The Hot Springs star. (Hot Spings [Hot Springs], Dakota [Dakota Territory, i.e. S.D.]) 1886-189?, 1889-10-11
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In the Liquid Hash.
Peerless Pierre" prcsidcs proudly. proLa-
bly, permanently. pending p%icarrangcd pos
sibilities. Sioux Falls slides screnelv soup
ward. Huron hangs her humblcd head.
Watcitown wonders what went wrong.
Mitchell musingly murmurs. My! My
Chamberlain calmly considers coming con.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Fails Press.
Railroad Aid Defeated.
q special election held ut Aberdeen Ia
vot. on the bonds to aid the st. Paul. Black
Hills and Pacific road resulted in the defeat
"f the proposition by "a majority of 1GS. A
small vote was pollcd.
Fast Shooting.
Tom Malone. in n match against time ut
Alexandria. Tor 500. accomplished the un-
prcccdcntcd feat OF breaking 100 glass balls
i'll $ minutes and l2 seconds. The balls
were thrown by hand. with eighteen yard,
rise. using repeating shotguns.
An Indian of the Cheyenne agency had
oneof his legs injured. making amputation
necessary to save his life. DIR. Daniel. OF
the agency. urged him to have the opera
tion performed. but the noble red man
thought he would cut but IL sorry figure
with one leg and said no would rather die.
Arguments We're unavliling. The doctor
then thought of IL good scheme To gain his
consent. He hicd himself to Pierre. where
he secured the services of IL friend who
journeys through life on one leg OF flesh and
another Manufactured from the bark of IL
cork tree. Together they started To the
reservation. and alter the doctors friend
Iad given the brave an exhibition of how
he could fly around on his corl, member.
tho Indian was satisfied and even anxious
to submit TO the operation. and told the
doctor that he might cut off both legs. us he
was hnbitually troubled with cold feet every
winter.
The Russell ~ Miller Milling ompnn has
sold and transferred to the Mlndan Roller
Mill company the Bismarck roller mill. in
Guiding warehouses. elevator. brands and
the good will of the firm. This gives the
Mandan mill exclusive control of the Mis-
souri, valley grain and -four trade.
THE Aberdeen state fair was II financial
success and all premiums will BIZ paid in
full.
A LARGE number of Indian minister's,
twenty-five white ministers and a dozen
Indian lay delegates attended the Episcopal
convncation ut Sioux Falls.
WHILE Alderman Ellison. OF Fargo, was
chasing II thief who had stolen IL plush
sacIue from his store, another Tibet appro-
priated another sacquc and made good his
escape.
LfRANK MOORE N foruNn ar. vnci.1n,,t .f Hin
ron. was killed by II runaway horse at
Spring Valley. MINI.
A TIMELY rainstorm stopped what might
have been n disastrous prairie fire Just west
of Rec the other day.
THEODORE WILKINSON. of Onida, has
christcncd his boy baby Pierre, i'm hopes
thai he will have capital when he grows up.
HURON can console itself for the loss of
the capitalin the fact that twelve weddings
are published t"takc place thcrcthis month.
a PARTY OF Indians set fire To the prairie
near Bigstone lakebed. but fortunately it
was cxtingnishcd before doing amy damage.
c. McCABE. who was shot in the eve mt
.Scattcrwood and sent to Chicago for treat
mcnt. had the injured eye removed in order
To save the other one.
THE farmers of Sully county are largely
investing in sheep this fall. Several of them
took the first step two years ago and have
succeeded so we'll others are buying.
Il. Il. STEVENSON is engaged in writing u
two-vol,ime history of South Dakota of $50
pages each. and expects to complete hi;
work by June. 1880.
WHILE driving into Bismarck the team Of
Ole Johnson. living north of the city. be-
came unmanagablc and dashed over an en-
bankmcnt fifty feet high. dragging johnson.
who had become cntnngled in the rcins,
with them. He was terribly bruised. but
may recover.
DAKoTA's exhibits ut tho Paris exposition
are made up of tin ores and manufactured
tin. building and ornamental stone, gold
and silver ores. wheat. corn. oats. etc.
DURING the absence of her parents the
clothing Of little Katie Hirsch. of Holabird.
accidentally caught fire and she was Sc
vcrcly burned before n%eighbors cxlin-
guishcd the flames.
LARGE quantities of cattle arc being
bought up in Jcruuid county to shin west of
Pierre to the bad lands for the winter.
There are plenty of nutritious grasses there
and stock thrives without grain.
CAP DoTsoN. of Dcadwood, together
with his horse and wagon. rolled down a
steep hill into the rnvinc below. the horse
rolling on top of Dotson. Strange to say
both horse and driver escaped injury. while
the wagon only suffered IL broken tongue.
EASTERN capitalists talk of establishing II
starch factory at Bismarck.
REPORTS from Washburn. MCLEAN county,
say that destructive prairie fires are raging
In that county. houses. barns. quarrics and
hay-ricks being burned. and many pcoplc
rendered homeless.
DAKoTA's Indians prophesy that the lake
beds will all be filed with water next year,
as that occurs Mt least once in seven years,
and scientific men assert the truth of the
statement.
YANKToN is again agituting pontoon
bridge connection with the Nebraska side
of the river.
RUNAWAY horse in Aberdeen dashed
into a store. but was quieted before he did
much damage.
The constitution of North Dakota con-
tafns 10000 words and is divided into
twenty articles and 2l7 sections.
THE coal deposits near Bismarck are
attracting the attention of eastern capital
lists.
GEORGE H. HEApLEY. Of the Smithsonian
institute. is searching In the Black Hills for
archaeological specimens for that institu-
tion.
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