The Hot Springs star. (Hot Spings [Hot Springs], Dakota [Dakota Territory, i.e. S.D.]) 1886-189?, 1890-09-19

The latest is Mason CITY with its fax
palace and Ottumwa with its coal pill.
ade. What's the matter with Hot
Springs havinga water carnival?
Senator Pettigrew is circulating .
petition among the northwestern son
ators asking the president Of The worlds
fair commission. to appoint NJ. H. Day,
Of Rapid City, s. D., upon the commit
tee on mines and mining.
The BE- NJ. railroad has laid the
track within ten miles Of Custer.
They are laying rails at the rate II
two miles per dry, and will reach
Custer the first part Of next week.
We congratulate the people Of Custer
on their immediate prospect Of railroad
communication with the outside world.
Mr.. Horace Crockett and family
will return to their ranch near Rapid
City next week. Nj. Crockett has had
a severe sickness from which be is just
recovering. The STAR hopes that he
will soon regain his health. We do
not lose Mr.. Crockett and family per-
mauentlv, as they will return to the
Springs ag,an in April.
F. NJ. Spear, of Colman. was seen on
the street Saturday for the first time in
some months. He has just returned
from Hot Springs, s. b. where he was
treated for rheumatism and obtained
considerable benefit from the care re-
cslved. He will probably return for
further treatment during the winter.
He says that the soldiers home is not
yet opened and probably will not be for
a month yet.-F9andyuM Herald.
For the benefit Of those persons that
contemplate running for the Office Of
register of deeds this fall, we promul-
gate the following information: The
salary Of the office is cut down to 81,
500 per year, and the Office must carr
the salary before it is paid to the Off
Ger. No clerk hire is allowed unless
the Office makes it. The Gee for re.
cording warranty deeds or real estate
mortgage is reduced to fifty cents and
for filing chattel mortgage to ten cents
Only in the larger counties will this
Office pay $500 per year.
On Wednesday evening last the
train from Buffalo Gap, had reached q
little beyond the Falls, when passing
through a deep cutting with steer
I. sides, it came on an obstruction in the
shape If three cows, one of which wa
t swiftly cut in two, and the others 81
injured that they had to BE- shot te
death. The train was partly pushed
t of the rails, and so injured that it
5 could not proceed. The passengers,to the
number of sixteen, walked forward tc
Hot Springs, which they reached about 6
o'clock, th%ankfulthat they had received
no hurt OF trouble, other than that Of
a considerable walk IN a darkish night.
The Deadwood Times referring to the
t death Of little Yutzey Jennings offers
condolences in the following kind and
I sympathetic words, which will find an
earnest endorsement from our people
Only intimate friends of the family
understanding the bright. and interest
: ing character of the child, and tht
firm hold it had secured upon the
{ affections not only of parents bu'
all of who knew him, can appreclat,
the great sorrow his death occasioned
and although the heartfelt sympath,
l of friends is extended, it can only
: poorly-if at all-relleve the achins
hearts. The death of little Yutz,
= makes the third in this family from til,
: dread disease. two children succumb
ing while living in Deadwood.