frightful paws;
For rife butt or club of wood
Could stand no more than straWe.
George Nidiyer stood still.
And looked him In b face:
The wild beast stopped amazed,
Then came with alackening pace.
Still firm the hunter stood,
Although his heart beat high:
Again the creature stopped.
And EaIed with wondering eye,
Tho hunter met his gaze,
Nor yet an inch gave way;
The bear turned slowly round,
Aud slowly moved away.
What thoughts were in his mind
1t wouldb be hard to spell;
What thoughts were In George Nidiver's
rather guess than toll.
Be sure that rifles aim,
Swift choice OF generous part,
Showed. in Its passing CLEAN,
Tie depths OF q brave heart.
The Hot Springs star. (Hot Spings [Hot Springs], Dakota [Dakota Territory, i.e. S.D.]) 1886-189?, 1889-11-29

WHILE sitting ut his desk in the IL
brary of the White House n few days
ago the President was surprised at the
intrusion of a big gray rat. who DELHI
erately crawled upon a side table and
dragged off a piece of fruit which had
tempted him from his hiding place.
The Hot Springs star. (Hot Spings [Hot Springs], Dakota [Dakota Territory, i.e. S.D.]) 1886-189?, 1889-11-29

OVER 100000 people in New York
City attend no church on Sundays.
And yet the religious conventions i'll
that city are moving heaven and earth
toget all the missionaries sent to the
other side of the globe as soon as pos
sil,Ie
The Hot Springs star. (Hot Spings [Hot Springs], Dakota [Dakota Territory, i.e. S.D.]) 1886-189?, 1889-11-29

SAN SALVADOR is the first of the
Central American republics to estab-
lish telephone service throughout its
territory.
The Hot Springs star. (Hot Spings [Hot Springs], Dakota [Dakota Territory, i.e. S.D.]) 1886-189?, 1889-11-29

GREATNESS has its annoyances, too.
Mr.. Edison is called "Old Macaroni"
by the Menlo Park boys, who have
heard that he has been made a Count.
The Hot Springs star. (Hot Spings [Hot Springs], Dakota [Dakota Territory, i.e. S.D.]) 1886-189?, 1889-11-29

JOHN d. RocKEFELLER, who is known
IS the Petroleum King" is 80 years
old, tall, thin, dyspeptic-looking. His
face is long, his nose prominent, his
mouth large. A few years ago lie was
. poor man, aud started out III life
with $500 capital, borrowed from a
confiding friend. With this amount
he set up as q small dealer in wood
and coal. His wealth is now estima-
ted at $50, 600, 900.
The Hot Springs star. (Hot Spings [Hot Springs], Dakota [Dakota Territory, i.e. S.D.]) 1886-189?, 1889-11-29

SIR EDWIN ARNOLD, lecturiug up.
on the "Mahabharata." said: This is
the great epic poem of India. 1t con.
tains over 100000 lines, besides a sun.
plement of $4,000 lines; enough to
make eight times as much as the Iliad'
and odyssey combined, with several
'Virgils' thrown in. Some philologists
have derived it's name from words
meaning book of weight indicating
that the gods preferred it above all
others hut this is fanciful, and its real
origin is from words meaning great
war of Bharata.' The poem is highly
yaluel-it might almost he said wor-
shiped-throighout India. The ma
tives consider that even to have heard
it is sanctifying, and to have read it
through frees one from sim"
The Hot Springs star. (Hot Spings [Hot Springs], Dakota [Dakota Territory, i.e. S.D.]) 1886-189?, 1889-11-29

FEMALE telegraph clerks in Russia
are not allowed to marry any one but
telegraph officials, and there is, conse.
quently, bitter dissatisfaction.
The Hot Springs star. (Hot Spings [Hot Springs], Dakota [Dakota Territory, i.e. S.D.]) 1886-189?, 1889-11-29

THERE used to be a singular custom
at Holland House. The late Lord
Holland shot himself. 1t was the ira
dition of the family that lie had been
shot, and every night for years, pune
tuslly at ii o'clock, q gun was fred.
from behind the house, for the pur-
pose. as the vulgar said, of soaring
the conscience of the murderer. The
gun has not been heard for some years
now.
The Hot Springs star. (Hot Spings [Hot Springs], Dakota [Dakota Territory, i.e. S.D.]) 1886-189?, 1889-11-29

aTHE worm that dieth not" is the
cotton worm. He comes around to take
q boil as regularly IS the bar.room beat
comes for his lunch.
The Hot Springs star. (Hot Spings [Hot Springs], Dakota [Dakota Territory, i.e. S.D.]) 1886-189?, 1889-11-29

IT is said that Queen Victoria has
profitable real-estate investments in
New York
The Hot Springs star. (Hot Spings [Hot Springs], Dakota [Dakota Territory, i.e. S.D.]) 1886-189?, 1889-11-29

TIE London Times declines to be-
lieye that King Alexander, of servia,
INDUCES in any hysterical grief because
he Il not allowed to see his mother. II
The Hot Springs star. (Hot Spings [Hot Springs], Dakota [Dakota Territory, i.e. S.D.]) 1886-189?, 1889-11-29

CIRCUMSTANCES may make mon. lbut
one man isn't : circums tanos Il
another, frequently.
The Hot Springs star. (Hot Spings [Hot Springs], Dakota [Dakota Territory, i.e. S.D.]) 1886-189?, 1889-11-29
TnE Music OF THE F1REsIpE.
ny EVA KArHAR1NE c1App.

FAVORITE dis
%cussion, of late,
with the critics Of
the day, has been
1.-THE music of the
future.
Whether the
forceful i~ntellcctu-
atty of Wagner's
sublime harmonies
shall lead us ont
and up to the Alp
like SUBMITS of an
entirely novel ex-
p%erience in music,
q new school of
sound, springing
nhnnix-like from
The Hot Springs star. (Hot Spings [Hot Springs], Dakota [Dakota Territory, i.e. S.D.]) 1886-189?, 1889-11-29
HOT SPRINGS. 3. D.

Mrs. ssroNEwAII" JACKSON
writing her husbands biography.
The Hot Springs star. (Hot Spings [Hot Springs], Dakota [Dakota Territory, i.e. S.D.]) 1886-189?, 1889-11-29
TWO PHASES.
BY opIE p. READ.

Ohm. O, joint"
A sleepy boy turns
in bed.
"Ho, John!!"
"Yes, SIR"
Git up, now, and
feed .your bosses.
Daylight long ago. !"
How delightfully."-
the morn
ing air is-the very
bloom of t
drowsiness.
"Joln, if you don't
get right out this
minute iii come in
there after YOU"
John knows what
this decla
a but Ii o W
harsh and rasping is
The Hot Springs star. (Hot Spings [Hot Springs], Dakota [Dakota Territory, i.e. S.D.]) 1886-189?, 1889-11-29

iucel by tho pressure OF noxious gases
generated In the IN eve below.
The accident. which Was trivial in its re-
suits and excited but little comment at the
inc. suggests tho subject of underground
Chicago.
Every one has read and marveled at ac.
counts OF that wonderful relic OF the ancient
world. the cntacombs OF Rome, in which of
I'D wore buried tho dead OF the Eternal
The Hot Springs star. (Hot Spings [Hot Springs], Dakota [Dakota Territory, i.e. S.D.]) 1886-189?, 1889-11-29

Indian Horsemanship.
1t has been suggested that the east
est way to solve the "Indian problem"
of which we hear so much, would be to
The Hot Springs star. (Hot Spings [Hot Springs], Dakota [Dakota Territory, i.e. S.D.]) 1886-189?, 1889-11-29
THE STREETS,
4 sUnrERRANEAN WORLD OF MAR.
Vicious INTEREST.
Chicago Fairly H~oncyconlbed with rum.
nels, Conduits md Sewers-Where Dens
II Vice Abound-iiow the Great Water
System Has Becn Built lp.

OF long ago U man walking
along one of tho busiest OF
aChicago's streets was sud-
denly projected several feet
into the air. This singular
Occurrence. accompanied as
it was by u loud report. re.
J vivcd memories of the
, dreadful anarchist bomb of
. May 4th. 1856. and caused
quite II sensation in the
!. ncighborhood. But this
soon subsidized when it was
discuv rod that tho man was
not seriously injured. and
That tho explosion had not
been occa.ioncd by dyna-
mite. but by the bursting
nt,an 1f a s.mnn.hnta" nrO.
The Hot Springs star. (Hot Spings [Hot Springs], Dakota [Dakota Territory, i.e. S.D.]) 1886-189?, 1889-11-29
Bitldy.

Little Louise spent last summer
with grandpa and grandma on the
farm. One day Louise happened to be
in the great kitchen all alone, when
she thought she heard some one at the
The Hot Springs star. (Hot Spings [Hot Springs], Dakota [Dakota Territory, i.e. S.D.]) 1886-189?, 1889-11-22
ua,tea state. Senator pett,grow.

r.. +. Pettigrew is q Vermonter and he
looks it every inch. He was born there
July %, 1SlS. His father moved to Wis
consin while Mr.. Pcttigrew was yet quite
young. and settled on n farm. He was
called home from college a year before
graduating by the death of his father, and
he found it necessary to take the duties of
the farm upon himself in order to provide
for the family. After this he started out
with a few dollars and finally succeeded in
getting q position as school teacher at
Marion. Iowa. He earned enough money
from this and from subsequent employ
ment to take o course in the law depart
ment of the state university at Madison,
Wis. He came to South Dakota first to
help survey lands, and after settled IN
Sioux Falls, where he took up a claim on
government land. He has always been
active and prominent in territorial affairs.
He served three terms in the territorial
council in the years 1877, 1879 and 1885.
He was also q delegate to congress in the
years 1881 and 1882, and is widely known
for his shrewdness and tact in that body
of the nations statesmen.
The Hot Springs star. (Hot Spings [Hot Springs], Dakota [Dakota Territory, i.e. S.D.]) 1886-189?, 1889-11-22
Un,tea States SENATOR Moodx,

Gideon @. Moody was born in Cortland,
N. Y, October 1G. 1882. Tie first fifteen
years of his life werc spent upon his
fathers farm near that place. At 16 he
determined to enter the profession of law.
Hills & Morgan, at Syracuse, n. v. gave
him a desk in the Office, and for four years
he studied there. AT the age of 20 he
went to Jasper county, Indiana. His rigid
application to business Don accumulated
q good practice. He was conspicuous
among the young republicans who loved
the leadership of the great war governor,
Morton. In the state convention of 1860
Mr.. Moody represented jasper county.
At the succeeding election the ticket was
triumphant, and Mr.. Moody was elected a
member of the legislature from a strong
democratic district. When the civil war
broke ont Mr.. Moody enlisted aud served
with distinction and IS repeatedly referred
to In Gen. Thomas reports, published in
1866, i'll complimentary terms. In 1864,
Col. Moody, as he was then called, moved
to Yankton, OAK. Since then he has been
several times a member of the legislature,
and enjoyed for many years the largest
practice of any attorney in tho territory.
In 1878 he was appointed associate justice
and took up his residence in the Black
Hills. Upon the expiration of his term
he was retained by the Homestake Mining
company. In 1866 he was elected United
States senator for South Dakota, but
never took his seat. Was again elected
October II, 1889. and will take his seat the
first Monday in December.
The Hot Springs star. (Hot Spings [Hot Springs], Dakota [Dakota Territory, i.e. S.D.]) 1886-189?, 1889-11-22
New State


CHRISTOPHER BERG. dealer in groceries at
Aberdeen. has assigned.
Fort MEADE has Il new postmaster. An
drew Capri has been appointed to succeed
Garrison. late post trader and postmastcr,
Who has removed from the fort.
SHERIFF CLIFFORD. of Fall River county.
recently received the $500 reward offered by
o Mellettc for the capture of Lehman,
charged with the murder Of Constable
Burns ut Fairburn last summer.
A uLI.-BLooDED Indian girl from the
Rosebud agency has been received as q
pupil ut the deaf mute school ut Sioux Falls.
THE p~ostoflce department ilas established
a daily mail service between Rapid CITY and
Hill City.
DoN JENKINS. Of White Lake. picked up u
he found aM owner almost as soon as he
found the money.
WILLIAM Fowl.R, living near Lake George.
while burning Il tlrebrcak on his claim lost
control Of the flames and IL large quantity of
hay and other property in the vicinity was
destroyed.
Work is steadily progressing on the rail-
railroad grade between Gettysburg and
Forest city and the extension will be COM
pleted this fall! and made ready for the iron
In the spring.
PETROLEUM has been found ooxing from
the ground about six miles east Of Rapid
CITY.
The Hot Springs star. (Hot Spings [Hot Springs], Dakota [Dakota Territory, i.e. S.D.]) 1886-189?, 1889-11-22
COMBINE VS.. COMBINE.
rHE ROCK ISLAND ABOUT 10 C0uN.
TER ON THE NORTHWESTERN.

A Transcontiuental Line to BE Formed
a. Understood to Re Agreed On-Bass
Ball and Other Current News.
A Chicago railway bureau sends out the
following dispatch: 1T can be positively
stated that the Rock Island has completed
the plan by which it intends to do battle
with the Union Pacific Northwestern COM
bination. The source of this information
is unquestioned."
A glance at the MAJ will show that the
Union Pacific Northwestern deal paralyZes
the through traffic Of the Omaha branch of
the Rock Island. There IS no possible
western connection for the Rock Island at
Omaha except the Union Pacific ami the
Burlington. The Union Pacific will Of
course favor the Northwestern. Even II
the Burlington were willing to Join hands
with the Rock Island against the Union
Pacific Northwestern deal. the Burlington
line from Omaha to Denver would be USE
less to the Rock island, as it can for
through traffic use its own Denver line via
Kansas City. OF course any statement
relative to the Rock Islands plan is mere
guesswork, but your correspondent has
several times been assured the Chicago
Midland, as mentioned in these dispatch
es, is probably the Key to the situation.
1t run west from Pueblo, where it con-
meets with the Rock Island, 234 miles west
OH an air line for Ogden and Salt Lake
City. 1t lacks but eighty miles Of . ssn-
nection with the narrow gauge Denver and
Rio Grande Western, bnt wy..sh' con be
extended to the standard ReNge within
thirty days, almost everything being now
completed for the change. Ihlslextension
would give o connection with the Southern
Pacific via Ogden for San Francisco, over
800 miles shorter than the Northwestern.
Union Pacific combination.
Add to the above the fact that President
Cable. of the Rock Island, practically con-
trolls the Colorado Midland, and as q rail-
road man said: ut makes q mighty good
though" That the Southern Pacific 10
not particularly friendly toward the Union
Pacific is an open secret in railroad circles.
This is still further emphasized by the
fact that the Union Pacific, in it's new deal
with the Northwestern, has only q dsy-tu.
day contract with the Southern Pacific for
its San Francisco business. No railroad
man donbts that the Southern Pacific
would gladly join hands with other eastern
connections than the Union Pacific. The
Union Pacific itself recognizes this and in
its through passenger service, now being
arranged with the Northwestern, 1t will
make q time table of tifty-eight hours to
Portland over its own line and ffty.six
hours to San Francisco over the Central
Pacific branch of the Southern Pacific. No
railroad subject is of such vital interest az
the probable course of the Rock Island III
fighting the Union Pacific and Northwest
ern deal.
The Hot Springs star. (Hot Spings [Hot Springs], Dakota [Dakota Territory, i.e. S.D.]) 1886-189?, 1889-11-22
Gov. Mellette.

0D0 ANSAkok9S
Arthur C.. Mellette is a native of Prairie
township, Henry county, Indiana. His
birthday was June %, 1842. hence is now
AZ years of age. He was reared on q farm.
but enjoyed fiar school advantages in his
earlier years. When IL he entered the
state university at Bloomington, from
which he graduated i'll 1864. Immediately
upon leaving college he entered the union
service in the Ninth Indiana infantry as o
private and served to the close of the war.
In 1863 Mr.. Mellette purchased the Mum
Gle. Ind, Times and conducted it for sew
eral years, making it one of the most in.
fuential republican newspapers in the
state. In 1873 he was elected to the gen.
eral assembly of the state, where he served
with credit, and made lasting fame by the
authorship and seeing the passage Of the
law defining the school system Of Indiana,
reputed to BE the most perfect school code
of any state. In 1878 he was appointed
register of the land office at Springfield,
Oak, and when the office wassremoved to
Watertown he wen there and has since re.
sided there, excepting the year 1883, when
he went to Forest City to perfect the title
to u homestead. He was a member of the
Sioux Falls constitutional convention of
1883 and its first president; was elected
governor of South Dakota under the Sioux
Falls constitution of 1885,. March -.
1889, he was appointed governor of the
territory and held it until the admission of
South Dakota
The Hot Springs star. (Hot Spings [Hot Springs], Dakota [Dakota Territory, i.e. S.D.]) 1886-189?, 1889-11-22

Oscar S. Clifford is q native of Water
town, n. Y. born there October 20, 1912.
All of the family moved to Rock county,
Wisconsin, in lS4S, thence to Boone coun.
ty, Illinois, in 1853. He was o private
soldier in the union army two years.
Studied law and admitted to the bar in
1870. He came to Dakota in 1871: was
elected district attorney of Lincoln countyip
1874; mayor of Canton in 1928; member
of the constitutional convention Of 1888;
elected to the Forty.ninth congress by q
vote of 7l,579 against 1924 for John n.
Wilson, democrat; to the Fiftieth con-
gress by q vote Of G6, 932 against 81, 1880 for
NJ. II. Day, democrat: to the Fifty. first
by a vote Of 54,135 against 22,153 for
Booth-the latter being from the state of
South Dakota.
Judge Clifford has at ali times favored
division of Dakota, and to secure this and
the opening Of the reservation were
the chief aims Of his service during his
first two terms. Both Of these were 20
cured during the closing days Of ths Ff-
tieth congress.
The Hot Springs star. (Hot Spings [Hot Springs], Dakota [Dakota Territory, i.e. S.D.]) 1886-189?, 1889-11-22

James q. Fletcher was born in Prince
Edward Island-what is known as the
Garden of Canada"-in the year 1913.
He received his education in the free
schools of that country, and completed il
in the Central Academy of Charlottetown,
He taught school for four years and after.
wards established the Island Argus, be-
coming its editor and publisher. During
his journalistic caree Of eleven years, he
served as al alderman four years and as
public printer for two years. In 1875 he
made a trip to the Pacific coast, and on
his way home visited the great Comstock
mines of Nevada. On the breaking out Of
the silver excitement in Leadville he sold
out his property in the east and moved to
Colorado. In 1883 he came to Dakota
and, after doing some business in Colum.
bia, he settled down on his we'll equipped
farm at Santa Clara. In 1886 liz was
chosen to represent the Thirteenth leeis.
lative district in the territorial assembly.
In 1883 he was reelected. In 1889 he was
nominated at the Huon convention for
lieutenant governor, and was elected by
the magnificent majority of31, 800.
The Hot Springs star. (Hot Spings [Hot Springs], Dakota [Dakota Territory, i.e. S.D.]) 1886-189?, 1889-11-22

-NOukE0StltA1 GtCRI6Es
John A. Pickler is a native Of Washing.
ton county, Indiana, and is IS years old.
When 8 years Of age all the family moved
to Davis county, Iowa. At the age Of II
he volunteered as q soldier, but his father
would not allow him to go. A year later
his father consented and he enlisted as q
private in Company D, Third Iowa cavalry.
John w. Noble, now secretary If the in.
terror, was adjutant Of this regiment, and
Cyrus Bussey, assistant secretary of the
interior, was its colonel. He served three
and one-half years from his first enlist
ment, until he was mustered out OF the
close of the wal as major. In 1866 he en-.
tered the Iowa State university and grad.
uated in 1863, and from the Michigan law
school in 1872. He practiced law in Mus
catine from 1874 to 1889; was q Garfield
presidential electoral in 1880 and q member
of the legislature in 1882. In the autumn
of that year he moved to Faulkton, OAK.
which has since been his home. He was
n member Of the territorial legislature Of
1885, and chairman Of the house COM
mittee on appropriations.
In April, 1883, Secretary Noble APP
pointed him an inspector in the interior
department and sent him to Oklahoma to
superirtend the opening Of the land offices
there. The secretary highly commended
him for his efficiency in this work.