The Hot Springs star. (Hot Spings [Hot Springs], Dakota [Dakota Territory, i.e. S.D.]) 1886-189?, 1890-03-07
SOUTH DAKOTA NEWS.
The State Mt tn. N.tlona, capt.a,

The State ut the National Capital.
Senator Pettigrew introduced a bill au-
thorizing the secretary of the interior to
appoint a commissioner at $40 per day to
ascertain and pay the damage resulting to
any person who settled upon the Grow
Creek Indian reserervation in South Da-
kota by reason of the proclamation of
President Arthur, Feb. %. 1885, and the
subsequent ejectment of said persons I'M
der a proclamation of President Cleveland
April II, 1855.
Senator Moody introduced the Clifford
bill for the erection of a public building at
Yankton, a%ppropriating $500, 600.
Congre ssman Clifford introduced q me-
mortal of the legislature of South Dakota
asking payment for the expenses OF the
last Legislature, S15.O00; also n memorial
from the Legislature of South Dakota pray
ing that tue Wahpeton military reservation
may be set aside for the use of the annual
encampment of the South Dakota militia.
Senator Pettigrew presented a memorial
OF the legislature of South Dakota asking
that the agreement with the Sioux Indians
concerning the Sisseton reservation III
South Dakota be ratified by congress.
The South Dakota senators and con
gressmen are working unitcdly and indus
triously to secure an appropriation for
aitesian irrigation. Their prospects are
bright, so far as promises from individual
members ARE concerned. but as the days 90
by there is u growing disposition mani
tested in the committee on appropriations
to an%tagonize all special appropriations for
localities.
The house committee on has
favorably reported the bill INTRODUCED by
Mr.. Clifford for a bridge over the Missouri
river at Pierre.
In the senate bills were reported and
placed OH the calendar for a S250,0ou pub
lie building at Sioux Falls, and n S200. 900
building ut Dcadwood.
All Around tile. state.
A r%osroFFIVE has been established at
Red Oak, Butte county.
One hundred houses have been put up
i'll the town of Sherman inside of four
days.
PLAcEH mining is still worked extern
sively and with good profit in the Black
Hills.
THERE are 1900, oOD ares of land sui
Ject to entry in the Chamberlain land dis
trict. A handsome new land office is nov
being erected i'll Chamberlain.
AN Indian of the Yanlton agency while
crossing the Missouri on the ice at the
Mouth of the Chotsau creek with n team of
ponies broke through the ice and all were
drowned.
WORK has commenced on an artesian
we'll ut Bcresfori.
LARGE numbers of minks and muskrats
aud some beavers are being trapped i'll Clay
county.
A GENERAL agency of the South Dakota
Farmers Alliance company has been cstab.
lished Mt Mitchell.
THERE are lib scholars in the Huron
high school, the greatest number in any
high school i'll the state.
MILWAUKEE capitalists are in Pierre
looking over the ground with the intention
OF erecting "A $4,000 opera house.
Mrs. c. S. TmoRp, of Bmtton, has re.
celved her commission as notary publi,.
A bill making women eligible for this
position was passed by the Legislature last
winter, but was killed by the attorney
general declaring the law unconstitutional.
The present acknowledgement decides that
under the state constitution no additional
legislation Is needed ON the subject, as
there Is nothing Ill the constitution to pre-
vent women from holding this Office.
Towns are springing mp all over the
reservation. Some of them have at present
a considerable number of buildings, stores,
shops, etc. AT Big Bottom. at the forks
OF lad river. n lively town has sprung up
of about loO inhabitants. At Lance cHseIs
another town has sprung up and is doing
its share of building.
A MAN named pietzk jotfsj fell from IL
scatfolding at the electric light works at
Pierre and broke both thighs. lie was at
work repairing the smolsestnck, when he
came i'll contact with the main circuit wire
aud was stunned, falling n distance of 100
feet. Pietzkdiotfgj thought he was about to
die aud made u confession. lie is an exile
from Russia, being implicated in the great
plot to blow up the car two years ago. aud
gave the names of several high and inn
portant Russian officials who were also
concerned in the affair. He has important
i'll his possession to substanti-
ate his assertions.
AN examination OIL tne DOCKS OF Treas.
urer Flynn, of Custer county. shows II de.
falcation of over Sl2. ooo. flynn has
turned all his property over to his bonds
men,, and it is thought enough will be re-
allied to cover the shortage. The defal-
cation was systematically carried on for n
period of three years.
The Dakota Bt>,ufd has changed its
name to the Lebanon Obsctr.y.
The first building completed in the new
town of Stanley was opened as IL saloon.
Coal has been found in Buffalo county
on claims taken up since the reservation
was opened.
CUSTER COUNTY ranchmen are import.
ing Siberian wolf hounds TO protect theil
herds from the onslaught of wolves.
A HAND u farmer named Well
has christened his infant son Artesian. -
THE Deadwood Pioneer says Lawrence
county is the smallest Black Hills count,
in area, is the richest i'll the state, has hid
den treasure worth more than the whole OF
the state east of the Missouri river and ha,
o debt larger than the whole state.
HOWE TALENT of Ninnesalo will w,astl.