The Hot Springs star. (Hot Spings [Hot Springs], Dakota [Dakota Territory, i.e. S.D.]) 1886-189?, 1890-11-24
Soldiers Home.


d,ers Home, consisting Of w P Phillips
President, Capt. w. V. Lucas, Com.
mandant, Maj. T A Bones, o E Dewey
and Rov. G G Clough, met this morn.
ing and proceeded with the order Of
business.
A resolution was introduced, that as
there is no cemetry attached to the
Home, the Hot Springs Cemetry Asso.
citation be requested to furnish burial
places for deceased soldiers.
Pastors of the several churches will
be requested to make some kind of ar.
rangements, whereby services can be
held in the Home, whenever notified
by the Commandant. This suggss-
tion will no doubt be acted ON by the
several pastors and the Home regular
ly supplied with religious services.
Sometime ago the w. r. G. No. 5,
OF Watertown, s. d., asked the privil-
ege of furnishing room in the Home,
and the board of trustees adopting the
idea, granted the request and at the
sametime issued general invitation
to all the Relief Corps of the two Da
kotas, to furnish room in the Home.
hs !i:st response-came from the w.
r. G. No. 5, of Watertown, which has
sent full set of furniture for their
room, and it is not only the first furni-
tnre to arrive and be placed in the
Home, but up to the present writing
it is all the furniture ON hand.
The Ladies Relief Corps of
Watertown are to be commended FL
their early and prompt respoY to
the invitition of the board Of astees
and their forethought IN mk,ng the
suggestion is very praiseworthy. To-
much praise cannot be given the ladies
for energy and enterprise, and the
Home can always look to them as
as among its earliest and best friends
Phil Kearney Post of Yanlston, will
furnish the large flag. ten by twenty
feet, that will float over the noble
building. erected by the state for the
the use of disabled soldiers. One at a
time the different corps and Posts arr
rendering gifts to the Home, and they
are all appreciated by the board.
The trustees while in session are ar
tending to all details pertaining to
the formal opening Of The Home an6
will remain in session some days.
Tie In,ii.n TroaJIc.
The Indian trouble is not an afflic
tim that has not arisen ont of the dust
Like the trouble which eliminated ii
the mutiny Of native troops of Brit
ish 1niia, 1T has been excited by shrewt
men who brought religious excitoment
to play part in political movement
1t is not likely that the uneasincss nov
visible among the Indians of the Wes
will reach its climax in such crueltie
as have made Delhi aud Cawnpore sy
nonylns Of horror, nor is it possible
that such outlay of life and money a
were made by Britain in suppression
of her indian mutiny will be required
Of our government, Indeed, it may b,
that our Indian excitement may prove
to be an excitement merely. 1t is Il
be hoped so. But as religious excite
ment is not a quality to be triaed will
4 the governments can not take too speed,
action in the Mandan and Sioux reser'
walton.
But whether The excitement be sup
pressed peacably or by force Its occur
renee is to be lamented. We were be
ginning to hone that the dream of "th'
happy hunting grounds" had vanished
| from the Indian faith, if not from th'
Indian memory, and here we have th'
illusion breaking out in more than olt
force, and made yet stronger by ia
natical belief in the actual appearance
of Divine Person, the Christians God
in fact. to restore the primeval barbar
ism Of the plains. The spurious chris
may be arrested as an impostor, o1
slain in some skirmish, but not the les
will thu superstition Of the lndiar
character cling to his memory. and no
| the less will the inherent savagcry O
the Indian nature be strengthened il
its hatred Of civilization and Its long
ings for an impossible return to lane
era Of buffaloes and wigwams. It is
cruel imposition which some designin:
scoundrels have palmed upon the Siou.
and other tribes. Civilization will no
step backward, but its forward strid
may have to be over the dead bod
les Of Indians, instead of hand in han,
with living and friendly red men.
We acknowledge pleasant call thi
morning from Mr.. Ed. F. Mcdary, o
the Wauko,, Democrat, Waukon, Iowa
Mr.. Medary is a young ncwspape
man and is always welcome anon
the craft. He is accompanied by MI
Ed Cornall the hotel man of lAoffs