The Hot Springs star. (Hot Spings [Hot Springs], Dakota [Dakota Territory, i.e. S.D.]) 1886-189?, 1890-06-06
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A RAILROAD grader in the Black Hills
plowed up q gold nugget worth $50 the
other day.
SINCE the prohibition law went into eff
feet only one arrest for intoxication has
been made at Aberdeen.
WHITE SWAN, head chief of the Mimi
kanju band and IL of the principal chiefs
OF the Sioux nation, in an interview ut
Pierre the other day, expressed the belief
that his race is doomed to determination
through the injustice of the government,
he claims, in inducing the Indians to sign
away their lands. He further stated that
he had discovered that his people were not
farmers and that he was directing their mt.
tention to stock raising, and, as it re quired
a large area to carry on that industry he
would protest against any further sale of
reservation lands.
PIERRE firemen will put on style with
new uniforms at the coming tourn amcnt,
the city council having appropriated
money to purchase q complete outfit.
ADvlcEs from all points in the James
river valley report crops in excellent con-
dition. Plentiful rains have fallen every
where in the valley, and the ground never
was in o better condition for an abundant
yield.
t The 5-year-old daughter of Mr.. Dayton.
living near Rondell, was recently kicked on
the head by q horse md remained uncon-
scious for six days. 1t is thought the lit
tie one will recover, though she is still in
v precarious condition.
\ A GIRL baby weighing one pound and n
Iahalf was born in the family of Horace
jerks, of Vale, Butte county, last week.
The little mite is perfectly formed and
shows all signs of health. When u week
old the baby weighed just three pouads.
Tit parents are large, robust people.
BEDS of an excellen; quality of potter's
clay have been discovered near Yankton.
The stockmen of the Cheyenne valley
have organized an anti- cattle thief society.
GEN. ALGER has accepted an invitation
to be present ut the %encampment of the
Dakota Veterans ass ociation, to be held at
Oakwood.
The Methodists of Brule and neighbor-
ing counties are preparing to hold a camp
meeting on American island some time
next month. The island is situated in
the Missouri river near Chamberlain, and
possesses one OF the finest groves in South
Dakota.
The dead body of VIM. Conley, a man
who disappeared from Ipswich last winter,
was found the other dry on the prairie q
few miles from that place. The c%oroner's
jury returned q verdict that Conley came
to his death from exposure shortly after
his disappearance. The young man was O
stranger in the locality and had been work.
ing but a short time on a farm near Fps.
wich.
Wesseling, living near HARRISON, was bit.
ten by a rattlesnake the other day and
died IN q few hours.
g. H. EVANS, for grand larceny, was
sentenced by Judge Fuller, at Pierre, to
one year and seven months in the peniteu-
tiarY at Sioux Falls.
CAs1s of desertion are reported from the
ranks OF the Eighth United States cavalry,
In camp near Oelrichs.
THE residence OF T. ID. Porter, at Har-
rold, with all its contents, was destroyed
by fire. Loss, $1,000: no insurance
TIE request Of. settlers to have Fort
Abraham Lincoln retained as o military
station has been granted by the war depart
ment.
THE grand jury of Meade county re.
turned an indictment for murder against
n. LaFlannie, charged with killing an old
man named Carter last fall.
THE gold miners on the mineral belt of
The Black hills are having a little difficulty
regarding hours Of labor, but il is thought
/. the difference will be satisfactorily settled
without resort to Q strike.
REPRESENTATIVES,. of the gas company
have arrived at Yankton. The city council
vii accept their proposition to use fifteen
lamps to every mile Of mains laid BY the
company. The gas company will expzIa
S900, 900 In establishing their plant.
THE Yaukton Pontoon Bridge companf
WI commence the construction Of THU,
'1ee 10 Nsbraska in q few days. Iks.
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