The Hot Springs star. (Hot Spings [Hot Springs], Dakota [Dakota Territory, i.e. S.D.]) 1886-189?, 1890-02-14
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The soil of Butte county is particularly
adapted to the raising of vegetables of all
kinds, and especially of potatoes and sugar
beets. Tn Minnesota stu, i'll speaking
OF the prolific yield the past season. men,
tions one farmer WHO raised crop of boots
ranging from twenty-five to thirty pounds
in weight, and suggests that a beet sugar
factory be established in Minnesota.
A CHINOOK wind, which developed into
. mall hurricane, swept over the southern
Black Hills the latter part of last week.
Considerable damage was done in some of
the towns, the greatest destruction occur-
ring ut Buffalo Gap, where four buildings
were blown completely down and many
others badly injured by the force of the
storm, while barns and fences were blown
down by the dozen, windows broken and
everything movable blown away. Several
persons narrowly escaped with their lives,
but no fatalities occurred.
COUNTERFEIT 25-cent pieces arc num-
erous in Deadwood.
SoUTM DAKOTA has 1913 schools, en-
ploylng 1911 teachers.
The farmers i'll the vicinity of Holablrd
!. have organized an alliance.
w. S. Bowen has assumed charge of
the Yankton postofice.
FIGURING mill is to be built nj Bsu-
lab in the spring.
A GRAND ARMY post has been organized
at Minnesota with Il membership of forty
five.
A FREE reading room and library will be
ookct1;.I,nJ L., tlo nnrJ,,o,l Nor., ty,,,5.
Christian association.
No ONE will accept the position of post
master at Big Bottom, Lawrence county,
and the Office may be discontinued.
THE Minnesota star says the building of
the Redwatcr irrigating canal has doubled
the value of land in Butte county.
AN unknown fiend killed. n valuable
horse belonging TO S. G. Maryland, living
near Bookings, the other night, by stab
bing the animal with q knife.
NJ. H. %JENK1NsoS. q former we'll known
resident of Yankton. died i'll Hutchinson,
Kan, last Friday. He was tho father OF
Elmer j. Jenkinson. who lost his life in
the Minneapolis Tribune disaster.
The Sioux Falls Conservatory of Music
has been organized with u capital stock Of
$4,000.
The Citizens bank. of Webster, Day
county, has filed articles of incorporation
with the secretary of state.
FINAL protiles of the Rapid City. Harvey
Peak l. Southwestern railroad were filed III
the land Office a few days ago and will bs
forwarded to Washington. by this road II
is proposed to give Rapid City direct con-
%nnkt~, ,vst1, t1,a t, lin ~; "a o,nl tIn ~,
has voted $40, O0O to aid in its construc-
ton. 1t is expected that the road will be
completed this year.
ALBERT PETERSON. living near Bran.
don, has applied for q divorce from his
wife, Carrie Peterson, in the Sioux Falls
courts. Albert alleges cruelty and deser-
ton. Both parties are over ~ years Of
age mud have been married nearly half @
century.
ONE night last week the boy who car
ries the mails from Huron to Frankfort
was attacked hy wolves near Winthrop
and but for tho fast driving and n vigorous
nse Of the whip on the heads Of his pursu.
ers would have been cornered into n square
meal by the hungry animals.
SEVERAL buildings were put on skate!
and bodily moved across the Missouri
: from Pierre to Fort Pierre last week.
ETHE contract for building the Rapi,
City Indian school has been let to Jordan
Bros, Of Sioux Falls. and work will b
commenced in the spring as early a posi-
BILE.
The contest for the place made vacan
by the resignation of William b. Sterling
rs district attorney of Beadle county Ia
been settled by the board of county com
missioners appointing i. III. Apiin to I'll
out the unexpired term of Mr.. Sterling.
MINNESOTA, Custer and Hermosa mr.
Nil candidates for the location OF tn
proposed western South Dakota insan,
asylum.
THE boundaries of the Aberdeen Ian,
district have been changed to conform Il
the state line. The change takes twent,
townships from the Aberdeen district ani
turns them over to the Bismarck and FaEgs
: disty1cts.
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